We have collected and present to you the 45 best audio and video players that have an easy-to-use interface, some of them with minimal consumption of resources, but at the same time very good performance. This is perhaps the most complete collection of free Players that one can find on the internet with applications capable of meeting our every need.
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AIMP Player is considered one of the best media players with an easy-to-use interface, small size, minimal use of system resources, and very good performance.
Perhaps the best audio player in my opinion with many strong points one of which is the great ease of creating Playlists for our music, in addition, free tools that complement the AIMP player so you can listen and write your favorite radio stations to OGG / WAV / MP3 formats, search and download album covers from the Internet rip your favorite cds, but also use the program as an Audio Recorder.
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Alternative lightweight Player, supports OGG, MP3, MP2, MP1, WMA, WAV, CDA, MO3, S3M, MTM MOD, UMX audio formats, and PLS, M3U, ASX, WAX playlists.
You can load more formats through the plugins available in the program. Most importantly, it requires no installation and consumes very few resources. Finally, you can choose the appearance of the Player by downloading any of the dozens of ready-made skins you like.
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If you are looking to find a simple player that consumes minimal resources and can play the most popular audio formats I think Boom is the most suitable solution.
By default it is set to look for music files in the windows My Music folder, but you can set it to listen to your music from any other folders on your computer.
You can even install Boom on removable ( USB ) and run it from there and transfer the music to your stick so that every time you connect it to your computer you can listen to your favorite songs. It supports a variety of popular audio formats, such as: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, mp4/m4a, WMA and of course, as you can see, no installation is required.
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A separate media player with the most popular video and audio codecs built-in. No need to install codecs separately! It supports all kinds of features for very advanced users who want to watch video clips in the best quality.
It supports flv,mp4, mov, mpg, ts, avi, divx, asx, wmv, m4v, dat, ifo, vob, 3gp/3gp2, rm/rmvb, mkv, ogm as video format but can also play any other video using external codecs.
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Modern Player and music file sorting organizer. Inspired by Amarok, (one of the best Players for Linux) with an emphasis on speed and ease of use, you can browse and play music files from your music archive, listen to internet radio, create smart and dynamic playlists to view them Lyrics of songs you listen to and photos of artists, convert music to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC files and many more.
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Light Alloy is a simple program for viewing or listening to multimedia files. The player is very functional and practical But if you want something new you can find a huge number of skins on the internet.
Light Alloy has a variety of skins that change the style of the player. Almost all of them are developed by amateur designers who publish them in various parts of the internet.
To get and install skins you have to find them by searching in any search engine. After downloading, it remains only to install the new skin of the program and enjoy it.
The most important feature of Light Alloy is high-quality and comfortable video viewing. In more detail, then in the application menu you will find viewing of video files over the Internet, including material from video hosting sites, and playback of many formats without freezes and image distortions.
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High-fidelity player to listen to music. Supports direct upload from Zip files and has a huge collection of skins to change its appearance. It has strong playlist support, Equalizer with defaults, auto-play and many other facilities that a modern Player should have. To change the look Choose any of the hundreds of ready-made skins.
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5KPlayer is a new Player that gives you a new unique way to enjoy your favorite music and videos. It is an excellent mutimedia player that incorporates powerful features such as (MKV) HD video, music player, AirPlay media streamer and video downloader. It can play 4K / 5K / HD 1080p videos, and DVDs. It has MP4 streaming capabilities, MOV, M4V, MP3 and AAC from iMac, MacBook and Windows 10/8/7 on Apple TV.
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Free open source media player that plays all formats as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG files.
It can also be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 in a high bandwidth network. The most obvious additions to the release are probably Windows Media Video and Flash Video. Other major changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, and full screen.
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JetAudio is a complete media player consisting of a single rack compact. You can play various music and video files, it even has features such as burning CDs, recording, and converting to other files.
You can even create your own internet radio station using JetCast, provided with JetAudio, and play all file formats including WAV, MP3, MP3Pro, OGG, WMA, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MIDI, RM and videos and music tracks from CDs.
