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rox

If Foobar2000 was made in the current year.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

rox is a music player, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: tags and folders, equaliser, playlists, lyrics display, batch processing.

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
  • “A native music player for large, carefully tagged local libraries.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Tagging is deep enough to trust with a real collection, and the whole thing stays fast at tens of thousands of tracks.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Equalizer Flat” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Playlists that survive” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Lyrics and history” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “A full editor with atomic writes, batch edits and find and replace.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

rox is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (AGPL-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
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub zealsprince/rox (AGPL-3.0-only)

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