26 Free Music Players For Windows (Best to Worst)
Today I'm going to show you a list of free music players (audio players) for windows. And this list is in a specific order: Best to Worst.
I love music, what about you? Since you are reading this, I assume you also love music. We say music is powerful, not because it has the ability to destroy or something, just because it is deeply connected to us. Look around you, music is everywhere, even your heartbeat is music. I should stop talking now because soon I will start rambling and trust me you don't want that :). So, let's dive right into the list...
I love music, what about you? Since you are reading this, I assume you also love music. We say music is powerful, not because it has the ability to destroy or something, just because it is deeply connected to us. Look around you, music is everywhere, even your heartbeat is music. I should stop talking now because soon I will start rambling and trust me you don't want that :). So, let's dive right into the list...
- MusicBee
MusicBee is probably the best management software for music. Aside from playing popular music formats, it offers a lot of features like automatic tagging, music management, CD ripping, automatic playlists, music conversions, audiobook and podcast support, and etc.
If it's automatic tagging is messing up your music list, you can use the Manual tagging options to arrange the music as you like. MusicBee also has a powerful equalizer that lets you take full control over the playback with the help of DSP plugins.
The interface of the program also very customizable, you can hide unnecessary panels very easily and it offers a lot of amazing skins.
This program is also available in a portable format.
- Foobar2000
Foobar2000 is an amazing freeware that supports MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, and SND formats. And, with the help of additional components, it can also support more audio formats.
The application layout is completely customizable, and you can even change the text in the application. Foobar2000 also has interesting features like gapless playback, advanced tagging, customizable keyboard shortcuts, full ReplayGain support, and audio CD ripping support.
- AIMP3
AIMP3 is designed like a real world music system and it's intuitive interface makes playing and managing music files "an easy task". It offers an 18-band graphic equalizer with extra built-in sound effects, and you can extend the current functionality by adding Input, DSP and Gen plug-ins from Winamp.
It also supports audio conversion, Unicode, online radio, and audio capture. AIMP3 also allows you to shutdown your computer in a particular time, this feature is so cool because it lets you sleep under your favorite music!
- Jajuk
Jajuk is a Java music organizer for all platforms. It has a lot of features including automatic playlist creation, advanced rating system, configurable cross-fade, automatic lyrics, and various startup modes (last one, last one keep position, specified, shuffle, novelties, bestof) .
What I found most interesting and useful is that you can start/stop Jajuk at a preset time. Jajuk supports almost all the popular audio formats, and the following tags formats:
- OGG
- Flac
- ID3 V1
- ID3 V2
- WMA
- M4A / AAC
And, I really like it's user interface, and actually it is a great music player!
- Clementine
Clementine doesn't have a typical music player look, it just looks like a file explorer app. I'm not saying that I hate this design, it is just that I feel like this app is missing something.
Let's take a look the features...
- Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
- Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
- Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
- Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
- CUE sheet support.
- Play audio CDs.
- Visualizations from projectM.
- Shows lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
- Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
- Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organize your music.
- Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
- Discover and download Podcasts.
- Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
- Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
- Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
- Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
- Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
- Queue manager.
Overall, it's pretty good.
- GOM Audio
It provides sync lyrics for audio playback, so you can listen to music while following the lyrics. If no lyrics are available, you can enter your own lyrics using the Sync Lyrics Editor and then upload them.
It also allows you to listen to popular podcasts by streaming or downloading them.
If you install the GOM remote app on your mobile device, you will be able to control GOM audio from your mobile device.
- Amarok
Amarok music player is a lot different than normal music player apps, it shows the name of the track, musician, and the album with big letters in the center of the window, and on the left it displays music sources, and on the right side it shows the playlists.
I really liked the integration of Wikipedia search on this app, this feature is very helpful for finding more information about the song and the artist(s). And, the Lyrics function is seem to work rather well.
- Audacious
Audacious is an open source audio player that is the descendant of XMMS. It allows you to drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, create and edit your own custom playlists, listen to CD's or stream music from the Internet, tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer, and experiment with LADSPA effects.
- Quod Libet
Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python. It allows you to make playlists based on regular expressions, and view and edit tags. It also has Unicode support, advanced tag editing, Replay Gain, podcasts & Internet radio, album art support and all major audio formats support.
- SoundVibe
SoundVibe is an amazing freeware that allows you to listen to music from your hard drive and online libraries. It supports several formats such as AIFF, AAC, AC3, OGG, FLAC, APE, WAV, WMA, MP3 and MID. It also allows you to create multiple playlists, view information about artists, and view song lyrics.
