Linux Open Source Audio Players
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Comparing open source audio players with a library management running on Linux systems.
DO NOT HESITATE to update this comparison !
Comparing open source audio players with a library management running on Linux systems.
DO NOT HESITATE to update this comparison !Lien | Nightingale | Guayadeque | XBMC | Clementine | Rhythmbox | Exaile | Banshee | Quod Libet | gmusicbrowser | Listen | JaJuk | aTunes | Amarok 2.x | Amarok 1.4 |
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| Note globale | aucune note | 5.0/5 1 note | 5.0/5 1 note | 3.7/5 3 notes | 3.0/5 2 notes | 3.5/5 2 notes | 3.5/5 2 notes | 5.0/5 2 notes | 3.0/5 1 note | 4.0/5 1 note | aucune note | 2.0/5 1 note | 2.0/5 1 note | 5.0/5 1 note |
| Extrait | Nightingale chirps your favorite tunes! A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support! [Notye: Songbird's fork ! (now that Songbrid's development is closed on Linux)] | Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is Full Featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework | XBMC is an open source digital media hub designed to be a media player for the living-room TV. Its graphical user interface allows to easily manage video, photos, podcasts... using a remote control. | A cross-platform music player inspired by Amarok 1.4 | An integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. | A music player and manager written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, Last.fm scrobbling, support for tabbed playlists, many portable media players, internet radio such as shoutcast. | A music and video player which can manage your podcasts, Internet radio and keep your portable device loaded with good stuff. | An audio player designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. | An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc/ape files, written in perl. | A music management and audio player for GNOME | Organizes and plays music. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. | A full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java | An audio player with many exciting features | |
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| Inconvénients | crashes too often (on my PC at least) :( | |||||||||||||
| Version testée | 1.11.1 (Ubuntu 12.04) | 0.3.1-1639 (Ubuntu 11.10) | 0.7.1 (Ubuntu 11.10) | 2.90.1 (Ubuntu 11.10) | 0.3.2.2 (Ubuntu 11.10) | 2.2.0 (Ubuntu 11.10) | 2.3.2 (Ubuntu 12.04) | 1.1.9 (Ubuntu 12.04) | 0.6.5 (Ubuntu 11.04) | 1.9.1 (Ubuntu 11.04) | 2.0.1 (Ubuntu 11.04) | 2.5.0 (Ubuntu 12.04) | 1.4.10 (Ubuntu 11.04) | |
| Player | ||||||||||||||
| ReplayGain | Oui option: Album/Track | Oui option: radio/album/off modes and preAmp | Oui options: pre-ampli and Radio/Album modes | Oui [plugin] options: pre-ampli and Radio/Album modes | Oui usual options | Oui no options | Oui options: pre-ampli and default ampli | Oui | Non Not seen in preferences... | Non Not seen in Preferences... | Oui option: Album/Track | Non External script - not stable | ||
| Transitions | Oui options: in and out lenghts, in volume, in start => graphical view :) | Oui configurable | Oui option: length | - Only using unstable "unified" sound engine | Non | Non | Non | Oui | Oui | - Only on Stop | Oui options: Transition [NO (blank length) OR YES (length, always OR auto change only OR manual change only). FadeOut [NO OR length] | |||
| Gapless | Oui configurable | Non | Non | - Only using unstable "unified" sound engine | Oui no options | Non | Non | Non | Non | Non | ||||
| Equalizer | Oui Presets & Custom | Oui Presets & Custom | - 3rd party plugin (not easy to install) | Oui Presets & Custom | Oui Presets & Custom | Oui plugin | Oui | Oui plugin | Non | Oui | Oui | |||
| Navigator | ||||||||||||||
| Mode de navigation | Many and configurable (you can save display presets): Chained lists (configurable) AND/OR TreeView (many modes) AND/OR sources ... | TreeView (up to 3 levels among album, artist, albumartist, genre, year, filetype, albumyear, composer) | Chained lists (Limited to Artist/Album OR Genre/Artist OR Genre/Artist/Album) | TreeView (Limited to Artist, Album, Genre/Artist, Genre/Album, Year/Artist, Year/Album, Artist/Year-Album) | Chained lists (Artist/Album only), but album can be displayed as text or image (by default) | Chained lists (Grouping/Genre/Artist/Album) | Many CONFIGURABLE modes !! Check it out | Chained lists (Artist/Album OR Genre/Artist OR Genre/Artist/Album) | TreeView (Artist/Album OR Genre/Artist/Album OR Album OR Year/Artist/Album OR FileSystem) | TreeView (up to 3 levels among album, artist, genre, artistalbum, composer, label) | TreeView (up to 3 levels among album, artist, genre, year, albumyear, composer, label) | |||
| File | Oui | Oui Library only | Non | Oui | Non | Oui | Oui Library only | Non | Oui Libary only | Oui | Oui | |||
| Cover Navigator | Oui | Non but there is a cover manager that can replace, though not handy | Non | Oui | - Slows down app a lot, but it can be disabled | Oui | Oui | Non | Non | Non but there is a cover manager that can replace, though not handy | Non but there is a cover manager that can replace, though not handy | |||
| Library | ||||||||||||||
| Library Multiple folders | Oui | Oui | - Yes, but not easy to manage. Use gconf-editor: apps > rhythmbox > library_locations | Oui | Non | Non | Oui | Non | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | ||
| Watch folders | - can only scan at startup (option) or manually | Oui | - Only new files | Non | Oui plugin | - Only startup scan (option) or manual scan | - can only scan at startup (option) or manually | Oui | Oui | Oui | ||||
| Statistics | playCounter, lastPlayed, added, rating | playCounter, lastPlayed, score, rating, skippedCounter | playCounter, lastPlayed, added, rating | playCounter, lastPlayed, added, rating | playCounter, lastPlayed, score, rating, skippedCounter, lastSkippedDate | playCounter, added, lastPlayed, skippedCounter, rating | playCounter, lastPlayed, score, rating, skippedCounter, lastSkippedDate | playCounter, lastPlayed, added | playCounter, lastPlayed, firstPlayed, score (optional), rating (optional) | playCounter, lastPlayed, score (optional), rating (optional), added | ||||
| Playlists | ||||||||||||||
| Playlists | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | ||||
| Smart | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | ||||
| Dynamic | Oui Called "Smart mode": auto-fills queue with a given playlist (you can exclude another playlist too) | Oui | - But when the queue is empty auto plays a file from the navigator (selected artist/album/genre) | - No options !? | Oui | Non | Oui | - No options !? what source ? | Oui | Oui | ||||
| Queue | Oui | Oui separate window. | Oui | Non | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui separate window. | ||||
| Tags | ||||||||||||||
| Editor | Oui | Oui | Non Updates only database, not files. | Oui | Oui | Oui Full-featured | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | |||
| id3 version | 2.4 | 2.4 | N/A | 2.4 | 2.3 | ?? | 2.3 (default) OR 2.4 | ?? | 2.3 | ?? | 2.4 | |||
| Auto tag tools | Oui MusicBrainz (artist/album names) + covers (Google, Amazon, last.fm OR Discogs) + lyrics (several choice) | Oui MusicBrainz (audio print) + covers (Last.fm) | - With some plugins only | - Only convert first letter uppercase | Non cover and metadata (plugins - no options) + BPM detection (built-in) | Oui From path only. MusicBrainz, CDDB, cover search plugins | - Probably with plugins | Non | Oui NOT configurable. No choices displayed. Not handy. | Oui MusicBrainz, Filename | - MusicBrainz but seems outdated | |||
| Scrobbler | ||||||||||||||
| Last.fm | Oui | Oui | Oui plugin | Oui plugin | Oui plugin | Oui plugin | Oui plugin | Oui | Oui plugin | |||||
| Libre.fm | Oui | Non | Oui plugin | Oui plugin | Non | Oui plugin | Non | Oui | Non maybe a plugin | |||||
| Internet | ||||||||||||||
| Lyrics | Oui many sites | Oui many sites | - ==> TBD !!! | - Lyrics Fly only (does not work well) | - Only on a separate window | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | |||||
