Best Media Players
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What are Media Players?
Media players, also known as video players, are software applications that enable users to play a wide range of video, audio, image, and media file formats. Third party media players and video players typically offer a wider range of features and file format compatibility than default media players. Compare and read user reviews of the best Media Players currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Clean Media Player
Spot It LLC
Watch movies and shows without profanity. The app mutes the audio and displays subtitles without offensive words and phrases. Customize profanity filters to your preferences. Skip inappropriate scenes by choosing their start and end times. The Video File Generator creates video files with clean subtitles, skipped scenes, and pre-muted audio in filtered time spans. There are 2 subtitle tracks included in the video output. You can choose either the track that displays subtitles only when audio is muted or the track that displays all subtitles. Stream your favorite movies from personal media servers, files, DVD, or Blu-ray. The media servers must have DLNA enabled. Supports all the popular video formats. MPEG-1/2, DivX® (1/2/3/4/5/6), MPEG-4 ASP, MKV, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.261, H.263 / H.263i, H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, Cinepak, Theora, Dirac / VC-2, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Sorenson 1/3, DV, On2 VP3/VP5/VP6, Indeo Video v3 (IV32), Real Video (1/2/3/4).Starting Price: $14.99 one-time payment -
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Allavsoft
Allavsoft
Two steps to download movies, video, music files and subtitles from 1000+ media sharing sites. Besides downloading video in its original format, Allavsoft also features one-click to download as well as convert the downloaded video to popular video format like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB, ASF, RMVB, DV, TS, Apple ProRes, WebM, FLV, OGV and etc. This professional Video Downloading and Converting tool also helps to extract and download audio from online music video or movies as well as convert to popular audio format like MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AAC, Apple Lossless M4A, AIFF, RA, FLAC, OGG, AU and etc. Allavsoft supports adding multiple video URLs and batch downloading and converting multiple videos at a time. When download web video files, this wonderful Video Downloader will automatically detects advertisements and does not download them. There is a built-in video player in Allavsoft for us to preview and playback the downloaded video files.Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment -
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Cisdem Video Player
Cisdem
Mac or Windows PC won’t play the video/audio? Play in Cisdem Video Player and put an end to the compatibility issues. Cisdem Video Player supports almost all video and audio formats, such as MP4, H.264/MP4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, AVI, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPG, M4V, TS, MTS, M2TS, AVCHD, MXF, RM, RMVB, ASF, 3GP, F4V, FLV, ISO, DIVX, MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC, FLAC, WAV, OGG, AC3, APE, DTS, MID, MKA, MP2, MPA, TTA, etc. Cisdem Video Player is optimized for HD and UHD videos, including 1080p, 4K, 5K, and 8K. It plays videos without lagging or stuttering, delivers stunning image and audio quality on your high-end display without blurriness, ultimately gives you an outstanding movie watching experience. Imported videos will be automatically added to the playlist, you can play in order, play in loop or play single in loop to easily shuffle or repeat the playback.Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment -
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Readdle Documents
Readdle
Documents is about action. Download videos. Read ePUBs. Open ZIP files. Watch movies. Edit PDFs. Documents gives you the superpowers to do what you want with your files. Add an extra layer of protection with the world’s fastest VPN. Use it to change your virtual location and enjoy music, video, and the TV shows you love. And yes, once enabled, VPN works perfectly across all your apps. Documents is now available on M1, becoming the first super app for desktop. Do what you want with your files, without jumping between dozens of apps. Manage all your files, watch videos, browse the web, edit PDFs, and more. Use a powerful built-in browser to quickly download mp3, books, videos, and literally anything from the Web. Private browsing is also there to respect your privacy. Think of it as an AirDrop on steroids. Now you can instantly send your photos, documents, or entire folders to a nearby iPhone or iPad. And no worries: the file structure in your folder will remain the same.Starting Price: Free -
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Amarok
Amarok
Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix, and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before, and it looks good doing it! Much of where work has been invested in Amarok 2 is the Web services integration. Now Amarok can connect to various Web services and access the music directly, greatly expanding the potential number of songs at your fingertips. Thanks to the powerful API, adding additional services can be done with very little effort. Scrobble and listen to any Last.fm radio stream with fully featured Last.fm integration. Buy tracks from the integrated Magnatune store, and help support the music labels. Connect remotely to an Ampache music server and browse search, and playback media files. Find, subscribe, and download audio and video podcasts from all over the ultimate podcast directory. Listen to streaming audio books straight from the Librivox catalog.Starting Price: Free -
