Poweramp Alternatives for Linux

Poweramp is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Clementine, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Poweramp and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Poweramp are Audacious, Strawberry, Rhythmbox and DeaDBeeF.

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  1. Clementine icon
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    Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

    253 Clementine alternatives

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    • Clementine is the most popular Linux alternative to Poweramp.

    • Clementine is the most popular Open Source alternative to Poweramp.

    • Clementine is Free and Open SourcePoweramp is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Audacious icon
     300 likes

    Lightweight open-source audio player for Unix-like platforms focused on high sound quality, extensive codec support, playlist handling, Internet radio, plugins, Winamp-style skins, cue sheets, metadata display, effects, equalizer, and efficient resource usage.

    134 Audacious alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Haiku
    • Xfce
     
  3. Strawberry icon
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    Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.

    244 Strawberry alternatives

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    • Warning

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    • Windows
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    • Haiku
     
  4. DeaDBeeF icon
     198 likes

    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    182 DeaDBeeF alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
     
  5. Wora icon
     32 likes

    Wora is a beautiful player for audiophiles (pun intended). An open-source lossless music player app that lets you organize and play your favorite tracks seamlessly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  6. Quod Libet icon
     169 likes

    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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    • Debian
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  7. SpMp icon
     20 likes

    YouTube Music client for Android and desktop enabling colour customisation, advanced metadata editing, multi-language support, in-app login, time-synced lyrics with furigana, Discord presence, batch actions, playlist pinning, and multi-platform sync.

    123 SpMp alternatives

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    • Android Tablet
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Harmony Music icon
     18 likes

    Ad-free streaming client for Android, Windows, and Linux sourcing music from YouTube and YouTube Music, supporting offline play, playlist importing, song caching, lyrics, equalizer, quality control, dynamic themes, radio mode, artist bookmarks, and multi-language interface.

    115 Harmony Music alternatives

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    • F-Droid
     
  9. Exaile icon
     109 likes

    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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  10. Yami icon
     8 likes

    Explore Yami, an open-source music player providing a minimalistic, intuitive user interface to play local files and access music from Spotify and YouTube Music. Compatible across platforms, it's developed by Mithun for ease of use, integrating spotdl for seamless downloads.

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  11. Tomahawk icon
     111 likes

    Tomahawk gives you to access to all of your favorite music in one powerful media player. Seamlessly jump from playing a song off your local machine, to one streaming from your other machines, to a recommendation from Spotify, to a pre-release on SoundCloud to your favorite...

    95 Tomahawk alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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