Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Homebrew

Tomahawk is described as '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' and is a very popular Audio Player in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Tomahawk for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Tomahawk alternative is foobar2000. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try foobar2000 or Clementine. Other great apps like Tomahawk are Audacious, Strawberry, Rhythmbox and Amarok.

It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.




Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.



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Stellio is an advanced music player with themes support, powerful audio and integration with VK and Dropbox.



MusicPod is a local music, radio, television and podcast player for Linux, MacOS and Windows.






piCorePlayer is a software emulation of a Squeezebox network music player that runs exclusively on the Raspberry Pi.


Switch allows you to play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file and export a new file.



