Category Archives: Player

Audio File Players

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

Dancing QT ~  Player For Dancing Schools

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Dancing QT is a combined music database and player application specially designed for dancing schools and equivalent applications. Key features are an easy-to-use interface, fast search capabilities, playlist management, exact pitching and crossfading.

Looking around the open source landscape for a while, I tried to find a music database and player that is suitable for use in a dancing school environment – without success. Most mixing applications tend to be too confusing for the intended audience, most players lack database searching capabilites and most song databases don’t know how to pitch 😦

Because of this, I decided to setup a new application – Dancing QT. It uses alsaplayer because of its excellent interface and pitching capabilities, it uses an embedded SQLite DBMS to maintain a song database, and it uses taglib to populate the database. The interface is written in C++ using Qt. Because of the alsaplayer dependency, the target platforms will be limited to environments providing alsaplayer.

Dancing QT Interface

dqt.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/dqt

Cynthia ~ Multitrack MIDI Player

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Reliably play midi music files from a folder or “.m3u” playlist. Adjust playback speed, volume and output device on the fly during playback. A large playback progress bar makes jumping forward and backward in time a breeze with just a single click or tap. Supports “.mid”, “.midi” and “.rmi” files in format 0 (single track) and format 1 (multi-track). Comes complete with 24 sample midis ready to play.

Features:

  • Dual play systems – Play Folder and Play List
  • Comes with 24 built-in sample midis on a virtual disk
  • Elapsed, Remaining and Total time readouts
  • Native “.m3u” playlist support (copy, paste, open, save, build)
  • Drag and drop midi files to play / add to playlist
  • Play Modes: Once, Repeat One, Repeat All, All Once, Random
  • Play Speed: 10% to 1,000% (1/10th to 10x)
  • Intro Mode: Play first 2s, 5s, 10s or 30s of midi
  • Rewind / Fast Forward by: 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s or 30s
  • Play on Start option – playback commences on app start
  • Always on Midi option – maintain connection to midi device for instant playback
  • Auto Fade In – eliminate loud or abrupt notes during rewind, fast forward or reposition operations
  • Playback Progress bar – click to reposition/jump backward or forward in time
  • Volume control with volume boost (up to 200%)
  • Play “.mid”, “.midi” and “.rmi” midi files in 0 and 1 formats
  • Custom built midi playback subsystem for high playback stability
  • Scrolling lyrics viewer
  • Detailed midi information panel
  • Tracks Panel: Realtime track data indicators with mute all, unmute all, and mute individual track options
  • Channels Panel: Realtime channel output volume indicators with peak level hold and variable hold time, unmute all, mute all, and mute individual channel options
  • Notes Panel: 128 realtime note usage indicators with variable hold time, 8-12 notes per line display, labels as letters or numbers, unmute all, mute all, and mute individual note options
  • Piano Panel: View realtime piano keystrokes on a 128, 88, 76, 61, 54, 49 or 37 key keyboard with animated and lit keystrokes
  • Piano: Mark middle C key, C + F keys, or all white keys
  • Transpose option: Shift all notes up or down music scale
  • Use an Xbox Controller to control Cynthia’s main functions – playback speed and volume, song position, display panels, song file navigation, jump to start of song, toggle fullscreen mode, etc
  • Large list capacity for handling thousands of midi files
  • Switch between up to 10 midi playback devices
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Options Window – Easily change app color, font and settings
  • Portable

sourceforge.net/projects/cynthia1
www.blaizenterprises.com/cynthia

AudioPlayer ~ CD Image Player

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This is an audio player for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

It is designed to play audio CDs dumped to raw bin/cue files.

The bin/cue files can be loaded from a folder on disk, or from a zip archive.

This player provides a convenient way of listening to dumps in that format without any additional step(s):

  • No need to mount the cue file as a virtual drive.
  • No need to extract the cue/bin files from zip files.
  • No need to convert the data to wav/flac/ogg/mp3.

This is currently NOT supported:

  • Playing from archives in 7z and rar formats.
  • Playing music from other formats such as wav, mp3, flac, ogg, etc. Just use a regular music player for that.

Album and track metadata is loaded from the CDTEXT information when present in cue file.

Additional metadata is optionally retrieved from CueToolsDB, including album art.

Lyrics are optionally retrieved from LRCLIB. Using a local LRCLIB sqlite3 database is also supported.

AudioPlayer Interface

github.com/huguesv/AudioPlayer

Java SID Player ~ Commodore 64 Emulator

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Java SID Player Music Library V2

This is a Commodore 64 emulator specialized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. It is a full C64 emulator and can play games of the GameBase64 project as well.

Features:

  • Cycle-Exact C64 Emulator

sourceforge.net/projects/jsidplay2
openhub.net/p/jsidplay2

Online:

haendel.ddns.net:8443/static/c64jukebox.vue