Winamp Alternatives

Winamp is described as 'Full-featured media player known for ease of use, skinnable design, advanced audio visualizers, supports plug-ins, playlists, and music library' and is a leading Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Winamp for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, Mac and Android Tablet apps. The best Winamp alternative is AIMP, which is free. Other great apps like Winamp are foobar2000, Audacious, Clementine and MusicBee.

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Winamp alternatives are mainly Audio Players, but if you're looking for Media Players or Internet Radio Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Mac, iPhone, Android, iPad and Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Winamp.
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  1. Petrichor icon
     12 likes

    Offline player for macOS that manages music libraries with playlist and folder features, supports MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, AIFF, FLAC files, offers fast search, interactive queues, sidebar pinning, menubar and dock controls, and dark mode integration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Daft Music icon
     13 likes

    Third-party macOS client for Apple Music delivering smooth native performance, minimal interface, Liquid Design elements, seamless access to libraries and playlists, and a reimagined listening experience optimized for speed, elegance, and usability.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. PixelPlayer icon
     12 likes

    PixelPlayer is a modern, offline-first music player for Android, built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It's designed to provide a beautiful and seamless experience for listening to your local music library.

    73 PixelPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  4. Tauon Music Box icon
     28 likes

    A music player for the desktop. Designed to be powerful and streamlined, putting the user in control of their music collection.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flatpak
    • Flathub
     
  5. Egle icon
     7 likes

    All-in-one Windows music suite: batch tag editor, bit-perfect HiFi player, library manager and DAP manager, FLAC authenticity checker and cover-art manager in a single app.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Fooyin icon
     13 likes

    Fooyin is a music player built around customization. It offers a growing list of widgets to manage and play your local music collection. It's extendable through the use of plugins, and many widgets make use of FooScript to offer an even deeper level of control.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
     
  7. Harmony Music icon
     20 likes

    Ad-free streaming client for Android, Windows, and Linux sourcing music from YouTube and YouTube Music, supporting offline play, playlist importing, song caching, lyrics, equalizer, quality control, dynamic themes, radio mode, artist bookmarks, and multi-language interface.

    138 Harmony Music alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Nagi icon
     9 likes

    Audio player for local collections offering fast performance, privacy, dynamic theming, mini-player, interactive synced lyrics, folder library, advanced playlist features, queue management, 10-band equalizer, volume normalization, wide format support, and system tray controls.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. mpvKt icon
     13 likes

    A media player for Android based on mpv-android aiming to provide a nicer user interface over the original

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  10. GOM Player icon
     240 likes

    GOM Player is a freeware media player. Key strengths are the ability to play the majority of media files without the need to obtain a codec, and the ability to play some broken media files, both advantages over traditional players, like Windows Media Player.

    144 GOM Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  11. Exaile icon
     109 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
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