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{{note|"audio players" are defined as any media player which can only play audio files-Wikipedia.}}
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This list contains the dedicated audio players available on Manjaro via the repos or aur.  Although not included in this list, there are many video players that are also capable of playing audio.


There is really a lot of music players for linux. I'd like to present to you a few, that are most commonly used.
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= Amarok =
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name !! Package Name !! Source !! Streaming !! Local Media !! Category !! License !! Current Status !! URL !! Comments
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| Amarok || amarok || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://amarok.kde.org/ || Amarok has received minimal updates since 2015 but it is still getting updated
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| Audacious || audacious || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk2 || BSD || Actively Developed || https://audacious-media-player.org/ ||
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| Banshee || banshee || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk || MIT || Not actively developed || http://banshee.fm || Latest release was February 18th, 2014
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| Clementine  || clementine || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Lightly Developed || https://www.clementine-player.org/ || Latest release was April 29th 2016
|-
| cmus  || cmus || repo || No || Yes || tui || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://cmus.github.io/ ||
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| DeaDBeeF || deadbeef || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk+ || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net ||
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| Deepin Music || deepin-music || repo || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ ||
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| Elisa || elisa || repo || No || Yes || qt6 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://github.com/KDE/elisa || Not yet released, works but has a minimal feature set
|-
| Exaile  || exaile || aur || Yes || Yes || gtk+ || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || http://www.exaile.org ||
|-
| gmusicbrowser || gmusicbrowser || aur || No || Yes || gtk2 || GPLv3 || Lightly Developed || http://gmusicbrowser.org || New release in November 2020 after several years.
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| Gnome Music || gnome-music || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music ||
|-
| Goggles Music Manager || gogglesmm || repo || Yes || Yes || fox || GPLv3 || Lightly Developed || https://gogglesmm.dev/ || Latest release was July 31st 2018
|-
| Google Play Music Desktop Player  || gpmdp || aur || Yes || No || gtk3 || MIT || Actively Developed || https://googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ || A wrapper for Google Play Music
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| Gradio || gradio || aur || Yes || No || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Not actively developed || https://github.com/haecker-felix/Gradio ||
|-
| Guayadeque || guayadeque || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || http://guayadeque.org/ ||
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| herrie || herrie || aur || No || Yes || tui || Unknown || Not actively developed || http://herrie.info ||
|-
| JRiver Media Center  || jriver-media-center25 || aur || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || Commercial || Actively Developed || https://jriver.com/index.html ||
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| Juk || juk || repo || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://juk.kde.org/ ||
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| Lollypop || lollypop || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop ||
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| LXMusic || lxmusic || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk2 || GPL || Not actively developed || https://lxde.org/ || Latest release was May 20th 2012
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| moc || moc || repo || Yes || Yes || tui || GPL || Not actively developed || http://moc.daper.net/ || Latest release was November 16th 2016
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| mpfc || mpfc || aur || No || Yes || tui || GPLv2 || Not actively developed || https://github.com/sgsoftware/mpfc || Latest release was January 31st 2014
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| mpg123 || mpg123 || repo || No || Yes || console || LGPL 2.1 || Actively Developed || https://www.mpg123.de ||
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| Muine || muine || aur || No || Yes || mono || GPLv2 || Not actively developed || https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/muine ||
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| museeks || museeks-bin || aur || No || Yes || gtk2 || MIT || Actively Developed || http://museeks.io ||
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| Music Player Daemon || mpd || repo || No || Yes || daemon || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://www.musicpd.org/ || A daemon for playing music.  For a list of front-ends see: https://www.musicpd.org/clients/
|-
| Musique || musique || aur || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://flavio.tordini.org/musique ||
|-
| Nuclear || nuclear-player-bin || aur || Yes || No* || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || http://nuclear.gumblert.tech/ || * Nuclear doesn't directly support playback of local files but it does provide front-end for mpd
|-
| Pantheon Music || pantheon-music || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://github.com/elementary/music ||
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| pianobar || piano-bar || repo || Yes || No || console || MIT || Actively Developed || https://6xq.net/pianobar/ || Console player for Pandora
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| Pithos || pithos || aur || Yes || No || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://pithos.github.io/ || Graphical player for Pandora
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| Pragha || pragha || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || Fork of Consonance
|-
| Qmmp || qmmp || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ ||
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| Quod Libet  || quodlibet || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet ||
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| Rhythmbox  || rythmbox || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox ||
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| Sayonara || sayonara-player || aur || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://sayonara-player.com/ ||
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| Spotify  || spotify || aur || Yes || No || gtk2 || Commercial || Actively Developed || https://www.spotify.com ||
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| Strawberry || strawberry || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://www.strawbs.org || Fork of Clementine
|-
| Tauon Music Box || tauon-music-box || aur || Yes || Yes || || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://github.com/Taiko2k/TauonMusicBox ||
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| Upplay || upplay || aur || No || No || qt5 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || A front-end for UPnP content
|-
| vitunes || vitunes || aur || No || Yes || tui || Custom(ISC-like) || Not actively developed || http://vitunes.org/ || For those who like to play their music using vi keybindings. Latest release was January 2nd 2012
|-
| vvave || vvave-git || aur || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Under Development || https://vvave.kde.org/ || Formerly called "Babe", last beta released Mach 18th, 2018.  KDE next generation music player
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| whistle || whistle-git || aur || No || Yes || tui || MIT || Not actively developed || https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle || Latest release was November 3rd 2016
|-
| Yarock || yarock-qt5 || aur || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || http://seb-apps.github.io/yarock ||
|}


