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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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.

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Windows Media Player (Groove) alternatives page was last updated Jun 16, 2023
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    Album Player (Freeware, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10) is designed for composing and listening to compilations of music albums on your hard drive and CD/DVD. The Album Player plays audio files of popular formats, such as WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, ALAC, AIFF, TAK, MP3, MP4, OGG, MPC...

    135 Album Player alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Listen Music Player icon
     15 likes

    Listen is an audio player written in Python. Thanks to it, you can easily organize your music collections.

    78 Listen Music Player alternatives
    Listen Music Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Listen Music Player Features

    1.  Create Playlist
    Discontinued

    The official website is no longer available. Last version, 0.6.5, released on March 2010, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.

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  3. LCG Jukebox icon
     10 likes

    LCG Jukebox is a music player for mobile phones that is designed to suit all your music listening desires. It features excellent sound quality, comfortable playlist management, easy music selection, equalizer, Internet streaming, and more.

    61 LCG Jukebox alternatives
    Main Screen
    Search for Lyrics + auto-sync
    Listen to online radio streams

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Symbian S60
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  4. Gnac icon
     11 likes

    Gnac is an easy to use audio conversion program for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be powerful but simple! It provides easy audio files conversion between all GStreamer supported audio formats.

    50 Gnac alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 2012. See news section http://gnac.sourceforge.net/

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  5. Boom icon
     10 likes

    Boom is an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.

    56 Boom alternatives
    Boom screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Replay Gain
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  6. Enqueue icon
     13 likes

    Enqueue is an elegant playlist-based music player.

    Features: • Large file format support including: mp3, mp4, aac, ogg, flac, wav, aiff & musepack. • Now playing queue • Playlists • iTunes importing • Built in Last.fm scrobbling • Equalizer • Media keys and Global hotkeys •.

    147 Enqueue alternatives
    Enqueue screenshot 1

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Music Library
    2.  AAC
    3. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    4. iTunes icon  Import from iTunes
    5.  Playlists
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  7. Noise icon
     10 likes

    The official elementary OS music player.

    Noise is a fast and beautiful GTK3 audio player with a focus on music and libraries. It handles external devices, CDs, and album art. Noise utilizes Granite for a consistent and slick UI.

    In elementary.

    123 Noise alternatives
    Noise screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Noise Features

    1.  Music Library
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  8. Anontune icon
     3 likes

    The open social music platform. Anontune is not another system of control, Anontune is freedom for music and all those who appreciate it. The Anontune project is an attempt to implement an open platform for social music. Openness here has the following meanings:

    • Open for users.
    14 Anontune alternatives
    Anontune screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    Anontune Features

    1.  Playlists
    2.  Web-Based
    3.  Platform as a service
    Discontinued

    Anontune is closed indefinitely, and I cannot promise it will ever return

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  9. Sonique icon
     6 likes

    Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.

    31 Sonique alternatives
    Sonique screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    This app stopped its development 12 years ago (according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_(media_player) )

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  10. Rocket Player icon
     14 likes

    Rocket Player offers an intuitive layout so you can spend time listening, not looking, for your media. Swipe left, swipe right, it's as easy as turning a page. Play by album, artist, genre or composer all from its unique tab interface.

    172 Rocket Player alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    Rocket Player Features

    1.  Chromecast Support
    2.  Sync iTunes Libraries
    3.  Artwork
    4.  Built-in Equalizer
    5.  Built-In ID3 Tag Editor
    6.  Create Playlist
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  11. LXMusic icon
     10 likes

    LXMusic is a minimalist xmms2 music player developed with GTK+ in pure C language. It features a very simple, clean, lightweight, and intuitive user interface. The UI looks quite similar to that provide by another famous music player under...

    66 LXMusic alternatives
    LXMusic screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    LXMusic Features

    1.  Music collection
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  12. CoolPlayer icon
     7 likes

    Blazing Fast Audio Player for Win32 Environments.

    Features:

    GNU General Public License Freeform Skins Simple User Interface Advanced Playlist editor Internet streaming ID3 Multitagger File Renamer Fast mp3->wav converter MAD mpeg engine .

    47 CoolPlayer alternatives
    Interface

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    CoolPlayer Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Portable
    3.  Standalone
    4.  Stream audio
    5.  Playlists
    Discontinued

    Last build and update on the homepage was 2008.

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