MusicBee Alternatives

MusicBee is described as 'Manages and organizes music libraries, playlists, and folders, supports podcasts and web radio, advanced tagging, CD ripping, device sync, and multiple audio formats' and is a leading Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MusicBee for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best MusicBee alternative is foobar2000. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try foobar2000 or AIMP. Other great apps like MusicBee are Winamp, Audacious, Strawberry and MediaMonkey.

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  1. Roon icon
     9 likes

    Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.

    232 Roon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Synology C2
     
  2. Plexamp icon
     12 likes

    Plexamp is a small music player for your desktop, with a number of unique features.Throw your best FLACs at it and experience sonic bliss!.

    148 Plexamp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  3. Nagi icon
     3 likes

    Audio player for local collections offering fast performance, privacy, dynamic theming, mini-player, interactive synced lyrics, folder library, advanced playlist features, queue management, 10-band equalizer, volume normalization, wide format support, and system tray controls.

    33 Nagi alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Vox Music Player icon
     111 likes

    It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.

    151 Vox Music Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
  5. XMPlay icon
     86 likes

    A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from...

    112 XMPlay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  6. Nightingale icon
     45 likes

    Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code. A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Amberol icon
     8 likes

    Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.

    24 Amberol alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  8. Cantata icon
     15 likes

    A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
     
  9. Guayadeque icon
     43 likes

    Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is a full featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework. Using it, Guayadeque has all the format support that entails.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Guayadeque vs MusicBee Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    1

    It does very nearly everything Musicbee can do and more.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Ome Cor
    Positive
    0

    Free, open source, works with large collections, looks good, is fast, is highly customizable, works with radio and podcasts: what's not to like?!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Guayadeque is Free and Open SourceMusicBee is Free Personal and Proprietary
  10. Swinsian icon
     27 likes

    Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries.

    152 Swinsian alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Nora icon
     7 likes

    With simplicity and design in mind, this app was made to overcome problems when using default music apps on platforms that lack essential features.

    19 Nora alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
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