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The best alternative to Rhythmbox is foobar2000. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try foobar2000 or Winamp. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Rhythmbox and many of them are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Rhythmbox are DeaDBeeF, Elisa, Crates and gPodder.

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  1. foobar2000 icon
     1549 likes

    Audio player offering MP3, FLAC support, gapless playback, customizable interfaces, CD ripping, advanced tagging, ReplayGain, plugins, and is known for its freeware model, running on various Windows versions with high audio fidelity.

    204 foobar2000 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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    foobar2000 vs Rhythmbox Comments
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    Foobar is fiendishly difficult to customize in any semblance of a logical order and has a lot of strange behaviors. Rhythmbox is basically dead simple

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • foobar2000 is Free Personal and ProprietaryRhythmbox is Free and Open Source
    • foobar2000 is Customizable, Privacy focused and MinimalisticRhythmbox is not according to our users
  2. Winamp icon
     897 likes

    Media player for Windows offering ease of use, skinnable design, advanced audio visualizers, and support for plug-ins, playlists, music library, and various audio formats. Known for extensibility, music visualization, and online community support.

    265 Winamp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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    Winamp vs Rhythmbox Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Because rhythmbox does not work in Windows environment. It is designed to work in gnome environment.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Winamp is Free and ProprietaryRhythmbox is Free and Open Source
  3. Amarok icon
     411 likes

    Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it.

    169 Amarok alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
     
  4. DeaDBeeF icon
     199 likes

    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    182 DeaDBeeF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
     
  5. Elisa icon
     35 likes

    Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users.

    74 Elisa alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Snapcraft
     
  6. Crates icon
     22 likes

    Crates is a user-focused, next generation music app, that merges all user’s music collections into one, enables them to own their data, listen from any source and discover new music recommended by the community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. gPodder icon
     112 likes

    gPodder downloads and manages free audio and video content ("podcasts") for you. Listen directly on your computer or on your mobile devices.

    124 gPodder alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Xfce
     
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    gPodder vs Rhythmbox Comments
    RemovedUser
    Positive
    0

    not a music player by itself – downloads and displays podcast episodes

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • gPodder is Free and Open SourceRhythmbox is also Free and Open Source
  8. Amberol icon
     11 likes

    Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.

    25 Amberol alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  9. Guayadeque icon
     43 likes

    Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is a full featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework. Using it, Guayadeque has all the format support that entails.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Sayonara Player icon
     28 likes

    Sayonara is a simple but nice audio player and holds a lot of features like a library, id3 tag editor, equalizer, lastfm radio, lastfm scrobbler, stream recorder and so on...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Museeks icon
     20 likes

    Minimalist cross-platform player offering clean UI, support for multiple formats, playback speed adjustment, cover art, playlists, queue management, shuffle, loop, dark theme, library auto-refresh, sleep mode blocker, and m3u import/export.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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