It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.




Showboard is described as 'I got tired of four apps open at once just to hear one night of music. Local FLACs in one player, nugs.net in another, an Archive.org show in a browser tab, TIDAL off to the side. So I built the player I wanted' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Showboard for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Showboard 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 Showboard are MusicBee, Winamp, Audacious and Strawberry.
It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.




MusicPod is a local music, radio, television and podcast player for Linux, MacOS and Windows.




Musique unclutters your music listening experience with a clean interface that keeps you focused on what really matters: music.




RealPlayer with RealTimes (aka “RealPlayer” for short) still includes the legacy features, such as Video Player, Downloader, Converter, Organizer and Web Videos. It also includes RealTimes features, such as Photos and RealTimes Stories, the automatic video collage feature.




Queue is the simplest podcast app out there. New episodes from your subscriptions just show up in one list ? your Queue, so you can play them or archive them without any fuss. No playlists, no settings, just a clean, easy way to keep up with your shows.




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.


Plexamp is a small music player for your desktop, with a number of unique features.Throw your best FLACs at it and experience sonic bliss!.




Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer.




Podcast management platform with Rust backend, browser-based access, multi-user server-side sync, subscriptions, playback, downloads, PodPeopleDB host support, mobile compatibility, Nextcloud and gpodder syncing, and external app integration for flexible access.




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.




Volumio is a free and Open Source Linux Distribution, designed and fine-tuned exclusively for music playback. It runs on a variety of devices, typically small and cheap computers like the Raspberry PI, but also on low power PCs, notebooks or thin clients.



