What is Guayadeque?
Guayadeque is a feature-rich, open source music player and library manager designed specifically for the Linux operating system. It provides an intuitive interface for browsing, organizing and playing your local music collection.
Some of the standout features of Guayadeque include:
- Supports a wide range of audio formats including MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack and more
- Ability to organize your music library with custom hierarchical categories and flexible tagging
- Powerful playlist creation tools with both static and dynamic, auto-updated playlists
- Last.fm, Libre.fm and AudioScrobbler support for scrobbling your played tracks and getting personalized recommendations
- Integrated online media sources like podcasts, internet radio stations and media sites
- Album cover art fetching from various internet sources
- Advanced audio effects and equalizer
- Crossfading and gapless playback
- Designed for GTK-based Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE etc.
With its focus on local libraries, Guayadeque fills a niche not covered well by most other Linux media players. Its intuitive and fully-featured interface makes organizing and enjoying large music collections a breeze.
Winamp, VLC Media Player, MusicBee, foobar2000, Rhythmbox, Clementine, Strawberry, Amarok, Exaile, Tomahawk, Quod Libet, DeaDBeeF are some alternatives to Guayadeque.