Windows Media Player (Groove) Alternatives

Windows Media Player (Groove) is described as 'All your tunes, all in one place, on all your devices Enjoy all the music you love in one simple, fast, and elegant Windows 10 app' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Windows Media Player (Groove) for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Windows Media Player (Groove) alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Media Player (Groove) are foobar2000, AIMP, Clementine and MusicBee.

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  1. Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...

    221 Windows Media Player alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. Dopamine icon
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    Audio player for Windows, Linux, and Mac offering a visually appealing, easy-to-use interface, support for major audio formats, music library organization, tag editing, album art retrieval, playlist management, gapless playback, and advanced searching capabilities.

    71 Dopamine alternatives

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  3. Quod Libet icon
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    A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

    164 Quod Libet alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
     
  4. Exaile icon
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    Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  5. Vox Music Player icon
     111 likes

    It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.

    151 Vox Music Player alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
  6. Roon icon
     9 likes

    Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.

    228 Roon alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Synology C2
     
  7. Nightingale icon
     45 likes

    Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code. A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, all with multi-platform support!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

    Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Wind.

    82 C* Music Player alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
  9. Audirvana icon
     11 likes

    Audiophile-grade digital audio player for Mac and PC offering native FLAC, WAV, ALAC support, bit-perfect output, gapless playback, upsampling, memory playback, exclusive audio mode, playlist management, and background decoding for high-fidelity listening.

    42 Audirvana alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. XMPlay icon
     86 likes

    A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from...

    111 XMPlay alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  11. Plexamp icon
     12 likes

    Plexamp is a small music player for your desktop, with a number of unique features.Throw your best FLACs at it and experience sonic bliss!.

    179 Plexamp alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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