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)
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
answered Jan 3 '15 at 5:32
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
answered Jan 2 '15 at 12:00
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@Abbey You asked what people use - this is what I use. I use play lists to group the tracks into the order that I use! – Steve Barnes Jan 2 '15 at 14:09
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
answered Mar 20 '15 at 13:01
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:
- 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.
answered Mar 20 '15 at 14:17