| Biography | Oui last.fm | Oui many sites incl. wikipedia, last.fm, ... | Oui last.fm | Non | Non | Oui | Oui wikipedia | Oui Wikipedia | Oui wikipedia | |||||
| Photos | - only one from biography | Oui | Non | Non | Non | Non | - Only one from biography | Oui | - Only one from biography | |||||
| Online sources | ||||||||||||||
| Online radio | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui plugin | Oui | Non | Oui | Oui | Oui | ||||
| Podcasts | Oui | Oui | Non | Oui | Non | Oui plugin | Oui | Non | Oui Balado | Oui | Oui | Oui | ||
| Jamendo | Oui | Oui | Oui plugin | Oui plugin | Non | Non | Non | Oui plugin | Oui | Non | ||||
| Magnatune | Oui | Oui | Oui plugin | Non | Non | Non | Non | Oui plugin | Oui | Non | ||||
| Last.fm | Non | Oui | Oui | Non | Oui | Non | Non | Oui | Oui | Oui | ||||
| Libre.fm | Non | Non | Oui | Non | Non | Non | Non | Non | Non | Non | ||||
| Others | icecast, somaFM | Plugins: eMusic, Ubuntu One, Amazon, Internet Archive, Miro | Librivox.org, Amazon | |||||||||||
| Autres | ||||||||||||||
| Plugins | Non | Non | Oui Most features are plugins | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | - Plugin system not very stable | |||||
| Visualisations | Non | Oui | Non | Non | Non | Non | Oui plugin | Non | Oui | |||||
| Karaoke | Non | Non | Non | Oui plugin | Non | Non | Oui | Non | Non | Non | Non | |||
| Exclusive | Configurable Web links, commands and "copy To". Configurable shortcuts. | Wii Remote control, Transcoder | Add. 3rd plugins exist. Check website. Not always easy to install. | Video, BPM computing (plugin), import Rhythmbox, AmaroK, iTunes (plugin), Audio books (plugin), | Regex-based search. Tag editing allows to edit all kind of tags, though not that user-friendly. | Interface highly customizable. ReplayGain analysis. | ? | |||||||
| Global shortcuts | Gnome Multimédia shortcuts | Gnome multimedia shortcuts OR configurable shortcuts | ==> TBD !!! | Gnome multimedia shortcuts (plugin) | Multimedia shortcuts (plugin - not reviewed yet ==> TBD) | Gnome multimedia shortcuts | Configurable, homemade | ? | "Win"+ shortcuts by default. Configurable. Did not manage to make multimedia keyboard to work. | "Win"+ shortcuts by default. Configurable. Did not manage to make multimedia keyboard to work. | ||||
| Ubuntu (gnome) integration | Oui | Oui OR Custom OSD | Oui | Non Custom OSD | - No OSD, but appears in Volume control (plugin) | - No OSD, but appears in Volume control | Non Custom OSD | Oui OR Custom OSD | Non Custom OSD | |||||
| Other systems | ||||||||||||||
| Windows | Non | Oui | Oui | Non | - dev | - beta-quality technology preview | Oui | Non | Non | Oui | Oui | - with KDE for Windows (dev) | - with KDE for Windows (dev) | |
| macOS | Non | Oui | Oui | Non | - dev | - beta-quality technology preview | Oui | Non | Non | Oui | Oui | - no official support | Non | |
| Détails techniques | ||||||||||||||
| Licence | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | MIT | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | GNU GPL | |
| Langage de programmation | C++ (wxWidgets) | C++, Python | C++ (Qt) | C | Python (GTK+) | Mono C# (Gtk#) | Python (GTK+) | Perl | Python | Java | Java | C++ (Qt) | C++ (Qt) | |
| Database | Sqlite (~/.guayadeque/guayadeque.db) | Sqlite (~/.xbmc/userdata/Database/MyMusic7.db) | Sqlite (~/.config/Clementine/clementine.db) | XML (~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml) | Exaile's custom binary file (~/.local/share/exaile/music.db) | Sqlite (~/.config/banshee_1/banshee.db) | Custom, non-relational binary file (~/.quodlibet/songs) | Custom INI/Tab separated file (~/.config/gmusicbrowser/gmbrc) | Undefined, maybe "proprietary" binary file ? (~/.config/listen/songs.db) | XML (~/.jajuk/collection.xml) | XML (~/.atunes/repository.xml) | Sqlite (default) (~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db) or MySQL (on demand) | MySQL or Sqlite (~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db) | |
