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)
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Sign up to join this communityI'm looking for a music player (not video player) for windows which is:
It should not have a lot of features or be too fancy (a light-weight player)
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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
I personally use VLC for both music and video on many platforms:
maybe also foobar2000 is interesting for you, here only some features:
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...
if you like the "winamp-style" try AIMP: