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Recommended Music Players?

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2026 8:27 pm
by SinonC
Probably an odd place to ask this, but i'm wondering if anyone here has any digital music players they could recommend?

For context, for the last couple years i've been buying the majority of my music from bandcamp, and a few days ago I was able to bring over the entirety of my bought iTunes music (sans their album covers unfortunately :( ) onto my PC just so I don't have to jump between 2 different music libraries to queue up and play music. Up till now, i've been using an app called Gapless to play my music, but i'm a bit frustrated at its lack of QOL features that the base iTunes app has. I've seen people elsewhere using something called Music Player Daemon, but given it seems built more for streaming music my house internet is abysmal, i've been trying to find something else. :|

Re: Recommended Music Players?

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2026 1:26 am
by zero
Ooh i have a lot actually
VLC - good ol' VLC. Doesn't have as many music-specific features but it works and there's plugins you can probably add to make it more music-oriented
Audacious - Free and open source music player, only works on POSIX and Unix-like operating systems but it supports winamp themes without being as janky as winamp and has some more modern themes too.
AIMP - Another reliable music player with some good themes. I think it has plugins too but i haven't messed with it too much. It has an android app too that works really nice i'd actually say the android app feels more polished and modern compared to the PC version.
Wacup - Winamp clone with some extra features and better album & track sorting. I liked using it though its got a bit of winamp jank.
Foobar2000 - A simple modular and customizable music player, nice and simple.

Re: Recommended Music Players?

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2026 12:08 pm
by BlueBaby
Audacious is pretty good. It's highly customisable too given you can use any old winamp skin with it.