AudioPlayer51 is a free, open-source, cross-platform audio player written to handle FLAC files and CUE sheets (exclusively). If you don't use FLAC files and CUE sheets, you won't find AudioPlayer51 very useful.

AudioPlayer51 is written in Python, and uses the Audiere sound library for audio IO, and the mutagen library for handling metadata.

The scope of the project is intentionally limited. It is not meant to be a 'media player' or jukebox that catalogs your library. It really only does one thing even reasonably well: play flac/cue albums. I wrote it because I couldn't find a decent cross-platform player that played single FLAC-file albums with metadata stored in CUE sheets. There is foobar2000 for Windows, which isn't bad, but I needed linux support. Amarok plays FLAC and has limited CUE suport, but it is just too big and bloated. I wanted a simple cross-platform player with a few nice features, and none of the other crap.