M1 ~ Mac Arcade Music Player


M1 plays the music from arcade games by running the code in the original ROMs (not supplied). This allows entirely authentic playback of classic video game tunes while you work. M1 does not play music from console and computer games; for that you should use Audio Overload.

m1

www.bannister.org

Qmmp ~ Qt Audio Player


This program is an audio player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms. An alternative user interface is also available.

qmmp-0.9_full_3

qmmp.ylsoftware.com
sourceforge.net/projects/qmmp-dev

qmmp-modern

An attempt to support “modern” Winamp skins in a Qmmp plugin.

github.com/seppd/qmmp-modern

Nuvola ~ Open Source Stream Player


Nuvola (Linux) Apps are web apps running in Nuvola Apps Runtime that provides them with more native user experience and richer desktop integration features than standard web browsers can offer. Nuvola specializes in music streaming services and offers background playback, handling of media key, integration with media player applets, Last.fm scrobbling, lyrics fetching, and much more.

Although Nuvola should work in all Linux desktop environments, we currently test only GNOME (Ubuntu, Fedora), Unity (Ubuntu), and Pantheon (elementaryOS). We hope to explore other desktops in the future.

nuvola.tiliado.eu

Volumio ~ Headless Audiophile Player


Volumio is an headless audiophile music player, designed to play music with the highest possible fidelity. Volumio runs on most embedded devices (Raspberry Pi, UDOO, Odroid, Cubieboard, Beaglebone, Pine64, Allo Sparky…) and on any ordinary PC (x86).

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 inexpensive computers like the Raspberry PI, but also on low power PCs, notebooks or thin clients.

By flashing (installing) Volumio on any of these platforms, it will then become an headless audiophile music player. Headless means that the only way to control it will be with another mobile phone, computer or tablet.

This is made possible by Volumio’s User Interface: a web applications that runs on any device with a browser, and that allows for an easy and intuitive control of your playback sessions. All communications between the web app and Volumio will happen through your home network.

volumio.org
github.com/volumio

Smart Mix Player ~ DJ & Radio Automation


Smart Mix Player is a free auto disc jockey player for Linux and Windows. It plays audio files as a non stop mix, but not in the way that traditional auto DJ software does!

Most of these players mix songs together at the end of a song with a simple fade out and fade in. Smart Mix Player goes a big step further and mixes like a real DJ!

smartmixplayer

www.smartmixplayer.com

DeaDBeeF ~ Extensible Unix Audio Player


DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.

DeaDBeeF lets you play variety of audio formats, convert between them, customize the UI almost any way you want, and use many additional plugins which can extend it even more.

deadbeef

deadbeef.sourceforge.net
deadbeef.sourceforge.net/download
deadbeef.sourceforge.io/plugins.html
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.deadbeef.android

Plugins:
File Browser
lyricbar
mpris2
ddb_musical_spectrum
ddb_quick_search
ddb_spectrogram
ddb_vu_meter
ddb_waveform_seekbar
deadbeef-uade (Amiga)

cmus ~ Lightweight Unix Player


cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

cmus-2.4.3-osx

cmus.github.io

Tauon Music Box ~ Streamlined Linux Player


A music player for the desktop. Designed to be powerful, simple and streamlined, putting the user in control of their music collection. Uses the proprietary BASS audio library for playback.

Tauon Music Box

tauonmusicbox.rocks
github.com/Taiko2k/tauonmb

MPD ~ Cross Platform Music Player Daemon


Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.

MPD can broadcast via Snapcast.

www.musicpd.org
www.musicpd.org/clients

TimeStretch Player ~ Audio Web App


TimeStretch Player is a free online audio player that allows you to loop, speed up, slow down and pitch shift sections of an audio file. This makes it a great tool for practicing or transcribing music.

29a.ch/timestretch

XiX ~ Open Source Music Player


XiX Player is a free, easy to use, multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS Intel

Features:

  • Supports the following file formats: MP3, OGG, M4A (non-DRM), AAC, FLAC, OPUS, APE, DFF, WAV
  • Play & rip your CDs to MP3 or FLAC with CD-Text and CDDB support.
  • Rip CD/DVD tracks to MP3 or FLAC. Needs mplayer.
  • See albums the chosen artist is on and vice versa.
  • Create and use playlists.
  • Online radio stations + presets.
  • Record online radio stations.
  • Schedule Radio station recordings.
  • Listen to & download podcasts.
  • Play license free audio from the Internet Archive.
  • Show the lyrics and CD covers of the song being played.
  • Shuffle and repeat.
  • Reverse play.
  • Crossfading & trimming.
  • Search.
  • Rate your songs.
  • EQ + FXs (Flanger, Echo & Reverb).
  • Set EQ & trim for individual songs.
  • Copy, delete or rename files.
  • Change ID3 tag (only for MP3/OGG/FLAC/APE).
  • Multiple tagging / renaming.
  • Theme support (Basic).
XIX

sourceforge.net/projects/xixmusicplayer

Nighthawk ~ Stealthy Unobtrusive Player


A stealthy, simple, unobtrusive open source multi-platform music player that stays out of your way in your Menubar / Taskbar.

github.com/quantumkv/nighthawk