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gMTP

A simple multimedia manager for MTP-based Digital Audio Players.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: 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
  • “gMTP - An interface to Digital Audio Players implementing Media Transfer Protocol with a focus on MTP features such as metadata, albums, and playlists.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (BSD-3-Clause) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

An interface to Digital Audio Players implementing Media Transfer Protocol with a focus on MTP features such as full metadata support, albums, and playlists. This is especially useful for MP3 players that rely on the host computer to provide metadata for the device to display the information, such as artist or the track name. Note that while Android devices use MTP, they do not use the metadata functionality. The packages bundled with the operating system are sufficient for browsing the files on Android. Known issues: 1. UI still hangs during some MTP operations; the system will show a warning dialog about application not responding, but the app is working. 2. Please unmount your MTP device before using this app, otherwise gMTP will be unable to connect. You can also disable GNOME automount with the following commands: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount false gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open false 3. You will need to restart the app if you unplug and plug device while it is running due to device caching in the underlying libusb library.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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

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