Category Archives: Player

Audio File Players

MusicBee ~ Extensible Audio Player

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Enjoy a great music experience with MusicBee, the ultimate music manager and player. Play your music the way you want. Turn your computer into a music jukebox.

MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. Use auto-tagging to clean up your messy music library. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.

Supports AcoustID, Discogs, Last.FM, Milkdrop, ReplayGain and UPnP / DLNA

musicbee

getmusicbee.com
getmusicbee.com/downloads
Add-ons
Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBee

beets ~ The Music Geek’s Media Organizer

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The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can imagine for your music collection. Via plugins, beets becomes a panacea:

  • Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: album art, lyrics, genres, tempos, ReplayGain levels, or acoustic fingerprints.
  • Get metadata from MusicBrainz, Discogs or Beatport. Or guess metadata using songs’ filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
  • Transcode audio to any format you like.
  • Check your library for duplicate tracks and albums or for albums that are missing tracks
  • Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any browser that supports HTML5 Audio and lots more.

beets.io

Audacious ~ Open Source Audio Player

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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 CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.

Audacious

audacious-media-player.org
audacious-media-player.org/download
VU Meters

Mixxx ~ DJ Your Way For Free

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Mixxx has everything you need to start making DJ mixes in a tight, integrated package. Whether you’re DJing your next house party, spinning at a club, or broadcasting as a radio DJ, Mixxx has what you need to do it right.

Mixx-2.0

Cross-platform, extensible, multi-language, open source & skinnable freeware. Support for iTunes, MusicBrainz, ReplayGain and Traktor.

mixxx.org
Download
Manual
Wiki
Blog
Wikipedia
Github Repository

Songbird ~ Freeware Audio Player

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With a focus on fans, Songbird personalizes music content from the artists you love the most. Share your own photos with artists and other fans or discover new artists, all while listening to your music on your computer.

Songbird

The predecessor to Nightingale, Songbird is now defunct software ~ FYI, the real download link at the website is entitled “Free For PC”

getsongbird.net
Download
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)

Nightingale ~ Extensible Audio Player

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Nightingale chirps your favorite tunes! A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, Last.fm and multi-platform support!

nightingale-windows-screenshot

getnightingale.com
Add-ons

* A descendant of Songbird

Amarok ~ Cross Platform Audio Player

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Amarok is a powerful music player, with multi-language support, for Macs, Unix/Linux and Windows. It has an intuitive interface and makes playing the music you love, and discovering new music, easier than ever before – and it looks good doing it!

Features:

  • Dynamic playlists matching different criteria
  • Collection managing with rating support
  • Support for basic iPod, MTP and UMS music player devices
  • Integrated Internet services: last.fm, Magnatune, Ampache and more.
  • Scripting support
  • Cover manager
  • Replaygain support

apps.kde.org/amarok
amarok.kde.org
Downloads
Documentation

Boom Audio Player ~ Foobar2000 Simplified

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Frome the same developer who brought you Foobar2000 comes Boom.

Boom is an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.

Features:

  • No installation or administrator rights required! Just download and run.
  • Gapless playback of properly encoded files. Enjoy smooth transitions between tracks.
  • ReplayGain support. External software is currently required to write ReplayGain information to file tags to utilize this functionality.
  • Contents of your music folders are shown, in a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view.
  • By default, contents of “my music” folder or Windows Music library folders are shown. You can configure Boom to index music from any other folders though.
  • You can install Boom to removable media and have it index contents of the folder it is installed in.
  • Are your files badly tagged or missing tags all together? No problem, Boom can browse your music library by its folder structure.
  • Supports variety of popular audio formats, including: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A, WMA.
  • For emergency tagging needs, Boom includes a simplified version of the foobar2000 Properties dialog.
  • Easily configured to run from removable media.
  • Multi-language support.
boom-1

perkele.cc/software/boom
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NQNS46R8T75

Foobar2000 ~ Extensible Audio Interface & Player

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An advanced and evolved freeware audio player for Android, Mac, Windows and Wine. Foobar2000 can be extensively extended, modified and themed.

This is the basic Default User interface or DUI. You will need to configure and extend the Foobar2000 interface according to your preferences and requirements.

Foobar2000 v2.16 Default User Interface
Foobar2000 v2.16 Default User Interface
  • Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components.
  • Gapless playback.
  • Easily customizable user interface.
  • 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.
  • Open component architecture allows third-party developers to extend functionality.
  • Multiplatform: Android, Mac, Windows 32|64-bit and ARM (ARM64EC).

Foobar2000 is not limited to its own default user interface or DUI. The interface is extensible, modular and there are alternatives including a popular interface called Columns User Interface or CUI. CUI is most often used for theming or skinning foobar2000.

www.foobar2000.org
www.foobar2000.org/download
www.foobar2000.org/components
www.foobar2000.org/components/system/mac
www.foobar2000.org/FAQ
www.foobar2000.org/screenshots
www.foobar2000.org/SDK
mobile.foobar2000.com
wiki.hydrogenaud.io
Version_2.0_Release_Notes

Packages & Store Versions:

apps.apple.com/us/app/foobar2000/id1072807669
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foobar2000.foobar2000
www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/foobar2000/9pdj8x9spf2k
www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PDJ8X9SPF2K (foobar2000 classic version 1.6x)
chocolatey.org/packages/foobar2000
aur.archlinux.org/packages/foobar2000/

Foobar Forums At Hydrogenaudio:

References:
Foobar2000 ~ The First Steps