Banshee Alternatives

Banshee has been discontinued. Similar apps include VLC Media Player, which is free and open source. Other options are MPC-HC, foobar2000, AIMP and Clementine. Audio Players like Banshee are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone.

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  1. Audirvana icon
     11 likes

    Audiophile-grade digital audio player for Mac and PC offering native FLAC, WAV, ALAC support, bit-perfect output, gapless playback, upsampling, memory playback, exclusive audio mode, playlist management, and background decoding for high-fidelity listening.

    46 Audirvana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  2. Swinsian icon
     27 likes

    Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries.

    154 Swinsian alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  3. XMPlay icon
     85 likes

    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. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from...

    121 XMPlay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    XMPlay 4 – Default look
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  4. Stellio is an advanced music player with themes support, powerful audio and integration with VK and Dropbox.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2016

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Android Wear
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  5. Winyl icon
     41 likes

    Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

    374 Winyl alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Museeks icon
     20 likes

    Minimalist cross-platform player offering clean UI, support for multiple formats, playback speed adjustment, cover art, playlists, queue management, shuffle, loop, dark theme, library auto-refresh, sleep mode blocker, and m3u import/export.

    132 Museeks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2016

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. musikCube icon
     26 likes

    Featuring a solid core set of functions, musikCube is very lightweight and fast, with an interface that will be immediately familiar to anyone who's used an iTunes or Amarok 1.x style player (that is, nearly everyone).

    94 musikCube alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  8. UMPlayer icon
     108 likes

    UMPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.

    153 UMPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. Jajuk icon
     26 likes

    Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music using Java. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different ways to perform the...

    72 Jajuk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. MPlayerX icon
     71 likes

    MPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MPlayer
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  11. 5KPlayer icon
     19 likes

    5KPlayer is a new-style free media player for Mac OS as all-in-one HD video/music player, AirPlay streamer and free online video/music downloader. It plays 4K/5K, MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, YouTube video, MP3 music & DVD on Mac flawlessly.

    197 5KPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2015

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  12. RealPlayer icon
     48 likes

    RealPlayer with RealTimes (aka “RealPlayer” for short) still includes the legacy features, such as Video Player, Downloader, Converter, Organizer and Web Videos. It also includes RealTimes features, such as Photos and RealTimes Stories, the automatic video collage feature.

    128 RealPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
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