Phiola
phiola is a fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android. Its low CPU consumption conserves the notebook/phone battery. You can issue commands to phiola via its CLI, TUI, GUI, system pipe and SDK interfaces.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Lossless Audio
- Audio Recording
- Audio Conversion
Phiola News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
BitMavrick1 added Phiola as alternative to Groovy Ultimate
POX added Phiola as alternative to HiFidelity
POX added Phiola as alternative to Nova Music- Lehuga added Phiola as alternative to Blaiz Music Player
POX added Phiola as alternative to Echo: Music Player and Echo Music
LinuxDoge added Phiola as alternative to RecordEqualizer- babsors liked Phiola
Phiola information
Developed by
Simon Zolin Licensing
Open Source (BSD-2-Clause) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
78 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
Audio & MusicGitHub repository
- 190 Stars
- 9 Forks
- 12 Open Issues
- Updated
What is Phiola?
phiola is a fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android. Its low CPU consumption conserves the notebook/phone battery. You can issue commands to phiola via its CLI, TUI, GUI, system pipe and SDK interfaces. Its fast startup time allows using it from custom scripts on a "play-and-exit" or "record-and-exit" basis. It's completely portable (all codecs are bundled) - you can run it directly from a read-only flash drive. It's a free and open-source project, and you can use it as a standalone application or as a library for your own software.
Features:
- Play audio: .mp3, .ogg(Vorbis/Opus), .mp4/.mov(AAC/ALAC/MPEG), .mkv/.webm(AAC/ALAC/MPEG/Vorbis/Opus/PCM), .caf(AAC/ALAC/PCM), .avi(AAC/MPEG/PCM), .aac, .mpc; .flac, .ape, .wv, .wav. Note: on Android phiola can play only what your Android supports!
- Record audio: .m4a(AAC), .ogg, .opus; .flac, .wav
- Convert audio
- Input: file, directory, HTTP/HTTPS URL, console (stdin), playlists: .m3u, .pls, .cue
- List available audio devices
- Command Line Interface for Desktop OS
- Terminal/Console UI for interaction at runtime
- GUI for Windows, Linux, Android
- Instant startup time: very short initial delay until the audio starts playing (e.g. Linux/PulseAudio: TUI: ~25ms, GUI: ~50ms)
- Fast (low footprint): keeps your CPU, memory & disk I/O at absolute minimum; spends 99% of time inside codec algorithms
Comments and Reviews
This is made by the same genius that made the excellent fmedia audio player/recorder/converter, that I've used for years. I'm a bit confused if this is a successor to fmedia or an alternative. I see it has the ability to pipe audio into specific programs, which fmedia doesn't have if I'm not mistaken. So there seems to be some differences.