[[File: Amarok.png|thumb|center|400px]]
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Amarok is one of the best and most popular music player for linux. Amarok is Qt-based and is part of KDE project so the best use him with KDE because of many KDE dependencies.
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Amarok features:
 
*:Playing media files in various formats including but not limited to (depending on the setup) FLAC, Ogg, Opus, MP3, AAC, WAV, Windows Media Audio, Apple Lossless, WavPack, TTA and Musepack. Amarok does not play digital music files embedded with DRM.
 
*:Playing audio CDs and  ripping them to local collection.
 
*:Tagging digital music files (currently FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, AAC, MP3, and RealMedia).             
 
*:Associating cover art with a particular album, and retrieving the cover art from Amazon.
 
*:Creating and editing playlists, including smart and dynamic playlists.
 
*:Synchronizing, retrieving, playing, or uploading music to the MP3/4 music players.
 
*:Displaying artist information from Wikipedia and retrieving song lyrics.
 
*:Integrated Web Services (Last.fm, Jamendo, Magnatune and more)
 
*:Systray (panel notification area) icon support.
 
*:Own notifications
 
*:Homepage:http://amarok.kde.org/
 
Install: sudo pacman -S amarok
 
= Clementine =
 
[[File: Clementine.png|thumb|center|400px]]
 
Clementine is inspired by Amarok 1.4 focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. Many features are the same as in Amarok.
 
Clementine features:
 
*:Searching and playing local music library.
 
*:Integrated Web Services (much the same as in Amarok)
 
*:Visualisations from projectM.
 
*:Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
 
*:Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify)
 
*:Other same as in Amarok
 
*:Homepage:http://www.clementine-player.org
 
Install:sudo pacman -S clementine
 
= Rhythmbox =
 
 
[[File: rhythmbox.png|thumb|center|400px]]
 
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework. -Rhythmbox main page
 
Rhythmbox features:
 
*:Easy to use music browser
 
*:Internet radio support
 
*:Transfering music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
 
*:Playlists
 
*:Audio visualisations
 
*:Displaying album art and song lyrics
 
*:Playing, ripping, and burning audio CDs
 
*:Homepage:http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/
 
Install:sudo pacman -S rhythmbox
 
= Exaile =
 
[[File: exaile.png|thumb|center|400px]]
 
Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. Exaile is sometimes called a GTK Amarok and incorporates many features from Amarok.
 
Exaile features:
 
*:Handling of large music libraries.
 
*:Displaying album art and lyrics
 
*:Equalizer with presets
 
*:Advanced tag editing
 
*:Last.fm support
 
*:Homepage:http://www.exaile.org/
 
Install:yaourt -S exaile
 
= Qmmp =
 
[[File: Qmmp.png|thumb|center|400px]]
 
Qmmp is music player with user interface similar to winamp or xmms. In my opinion is better than Audacious.
 
Qmmp features:
 
*:XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins support
 
*:Equalizer
 
*:Multiple playlists
 
*:Displaying album art and lyrics
 
*:Lightness
 
*:Homepage:http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
 
Install:sudo pacman -S qmmp

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Overview

This list contains the dedicated audio players available on Manjaro via the repos or aur. Although not included in this list, there are many video players that are also capable of playing audio.

