Top 15 Winamp Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Winamp is a media player for Windows and OS X developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to Radionomy in January 2014. Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.

1. Songbird

Songbird Songbird was an open-source customizable music player that is now dead. It is based on the Mozilla platform and the ability to customize the program is huge. Its successor is Nightingale .......

2. Helium Music Manager

Helium Music Manager You can take control of your music collection. Stop spending time looking for files on your computer or hunting through CDs, vinyl records and tapes - instead, simply enjoy and explore your music!Helium Music Manager can replace your ripper, player, tag editor and other audio related software.Supported audio formats :......

3. Audion

Audion Audion is a light, simple and powerful audio CDs and MP3s player. Features* MP3 Player* CD PlayerHigh-quality, smooth MP3 playbackReorder, remix, and affect your CDs* Net Audio Player* Alpha-Channel InterfacesSmoothly stream Icecast or ShoutcastThe first on the Mac!* Finder-like Playlists* Stream GuideYou already know how they work!Find net streams......

4. jetAudio

jetAudio JetAudio is integrated, multimedia software made of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features such as CD burning, recording, and conversion to other file formats. You can create your own Internet broadcast by using JetCast, provided with JetAudio, and......

5. mufin

mufin Simply music! Discover new sounds with mufin - your music discovery engineThe free mufin player is the first music player to know the actual sound of your music collection to let you discover, manage, and listen to your music better. The mufin player helps you discover new music easier, create......

6. Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes , it is free software that is designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. Among the many features of Rhythmbox, you will find:Easy to......

7. VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. FeaturesSimple, fast and powerful media player.Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:MPEG-2, DivX, H.264,......

8. iTunes

iTunes iTunes is the best way to organize and enjoy the music, movies, and TV shows you already have — and shop for the ones you want to get. You can even tune in to free, on-demand music stations that have been totally revamped by our Apple Music experts. Enjoy all......

9. Xnoise Media Player

Xnoise Media Player XNOISE is an ultra-light media player for Gtk+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features. Xnoise can play every kind of audio/video data that gstreamer can handle. Unlike Rhythmbox, Banshee or itunes, Xnoise uses a tracklist centric design. The tracklist is a list of video or music......

10. aTunes

aTunes aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.A skinnable java alternative to iTunes (similar interface). Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags,......

11. Media Jukebox

Media Jukebox Media Jukebox is an all-in-one media player, music collection organizer, iPod connector and music store with extreme tagging techniques. This music player can pretty much do it all. While not as small as VLC, it definitely does have a bunch of features. It can even be used to sync your......

12. Everplay

Everplay Everplay is a light weight, stand alone media player, Everplay merges your iTunes library with Last FM web and online radio services.Scrobble. Love. Shout. Share. Everplay connects you to the social music playground.Features include:Cover Flow browsing,Last FM web and radio services,Video support,Hotkeys,Desktop mini-controller,Visual track change notifications,Remote control,Jukebox, Similar Artists and......

13. MediaPortal

MediaPortal MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and Music in a much more dynamic way. All in the comfort of your living room, on your big screen LCD or Plasma TV......

14. MEDIARevolution

MEDIARevolution By it's enormous function range and the support of numerous media formats MEDIARevolution is the only Player you really need on your PC! Apart from playing video and audio files as well as DVD's, you get a complete media administration and a digital video recorder. The product rounds useful aid......

15. foobar2000

foobar2000 foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.......