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
POX added Phiola as alternative to Light Crime
justarandom added Phiola as alternative to tui – Music Player
POX added Phiola as alternative to MusicCovered
BitMavrick1 added Phiola as alternative to Groovy Ultimate
POX added Phiola as alternative to HiFidelity
Phiola information
Developed by
Simon Zolin Licensing
Open Source (BSD-2-Clause) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
82 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
Audio & MusicGitHub repository
- 219 Stars
- 9 Forks
- 14 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.