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 15 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
583 Like

AIMP

Freeware Winamp-like media player, based on BASS audio library with support for large number of formats and playlists. It works with multiple playlists immediately (tabbed window), allows creation of bookmarks and also has a playback queue.

Free Windows Android

Portable Multiple languages Interface Overlay Skinnable Icon sets Support for Hotkeys Support for VST plugins Music Library Collaborative Playlists Last.FM Scrobbler Waveform Seekbar Playlists management Built in Tag editor Multiuser mode support
440 Like

PotPlayer

Potplayer is a minimalist media player that has an extensive range of configurable options to choose from and lots of functionality. The application supports Blu-ray, DVD, Audio CD, and countless other media formats.

Free Windows

Customizable Minimalistic Portable Ad free Support for QuickSync acceleration Skinnable Automatic subtitles download Built in subtitle search Support for subtitles Gapless Playback Capture image from video Integrated codecs Support for CUDA acceleration Live Looping Skin Randomization
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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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SPlayer

SPlayer is a player that supports all popular formats, including DVDRip, HDTV, RMVB, QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AC3/DTS, VP3/6/7, Indeo, XVD, OGG / OGM, APE, FLAC, TTA, AAC, MPC, 3GP/AMR, and subtitles.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Integrated codecs
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MPC-BE

MPC-BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. MPC-BE is based on the original Guliverkli project and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project, contains additional features and bug fixes.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Integrated Youtube support
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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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Universal Viewer

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats. Supported file formats are: Images: all major graphics formats: JPG BMP ICO GIF PNG WMF TIFF PSD..., over 40 formats.

Freemium Windows

Portable Support for Large File
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qAllInOne

qAllInOne (aka qAIO) is a free open-source software built using Qt to provide users an All-In-One media player, so it can view images, play videos and audio.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Portable Support for HD videos
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MPlayer WW

mplayer for windows (modified by william0wang) with many additional features: - multithreaded h264?mpeg-2 decoder (ffmpeg-mt). - support directshow demuxer and decoder.

Free Open Source Windows MPlayer

Portable Hardware Accelerated
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Resonic Player

Resonic Player is a slick audio player / directory player and sample browser, built around a big waveform view. .

Free Personal Windows

Portable Waveform Seekbar
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ExMplayer

Play any media files,convert,extract,animate and more...Official page of ExMplayer Play any files with out any codec,199 audio and 416 video built-in external codecs.So ExMplayer can play any media format.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Portable Audio Extraction
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SE-MediaPlayer

SE-MediaPlayer is a free classic portable media player with build-in media library for audio and video files management and lots of beautiful skins. Also includes codec...

Free Windows

Portable Integrated codecs
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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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