Software · Audio & music
Quod Libet
Listen to, browse, or edit your audio collection.
- Completely free
- Linux
- Open source
Overview
Quod Libet is a radio program, available on Linux.
Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: MIDI support, tags and folders, playlists.
File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OGG and OPUS.
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
- “It provides several different ways to view your audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “MPEG-4 AAC, Monkeys Audio, WMA, SPC, MIDI.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “Quod Libet is a GTK+ -based audio player written in Python , using the Mutagen tagging library.” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions” — official website, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of Quod Libet 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
Quod Libet is a music management program. It provides several different ways to view your audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds. It has extremely flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities. Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis/Opus/Speex/FLAC, MP3, FLAC, MOD/XM/IT, Musepack, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC, Monkeys Audio, WMA, SPC, MIDI.
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: 6 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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