Mcool ~ Lightweight Music Player


Minimalist local music player for windows, transparent, borderless and buttonless.

Features:

  • Portable, free, open-source software. (Delphi, MIT open-source license)
  • Operating System: Windows XP/7/8/10, 简体 / 繁體 / English / Unicode
  • Minimalist, transparent, “no interface, only music”.
  • Optimized for local lossless music playback. Powered by Bass library, with excellent performance and high quality sound effects. Modular design, can be highly customized.
  • Supports lightweight media library, lyrics and visual effects. Can be minimized to the system tray, takes very few system resources, suitable to listening to music when working.
  • These features come from user suggestions: tag editing, automatic switching list, play queue, mouse gestures, equalizer, audio device selection, the global volume wheel (over systray), font settings, minimalist mode, mouse transparent, pin to desktop and a simple layout.
  • Supports APE / FLAC / WavPack / MP3 / OGG / TTA / TAK / Musepack / AAC / AC3 ​​/ WMA / Wav / CD / ALAC / Aiff / MOD / CUE (almost all local music formats from lossy to lossless, and supports video formats by plug-in)

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mcool.appinn.me

Canorus ~ Music Score Editor


Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics and import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

Canorus_main

sourceforge.net/projects/canorus
github.com/canorusmusic/canorus

Strawberry ~ Cross-platform Music Player


Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors, enthusiasts and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It’s based on a heavily modified version of Clementine created in 2012 and 2013. Strawberry is written in C++ and Qt 5.

  • Play and organize music
  • Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, DSF, DSDIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey’s Audio
  • Audio CD playback
  • Native desktop notifications
  • Playlists in multiple formats
  • Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
  • Edit tags on music files
  • Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
  • Album cover art from Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Tidal and Deezer
  • Song lyrics from AudD
  • Support for multiple backends
  • Audio analyzer
  • Audio equalizer
  • Transfer music to iPod, iPhone, MTP or other mass-storage USB player
  • Streaming support for Tidal, Qobuz and Subsonic
  • Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
Strawberry Player User Interface

www.strawbs.org
github.com/jonaski/strawberry
flathub.org/apps/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry

Lollypop ~ GNOME Audio Player


Lollypop is a modern music player for GNOME

  • Artist bio, lyrics Artist bio, lyrics: Get artists and tracks information from the web.
  • Intuitive browsing: Walk through your collection by genres/artists and through albums artwork.
  • Play many audio formats: mp3, mp4, ogg, and flac
  • Cover art downloader: Automatic artwork downloader from Last.fm, Itunes and Spotify.
  • MTP devices: Sync your music with Android phones and any mtp devices…
  • Fullscreen view: Visual access from your couch
  • Party mode: Let Lollypop choose music for you.
  • Native replaygain support.
  • Search in your collection by artist, album and title.

lollypop

wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop

Musique ~ Finely Crafted Music Player


Musique “unclutters” your music listening experience with a clean and innovative interface.

musique-03

flavio.tordini.org/musique

Qmmp ~ Unix 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

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

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

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

Exaile ~ GTK+ Music Player


Simple interface. Powerful music management. Smart Playlists. Advanced track tagging. Automatic album art. Lyrics. Streaming Radio. Podcasts. Secondary output device support. Cross-platform. Easily extensible with 50+ plugins available.

exaile-3.4

www.exaile.org

Dopamine ~ A Simple Pretty Audio Player


Dopamine is a Windows audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac files.

Dopamine21-300x234

github.com/digimezzo/dopamine
digimezzo.github.io/site/software
dopamine.en.uptodown.com/windows
twitter.com/Digimezzo

MiniLyrics ~ Display Music Lyrics Free


  • Lyrics plugin software for iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc. You needn’t change your way of enjoying music.
  • Display scrolling lyrics, you can follow along with the artist and catch every word.
  • Automatically search and download lyrics.
  • Huge lyrics database, and it is expanding every day.
  • Download and save lyrics in your song files, you can view these lyrics on your iPod or iPhone.
  • Amazing translucency skins.
  • Cross-platform, support Windows, Mac and Android.
minilyrics

www.crintsoft.com/MiniLyrics