10 Free and Open-source Audio Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
1- LyricsX
Ultimate lyrics app for macOS
Ultimate lyrics app for macOS.
LyricsX for iOS and lyricsx-cli for Linux is in early development.
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2- AllToMP3
Download and Convert YouTube, SoundCloud & Spotify in MP3 with full tags (title, artist, genre, cover, lyrics 🔥)
AllToMP3 is a desktop application to download and convert YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer in 256 kb/s MP3, with tags: cover, title, artist, genre, and even lyrics!. It supports YouTube playlists, Deezer and Spotify playlists, and also integrate a search engine so you can simply specify a song name or an album and AllToMP3 will download it.
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3- Aural Player
Audio Player for macOS
Aural Player is an audio player for macOS. Inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows, it is designed to be easy to use and customizable, with support for a wide variety of popular audio formats and powerful sound tuning capabilities.
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4- Cog
A free open source audio player for OS X.
Cog is a free open source audio player for OS X. Currently it supports the following formats:
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Ogg Vorbis
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Mp3
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Flac
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Musepack
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Monkeys Audio
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Shorten
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Wavpack
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AAC
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Apple Lossless
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5- HandBreak
Multimedia video converter
HandBeak is a video converter and transcode engine for macOS, Windows and Linux. It's free and open source. I have used it several times for my videos it's really easy to use has built-in preset library, supports multiple input sources and dozens of formats and quality options.
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6- Iina
Multimedia player for macOS
Iina: The most innovative open-source media/ video player for macOS with clean UI. It supports dark mode, picture-in-picture mode out of box, touch-bar support and it has very nice music mode as well.
Iina is fully customizable as you can customize the user-interface, online streaming, playlist and has a plugin system.
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7- Museeks
A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
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8- Nulloy
Free Open-source Audio Player
Nulloy is a free open-source (OSS) Audiophile audio player.
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9- Phonix
Free music player for macOS
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10- VLC
Multimedia player for all platforms
VLC is a libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, focused on playing everything, and running everywhere.
VLC can play most multimedia files, discs, streams, devices and is also able to convert, encode, stream and manipulate streams into numerous formats.
VLC is used by many over the world, on numerous platforms, for very different use cases.
The engine of VLC can be embedded into 3rd party applications, and is called libVLC.
VLC is part of the VideoLAN project and is developed and supported by a community of volunteers.
The VideoLAN project was started at the university École Centrale Paris who relicensed VLC under the GPLv2 license in February 2001. Since then, VLC has been downloaded billions of times.
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