Alternatives to Museeks
A simple, cross-platform music player for playing a local music collection on the desktop. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Museeks
A simple, cross-platform music player for playing a local music collection on the desktop.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Museeks.
Dopamine
A simple desktop audio player for playing and browsing a local music collection.
Dopamine is another free, open source desktop player for Windows, macOS and Linux with a clean interface, playing local files only, like Museeks.
Strawberry Music Player
A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.
Strawberry Music Player is open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, adding hi-res format support, CD ripping, tag editing and lyrics lookup in an older Clementine-style layout.
Audacious
A lightweight open-source audio player descended from XMMS, with optional Winamp Classic skins.
Audacious is an open-source lightweight player for Windows, macOS and Linux with low resource use, an equalizer and optional Winamp Classic skins.
DeaDBeeF
A light, plugin-driven music player for Linux, Windows and macOS that stays out of the way.
DeaDBeeF is a Zlib-licensed lightweight player for Linux, Windows and macOS with a plugin architecture and chiptune support, though its default interface needs configuration.
foobar2000
A light, deeply configurable audio player for people who care about their local music library.
foobar2000 is a free but closed-source player with gapless playback, ReplayGain, tagging and components, available on Windows, macOS and mobile but without an official Linux build.
Harmonoid
A cross-platform music player and library manager built on mpv and FFmpeg, with a Material Design interface.
Harmonoid adds Android and iOS apps alongside desktop builds, with a tag editor, Last.fm scrobbling and ReplayGain, but its license terms are not stated.
Gapless
A lightweight GTK4 music player for local audio libraries with an adaptive interface.
Gapless is a free GPL-3.0 GTK4 player with an adaptive interface for local music, but it runs only on Linux.
Amberol
A simple GNOME music player for local files that plays music and nothing else.
Amberol is a free, open source GNOME player that only plays dropped-in local files with no library management, and it runs only on Linux.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Museeks as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Clementine
Cross-platform music player forked from Amarok with cloud and streaming support.
Museeks is a simple open-source local music player for Windows, macOS and Linux including ARM, with a deliberately limited feature set and pre-1.0 versions.
Cog
A free and open source audio player for macOS that plays a very wide range of formats.
Museeks is a simple open source music player for Windows, macOS and Linux, with a deliberately limited feature set and pre-1.0 version numbering.
Swinsian
A macOS music player and library manager with wide format support and advanced tag editing.
Museeks is a free open-source cross-platform local player with a clean interface but an intentionally limited feature set and no advanced tag editing like Swinsian's.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
beets
Organize a music library from the command line.
Kid3
Edit audio-file tags individually or in batches.
Mp3tag
A tag editor that fixes the metadata of a whole music folder at once, with online database lookups.
MusicBrainz Picard
The official MusicBrainz tagger, which identifies music by its audio fingerprint and fills in the tags.
cmus
A small, fast console music player for Linux, macOS and other Unix-like systems.
musikcube
A terminal-based music player, library and audio streaming server for Windows, macOS and Linux.
