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Top 10 Best Free Media Players
AudioBest SoftwareSoftware ReviewsVideo Players May 4, 2017 Andrew Baxter
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!
KMPlayer
To give you an idea of how popular KMPlayer is, it’s been downloaded over 20 MILLION times on FileHippo! I know, right? Unsurprisingly then, KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can handle a range of formats, such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. Available for PC, Mac and mobile, KMPlayer handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. If you don’t want to install Codec, or your computer’s not up to it, you can easily modify your environment to a convenient multi-media format by using KMPlayer. Cool.