Top 2025: The Best Desktop Players for GNU/Linux

The month of April has just begun, and for this reason, today we will take advantage of bringing you one more "Top 2025", this time focused on the best and most used «Multimedia Players for the Linux Desktop». Which, we consider quite appropriate, since we have already made other, slightly older Tops about the Office Suites, and other more recent ones about the Web browsers, Drawing and other useful applications belonging to the Educational Linuxverse.

And it is that, regardless of which operating system we use, it is obvious that, Multimedia apps such as Media Players (movie and video, music and audio, and photo and image players) together to the Office software (text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and many others)Web browsers and entertainment and leisure programs (games and recreational activities) are often the most important for many people in almost every situation and moment. So, without further ado, keep reading this useful post for a complete and up-to-date list of these types of programs.

But, before starting this new publication about this Useful Top 2025 about some of the best and most used «Multimedia Players for the Linux Desktop», we recommend that after finishing reading this post, you explore a previous post related to the Top 2025 Web Browsers:

Top 2025: Useful and interesting Internet Browsers for Linux

Top 2025 Desktop Players for GNU/Linux

Players for the Linux Desktop – Top 2025: The 5 Best and Most Up-to-Date Players

VLC

VLC It is a free and open source multimedia player, which is also multiplatform, free and a framework that plays most known multimedia files, as well as from any medium (DVD, Audio CD, VCD), location and transmission protocol.

VLC 4.0: Not here yet, but can be tested via PPA on Linux

Amarok

Amarok is a powerful, versatile, free, and cross-platform music player and collection manager from the KDE Project, featuring a wealth of features. Some of the most notable are: the use of dynamic playlists based on different criteria, collection management using ratings, and basic implementation of music playback devices such as the iPod and those using the MTP and UMS protocols.

According to our readers, these are the best music players for Linux (2019)

Elisa

Elisa is a A music player developed by the KDE Project that aims to be simple and enjoyable to use. Therefore, it offers the ability to browse any music collection by genre, artist, album, or track; in addition to listening to online radio, creating and managing playlists, displaying song lyrics, and much more. And since it recognizes the full KDE color scheme when used on the Plasma desktop, it adapts perfectly to it, or offers the user the typical standard modes (light and dark). It also includes a party mode, which puts the artwork of the album you're listening to front and center.

Elisa, a new music player from the KDE Project

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is a player of music and a library for tagged files from the GNOME Project, capable of supporting many of the most varied and widely used music and sound file formats. Among its current highlights are:Playback of music files by sorting by tags, viewing information about the songs by reading the metadata and the cCreating static playlists by dragging and dropping songs from the music library view. For video playback, GNOME offers the following apps: amberol y Videos (Totem).

Rhythmbox 3.4.4 releases a new icon and introduces these other new features

Clapper

Clapper It's a modern media player, designed to be simple and easy to use. Therefore, it's developed with GStreamer and the GTK4 toolkit, making it optimal for the GNOME desktop environment. It also features a clean and elegant interface that allows you to focus on the content and enjoy the videos you're playing to the fullest. Ultimately, its main objective is to offer all the essential features expected of a video player in a simple manner.

Clapper, a simple and modern multimedia player

Other Recommended GUI Players for the Linux Desktop

Other Recommended CLI Players for Linux Terminal

Music players for the command line in Ubuntu

What office suites are available for Ubuntu? How can I get them? Which one is best for my Microsoft Office documents? Below, we'll show you the most important ones available for Ubuntu.

The best free office suites for Ubuntu

Summary

In short, we hope this new Top of 2025 about "The most useful and interesting media players available for the Linux desktop" It will be useful to you, both to select one suitable for personal use when enjoying our best collections of multimedia files and to recommend one suitable for the needs and requirements of others. And in case you know or use other alternative projects that you create, are worth knowing, spreading and supporting Within our growing and immeasurable Linuxverse, we invite you to mention them via comment to add them to this Top, which many will now read today and in the future.

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