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 foobar2000. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try foobar2000 or AIMP. Other great apps like Audacious are MusicBee, Winamp, Strawberry and Amarok.

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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 Android, Linux and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Audacious.
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  1. fmedia icon
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    fmedia is a fast media player/recorder/converter for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and FreeBSD.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • FreeBSD
     
  2. ampcast icon
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    Ampcast is a music player for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Navidrome and Subsonic. With additional support for Apple Music, Spotify and TIDAL. It integrates with last.fm and ListenBrainz and features the Milkdrop visualizer (among others).

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • WebApps
     
  3. XMP icon
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    The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player. Xmp plays many mainstream and obscure module formats including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM), and Impulse Tracker (IT).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. MusicPlayer2 icon
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    MusicPlayer2 is an audio player whitch supports music collection playback, lyrics display, format conversion and many other functions.

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    • Windows
     
  5. JuK icon
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    Juk is a music player and a music manager. JuK is, well, at its heart, a jukebox. As is typical with many jukebox applications, JuK allows you to edit the tags of your audio files, and manage your collection and playlists. JuK is part of the KDE Multimedia package.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • KDE
     
  6. Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.

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    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  7. CometPlayer icon
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    CometPlayer is an audio player, it supports nearly all popular audio formats, such as mp3, mpa, mp2, wma, ogg, flac, ape, wav, etc. It is simple in interface, easy to use, and highly personalizable. The special features of this software comprise lyrics display, playlist...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Foobnix icon
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    Foobnix audio player for Linux, Windows and Android.

    Main features player

    Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab); Formats MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND ... Converter any format to any (mp3.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  9. d11amp icon
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    d11amp is a frontend to MPG123, trying to resemble WinAmp, utilizing its treasure trove of themes. It has been published under the BSD 2-clause license. It uses GTK4 and portaudio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  10. piCorePlayer is a software emulation of a Squeezebox network music player that runs exclusively on the Raspberry Pi.

    79 piCorePlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  11. Song Director icon
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    Song Director is a program that plays and keeps track of all your music files. Easier to use and understand than iTunes or Windows Media Player. It unleashes the full power of a modern database system in an extremely simple, easy to use manner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  12. A simple media player for GNOME that supports libvlc, xine-lib and libgstreamer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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