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, Clementine, Audacious and MusicBee.

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  1. Light Crime icon

    Light Crime

     10 likes

    Retro macOS audio player with 90s cyber-styled interface, broad file and playlist compatibility, hardware key support, persistent library, missing file detection, custom playlists, and menu bar integration for a personal standalone desktop music experience.

    22 Light Crime alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Light Crime screenshot 1
     
  4. WACUP icon

    WACUP

     21 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Default WACUP classic skin layout
     
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  5. Yami icon

    Yami

     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.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    Yami screenshot 1
     
  6. Qmmp icon

    Qmmp

     48 likes

    Audio player with versatile skin support, 10-band equalizer, multiple playlists, extensive audio format compatibility, video playback through Mplayer, lyrics display, cover art support, CUE sheet handling, CDDB, stream browser, and audio converting features.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
    Qmmp screenshot 1
     
  7. Vinyl Music Player icon

    Vinyl Music Player

     30 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
    Vinyl Music Player screenshot 1
     
  9. HiFidelity icon

    HiFidelity

     8 likes

    Native offline macOS audio player powered by BASS for bit-perfect, gapless playback, real-time lyrics, advanced equalizer, exclusive audio device support, library browsing by album or genre, smart autoplay, playback history, open-source, Homebrew installable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    HiFidelity screenshot 1
     
  10. Nagi icon

    Nagi

     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.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Nagi screenshot 1
     
  11. XMPlay icon

    XMPlay

     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...

    111 XMPlay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    XMPlay 4 – Default look
     
  12. Lotus icon

    Lotus

     10 likes

    Music player designed with Material You.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
    Lotus screenshot 1
     
  13. Fooyin icon

    Fooyin

     11 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.

    63 Fooyin alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Fooyin screenshot 1
     
  14. Phiola icon

    Phiola

     12 likes

    phiola is a fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android. Its low CPU consumption conserves the notebook/phone battery. You can issue commands to phiola via its CLI, TUI, GUI, system pipe and SDK interfaces.

    82 Phiola alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    Phiola screenshot 1
     
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