iTunes Alternatives for Linux

iTunes is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Clementine, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTunes and loads of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to iTunes are Spotify, Audacious, Strawberry and Amarok.

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  1. Diffuse icon
     4 likes

    A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage, in the form of a static, serverless, web application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • RemoteStorage
     
  2. JakPod icon
     3 likes

    JakPod is a small java application to manage your iPod without having iTunes installed. You can clone, backup, repair, reorganize, analyze and manage your iPods or iPhones (up to 3rd Gen).

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  4. MIXO is a cross platform Music Library service that allows DJs to manage their own music on any device with Import & Export options for all the major DJ Performance Software. It syncs in app to Google Drive & Dropbox for use on iOS & Android.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  5. Mp3blaster icon
     8 likes

    Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical environment like X-Windows.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Client175 is a full featured MPD web client that provides all of the functionality of a desktop application in your favorite web browser. It was originally named ExtMPD, but I recently found out that the name had already been used.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Peyote icon
     3 likes

    Peyote is an audio player with a friendly MC-like interface designed specifically for working with cue-sheets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Aqualung icon
     11 likes

    Aqualung is an audio player that aims to be versatile: it is capable of producing completely gapless output, has several skins, supports Audio CDs, Internet radio streams, Podcasts, most file formats, and has an intuitive interface.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  9. Eina icon
     12 likes

    Your music belongs to you

    Current music players are focused on managing your music collection, while using mandatory criteria about how they organize it.

    Eina does not care about it at all. If your are an organized person, chances are your music collection is organized too, and.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. npshell icon
     9 likes

    npshell - Command line music queue manager.

    Keep a daemon running in the background. Add sounds to a queue. Let the daemon play the sweet music for you. All from the comfort of your own shell.

    • Stricly command line based for extra nerd credits.
    • Adds sounds from deep folde.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. RhythmCat icon
     3 likes

    RhythmCat is a music player which can be running under Linux. It can be used as a normal music player, and it can also show lyrics in a single window, or even on the desktop. It can help you mix your voice into the original music.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. Soube icon
     4 likes

    A simple and minimalist music player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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