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 iPhone 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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  1. Dopamine icon
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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.

    65 Dopamine alternatives

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    Deepnarayan Chaudhuri
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    elegant design and ease of managing music

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    it shows my album art with no issues. and the UI is MUCH better

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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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
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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...

    218 Windows Media Player alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. Quod Libet icon
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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.

    163 Quod Libet alternatives

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    • Debian
    • Xfce
     
  4. Exaile icon
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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...

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    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  5. Resonic Player icon
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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.

    56 Resonic Player alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  6. Tomahawk icon
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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...

    94 Tomahawk alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
     
  7. Vox Music Player icon
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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.

    148 Vox Music Player alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
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    JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer.

    53 JRiver Media Center alternatives

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • JRiver Media Center is the most popular commercial alternative to Windows Media Player (Groove).

    • JRiver Media Center is Paid and ProprietaryWindows Media Player (Groove) is Free and Proprietary
  9. Roon icon
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    Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.

    230 Roon alternatives

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Synology C2
     
    • Roon is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Windows Media Player (Groove).

    • Roon is Paid and ProprietaryWindows Media Player (Groove) is Free and Proprietary
  10. Nightingale icon
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    Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code. A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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.

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  12. Plexamp icon
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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

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    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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