Software · Audio & music
Melody
A music player for listening to local music files, online radios and audio CD's.
- Completely free
- Linux
- Open source
Overview
Melody is a music player, available on Linux.
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
- “Open Source Music Player and Manager based on Gtk+ and Vala” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “Browse by album, artist, and build playlists of your favorites.” — official website, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of Melody 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
A very fast music player designed extra for large local libraries which also supports online radios and downloading album covers Features: Show all Albums from your library Group tracks by Artists Manage your Playlists Listen to online Radio Audio CD support Manage your MTP device ID3-Tag support
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
Sources and checks
- Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, 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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