Vinyl is a simple and elegant adwaita music player, which aims to provide a simple codebase for developers, while simple users get the same or more features as in other music players. Flawless integrated with the GNOME desktop, Vinyl provides a simple user-friendly interface, MPRIS support, lyrics support and more. Vinyl is the first player with a good lyrics (.lrc) support.
Features include:
- A very simple, user-friendly interface inspired by Amberol.
- Music playback powered by GStreamer.
- Lyrics displayed as a list, like a ListView.
- MPRIS support to control Vinyl from other applications.
- A fully responsive interface built with GTK and Libadwaita.
- Full support for the mobile form factor.
- Play music in the background.
- Mono audio mode for music playback.
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1.6.118 Aug 2026
HOTFIX
- Fixed disappearing outline after window resizing
- Fixed a bug where the wrong track was selected after deleting
- Improve localization
1.6.014 Aug 2026
Improved restore playlist, selection mode, playlist optimization and more!
- Added selection mode for remove tracks from main list
- Imrpoved restore playlist, currently Vinyl saves host paths for directories to which it has access
- Improved playlist optimization: large playlists no longer consume a lot of RAM
- Added preferences dialog for introduce more features
- Added opportunity to auto restore playlist immediately after opening the app
- Fixed settings not being saved after re-opening the application
- Fixed an issue where Vinyl wouldn’t read cover images from folders
- Fixed minor localization problems
- Fixed minor UI issues
- Speak on Occitan with Vinyl
1.5.015 Jul 2026
Mobile form factor, Background playback, Mono Audio Mode and more!
- Updated lyrics view
- Improved mobile support, reduced the minimum window size, added support for gestures in minimized mode
- Added background playback, opportunity to hide Vinyl's window without stoping playback
- Added mono audio mode, opportunity to play the same on both sides of the headphones
- Added shortcuts for move through the lines of lyrics
- Added ability to save preferences after Vinyl was closed
- Fixed a bug when the user could restore the playist incorrectly several times
- Minor changes in UI
1.4.110 Jun 2026
HOTFIX, Localization
- Fixed open directory in flatpak sandbox
- Speak on Spanish with Vinyl