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The state of Linux music players in 2026
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I miss Banshee Media Player. We need a fork.
Built upon Mono and Gtk#
Oof, I tell you. Oof.
I doubt many devs will want to subject themselves to a Microsoft stack, so I wouldn't put too much hope into a fork. Probably rather worth seeing if any of the current music players have a similar UX...
This was my music player for so long.
I use Audacious.
It can use Winamp skins which is great, though lately I've been using its default UI.
Very nice article. Very useful.
I use Mopidy and NCMPCPP for mine
This is a terrible, ignorant, vibe-coded list. Arguably the fact that Spotify is your primary listening platform automatically invalidates any opinions on any linux media player you might stumble across.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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