Open Source Python Music Players

LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!

Tauon is a modern, streamlined music player app that's packed with features! An emphasis on playlists and drag-and-drop importing puts you in control of your music library. Faded volume control, 24-bit FLAC support, and gapless playback provide the ultimate listening experience. Excellent CUE sheet support, an original smart playlist system, and network playback from koel or Airsonic servers. Last.fm, Listenbrainz, and Maloja scribbling. MPRIS2 support for desktop integration. Tauon is a playlist-oriented music player that makes the assumption that folders are albums. (You may find the words "album" and "folder" used interchangeably within the interface and documentation) While some features and interface elements may not be immediately intuitive, I hope that once you are familiar, you will find that Tauon is pleasant, fast, and fun to use.

Radio Tray is a streaming player for listening to online radios. Any bug or feature request should be reported in https://bitbucket.org/carlmig/radio-tray/issues

Streamtuner2 is an internet radio station and video browser. It simply lists stations in categories from different directories. Launches your preferred media apps for playback. It's built in Python now, but retains UI similarity with the original StreamTuner 0.99

Quod Libet is a cross-platform audio/music management program. It provides many ways to view your local library, and supports streaming audio and feeds (podcasts, etc). It has extremely flexible metadata editing and searching capabilities. With over 90 plugins included, you can extend and integrate with almost anything, or write your own! Ex Falso is a bare-bones tag editor with the same editing interface as Quod Libet. Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file, for all the file formats it supports. Unlike some, Quod Libet will scale to libraries with tens of thousands of songs. It also supports most of the features you’d expect from a modern media player.

Swing Music is a beautiful, self-hosted music player and streaming server that lets you bring your personal audio library online with a modern browser-based interface, giving you a private alternative to mainstream streaming services. Designed to be both elegant and powerful, the project scans your local music files (like MP3s or FLACs), organizes metadata, and streams them on-demand to any device with a browser or its Android client. It includes features like folder browsing, playlist creation, related artists/albums exploration, and intelligent metadata normalization so your collection feels clean and connected. The interface handles fuzzy search so typos don’t stop you from finding tracks, supports silence detection and crossfading for a smoother listening experience, and provides statistics about your listening habits to help you understand your personal music library.

Yami is a lightweight, open-source music player built in Python. It focuses on simplicity and ease of use, providing an intuitive user interface (UI) for users to manage and play their music. Whether you're playing local files or downloading from online sources using spotdl, Yami offers a seamless experience. This project is designed for users who want a minimalistic, cross-platform music player with the ability to integrate external sources like Spotify/YouTube Music.

Turns the YouTube Music site into a cross-platform desktop application using QtWebEngine.

PyKaraoke is a cross-platform karaoke player. It currently supports CDG (MP3+G, OGG+G, WAV+G), MIDI (.KAR, .MID) and MPEG formats.

rePear is a tool that allows using an Apple iPod audio player without iTunes. The user can manage the audio files on the iPod with a normal file manager and rePear takes care that they can be played on the device.

Audiere is a portable audio library which supports playing MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, IT, XM, S3M, and MOD files. You can use it from C, C++, Python, Java, Delphi, and any language that supports XPCOM (JavaScript in Mozilla, for example).

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.

This SourceForge project page is obsolete. Please visit http://www.musicpd.org/

SonicDive is an immersive audio visualization & effects-based music player designed to deliver a next-level listening experience. It combines dynamic spectrums with advanced spatial audio effects like 3D & 8D sound. ✨ Features 🎵 Audio Visual Spectrums SonicDive supports multiple real-time audio visualizations: 💿 Disk Spectrum 📊 Bars Spectrum 🌊 Wave Spectrum 🖼️ Thumbnail Spectrum ⭕ Circle Spectrum Each spectrum reacts dynamically to the music’s frequency and intensity. 🎚️ Audio Effects & Modes Choose from a variety of sound profiles to match your mood: 🔊 Flat 🎧 3D Audio 🎧 8D Audio 🎤 Hip-Hop 🎻 Classic 🎸 Rock 🎥 Dolby Effect

Second generation of XMMS music player.

You can hide the singer's voice from the music files that cannot hide the voice in the computer. By default, it will be saved with 2 audio tracks of singer + melody. If you want to save only the melody without the singer's voice, you have to select the No Vocal option. To save the output file, click Save Folder and choose the location you want to save (Default: Desktop). If you are sure of the above preparations, you can change the file you want to change by holding down the mouse and dragging it onto the Drag & Drop Input File. (No internet needed) You can also change it by clicking Select File.

Magic Box 🎶: The Open-Source Multimedia Player Magic Box is a versatile, custom-built media player for desktop environments, blending a classic interface with powerful, modern features. Developed in Python with PyQt5, it supports a wide range of audio and video formats. Key Features: Dynamic Visualizer: Features a real-time, custom FFT audio spectrum visualizer that monitors system loopback audio, providing vibrant, data-driven feedback (requires manual loopback setup like Stereo Mix/PulseAudio). IPTV/Streaming Ready: Easily load and manage M3U/M3U8 playlists for streaming live TV channels or individual online media streams. Compact Mini Mode: Switch to a Mini Player for a seamless, space-saving playback experience while you multitask. Metadata Integration: Automatically fetches and displays song/video metadata (Title, Artist, Album, Copyright) and includes quick tools to search for media on external platforms like YouTube.

Fastest Video player Build Using FFPLAY and FFMPEG Multi-Media Library with Python and Very easy to Control from KeyBoard and runs very fast as ffplay runs.

A lightweight and fast music player to play your music libraries. https://github.com/shampuan/LinAMP

Rockbox Database Manager is a program designed to manipulate and examine the rockbox database. It is intended to add several features to the rockbox database that the rockbox firmware does not currently implement.

Peyote is an audio player with MC-like interface It designed specifically for work easy with cue sheets. It supports wv ( wavepack ), wav, flac, ape, ogg, mp4, vma and mp3 formats.

The MusicKit & SndKit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing & MIDI applications. The distribution is a comprehensive package that includes on-line documentation, code examples, utilities, applications & scores

A client-server application that lets you seamlessly redirect audio from one PC to another over your network connection using ALSA, JACK or a file for capture/playback.

This is a simple Python module for retrieving and setting so-called ID3 tags on MP3 compressed audio files through an object-oriented interface. MP3 players generally use this simple information for display track title, artist name, and album title whi

This is a YouTube music/video downloader. It allows you to search for videos on YouTube, then download them as either audio or videos, or stream the audio directly from the application. You can also open YouTube URL's for downloading.