This is probably the best free Player that is not only limited to playing music, but also allows you to convert your music files, change their tags, and burn your favorite songs to a music CD/DVD, or to your hard drive. . Finally, it includes dozens of different skins so you can choose the look you like the most.
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It is considered one of the most popular movie watching programs with subtitles. It has the ability to play all known media formats and in addition to find and update the latest updates for all codecs as well as the ability to automatically find subtitles.
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Free music player for windows that will help you listen to your favorite music in real time. You can also use it to manage your computer's music library and organize your playlists.
In conclusion, this is a simple, free program to organize your music library, and manage your playlists, all in a clean simple menu with extensive support for creating themes.
Blues Media Player is a media player that can play a large number of media formats. It includes built-in support for all the most popular audio and video formats.
Watch videos from blu-rays, dvds and files without the help of any external codec. Reads all video files without additional downloads and even manages playlists. It is extremely light and easy to use. It supports various audio file formats such as MP3, WMA, FLAC, and more and is specifically designed for Blu-ray file compatibility (more here) .Finally it reads DVD and AVCHD as well as ISO files.
Splash is a compact, stylish, user-friendly and incredibly fast video viewer. Discover Smart Search, an advanced search function designed to find specific movie scenes without interrupting video playback.
It is an absolutely free functional displayable mp3 player with many functions. It is portable, meaning it runs without installation. It can search for audio files on your hard drives and store them in its library.
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By far the best Player with over 80 million downloads worldwide, it has been translated into more than 90 languages and is capable of playing almost any media file format such as AVI, MPEG, ASF, MWA, MP3, WAV, and more so Enjoy your favorite movies, with full support and instant subtitling from the internet and support for changing skins.
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This is a very simple application (player) that will help you listen to your favorite music simply and quickly. The application interface is similar to the very popular winamp or xmms players. It includes many alternative user interfaces to customize it exactly to your needs.
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Promising, amazing Multimedia Player for Windows 10 only (UWP, PC / Tablet / Phone ..), with many unique features and many audio and video effects. The application is available for FREE without any operating restrictions! Supports subtitles, DLNA / UPnP Currently uses a simple menu, where you can customize the panel buttons. Because it is still under development, features can be changed to later versions at any time.
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Leawo Blu-ray Player is regarded as one of the best media player software for playing Blu-ray / DVD discs, and simple videos up to 1080P HD. So you can watch from simple videos to videos in 1080P resolution and also listen to audio in almost all its formats with excellent quality and without loss.
For the best user experience, it provides detailed navigation and full playback control, and allows you to set subtitles, audio and video tracks during playback, customize the background image, with multi-language and multi-screen support, you just add videos to internal playlist and enjoy your favorite movies.
Simple, free, easy-to-use cross-platform music player. It supports the following file formats: MP3, OGG, M4A (DRM-free), AAC, FLAC, OPUS, APE, DFF, WAV.
You can listen and Rip your CD to MP3 or FLAC. You can even rip DVD tracks to MP3 or FLAC, see artist albums from songs and vice versa, create and use playlists, listen to Online radio stations, schedule radio station recordings, see see the lyrics and CD Covers of the song being played and listen to your favorite songs in random order and repeat.
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Remarkable and completely reliable Player, a descendant of XMMS, to listen to your music without special demands on your computer's resources and without the need for installation.
Drag and drop into folders and individual files, search for artists and albums across your entire music library, and the ability to create and edit your own custom playlists.
Listen to CDs or stream music from the Internet. Use the included plugins to see the lyrics for the song you're listening to, set an alert and more. After downloading the file unzip it, open the bin folder and run the audacious icon.
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Fast, simple, easy to use, fully equipped application to watch and stream your favorite videos on Youtube. Through the application you can watch videos, even when the screen is locked (mobile), comment, reply, upload, search, edit, save and delete videos. The new upgrade that has just been released, includes clearly more improved functions and a very attractive, comprehensive menu. In conclusion, this is an application that you should definitely install.
