Thumping beats and inspiring lyrics are enough to uplift your spirits on a rough day or help you perform your best while sweating in the gym. Listening to the music is more fun when you have a good music player on your system. With Windows 10, we get a plenty of features and apps, but when it comes to music players, the native app doesn’t offer much.
Fortunately, we have third party music playing apps that can fulfill the requirements. In this article, we will discuss some of the best music players for Windows 10, 8, 7 and earlier versions-
1. VLC Media Player –
One of the best music players available for Windows, VLC media player, is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player. Let’s look at the features:
- It is a simple, fast and powerful media player that can play most codecs like MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3 with no codec packs needed.
- It can be customized with different skins.
- It has no spyware, no ads, and no user tracking.
Supported Platforms: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android
Price: Free
2. AIMP
AIMP is easy to use and is loaded with several tools and utilities. Let’s look at the features:
- It supports a huge range of audio formats, including FLAC, MIDI, MP3, DTS, and OGG.
- It allows you listen to Internet radio stations and also captures radio streams in different formats.
- It can not only convert audio files but also provide editing options for all your audio tags
Supported Platforms: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, and XP; Android (Mobile)
Price: Free
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3. Music Bee
MusicBee is yet another best music player for Windows which makes managing, finding and playing music files on your computer easy. Let’s take a look at its features:
- The program’s Auto DJ feature allows you to sync with Last FM and will play similar artists/genres based on what you play.
- You can set MusicBee up to organize your favorite podcasts, audiobooks, and radio stations.
- It has many options to soothe the music and play your favorite tracks like 10-band to 15-band equalizer options, cross-fade function, gapless playback options, and audio quality options.
Supported Platforms: Windows XP and later
Price: Free
4. Clementine
Clementine is a multi-platform music player and has simple interface making it easy to use. Let’s look at the features of the app which makes it one of the best music players for Windows.
- It searches and plays songs you’ve uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
- It allows you to copy music onto your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
- You can even use a Wii Remote, Android device, or another mobile tool as a remote control for the software.
Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS
Price: Free
5. Foobar 2000
Foobar2000 is one of the best music players for Windows with a simple, light-weight and user-friendly interface. Let’s look at the features of this audio player:
- It supports all types of audio formats including OGG.
- It supports Gapless playback which means you can listen to your favorite music uninterrupted.
- It provides full ReplayGain support.
Supported Platforms: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android
Price: Free
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6. Dopamine
Dopamine is one of the best audio players which makes organizing and listening to music easy, Let’s look at the features:
- It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.
- It has an excellent library management, and it can handle large collections of music files with ease.
- It’s UI is consistent and the app launch time combined with player’s flexibility makes it the best Music player for Windows 10.
Supported Platforms: Windows XP and later
Price: Free
7. Media Monkey
A portable music player, MediaMonkey, can be run through USB stick. Let’s look at the features:
- Its music library organizes and categorizes a user’s music collection.
- It can sync music files with most portable audio devices including the Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android-based devices.
- MediaMonkey supports third-party plugins to extend the base functionality. It has plugins that include a Last.fm scrobbler, a plugin to show lyrics, and a web remote-control interface.
Supported Platforms: Windows
Price: Free and Paid version
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8. Songbird
Songbird brings the best for the music lovers. It personalizes the music content from your favorite artists. Let’s look at the highlights of the features:
- With the basic interface, you also get the ability to share photos and discover artists with other fans, furthermore, you can add your own audio files to its library.
- It allows you to manage your music and videos, build playlists, browse, and sort your songs.
- It acts as a media server, therefore, allowing your wireless devices, like speakers and to pull from your Songbird library.
Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac, Android, iOS
Price: Free
9. 5KPlayer –
5KPlayer is not just a music player, but it also is an HD video player, AirPlay media streamer and online video downloader. Let’s take a look at the features:
- It converts the online videos movie soundtracks to MP3, AAC music format or ring tone and converts Youtube songs to MP3.
- The audio player claims to provide peerless sound quality.
- It has AirPlay support, which enables to connect your computer with an AirPlay speaker for a more advanced and comprehensive auditory enjoyment.
Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac
Price: Free
10. KMPlayer –
Last but definitely not the least, KMPlayer is a versatile multi media player which covers different types of contained formats. Let’s have a look at the highlights of its features:
- It enables you to play any mainstream media files because this media player for has its own internal codec which makes it supports MPEG 1, MPEG 2, AAC, WMA, OGG, etc.
- It supports matrix function and normalized function when an internal sound codec is used.
- It also supports all the Codec from ffdshow and it additionally supports MPEG1/2.
Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android
Price: Free
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Hence, this concludes the list of some of the best music players available for your Windows computer.
Try them and let us know, which one is your favorite in the comment section.
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George
VLC player is one of the best video players. But, for music? I wouldn’t really recommend it. Shuffle mode is a mess. It often ends up playing the same songs again and again while sometimes it will randomly stop playing music.Srishti
Hey George! You are kinda right! But its like the ‘go-to’ software for a lot of people out there. What would be your pick, btw?George
I’ve been using Media Monkey for a while now and I’m pretty pleased with it.