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, Spotify, Clementine and Audacious.

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  1. GOM Player icon
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    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.

    132 GOM Player alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Bundleware

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  2. Yami icon
     9 likes

    Explore Yami, an open-source music player providing a minimalistic, intuitive user interface to play local files and access music from Spotify and YouTube Music. Compatible across platforms, it's developed by Mithun for ease of use, integrating spotdl for seamless downloads.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  3. WACUP icon
     21 likes

    WACUP is an independent project to provide new features & bug fixes for Winamp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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  4. A fork of Phonograph Music Player that "makes all Pro features free, as they used to be". It has a material design that's easy on the eyes, and it's easy to use, customizable (multiple themes), has folder browsing, a sleep timer and tag editor.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  5. Qmmp icon
     47 likes

    Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
    • Haiku
     
  6. Tomahawk icon
     111 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  7. XMPlay icon
     86 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  8. Nagi icon
     7 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.

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    • Windows
     
  9. Resonic Player icon
     26 likes

    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.

    60 Resonic Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Fooyin icon
     10 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.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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