Like many types of software, the selection of a favorite music player is, to some extent, dependent on personal preferences. But given the plethora of music players for Linux, we hope our reviews help narrow the field.
All music libraries are different, and the right open source music player can make a world of difference – especially if you’ve a large collection.
We’ve reviewed the vast majority of music players for Linux. But there always seems more out there to explore. And others are in rapid development e.g. fooyin.
Recordbox is a music player and library browser designed primarily to be as simple as possible, and tailored specifically to browsing and playing albums, rather than tracks or playlists. It’s written in Rust and published under an open source license.
Installation
Recordbox was evaluated using the Manjaro distro and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
With Manjaro, Pamac (Manjaro’s front-end installation tool) lets us install Recordbox from a Flatpak.
Flatpak is an open source containerized package format similar to Snap. While Snap relies on a central repository for software, Flatpak can be installed from different sources. The primary source is Flathub.
There’s no distro-specific package available for Ubuntu. So the options again are to install the Flatpak or build the source code. We normally use the bauh utility to install Flatpaks in Ubuntu, but on this occasion, we reverted back to the command-line.
$ flatpak install flathub ca.edestcroix.Recordbox
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