Alternatives to Amberol
A simple GNOME music player for local files that plays music and nothing else. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Amberol
A simple GNOME music player for local files that plays music and nothing else.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Amberol.
Gapless
A lightweight GTK4 music player for local audio libraries with an adaptive interface.
Gapless is another lightweight GTK4 and libadwaita player for Linux, with an adaptive layout, and it also focuses on playback rather than library management.
Decibels
A minimal GNOME audio player that opens and plays individual audio files without a music library.
Decibels is a minimal GNOME player that opens single files with a waveform view and adjustable playback speed, but has no playlists, library or queueing of an album.
Rhythmbox
A music player and library manager for the GNOME desktop with podcast and internet radio support.
Rhythmbox adds full library management, podcasts and internet radio on the GNOME desktop, so it is heavier than Amberol's drop-in-and-play approach.
Elisa
A KDE music player for browsing and playing a local music library and listening to online radio.
Elisa is a KDE player that browses a local library by genre, artist or album and adds online radio and lyrics, and it also runs on Windows and Android.
Museeks
A simple, cross-platform music player for playing a local music collection on the desktop.
Museeks is a plain, open-source local player like Amberol but builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, including Flatpak and AppImage packages.
Dopamine
A simple desktop audio player for playing and browsing a local music collection.
Dopamine offers a clean interface for browsing a local music collection and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux rather than only on GNOME.
Audacious
A lightweight open-source audio player descended from XMMS, with optional Winamp Classic skins.
Audacious is a light open-source player with an equalizer, effects and optional Winamp Classic skins, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Strawberry Music Player
A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.
Strawberry Music Player adds a tagged collection, CD ripping, lyrics lookup and high-resolution format support, with native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Amarok
A KDE music player and collection manager for organising and playing a local music library.
Kid3
Edit audio-file tags individually or in batches.
puddletag
An audio tag editor for Linux with a spreadsheet-style layout, modelled on Mp3tag.
Cantata
A Qt graphical client for controlling and browsing music on a Music Player Daemon server.
