Windows Media Player

The media player provided pre-installed with all modern Windows versions (7 and higher): Windows Media Player 12 plays more music and video than ever, including Flip Video and unprotected songs from your iTunes library! Organize your...

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The Best 12 Windows Media Player Alternatives

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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
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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
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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
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MPV

mpv is an audio and movie player based on mplayer and mplayer2. it supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD Xfce

Minimalistic Lightweight Drag n drop Lua scripting Command line interface 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
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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
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BSPlayer

BSPlayer is the first software movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec.

Freemium Windows Android Kindle Fire

Lightweight Automatic subtitles download Support for subtitles Integrated codecs
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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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DAPlayer

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

Free Windows

Lightweight Supports HD Video
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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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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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