Audacious Alternatives

Audacious is described as 'Free, open-source audio player for Unix-like systems offering high audio quality, support for multiple codecs, Internet radio, plugins, and customizable interface' and is a very popular Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Audacious for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best Audacious alternative is Spotify, which is free. Other great apps like Audacious are foobar2000, AIMP, Clementine and MusicBee.

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Audacious alternatives are mainly Audio Players, but if you're looking for Media Players or Internet Radio Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Android and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Audacious.
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  1. Astra music icon
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    Astra is a free, open-source audiophile desktop music player built for people who still maintain a music library. Plays FLAC, MP3, WAV, OGG, AAC, M4A, OPUS, AIFF, WMA natively with FFmpeg fallback for everything else.

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  2. Kitten Player icon
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    Kitten Player is a simple music player, based on foobar2000 functionality. It allows user to view, arrange and download tracks from YouTube.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  3. CuePlay icon
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    CuePlay is an audio player for Linux and Mac OS X. It has been created to be able to play MP3 and FLAC files with cuesheets, because foobar2000 isn't present at the Linux platform. This enables one to create one long MP3/FLAC file and index it with a .cue file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. Rocket Player icon
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    Powerful Music Player and Song Streaming with Fantastic Streaming Features! 🎶 Fantastic Audio Streaming & MP3 Player Streaming by JRT Studio! 🎶

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  5. fPlayer icon
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    fPlayer is a free audio player for Microsoft Windows aimed to be lightweight, easy to use, and fully functional. Despite its small footprint -only 5MB- the player features the most common playback functions, like support for most common audio formats, playlists, 10 channel...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  6. Mp3blaster icon
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    Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical environment like X-Windows.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. amp# icon
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    A music player for common audio formats with a simple and intuitive GUI. (Cross-platform version).

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  8. LXMusic icon
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    LXMusic is a minimalist xmms2 music player developed with GTK+ in pure C language. It features a very simple, clean, lightweight, and intuitive user interface. The UI looks quite similar to that provide by another famous music player under...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  9. MPZ icon
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    If you like to organize your music in folders, then this player might be for you. It doesn't try to index all the files into a library, but rather treats your files and folders as a library and provides a convenient way to create playlists directly from folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  10. Knowthelist icon
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    Knowthelist - the awesome party music player

    Easy to use for all party guests Quick search for tracks in collection Two players with separate playlists Mixer with fader, 3 channel EQ and gain FadeNow to smoothly jump to the next song Auto fader and auto gain Trackanalyser search.

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