For many people Music is an important part of life, here in this post we have collected 14 music players that are free to use on windows and few also work on multiple operating systems like Mac and Linux.
These player have some great option for sound, exclusive features and managing your music like you have never thought before .. just take a look and let us know if we have left any of your favorite music player which is still free.
1. Jaangle
Jaangle (formerly Teen Spirit) is an open source, free, music player and organizer software. It categorizes your mp3, ogg, wma, avi etc collection and displays it in easy to browse, user interface. It has a quality audio – video player and also an integrated tag editor.
2. Foobar2000
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
3. AIMP 2
Given special focus on sound enhancement features,and good mix of features and light design decent library and history features.
4. MuicBee
If you are looking for an application geared toward managing extensive music collections, easy to use and with a comprehensive feature set – MusicBee is that application.
MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find and play music files on your computer, on portable devices and on the web.
5. MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey is the movie and music organizer for the serious collector. Manage a movie / music library from 100 to 100,000+ audio/video files and playlists*; whether Rock, Classical, Audiobooks, or Podcasts; Movies, Home videos, or TV shows; whether they’re located on your hard drive, CDs, or a network. Organize, browse, or search music by Genre, Artist, Year, Rating, etc., and never waste your time trying to find the files you know you have
6. Winamp Lite
Winamp was created by Nullsoft in 1997 as a community supported media play and was a pioneer as well as a disruptor in the digital media space. Lead by Justin Frankel and his merry band of developers, Winamp soon became one of the most revolutionary applications of its kind. Nullsoft, acquired by AOL in 1999, also created SHOUTcast, Gnutella (open source) and NSIS (open source installer used by Winamp, Dropbox, Firefox and others).
Winamp was an early leader in community developed applications and helped to spawn the open source software movement for music. You can drop by our team & alumni pages to learn more about the people responsible for creating the player, turning out new revs, maintaining the website, and fostering relations with the developer community.Today, Winamp is one of the world’s most popular media players allowing users to manage and play audio and video files.
Winamp supports playback of 60 audio and video formats, and is available in two versions: Winamp Standard and Winamp Pro. Although free, don’t let the name fool you because Winamp Standard provides loads of features well beyond what you’d get from any plain vanilla media player. To name a few, it features robust tools for creating playlists, customizing your playback experience (aka “skinning”), managing podcasts, syncing portable devices, listening to internet radio stations, and accessing remote media (Winamp Remote).
The Pro version provides you with several additional features like mp3 ripping, high speed audio CD burning/ripping, extra-small file size encoding with AACPlus, and native support for H.264 encoded video. If you haven’t tried Winamp lately, downloading the Winamp Media Player should be your first stop. From there you should visit Winamp.com which is home for all things Winamp, and will help you get the most out of your Winamp experience.
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7. XMPlay
The XMPlay Support site is a resource for users of the audio player XMPlay. It has been called to life by Nathan “Keltic Danor” Hindley in 2004, who unfortunately had to give up caring for the site in early 2006. The project had then been picked up by Thomas “Rah’Dick” Radeke, who was maintaining the XMPlay Archive, a site which offered (almost) all versions of XMPlay that were ever released.
The site became the result of a merging of both the archive and the support site into one and reprogramming the whole site from scratch – with the target to offer all XMPlay users a greater experience of their favourite player.
8. Spider Player
Spider Player PRO is completely free now. PRO features include: internet radio recording, Last.fm scrobbling, converting of audio files, CD ripping and automatic download of lyrics!
9. VUPlayer
VUPlayer is a freeware multi-format audio player for Windowssupporting the following formats:MOD • Sound/Noise/ProTrackerMTM • MultiTrackerS3M • ScreamTrackerXM • FastTrackerIT • ImpulseTrackerMO3 • MO3 PackerMP3 • MPEG AudioMP4 • QuickTime MPEG-4 (AAC/Apple Lossless)MPC • MusepackOGG • Ogg VorbisFLAC • Free Lossless Audio CodecAPE • Monkey’s AudioWV • WavPackAIFF • Audio Interchange File FormatWMA • Windows Media AudioWAV • Windows PCM/ACMMIDI • Musical Instrument Digital InterfaceCD • Audio CD
10.Winyl
Winyl is a free digital audio player and audio library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.Winyl offers great new ways to organize and enjoy all your music.
Listen to music, radio, rate your favorite tracks, create playlists, all of this in Winyl is very simple.Winyl is automatically organized your media content into categories in the library, which makes it easy to find and play.Winyl uses the least system resources, it starts and working very fast. It’s the best choice for netbooks.
11. Quintessential Media Player
Quintessential Media Player is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QMP is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.
12 JetAudio
Supports 57 file formats; includes tools for ripping, burning, external recording, file conversion, and broadcasting; features are highly customizable; performs superbly; has a timer and alarm utility that can control other computer functions.
13. Songbird
Get songbird for pc and mac, manage and sync your music and playlist to your favourite devices.
14.Winamp Full
Download free customizable Winamp media player that plays mp3 + other audio files,video files, mp4 + ipod video files, syncs your iPod.
Is winamp completely free? (for the full version)
Full version of Winamp is little bit larger then free version, you have to obtain name+serial key for activating full version. You can find full winamp by Googling easily. By the way, Nice article about free Music players
A cool addition to this list : 1by1 player, a simple yet qualitative mp3 player that does not require to work with mp3tags, but is simply folder based. Free and 149 Kb small, it has been my fav player for years now. Check it out at http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
I have always preferred the old versions because they are more simple. But this one looks really attractive. Is it free? Or any free trial?
+1 for 1by1. With auto resume and bookmarking, it is the best podcast/audiobook player for Windows I have found so far.
Thanks for this. Me and my housemate have been getting really frustrated with itunes just because it takes so long to load up! We’ll check out some of these cheers
hello sir this music player is very useful for me thanks for writting this article
it is very helpful to me
VLC player is good to add in the above list
I am using Winamp lite. Its quality is better. Thanks for suggesting other players too. Will try for some.
Very cool apps. Really very good stuff.
Thank you for sharing.