Top 15 Nightingale Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code. A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!

Notable features

Plugins compatible with Songbird (with one modification to the addon)
Multi-platform compatibility with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OS X v10.5 (x86, x86-64).
Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA
Ability to play Apple FairPlay-encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes)
Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms
Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Nightingale
MP3 file download
Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists
Ability to build custom mixes
Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library
A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode
Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support
Last.fm integration via a plugin, complete with love/hate buttons
Insound.com and HypeMachine integration
Microsoft MTP compatible device support
Ability to edit and save metadata tags
Gapless playback & ReplayGain
Watch folders
Media importing / exportings (from and to iTunes)
Automatic Library Files Organization ...

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