The list

Name Package Name Source Streaming Local Media Category License Current Status URL Comments
Amarok amarok repo Yes Yes qt5 GPLv2 Actively Developed https://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok has received minimal updates since 2015 but it is still getting updated
Audacious audacious repo Yes Yes gtk2 BSD Actively Developed https://audacious-media-player.org/
Banshee banshee repo Yes Yes gtk MIT Not actively developed http://banshee.fm Latest release was February 18th, 2014
Clementine clementine repo Yes Yes qt5 GPLv3 Lightly Developed https://www.clementine-player.org/ Latest release was April 29th 2016
cmus cmus repo No Yes tui GPLv2 Actively Developed https://cmus.github.io/
DeaDBeeF deadbeef repo Yes Yes gtk+ GPLv2 Actively Developed http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net
Deepin Music deepin-music repo No Yes qt5 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/
Elisa elisa repo No Yes qt6 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://github.com/KDE/elisa Not yet released, works but has a minimal feature set
Exaile exaile aur Yes Yes gtk+ GPLv2 Actively Developed http://www.exaile.org
gmusicbrowser gmusicbrowser aur No Yes gtk2 GPLv3 Lightly Developed http://gmusicbrowser.org New release in November 2020 after several years.
Gnome Music gnome-music repo No Yes gtk3 GPLv2 Actively Developed https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music
Goggles Music Manager gogglesmm repo Yes Yes fox GPLv3 Lightly Developed https://gogglesmm.dev/ Latest release was July 31st 2018
Google Play Music Desktop Player gpmdp aur Yes No gtk3 MIT Actively Developed https://googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ A wrapper for Google Play Music
Gradio gradio aur Yes No gtk3 GPLv3 Not actively developed https://github.com/haecker-felix/Gradio
Guayadeque guayadeque repo Yes Yes gtk3 GPLv3 Actively Developed http://guayadeque.org/
herrie herrie aur No Yes tui Unknown Not actively developed http://herrie.info
JRiver Media Center jriver-media-center25 aur Yes Yes gtk3 Commercial Actively Developed https://jriver.com/index.html
Juk juk repo No Yes qt5 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://juk.kde.org/
Lollypop lollypop repo No Yes gtk3 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop
LXMusic lxmusic repo Yes Yes gtk2 GPL Not actively developed https://lxde.org/ Latest release was May 20th 2012
moc moc repo Yes Yes tui GPL Not actively developed http://moc.daper.net/ Latest release was November 16th 2016
mpfc mpfc aur No Yes tui GPLv2 Not actively developed https://github.com/sgsoftware/mpfc Latest release was January 31st 2014
mpg123 mpg123 repo No Yes console LGPL 2.1 Actively Developed https://www.mpg123.de
Muine muine aur No Yes mono GPLv2 Not actively developed https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/muine
museeks museeks-bin aur No Yes gtk2 MIT Actively Developed http://museeks.io
Music Player Daemon mpd repo No Yes daemon GPLv2 Actively Developed https://www.musicpd.org/ A daemon for playing music. For a list of front-ends see: https://www.musicpd.org/clients/
Musique musique aur No Yes qt5 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://flavio.tordini.org/musique
Nuclear nuclear-player-bin aur Yes No* gtk3 GPLv3 Actively Developed http://nuclear.gumblert.tech/ * Nuclear doesn't directly support playback of local files but it does provide front-end for mpd
Pantheon Music pantheon-music repo No Yes gtk3 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://github.com/elementary/music
pianobar piano-bar repo Yes No console MIT Actively Developed https://6xq.net/pianobar/ Console player for Pandora
Pithos pithos aur Yes No gtk3 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://pithos.github.io/ Graphical player for Pandora
Pragha pragha repo No Yes gtk3 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ Fork of Consonance
Qmmp qmmp repo Yes Yes qt5 GPLv2 Actively Developed http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
Quod Libet quodlibet repo Yes Yes gtk3 GPLv2 Actively Developed https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet
Rhythmbox rythmbox repo Yes Yes gtk3 GPLv2 Actively Developed https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox
Sayonara sayonara-player aur Yes Yes qt5 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://sayonara-player.com/
Spotify spotify aur Yes No gtk2 Commercial Actively Developed https://www.spotify.com
Strawberry strawberry repo Yes Yes qt5 GPLv3 Actively Developed https://www.strawbs.org Fork of Clementine
Tauon Music Box tauon-music-box aur Yes Yes GPLv3 Actively Developed https://github.com/Taiko2k/TauonMusicBox
Upplay upplay aur No No qt5 GPLv2 Actively Developed https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ A front-end for UPnP content
vitunes vitunes aur No Yes tui Custom(ISC-like) Not actively developed http://vitunes.org/ For those who like to play their music using vi keybindings. Latest release was January 2nd 2012
vvave vvave-git aur No Yes qt5 GPLv3 Under Development https://vvave.kde.org/ Formerly called "Babe", last beta released Mach 18th, 2018. KDE next generation music player
whistle whistle-git aur No Yes tui MIT Not actively developed https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle Latest release was November 3rd 2016
Yarock yarock-qt5 aur Yes Yes qt5 GPLv3 Actively Developed http://seb-apps.github.io/yarock
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