Software · Audio & music

desktop

Open-source music player for Windows and Linux. Play local files, connect to Navidrome, stream from YouTube Music and SoundCloud, and build your own playlists.

Completely free
Windows and Linux
Open source
No account

Overview

desktop is a music player, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository: 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

“Open-source music player for Windows and Linux.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Play local files, connect to Navidrome, stream from YouTube Music and SoundCloud, and build your own playlists.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

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
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 10 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub getcapsule/desktop (GPL-3.0-only)

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