Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.
Current features:
- adaptive UI
- UI recoloring using the album art
- drag and drop support to queue songs
- shuffle and repeat
- MPRIS integration
Screenshots
Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 2026.1 | 26 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
2026.15 Apr 2026
- Allow opening the containing folder of the current song
- Fix various crashes
- Handle playlist visibility better when loading or searching
- Small quality of life improvements to the interface
- Translation updates
2025.130 Mar 2025
- Update the metadata parsing library
- Release more resources when clearing the playlist
- Translation updates
2024.225 Oct 2024
- Check for more file names for external album covers
- Update the MPRIS implementation for better conformance
- Set the Music folder as the initial location when adding songs
- Various style improvements
- Translation updates
2024.121 Sept 2024
New versioning scheme! Amberol has switched to a year/release version.
With the new GNOME release, we are now taking advantage of the new libadwaita UI elements and features.
If the song title, author, or album is too long, we now scroll their contents.
- Dependency updates for GTK, libadwaita, GStreamer, and lofty
- Bug fixes
- Translation updates