Audio Players & Servers

Airsonic Advanced

github.com

Airsonic-Advanced is a self-hosted media server for streaming a music library through a web interface and compatible clients. This repository contains the Java server and related tools.

AIMP

aimp.ru

AIMP is a free cross-platform audio player available for PC and Android devices. Its official website hosts downloads for current and legacy versions, alongside resources including addons, skins, plugins, encoders, and documentation such as changelogs and licensing information.

Ampache

ampache.org

Ampache is a web-based audio and video streaming application and file manager that provides access to a music and video collection from internet-enabled devices. It is free and open source under AGPLv3 and serves one catalog over its native API, Subsonic and OpenSubsonic, a Jellyfin-compatible backend, UPnP/DLNA and DAAP.

AudioRelay

audiorelay.net

AudioRelay streams audio between devices. It can stream a PC's or laptop's audio to a phone, send a phone's microphone to a PC over Wi-Fi, and use a phone as a wireless speaker or headset. A USB connection is also offered. The documentation lists server installation, an Android app, and Windows, Linux and macOS instructions.

DeaDBeeF is a modular cross-platform audio player running on GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, *BSD, OpenSolaris and other UNIX-like systems. It plays many audio formats, converts between them and supports additional plugins that extend it.

Exaile

exaile.org

Exaile is a music player for GTK+ with a simple interface and music management features including smart playlists, advanced track tagging, automatic album art, lyrics, streaming radio and podcasts. It offers secondary output device support and can be extended with more than 50 plugins. Downloads include source code and a Windows installer.

Foobar2000

foobar2000.org

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, with the Windows version working on Linux via Wine. It plays mainstream audio formats out of the box, supports gapless playback, advanced tagging, Audio CD ripping and transcoding, ReplayGain, DSP effects and internet radio. An open component architecture allows third-party extensions.

Harmonoid

harmonoid.com

Harmonoid is a cross-platform music player and library manager that plays and manages music libraries. It includes a tag editor for metadata, search, playlists, Discord Rich Presence and a Last.fm scrobbler, and uses mpv and FFmpeg to play file formats and read tags. Available platforms listed are Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.

iBroadcast

ibroadcast.com

iBroadcast is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.

koel

koel.dev

Koel is an open-source music streaming server that lets users host and stream their own music. It includes media management for uploads and metadata, Subsonic and OpenSubsonic API support, and iOS and Android apps. The Community version remains free and open-source; a paid Koel Plus version adds features such as individual libraries and storage drivers.

Lyrion

lyrion.org

Lyrion Music Server (LMS) is open-source software that controls and streams music to Squeezebox audio players. It can stream local music, internet radio, and content from streaming services. The ecosystem includes server and player software for Windows, Mac, tablets, phones, and Raspberry Pi, and can support large libraries across multiple devices.

MangoWave

mangowave.app

MangoWave is a free audio-reactive visualizer inspired by Winamp and MilkDrop. It offers over 800 visuals and works with any audio source on desktop and mobile. No signup, installation, or ads are required.

Mopidy

mopidy.com

Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python. It plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud and Internet radio, and runs in a terminal or background on Linux computers and Macs. Out of the box it is an HTTP server; with the Mopidy-MPD extension it also becomes an MPD server. Users control playback from phones, tablets or computers with MPD or web clients.

mStream

mstream.io

mStream is open source software for syncing and streaming music between devices. It is a self-hosted music server that runs on a computer the user owns, including old hardware and boards like the Raspberry Pi. Streams can include FLAC and lossless files, and the server is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and NAS boxes, with Docker and source install options.

Museeks

museeks.io

Museeks is a simple, clean, cross-platform music player focused on well-crafted, simple features. The latest released version is 0.23.4, with available builds for Apple Silicon and Intel macOS, 64-bit and ARM Windows, as well as AppImage, .deb, .rpm, and Flatpak package formats.

MusicVid

musicvid.org

MusicVid is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.

MusikCube is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.

Navidrome

navidrome.org

Navidrome is open source software distributed free of charge under the GNU GPL v3 license. It serves a personal music collection through a modern web UI and third-party compatible mobile apps for iOS and Android, allowing access from anywhere. It supports multiple libraries with user-specific access controls and the OpenSubsonic API.

Rmpc is a configurable terminal-based client for the Music Player Daemon, inspired by ncmpcpp. It displays album cover art through the Kitty, Sixel and Iterm2 protocols, offers ranger/lf-style browsing of a music library, synchronized lyrics, Cava visualisation, playlist management and scripting through CLI mode and script hooks. Keybinds and colors are configurable.

RockBox

rockbox.org

Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players. It runs on a range of players, including Apple iPods, SanDisk Sansa models, iRiver devices and others. Ports are classified as stable, unstable or unusable. USB charging and USB support are not available on every player, and dual-booting into the original firmware may be required.

Snowify

snowify.cc

Snowify is a free, open-source music player with synced lyrics, Spotify import, and cloud sync. It offers synced lyrics sourced from Musixmatch, LrcLib, and Netease, and Spotify playlist import. Windows and macOS builds are available for download, while Android and iOS versions are listed as coming soon.

SonoBus

sonobus.net

SonoBus is an open-source application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network. Multiple users can connect in a group to make music, hold remote sessions, or record audio from everyone. It runs standalone on macOS, Windows, iOS, and GNU/Linux, and as an audio plugin on macOS and Windows.

VinylEngine is an audio or music resource for streaming, discovery, editing, production, or library management.

Vizzy

vizzy.io

Vizzy is an online tool for creating free music visualizers and lyric videos. It provides a powerful online editor for producing professional music videos to help users attract more listeners and grow their audience.