Despite the fact that music streaming services have become the most used tool by many users when it comes to listening to their favorite music, many are those who have a large number of songs, converted directly from your CD at the highest quality and they prefer to use their PC to manage it at all times, in addition to playing it connected to an audio equipment.
If you want to continue taking advantage of your music library, that music library that has cost you so many years to create, in this article we are going to show you what they are the best music players for Windows, players that keep updating every year, not those that have become a legend but have not updated for several years.
Of all the players that we show you below, all They offer us free versions with some other limitation, limitation that we can skip by buying the application, but they are the least. Now everything depends on the needs and preferences you have to keep your library in order and concert.
GOM Player
This player that consumes very few resources, not only allows us to enjoy our favorite music, but also allows us to play any type of video, including those recorded in 360 degrees, although for this we do you need to download the corresponding codecs, something that does not happen if we talk about music files. GOM Player offers us a large number of skins to customize our player to suit our tastes, a function that not all players on the market offer.
If while listening to music we are moving around the house, thanks to the GOM Remote application, we can control playback from our smartphone, either Android or iOS, so that we can pause playback, advance the song, go back ... It requires 2 GM of RAM memory and is compatible from Windows XP to Windows 10. It also offers a large number of skins to customize the aesthetics of the player.
Waf Music Manager
Waf Music Manager is a simple and practical application that groups a music player, a song organizer and a tag editors in one lightweight package, allowing you to listen to music and change song details from one place. The integrated file browser allows you to view all supported music files in a specific location on your computer and their duration, while the search function can be used to filter songs by artist name, title or album.
The application allows you to edit the tag data of the selected music files (batch operations are allowed), providing editable fields for artist name, song title, album, rating, track number , the year, the genre, the publisher, the composers and the directors. In this way, you can organize your collection in a much more efficient way. Wal Music Manager is supported as of Windows 8.1.
ZPlayer
ZPlayer is a Java-based music player that allows us to enjoy our favorite music with an easy-to-use interface without complications. This player natively supports a wide range of audio formats such as MP2, MP3, WAV, Ogg, Flac, MID, CDA, MOD, Dolby AC3 ... We can easily create playlists that show us the name of the song , duration, size and when it was created. ZPlayer is a player compatible with all versions of Windows, it only allows us to play audio, it occupies very little and the user interface allows us to pause or play the song, stop it, advance a song or return to the previous one.
AIMP
AIMP joins the long list of music players available for Windows. The main feature that it offers us is the compatibility with different skins to customize the player to our tastes. AIMP is natively compatible with MP3, AAC, FLAC, MAC, M3U, OGG, OPUS, RMI, TTA, WAV and WMA files among others. This player takes up very little space on our hard drive and it is compatible as of Windows Vista.
MusicBee
MusicBee is one of the players that offers us more options in less space. Instead of offering us a file browser, we must directly import the folder where the music files are to begin playback. If among the metadata of the audio files, the album or song art is inserted, this will be displayed in the application. MusicBee offers us different display modes, automatic shutdown, change the audio configuration, access to a song mixer, modify the labels of the audio files ... This playback is compatible from Windows Vista and is compatible with versions of 64 bits.
MediaMonkey
Another of the players that offer us a large number of options is MediaMonkey, a playback that can manage a library without messing up more than 100.000 files, burn CDs directly from the application, search through tags, letters, covers and other metadata, manage the genre type of songs ...
It also allows us to play any audio format without having to worry about having to convert to other formats, we can create playlists of all the songs we want without limits in addition to using the Auto DJ function so that it automatically takes care of playing the songs in our library. Within the customization options we also find the possibility of adding skins, tools to discover new music, language packs ...
Audacity
Although this application is better known for being an excellent editor for audio files, it also offers us different functions to use it as a music player, but with the extra that allows us to edit our favorite songs to create, by means of fades, a single track with a lot of songs. Naps looking for an all in oneTo avoid having so many applications installed on your computer, Audacity is the application you need.
Tomahawk
If our music is not only found on our PC, but we also use a streaming music service, managing all that information is very simple with Tomahawk, a free player that can be linked to Google Play Music, Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, SoundCloud up to YouTube. In this way, any song we are looking for, we will find it easily, either on our hard drive or in one of these streaming music services. Also, if we are one of those users who like to share our tastes with our friends, Tomahawk offers us the perfect tools to do so.
tuna
aTunes, which is inspired by Apple's iTunes, offers us a simple and clear interface so that we can easily find and play all the songs that are part of our library. Thanks to the option to import songs or directories, we can manage our library little by little without having to fight with a large number of songs as soon as we start.
aTunes is compatible with all audio formats on the market, so we will not need to convert the songs to a more compatible format to be able to play them, with this excellent free application. Like other services, aTunes allows us to connect to Last.fm in addition to finding all the songs that are duplicated, something that very few applications do.
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VLC media player
VLC has become, over the years, the best tool that we can currently find on the market for free to be able to listen to both our favorite music and enjoy any video in whatever format, since it is compatible with all they. Although it is true that aesthetics are not the most striking of all, with VLC we will not have any problem to play any music format.
iTunes
If we want to have our library always in order with their respective covers, Apple iTunes is an excellent option when listening to our favorite music, yes, you have to be very conscientious with all the data of each song, so that the application can sort and group them correctly. If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, it is more than likely that you already have this application installed even if you only use it to make backup copies, since the function that allowed us to navigate through the App Store and install them later on our iOS device has been removed after the release of iOS 11.