mpg123 Alternatives

mpg123 is described as 'Free software cross-platform command-line MPEG audio player whose library, libmpg123, is noted for its speed at decompressing MPEG audio files. As the name suggests, it supports MPEG-1 and -2, layers 1, 2, and 3. Its most common use is to play MP3 files' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to mpg123 for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and Xfce apps. The best mpg123 alternative is Quod Libet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mpg123 are C* Music Player, kew, Qmmp and Winyl.

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  1. Quod Libet icon
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    A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

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  2.  38 likes

    cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

    Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Wind.

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  3. Qmmp icon
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    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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    • Flathub
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  4. Winyl icon
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    Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

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  5. ncmpcpp icon
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    Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) Music player for the command line requiring mpd, the Music Player Daemon.

    16 ncmpcpp alternatives

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  6. rmpc icon
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    Rmpc is a beautiful, modern and configurable terminal based Music Player Daemon client. It is heavily inspired by ncmpcpp and ranger/lf file managers.

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    • Linux
     
  7. 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...

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    • Free
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    • Discontinued

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  8.  1 like

    Play MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and WAV files via CLI!.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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    • OpenBSD
    • Mac
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  9. MOC icon
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    MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

    123 MOC alternatives

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    • Linux
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  10. 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
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    ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD, without wasting resources.

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    • Free
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    • Linux
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