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MX Player
Sakib Musharraf
MX Player video is a media player and media manager. MX Video Player plays almost all media & Movies files. MX Video Music player is a high-quality media player. Max video player provided easily playing videos & audios. Full HD video, audio songs, subtitle player, multi audio player & movie subtitle player quick player, all video downloader. This is a good video player available to fit your media player and buzz your audio listening. MX Music Video player user experience has been optimized to allow you to quickly view all of your mobile and gallery videos through an attractive user interface. 3D video player is the most powerful media player in the app store market that supports all the most popular videos without any conversion. Supports mp4 MPEG-4, MOV QuickTime movie file format, avi, m4a, m4v iTunes video file format, MPEG, MPEG-2-video, aifc-audio, aac-audio, MPEG-4, au-audio, AIFF-audio, mp2, 3gpp2, ac3-audio, mp3, 3gpp, -audio and etc.Starting Price: Free -
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foobar2000
foobar2000
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Supported audio formats include MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND, and more with additional components. Gapless playback with easily customizable user interface layout. Advanced tagging capabilities. Support for ripping audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the converter component. Full ReplayGain support. Customizable keyboard shortcuts. The open component architecture allows third-party developers to extend the functionality of the player. Appearance can be customized with skin files (basic black and white themes included with the app). Supports playback and downloading of music from UPnP media servers. Automatic playback volume adjustment. Enabled decoding of Opus audio in MP4 files. Additional advanced options, plus an added help button.Starting Price: Free -
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USB Audio Player PRO
eXtream Software Development
Supporting USB audio DACs to play audio files up to 32-bit resolution at any sample rate! Will play any popular format including wav, flac, wavpack, ape, mp3 and DSD files. This app is a must-have for every HiFi enthusiast, bypassing all audio limits of Android. But even without a USB DAC, the app supports many of the HiRes audio chips found in the latest phones, allowing you to play at a much higher quality than standard music players, even the ones that come with your phone! When connecting an Android phone or tablet to a USB DAC, USB Audio Player PRO will unleash the full power of the DAC, by using our custom-developed USB audio driver. This bypasses the Android audio system completely, meaning that Android's limitations regarding bit resolution and sample rate (16-bit/48kHz) are made irrelevant, and high-quality audio streams are fed directly to the DAC, making playback up to 32-bit at 384kHz possible (depending on the DAC capabilities) or even DSD.Starting Price: $9.16 one-time payment -
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Shuttle Music Player
Shuttle Music Player
Built by a music lover for music lovers, Shuttle is the music player of choice for your Android device. Shuttle aims to be a one-stop shop for anything to do with managing & listening to your music. As a developer, I spend hours every day listening to music at my desk, on the commute to work, and even as I go to sleep. I like to think I know what a music player needs to be and I do everything I can to put that into practice. Give it a try, you will not be disappointed. Designed for phones and tablets, Shuttle takes pride in keeping up with the latest design trends and features. Feel right at home browsing your music library with Shuttle, making playlists, and listening to your favorite songs. Create playlists, manage a queue, edit music tags, browse folders, view lyrics, download artwork, and more. Choose from a huge number of themes, customize your layout, or change what happens when you plug your headphones in.Starting Price: $1.99 one-time payment -
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Azure Media Player
Microsoft
Azure Media Player automatically picks the best format for a browser or device, and uses the dynamic packaging capabilities of Azure Media Services to play adaptive streaming content in formats like MPEG-DASH, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, or Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Media Player is also designed to select the correct technology based on the platform—HTML5 (MSE/EME), Adobe Flash Player, or Microsoft Silverlight. Regardless of the playback technology, there’s a simple interface to access APIs. Media Player gives you simplified development using standard HTML5 video tags. A unified JavaScript interface lets advanced customers create a media player experience without having to develop for specific platforms or features. -
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Strawberry
Strawberry
Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry, you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radio. Strawberry is free software released under GPL. The source code is available on GitHub. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and GStreamer. Strawberry is compatible with both Qt versions 5 and 6. Strawberry is free software, both free as in freedom and as cost, but is depends on donations from our users. There are few developers, and most of the development is done by one person. Strawberry has become very popular over the past few years with hundred of users. Maintaining the application, running all the services, providing releases and dealing with bugs and technical issues is a time-consuming job. -
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Phototheca
Phototheca
Phototheca makes it easy to view, sort, organize, edit, and share thousands of digital photos and videos on a PC. Import photos from various sources, including drives, NAS, network shares, memory cards, and smartphones. Remove duplicates, tag photos with keywords, recognize and tag faces, arrange photos into albums, edit and share to the web. Phototheca is photo editing software and has a rich tool-set of tools to improve photos and bring them to life with a new stunning look. Cutting-edge AI-driven faces recognition feature identifies the same person on all photos across the library and puts them in albums automatically. Tag photos with your beloved, even if they say meow only, and walk on four legs. Phototheca automatically recognizes people and gathers all photos of the same person into an album with a name. Pin all faces to a virtual corkboard and find their photos in a second. Phototheca gives the most useful tool set to organize and structure photos.Starting Price: $49.95 one-time payment -
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Clementine
Clementine
Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer. Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. 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, visualizations 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, and organize your music. Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz. Discover and download podcasts. Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.Starting Price: Free -
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File Viewer Plus
Sharpened Productions
File Viewer Plus is a universal file opener that supports more than 400 file formats. Open Office documents, PDFs, images, Microsoft Project and Visio files, source code, email attachments, archives, and hundreds of audio and video formats—all in one application. File Viewer Plus also lets you edit, save, and convert files. Edit a Word document and export it as a PDF or convert a PDF into an editable Word document. Crop a camera raw image and save it as a JPEG. Use the built-in batch converter to process thousands of files or entire folders at once. Unknown files? No problem. File Viewer Plus includes proprietary file-identification technology that recognizes more than 15,000 file formats, helping you identify and open unknown files on your PC. The app also displays detailed file information, including EXIF data for images and hidden metadata for other file types.Starting Price: $25 per year -
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DivX Pro
DivX
Get the ideal DivX® Software experience with DivX Pro. Unlock stunning video, immersive audio, connect to cloud storage, enjoy no ads anywhere, get advanced conversion features and more. Download award-winning video software to play, create and cast your favorite videos, including DivX®, AVI, MKV, and HEVC up to 4K (available for Windows and Mac). Our free, unified software application includes three components to enjoy high-quality video playback (DivX Player), convert video (DivX Converter) and cast media from your computer to your TV (DivX Media Server). Use a video player that does more than just ‘play’. Watch your video library in high-quality up to 4K, enjoy a variety of video formats such as AVI, DIVX, MKV and MP4, and take advantage of features like smooth FF/RW and chapter points.Starting Price: $13.99 one-time payment -
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PowerDVD
CyberLink
PowerDVD is the complete solution for all of your entertainment needs. From enhanced audio & visual playback to intuitive playlists and media management, enjoy your entire media library as well as Blu-ray disc and DVD movies, all in one place. Share with Friends & Family is only applicable to media uploaded to the Cloud. No additional software or services are required, and playback can be performed via the free PowerPlayer app or using a browser.Starting Price: $59.99 one-time payment -
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Deepin Movie
Deepin
Deepin Movie provides an intuitive easy-to-use operation interface and rich complete shortcuts. You can complete all play operations by keyboard, which will make you thoroughly get rid of the constraint of mouse clicks. Video files in various formats can be played through Deepin Movie, and you can use the streaming function to easily enjoy online video resources. Deepin Movie is a full-featured video player developed by Deepin Technology, which supports playing local and streaming media in multiple video formats. The newest beta version is based on git code and compiled by auto build program, the program may be in an unstable situation.Starting Price: Free -
