Windows Media Player (Groove) Alternatives

Windows Media Player (Groove) is described as 'All your tunes, all in one place, on all your devices Enjoy all the music you love in one simple, fast, and elegant Windows 10 app' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Windows Media Player (Groove) for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Windows Media Player (Groove) alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Media Player (Groove) are foobar2000, AIMP, Clementine and MusicBee.

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Windows Media Player (Groove) alternatives page was last updated Jun 16, 2023
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  1. Quod Libet icon
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    Quod Libet

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    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.

    159 Quod Libet alternatives
    The paned browser, providing a customizable hierarchy of filters for finding your music

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
    The album browser, giving a visual anchor for a large library
    The cover grid browser, giving an even more visual anchor for libraries
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    The Soundcloud browser.

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Library Management
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Tagging
    4.  Music Library
    5.  Media library
    6.  Built-in Tag editor
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  User Rating
    10.  Portable
    11.  Waveform Seekbar
    12.  Sorting
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  2. Windows Media Player icon
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    Windows Media Player

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    Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...

    213 Windows Media Player alternatives
    Windows Media Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Windows Media Player screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Support for DLNA
    2.  Support for 4K
    3.  Lossless Audio
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Bundled with Windows
    8.  Music Library
    9.  DVD Burner
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  4. Dopamine icon
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    Dopamine

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    Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.

    58 Dopamine alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Now playing
    System tray controls

    Properties

    1.  Clean design
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Music Library
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Theme Customization
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Works Offline
    7. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    8.  Support for Lyrics
    9.  No Tracking
    10.  Automatic Lyrics Finder
    11.  WASAPI Output
    12.  Auto fetch album covers
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    Comments about Dopamine as an Alternative to Windows Media Player (Groove)
     
    Guest

    it shows my album art with no issues. and the UI is MUCH better

    Positive comment •Nov 10, 2021
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    Deepnarayan Chaudhuri

    elegant design and ease of managing music

    Positive comment •Jan 13, 2020
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    • Almost everyone thinks Dopamine is a great Windows Media Player (Groove) alternative.

    • Dopamine is Free and Open SourceWindows Media Player (Groove) is Free and Proprietary
    • Dopamine is Privacy focusedWindows Media Player (Groove) is not according to our users
  5. Exaile icon
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    Exaile

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    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...

    143 Exaile alternatives
    Random Screenshot

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce

    Exaile Features

    1. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    The New Rating System
    Exaile 3.4 Beta
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  6. Tomahawk icon
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    Tomahawk

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    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 from your other machines, to a recommendation from Spotify, to a pre-release on SoundCloud to your favorite...

    89 Tomahawk alternatives
    Tomahawk screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    Tomahawk screenshot 1
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    Tomahawk Features

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2. Spotify icon  Spotify integration
    3. Deezer icon  Deezer integration
    4. YouTube icon  Youtube integration
    5. SoundCloud icon  SoundCloud Integration
    6. Google Play Music icon  Google Play Music integration
    7. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    8. ownCloud icon  Owncloud integration
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer maintained. Last version, 0.8.4, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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  7. XMPlay icon
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    XMPlay

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    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...

    107 XMPlay alternatives
    main window with info window opened

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    Skin TeKnoid: normal (DL: http://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=580)
    Skin TeKnoid: mini

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Mods
    4.  Support for MIDI
    5.  AAC
    6.  OGG
    7.  Music collection
    8.  Music Library
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  9. Plexamp icon
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    Plexamp

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    Plexamp is a small music player for your desktop, with a number of unique features.Throw your best FLACs at it and experience sonic bliss!.

    143 Plexamp alternatives
    Plexamp screenshot 1
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    Plexamp screenshot 3

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Lossless Audio
    2.  AirPlay Support
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Chromecast Support
    5.  Cloud Sync
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Playlists management
    9.  Electron based
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  10. Vox Music Player icon
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    Vox Music Player

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    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.

    147 Vox Music Player alternatives
    Vox Music Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
    Vox Music Player screenshot 1
    Vox Music Player screenshot 2
    +6
    Vox Music Player screenshot 3

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Cloud Sync
    2.  Lossless Audio
    3. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    4.  Support for Audio Units Plugins
    5.  Sound Effects
    6.  Music Library
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  11. Resonic Player icon
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    Resonic Player

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    Resonic plays music files, sounds, and samples out of your existing folders. It's built to be fast, reliable, and powerful. It does what it is supposed to do, without the bloat, and with exceptional usability.

    54 Resonic Player alternatives
    Resonic Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Resonic Player screenshot 1
    Resonic Player screenshot 2
    +1
    Resonic Player screenshot 3

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Lossless Audio
    2.  Portable
    3.  Waveform Seekbar
    4.  Playlists management
    5.  Sample Management
    6.  Waveform
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  12. Winyl icon
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    Winyl

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

    364 Winyl alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Skinnable
    3.  Music collection
    4.  Music Library
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Built-in Equalizer
    8.  Crossfading
    Discontinued

    No updates since late 2018

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  13. gmusicbrowser icon
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    gmusicbrowser

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    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.

    90 gmusicbrowser alternatives
    One of the included alternate layouts.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline
    Wombalton layout.
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  14. C* Music Player

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    cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

    Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Wind.

    82 C* Music Player alternatives
    C* Music Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    C* Music Player screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Terminal-based
    3.  Opus codec support
    4.  Themes
    5.  OGG
    6. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    7.  Create Playlist
    8.  Shoutcast streaming
    9.  Playlists management
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