Editing List of Linux audio software (section)

== Audio players ==
{{Main|Comparison of free software for audio#Players}}

=== GStreamer-based ===
* [[Amarok (software)|Amarok]] is a free music player for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Multiple backends are supported (xine, helix and NMM).
* [[Banshee (music player)|Banshee]] is a free audio player for Linux which uses the [[GStreamer]] multimedia platforms to play, encode, and decode Ogg [[Vorbis]], [[MP3]], and other formats. Banshee supports playing and importing audio CDs and playing and synchronizing music with iPods. Audioscrobbler API support.
* [[Clementine (software)|Clementine]] is a [[cross-platform]], open-source, [[Qt (software)|Qt]] based audio player, written in [[C++]]. It can play Internet radio streams; managing some media devices, playlists; supports visualizations, Audioscrobbler API. It was made as a spin-off of Amarok 1.4 and is a rougher version of said program.
* [[Exaile]] is a free software audio player for [[Unix-like]] operating systems that aims to be functionally similar to [[KDE]]’s [[Amarok (software)|Amarok]]. Unlike Amarok, Exaile is a [[Python (programming language)|Python]] program and uses the [[GTK]] toolkit.
* [[Guayadeque Music Player]] is a free and open-source audio player written in C++ using the [[wxWidgets]] toolkit.
* [[Muine]] is an audio player for the [[GNOME]] desktop environment. Muine is written in [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] using [[Mono (software)|Mono]] and Gtk#. The default backend is GStreamer framework but Muine can also use xine libraries.
* [[Quod Libet (software)|Quod Libet]] is a GTK based audio player, written in Python, using GStreamer or Xine as back ends. Its distinguishing features are a rigorous approach to tagging (making it especially popular with [[classical music]] fans) and a flexible approach to music library management. It supports [[regular expression]] and [[Boolean algebra]]-based searches, and is stated to perform efficiently with music libraries of tens of thousands of tracks.
* [[Rhythmbox]] is an audio player inspired by Apple [[iTunes]].
* [[Songbird (software)|Songbird]] is a cross-platform, open-source media player and web browser. It is built using code from the [[Firefox]] web browser. The [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) is very similar to Apple iTunes, and it can sync with Apple iPods. Like Firefox, Songbird is extensible via downloadable add-ons. It's able to display lyrics retrieved from the net, and also the ones embedded through metadata (ID3v2 tag) after adding the LyricMaster plug-in. Linux official support for Songbird was discontinued in April, 2010. But in December, 2011 a group of programmers forked it openly as [[Nightingale (software)|Nightingale]].

=== Music Player Daemon based ===
* [[Cantata (software)|Cantata]] is a Qt-based front-end for Music Player Daemon.
* [[Ario (software)|Ario]] is a light GTK2 client to MPD.

=== Other ===
* [[Audacious (software)|Audacious]] is a free media player for Linux or Linux-based systems. It can be expanded via plug-ins, including support for all popular codecs. On most systems a useful set of plug-ins is installed by default, supporting MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files.<ref>{{cite web |title=Audacious home page |url=http://audacious-media-player.org/}}</ref> Audacious' classic interface looks and feels very similar to Winamp. It is compatible with LADSPA plug-ins.
* [[DeaDBeeF]] (as in [[0xDEADBEEF]]) is a modular audio player for Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.
* [[JuK]] is a free software audio player for KDE, the default player since KDE 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.
* [[mpg123]] is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers 1, 2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 a.k.a. MP3 most commonly tested). Among others working with Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, HPUX 9.x, SGI Irix and Cygwin or plain Windows. It is free software licensed under LGPL 2.1.
* [[Music on Console]] (MOC) is an [[ncurses]]-based console audio player. It is designed to be powerful and easy to use, and its command structure and window layouts are similar to the [[Midnight Commander]] console file manager. It is very configurable, with [[Advanced Linux Sound Architecture]] (ALSA), [[Open Sound System]] (OSS) or [[JACK Audio Connection Kit]] (JACK) outputs, customizable color schemes, interface layouts, key bindings, and tag parsing.
* Sound eXchange ([[SoX]]) is a cross-platform command-line audio editor.
* X MultiMedia System ([[XMMS]]) is a GTK1-based multimedia player which works on many platforms, but has some features which only work under Linux. XMMS can play media files such as .ogg, MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of input plug-ins. It is a free software audio player similar to Winamp that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. However, development of XMMS has been deprecated in favor of XMMS2, a new audio player built from scratch on the more modern GTK2 libraries. See also Audacious on this page as a successor to the historic XMMS.
* [[Tomahawk (software)|Tomahawk]] is a cross-platform music player built with social media and multi-source music streaming in mind. It features support for services like Spotify, Grooveshark, Dilandau, SoundCloud, 4shared, Jamendo, Last.fm, Ampache, Owncloud, Ex.fm and Subsonic.