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beets

Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to beets

MusicBrainz Picard Puddletag VLC Media Player Lidarr Clementine mStream Swing Music Ampache Music Player Daemon Mopidy

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to beets are MusicBrainz Picard, Puddletag, and VLC Media Player. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.‎Downloads · ‎MusicBrainz Blog · ‎Picard 2.
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    • Open Source

    #Shopping #Audio Player #Music 160 social mentions

  2. Puddletag is an audio tag editor (primarily created for) GNU/Linux similar to Mp3tag and Kid3.
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    • Open Source

    #Shopping #Audio & Music #Music 5 social mentions

  3. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework.
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    • Open Source

    #Media Player #Video Player #Audio Player 3 social mentions

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    Lidarr is a music collection manager for downloading and organizing music libraries.
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    • Open Source

    #Music Downloader #Audio Player #Communication 21 social mentions

  5. Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on...
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    • Open Source

    #Music Player #Audio Player #Music Tools

  6. mStream lets you sync and stream your music between all your devices.
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    • Open Source

    #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Audio & Music #Music Streaming 4 social mentions

  7. Beautiful and fast music streaming server.
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    • Open Source

    #Audio & Music #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Media Servers

  8. Web ( HTTP centralized ) based audio/video streaming application
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    • Open Source

    #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Audio & Music #Music Streaming 23 social mentions

  9. Music Player Daemon is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
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    • Open Source

    #Audio Player #Media Player #Music Player 3 social mentions

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    Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python. Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a range of MPD and web clients.
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    • Open Source

    #Audio Player #Music Player #Media Player 44 social mentions

  11. A fully functional terminal-based music player
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    • Open Source

    #Media Player #Audio Player #Video Player 7 social mentions

  12. A self hosted music streaming server. Contribute to blackcandy-org/black_candy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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    • Open Source

    #Audio & Music #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Music Streaming

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