Alternatives to Gapless
A lightweight GTK4 music player for local audio libraries with an adaptive interface. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Gapless
A lightweight GTK4 music player for local audio libraries with an adaptive interface.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Gapless.
Amberol
A simple GNOME music player for local files that plays music and nothing else.
Amberol is a simple GNOME player for local files with drag and drop queueing and colors that adapt to album art, and it also has no library management.
Rhythmbox
A music player and library manager for the GNOME desktop with podcast and internet radio support.
Rhythmbox adds library management, podcasts and internet radio on the GNOME desktop, so it offers more than Gapless's playback-focused design.
Elisa
A KDE music player for browsing and playing a local music library and listening to online radio.
Elisa is a KDE music player with library browsing, online radio and lyrics, available on Linux, Windows and Android rather than GNOME-focused.
Strawberry Music Player
A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.
Strawberry Music Player adds tag editing, CD ripping and high-resolution format support, with native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, though its layout is older.
Museeks
A simple, cross-platform music player for playing a local music collection on the desktop.
Museeks is a plain local music player that builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, with an intentionally limited feature set and pre-1.0 version numbering.
Dopamine
A simple desktop audio player for playing and browsing a local music collection.
Dopamine is a simple, open-source local player with a clean interface that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux instead of only Linux.
Sayonara Player
A fast Qt audio player and music library manager for Linux and BSD.
Sayonara Player is a Qt player and library manager for Linux and BSD with batch tagging, an equalizer and crossfading, offering more library tools than Gapless.
Audacious
A lightweight open-source audio player descended from XMMS, with optional Winamp Classic skins.
Audacious is a light, open-source player descended from XMMS with an equalizer, effects and optional Winamp Classic skins on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Decibels
A minimal GNOME audio player that opens and plays individual audio files without a 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.
