Windows Media Player Alternatives

Apps similar to Windows Media Player include VLC Media Player, which is free and open source. Other options are MPC-HC, foobar2000, MPV and AIMP. Media Players like Windows Media Player are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone.

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  1. BZR Player icon

    BZR Player

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    BZR Player is an audio player for Windows and Linux supporting a wide array of multi-platform exotic file formats. To name a few: MP3, ogg, Amiga MOD, Nintendo NSF, Atari YM, Commodore 64 SID. It can extract and play archives on the fly, from for example .rar, .zip, .lha, .gzip.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Audience Media Player icon

    Audience Media Player

     3 likes

    Audience is a modern video player that brings the lessons learned from the web home to the desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Showing Video
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  4. Clip (Maui Applications) icon

    Clip (Maui Applications)

     1 like

    Clip is a convergent video player and collection manager utilizing MPV as the backend. By using MPV, you can also play remote videos by entering the URL besides local videos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • MX flagMexico
    Clip (Maui Applications) screenshot 1
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  6. Ghosten Player icon

    Ghosten Player

     1 like

    Ghosten Player is a video player compatible with both 📱Android Phone and 📺Android TV, with future support for Windows and macOS under development. It integrates media resources, automatically scrapes metadata, supports IPTV playback, and elegantly builds your...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android TV
    • CN flagChina
    Ghosten Player screenshot 1
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  7. Soube icon

    Soube

     4 likes

    A simple and minimalist music player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Soube screenshot 1
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  9. Player for DVD's Lite icon

    Player for DVD's Lite

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    Player for DVD's Lite - Professional Windows 10 software to play DVD's and many popular formats such as HEVC, VOB, MKV, MPG, AVI, MOV, FLAC, ALAC, OGG, MP3, and others.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Player for DVD's Lite
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  10. Pretty Good Music Player icon

    Pretty Good Music Player

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    Tired of music players that take forever to start up because they're loading ads or trying to download stuff? Of music players that ignore Bluetooth controls, or stop responding after a few minutes? I was too, so I wrote this app!

    276 Pretty Good Music Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  11. P

    Potamus

     6 likes

    Potamus is a lightweight GTK-based audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  12. plaYUVer icon

    plaYUVer

     3 likes

    Open-source video player with the following features:

    • Support for libavformat and libavcodec;
    • Support for wide range of raw video formats;
    • Support for OpenCV imag/video processing library
    • Advanced frame zoom with easy to use pan function
    • Useful information in status ba.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    plaYUVer screenshot 1
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  13. d11amp icon

    d11amp

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    d11amp is a frontend to MPG123, trying to resemble WinAmp, utilizing its treasure trove of themes. It has been published under the BSD 2-clause license. It uses GTK4 and portaudio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
    d11amp screenshot 1
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  15. ^3 (Cubed) icon

    ^3 (Cubed)

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    ^3 a.k.a. Cubed is a music player for Android. At its core, ^3 is a visual experiment that explores different visualizations of one's music library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    ^3 (Cubed) screenshot 1
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    ^3 (Cubed) screenshot 3
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