Category Archives: Player

Audio File Players

tz-player ~ Command Line Music Player

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A clean, keyboard-driven music player for the terminal.

tz-player is a simple TUI music player built with Python and powered by VLC. If VLC can play it, tz-player can play it.

No streaming. No accounts. No background services. Just your music, in your terminal.

github.com/taggedzi/tz-player

midimusic ~ Music Software & Music Archive

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Midimusic provides archives of Wurlitzer and Estey music rolls in e-roll format. These are downloadable and the music can be played using eplayOrgan. An archive of Miditzer organ midi files is also provided.

All features of the original e-rolls and midis are available including stops and swell.

eplayOrgan is a fully featured organ which can also be played from a full midified console or standard midi keyboards. Stops may be set using a touch screen.

eplayOrgan operates under Windows. Mac and Linux are supported under Wine. The programs work just the same under Wine on Mac and Linux as they do under Windows.

sourceforge.net/projects/midimusic

GNOME Music ~ Desktop Audio Player

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Play and organize your music collection

An easy and pleasant way to play your music.

Find tracks in your local collection, use automatically generated playlists or curate a fresh one.

gnome music player interface

apps.gnome.org/Music

FeelUOwn ~ Hackable Music Player

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trying to be a robust, user-friendly and hackable music player

Features:

  • Stable and Easy to Use
  • One-click installation, packaged for all popular platforms (e.g., Arch Linux, Windows, macOS, etc.)
  • Plug-ins for various media resource platforms, making full and reasonable use of free online resources (e.g., YouTube Music)
  • Comprehensive basic functions, including desktop lyrics, intelligent resource replacement, multiple audio quality options, and the nowplaying protocol
  • Core modules have good test coverage, and core interfaces maintain good backward compatibility
  • Large-scale support: AI radio, natural language to playlist conversion, etc.
  • High Playability:
    • Provides a TCP-based interactive control protocol
    • Provides an MCP Server (experimental feature) for programmatic control of player/resource capabilities
  • Text-based playlists for easy sharing with friends and synchronization across devices
  • Supports Python-based configuration files (.fuorc), similar to .vimrc and .emacs

github.com/feeluown/FeelUOwn
sourceforge.net/projects/feeluown.mirror

Tagr ~ Music Metadata Editor

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Self-hosted web app for browsing, playing, and editing music file metadata. Features a three-panel UI to navigate your library, listen to tracks, and write tag changes directly back to audio files. Built with Next.js, React, Prisma + SQLite, and node-taglib-sharp.

Most metadata editors are either desktop-only, command-line tools, or bloated apps with steep learning curves. If your music lives on a NAS, a server, or a headless machine, editing tags means SSH, mounting drives, or syncing files back and forth.

Tagr takes a different approach:

  • Run it anywhere — Docker, bare metal, your NAS. If it runs Node.js, it runs Tagr.
  • Edit from any browser — No installs, no plugins. Just open a tab.
  • Do one thing well — Browse your library, edit tags, save. That’s it.

Features:

Metadata Editing
  • Edit 40+ metadata fields inline — title, artist, album, year, genre, composer, BPM, lyrics, and more
  • Album art management — view, replace, and upload cover images directly
  • Star ratings (1–5) with a visual widget
  • Support for track/disc numbering, sort fields, catalog numbers, barcodes, and extended tags
  • Read-only display of audio properties (codec, bitrate, sample rate, channels, bits per sample)
Tagr Interface
Music Player
  • Built-in audio player with interactive waveform visualization (WaveSurfer.js)
  • Play/pause, previous/next track navigation
  • Click-to-seek on the waveform
  • Auto-advance to next song
  • Collapsible sidebar player with album art, title, and artist display
Library Browsing
  • Three-panel layout — folder tree, song list, and detail editor side by side
  • Folder tree with hierarchical navigation and real-time search
  • Sorting on any column — title, artist, album, year, duration, bitrate, date added, and dozens more
  • Advanced filtering — text, numeric ranges, date ranges, and boolean filters across all fields
  • Customizable columns — show/hide any of 40+ columns to match your workflow
  • Virtual scrolling and infinite pagination for large libraries

github.com/suitux/Tagr

Pot-O MusiQT ~ Python Music Player

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Pot-O MusiQT is a lightweight yet feature-rich desktop music player built with Python and PyQt5, designed for users who want a clean interface, strong playlist control, and practical everyday playback features without unnecessary complexity.

It focuses on local media playback, fast interaction, and keyboard-friendly operation, while still offering modern conveniences such as metadata handling, lyrics viewing, and smooth playback transitions.

