Sonata Alternatives

Sonata is described as 'Elegant GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It has been forked from the unmaintained Pygmy project in order to fix bugs, introduce new features, and proceed down a different path' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Sonata for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Sonata alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sonata are foobar2000, Clementine, Winamp and Audacious.

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  1. Museeks icon
     19 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.

    135 Museeks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Qmmp icon
     47 likes

    Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms.

    95 Qmmp alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
    • Haiku
     
  3. Cantata icon
     15 likes

    A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
     
  4. gmusicbrowser icon
     61 likes

    An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ Vorbis / FLAC / mpc/ape files, written in perl. Its made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Switch Player icon
     4 likes

    Switch allows you to play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file and export a new file.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. Volumio icon
     12 likes

    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.

    163 Volumio alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. Swinsian icon
     27 likes

    Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries.

    151 Swinsian alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. 1by1 icon
     45 likes

    1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks - with no need to fuddle with playlists or media databases.

    115 1by1 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  9. musikCube icon
     27 likes

    Featuring a solid core set of functions, musikCube is very lightweight and fast, with an interface that will be immediately familiar to anyone who's used an iTunes or Amarok 1.x style player (that is, nearly everyone).

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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