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Music-player projects on GitHub

Applications for playing and managing music

As of , the most-starred Music-player projects on GitHub are lx-music-desktop (54.5K stars), spotube (50K stars) and iina (46.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 47 Music-player repositories with 604.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was folia-major, with +554 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+554

folia-major

chthollyphile/folia-major · ★ 7.1K

Folia is an online music player built around full-screen immersive lyrics playback, supporting NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou, Navidrome, and local music libraries, with smart lyric matching and AI-generated color themes.

+98

BitChord

kushagrasinghx/BitChord · ★ 3.4K

BitChord is a modern, aesthetic YouTube Music client for Android, built with clean visuals inspired by Apple Music.

+96

spotifast

crmne/spotifast · ★ 8.3K

Fastpotify is a lightweight, native Spotify client written in Rust with the egui toolkit, playing music through librespot while using a fraction of the RAM of Spotify's official desktop app.

+52

ArchiveTune

rukamori/ArchiveTune · ★ 7.2K

ArchiveTune is a free, open-source Android app that works as a custom YouTube Music client with ad-free playback, plus support for playing your own local audio files.

The all-time top

47 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · lyswhut/lx-music-desktop

    lx-music-desktop

    LX Music Desktop is a free, open-source Electron and Vue 3 desktop music player that streams tracks by pulling data from Chinese music platforms (like Kuwo, Kugou, Migu) via configurable 'source' plugins.

    54.5K
  2. #2 · team-spotube/spotube

    spotube

    Spotube is an open-source, cross-platform music streaming app for desktop and mobile that lets you bring your own music metadata, playlists, and audio sources through plugins instead of relying on one locked-in backend.

    50K
  3. #3 · iina/iina

    iina

    IINA is a free, open-source, modern video player built specifically for macOS, using mpv for media decoding.

    46.8K
  1. 4

    pear-desktop

    33.8Kpear-devs/pear-desktop · TypeScript

    Pear is an open-source Electron desktop app that wraps YouTube Music in a native-feeling interface. It is built independently by volunteers and has no official ties to Google or YouTube.

  2. 5

    YesPlayMusic

    33.4Kqier222/YesPlayMusic · Vue

    A polished third-party player for NetEase Cloud Music (网易云音乐), built with the Vue.js stack — a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux plus a web version, with all social features stripped out. A live demo is linked at the top of the README.

  3. 6

    MusicFree

    27.6Kmaotoumao/MusicFree · TypeScript

    A free, open-source, ad-free music player for Android and HarmonyOS. The app itself is only a player — it bundles no music sources; searching, playback and playlists all come from plugins you install.

  4. 7

    cli

    25.1Kspicetify/cli · JavaScript

    Spicetify is a command-line tool that customizes the official Spotify client: it changes UI colors, injects CSS, and adds extensions and custom apps on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  5. 8

    navidrome

    24.2Knavidrome/navidrome · Go

    Navidrome is an open-source web-based music collection server and streamer that you self-host — it serves your own library to any browser or mobile device, like your personal Spotify.

  6. 9

    awesome-cli-apps

    20.5Kagarrharr/awesome-cli-apps · Shell

    A curated list of command line (CLI) apps, organized into categories like entertainment, development, productivity, utilities, security, and AI tools.

  7. 10

    vlc

    20.1Kvideolan/vlc · C

    VLC is a free, open-source media player and multimedia engine that plays nearly every audio and video format, plus discs, streams and capture devices, on almost every platform.

  8. 11

    spotify-tui

    19.4KRigellute/spotify-tui · Rust

    Spotify TUI is a Spotify client that runs entirely in the terminal, written in Rust. The binary is called spt — a keyboard-driven way to search music and control Spotify playback without opening the GUI app.

  9. 12

    lx-music-mobile

    18.8Klyswhut/lx-music-mobile · TypeScript

    LX Music Mobile is a free, open-source music player app for Android, built with React Native and Redux. It plays music from online sources you configure and organizes tracks into playlists.

  10. 13

    nuclear

    18.7Knukeop/nuclear · TypeScript

    Nuclear is a free, open-source desktop music player that finds free music for you: search for any song or artist, stream it, and build playlists.

  11. 14

    koel

    17.3Kkoel/koel · PHP

    Koel is a free, open-source music streaming server that turns your personal music collection into a sleek, web-based listening experience — think a private, self-hosted Spotify.

