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Sayonara

A fast and powerful audio player and library manager.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • Old edition (2011)

Old edition: the latest known version (1.12.0-stable1) dates from 11 November 2011. It is no longer recommended as current software; the package date does not mean the software is still maintained.

Overview

Sayonara is a music player, available on Linux.

Old edition: the latest known version (1.12.0-stable1) dates from 2011; it is no longer presented as current software.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: playlists and equaliser.

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
  • “Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player and music library manager for Linux holding a lot of features in order to organize even big music collections” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “(Automatically) create playlists from local files, streams or podcasts organized in tabs.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Many plugins such as equalizer, spectrum analyzer, audio converter, bookmarks.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Sayonara 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

Sayonara's goals are intuitive usability, speed and low resource consumption. (Automatically) create playlists from local files, streams or podcasts organized in tabs. Powerful media library with 3 different view modes and tag editor. Many plugins such as equalizer, spectrum analyzer, audio converter, bookmarks.

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: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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