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Aurora Media Player

Listen to music, watch local and online videos.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Aurora Media Player is a media player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: playlists and hardware acceleration.

File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MKV and AVI.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A modern, clean media player for Linux built with GTK4, libadwaita and Rust.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “It supports most common video and audio formats, playlists, subtitle and audio track selection, session restore, recent files, album art, and MPRIS desktop media controls.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Hardware-accelerated decoding via VA-API” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Aurora Media Player is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Aurora is a modern media player with a clean GTK4 interface for watching videos, listening to music, and opening online media. It supports most common video and audio formats, playlists, subtitle and audio track selection, session restore, recent files, album art, and MPRIS desktop media controls.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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