Comments on: 13 Free MP3 Players for Windows

By: Stephanie Lee

Stephanie Lee — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:14:01 +0000

I would put PlayPad in there instead of Billy as a lighter app if you want a no fuss, no skins Mp3 player. But I am sure you cannot find and profile them all.

By: nerd

nerd — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:31:18 +0000

good list but i think you missed 2 essentials
1.
http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ sound much better the all mentioned before..
give it a try, you will not regret it

2. http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=lang-en also worth a try

k.i.r nerdz ;D

By: Craigsnedeker

Craigsnedeker — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:27:38 +0000

Songbird ROCKS! It’s acutaly partnered with Mozilla. It has a super large plugin/theme site and it’s way cool. I’ve used it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:06:06 +0000

Hi Josh. No one seems to be disagreeing with you about Windows Media Player!

Thanks for the intro to XMplay. It looks like a player with a long history. I may have even checked it out at some time over the years.

By: Josh Hunsaker

Josh Hunsaker — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:32:45 +0000

I’ll just make a really really big claim here and say that windows media player is garbage and extremely slow and doesn’t support enough file standards for me as a media player and that you left off the best one…xmplay!

XMplay has support for more file types than any combination of any of set of players out there as well as being completely free and supports playback of 24/32 bit files with samplerates up to 96khz along with ASIO support, realtime dithering/noise-shaping to provide the most unencumbered and accurate playback you will find of any tool IMO. It allows all the same plugins that can be used within winamp and is completely skinnable (of course).

It’s definitely the player I would use if you enjoy listening to music without worrying about samplerate/encoding issues becoming a quality concern upon playback…