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Recordbox

Browse and play your local music.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

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
  • “Lyrics view with support for synchronized lyrics, from embedded or external sources.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Recordbox 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

Recordbox is a music browser and player which aims to provide a respectable feature set while remaining relatively lightweight and simple to use. Seamlessly integrated with the GNOME desktop, Recordbox provides a responsive interface, GNOME search provider integration, MPRIS capabilities, gapless playback, ReplayGain support, and more. Features include: Flexible library navigation. Browse albums filtered by either artist or genre, with the option to further group the album list to then browse by artist→genre→album or genre→artist→album. Playback of music using GStreamer, with gapless playback and ReplayGain support. Lyrics view with support for synchronized lyrics, from embedded or external sources. Integration with GNOME's global search―find and play music directly from the overview. Dynamic UI recoloring with a gradient background derived from the playing song's album art. Detection and display of embedded or external cover art, for albums and individual tracks. MPRIS support for controlling Recordbox from other applications. A fully responsive interface using GTK and Libadwaita.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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