  12. 15

    AlgerMusicPlayer

    17Kalgerkong/AlgerMusicPlayer · Vue

    Alger Music Player is a third-party music player for NetEase Cloud Music with a built-in local service, desktop lyrics, music downloads and remote control.

  13. 16

    Metrolist

    13.6KMetrolistGroup/Metrolist · Kotlin

    Metrolist is a free and open-source YouTube Music client for Android: it streams any song or video from YouTube Music with background playback, offline downloads, synced lyrics, and full library management.

  14. 17

    uamp

    13.2Kandroid/uamp · Kotlin

    UAMP — the Universal Android Music Player Sample — is Google's sample audio app for Android: a working music player meant to demonstrate how to implement an audio media app.

  15. 18

    SimpMusic

    12.1Kmaxrave-dev/SimpMusic · Kotlin

    SimpMusic is a free, open-source music client that streams from YouTube Music, giving you an ad-free Spotify-like experience with equalizer, lyrics, SponsorBlock and more.

  16. 19

    listen1_chrome_extension

    12.1Klisten1/listen1_chrome_extension · JavaScript

    Listen 1 is a browser extension that pulls free music streams from major Chinese platforms (NetEase Cloud Music, QQ Music, Kugou, Kuwo, Bilibili, Migu, Qianqian) into one unified player, so you do not have to jump between sites looking for a copy of a song that is not blocked.

  17. 20

    listen1_desktop

    11.4Klisten1/listen1_desktop · JavaScript

    Listen 1 is a desktop music player that lets you search and play songs from multiple major Chinese music streaming platforms in one app, so your library is more complete than any single service.

  18. 21

    webamp

    11.3Kcaptbaritone/webamp · TypeScript

    Webamp is a reimplementation of the classic Winamp 2 music player built entirely in HTML5 and JavaScript, with full support for original Winamp skins.

  19. 22

    Mineradio-paused

    11.2KXxHuberrr/Mineradio-paused · JavaScript

    Mineradio is a Windows desktop immersive music player that combines search/playback, a lyric stage, particle visuals, a 3D playlist shelf and a full desktop mode into one cinematic personal music space.

  20. 23

    boring.notch

    11KTheBoredTeam/boring.notch · Swift

    Boring Notch turns your MacBook's notch into a dynamic control hub: it becomes a music player with a live visualizer, calendar integration, a file shelf with AirDrop support, and a full replacement for macOS's volume/brightness/backlight HUDs.

  21. 24

    spotifyd

    10.8KSpotifyd/spotifyd · Rust

    Spotifyd is an open-source Spotify client that runs as a background UNIX daemon instead of a GUI app, streaming music just like the official client but more lightweight.

  22. 25

    xiaomusic

    10Khanxi/xiaomusic · Python

    A self-hosted service that plays music on Xiaomi XiaoAI smart speakers: it serves your music library to the speaker and downloads new songs on demand with yt-dlp. You control it by voice and through a web console.

  23. 26

    lx-music-source

    9.9Kpdone/lx-music-source · JavaScript

    This repo is a curated collection of music source links (and their sync servers) for the LX Music (洛雪音乐) player, scraped from various community sources.

  24. 27

    spotifast

    8.3Kcrmne/spotifast · Rust

    Fastpotify is a lightweight, native Spotify client written in Rust with the egui toolkit, playing music through librespot while using a fraction of the RAM of Spotify's official desktop app.

  25. 28

    ArchiveTune

    7.2Krukamori/ArchiveTune · Kotlin

    ArchiveTune is a free, open-source Android app that works as a custom YouTube Music client with ad-free playback, plus support for playing your own local audio files.

  26. 29

    folia-major

    7.1Kchthollyphile/folia-major · TypeScript

    Folia is an online music player built around full-screen immersive lyrics playback, supporting NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou, Navidrome, and local music libraries, with smart lyric matching and AI-generated color themes.

  27. 30

    cliamp

    4.5Kbjarneo/cliamp · Go

    cliamp is a retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp. It plays local files plus streams from services like YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Navidrome, Jellyfin, Plex, and internet radio, all from a terminal UI.

  28. 31

    vivi-music

    3.7Kvivizzz007/vivi-music · Kotlin

    Vivi Music is an Android app that streams music from YouTube Music with a Material 3 'Material You' interface, offline downloads, synced lyrics, and a fully local, tracker-free design.

