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. 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.

    158 Vox Music Player alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
  2. Phiola icon
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    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.

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    • Windows
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    • F-Droid
     
  3. 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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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
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    C* Music Player vs Winamp Comments
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    Very Lightweight and you can feel like a hacker using it

    • C* Music Player is Free and Open SourceWinamp is Free and Proprietary
  4. Namida icon
     11 likes

    Feature-rich music and video player with YouTube support, built on Flutter. Offers folder-based library, powerful indexer, tagging, custom themes, waveform seekbar, offline and audio-only modes, advanced queue, history tracking, and gesture-based video controls.

    89 Namida alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Cantata icon
     15 likes

    A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
     
  6. Guayadeque icon
     43 likes

    Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is a full featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework. Using it, Guayadeque has all the format support that entails.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
     
  7. Plexamp icon
     12 likes

    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!.

    185 Plexamp alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. aTunes icon
     78 likes

    aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Winyl icon
     41 likes

    Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  10. Audirvana icon
     11 likes

    Audiophile-grade digital audio player for Mac and PC offering native FLAC, WAV, ALAC support, bit-perfect output, gapless playback, upsampling, memory playback, exclusive audio mode, playlist management, and background decoding for high-fidelity listening.

    43 Audirvana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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