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. KISS Player icon
     3 likes

    A Simple and Lightweight Music Player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  2. ^3 (Cubed) icon
     6 likes

    ^3 a.k.a. Cubed is a music player for Android. At its core, ^3 is a visual experiment that explores different visualizations of one's music library.

    81 ^3 (Cubed) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. Visual Cue icon
     1 like

    Visual Cue is an audio library and player primarily intended for musicians and audio professionals.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Music Player with powerful music equalizer, bass booster and great sound virtualizer, Quick search all music files, free to get this perfect audio player and media player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  5. jmc icon
     1 like

    jmc is an elegant and bloat-free media player and management app for macOS. It is modeled after early versions of iTunes, featuring a persistent album art view and a functional user interface. The entire interface is geared toward intuitiveness, efficiency, and performance...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Eina icon
     12 likes

    Your music belongs to you

    Current music players are focused on managing your music collection, while using mandatory criteria about how they organize it.

    Eina does not care about it at all. If your are an organized person, chances are your music collection is organized too, and.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. A minimalist, retro-inspired MP3 music player that brings back the simplicity of the pre-streaming era. With support for Windows, macOS and Linux, it is designed for offline listening on a laptop or desktop. It offers a distraction-free environment with an old-school aesthetic.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8.  2 likes

    Album Player (Freeware, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10) is designed for composing and listening to compilations of music albums on your hard drive and CD/DVD. The Album Player plays audio files of popular formats, such as WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, ALAC, AIFF, TAK, MP3, MP4, OGG, MPC...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Chipmachine icon
     2 likes

    Chipmachine is a fullscreen demoscene/retro Jukebox/spotify-like music player. It uses instant incremental search to locate songs in it's song database -- meaning you don't need to download or add music files yourself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. DeliPlayer is a multi format, free audio player for Windows® 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. It plays all sorts of music, modules and samples with high quality, while providing a powerful but easy to use user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Delix icon
     1 like

    This plugin allows XMPlay to open and play various exotic audio files originating from the Amiga computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Listen is an audio player written in Python. Thanks to it, you can easily organize your music collections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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