Amarok is a music player for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Amarok’s interface is designed to be intuitive. It’s a free music player for Linux and works with other Unix-like systems as well.

Banshee is a free audio player for Linux which uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platforms to play, ‬encode, and decode Ogg, MP3, and other formats. Banshee supports playing and importing audio CDs and playing and synchronizing music with iPods. Banshee also has the capability of reporting played songs to a Last.fm playlist.

BMP, also known as Beep Media Player, is a free audio player based on XMMS multimedia player (mentioned below). It looks like Winamp and also supports its skins, including XMMS’s. BMP supports most of the audio formats that XMMS does; the main difference is between plugins that these players use. BMP has been discontinued in favor of BMPx, which shares very little of BMP's codebase.

Decibel Audio Player is an audio player written in Python intended to provide a clean and straightforward user interface for the GNOME desktop environment.

Exaile is a free software audio player for Unix-like operating systems that aims to be functionally similar to KDE’s Amarok. Unlike Amarok, Exaile is a Python program and uses the GTK+ toolkit.

JuK is a free software audio player for KDE, the default player since KDE 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.

Mesk is a PyGTK+ audio player with support for mp3 and ogg vorbis.

Muine is an audio player for the GNOME desktop environment. Muine is written in C# using Mono and Gtk#. The default backend is GStreamer framework but Muine can also use xine libraries.

Quod Libet is a GTK+ based audio player, written in Python. Its main distinguishing feature is its approach to music library management. Instead of categorizing the songs by genre, artist, and album, the focus is on search and display. Quod Libet supports regular expression searches of its music library, and is stated to perform efficiently with music libraries of over 10,000 titles.

Rhythmbox is an audio player inspired by Apple iTunes and is currently (2010) the default music player packaged with Ubuntu.