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Dopamine is a free audio player that can play wav, mp3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA and M4A/AAC audio files. One of the most important features of the application is the fact that it is also available in Portable format, this means that it does not require installation and thus can be run from a USB flash drive.
To work with the application, after downloading the file, unzip the application and from the Dopamine 1.2.862.4 - Portable folder run the Dopamine file. From there select settings and specify the path where your music files are located, change the appearance of the Player and other settings.
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The program supports the CUE sheet and provides several ways to control the playback of files. Supports file formats : WAV, WMA, MP1, MP2, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, SND, SPX, CDA, OPUS, OFG, OFS, DFF, DSF, AC3, M4A, M4B, APE, DTS, AIFF, MIDI, ASF, MLP, WV, TTA, AVI, FLV, MKV, MP4, MPG, MPEG, VOB, WMV, MOV.
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Vov Music Player is a lightweight, simple audio player capable of playing FLAC, MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WMA, WAV and AIFF files. No complicated settings are needed to enjoy your favorite tracks from your desktop.
All you need to do is select the source with your music files and listen to your favorite songs The interface is minimalistic and provides the basic elements needed to play the music files, however, you can choose between the series and shuffle your music.
In conclusion, this is a very simple music player without complex settings that does not burden your computer's system resources.
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VUPlayer is a modern, amazingly simple and efficient music player for Windows that helps you listen to your favorite songs. If you wish, you can activate and modify the tone of your music with the included sound equalizer and add any of the available Visual effects included.
Despite this, it remains, extremely light, without demanding a lot of resources, I would say that it is probably one of the best music players that one can find for windows and I think it is worth a try.
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Flexible multimedia player with Greek menu that can cover almost all types of multimedia files. Without being dependent on any particular Codecs, able to play all media files, supported Codecs are divided into internal and external. For audio files KMPlayer supports AC3, DTS, MPEG1, 2, AAC, WMA 7, 8, OGG etc. It also supports Codecs for video files allowing you to run and watch any video or DVD file.
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ZPlayer is a program is a very special looking music player application written in Java, which means it can run on any operating system that has a Java Virtual Machine (version 1.7.0 or higher) installed.
Includes, automatic support for MPEG files levels I, II and III (MP2, MP3), PCM Wave (WAV), Vorbis files Ogg, Flac, MOD (S3M, MTM, IT, XM, UMX, MO3) SF2 SoundBank support) and CDA, support for Winamp2 plugins (only for Windows and Java 32bits), extended audio format support (24 / 32bit / 7.1ch / 96Khz), on Windows with JNI DirectSound implementation and Linux with JNI ALSA implementation.
It also has a 16-band equalizer, sound effects such as bass redirection and wide stereo, independent volume channels with redirection between them, full full screen support and many other features.
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The classic Windows media player does a good job and supports a number of media formats. However, its design has remained almost the same for many years. Do you enjoy listening to music while working with other Windows applications? Then @MAX Tray Player is for you. It integrates the player bar into the Windows taskbar and effectively becomes part of Windows. So it doesn't hide application windows.
Although small, it is easy to use but also quite powerful. Through key combinations you can open and manage it, it has a low impact on system resources, and it is rich in terms of media playback capabilities.
Plus, it's FREE. All basic actions such as: opening files, playing files, stopping or pausing a file, moving to the next or previous file are easily accessible through the corresponding buttons on the taskbar. Tray Player displays information about the file being played, such as: playing time, title and artist in the small floating window.
One can adjust the transparency of this window or just hide it. Using hotkey combinations one can control the player regardless of the program that is active at the time.
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Mpv based movie player. It comes with an easy-to-use interface, which you can customize with many parameters as well. Carefully adjusted settings will be able to boost its performance.
Using mpv player is much simpler than before. Mplayer is the best player and many video players on computers and mobile phones are also developed based on it.
Because mplayer doesn't have a menu, you often don't know it's running silently. It also often consumes the least resources when playing videos, so you'll find that when playing HD movies on a low-performance computer, mplayer usually performs better.
When other video players are stuck playing a video, mplayer may simply have missed a frame. MPV player inherits all these great features, while adding a built-in window playback control (OSC) interface, with support for hardware decoding and other additional functions, and allows you to enjoy any video.
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Still using Windows Media Player or VLC to watch your favorite videos? Do you want to be able to watch more videos on the same screen easily and automatically? Awesome Video Player is here to offer it to you. AVPlayer supports simultaneous playback of multiple videos, up to 16 videos on each screen! With automatic hardware and software acceleration decoding support. Plays any video format and is available for free.
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It has an advanced image processing engine, providing amazing video quality. Watch standard and high definition videos like never before. Download Splash now and use the demo mode to see the difference.
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Listen to music from your saved MP3 folders without having to edit any playlists. It has resume play, it remembers the last position of the music piece it played, it also has audio dynamics and stereo enhancer.
This is a very good player with a size of only 170 kb with minimal resource requirements. All you need is to set the path with the folder where you have stored your MP3s and enjoy your music.
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Simply drag and drop your music directory into the Nemp window. After that you can browse and search for your favorite music in this library by artist name, or by album. Metadata is read from ID3v1-Tags, ID3v2, Ogg-Vorbis, Flac Metablocks and Apev2-Tags and can be modified.
In wma files the metadata is read but cannot be modified. For CD-Audio CD-Text and (optionally) freedb are used.
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CD-Runner is designed to automatically recognize and play media of all types, from Audio CDs to MP3s and FLACs. It also analyzes CDs, plays Internet radio, MP3 CDs and DVD movies, automatically downloads CD information from freedb online and much more. It includes graphical Home Stereo, Compact, TouchPad and Ribbon (minimized) front panels designed to look like a real hi-fi CD and DVD player, while the smaller stereo front panel is designed to look like a real unit you will find in a car.
The portable front is designed to look like a generic MP3 player. The new TouchPad face is designed to look like a generic tablet computer and includes full and small sizes. All skins are highly customizable and can be switched between you as you play music or watch movies.
Full support for freedb and any other compatible CDDB database is also provided, allowing you to automatically download and submit electronic Audio CD information (artist and album titles, song titles, mailbox notes, etc.). You can also search over 3 million audio CDs with the latest disc library.
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Resonic Player is a free, simple, fast audio player whose main menu consists mainly of a large easy-to-read menu and a music spectrum analyzer. It can worthily replace any music player used so far.
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PotPlayer is a media player developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system by the South Korean Internet company Kakao (formerly Daum Communications). It competes well with other popular media players available for Windows such as VLC media player, GOM Player, KMPlayer, SMPlayer, Media Player Classic and others.
It provides support for most audio, video and DVD formats. It has built-in support for most file formats and the ability to play videos even through compressed file formats like ZIP and RAR. It supports all subtitle formats, accepts skins, even supports TV devices with analog and digital support, live broadcasting and provides you with maximum performance with minimum consumption of resources.
Finally, it supports various subtitle formats and a wide variety of codecs and has a Greek menu.
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Musique is the ideal Player for users who may find other Music Players complicated and unwieldy. It starts up quickly, is very light and can easily handle very large music collections.
Browse by artist photos, album covers, genres and folders so you can organize your music the way you want. Impressive information display that you can switch to while listening.
Displays information about the current track, album and artist. It supports most audio formats including: FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Monkey's Audio (APE), Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), True Audio (TTA). Musique never modifies your files, it stores all its data in own database.
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Free application that can make it easy to manage, find and play music files on your computer, supports podcasts, online radio stations and SoundCloud integration, simple, powerful and fast allows you to listen and manage music collections and gives you the ability to turn your computer into a music jukebox, use automatic tagging to clean up and organize your messy music library.
Enhance the sound with the 10- or 15-band equalizer and DS effects, use high-quality sound cards with WASAPI and ASIO support to hear music without interruptions, without gaps, and use logarithmic volume scaling to adjust the flow of music.
MusicBee supports some WinAmp plugins, however, you can change its appearance by selecting skins or downloading more from the plugins section.Skins are a great way to customize MusicBee to your liking. Sync your music collection with the devices you use.
