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Tauon

Tauon is a music player, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: playlists and lyrics display.

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

Overview

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

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: playlists and 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
  • “A fast, playlist-first music player for the music you own.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “A fast, playlist-first music player for the music you own.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Synced lyrics, with an editor for timing your own” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Tauon 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
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Tauon is a desktop player for local music libraries. It stays fast with libraries of tens of thousands of tracks: start typing to search everything instantly, or browse your albums as a grid of cover art. Your music can live on disk or on a server. Tauon also plays from Jellyfin, Navidrome, other Subsonic servers, and Plex. Gapless playback, CUE sheets and tracker formats such as MOD and XM Colours that adapt to the playing album's art Synced lyrics, with an editor for timing your own Smart playlists and playlist folders Scrobbling to Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz Custom layouts built from widgets MilkDrop visualisations Built-in tag editor One-click import of downloaded music archives

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • 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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