Features:

  • JSON-backed
  • Edit Metadata
  • Embed Lyrics
  • Rename File by Metadata
  • Open ZIP File
  • Edit Cover
  • Show Lyrics
  • Play Video Clip
  • Save & Load M3U Playlist
  • Export Playlist to CSV & JSON
  • Search result as new playlist
  • Multiple Instances
  • User friendly UI/UX
  • Search by Metadata & Filename
  • Support common popular audio files (e.g. MP3, FLAC, AAC, M4V, OGG) and many more
  • Play music audio files
  • Safe file operations
  • Totally offline (No need for internet connection)
  • Lightweight in size, RAM & CPU usage
  • Stable
  • No equalizer or visualizer
  • Freeware

sourceforge.net/projects/pot-o-musiqt

HuMidi ~ ROBLOX Piano Player

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HuMidi is a universal piano auto player for ROBLOX. It plays even the most generic MIDI file with great depth, thanks to the humanization and automatic sustain pedal generation algorithms. The pedals are generated with a thorough analysis of the MIDI data, adding more depth to your performance that no other MIDI players could!

Personally have been tested in:

  • Visual Pianos
  • Starving Pianists
  • Digital Piano
  • Piano’s Got Talent

This tool is universal, as long as the piano in-game allows to be played on a keyboard.

Features:

  • MIDI auto player
  • Humanization options
  • Automatic sustain pedal (even if your MIDI doesn’t have the data!)
  • Visualization
  • Pause and resume
  • Scrubbing / seeking – You don’t have to play from the beginning every time, just skip to the part you want to play!

sourceforge.net/projects/humidi-roblox-piano-autoplayer

museeks ~ Simple, Clean & Cross-platform Music Player

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Museeks aims to be a simple and easy-to-use music player with a clean UI. You will not find tons of features, as its goal is not to compete with more complete and more famous music players.

Features:

  • 💻 Cross-platform music player (Linux, macOS, and Windows)
  • 🎧 Supported formats: mp3, mp4, m4a/aac, flac, wav, ogg, 3gpp
  • 🔄 Library auto-refresh
  • 🌟 Playlists
  • 🎼 Queue management
  • ➰ Shuffle, loop
  • 🌄 Cover art
  • 🤓 Dark theme
  • 🚤 Playback speed control
  • 😴 Sleep mode blocker
  • 📥 .m3u import/export

museeks.io
github.com/martpie/museeks
sourceforge.net/projects/museeks.mirror

Ministation ~ Mini Audiostation

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The Ministation application is a small media player, for playing audio files. The program only has a few options to play, stop, pause, etc. the current media track. 

Ministation Interface

github.com/Sibra-Soft/ministation

Symphonie ~ Music Player

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Symphonie is a sleek, lightweight desktop music player built with Electron and powered by HTML5 capabilities, offering a clean interface for enjoying your local audio library. It supports popular formats including MP3, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, WAV, OPUS. Features include playlist management, intuitive playback controls, track metadata display (title/artist), and shuffle functionality for a seamless listening experience.

Features:

  • Supported audio formats mp3,aac,m4a,wav,ogg,flac,opus and more
  • Drag and drop files/folders directly onto the player or playlist
  • Visualizer which can be enabled and disabled
  • Reorder tracks within the playlist using drag and drop
  • Select all tracks and delete in the playlist using Ctrl+A
  • Seamless integration with modern web technologies without relying on third-party libraries.
  • Supported Platforms Windows 10/11,Debian,Ubuntu,Arch Linux,Linux Mint,Fedora
Symphonie

sourceforge.net/projects/symphonie

Lidify ~ Music Hosting & Discovery Tool

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Lidify is built for music lovers who want the convenience of streaming services without sacrificing ownership of their library. Point it at your music collection, and Lidify handles the rest: artist discovery, personalized playlists, podcast subscriptions, and seamless integration with tools you already use like Lidarr and Audiobookshelf.

  • Stream your library – FLAC, MP3, AAC, OGG, and other common formats work out of the box
  • Automatic cataloging – Lidify scans your library and enriches it with metadata from MusicBrainz and Last.fm
  • Audio transcoding – Stream at original quality or transcode on-the-fly (320kbps, 192kbps, or 128kbps)
  • Ultra-wide support – Library grid scales up to 8 columns on large displays
Lidify Interface

github.com/Chevron7Locked/lidify
github.com/TheWicklowWolf/Lidify

DLNA Music Controller ~ Manage DLNA Directly

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Read a DLNA Media Server to select music to play on your DLNA Renderer

Scan the network for your Media Server (“Server”) and Renderer (“Renderer”) devices, select one of each and then from the main screen select the music you want to play, drilling into Albums, Artists, Genres (all defined by your Media Server). Any music you want to hear is called a track and is loaded onto the play queue. Then select Play button to listen to the track listed at the top of the queue. You can also create playlists and store your favorite tracks for playback.

Features:

  • DLNA
  • Media Server
  • Media Renderer
  • Play queue

sourceforge.net/projects/dlna-music-controller

Resources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers_and_clients