It supports syncing playlists and podcasts, and even audiobooks with two-way sync. You can also sync your Android and Windows Phone (8.1+) devices. MusicBee also provides native support for Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music).
You can create streams directly from MusicBee or add to your existing playlist, get song suggestions from Groove's huge catalog. Finally, it is worth noting that the application has been rated as one of the best music player managers available for Windows.
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Innovative player that includes unique and exciting features such as Picture in Picture (PIP), Cast to Chromecast and DLNA, download to local storage, and playback directly from OneDrive UPNP media servers (Such as Vimeo, SoundCloud, and but).
With Delight Media Player you will enjoy your favorite media content on your computer, tablet, mobile and big screens. With Pip you have unlimited possibilities and you can watch two live streams at the same time or you can watch one movie while putting another one on your child's TV. You can also cast to any DLNA or Chromecast device.
It doesn't matter if your device supports the content or not. It doesn't matter if you want to stream content online or stored locally. Delight Media Player will stream any media to any device even if the device doesn't support it (for example, Chromecast doesn't support FLV files, with Delight Media Player you can now cast FLV files and other files to Chromecast devices).
In addition to loading local subtitles, it can automatically search and download subtitles for you. You can also configure the appearance of subtitles. In addition, the time correction function will allow you to adjust subtitle times.
In addition to loading local subtitles, Duplex Media Player can automatically search for and download subtitles for you. You can also customize the appearance of the subtitles. In addition, the time correction function will allow you to adjust the subtitle times.
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To Blues Media Player is a media player that can play a large number of media formats. It includes built-in support for all the most popular audio and video formats.
The program supports the CUE sheet and provides several ways to control the playback of files. Supports file formats : WAV, WMA, MP1, MP2, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, SND, SPX, CDA, OPUS, OFG, OFS, DFF, DSF, AC3, M4A, M4B, APE, DTS, AIFF, MIDI, ASF, MLP, WV, TTA, AVI, FLV, MKV, MP4, MPG, MPEG, VOB, WMV, MOV.
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Univer Player is a complete program that allows you to play videos while working with other applications. The floating video player window is set to always stay on top of other windows and supports transparency setting.
This way you can watch your favorite videos while playing games or working. Watch streaming video while playing games or running any other application. You just need to select the desired domain and then copy the video URL to the clipboard or using the Univer Player extension or run any video from your computer.
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It allows you to play videos while working with other applications. The floating video player window is set to always stay on top of other windows and supports transparency setting. This way you can watch your favorite videos while playing games or working.
Watch streaming video while playing games or running any other application. You just need to select the desired domain and then copy the video URL to the clipboard or using the Univer Player extension or run any video from your computer.
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Media Player is designed to make listening and watching your media content more enjoyable. At its "heart" is a full-featured music library that lets you quickly browse and play music, as well as create and manage playlists.
All your content in the music and video folders will automatically appear in your library. Media Player includes full support for browsing, managing and watching your local video collection.
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Winamp is one of the first media players for Windows developed by the Nullsoft company. Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plugins and skins, has music visualization. playlist and media library, supported by a large online community.
It was one of the first widely used music players for Windows that even supported Ogg Vorbis playback by default. Its first edition was released in 1997 and quickly became popular. The 2.x versions were widely used and made Winamp one of the most downloaded Windows applications.
After years of inactivity a new version has been released with support for Windows 11. It supports playback of many types of audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc.) but also video (AVI, ASF , MPEG, NSV), and is an excellent choice for the user.
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Kodi is a free, open source media player developed by the Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. It is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, for use with TVs and remote controls.
It allows users to play and view videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local storage, storage on your network, and the Internet.
It plays almost any kind of media and you might find it ideal for watching TV, movies and your favorite shows,
It's the best way to share your photos on the biggest screen in the house with a personal presentation.
It works with a number of popular backends including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend and more. However, you can also play games too, just choose from a large number of emulators the one you want, or even play a standalone game.
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