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= Overview =
= Overview =


{{note|"audio players" are defined as any media player which can only play audio files-Wikipedia.}}
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.
= The list =


= Amarok =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
 
! Name !! Package Name !! Source !! Streaming !! Local Media !! Category !! License !! Current Status !! URL !! Comments
[[File: Amarok.png|thumb|center|400px]]
|-
 
| Amarok || amarok || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv2 || Lightly Developed || https://amarok.kde.org/ || Amarok has received minimal updates since 2015 but it is still getting updated
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.
|-
 
| Audacious || audacious || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk2 || BSD || Actively Developed || https://audacious-media-player.org/ ||
Amarok features:
|-
 
| 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
*: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.
|-
 
| Banshee || banshee || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk || MIT || Not actively developed || http://banshee.fm || Latest release was February 18th, 2014
*:Playing audio CDs and  ripping them to local collection.
|-
 
| Clementine  || clementine || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Lightly Developed || https://www.clementine-player.org/ || Latest release was April 29th 2016
*:Tagging digital music files (currently FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, AAC, MP3, and RealMedia).              
|-
 
| cmus  || cmus || repo || No || Yes || tui || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://cmus.github.io/ ||
*:Associating cover art with a particular album, and retrieving the cover art from Amazon.
|-
 
| DeaDBeeF || deadbeef || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk+ || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net ||
*:Creating and editing playlists, including smart and dynamic playlists.  
|-
 
| Deepin Music || deepin-music || repo || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ ||
*:Synchronizing, retrieving, playing, or uploading music to the MP3/4 music players.
|-
 
| Elisa || elisa-git || aur || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Under Development || https://github.com/KDE/elisa || Not yet released, works but has a minimal feature set
*:Displaying artist information from Wikipedia and retrieving song lyrics.
|-
 
| Exaile  || exaile || aur || Yes || Yes || gtk+ || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || http://www.exaile.org ||
*:Integrated Web Services (Last.fm, Jamendo, Magnatune and more)
|-
 
| gmusicbrowser || gmusicbrowser || aur || No || Yes || gtk2 || GPLv3 || Not actively developed || http://gmusicbrowser.org || Latest release was August 20th 2015
*:Systray (panel notification area) icon support.
|-
 
| Gnome Music || gnome-music || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music ||
*:Own notifications
|-
 
| Goggles Music Manager || gogglesmm || repo || Yes || Yes || fox || GPLv3 || Lightly Developed || https://gogglesmm.dev/ || Latest release was July 31st 2018
*:Homepage:http://amarok.kde.org/
|-
 
| Google Play Music Desktop Player  || gpmdp || aur || Yes || No || gtk3 || MIT || Actively Developed || https://googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ || A wrapper for Google Play Music
Install: sudo pacman -S amarok
|-
 
| Gradio || gradio || aur || Yes || No || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Not actively developed || https://github.com/haecker-felix/Gradio ||
= Clementine =
|-
 
| Guayadeque || guayadeque || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || http://guayadeque.org/ ||
[[File: Clementine.png|thumb|center|400px]]
|-
 
| herrie || herrie || aur || No || Yes || tui || Unknown || Not actively developed || http://herrie.info ||  
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.
|-
 
| JRiver Media Center  || jriver-media-center25 || aur || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || Commercial || Actively Developed || https://jriver.com/index.html ||
Clementine features:
|-
 
| Juk || juk || repo || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://juk.kde.org/ ||
*:Searching and playing local music library.
|-
 
| Lollypop || lollypop || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop ||
*:Integrated Web Services (much the same as in Amarok)
|-
 
| LXMusic || lxmusic || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk2 || GPL || Not actively developed || https://lxde.org/ || Latest release was May 20th 2012
*:Visualisations from projectM.
|-
 
| moc || moc || repo || Yes || Yes || tui || GPL || Not actively developed || http://moc.daper.net/ || Latest release was November 16th 2016
*:Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
|-
 
| mpfc || mpfc || aur || No || Yes || tui || GPLv2 || Not actively developed || https://github.com/sgsoftware/mpfc || Latest release was January 31st 2014
*:Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify)
|-
 
| mpg123 || mpg123 || repo || No || Yes || console || LGPL 2.1 || Actively Developed || https://www.mpg123.de ||
*:Other same as in Amarok
|-
 
| Muine || muine || aur || No || Yes || mono || GPLv2 || Not actively developed || https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/muine ||
*:Homepage:http://www.clementine-player.org
|-
 
| museeks || museeks-bin || aur || No || Yes || gtk2 || MIT || Actively Developed || http://museeks.io ||
Install:sudo pacman -S clementine
|-
 
| 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/
= Rhythmbox =
|-
 
| Musique || musique || aur || No || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://flavio.tordini.org/musique ||
 
|-
[[File: rhythmbox.png|thumb|center|400px]]
| 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
 
|-
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
| Pantheon Music || pantheon-music || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://github.com/elementary/music ||
 
|-
Rhythmbox features:
| pianobar || piano-bar || repo || Yes || No || console || MIT || Actively Developed || https://6xq.net/pianobar/ || Console player for Pandora
 
|-
*:Easy to use music browser
| Pithos || pithos || aur || Yes || No || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://pithos.github.io/ || Graphical player for Pandora
 
|-
*:Internet radio support
| Pragha || pragha || repo || No || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || Fork of Consonance
 
|-
*:Transfering music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
| Qmmp || qmmp || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ ||
 
|-
*:Playlists
| Quod Libet  || quodlibet || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet ||  
 
|-
*:Audio visualisations
| Rhythmbox  || rythmbox || repo || Yes || Yes || gtk3 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox ||
 
|-
*:Displaying album art and song lyrics
| Sayonara || sayonara-player || aur || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://sayonara-player.com/ ||
 
|-
*:Playing, ripping, and burning audio CDs
| Spotify  || spotify || aur || Yes || No || gtk2 || Commercial || Actively Developed || https://www.spotify.com ||
 
|-
*:Homepage:http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/
| Strawberry || strawberry || repo || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || https://www.strawbs.org || Fork of Clementine
 
|-
Install:sudo pacman -S rhythmbox
| Upplay || upplay || aur || No || No || qt5 || GPLv2 || Actively Developed || https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || A front-end for UPnP content
 
|-
= Exaile =
| 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
 
|-
[[File: exaile.png|thumb|center|400px]]
| whistle || whistle-git || aur || No || Yes || tui || MIT || Not actively developed || https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle || Latest release was November 3rd 2016
 
|-
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.
| Yarock || yarock-qt5 || aur || Yes || Yes || qt5 || GPLv3 || Actively Developed || http://seb-apps.github.io/yarock ||
 
|}
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:yay -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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Revision as of 02:04, 19 May 2019

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 Lightly 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/
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
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-git aur No Yes qt5 GPLv3 Under Development 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 Not actively developed http://gmusicbrowser.org Latest release was August 20th 2015
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
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
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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