Articles, reviews, and development updates on the many awesome Linux music player apps, from Rhythmbox and Amarok to streaming services like Spotify and Tidal, through to CLI/terminal-based players.
If you're looking for a fast, responsive front-end for MPD, look no further than Ymuse — a new release of which is now available with several improvements.
Cider is an open source Apple Music client for Windows, macOS, and Linux – the latter not having an official Apple Music app, making this one unique.
Listen to TIDAL on your Linux desktop thanks to this Electron-based desktop TIDAL client that integrates the official web player into the desktop.
I’m a big fan of Emmanuele Bassi’s Amberol music player and the latest version, released this weekend adds a couple of pretty big new features. Before I get to those, I will point out that […]
Rhythmbox 3.4.5 is available to download. It includes big improvements to podcast downloading, playback, and management plus a raft of smaller tweaks.
Amberol is a minimal, no-frills music player designed for the GNOME desktop built using GTK4 and Rust. It eschews bloat to focus solely on playing songs.
It's a bug that has irritated me for the past 12 months but, at last, Spotify devs have fixed it in the latest update to the official Spotify Linux client.
Plans to bring Rhythmbox's dated UI into the modern era have hit a snag, with contributors pressing for change at odds with those who gatekeep the codebase.
It’s been a long time since I typed the name ‘Gmusicbrowser’ in to the body area of post but what d’ya know: the venerable music player recently issued a pair of new releases. Gmusicbrowser was […]
Ymuse is a GTK MPD client for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other distros. Written in Go, Ymuse is modern and maintained with broad features and a great UI.
Looking for a desktop radio player for Linux? Check out Shortwave, a GTK app that lets you search for and listen to radio, and even record radio streams.
A new version of Rhythmbox, Ubuntu’s default music player app, is available. Rhythmbox 3.4.4 is a small update to this venerable player and was released back in January (but I’ve only just heard about it). […]