The Best 218 VLC Media Player Alternatives

  • Decibel Audio Player

    Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL) audio player for GNU/Linux. It is very straightforward to use thanks to a clean and user-friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome and follows the Gnome HIG.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • LCG Jukebox

    LCG Jukebox is a music player for mobile phones that is designed to suit all your music listening desires.

    Free S60

  • Style Jukebox

    Style Jukebox Cloud Player is the easiest way to take your music anywhere and listen to it on all your devices, online and offline.

    Commercial Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web Windows Phone

  • npshell

    npshell - Command line music queue manager. Keep a daemon running in the background. Add sounds to a queue. Let the daemon play the sweet music for you. All from the comfort of your own shell.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • Boom

    Boom is an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.

    Free Windows

  • VUPlayer

    VUPlayer is a freeware multi-format audio player and converter for Windows supporting the following formats: MOD • Sound/Noise/ProTracker MTM • MultiTracker S3M • ScreamTracker XM • FastTracker IT • ImpulseTracker MO3 • MO3 Packer ...

    Free Windows

  • Mp3blaster

    Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical environment like X-Windows.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Potamus

    Lightweight audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • Xfmpc

    A graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • mpc

    A minimalist command line interface to MPD.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • ncmpc

    ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD, without wasting resources.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • ^3 (Cubed)

    ^3 a.k.a. Cubed is a music player for Android. At its core, ^3 is a visual experiment that explores different visualizations of one's music library.

    Free Open Source Android

  • Shuttle Music Player

    Built by a music lover for music lovers, Shuttle is the music player of choice for your Android device.

    Freemium

  • Cmdradio

    cmdradio is command-line interface internet radio player. Usage: play %keyword% , where %keyword% is genre, country, group etc. For more commands see help.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Astro Player

    Astro Player is a media player with audiobooks and podcasts support. Astro Player has advanced bookmarking functionality. It allows listening audiobooks, podcasts, music, and watch video in parallel and never lose playback position.

    Freemium Android Android Tablet