Open-source alternatives to RetroMusicPlayer

OuterTune is an Android music player and third-party YouTube Music client designed for playing local audio files and streaming remote content. It provides a user interface built with Material 3 and includes a dedicated media application for Android Auto to enable safe media management on vehicle head units. The project distinguishes itself by offering advertisement-free streaming of music and videos from remote services. It supports offline media archiving through a downloader that saves remote songs to local storage for playback without an internet connection. The application covers a broad

Auxio is an Android music player and local audio library manager designed for playing audio files stored on internal storage and SD cards. It provides a system for organizing music collections using metadata and folder structures. The application features home screen widgets that allow for playback control and library navigation without opening the full app. It also includes integration for projecting playback controls and interfaces to vehicle head units via Android Auto. The software covers local audio playback with volume normalization and gapless transitions. It includes tools for music

MusicPlayer2 is a desktop music player for Windows built on the BASS audio engine, designed for high-quality local audio playback with real-time spectrum visualization. It functions as a local music library manager, organizing tracks by artist, album, and genre, while also serving as an online metadata and artwork downloader that fetches lyrics and album covers automatically. The player features a fully customizable interface defined through XML configuration files, and includes a synchronized lyrics display with desktop overlay and karaoke-style highlighting. The player distinguishes itself

MPD is a headless music server daemon that indexes audio libraries and streams music to local or remote outputs. It functions as a music library manager and network audio streamer, providing a remote audio control protocol that allows external clients to manage playback, playlists, and database queries. The system acts as a multiroom audio coordinator, synchronizing audio distribution across multiple networked clients and hardware devices. It supports a variety of remote management capabilities, including a dedicated control API and the ability to broadcast audio streams over network protocol

Harmonoid is a local music player focused on high fidelity audio playback and comprehensive music library management. It indexes local audio files into a structured database to facilitate the organization and retrieval of large collections based on artist, album, and genre. The project features advanced playback controls, including gapless transitions, crossfading, and manual adjustments for pitch, speed, and volume boosting. It also supports synchronized lyric displays sourced from embedded tags, local files, or online providers. Additional capabilities include direct editing of internal au

Metrolist is a music streaming application and library manager designed for high-fidelity audio and video playback. It functions as a collaborative audio player that enables real-time playback synchronization across multiple users through a request and approval system. The platform features an AI-driven lyrics translator that fetches time-synced lyrics and provides automated real-time translations. It also includes specialized integrations for Discord Rich Presence and a dedicated media client interface for Android Auto. The system manages music libraries with remote cloud storage synchroniz

Timber is an Android music application and local media player designed for browsing, searching, and playing audio files stored on a device. It functions as a music library manager that organizes audio collections by metadata and allows for the direct management of local media files. The application follows Material Design guidelines and includes a theme engine for adjusting visual styles, color palettes, and layout configurations. It provides capabilities for audio playback control, playlist management, and audio content search. The system supports network-protocol audio casting to remote ha

Remusic is an Android music player application designed for streaming, downloading, and managing audio files. It functions as a cloud music streaming client that connects to remote servers and a media player for local audio files. The application features a synchronized lyrics display that allows for time-stamped scrolling and navigation by tapping specific lines of text. It employs a local proxy to manage remote audio streams for playback stability and includes a system for theme customization through switchable skins and color schemes. The platform provides tools for local library and play

Metrolist is a multi-functional audio player and YouTube music client. It serves as a music library manager and a synchronized lyrics viewer, providing a unified interface for streaming audio and video content. The application distinguishes itself through real-time music synchronization, which allows multiple users to share a coordinated listening experience. It also includes automated translation tools for synchronized lyrics and a dedicated system for streaming audio from video sharing services with background playback and offline caching. The platform covers a broad set of capabilities, i

APlayer is an embeddable web music player and HTML5 audio player component. It functions as a client-side playlist manager designed to integrate audio playback interfaces into websites for handling digital audio files and user interaction. The project features a synchronized lyrics player that displays song lyrics in real time by matching audio playback timestamps. It utilizes a system of customizable CSS variables for visual theming across the user interface. The player covers broad capabilities including web playlist management for sequential or manual playback and the integration of nativ

ViMusic is an Android media player and music streaming application designed as a client for YouTube Music. It provides a mobile interface for searching, playing, and organizing audio and video content from the service. The application integrates background playback and offline audio caching to allow music listening without an active internet connection. It includes a dedicated playlist manager for creating local collections and managing playback queues using remote content. The project covers a range of playback and organization capabilities, including artist and album bookmarking, synchroni

Music-tag-web is a self-hosted music platform that combines a music tag editor, metadata scraper, batch file processor, music library manager, and Subsonic API server into a single web application. It provides a complete solution for organizing, tagging, and playing a personal music collection, with the ability to edit embedded metadata such as title, artist, album, lyrics, and cover art for local audio files. The platform distinguishes itself through its comprehensive automation and integration capabilities. It supports batch online auto-tagging from multiple music services, background task

This project is a multi-room music server and library aggregator that centralizes local audio files and various streaming services into a single unified database. It functions as a media controller for DLNA and UPnP devices, enabling the management of music, podcasts, and audiobooks across networked speakers. The system is distinguished by its ability to synchronize audio playback across multiple speakers and brands simultaneously. It features a digital signal processor for loudness normalization and frequency correction, alongside an acoustic fingerprinting engine used for metadata enrichmen

