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.
- Free • Open Source
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- Xfce
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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 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.
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Audio & Music • Development • File Management • Video & MoviesTags
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Our users have written 17 comments and reviews about Quod Libet, and it has gotten 151 likes
- Developed by Joe Wreschnig, Michael Urman, Steve Robertson
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 4.7
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View allQuod Libet was added to AlternativeTo by dik on Apr 10, 2009 and this page was last updated Jan 27, 2021.
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.
Because I can edit the meta-data of multiple files at a time, create custom filters and it has a ton of plugins.
It reads Vorbis tags so you can mark multiple artists, composers, arrangers and so on and then listen to tracks where all these people are on. Quod Libet splits tags as every single music player should do.
For example, put Kendrick Lamar as an album artist on "Black Panther: The Album…" but set Vince Staples and Yugen Blakrok as artists of "Opps" with Sounwave and Ludwig Göransson as producers (composers) of the song, and in the list of people now you can choose music written by Kendrick, Vince, Yugen, Sounwave, and Ludwig.
Best audio player on OS X small, unitrusive, does what you need it to do.
On LINUX, for my needs it's perfect. The only confusing thing was at the start in Preferences, pointing it at my music library. I knew it had to be finished, but it didn't bring up a window. Turns out it was hiding behind the prefs panel, could only see the player after closing the prefs. Best of all it leaves my own music folders intact, like 1by1. The font is big enough (unlike Clementine). It doesn't force any one view of your titles, there are several under the Browse menu item. The browse view I like most is called Album Collection. Until something better comes along, my search for the right player is over.