Banshee

play your music and videos. stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. discover new music with last.fm radio. sync your g1 phone, ipod, and other devices.

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Windows
Linux
BSD

play your music and videos. stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. discover new music with last.fm radio. sync your g1 phone, ipod, and other devices.

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VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet Chrome OS Mac Windows S

Portable Google Drive integration Multiple languages Automatic conversion to multiple formats Lightweight Automatic Tagging Cross platform Media Streaming Automatic subtitles download Built in subtitle search Music Library Support for subtitles Integrated codecs Playlists management
1275 Like

foobar2000

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Main features Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND...

Free Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Mac Windows Phone

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Minimalistic Portable UI customization Lightweight Automatic Tagging Support for Themes File organization Dark theme Sorting by folder File tagging Auto update Music Library Gapless Playback Library Organization Replay Gain Waveform Seekbar
983 Like

MPC-HC

MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows®. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback. We are 100% spyware free, there are no advertisements or toolbars.

Free Open Source Windows

Customizable Lightweight Audio recording Support for subtitles Support for 4K
318 Like

SMPlayer

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. SMPlayer remembers the settings of all files you play.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Haiku MPlayer mpv

Customizable Portable UI customization Ad free Multiple languages Lightweight Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Built in subtitle search Support for subtitles Integrated codecs
195 Like

Audacious

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Drag n drop Skinnable Music Library Last.FM Scrobbler Integrated codecs Automatic Lyrics Finder Crossfading Parametric Equalizer
105 Like

Vox Music Player

All-in-one music player with SoundCloud, last.fm and the unlimited cloud storage integration for Mac and iPhone.

Freemium Mac OS X iPhone Apple Watch

Cloud sync Lightweight Music Library Lossless Audio Support for Audio Units Plugins
76 Like

XMPlay

A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others.

Free Windows

Portable Lightweight Music Library
44 Like

1by1

1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks - with no need for playlists or databases.

Free Windows Linux Android

Portable Lightweight Support for Unicode
13 Like

Enqueue

Enqueue is an elegant playlist-based music player. Features: • Large file format support including: mp3, mp4, aac, ogg, flac, wav, aiff & musepack. • Now playing queue • Playlists • iTunes importing • Built in Last.

Commercial Mac OS X

Lightweight Music Library Last.FM Scrobbler
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Goggles Music Manager

Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce

Multiple languages Lightweight Batch rename files Last.FM Scrobbler Replay Gain
2 Like

HikiPlayer

Lightweight folder based music player. Features: -Local lyrics search by tag -Quick lyrics translation with extarnal apps -Customizable text, background, icon...

Free Android

Lightweight Last.FM Scrobbler Folder player
2 Like

KISS Player

A Simple and Lightweight Music Player.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Xfce

Portable Lightweight
1 Like

Kaseto

Kaseto is a lightweight music player, which represents music and audio books clearly due to automatic sorting and grouping albums and songs.

Free Windows

Portable Lightweight Music Library
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DAPlayer

DAPlayer is powerful, free video/audio player software for Windows.

Free Windows

Lightweight Supports HD Video
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Evil Player

Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player for windows. Some of Evil Player's key features include Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast2 support, low...

Free Windows

Lightweight Last.FM Scrobbler Shoutcast streaming

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