5693 Like VLC Media Player Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Windows RT Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Apple TV Kindle Fire Haiku Lightweight Automatic subtitles download Automatic Tagging Built-in subtitle search Integrated codecs Google Drive integration ... Multiple languages Media Streaming Music Library Add a feature Definitely not meant for playing audio files, missing proper organization, tagging such as replaygain, cddb connection, etc... Guest • Jun 2017 • 7 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree VLC might be capable of playing MP3s, doesn't mean it does it well. This is a video player has the feature of playing digital audio too. Guest • Jun 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Unlike foobar2000, VLC only has basic audio playing and playlist Guest • Jul 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Missing the conversion and organization features. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree Agree great for video but it's nothing like foobar Guest • Aug 2017 Disagree Agree
580 Like Clementine Good alternative? YES NO 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 Built-in Tag editor IDevice sync iPhone/iPod sync Music Library Add a feature It's free, it has a lot of features, but it is not as good as foobar2000. bug: memory leak. Guest • Jul 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
552 Like AIMP Good alternative? YES NO 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 Music Library Built-in Tag editor Collaborative Playlists Icon sets Interface Overlay Last.FM Scrobbler ... Multiple languages Playlists management Support for Hotkeys Support for VST plugins Waveform Seekbar Add a feature Fast and continuous playing. Option to edit meta data. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It's even better than foobar, nice interface also we can handle the music playlists, set hotkeys local/global, quick play/pause from icon in the tray and more of good features ososstar • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It is a very good audio player with a pristine sound quality Guest • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
782 Like Winamp Good alternative? YES NO 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 Music Library Android Sync Automatic Tagging Crossfading Integrated Web Browser iPhone/iPod sync ... Mix Music Parametric Equalizer Shoutcast streaming Add a feature 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.
375 Like MusicBee Good alternative? YES NO 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 Automatic Tagging Built-in CUE Sheet Editor Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Playlists management Soundcloud integration ... Virtual Tags Waveform Seekbar Add a feature
951 Like iTunes Good alternative? YES NO iTunes is the best way to organize and enjoy the music, movies, and TV shows you already have — and shop for the ones you want to get. You can even tune in to free... Free Mac Windows iPhone iPad iPhone/iPod sync Access the AppStore Auto volume Crossfading iPhone/iPod sync Sync iTunes Libraries Add a feature Foobar is highly configurable, iTunes is just a store frontend with an iPod sync, without customization Guest • Jun 2015 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree There is no FLAC and any other convenient lossless formats, except ALAC. Guest • Dec 2015 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Customizability is the killer feature of foobar2000, iTunes has none. Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
185 Like Audacious Good alternative? YES NO 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 Drag n drop Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Fast & easy setup Lightweight ... Music Library Simple user interface Skinnable Add a feature
435 Like MediaMonkey Good alternative? YES NO 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 ... Crossfading Extensible by Plugins/Extensions iPhone/iPod sync Moddable Multiple languages Add a feature
371 Like Amarok Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Add a feature Discontinued Application has not been updated since 2015. Last public release was 2.9 beta. Application may not be discontinued, but development activity seems to have stalled. Meant for power users. Has global shortcuts, replay gain and a ton of features. Guest • Apr 2016 Disagree Agree I have not seen a better yet still good-looking software than Amarok. Guest • Jun 2017 Disagree Agree
109 Like Tomahawk Good alternative? YES NO Tomahawk gives you to access to all of your favorite music in one powerful media player. Seamlessly jump from playing a song off your local machine, to one streaming... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Spotify integration Deezer integration Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Google Play Music integration Last.FM Scrobbler Owncloud integration ... Soundcloud integration Youtube integration Add a feature Discontinued See the latest update on May 10: https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk#this-project-is-essentially-abandoned
289 Like Banshee Good alternative? YES NO Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio.... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature 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.
241 Like Windows Media Player Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Windows Music Library Bundled with Windows Add a feature
120 Like Quod Libet Good alternative? YES NO A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Debian Xfce Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for MPRIS Music Library Sits in the System Tray Voice Notes Add a feature
75 Like XMPlay Good alternative? YES NO 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.... Free Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Music Library Add a feature If you want a really lightweight audio player don't look further than this one, i love the minimalist way of this one. Guest • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
43 Like Nightingale Alternative? YES NO Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Gapless Playback Integrated Web Browser Skinnable Add a feature Discontinued Last update was on January 12, 2014 for version 1.12.1 - https://blog.getnightingale.com/2014/01/12/announcing-nightingale-1-12-1/
