Free music plays software for linux

aeon is a music player that is meant to look nice and have an interface that is as easy to use as possible.

In contrast to BMPx it is entirely library based, which means you cant add individual files to it, but you have rather to add them to the library beforehand.

You can only play files from the library (akin to RhythmBox/iTunes).

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave) and managing playlists.
Music Player Daemon makes a great desktop player with frontend options (Qt, GTK, ncurses, Windows, and Web clients are available). It is also appropriate as a console player that is scriptable, and is especially useful if X is restarted frequently.
A set of rapid development tools for clients are being developed and include a C library, Python module, PHP class, Perl module, and Java Class.
The goals are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal resource requirements, to be stable and flexible, and easy to interface.
MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients interact with MPD over a network. Thus, running MPD is only half of the equation; to use MPD, you need to install a MPD client:
Web Clients
- phpMp - Web interface written in PHP
- phpMp2 - Another web interface written in PHP
Graphical Clients
- gmpc - Gnome Music Player Client
- kmp - Graphical interface written in Qt
- MPDCon - A GNUstep Graphical interface
- glurp - Graphical interface written in GTK+
- WMmp - Window Maker dockapp
- gtk2mp - Try gmpc first! Graphical interface written in Gtk+
Command Line Clients
- ncmpc - ncurses (command line) client
- mpc - (Scriptable) command line client
- bashmp - client written as bash aliases and functions
Miscellaneous Clients
- mpcstick - Linux joystick client
- arthist - Perl client to generate a web blog of MPD activity

CMus is a small and fast music player using the ncurses library. CMus has vi-style command interface, e.g. searching using / or ? and adding files to playlist :add ~/foo.ogg.
Main features:
Input
- FLAC
- Ogg/Vorbis
- MP3 (libmad)
- Wav
- Modules (libmodplug)
Output
- ALSA
- OSS
- ARTS
- MP3 and Ogg streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast)
- WinAmp / XMMS keys "zxcvb"
- Can be controlled via UNIX socket
- Serial port remote controller support (irman)
- Customizable colors
- Nice vi-style interface with tabulator expansion
- Background playlist loading
- Track metadata database makes adding files to playlist very fast.
- Album/artist modes. Playing within one album or artist.
- Playlist is always kept sorted.
- Play queue
- Directory browser
- Full UTF-8 support
Enhancements:
- This release adds long-awaited replaygain support, Cygwin support, and three new commands: prev-view (switch to the previously used view), tqueue (enqueue random tracks), and lqueue (enqueue random albums).
- An ffmpeg plugin was added for WMA support along with wavpack and Windows waveout plugins.
- Many bugs were fixed.

Music daemon(musicd) is a music playing server that supports multiple formats through plugins and multiple playlists. Musicd supports plugins to enable playing of different audioformats. The plugin-api is quite similiar to one that the popular XMMS uses. Currently XMMS-plugins are not directly supported, but if I find the time, Ill make a meta-plugin to support them.
The first reason to make the player a server is to make it possible to use many different frontends and even at the same time. You can use a GUI if you like them, but anything it can do, can be done from commandline too.
The second reason is to make sure that the GUI or X does not crash the whole player. I have found that many software with a GUI tend to crash. With musicd the player is unaffected by this and you can start the interface again.
Main features:
- Musicd has its own simple text-based protocol for player-frontend communication.
- Support for unlimited number of playlists, songs per playlist and frontends connect at the same time
- Support for both IPv4 and IPv6. Also UNIX-sockets are supported for local connections.
- Currently supported audioformats: mp3 (ffmpeg), ogg vorbis (vorbisfile) and mods (libmikmod).
- Support for OSS and Solaris ouput.
- Musicd has been tested on x86 Linux and Solaris 9.
Enhancements:
- Calling play while already playing shouldnt cause deadlocks anymore
- Load command on a file that has too long line as the last line locked up the daemon, this shouldnt happen anymore
- Invalid id3tags shouldnt give random data anymore
- Invalid filenames shouldnt crash the player anymore

