Music Player Daemon AlternativesAudio Players and other similar apps like Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon is described as '(MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Music Player Daemon for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Xfce, Mac, Windows and BSD apps. The best Music Player Daemon alternative is Exaile, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Music Player Daemon are Qmmp, Mopidy, Pragha and xmms2.

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  1. Exaile icon
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    Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce

    Exaile Features

    1. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler

    Exaile VS Music Player Daemon

     
    • Exaile is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Music Player Daemon.

    • Exaile is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Music Player Daemon.

    • Exaile is Free and Open SourceMusic Player Daemon is also Free and Open Source
  2. Qmmp icon
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    Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms.

    94 Qmmp alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    3.  Built-in Media converter

    Qmmp VS Music Player Daemon

     
  3. Mopidy icon
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    Mopidy is a music server which can play music from Spotify , or from your local hard drive. You can use your favorite MPD client to search for music and manage the playlist.

    15 Mopidy alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Mopidy Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Web interface

    Mopidy VS Music Player Daemon

     
    • Almost everyone thinks Mopidy is a great Music Player Daemon alternative.

    • Mopidy is the most popular Mac alternative to Music Player Daemon.

    • Mopidy is Free and Open SourceMusic Player Daemon is also Free and Open Source
  4. Pragha icon
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    Pragha is a lightweight music player for GNU/Linux, based on GTK, SQLite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast, light, and simultaneously tries to be complete without obstructing the daily work.

    13 Pragha alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • AR flagArgentina

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  Two panels

    Pragha VS Music Player Daemon

     
  5. xmms2 icon
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    A Free software music player and manager with a built-in media library and a smart client-server model, plus a sophisticated plug-in architecture. The player is not related to the well-known media player XMMS.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Xfce

    xmms2 VS Music Player Daemon

     
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    Auremo is a graphical client for Music Player Daemon (MPD). It runs on modern versions of Windows. It supports a number of MPD features: playback commands, music collection browsing, HTTP streams such as web radio channels, playlist manipulation, output control and more.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Auremo MPD Client VS Music Player Daemon

     
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    A graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce

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  8. netjukebox icon
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    netjukebox is a web-based media jukebox for MPD, VideoLAN and Winamp/httpQ. It features real-time MP3 streaming from different audio formats. Download single tracks or a whole album in one zip file. It is also possible to batch transcode the whole music collection to another...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted

    netjukebox Features

    1.  Streaming
    2.  Web-Based

    netjukebox VS Music Player Daemon

     
    • netjukebox is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Music Player Daemon.

    • netjukebox is Free and Open SourceMusic Player Daemon is also Free and Open Source
  9. vitunes icon
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    vitunes is a curses-based music player and playlist manager for *nix whose goals are: 1. a minimalistic appearance, 2. strong vi-like bindings, and 3. quick playlist creation/management. vitunes does not strive to be a feature-rich media player, but rather a quick, vi-like media...

    13 vitunes alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Discontinued

    The latest update is from March 2016.

    vitunes Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Vi keybindings

    vitunes VS Music Player Daemon

     
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    Music player for Android that supports multiple file formats like mp3, mp4/m4a (incl. alac), ogg, wma*, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff create ring tones best music player with Ring tone maker, Equalizer, Shuffle, shake, Multi select.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android

    Music Player Mp3 Player Features

    1.  Mp3 Cutter

    Music Player Mp3 Player VS Music Player Daemon

     
    • Music Player Mp3 Player is the most popular Android alternative to Music Player Daemon.

    • Music Player Mp3 Player is Free and ProprietaryMusic Player Daemon is Free and Open Source
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    An elegant HTML5 web folder player for parties and/or private music collections, with playlist management that's just better.

    16 Music Folder Player alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    Music Folder Player Features

    1.  Stream audio
    2.  Music Library

    Music Folder Player VS Music Player Daemon

     
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