Luna Media Player
Luna Media Player is a music and video player for Ubuntu and other Linux desktops that looks like a media player from 2004 and plays the files already on your computer.
There are no accounts and no streaming. It is named after Luna, the Windows XP theme whose look it borrows.
What it does
- Builds a library from your folders, starting with
~/Music. It reads each file's tags and sorts by artist, album and track number. A search box filters the list as you type, and the tree on the left splits All Music from All Video. - Plays audio and video: MP3, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AAC, M4A, WAV, WMA and more, and video in MP4, MKV, AVI, WebM, MOV, WMV and others.
- Shows Now Playing: a visualisation for music, the picture for video, the track's title in gold, and the Now Playing List of what plays next.
- Eight visualisations: Ambience, Alchemy, Plenty, Bars, Ocean Mist, Scope, Battery and Fire Storm.
- Has the usual controls: play and pause, stop, previous, next, shuffle, repeat off, all or one, seek, volume and mute, with the keyboard and media keys.
- Fits the desktop: audio and video files offer Open With → Luna Media Player in your file manager, and you can pass files or folders on the command line.
- Remembers your folders, volume, shuffle, repeat and visualisation between launches.
Who it is for
- People with a collection of music and video files who want a plain, local player.
- Anyone who misses the look of the Windows XP era.
Platforms
| Platform | Packages |
|---|---|
| Linux (x86-64) | Snap, Ubuntu PPA, .deb |
These pages describe version 1.0.0, the current release. Windows and macOS builds are not provided.
Good to know
Luna Media Player is an independent tribute and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Windows, Windows XP and Windows Media Player are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.