Open source music player for windows

Question

I'm looking for a music player (not video player) for windows which is:

• open-source
• simple to use
• easy to organise albums
• support .mp3, .flac sound formats

It should not have a lot of features or be too fancy (a light-weight player)

Answer 1

Clementine

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Features

• Search and play your local music library.
• Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
• Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
• Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
• Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
• CUE sheet support.
• Play audio CDs.
• Visualisations from projectM.
• Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
• Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
• Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
• Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
• Discover and download Podcasts.
• Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
• Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
• Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
• Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
• Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
• Queue manager

Answer 2

I personally use VLC for both music and video on many platforms:

• Free, libre & FOSS
• Supports just about every media file I have come across MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3.
• Cross platform (even mobile)
• Plays everything: files, discs, webcams, devices and streams
• No ads/spyware/tracking
• Can do media conversion and streaming

Answer 3

I used Miro for a while when I was a Windows user.

It supports most, if not all, file types for music and video.

It does a good job (in my opinion) organizing artists and albums.

Miro is open source, lightweight, and easy to use. It's available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Answer 4

maybe also foobar2000 is interesting for you, here only some features:

• support for FLAC, Opus, mp3 and many others
• tagging and album list management
• clear, lightweight and customizable user interface
• a big amount of add-ons to extend the functions
• but it is not completely open source! - the core is closed source and the SDK with with a lot of components is under BSD-license

Answer 5

if you like the old "mediaplayer-style" have a look at Media Player Classic:
it fits all your points and much more, similar to VLC...

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if you like the "winamp-style" try AIMP:

• supports your recommended formats and much more
• supports multiple play lists, tag editor and manages your audio library
• its a real lightweight audio-player
• and also has a lot of addons to add features and skins
• on the downside it is completely closed source! - but i've listed it here because it is a relly good piece of software.