Alternatives to Banshee for all platforms with any license

VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.
- VLC Media Player is a media player. It's very good at it. Banshee is more than that. Banshee is a way to organize many types of media and access them all in a single interface. It's really more of a media organizer and player in one. VLC really isn't a replacement for it. Guest • Oct 2016 • 10 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Windows S Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Apple TV PortableApps.com Kindle Fire Haiku Xbox
Lightweight Replay Gain Ad-free Audio recording ... Automatic conversion to multiple formats Automatic subtitles download Automatic Tagging Built-in Media converter Built-in subtitle search Integrated codecs Create PlayList Customizable Google Drive integration Internet radio Low memory usage Multiple languages Media Streaming Music Library Network Traffic Obfuscation Playlists management Portable Support for subtitles Visualize Music Voice pitch visualization Add a feature

5955 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%...
- This isn't a media organizer like Banshee was. It is a great media player, but not really a replacement for Banshee. macxcool • Oct 2016 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Support for 4K Audio recording Chromecast support ... Codec Tweak Tool Customizable Media Streaming Support for subtitles Supports H265 Codec Add a feature

1015 Like
- Discontinued As announced in their official news, the project is officially dead for lack of active developers. Last version, v1.7.13, released together with the announcement on July 16, 2017, can be still downloaded from the website. https://mpc-hc.org/2017/07/16/1.7.13-released-and-farewell/
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...

Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Windows Phone
Music Library Customizable Lightweight Replay Gain ... Audio processing/resampling Automatic Tagging Auto update Better tags service Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File-organization Gapless Playback Great Opus codec support Library Organization Mic music playing Minimalistic Night mode/Dark Theme Portable Sample packs Sorting by folder Support for Themes UI customization Waveform Seekbar Add a feature

1306 Like
Clementine

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Lightweight Built-in Tag editor IDevice sync Integrated last.fm scrobbler ... Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync iTunes integration Last.FM Scrobbler Music Library Add a feature

624 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...

Free Windows Android PortableApps.com
Internet radio Music Library Built-in Tag editor Collaborative Playlists ... Customizable Icon sets Interface Overlay Internet radio Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Multiuser mode support Playlists management Portable Skinnable Support for Hotkeys Support for Themes Support for VST plugins Waveform Seekbar Add a feature

604 Like
Winamp

Winamp is a media player for Windows and OS X developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to...

Freemium Mac Windows
Crossfading Music Library Shoutcast streaming Android Sync ... Audio Analysis Automatic Tagging Built-in themes Integrated Web Browser Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Mix Music Parametric Equalizer Playlists management Skin customization Visualize Music Add a feature

808 Like
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed and there are no news after October 2016: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?p=3072003#post3072003 Last version, 5.666 Build 3516 patched, can be still downloaded from the official website forums.
iTunes

Media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and iPhone device management application.

Free Mac Windows iPhone Windows S iPad
iPhone/iPod sync ALAC support Access the AppStore Auto volume ... Crossfading Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Music Library Music store Playlists management Selecting songs Sync iTunes Libraries Add a feature

971 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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD mpv PortableApps.com ... Haiku MPlayer
Customizable Lightweight Ad-free Built-in subtitle search ... Chromecast support Integrated codecs Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Multiple languages Portable Support for subtitles UI customization Listen Youtube in background Youtube support Add a feature

336 Like
MusicBee

MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.

Free Personal Windows
Customizable Auto tag music Automatic Lyrics Finder Automatic Tagging ... Built-in CUE Sheet Editor Built-in Tag editor Doesn't rely on any Eco-system Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Internet radio Last.FM Scrobbler Playlists management Podcast Hosting Portable Soundcloud integration Virtual Tags Waveform Seekbar Add a feature

423 Like
Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features.

Free Open Source Windows
Support for subtitles Add a feature

707 Like
- Discontinued The currently active fork is Media Player Classic Home Cinema, but MPC is still downloadable from FreeCodec.com
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...

Free Open Source Windows
Integrated Youtube support Portable Add a feature

98 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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
Automatic Lyrics Finder Integrated codecs Create PlayList Crossfading ... Drag n drop Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Last.FM Scrobbler Lightweight Music Library Parametric Equalizer Playlists management Skinnable Add a feature

205 Like
Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software...

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Crossfading Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Spotify integration Add a feature

393 Like
MediaMonkey

MediaMonkey is a music player and a music library manager with support for 50,000+ files and many features for organizing, tagging, converting and burning your music. It...

Freemium Windows Android Windows RT
Music Library Android Sync Automatic album art download Automatic file renaming ... Automatic Lyrics Finder Automatic Tagging Built-in Equalizer Crossfading Extensible by Plugins/Extensions iPhone/iPod sync Moddable Multiple languages Playcount Accessability Add a feature

448 Like
MX Player

MX Player - The best way to enjoy your movies. a) HARDWARE ACCELERATION - Hardware acceleration can be applied to more videos with the help of new H/W decoder. ...

Freemium Android Android Tablet
Playlists management Support for subtitles Add a feature

149 Like

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Comment by OMGBBQFTW

about Banshee · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

This is my favorite music player. It's really easy to organize your music with banshee and there are cool addons.

Comment by Ramsey

about Banshee · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

I love this player~! I needed something to sync my Sansa Fuze with but Rhythmbox didn't work correctly, dragging and dropping caused more problems than it fixed. I just click a button in Banshee and it's done! It is slower than some other players but once it's up and running, everything works very smoothly. The only thing I miss is scrobbling to Libre.fm

Comment by Aaron

about Banshee · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

This has some nice features and you can play stuff from your iPod, but for me it just was never good enough. I liked that it would show the album cover when it was playing the song, but other than that... it just was a clumsy interface and did not do all that I wanted, but for making playlists, this does ok. For playlists I use Amarok or Totem/Gnome player.

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Clementine

AIMP

Winamp

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