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. The best alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sonata are foobar2000 (Free), Clementine (Free, Open Source), Winamp (Freemium) and Audacious (Free, Open Source).
- 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.
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
- SparkyLinux
- Raspberry Pi
- UDOO
- Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- GNOME
- Napster is the ultimate digital music service, offering MP3 downloads and unlimited on-demand streaming. Enjoy any track in Napster.s multi-million-song library and discover new music through personalized recommendation tools.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- 5KPlayer is a new-style free media player for Mac OS as all-in-one HD video/music player, AirPlay streamer and free online video/music downloader. It plays 4K/5K, MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, YouTube video, MP3 music & DVD on Mac flawlessly.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Stellio is an advanced music player with themes support, powerful audio and integration with VK and Dropbox.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Android Wear
- 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.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files. It allows you to edit the "tags" of your audio files, and manage your collection and playlists. It's main focus, in fact, is on music management.
- A minimalist command line interface to MPD.No screenshots yet
- Foobnix audio player for Linux, Windows and Android. Main features player Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab); Formats MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND ...
Discontinued
The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 3.1, released in June 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- 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).
Discontinued
musikcube was actively developed by Casey Langen between 2003 and 2006. Now it's an abandoned open source project, but last version, 1.1, and the source code can still be downloaded from the official website.