Music Player Daemon Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Music Player Daemon for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Euphonica, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Music Player Daemon and nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Music Player Daemon are Exaile, Qmmp, Mopidy and Pragha.

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  1. Euphonica icon
     18 likes

    Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. Exaile icon
     109 likes

    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...

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  3. Qmmp icon
     48 likes

    Audio player with versatile skin support, 10-band equalizer, multiple playlists, extensive audio format compatibility, video playback through Mplayer, lyrics display, cover art support, CUE sheet handling, CDDB, stream browser, and audio converting features.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
     
  4. Mopidy icon
     11 likes

    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.

    16 Mopidy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. Pragha icon
     5 likes

    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.

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    • Linux
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. xmms2 icon
     10 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  7.  6 likes

    A graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  8. netjukebox icon
     7 likes

    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...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. vitunes icon
     3 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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