Windows Media Player Alternatives

Windows Media Player is described as 'Video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media' and is a very popular Audio Player in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Windows Media Player for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Windows Media Player alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Media Player are MPC-HC, foobar2000, MPV and AIMP.

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Windows Media Player alternatives are mainly Media Players, but if you're looking for Audio Players or Internet Radio Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Linux, Android Tablet, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Android and Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Windows Media Player.
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    Best Windows Media Player plays Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray folder, DVD disc/folder/ISO file, 1080P HD/UHD 4K/SD video and audio files with amazing image and sound quality.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. MPlayer WW icon
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    MPlayer for Windows (modified by william0wang) with many additional features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • MPlayer
     
  3. PopCast icon
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    You have a computer full of video files, and you want to stream them to your TV, but your Apple TV or Chromecast won't let you play your AVI and MKV files. No problem! PopCast brings you freedom by letting you stream ALL of your videos to your TV streaming device, no matter...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    SE-MediaPlayer is a free classic portable media player with build-in media library for audio and video files management and lots of beautiful skins. Also includes codec configuration utility for quick audio and video codecs installation and removal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Jukebox Star icon
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    Jukebox Star is a free social music video jukebox that allows you to create a free jukebox and let everyone add music to the playlist. You can also check-in to other jukeboxes near you so you can hear your favourite songs anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    If you want to : search, preview, watch, manage, sort, copy, move or delete media files, this software might interest you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. GOM Audio icon
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    GOM Audio is a free audio player designed to make it simple to listen to CDs, MP3s, M4As, and other popular audio formats on your PC. GOM Audio implements many of the features and shortcuts used in GOM Media Player to further enhance the playback experience.

    FEATURES

    • Play au.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
     
  8. Kantaris icon
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    Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from Videolan client (http://alternativeto.net/software/vlc-media-player/) and Bass audio library. Kantaris has a graphical user interface similar to that of Windows Media Player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    MPlayer GUI with multiple playlists. Each playlist stores information about last played file and position inside file allowing to resume playback. Borderless interface mimics MPlayer itself during playback.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. ZPlayer icon
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    ZPlayer is a Windows Phone 7 / Zune themed player, a better richer and more interactive media player.

    86 ZPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  11. Foobnix icon
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    Foobnix audio player for Linux, Windows and Android.

    Main features player

    Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab); Formats MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND ... Converter any format to any (mp3.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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