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theBeat

theBeat is a music player, available on Linux: playlists.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

theBeat is a music player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: playlists.

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
  • “Audio Player” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Create playlists to quickly access the music you love” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

theBeat 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

Play and organise your music. theBeat automatically discovers music on your computer and presents it in an easy-to-use interface. Automatically categorise your music Blazing fast search Quickly find tracks by author and artist Create playlists to quickly access the music you love

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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