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Daphne

Daphne is a music player, available on Linux: playlists.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Daphne is a music player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: playlists.

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
  • “Music player and library browser” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “A play queue provides a straightforward interface for manipulating playlists and the history keeps a record of played songs.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Daphne is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Daphne Music Player started as a showcase of the D programming language which uses the GTK4 graphics toolkit and the giD GObject Introspection bindings. It has since become a great music player, providing an intuitive interface organized into artists, albums, and songs. A play queue provides a straightforward interface for manipulating playlists and the history keeps a record of played songs. A spectrum visualizer shows audio playback with customizable colors.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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