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Tambourine

Tambourine is a music player, available on Linux: lyrics display.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Tambourine is a music player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: 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
  • “Tambourine Music Player.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “That's it really (well... there is a bit more: lyrics, waveform, gapless playback, filter/sort, etc.)” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Tambourine 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

A simple and straight-to-the point music player for your local library. Features: Browse your music collection Play songs That's it really (well... there is a bit more: lyrics, waveform, gapless playback, filter/sort, etc.) Tenets: Linux first Local only: no internet connection will ever be established Read-only: your music will be accessed only in read mode Stateless: no cache/database/whatever will be created. The metadata in your songs are the database Imperfect: there will be use-cases that are not solved by this software, and that's fine

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

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