SoundVibe offers a lot of skins and it also allows you to customize the skins (a little bit). The equalizer in this program is great, and the keyboard shortcuts are perfect for controlling the whole program.
- XMPlay
XMPlay is a fast, slim and beautiful multi-purpose audio tool that lets you manage your music library, listen to a wide variety of audio formats and even lets you save Internet radio streams to disk. Since it doesn't use any of the MP3 decoding libraries that come pre-installed with Windows, it provides the most accurate module playback.
If you don't like the default skin, you can get amazing skins from the official website for free.
- 1by1
1by1 is a small and fast audio player that looks a like a file manager. It is not a typical music player, it is a multi-format audio directory player; directly plays your folder contents. Even though it looks like an old audio player, it has the ability to remember the last track and position, play music without gaps, and enhance the audio.
It also has features like Cue sheet support, Playlist support, Winamp 2.x input plugin support, WAV export, Track logging, and Global hotkeys.
- Foobnix
Foobnix is a lightweight audio player that supports all popular formats. It looks better than 1by1, but it doesn't have that many features. It supports cross-format exporting for MP3, OGG, MP2, AC3, M4A and WAV. Foobnix has a 10-band equalizer with 18 different presets.
It can display the album cover, lyrics, and artist photo. And, it can also play music from online radio stations.
- Winyl
Winyl offers great new ways to organize and enjoy all your music; you can rate your favorite tracks, create playlists, browse song lyrics, and tag music. It supports almost all the popular audio formats, and provides gapless playback and 5 amazing skins (built-in).
It also has a 10-band equalizer with 22 different presets.
- Resonic Player
Resonic Player is a simple directory player like 1by1 but this one is much well designed and it comes with a lot of cool visualization animations. It supports almost all the popular audio formats, and it lets you control the player with your keyboard, not just Pause and Play, you can perform almost any operation with the keyboard, TOTAL CONTROL!
- Jaangle
Jaangle is an open-source music player that has the abilities of an efficient organizer software. It scans and reads all the tag info and automatically organizes the music. It also allows you to organize the audio files manually. If your computer is connected to the internet, Jaangle will display the artist biography, image, comments, and lyrics in the information pane.
It also has an advanced search option that allows you to find media files.
- Media Jukebox
Media Jukebox allows you to organize your music collection in a better way. According to the developer, Media Jukebox can handle more files than any other jukebox.
It also allows you to rip and burn an audio disk. Media Jukebox also offers features like equalizer, audio analyzer, and audio converter.
- VUPlayer
VUPlayer is a multi-format audio player that supports MOD, MTM, S3M, XM, IT, MO3, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, FLAC, APE, WV, AIFF, WMA, and WAV. It offers several interesting features; gapless playback, internet file streaming, 9-band graphic equalizer, timer playback, and digital audio extraction are just a few of them.
- BZR Player
BZR Player is a portable audio player that supports over 640 different audio formats. And, it's sound engine is actually based on FMOD! Unlike other music players, it can unpack an archive and play all sounds in it, all you have to do is open the archive with the BZR Player.
It can even change the pitch of the sounds (also work on HTTP Streams).
- KISS Player
KISS Player is a very simple player. The name has nothing to do with the act of kissing. It's an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid" principle.
To add audio files to this program, click on the hamburger button and then go to Settings > Directory.
- DéKiBulle
DéKiBulle is not a fully featured music player, it is more of a directory player than a typical feature rich audio player. It supports MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, MPC, AIFF, MP2, MP1, CDA, and MOD (IT, XM, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX). You can make this program support many other formats by adding plugins.
- MusikCube 2
MusikCube 2 (mc2) is a simple utility that allows you to play music files with minimal system requirements. It is not really a well-designed software, but it works. To add music to this program from your hard disk, you need to create a local library and then go to settings > Add path.
- Hanso Player
Hanso Player is not just a music player, it is also an efficient music manager. It's "Dynamic playlists" feature allows fully automatic randomized playback of tracks which is "schooled" by your own preferences – the more you listen to music, the better it will learn your preferences.
This application is also has a built-in online-radio function. There are special features in this program like advanced playlist manager, FreeDB server support, and tag editor.
- Nulloy
Nulloy is a music player with a Waveform Progress Bar (this is their official title). This music player supports most of the audio formats, and it provides features like Gapless playback, Tags & Cover Art support, and Keyboard shortcuts.
- Mpxplay
- Mirro Player
Mirro Player is a poorly made music player I have ever seen. It can play songs, but it is not a good one to use.
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