Alternatives to Sayonara Player

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

  • Amarok

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Amarok is a KDE music collection manager for Linux under GPL-2.0, built for large local libraries, with a long history and regular 3.x bugfix releases.

  • Quod Libet

    Organize and play music with flexible metadata tools.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Quod Libet is an open source GPL-2.0 library player that also runs on Windows and macOS, with flexible metadata searches and plugin support.

  • Clementine

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

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Clementine is an open source Amarok fork for Windows, macOS and Linux with cloud and streaming support, though its development has slowed and its interface looks dated.

  • Exaile

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

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    Exaile is a GTK library 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 adds podcasts and internet radio, but has fewer documented library tools than Sayonara Player.

  • Tauon

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Tauon is an open source GPL-3.0 Linux player with CUE sheets, gapless playback, smart playlist generators, Milkdrop visualisations and Jellyfin and Airsonic streaming.

  • JuK

    A KDE jukebox-style music player focused on managing a collection, playlists and tags.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    JuK is a KDE jukebox with a tag editor, tag guessing from file names and a file renamer, but it only supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.

  • fooyin

    Build a personalized music player around your local library.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    fooyin is an open source GPL-3.0 player for Windows and Linux that lets you build a personalised layout around a local library, with a plugin system.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Sayonara Player as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Elisa

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

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinuxAndroid

    Sayonara Player is a GPL Qt player for Linux and BSD with batch tag editing, an equalizer and crossfading, but no Windows or Android build.

  • Gapless

    A lightweight GTK4 music player for local audio libraries with an adaptive interface.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    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.

  • Strawberry Music Player

    A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Sayonara Player is a fast Qt library manager for Linux and BSD with batch renaming, tag editing and an equalizer, dropping Strawberry's Windows and macOS builds.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.