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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  1. Quickfire icon
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    Quickfire is a video player for film, video, animation and VFX professionals - or anyone who wants advanced control over their movies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. myVideos 3D+ icon
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    myVideos 3D+ is an innovative cloud media player that extends the visual feeling. Play, View, Edit or Share directly any video or audio file from your phone storage or SD card, or Play/Download any video/audio from your OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox or from Youtube (using a...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Soube icon
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    A simple and minimalist music player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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
     
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    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
     
  6. plaYUVer icon
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    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
     
  7. Mp3blaster icon
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    Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical environment like X-Windows.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. d11amp icon
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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
     
  9. Tiny Player icon
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    Tiny Player uses DirectShow technology, so it can play all audio files, video files and CD/DVD. It can read ID3/Ogg/APE/WMA tags, but cannot modify them. It supports Unicode tags, Unicode file names and UTF-8 freedb records.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. ^3 (Cubed) icon
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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
     
  11. FX Player icon
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    The reason we can say this is that we are creating our own user experience that is required as a media player and we prime concern are also manufacturing techniques for the user experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  12. Tonomat icon
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    Tonomat allow anybody with a computer connected to speakers to host a Tonomat Party where everybody can join, propose music and vote others, all by using personal smartphone.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
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