Alternatives to JuK

A KDE jukebox-style music player focused on managing a collection, playlists and tags. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as JuK.

  • Amarok

    A KDE music player and collection manager for organising and playing a local music library.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Amarok is the other KDE music collection manager, open source under GPL-2.0 and built for large local libraries, with regular bugfix releases in the 3.x series.

  • Elisa

    A KDE music player for browsing and playing a local music library and listening to online radio.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinuxAndroid

    Elisa is a simpler KDE music player that adds online radio and lyrics and runs on Windows and Android too, but it offers less tagging than JuK.

  • Quod Libet

    Organize and play music with flexible metadata tools.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Quod Libet is an open source GPL-2.0 library player for Windows, macOS and Linux, with flexible metadata searches and plugins, and is not tied to KDE.

  • Sayonara Player

    A fast Qt audio player and music library manager for Linux and BSD.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Sayonara Player is a Qt audio player for Linux and BSD with batch renaming and tag editing, several library views, and equalizer and crossfading plugins.

  • Exaile

    A GTK music player and library manager with smart playlists, tagging, radio streaming and podcasts.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    Exaile is a GTK music player for Windows and Linux with smart playlists, advanced tag editing, radio streaming, podcasts and more than 50 plugins.

  • Rhythmbox

    A music player and library manager for the GNOME desktop with podcast and internet radio support.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Rhythmbox is a GNOME library music player that includes podcasts and internet radio, fitting GNOME rather than the KDE desktop JuK is designed for.

  • Clementine

    Cross-platform music player forked from Amarok with cloud and streaming support.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Clementine is an open source Amarok fork that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux with cloud and streaming support, though development has slowed.

  • Tauon

    An open-source desktop music player for local collections, with Jellyfin and Airsonic streaming support.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Tauon is an open source Linux music player with wide codec support, CUE sheets, smart playlist generators and Jellyfin and Airsonic streaming, going well beyond MP3, Ogg and FLAC.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.