Winamp Alternatives

Winamp is described as 'Full-featured media player known for ease of use, skinnable design, advanced audio visualizers, supports plug-ins, playlists, and music library' and is a leading Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Winamp for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Mac and Android Tablet apps. The best Winamp alternative is AIMP, which is free. Other great apps like Winamp are foobar2000, Clementine, Audacious and MusicBee.

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  1. mpvKt icon
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    A media player for Android based on mpv-android aiming to provide a nicer user interface over the original

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  2. WACUP icon
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    WACUP is an independent project to provide new features & bug fixes for Winamp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Default WACUP classic skin layout
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  3. Exaile icon
     109 likes

    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
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  4. Best material design music player for Android. Metro is a fork of Retro Music with Google Play API removed and all pro features unlocked.

    130 Metro - A music player for Android alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  5. ClassiPod icon
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    Step back in time with ClassiPod, a local music player app designed to capture the nostalgic essence of the iconic iPod Classic. Immerse yourself in the familiar click wheel interface and relive the joy of navigating your music library with a touch of retro charm.

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • Linux
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  6. Light Crime icon
     10 likes

    Retro macOS audio player with 90s cyber-styled interface, broad file and playlist compatibility, hardware key support, persistent library, missing file detection, custom playlists, and menu bar integration for a personal standalone desktop music experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. A fork of Phonograph Music Player that "makes all Pro features free, as they used to be". It has a material design that's easy on the eyes, and it's easy to use, customizable (multiple themes), has folder browsing, a sleep timer and tag editor.

    119 Vinyl Music Player alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  8. GOM Player icon
     241 likes

    GOM Player is a freeware media player. Key strengths are the ability to play the majority of media files without the need to obtain a codec, and the ability to play some broken media files, both advantages over traditional players, like Windows Media Player.

    146 GOM Player alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  9. Yami icon
     9 likes

    Explore Yami, an open-source music player providing a minimalistic, intuitive user interface to play local files and access music from Spotify and YouTube Music. Compatible across platforms, it's developed by Mithun for ease of use, integrating spotdl for seamless downloads.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
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  10. HiFidelity icon
     8 likes

    Native offline macOS audio player powered by BASS for bit-perfect, gapless playback, real-time lyrics, advanced equalizer, exclusive audio device support, library browsing by album or genre, smart autoplay, playback history, open-source, Homebrew installable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  11. XMPlay icon
     85 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...

    118 XMPlay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    XMPlay 4 – Default look
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  12. Phiola icon
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    phiola is a fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android. Its low CPU consumption conserves the notebook/phone battery. You can issue commands to phiola via its CLI, TUI, GUI, system pipe and SDK interfaces.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • F-Droid
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