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Parole
XFCE
Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. Parole features playback of local media files, DVD/CD, and live streams. Parole is extensible via plugins, for a complete how to write a plugin for Parole see the Plugins API documentation and the plugins directory which contains some useful examples. Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. It is designed with simplicity, speed, and resource usage in mind. Parole features playback of local media files, including a video with subtitles support, audio CDs, DVDs, and live streams. Parole is completely free, meaning anyone can use it, redistribute and/or modify it under the GNU general public license. GStreamer Base plugins comprises the base functionality of GStreamer and are required for normal operation. GStreamer Good plugins comprises a set of high quality plug-ins under the LGPL license.Starting Price: Free -
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Kaffeine
KDE
Kaffeine is a media player. What makes it different from the others is its excellent support of digital TV (DVB). Kaffeine has a user-friendly interface so that even first-time users can start immediately playing their movies, from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file. Media player with support for digital television (DVB-C/S/S2/T, ATSC, CI/CAM) It is now possible to run Kaffeine from Docker without installing it on your machine by using Docker. You need to have Docker already installed and configured. By default, libVLC will try to use hardware acceleration on the machine with Kaffeine. As described in Kaffeine's documentation, xmltv files are now supported. Kaffeine's internal logic will map the channels obtained by the grabber into the channel names it has stored internally.Starting Price: Free -
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Bomi
Bomi
A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player. Bomi is a multimedia player formerly known as CMPlayer, which is aimed for easy usage but also provides various powerful features and convenience functions. Just install it and enjoy it! There will be already what you expect. If you don't like it, you can configure almost everything. Bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv for Linux. By taking the advantage of MPV and GUI, Bomi provides various features. Bomi provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface(GUI). You can find all features in the context menu. All configurations can be done in a preferences dialog. Bomi records all playback history by default and provides a way to resume playback later. Bomi also tracks playback states such as selected audio/loaded subtitles etc. Bomi can generate a playlist based on the file name. Also, the last played playlist is saved and restored automatically.Starting Price: Free -
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Audacious
Audacious
Audacious is an open-source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CDs or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or change the dynamic range with audio effects. Enjoy the modern Qt-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, display a VU meter, and more. The new release includes several small improvements that have been made over the past year. This release brings the Qt UI to Windows and includes a variety of community contributions. Audacious runs on Linux, on BSD derivatives, and on Microsoft Windows.Starting Price: Free -
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Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Music Player Daemon
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries, it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol. An experimental Android build is available on Google Play. After installing and launching it, MPD will scan the music in your music directory and you can control it as usual with an MPD client. Each plugin usually needs a codec library, which you also need to install. Check the plugin reference for details about the required libraries. Even though it does not “feel” like a Windows application, MPD works well under Windows. Its build process follows the “Linux style” and may seem awkward for Windows people (who are not used to compiling their software, anyway). Audio outputs are devices that actually play the audio chunks produced by MPD. You can configure any number of audio output devices, but there must be at least one.Starting Price: Free -
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Rage
Enlightenment
Rage is a video and audio player written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) with some interesting features. Rage is a simple video and audio player intended to be slick yet simplistic, much like Mplayer. Use the command line to play media files or just drag and drop them onto the Rage window to add them to a playlist. Run Rage with no command-line arguments to enter video browser mode. From here you can display a graphical overview of everything on your playlist by hitting the / key or just hovering your mouse over the right-hand side of the window. Rage also has a full set of key controls. It automatically searches for and displays album art when playing music if they aren't already cached. It even generates thumbnails for video timelines and allows you to preview clips by hovering your mouse over the position bar at the bottom of the window. Rage will cache any album covers it downloads for future use.Starting Price: Free - 24