Quod Libet
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Debian
- Xfce
Features
Properties
- Support for Themes
- Customizable
Features
- Library Management
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Tagging
- Music Library
- Media library
- Built-in Tag editor
- Waveform Seekbar
- Ad-free
- Musicbrainz support
- Custom filters
- Works Offline
- Portable
- User Rating
- Columnar-panel navigation
- Sits in the System Tray
- Sorting
SoundCloud Integration- Hi-Fi Sound
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler- Search operators
- Audio playback
- Cross-Platform
- Integrated Search
- Support for MPRIS
Tags
- Python
- tag-editor
- Music Organization
- Xfce
- gapless
- scrobbling
Quod Libet News & Activities
Recent activities
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What is Quod Libet?
Quod Libet is a Gapless GTK+-based audio player written in Python. Its designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (dont worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file. And it lets you do this for all the file formats it supports - Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD.
Quod Libet easily scales to libraries of thousands of songs. It also supports most of the features you expect from a modern media player, like Unicode support, multimedia keys, and tag editing.
If you're happy with your current audio player and you don't want to switch to Quod Libet, you can use Ex Falso instead. Ex Falso is a program that uses the same tag editing backend as Quod Libet, but isn't connected to an audio player.
Quod Libet information
Developed by
Joe Wreschnig, Michael Urman, Steve Robertson Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.5Alternatives
164 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Audio & Music, Development, File Management, Video & MoviesGitHub repository
- 1,634 Stars
- 236 Forks
- 866 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Because I can edit the meta-data of multiple files at a time, create custom filters and it has a ton of plugins.
Quod Libet has lots of very positive reviews and, by the looks of things, a loyal fan base. From the documentation and screenshots I can see why and I was very keen to use it. My library is just shy of 40k songs and 290 GB and I was looking forward to finding out what QL could do. However, having installed it and set up my library it has become unusable. Literally every mouse click results in a "Quod Libet (Not Responding)" message. When I say literally, I mean literally. It takes about 90secs to begin responding again but the next mouse click results in another not responding message and more time finger drumming. I can see the potential and I would love to use QL but based on my experience I cannot recommend it.
I haven't found another piece of software that features a weighted shuffle playback order (prefer higher rated tracks - and you can enable a plugin that will automatically rate based on how long you play the tracks for and how many times you skip it).
There's a plug-in for Last.fm scrobbling.
Plus it's open-source, cross-platform, and free...
The best music player on Linux I absolutely love the extensive tagging ability. Nothing else that I've used on Linux has even compared to it.
Best music player on Fedora. Supports all codecs and has easy tagging tools. Great customization and plugins. One of the only decent players that can sort by date modified.
It has (almost everything) I need: it's cross-platform, supports Last.fm scrobbling and can be controlled from the system tray (Ubuntu 20.04 here). To be perfect, among the many plugins it already has, it would have one for streaming services (my preference is Deezer, but also Spotify should be a must)
It's the only real Linux alternative for foobar2000