Billy Alternatives
Billy is described as 'audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3 files. It can usually load files 2 to 8 times faster than Winamp or Windows Media Player' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Billy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android. The best alternative is foobar2000, which is free. Other great apps like Billy are AIMP, Strawberry, Clementine and Winamp.
Billy alternatives are mainly Audio Players but may also be Media Players or Internet Radio Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Billy.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
foobar2000 is an advanced multi-platform freeware audio player.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Android
- PortableApps.com
AIMP is powerful free audio player for Windows OS that supports for local files, NAS, clouds, and podcasts. Additionally, it includes powerful tools to operate with audio files.
Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.
Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.
Discontinued
No stable release since 2016. Newer release candidate seems to be available on Github.
Winamp is a media player for Windows developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to Radionomy in January 2014.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE
- Cinnamon
- GNOME
- MATE
- Xfce
DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.
Quod Libet is a Gapless GTK+-based audio player written in Python. Its designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (dont worry, regular searches work too).
Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before - and it looks good doing it!
Discontinued
No stable release since 2018. Alpha release in February 2021.
Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is a free and open source internet TV application, media library, and video player.
Discontinued
No updates since 2013. Youtube intergration broken because of no updates since youtube API changed. See changelog: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/Miro/
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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.
