Music Player Daemon AlternativesAudio Players and other similar apps like Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon is described as '(MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Music Player Daemon for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Xfce, Mac, Windows and BSD apps. The best Music Player Daemon alternative is Euphonica, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Music Player Daemon are Exaile, Qmmp, Mopidy and Pragha.

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  1. Euphonica icon
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    Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. Exaile icon
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    Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  3. Qmmp icon
     47 likes

    Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms.

    94 Qmmp alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
    • Haiku
     
  4. Mopidy icon
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    Mopidy is a music server which can play music from Spotify , or from your local hard drive. You can use your favorite MPD client to search for music and manage the playlist.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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  5. Pragha icon
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    Pragha is a lightweight music player for GNU/Linux, based on GTK, SQLite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast, light, and simultaneously tries to be complete without obstructing the daily work.

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    • Linux
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. xmms2 icon
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    A Free software music player and manager with a built-in media library and a smart client-server model, plus a sophisticated plug-in architecture. The player is not related to the well-known media player XMMS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  7. Auremo is a graphical client for Music Player Daemon (MPD). It runs on modern versions of Windows. It supports a number of MPD features: playback commands, music collection browsing, HTTP streams such as web radio channels, playlist manipulation, output control and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    A graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  9. netjukebox icon
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    netjukebox is a web-based media jukebox for MPD, VideoLAN and Winamp/httpQ. It features real-time MP3 streaming from different audio formats. Download single tracks or a whole album in one zip file. It is also possible to batch transcode the whole music collection to another...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. vitunes icon
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    vitunes is a curses-based music player and playlist manager for *nix whose goals are: 1. a minimalistic appearance, 2. strong vi-like bindings, and 3. quick playlist creation/management. vitunes does not strive to be a feature-rich media player, but rather a quick, vi-like media...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. Music player for Android that supports multiple file formats like mp3, mp4/m4a (incl. alac), ogg, wma*, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff create ring tones best music player with Ring tone maker, Equalizer, Shuffle, shake, Multi select.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
     
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