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Open source alternatives to Google Play Music Desktop Player

50 open source Music apps to use instead, best rated first.

Top picks

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    Audiobookshelf

    Launch

    Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted server that allows you to manage and stream your audiobook and podcast collection from anywhere. It provides a robust and user-friendly interface to organize, stream, and enjoy your audio content seamlessly a

    Self-hosted

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    OpenVoice

    Launch

    MyShell is the premier AI app building platform that empowers creators to collaborate and develop cutting-edge AI applications. This comprehensive model platform and user-friendly toolkit enable effortless app construction for all levels of

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    Amberol

    Launch

    A RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. Note that as of January 9, 2026, the recentmost Windows version (3.14.2) lags noticeably behind the recentmost Linux ver

    Self-hosted

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    Iptv

    Launch

    iptv is a community-maintained collection of publicly available IPTV channels from around the world, kept on GitHub by the iptv-org project. It gives a main playlist of all channels in the repository, with links to other playlists in a sepa

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    Nuclear

    Launch

    Open-source desktop music player for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Search artists and tracks across multiple sources, build playlists, and listen without ads or tracking.

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    MuseScore

    Launch

    MuseScore is the world's leading free and open-source software for writing music, with a user-friendly interface and immensely powerful features. It is free to install on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Some interfaces need to be connected manuall

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Audacity

Free, open-source audio editor and recorder for all platforms

Launch
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Lidarr

Music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users

Launch
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Spotube

Open source music streaming app! Available for both desktop & mobile!

Launch
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GPT-SoVITS

1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model

Launch
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Nuclear

Stream music from free sources

Launch
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Mopidy

An extensible music server written in Python

Launch
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VoxCPM

VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation

Launch
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Mixxx

Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes

Launch
15
S

Strawberry

Strawberry is a fork of Clementine aimed at music collectors and audiophiles

Launch
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Black Candy

Music streaming server

Launch
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Snapcast

Synchronous multiroom audio server

Launch
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Webrtc

Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

Launch
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Index TTS

An Industrial-Level Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech System

Launch
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S

Sherpa Onnx

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speaker diarization, speech enhancement

Launch
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AudioMass

Audio Editor

Launch
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Guitar Dashboard

A free, open source, music theory explorer for guitarists

Launch
23
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Metrolist

YouTube Music client for Android

Launch
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Audacity

Easy-to-use, cross-platform audio editor

Launch
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SimpMusic

A cross-platform music app using YouTube Music for backend

Launch
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Speechbrain

A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit

Launch
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S

SpotiFLAC

Get Spotify tracks in true FLAC from Tidal, Qobuz & Amazon Music

Launch
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mStream

Music streaming server with GUI management tools

Launch
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Ytdlnis

Full-featured audio/video downloader for Android using yt-dlp

Launch
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muffon

muffon is a cross-platform music streaming browser for desktop

Launch
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Amphion

Amphion (/æmˈfaɪən/) is a toolkit for Audio, Music, and Speech Generation

Launch
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Pinepods

Podcast management system with multi-user support

Launch
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F

Feishin

A modern self-hosted music player

Launch
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Tdarr

Distributed transcode automation

Launch
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Voice Pro

Gradio WebUI for creators and developers, featuring key TTS

Launch
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Openaudible

Audiobook Manager for Audible Users

Launch
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Edge TTS

Use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service

Launch
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Spotifast

Spotify, native and fast

Launch
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Listen1 Desktop

one for all free music in china (Windows, Mac, Linux desktop)

Launch
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Parabolic

Download web video and audio

Launch
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L

Lyricify-App

Lyricify (/lɪ'rɪsəfaɪ/), a fantastic app to provide scroll lyrics

Launch
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ArchiveTune

The Cutest Music Player With Support Local File and Youtube Music for Android!

Launch
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musikcube

Streaming audio server with Linux/macOS/Windows/Android clients

Launch
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Downtify

Download Spotify music with album art and metadata. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 Docker

Launch
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PixelPlayer

privacy-first Android music player built with Material 3 Expressive

Launch
46
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Namida

A Beautiful and Feature-rich Music & Video Player

Launch
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FineTune

FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output

Launch
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Y

Ytmdesktop

A Desktop App for YouTube Music

Launch
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Jam

Join this audio room

Launch
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SpotX-Bash

SpotX Mac and Linux adblocker for the Spotify desktop client, in Bash

Launch

About Google Play Music Desktop Player

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Google Play Music Desktop Player

Standalone player for Google Play Music

This Google Play Music player provides desktop integration - with music hotkeys and the sound indicator via an MPRIS interface, the abiliy to use custom colours and load custom themes, a remote-control interface, and lower resource consumption than a full-blown browser tab. . This is *not* an official Google project.

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Price
Free
Made by
Chris Halse Rogers
Category
Music
Website
googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com