An audio player that just plays audio files. It doesn't require an organized music library and won't overload you with tons of functionality.
Audio Player still offers advanced features such as:
- An elegant waveform of the track
- Adjustable playback speed
- Easy seek controls
- Playing multiple files at the same time
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 49.6 | 21 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
49.611 Apr 2026
- Fixed the volume slider showing a 50% value initially regardless of the actual volume
- Added application name and -icon metadata to the audio stream
- Updated translations in 38 languages
- Fixed errors in the application metadata
49.013 Sept 2025
- Always make the timeline and playback buttons display Left-To-Right, even in Right-To-Left languages
- Fixed the issue where all windows could not be used if a file dialog was open in any window
- Fixed a performance issue where the waveform was updated excessively
- Fixed an issue where seeking with keyboard shortcuts when the audio was paused caused the timestamp to exceed the duration of the audio
- Added Arabic, Friulian, Esperanto and Japanese translations
- Updated the Catalan, Dutch, Interlingua, Romanian, Chinese, Greek, Uzbek and Belarusian translations
48.015 Mar 2025
- Audio Player joined GNOME Core 🎉
- Renamed the app from Decibels to Audio Player
- Changed the app’s icon
- Added a mute button visible when pressing the volume button
- Added playback rate shortcuts
- The waveform was re-designed and does not scroll anymore
- ..the position slider was removed in the process
- The waveform is now drawn on the GPU, which should be more efficient
- Added support for opening the app multiple times
- Added ability to open the containing folder of an audio file
- Redesigned controls to feature a large play/pause button
- Removed support for remembering the previous window size
- Fixed the keyboard controls sometimes moving the focus element
- Improved security by removing more sandbox holes
46.027 Mar 2024
- Decibels joined GNOME Incubator 🥳!
- As a consequence, the application ID changed to
org.gnome.Decibels - The application’s source code is now hosted on GNOME Gitlab’s instance instead of GitHub
- Only the header bar is now draggable, instead of the whole app window
- The app is more secure because it only uses the needed sandbox permissions
- Decibels no longer incorrectly advertises being able to open directories
- The waveform now looks better because it has slightly thicker lines
- Fixed crashes when handling invalid audio files
- Added keyboard controls for controlling playback
- It is now possible to scroll on the playback bar to seek forwards or backwards
- Decibels now shows the correct track’s durations reliably instead of showing
1:40 - The design of the app was improved with new icons and papercut fixes
- Added Spanish and updated the Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian translations