a music - player (a multimedia-player) on Linux: there used to be Amarok!?

[thedhubs]

good evening dear friends,

I'm looking for a music - player (a multimedia-player) on Linux: there used to be Amarok!?
This wasn't published for a long time - updated.
What would you recommend here!? Which music player do you use!?

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards 🙂

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

I currently use SMPlayer. Not sure if it's your cup of tea. There's lot of stuff out there. Google away, my friend!

[Kreuger]

I know this is an old post but I havent really been around these parts in a while. Anyway, Amarok 3.2.2 released in Feb. Personally I switched to Clementine which is a clone of Amarok pre the redesign in v2 (I think). That had a release a few weeks ago according to github.

[inactive]

For general music playback/conversion there is simply nothing better all-around than... Foobar2000. I have been using that for a long time now between Windows/Linux. I would say at least 15 years, maybe even around 20 years.

it's only a Windows program but works well on Linux through Wine. I got mine setup currently through PlayOnLinux with Wine v6.13-staging (not that you have to specifically use this Wine version but it's a option) and I even got a keyboard shortcut setup to start it... CTRL+SHIFT+F.

p.s. even for a native Linux program, if you just want to play music, something like 'DeaDBeeF' is a good alternative to Foobar2000 as it's basic interface function is similar, it's just not as polished as Foobar2000 with all-around function. but if you just want to drag-and-drop music into the programs main interface or create a few tabs there with music, it's a solid alternative.

[protocol7]

For a native FB2K alternative, I use fooyin here.

Prior to that it was Strawberry (a Clementine port).

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 21/03/2025 at 11:13, ThaCrip said:

For general music playback/conversion there is simply nothing better all-around than... Foobar2000. I have been using that for a long time now between Windows/Linux. I would say at least 15 years, maybe even around 20 years.

it's only a Windows program but works well on Linux through Wine. I got mine setup currently through PlayOnLinux with Wine v6.13-staging (not that you have to specifically use this Wine version but it's a option) and I even got a keyboard shortcut setup to start it... CTRL+SHIFT+F.

p.s. even for a native Linux program, if you just want to play music, something like 'DeaDBeeF' is a good alternative to Foobar2000 as it's basic interface function is similar, it's just not as polished as Foobar2000 with all-around function. but if you just want to drag-and-drop music into the programs main interface or create a few tabs there with music, it's a solid alternative.

Foobar isn't "technically" Linux, though. But there are others like they said in here.