npshell AlternativesAudio Players and other similar apps like npshell

npshell is described as '- Command line music queue manager' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to npshell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best npshell alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like npshell are Clementine, Strawberry, Audacious and DeaDBeeF.

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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.

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npshell alternatives page was last updated Mar 18, 2024
  1. VLC Media Player icon
     7552 likes

    Enjoy seamless media experiences with this cross-platform, ad-free player supporting multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, Chromecast, 4K, and no tracking. Customize with themes, play offline, and get privacy-focused service without registration. Fully extensible by plugins.

    297 VLC Media Player alternatives
    VLC Media Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • AppImageHub
    • Apple Watch
    • Snapcraft
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple TV
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • Haiku
    • Android TV
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey

    Properties

    1.  Customizable
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Video Converter
    3.  Video playback
    4.  Built-in Media converter
    5.  Support for subtitles
    6.  Integrated Codecs
    7.  Audio Recording
    8.  Cross-Platform
    9.  Internet Radio
    10.  Compatibility Layer
    11.  Media Streaming
    12.  Replay Gain
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    • VLC Media Player is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to npshell.

    • VLC Media Player is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to npshell.

    • VLC Media Player is Free and Open Sourcenpshell is also Free and Open Source
    • VLC Media Player is Customizablenpshell is not according to our users
  2. Clementine icon
     730 likes

    Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

    241 Clementine alternatives
    Clementine with lyrics pane

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Smart playlists
    2.  Podcast Player
    3.  Dynamic/Intelligent Playlists
    4. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    5.  Playlists management
    6.  Audio Visualization
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Lossless Audio
    9.  File Tagging
    10.  No registration required
    11.  No Tracking
    12.  Moodbar
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  3. Strawberry icon
     240 likes

    Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.

    232 Strawberry alternatives
    Strawberry screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Music Library
    2.  Music collection
    3.  Automatic Lyrics Finder
    4.  Auto fetch album covers
    5.  Playlists management
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Lossless Audio
    8. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    9.  Cross-Platform
    10.  Gapless Playback
    11.  Automatic album art download
    12.  ListenBrainz scrobbling
    Warning

    It is still open source but now the Windows and macOS builds are tied to having a Patreon subscription.

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  4. Audacious icon
     290 likes

    Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp.

    128 Audacious alternatives
    Audacious screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Create Playlist
    2.  Windows Compatible
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  Music Library
    5.  Playlists management
    6.  3D visualization
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Dark Mode
    9.  Supports audio media keys
    10.  No Tracking
    11.  Works Offline
    12.  Lossless Audio
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  5. DeaDBeeF icon
     194 likes

    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    171 DeaDBeeF alternatives
    DeaDBeeF screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Fully customizable interface
    3.  Playlists management
    4.  Support for Hotkeys
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Replay Gain
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  Lossless Audio
    9.  Command line interface
    10.  Portable
    11. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    12.  Mods
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  6. Amarok icon
     404 likes

    Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it.

    163 Amarok alternatives
    Overview

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    2.  Podcast Subscription
    3.  Music Library
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Support for scripting
    7.  Multiple languages
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  7. Quod Libet icon
     166 likes

    A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

    159 Quod Libet alternatives
    The paned browser, providing a customizable hierarchy of filters for finding your music

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Library Management
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Tagging
    4.  Music Library
    5.  Media library
    6.  Built-in Tag editor
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  User Rating
    10.  Portable
    11.  Waveform Seekbar
    12.  Sorting
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  8. Exaile icon
     108 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...

    142 Exaile alternatives
    Random Screenshot

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce

    Exaile Features

    1. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
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  9. Tomahawk icon
     111 likes

    Tomahawk gives you to access to all of your favorite music in one powerful media player. Seamlessly jump from playing a song off your local machine, to one streaming from your other machines, to a recommendation from Spotify, to a pre-release on SoundCloud to your favorite...

    89 Tomahawk alternatives
    Tomahawk screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android

    Tomahawk Features

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2. Spotify icon  Spotify integration
    3. Deezer icon  Deezer integration
    4. YouTube icon  Youtube integration
    5. SoundCloud icon  SoundCloud Integration
    6. Google Play Music icon  Google Play Music integration
    7. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    8. ownCloud icon  Owncloud integration
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer maintained. Last version, 0.8.4, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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  10. 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.

    146 Vox Music Player alternatives
    Vox Music Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Cloud Sync
    2.  Lossless Audio
    3. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    4.  Support for Audio Units Plugins
    5.  Sound Effects
    6.  Music Library
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  11. Winyl icon
     40 likes

    Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

    363 Winyl alternatives
    Winyl screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Skinnable
    3.  Music collection
    4.  Music Library
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Built-in Equalizer
    8.  Crossfading
    Discontinued

    No updates since late 2018

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  12. gmusicbrowser icon
     61 likes

    An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ Vorbis / FLAC / mpc/ape files, written in perl. Its made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind.

    90 gmusicbrowser alternatives
    One of the included alternate layouts.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline
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