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Cantata

Cantata is a music player, available on Linux: tags and folders, playlists, lyrics display.

  • Limited free plan
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Cantata is a music player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: tags and folders, playlists, lyrics display.

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 graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) client with support for tagging, ReplayGain tag creation, queue management, and online features.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “A graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) client with support for tagging, ReplayGain tag creation, queue management, and online features.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Manage your playlists with an advanced interface.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Automatically find lyrics to your songs.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Cantata offers a limited free plan; advanced features or heavier use are paid.

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.

Plans and conditions

  • Free plan: basic features are free; others are reserved for paid plans.
  • Premium content: part of the content is reserved for subscribers.
  • Paid subscriptions from 4 $ per month (price read on the official page).

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No credit card asked
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Limited free plan

About

A graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) client with support for tagging, ReplayGain tag creation, queue management, and online features. This software connects to a running MPD server on a local or remote machine. Check out their project page for more information. Manage your playlists with an advanced interface. Flip through your music library with ease. Read information on your favorite artists. Automatically find lyrics to your songs.

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) (limits, free status, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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