# Which music player do you run under Linux? **URL:** \ **Category:** Gaming, sound and video\ **Created:** [September 22, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314 "2020-09-22T05:16:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![anon17373693](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@anon17373693](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon17373693)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/241 "2023-10-16T14:21:00Z")
I just installed LollyPop. But it’s too fancy for me. The whole web stuff is just annoying, sorry … But the equalizer is nice … ---
**Author:** ![mellemur](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/mellemur/32/70285_2.png) [@mellemur](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/mellemur)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/242 "2023-10-16T15:07:47Z")
I use good old [quodlibet](https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet) just showing the artist/track title/track duration. Sometimes I use [G4music](https://gitlab.gnome.org/neithern/g4music) for variety, but lately it has failed playing some tracks randomly. For the time being, I’ve returned to [Amberol](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/amberol) instead when I want to use something slightly fancier. ---
**Author:** ![swh](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/swh/32/95303_2.png) [@swh](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/swh)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/243 "2023-10-16T15:17:22Z")
That’s totally ok. Some like it simpler. I like it when my musicplayer also plays radio streams and also downloads missing album covers. But you are right that the whole last.fm and musicbrainz stuff is really annoying. I hardly do not thinking of it, sorry 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CommanderKeen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/commanderkeen/32/11277_2.png) [@CommanderKeen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/CommanderKeen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/244 "2023-10-16T15:20:23Z")
audacious, its the closest ive found to rhythmbox that looks native on plasma ---
**Author:** ![ramon395](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@ramon395](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ramon395)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/245 "2023-10-16T19:07:09Z")
Just found out about the pragha music player and it looks great ![pragha](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/b/2b99dc9041f8629bc6e1cbca1bb0179d44d5438b.png) ---
**Author:** ![enioentity](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@enioentity](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/enioentity)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/246 "2023-10-17T01:54:35Z")
Lots of good options, for now im testing strawberry and audacious. Im on kde so i try to use apps that mesh well with it. Also, all kde apps are great. When i have to be on windows i use foobar2000… ---
**Author:** ![daredevil](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/daredevil/32/81980_2.png) [@daredevil](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/daredevil)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/247 "2023-10-17T07:01:59Z")
Recently switched from VLC to [cmus](https://cmus.github.io/) and I’ve been really digging it. ---
**Author:** ![RSta](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/rsta/32/63942_2.png) [@RSta](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/RSta)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/248 "2023-10-18T12:05:47Z")
[https://www.guayadeque.org/viewtopic.php?t=6728](https://www.guayadeque.org/viewtopic.php?t=6728) > We regret to inform our users that the Guayadeque project has reached the end of its development journey and is no longer actively maintained. ---
**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/249 "2023-10-21T12:13:21Z")
hey welcome @RSta :enos: sad to see [guayadeque](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guayadeque/) gone… webside seems already offline by now… AUR build still exist… but will be getting non-working with time… I do fall back on basic mpd and mpdevil (mainly only to create playlists) ![2023-10-21_14-12](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/8/68f6d0dad7b0304f82a5c3b21188dab4a3f62b47.png) ---
**Author:** ![aandmsantos0910](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/aandmsantos0910/32/76122_2.png) [@aandmsantos0910](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/aandmsantos0910)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/250 "2023-12-24T08:17:01Z")
MPD + NCMPCPP ![Snapshot_2023-12-24_03-12-42](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/1/21b7d964dc2ef3214343304e54012dca03727f88.png) ---
**Author:** ![SpoOokY](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/spoooky/32/85114_2.png) [@SpoOokY](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/SpoOokY)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/251 "2023-12-24T08:23:10Z")
I use Cider for accessing my Apple Music Library. Besides my Linux based Gaming Rig I am quite stuck in the Apple ecosystem…cause it just works 😬 ---
**Author:** ![XuLin](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/3da27b/32.png) [@XuLin](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/XuLin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/252 "2024-01-22T23:25:58Z")
how did you get album art to display so nice? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drunkenvicar](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/drunkenvicar/32/112222_2.png) [@drunkenvicar](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/drunkenvicar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/253 "2024-01-23T01:06:21Z")
**Museeks**. AUR. Plays music and organizes it. No pyrotechnics or flashing or beeping or seizure-inducing. Or skins. Or any kind of context menus. Or album art, In fact I forget how to get music into it sometimes. If you are absolutely bored and unimpressed with complexity, there is this: ![muse](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/2/02b6e384a8b148be63ea9fdcaa2f241a7fd34c96.png) ---
**Author:** ![His\_Turdness](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/his_turdness/32/5615_2.png) [@His\_Turdness](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/His_Turdness)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/254 "2024-02-02T03:36:55Z")
Latest Plexamp seems to have some issues. Keyboard shortcuts aren’t working and the AUR version is stuck in a “play next” loop, just keeps switching song repeatedly, very fast and is not responsive. ---
**Author:** ![Sharp](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/sharp/32/73066_2.png) [@Sharp](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Sharp)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/255 "2024-02-02T03:53:04Z")
I used audacious in the past but lately have been using just vlc for audio and video files. ---
**Author:** ![CMarch](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/cmarch/32/717_2.png) [@CMarch](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/CMarch)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/256 "2024-02-02T04:45:02Z")
Audacious for audio, VLC for video and Timidity for midi. ---
**Author:** ![akya](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/akya/32/40516_2.png) [@akya](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/akya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/257 "2024-02-02T05:38:07Z")
Quod Libet for playing music. Beets for organizing it. MusicBrainz Picard for cleaning up and tagging. ---
**Author:** ![kokochu](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/kokochu/32/105673_2.png) [@kokochu](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/kokochu)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/258 "2025-09-07T01:45:44Z")
Most of my life I used Foobar in Windows and since I moved to Linux I very quickly settled on Audacious. I am however quite liking Elisa this last month or so. I do like how when you go to make a post it tells you of similar posts. Leads to a bit of necro posting but at least it’s tidy. ---
**Author:** ![Moonbase59](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/moonbase59/32/112659_2.png) [@Moonbase59](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Moonbase59)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/259 "2025-09-07T09:02:39Z")
> [@joekamprad](#): > > sad to see [guayadeque](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guayadeque/) gone… webside seems already offline by now… AUR build still exist… but will be getting non-working with time… Seems [`guayadeque`](https://github.com/thothix/guayadeque) is back! Phew… 🥲 Wouldn’t have liked to live without it. Thanks to @anonbeat for years of maintaining, and to @thothix for picking it up again. ---
**Author:** ![Aigen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/aigen/32/121759_2.png) [@Aigen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Aigen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314/261 "2025-09-13T00:22:48Z")
AIMP 5 (no installer) using wine, works perfectly for me, I’m more of “double click” on music files than manage albums. ![Screenshot_20250912_181617](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/d/4dbbcea60d29c1e987f70baae93fb880ec1e7ddb.jpeg) [Previous page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314.md?page=12) [Next page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-run-under-linux/8314.md?page=14)