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gmusicbrowser

gmusicbrowser is a music player, available on Linux: lyrics display.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

gmusicbrowser is a music player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: 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
  • “Very customizable library-based music player designed for huge collections of music (tens of thousand files).” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Plugins to visualize lyrics, find cover pictures, retrieve artist or album info, last.fm, ...” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of gmusicbrowser 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
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Very customizable library-based music player designed for huge collections of music (tens of thousand files). With lots of handy features to navigate and use your collection, like album/artist lock, menus to choose songs from album/album from artist, enqueue songs with middle click. Some of the main features: Powerful search (can search any field using regular expression or fuzzy search) Use ratings and labels to organize your music Weighted random modes (eg. to pick songs based on their rating, labels, added date, last played date, ...) Plugins to visualize lyrics, find cover pictures, retrieve artist or album info, last.fm, ... Browse through pictures and pdf in the album's folder Replaygain support to normalize the volume across tracks The windows use a layout system that allows users to completely change the interface. You can use pre-defined layouts or create your own using text files that allows you to pick and choose the widgets you want, their options and their placement. These layouts can be used not only for the main window, but also for extra windows, the tray pop-up, or a desktop widget.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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

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