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VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Features Simple, fast and powerful media player. Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

• VLC hasn't features to manage audio collection. Guest • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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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... and more with additional components. Gapless playback. Easily customizable user interface layout. Advanced tagging capabilities. Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.

Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Windows Phone

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Clementine

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X. Features: Search and play your local music library Listen to internet radio from Last.fm, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo and Icecast.

• Discontinued The project is still developed, but last version of the program, 1.3.1, was released in April 2016

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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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. Crystal-clear sound, technology of reproduction essentially differs from Winamp and WMP. A maximum of functionality from a minimum of resources. The minimal consumption of system resources, lighter than Winamp Multilingual support.

Free Windows Android PortableApps.com

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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 Radionomy in January 2014. Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.

Freemium Windows

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MusicBee

Manage your music as a library, as playlists or as folders on the file-system. Organize, browse and find music on your computer, on portable devices and on the web. Small or large collections are handled with ease. Have folders watched for new tracks and added to your library, with the option to tag the files from an Inbox beforehand. Also manage and download Podcast subscriptions and listen to your favourite radio stations, including Shoutcast, Jamendo and Last.fm stations.

Free Personal Windows

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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 a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp. Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more powerful than GStreamer. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

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Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software that is designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. Among the many features of Rhythmbox, you will find: Easy to use music browser Searching and sorting Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer Internet Radio support including last.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

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Amarok

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! Features - Scripts Enhance your Amarok experience with community developed scripts. - Dynamic Playlists Create playlists that automatically update based on complex, but easy to use, constraints. e.g.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

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Quod Libet

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). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file. And it lets you do this for all the file formats it supports - Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD. Quod Libet easily scales to libraries of thousands of songs.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Debian Xfce

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Banshee

Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio. Sync your G1 phone, iPod, and other devices.

• Discontinued No new releases and features since 2014. Latest versions, 2.6.2 (stable) and 2.9.1 (development), released in February and March 2014, are still working and can be downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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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 digital media collection, sync digital media files to a portable device, shop online for digital media content, and more.

Free Windows

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Strawberry

Strawberry is a audio player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors, audio enthusiasts and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's based on a heavily modified version of Clementine created in 2012-2013. It's written in C++ and Qt 5.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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Vanilla Music

Vanilla Music, fork of Vanilla Music Player that has been abandoned, is an opensource music player for Android, designed to be simple, clean and minimal. Music is played from a continuous sequence, your chosen songs coming first, then random songs from your library as needed. No more silence after that album you selected finishes.

Free Open Source Android

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Poweramp

Poweramp is the new powerful music player for Android. - plays mp3/mp4/m4a(including lossless alac)/flac/ogg/wav/tta/ wma/ape/wv - optimized 10 band graphic equalizer for all supported formats, separate Bass and Treble controls - folders and system library support - scrobbling (Simple Last Fm and Scrobble Droid) - download missing album art - tag editor/widgets/lock screen widgets/skins/fast scan and more

Freemium $ $ $ Android

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Vox Music Player

It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need. VOX was originally developed following the principles of clarity, simplicity and versatility.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac iPhone Apple Watch

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Exaile

Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming internet radio, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

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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. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from existing music etc. All from the people beyond the "BASS audio library" which is even used by commercial PC games like Audiosurf. Recommended plugins: xmp-aac (AAC support) - http://support.xmplay .

Free Windows PortableApps.com

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UMPlayer

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. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies. Another great feature of UMPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers.

• Discontinued No more updates, latest downloads from 2011: https://sourceforge.net/projects/umplayer/files/

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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Qmmp

Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms. Extra features XMMS and Winamp 2.x skins support 10-band equalizer MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+ streams support MMS support (experimental) MPRIS (1.0 and 2.0) removable device detection (via HAL or UDisks) video playback via Mplayer lyrics (using lyrics.wikia.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

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aTunes

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems. A skinnable java alternative to iTunes (similar interface). Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

• Discontinued last update: 22. June 2014

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Musique

Musique unclutters your music listening experience with a clean interface that keeps you focused on what really matters: music. Musique supports most audio formats including FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Monkey's Audio (APE), Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), True Audio (TTA) and many others. Browse by artist photos, album covers and folders too. Organize your music your way. Musique is great for kids and other family members that may find other players too complex and cumbersome.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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gmusicbrowser

An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ Vorbis / FLAC / mpc/ape files, written in perl. Its made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind. Features include: plugin system, customizable weighted random mode (based on rating, last time played, label, etc), simple mass-tagging and mass-renaming, customizable window layouts.

Free Open Source Linux

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1by1

1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks - with no need for playlists or databases.

Free Windows Linux Android

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GNOME Music

Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.

Free Open Source Linux GNOME

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