Other projects

There exists a huge amount of music players. Here is a list of some and other related projects. This list is not meant to be complete - but rather to be interesting in the scope of this project. This means a focus on Open Source, sound quality, platform independence, advanced DJ features, advanced queuing systems, etc.

(I'm open for suggestions but don't expect that I will just add anything here.)

Music players

Amarok

Open Source, based on KDE, ports are too limited.
It was my preferred player on Linux.

Clementine

Open Source, forked Amarok, made cross platform.

XMMS, Audacious, BMP

Open Source, descendant of XMMS

XMMS2

Open Source

Music Player Daemon (MPD)

Open Source
daemon, lightweight, seperate clients
Note that this player is compatible to MPD, i.e. it emulates the MPD server interface, thus MPD clients work with this player.

Tomahawk player

Open Source (GPL)
MacOSX, Windows, Linux

Songbird

Open Source, based on Mozilla XULRunner + GStreamer.
Too slow / bloated. Huge amount of problems.
Project dead since 2013?

Banshee

Exaile

Open Source, GTK+, Python.
Music manager + player.

Rhythmbox

Open Source, Gnome.

QMMP

Open Source, Qt

Quod Libet

Open Source, GTK+, Python.
Make playlist by regular expressions.

Listen

Open Source, Gnome.
Project dead?

Deepin Music Player

Open Source, Python, GStreamer

Foobnix

Open Source, Python
CUE, wv, iso support
10-band equalizer

Decibel

Open Source, GTK+.
Interesting small project. I found it because there is a same-named proprietary player for OSX from the same person who also developed Play.
Lightweight and fast.

Play

Open Source, MacOSX only, ObjC mostly.

audirvana

Open Source earlier, source not available anymore. seems abandoned because they have a commercial Plus version now.
OSX only.
"HAL I/O using DAC native physical formats 'Integer Mode' (instead of CoreAudio 32bit float)", "Audio Device exclusive access mode", "Direct sound path, directly to the CoreAudio HAL for pure bit perfect sound".

Douban FM Daemon (FMD)

Open Source, C, mpg123, libao
very simple, no fading, no gapless, ...
inspired by MPD

Cog

Open Source, MacOSX
no update since 2008, latest release is 0.07

gmusicbrowser

Open Source, Perl, GTK+, GStreamer

Nulloy

Open Source, C++, Qt, cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac)
Waveform progress bar

minirok

Open Source, written in Python, Qt, GStreamer
modelled as a mini-version of Amarok

Guayadeque

Open Source, C++, wxWidgets, GStreamer
Smart play mode = intelligent queue
Crossfader, Silence detector

Pimp: Python Interactive Music Player

Open Source, written in Python

Python Music Player

Open Source, PyGTK, enhanced queueing system
last update from 2005

PyMP: Python Music Player

Open Source, Python, GStreamer

The Python Intelligent MP3 Player

Open Source, Python, song ratings + high-rated songs are played more often
last update from 2001

kwplayer

Open Source, Python, GStreamer

dacapo

Open Source, Python, GStreamer, GTK+

Pyrana

Open Source, Python, GStreamer, GTK+
very minimal

Web-based streaming players

CherryMusic

Open Source (GPL), Python, CherryPy, jPlayer
no advanced player technics like Gapless playback, mixing, etc. (because of web technology)

Democratic Jukebox

Open Source (MIT), Python
web-interface for voting on songs for intelligent queue

Groove Basin

Open Source, Node.js, based on libgroove

Libraries

For comparisons to Python modules which share features of this Python musicplayer core module, see at the homepage of the musicplayer Python module.