Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution. Audio is captured by the server and routed to the connected clients. Several players can feed audio to the server in parallel and clients can be grouped to play the same audio stream. One of the most generic ways to use Snapcast is in co
VLC is a simple, fast and powerful media player with desktop and mobile cross-platform support. It can use files, network streams, CD and DVDs, webcams, DVB-T and other devices for playing. It supports a plethora of video formats like MPEG, DivX, H.263, H.264, H.265, VP9, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, AAC, MOD variants, FLAC, Vorbis, Theora, Dirac, FLV, MXF, and other encodings or meta formats (subtitles). It doubles as player and streaming server, and recording or transcoding and conversion tool.
GRLP is a robust internet radio station stream browser and player for Linux distributions. It comes with a pre-built list of 500 known streaming stations, connects to their audio servers and plays them inline. It also allows to add new ones, or rename and regroup them. It's very customizeable and comes with many fancy window backgrounds and themes.
mpg123 is a fast MPEG Audio Layer 1 / 2 / 3 decoding library and terminal playing utility. It uses floats or integer arithmetics with any available instruction set extension (3DNow, SSE, ARM) for efficiency.
Rage is a simple video and audio player. It's intended to be slick yet simplistic and utilizes the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. It supports a command-line playlist or drag-and-drop playback, automatic mouse cursor hiding, a fullscreen mode, playlist controls, subtitle support, can fetch album art, provides a thumbnail timeline, and distinct interfaces for video and audio playback. It utilizes Gstreamer, Xine and VLC.
Exaile is a Gtk+ music player with a simple interface. It allows powerful music management, has smart playlists, tagging features, can display album art and lyrics. It can also connect to streaming servers, download podcasts. Exaile supports secondary output devices, and there are over 50 extension plugins. It's available cross-platform.
Tomahawk is a music player and audio streaming service frontend for desktop usage. It manages songs, albums, playlists, meta info, social sharing. It supports various cloud services and commercial providers, such as Spotify, Beats, Google play, Soundcloud, LastFM, Hype Machine, Echo Nest, Rdio, Grooveshark, Billboard, OwnCloud, iTunes, Jamendo, Deezer, Ampache, Jabber, and Subsonic.
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