Recordbox is a music browser and player which aims to provide a respectable feature set while remaining relatively lightweight and simple to use. Seamlessly integrated with the GNOME desktop, Recordbox provides a responsive interface, GNOME search provider integration, MPRIS capabilities, gapless playback, ReplayGain support, and more.
Features include:
- Flexible library navigation. Browse albums filtered by either artist or genre, with the option to further group the album list to then browse by artist→genre→album or genre→artist→album.
- Playback of music using GStreamer, with gapless playback and ReplayGain support.
- Lyrics view with support for synchronized lyrics, from embedded or external sources.
- Integration with GNOME's global search―find and play music directly from the overview.
- Dynamic UI recoloring with a gradient background derived from the playing song's album art.
- Detection and display of embedded or external cover art, for albums and individual tracks.
- MPRIS support for controlling Recordbox from other applications.
- A fully responsive interface using GTK and Libadwaita.
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Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
0.11.031 Mar 2026
- Restricted default filesystem permissions to xdg-music only
- Introduced support for displaying and editing synchronized lyrics
- Added a new layout for larger window sizes which improves space usage
- Added the ability to change playback rate, useful for audiobooks or podcasts
- Added a new option for sending notifications on track changes
- Switched search to a different matching crate for improved string matching
- Rewrote database and library code to improve maintainability, performance
- Various bug fixes and improvements
0.10.415 Aug 2025
- Fixed some issues related to the new "Restore to Library" option
- Fixed some albums occasionally not loading thumbnails correctly
- Fixed thumbnail in MPRIS not updating for some clients when a track has no image
- Added a playing track indicator to the album view
- Added new shortcuts for toggling playback, skipping to next/previous songs
- Implemented periodic saving of Recordbox's state, allowing it to restore from unexpected exits
0.10.321 Jun 2025
- Added the ability to select tracks in the album view track list
- Added a toggle to enable multi-selection in the album list
- Brought back the "Jump to Playing Album" button to the album list
- Added a new option to open the library on startup by default instead of the queue
- Made the player cover image square by default
- Many other small changes and bugfixes
0.10.224 May 2025
- Updated the album cover in the player view to fill the available space when the window is resized
- Added a new option to make the album cover square rather than a circle
- Changed the player view into a bottom sheet for the smallest layout
- Added missing tooltips to various buttons
- Removed using space to toggle playback, because it conflicts with built-in GTK behaviour