Roon Alternatives

Roon is described as 'Identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Roon for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Roon alternative is foobar2000. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try foobar2000 or AIMP. Other great apps like Roon are Winamp, MusicBee, Audacious and Strawberry.

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  1. Qobuz icon
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    Qobuz is an online music platform offering streaming subscriptions and downloads. Qobuz offers more than 40 million titles in lossless quality (16-Bit/44.1 kHz, similar to CD quality), and possesses a large catalogue of high-resolution content (75,000 albums in 24-Bit Hi-Res).

    138 Qobuz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Auto
    • AirPlay
     
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    Qobuz runs on Linux ZORIN and Mac OS, as well as a desktop application. Curated playlists, interviews, album reviews and articles make Qobuz unique. A French music service that leaves nothing to be desired! High Quality Sound.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Qobuz is the most popular commercial alternative to Roon.

    • Qobuz is Paid and ProprietaryRoon is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. Dopamine icon
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    Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.

    65 Dopamine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...

    218 Windows Media Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Quod Libet icon
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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.

    164 Quod Libet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
     
  5. PixelPlayer icon
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    PixelPlayer is a modern, offline-first music player for Android, built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It's designed to provide a beautiful and seamless experience for listening to your local music library.

    58 PixelPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. SpMp icon
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    YouTube Music client for Android and desktop enabling colour customisation, advanced metadata editing, multi-language support, in-app login, time-synced lyrics with furigana, Discord presence, batch actions, playlist pinning, and multi-platform sync.

    124 SpMp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • F-Droid
     
  7. gPodder icon
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    gPodder downloads and manages free audio and video content ("podcasts") for you. Listen directly on your computer or on your mobile devices.

    118 gPodder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Xfce
     
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    gPodder is a podcast manager, while Roon is intended for audiophiles to enjoy their music collections.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • gPodder is Free and Open SourceRoon is Paid and Proprietary
  8. Exaile icon
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    Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
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