SaltPlayerSource is an Android audio player application that plays local audio files stored on the device, supporting formats such as FLAC. It integrates with Android Auto and Joviincar in-vehicle systems to display playback metadata and transport controls on car infotainment screens, and streams audio to Miracast-compatible wireless display receivers. The application extends playback control to OPPO's Fluid Cloud platform, allowing users to show and control playback from the notification area. It also renders scrolling song lyrics directly into the system status bar on supported Android devi

AntennaPod is an open-source podcast manager, RSS feed aggregator, and mobile audio player. It serves as a system for subscribing to feeds, downloading episodes, and managing playback queues for both online and offline listening. The application provides automated podcast management, which includes the periodic refreshing of feeds to discover new content and the automated downloading and cleanup of episodes. It supports cross-device playback synchronization to maintain subscription data and episode progress across multiple devices. The platform covers a broad range of media playback and cont

musicdl is a command line music downloader and library manager designed for searching and downloading audio tracks and playlists from streaming platforms to local storage. It functions as a tool for music library archiving, allowing for the bulk acquisition of media and the organization of local audio collections. The project includes an AI lyric transcriber that uses machine learning models to generate text lyrics from audio files, supporting synchronized playback where lyrics are highlighted based on playback timestamps. To maintain access to streaming platforms, it employs a network proxy

Musify is a cross-platform music streaming client and offline audio player. It functions as a music playlist manager and synchronized lyrics viewer, allowing users to stream audio from online sources or play files stored locally on their device. The application features a real-time lyric display system that matches text to the timing of audio playback. It also includes a search interface that provides instant suggestions and results as the user types. The system supports the creation of custom playlists via external links and provides tools for offline music management. User preferences and

MusicBrainz Picard is a metadata tagger and audio tag editor that identifies and tags audio files using the MusicBrainz community music database. It functions as a plugin-extensible tagging framework and a scriptable file organizer capable of reading and writing tags across various audio formats including MP3, FLAC, and WAV. The project is distinguished by its acoustic fingerprint identifier, which matches unknown music files to known recordings via sonic fingerprints. It features a custom scripting language for automating metadata transformations and organizing files into structured folder h

MoeKoeMusic is a cross-platform desktop music player that functions as a client for NetEase Cloud Music. It provides music streaming with synchronized lyrics display, theme customization, and a plugin system for extending functionality. The application is built on Electron to run on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It features real-time WebSocket streaming of playback state and synchronized lyrics, a plugin system that loads external modules, and dynamic theme customization through CSS variables. Authentication with NetEase Cloud Music accounts supports login via QR code, phone, or password, along

Ampache is a self-hosted media server and digital music library manager written in PHP. It provides a web-based platform for organizing, managing, and streaming personal audio and video collections to multiple devices and network environments. The system distinguishes itself as a collaborative media playback platform, supporting shared playlists and a democratic voting system that allows multiple users to influence an active playback queue. It also functions as a real-time media transcoder, converting audio and video formats during transmission to match client bandwidth and hardware requireme

SimpMusic is an ad-free music streaming application that provides background audio and video playback from external web sources. It enables personal music library management through the organization of custom playlists and the synchronization of user accounts across multiple devices. The application features AI-powered real-time translation of time-synced lyrics and integrates with vehicle head units to map playback controls and browsing for in-car use. It utilizes cookie-based session synchronization to access personal libraries and recommendations from external services. The platform inclu

StylishMusicPlayer is an Android music player and media application designed for playing audio files on Android devices. It serves as a local audio player that allows users to browse and play music tracks stored within a mobile device's internal storage. The application provides a graphical user interface for managing playback, controlling volume levels, and organizing stored music files. It utilizes a background service to manage audio streaming and maintains synchronization between the playback engine and the user interface.

SimplifyReader is a multi-purpose Android client and multimedia content browser. It serves as a centralized hub for consuming news articles, audio files, video streams, and image galleries, while also providing QR code scanning functionality. The application is built using the Model-View-Presenter architecture to separate data logic from the user interface and implements Google Material Design principles for its visual components. It utilizes a hybrid scanning engine to decode QR codes into text strings. The project covers several core capability areas, including news article consumption via

This project is a collection of visual styles, layout variants, and color schemes for the Polybar status bar on Linux. It functions as a UI style coordinator that provides customizable status bar presets to modify the look and feel of a desktop environment. The system includes a dynamic color generator that creates matching color palettes based on wallpaper assets or random selections. This ensures visual consistency by synchronizing the colors of the status bar and application launchers with the desktop background. The project manages Linux desktop theming through the application of diverse

Finamp is a remote media player and music streaming client designed to interface with personal music libraries hosted on remote servers. It functions as a client for servers utilizing the Subsonic API standard, including Navidrome, allowing users to stream and control audio content from a mobile device. The application enables remote music management and playback without requiring personal media data to be stored locally. It supports server-side transcoding to ensure compatibility across various audio and video formats. The project includes localization for multiple languages and provides co

Sortable is a framework-agnostic JavaScript library for creating reorderable lists through drag and drop interactions. It functions as a reorderable list manager that allows users to rearrange DOM elements using pointer interactions on modern browsers and touch devices. The library enables the transfer or cloning of items between different lists using shared group identifiers. It supports complex organizational structures, including nested reorderable lists for managing hierarchical data across different levels. Its capabilities cover the animation of element movements and the configuration