PHP music player controller (PMPC) is a script that allows navigation through your music directory, and the adding of albums or single songs into a playlist. The project also allows you to play, stop, pause, and go back and forth through the playlist.
Apache needs to run as the same user that is running the music players. In other words, it probably needs to run as whatever your username is. This is a setting in /etc/httpd.conf . So, dont run this on a machine thats visible to the web, or make a user with really strict rules applying to them - so they cant run anything but an x session, desktop environment, and the music player, and cant touch much of anything but their home files.
I guess Id serve the pages out of the users home directory if I was doing that.
If you know a better way to get this to work, please let me know. I dont profess to be an apache-configuration guru, and for all I know this method is really just dumb.
If youre running apache as yourself, youll need to change the session.save_path variable in your php.ini to something that you have write access to, or chmod the directory its currently using.
PS: If amarok or xmms was working fine for you before, let me know. Ill have a chance to test them, and code the support for them here in the next couple of days.
Enhancements:
- Huge improvements were made.
- The appearance of the player interface was improved.
- Amarok is now supported.
- Directories with hyphens in their names should play correctly now.

Open Cubic Player is a music player which can play a wide variety of music formats. Currently it can play so called modules (MOD, XM, S3M, IT), MIDI, MP1-3, SID tunes, and CD audio.
Open Cubic Player supports many soundcards (SB, GUS, EWS, WSS, PAS, and many more). It features many different display modes for "looking" (text and graphics) at the music.
Enhancements:
- Mac OS X CoreAudio is now supported (which requires the CoreAudio SDK).
- MP3 detection is now working again.
- Some compiler warnings and various crash bugs have been eliminated.

The iPod Music Liberator allows you to copy music from your iPod to any computer, filling in a missing feature of iTunes. You see, iTunes only allows for a one way transfer of music from your computer to your iPod.
But what if you want to move music to another authorized computer? What if you want to make a backup of your music? What if your computer crashes and you lose all of the music on your computer? What if you buy a new computer and need to move your music? What if ... ? Use the iPod Music Liberator for all of your iPod music copying needs.
Main features:
Organized Copying
- Simply copying music from your iPod to your computer is not enough. The iPod Music Liberator allows you to automatically organize your music into folders labeled by artist and album. The iPod Music Liberator also allows you to place all of your music into one folder. Combined with the powerful searching capabilities detailed below, you can organize your music into folders any way you like.
Intelligent Copying
- Dont waste your time copying songs that are already on your computer. iPod Music Liberators intelligent copying feature allows you to copy only the updated songs from your iPod to your computer. This is crucial for people that do regular backups or want to keep syncronized music collections.
Powerful Searching
- Maybe you only want to copy songs from a specific artist, album, or genre. iPod Music Liberators powerful searching capabilities allows you to search "on-the-fly." This means your search is refined with every key you type just like in iTunes.
- Dont let the searching power end there. You can also simply click on any table header to get an alphabetical or reverse alphabetical listing.
Simple User Interface
- Dont let complex user interfaces get in the way of your productivity. The iPod Music Liberator has a simple user interface to allow easy navigation.
Quick Song Listing
- Why wait for a program to find the songs on your iPod when you could be copying songs? The iPod Music Liberator uses the iPods own internal database to quickly list your songs.
Music Player
- Dont have iTunes installed to play music directly from your iPod? Let the iPod Music Liberator do it for you. Whether youre refreshing your memory about which song you want to copy or playing music for friends, the iPod Music Liberator can directly play your music from your iPod.

music_command lets you change tracks or toggle the playing state in your currently running media player.

For example, "music_command --next" will skip to the next song. music_command supports banshee, bmp, Muine, Rhythmbox, Totem, XMMS, mpc, and possibly Amarok and XMMS 2.

music_command lets you change track or toggle playing state in your current running music/video player.

e.g. music_command --next will skip to the next song in your current media player.

The following music players are supported:
banshee
beep-media-player (dbus version, get it from http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org/site/Downloads, there is a repository with ubuntu packages)
muine
rhythmbox
amarok (Untested! Please report bugs!)
beep-media-player (old version)
totem
xmms2 (Untested! I think it works for Listen as it just checks to see if xmms2d is running, please report bugs!)
xmms
mpc

If more than one music player is started the requested action will ocurre to the first music play on the above-mentioned list.