| Static Playlists | in database (how?) | XSPF (XML) in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/playlists/ | ||||||||||||
| Dynamic Playlists | N/A | |||||||||||||
| Smart Playlists | in database (how ?) | |||||||||||||
| Engine | gstreamer | gstreamer | gstreamer | gstreamer. What is "Unified" one ? ==> TBD !!! | gstreamer | gstreamer OR mpg321/ogg123/flac123/amixer OR mplayer | mplayer for all environments, xine for Linux systems | gstreamer | xine | |||||
| id3 library | TagLib | TagLib | N/A | ==> TBD !!! | taglib-sharp | homemade (done by gmusicbrowser author) | JAudiotagger | ==> TBD !!! | TagLib | |||||
| Distribution | ||||||||||||||
| Ubuntu software-center | Oui | Non But a PPA exists on official website | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui Default application | Oui | Oui | Oui | Oui | Non But a debian package exists on official website | Oui | Oui Using a PPA: http://raphael.camus.free.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Amarok | |
| Ubuntu one-click install | apt://guayadeque | apt://clementine | apt://rhythmbox | apt://exaile | apt://banshee | apt://quodlibet | apt://gmusicbrowser | apt://listen | apt://jajuk | apt://amarok | ||||
| External Information | ||||||||||||||
| Site web | guayadeque.org | xbmc.org | clementine-player.org | gnome.org/... | exaile.org | banshee.fm | google.com/... | gmusicbrowser.org | listen-project.org | jajuk.info | atunes.org | kde.org/en | kde.org/en | |
| Wikipédia | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | ||||
| Ubuntu-fr | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... | ubuntu-fr.org/... |
Avis utilisateurs et commentaires
blewbubbles le 25 jul. 2019 17:40:01 a noté Quod Libet: Note globale 5/5 
Mike Timberlake le 30 avr. 2013 08:52:45 a noté XBMC: Note globale 5/5 
Roel Telmo le 24 jun. 2012 07:27:44 
Quinn James le 12 jun. 2012 21:02:39 a noté Banshee: GUI 3/5 
Quinn James le 12 jun. 2012 21:01:45 a noté Exaile: Note globale 4/5 
Quinn James le 12 jun. 2012 21:01:33 a noté Rhythmbox: Note globale 3/5 
Quinn James le 12 jun. 2012 21:00:39 a noté Clementine: Note globale 3/5 
Quinn James le 12 jun. 2012 20:56:38 a noté Quod Libet: Note globale 5/5 
Quinn James le 12 jun. 2012 20:55:03 a noté Amarok 2.x: Note globale 2/5 
Raphael Camus le 6 jun. 2012 23:45:11 a noté Listen: Note globale 4/5 
Raphael Camus le 6 jun. 2012 22:07:45 a noté Banshee: Note globale 3/5 
Raphael Camus le 6 jun. 2012 22:06:55 a noté gmusicbrowser: Note globale 3/5 
Raphael Camus le 5 jun. 2012 23:28:35 a noté aTunes: Note globale 2/5 
arcorreia le 11 mai 2012 22:23:36 a noté Amarok 1.4: Note globale 5/5 
Raphael Camus le 20 oct. 2011 15:01:17 a noté Clementine: Note globale 4/5 
Raphael Camus le 20 oct. 2011 09:47:56 a noté Exaile: Note globale 3/5 
Raphael Camus le 19 oct. 2011 17:12:42 a noté Rhythmbox: Note globale 3/5 
Raphael Camus le 19 oct. 2011 00:22:50 a noté Guayadeque: Note globale 5/5 
Seralive le 12 oct. 2011 00:29:11 a noté Banshee: Note globale 4/5 
Cygniapolis le 28 sep. 2011 04:44:50 a noté Clementine: Note globale 4/5
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Would be much better if it could tell, in any perceptible way, when I've deleted a file. That's a major limitation.
Does what it says it does, but not very full-featured and a bit awkward to navigate.
Despite a few limitations (would prefer properly dynamic playlists and easier ID3 editing) this is the best I've tried by far.
Simply too slow to be practical for me.
Good player. Unfortunately latest version was released in 2010 ...
Good player with highly configurable interface. Good tag modification interface but missing auto-tag tool.
A good try but has a poor interface and lacks some major features to me.
Good player, originally from AmaroK 1.4 (my prefered one at the time - and still)
Nice player but yet missing basic features.
Good music player with all basic features. Easy to use. Good choice for those who do not need advanced features such as tag writing. 3rd party plugins are not always easy to install.