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Exaile

Listen to, explore, or manage your audio collection.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Exaile is a music player, available on Linux.

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

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
  • “Exaile Music Player for GTK+” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Features include automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, tabbed playlists, smart playlists with extensive filtering/search capabilities, and much more.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Features include automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, tabbed playlists, smart playlists with extensive filtering/search capabilities, and much more.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Features include automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, tabbed playlists, smart playlists with extensive filtering/search capabilities, and much more.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Exaile is written using python and GTK+ and is easily extensible via plugins.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “There are over 50 plugins distributed with Exaile that include advanced track tagging, last.fm scrobbling, support for portable media players, podcasts, internet radio such as icecast and Soma.FM,” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) 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

Exaile is a music player with a simple interface and powerful music management capabilities. Features include automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, tabbed playlists, smart playlists with extensive filtering/search capabilities, and much more. Exaile is written using python and GTK+ and is easily extensible via plugins. There are over 50 plugins distributed with Exaile that include advanced track tagging, last.fm scrobbling, support for portable media players, podcasts, internet radio such as icecast and Soma.FM, ReplayGain, output via a secondary output device (great for DJs!), and much more.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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