Top 10 Best Free Media Players

Enjoy music, movies, TV shows and streaming, like never before.

Yes, your PC or Mac has a built-in media player, but there are a whole lot of alternative free media players out there that will take your enjoyment to the next level.

The right media player helps you enjoy music, movies, and TV shows like never before. Whether you love streaming, downloading, or playing media from a USB, disc, or external hard drive, a great media player is a thing of joy.

The programs in our Top 10 Best Free Media Players list can handle a huge range of audio and video formats; help you organise your media library; tag movies and songs; integrate with online streaming services; add album art, and so much more!

If you’ve got a favourite free media player that’s not made it on our Top 10, we’d love to know. Just leave a comment below. Enjoy!

5KPlayer

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Available for PC and Mac, not only is 5KPlayer a free HD media player, but it also has a built-in AirPlay receiver tool that can help you stream audio and video media from iPhone, iPad, iPod and Apple Watch to both the Mac OS X platform and to a Windows PC. 5KPlayer can also be used as an AirPlay sender for free streaming of MP4, MOV, M4V, MP3 and AAC files from iMac, MacBook and Windows 10/8/7 to Apple TV, and AirPlay speakers wirelessly. 5KPlayer is also an online video music downloader that supports 300+ online video and audio sites. Without subscription, you can download 4K, 5K, 8K Ultra HD, or 1080P HD videos, and music online, from YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Vevo, Metacafe, Myspace, Vine, UStream, MTV, Instagram, Bliptv, LiveLeak, CBS slideshare, and free download music from Soundcloud.