Tauon
An open-source desktop music player for local collections, with Jellyfin and Airsonic streaming support.
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- Flathub
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About Tauon
Tauon is a desktop music player for people who listen to their own music collection. It plays MP3, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AAC, WavPack, APE and TTA, parses CUE sheets with gapless playback, and handles tracker MOD files and retro formats such as SPC.
It adds Milkdrop visualisations, a smart playlist system with generators, one-click import from archives, and search on Genius, Bandcamp and Rate Your Music. It can also stream from Jellyfin or Airsonic servers and integrates with the desktop through MPRIS2.
Strengths
- Wide codec support with CUE sheets and gapless playback
- Streams from Jellyfin and Airsonic servers
- Smart playlist generators and Milkdrop visualisations
- Plays tracker MOD and SPC files
Limitations
- Mainly aimed at Linux desktops
- Built around local files and self-hosted servers, not commercial streaming services
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source, supported by donations through GitHub Sponsors and Patreon.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- Taiko2k
- Platforms
- Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Listeners with a local or self-hosted music collection on a Linux desktop
- Categories
- Media players, Audio tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Tauon
Compare allSoftware that can replace Tauon for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Strawberry Music Player
A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.
Strawberry is open source with native Windows, macOS and Linux builds, adds CD ripping and hi-res format support, but has no Jellyfin or Airsonic streaming.
Rhythmbox
A music player and library manager for the GNOME desktop with podcast and internet radio support.
Rhythmbox is an open-source GNOME library player that adds podcasts and internet radio, but it lacks Tauon's Jellyfin and Airsonic support.
Elisa
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Amarok
A KDE music player and collection manager for organising and playing a local music library.
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Sayonara Player
A fast Qt audio player and music library manager for Linux and BSD.
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DeaDBeeF
A light, plugin-driven music player for Linux, Windows and macOS that stays out of the way.
DeaDBeeF is a lighter open-source player for Linux, Windows and macOS that also plays tracker formats, though its library management is weaker than Tauon's.
Exaile
A GTK music player and library manager with smart playlists, tagging, radio streaming and podcasts.
Exaile is an open-source GTK library player with smart playlists, tag editing, podcasts and more than 50 plugins, with a Windows installer too.
Audacious
A lightweight open-source audio player descended from XMMS, with optional Winamp Classic skins.
Audacious is a lightweight open-source player with Winamp Classic skin support and builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, without Tauon's server streaming.
Tauon as an alternative
Listings that name Tauon as an alternative.
Dopamine
A simple desktop audio player for playing and browsing a local music collection.
Tauon is an open source GPL-3.0 player mainly for Linux, adding CUE sheets, gapless playback, smart playlists and streaming from Jellyfin and Airsonic servers.
Feishin
Listen to music from a compatible server through a desktop client.
Tauon is a GPL-3.0 desktop player aimed mainly at Linux that streams from Jellyfin and Airsonic servers and also plays local collections with gapless playback.
Finamp
An open-source music player app that streams and plays music from a Jellyfin server.
Tauon is an open-source Linux desktop player that streams from Jellyfin and Airsonic servers and also plays local files, with smart playlists and gapless playback.
Harmonoid
A cross-platform music player and library manager built on mpv and FFmpeg, with a Material Design interface.
Tauon is an open-source GPL-3.0 player aimed at Linux desktops, adding gapless playback, CUE sheets and Jellyfin or Airsonic streaming, but without Harmonoid's mobile apps.
JuK
A KDE jukebox-style music player focused on managing a collection, playlists and tags.
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.
Plexamp
A music player from Plex for listening to and exploring the music library on a Plex server.
Tauon is an open-source Linux desktop player that streams from Jellyfin and Airsonic servers or plays local files, with no Plex dependency or paid tier.
Quod Libet
Organize and play music with flexible metadata tools.
Tauon is GPL-3.0 and aimed at Linux desktops, adding Jellyfin and Airsonic streaming, gapless playback, CUE sheets and smart playlist generators.
Supersonic
Play music from your Subsonic or Jellyfin server.
Tauon is a GPL-3.0 Linux-focused player that streams from Jellyfin and Airsonic while also playing local files, with smart playlists and visualisations.
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