More about rox

The pages that don't belong in the nav, kept somewhere findable instead of deleted.

Why these are here

These exist to be found. Someone searching for a Foobar2000 alternative on Linux in 2026, or working out which player survives a library this size, should land somewhere that answers them rather than on a homepage written for people who already know what rox is.

They're off the nav on purpose. The main site is three pages: what rox is, how to get it, what it looks like. Stacking the rest into the header would make the thing you came for harder to find, which is a bad trade for everyone who arrived already knowing.

You might know all of this about rox and Foobar2000 already. Plenty of people landing here won't, and they're who these are for. Each one says where rox loses as well as where it wins, and repeats nothing you'd get from the homepage.

The pages

The Foobar2000 alternative

What Foobar2000 got right, where it leaves you, and what rox does about it. Includes where Foobar2000 is still ahead.
CaTRoX, rebuilt native

The foobar2000 theme that started this, who made it, and what it took to get the look running without Windows underneath.
An Mp3tag alternative for Linux

Batch edits, a per-file grid, and a write path that copies, verifies and renames rather than editing your files in place.
A MusicBee alternative

What MusicBee does that rox does not, what rox does that MusicBee cannot, and why the honest answer depends on your OS.
ReplayGain, and what it costs

What ReplayGain actually does, track versus album gain, measuring the files nobody tagged, and why turning it on means giving up bit-perfect.
The best music player for a local library

What actually separates players once your library is real, and how the field measures up on a 50,000-track collection.
rox on Linux

AUR and Nix, Wayland and X11, ALSA exclusive output, MPRIS media keys, and the benchmark table that is all Linux players.
rox on Windows

A zip with no installer, portable mode, WASAPI exclusive output, and an honest read on competing with Foobar2000 on its home turf.
rox on macOS

Apple Silicon, signed and notarized, menus in the system bar, CoreAudio exclusive output.

If you'd rather skip all of it, the download page is two clicks from a running player, and the source is the most honest documentation here.