Free standalone music player software for linux

Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player (GSSMP) is a music player designed to work with the GNOME desktop environment. It does not store a database of all your music, but is designed to work with music files organised into directories. It is small, unobtrusive, and tries to do what you would expect, instead of asking you questions.

It remembers which file was playing on exit, and continues that file from the same place when you start again. In the future it is planned to add multiple bookmarks that are automatically created whenever a track stops playing for any reason (e.g. you choose another track, you exit, or you pause.)

GSSMP has been developed on Linux, but should theoretically work with any operating system that supports the standard GNOME environment.

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.

SBStudio PAC player is a library written in ANSI C to decode SBStudio PAC music modules into a stream of integer PCM audio data.
SBStudio PAC player is not a player in itself since theres no code to actually write the audio data anywhere. It is designed to be used in plugins, such as XMMS-PAC.
SBStudio PAC player is a C library to decode SBStudio PAC modules into a stream of PCM audio data. SBStudio is a music tracker for MS-DOS written by Henning Hellstroem in the early 1990s.
Enhancements:
- This package now includes the two plugins, xmms-pac and inpac, which were previously distributed as separate packages.
- Some minor corrections were made to the documentation.
- The code was cleaned up.

Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player. Goggles Music Manager allows you to easily manage your music collection.

Each song in your collection is organized according to Artist and Album. As of now, Goggles Music Manager supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files.

Randomplay is a command-line based shuffle music player that remembers songs between sessions.
Randomplay plays your music collection (or execute any arbitrary commands on any arbitrary filetypes) in random order, remembering songs played across sessions.
Randomplay also has many features to make command-line music playing more convenient, including recursive regexp searching for tracks and the ability to specify a certain number of tracks, bytes, or minutes to play.
Randomplay will also generate a list of music files to be loaded onto a portable music player device. It includes a random weighting feature, so your favorite songs are more likely to come up in the random shuffle.
Randomplay is a convenient tool for the user who does everything in an xterm window or console and is constantly devising complex find/grep/sed command lines to play just the right set of songs.
Following are some example invocations of randomplay to give a general sense of its flexibility; see the manpage for more complete information:
Play all ogg files in dir1 and dir2 under your home directory, and dir3 under the base directory specified in ~/.randomplayrc, which have not been played for 15 days in random order with 5 seconds between songs:
randomplay --days=15 --pause=5 --player ogg=ogg123 ~/dir1 ~/dir2 =dir3
Play all ogg, wav, and mp3 files under the current directory (or base directory, if specified in .randomplayrc file) which have not been played for 10 days in alphabetical order, switch the skip to next song keystroke to G or g and quit to q or c:
randomplay --norandom --key next=Gg --key quit=qc
Play all files under the current directory with the strings "frisell" and "bill" in the filename, in any order, (saves having to hunt down a file in a hierarchy), ignore whether the file has been played recently, but stop playing after 15 minutes:
randomplay --regexp frisell bill -0 --maxtime=15m
Display 100M worth of music files, randomly sorted, without recording the history of tracks, using the default music directory (or the current directory if not specified):
randomplay --maxsize=100M --noremember --names-only
Play the last 10 songs played over again:
randomplay --last=10
Play songs test.ogg, test2.ogg, test3.ogg, and all files in musicdir in random order without weighting preferred songs:
randomplay --noweight test.ogg test2.ogg test3.ogg musicdir
Copy 128M of songs into a Neuros Audio Player, using positron:
positron add randomplay --names-only --maxsize=128M
Pick a random jpeg or png file that has not been displayed in the last week from the images directory and display it with ImageMagick display command:
randomplay --player jpg=display --player gif=display --days 7 ~/images
Enhancements:
- New keystrokes for pausing and displaying all available keystrokes while playing were added.
- UTF-8 output for MP3 tags can now be disabled.
- A bug that prevented randomplay from working with sox was fixed.
- The documentation was improved.

Music player for mp3, ogg, wav, audiocd, mp3 streaming, ogg streaming.

Its fast, comfortable and able to use the appropriate sound drivers or daemons to male music, to encode in mp3 or ogg,and to stream directly to an icecast server (icecast2 or shoutcast).

somaplayer is even a sound daemon (sds- soma daemon sound), which is able to accept connections from more somaplayers at the same time or from any other sound player (xmms, mpg123 and others, thanks to a special wrapper.

All those sources are added and managed via driver or daemon, streammed or encoded as above.

Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmboxs playback from a panel.
Advantages that this applet has over using the icon Rhythmbox puts in the notification area include:
- One-click access to the main operations needed during playback, without needing to use a context menu.
- Display of the current playing time without requiring a mouse-over.
- Display of the current songs album in the song information.
Music Applet currently supports the following music players:
- Banshee
- Rhythmbox
Music Applet is the successor to Rhythmbox Applet.