Alternatives to Decibels
A minimal GNOME audio player that opens and plays individual audio files without a music library. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Decibels
A minimal GNOME audio player that opens and plays individual audio files without a music library.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Decibels.
Amberol
A simple GNOME music player for local files that plays music and nothing else.
Amberol is another simple GNOME player for local files, adding drag and drop queueing, album art colours and MPRIS controls, but without a waveform view or speed control.
Audacious
A lightweight open-source audio player descended from XMMS, with optional Winamp Classic skins.
Audacious is a lightweight open source audio player for Windows, macOS and Linux, with Winamp Classic skins, an equalizer, effects and plugins instead of a minimal GNOME interface.
VLC media player
A free player that opens almost any video or audio file, disc or stream without installing a codec pack.
VLC media player opens almost any audio or video file on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, though its interface is functional rather than modern.
Parole
A lightweight GStreamer-based media player written to fit the Xfce desktop.
Parole is a lightweight GStreamer-based player built for Xfce that handles local files, CDs, DVDs and live streams, with plugins, rather than GNOME-specific audio playback.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Rhythmbox
A music player and library manager for the GNOME desktop with podcast and internet radio support.
Elisa
A KDE music player for browsing and playing a local music library and listening to online radio.
Clapper
A GNOME media player built on GStreamer and GTK4, designed for simplicity and ease of use.
Showtime
GNOME's video player, with simple playback controls, subtitles, multiple audio tracks and screenshots.
Celluloid
A simple GTK front end for the mpv video player on Linux.
