Quod Libet
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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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Debian
- Xfce
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AxelKennedal added Quod Libet as alternative to Versed- michaelolsen thinks Media library is a important feature of Quod Libet
POX added Quod Libet as alternative to monoPlayer
BitMavrick1 added Quod Libet as alternative to Groovy - Music Player- alternativeto-deviant liked Quod Libet
POX added Quod Libet as alternative to Rune 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
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Audio & Music, Development, File Management, Video & MoviesGitHub repository
- 1,522 Stars
- 228 Forks
- 852 Open Issues
- Updated May 22, 2025
Comments and Reviews
I listen to classical music, and have a lot of complexity in the tagging (composer, genre, multi-disc, artist) and QL handles them with aplomb. It also lets me add my own tags: key, instrumentation, etc... Nice. But then I can build complex queries: "all recently added tracks that are baroque flute in the key of C".
Wow. Don't try that with iTunes. Oh yeah, I've got over 60Gb in FLAC, OGG, MP3 and it plays everything and searches it all.
High Power with a great interface!
Love it.
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