CLUSTER MUSIC-DESKTOP-LINUX · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-12-27
Linux desktop music players
The cluster consists of Linux desktop music players and audio extensions that play local libraries, online sources like lofi or YouTube, and control multi-room speakers. Dated entry is thin before the index: a single product in 2019-01, then a long gap until 2025-12, followed by a series of entries from 2025-12 to 2026-07, with 2 in both 2026-02 and 2026-07. Traction leaders by activity signal are gnome-shell-extension-quick-lofi, pwplay, and rox-player, all with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled
Operator · 3 hobby · 1 indie · 9 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01vkn3★todaylivehobbyUnofficial desktop music player for VK that streams and downloads tracks on Windows and Linux.
- 02FridaMusic-Desktop-Releases1★15 daysliveindieDesktop music player that provides continuous playback, library exploration, playlists, queue, lyrics, and visual themes for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- 03gnome-shell-extension-quick-lofi0★2 moliveopen sourceGNOME desktop extension that plays lofi music and other sounds with a single click, supporting local and online sources.
- 04MoeKoe-MPRIS-Lyrics0★10 days—ai-builthobbyMusic player plugin that adds Linux desktop integration and a floating on-screen lyrics display to MoeKoe Music.
- 05rox-player0★20 daysliveopen sourceDesktop music player for Linux that plays audio files and offers modular, customizable playback in the style of foobar2000.
- 06pwplay0★27 days—hobbyLinux audio player that plays music files on desktop systems through a sound server.
- 07glass-music-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceMusic player for Linux with a liquid-glass visual interface for listening to local music.
- 08moniuszko0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop music player for Linux environments that plays audio with an interface inspired by Amarok.
- 09roplayer0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop music player for Linux that plays audio files from a local library with a configurable graphical interface.
- 10hrmp0★5 moliveopen sourceHigh-resolution music player for Linux operating system.
- 11lmp-bin0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop music player for Linux that provides a dark, Spotify-like interface and downloads tracks from YouTube and Spotify.
- 12raku-music-bin0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop music player for Linux that plays songs from a local music library.
- 13Glass Music0★unknownliveDesktop music player for Linux with a stylized visual interface for browsing and playing local audio files.
- 14qoob0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop music player for Linux with a foobar-like interface.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.