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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!
MediaMonkey
As well as a great name, MediaMonkey is a great music manager and music player for serious music collectors. It catalogues your CDs and your audio files such as OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3, and features an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web. The app also has an automated file and directory namer to organise your music library. This may prove handy, as you can manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without slowdown! Other features we really like is the integrated Podcatcher; its Party Mode; plus, customisable skins, visualisations, plug-ins and scripts to make MediaMonkey do what exactly you want it to. And for all you stats-geeks, you can create statistics and other reports of your music collection as Excel, HTML, or XML files. Nerdy, maybe. Clever, definitely.