  29. 32

    BitChord

    3.4Kkushagrasinghx/BitChord · Kotlin

    BitChord is a modern, aesthetic YouTube Music client for Android, built with clean visuals inspired by Apple Music.

  30. 33

    openspot-music-app

    2.9KBlackHatDevX/openspot-music-app · TypeScript

    OpenSpot is a free, open-source music app that lets you stream and download high-quality tracks across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux, with no ads and no login required.

  31. 34

    Echo-Music

    1.9KEchoMusicApp/Echo-Music · Kotlin

    Echo Music is a free, ad-free Android client for YouTube Music that adds offline downloads, synced lyrics, song recognition, and a cleaner UI on top of the official catalog.

  32. 35

    ISpotify

    1.9KRubinLabs26/ISpotify · Python

    iSpotify is a local-first desktop app for Windows and Linux that lets you search for songs and playlists, download them as MP3s, and play your library back offline.

  33. 36

    LastWave-Native

    1.8KClash-Projects/LastWave-Native · Kotlin

    LastWave is a native Android music client built on the YouTube Music catalog, combining ad-free streaming with an algorithmic smart playlist generator, real-time synced lyrics, and a universal Last.fm scrobbler.

  34. 37

    spotatui

    1.7KLargeModGames/spotatui · Rust

    spotatui is a fast, standalone terminal music player written in Rust. It can stream from Spotify natively, or from Local Files, a Subsonic/Navidrome server, Internet Radio, YouTube, Qobuz, and Apple Music on macOS, with Spotify being entirely optional.

  35. 38

    EchoMuse

    1.3Kwilbowes/EchoMuse · Python

    It turns a second-hand Amazon Echo Dot (2nd gen, 2016) into a local voice satellite for Home Assistant: say the wake word, ask, and hear the answer from the Dot. No Amazon account, no Alexa, no cloud - the microphones, speaker, LED ring and buttons keep working.

  36. 39

    kumone

    1.2Kmissuo/kumone · Swift

    Kumone is an unofficial native macOS app (with an iOS sideload build too) that acts as a client for NetEase Cloud Music, built in SwiftUI and talking directly to NetEase's real API without any third-party server in between.

  37. 40

    YumaPlayer

    835MuwMx/YumaPlayer · Kotlin

    YumaPlayer (Yuma) is an independent, open-source Android music player that combines Spotify's discovery/recommendation UI with the YouTube Music library and adds Hi-Res Lossless FLAC streaming, wrapped in a custom glassmorphism design.

  38. 41

    youtube-music

    777sohaibdevv/youtube-music · TypeScript

    It is a free, ad-free desktop client for streaming YouTube Music that needs no subscription or premium account to skip ads.

  39. 42

    Levyra-deepsound

    711LUC4N3X/Levyra-deepsound · Kotlin

    Levyra is an open-source music player for Android and Windows that plays streamed music and your own local files side by side in one library, with synced lyrics, offline downloads and live radio.

  40. 43

    Spun

    446yappologistic/Spun · C++

    Spun is a desktop music player for Linux that shows your album art spinning on a CD, vinyl record, or cassette, and can either play local music files or control Apple Music playback through the Cider client.

  41. 44

    InternalBeyond-Mobile

    431Sui-IB/InternalBeyond-Mobile · HTML

    InternalBeyond-Mobile (IB-Mobile) is a single-file, offline-first personal web app that lets you chat, call, journal, and keep long-term memories with one or more AI companions, synced via shared backup files with its desktop counterpart Internal Beyond.

  42. 45

    Beans-Music

    404XIaodou0416/Beans-Music · Swift

    Beans Music is an open-source SwiftUI music player for iOS 15+ that lets you browse, search, and play tracks from NetEase Cloud Music, QQ Music, and Kugou Music in one native app, alongside local playlists, lyrics, and offline files.

  43. 46

    world.execute-me-ascii

    327yym8224961/world.execute-me-ascii · Python

    A terminal ASCII-animation music video player for Mili's song 'world.execute(me);', featuring bilingual Chinese/English subtitles synced to the original track.

  44. 47

    Omarchy-Spotify

    234stappmus/Omarchy-Spotify · QML

    Omarchy Spotify is a lightweight Spotify client built specifically for the Omarchy Linux desktop, running inside Quickshell instead of a Chromium-based wrapper so it uses far less memory than the official desktop app.

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