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Strawberry Music Player

Strawberry Music Player is a music player, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: playlists, lyrics display and equaliser.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Strawberry Music Player is a music player, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: playlists, lyrics display 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
  • “Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer for Linux, macOS and Windows.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Playlist management and playlists in multiple formats” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Lyrics from multiple sources” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Audio analyzer and equalizer” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

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

Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. Strawberry is free software released under GPL. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework and GStreamer. Features: Play and organize music Supports most popular audio formats and CD playback Native desktop notifications Playlist management and playlists in multiple formats Smart and dynamic playlists Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux Edit tags on audio files Automatically retrieve tags from MusicBrainz Album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify Lyrics from multiple sources Audio analyzer and equalizer Transfer music to mass-storage USB players, MTP compatible devices and iPod Nano/Classic Scrobbler with support for Last.fm and ListenBrainz Streaming support for Subsonic-compatible servers Unofficial streaming support for Tidal, Spotify and Qobuz

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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