There are many media players available today. In this post I will be considering only audio playing features. I have listed 7 audio players which I have used and all of them are very different from each other. Read on and see which one suites your taste.

1. foobar2000 – For the people who believe in Simple Living Great Thinking.

• Windows only
• Freeware
• Minimalistic Interface
• Minimum resource hungry
• Very easy to manage playlist

2. Winamp – For faithful people who still use Winamp. I remember it as my first audio player back in 2001 (downloaded lots of skins over my slow dailup connection then).

• Windows only
• Freeware/shareware
• Quite bulky interface (highly customizable)
• Loads of Skins and Plug-ins available
• Nice Media Manager

3. iTunes – Own any of the apple products, then iTunes is a MUST!

• Windows and Mac
• Freeware
• Cool Interface (Apple rules GUI)
• Resource Hungry
• Very Extensive Media Library
• Have a High End Machine, then go for it.

4. Windows Media Player – For all the lazy people out there.

• Windows only (name says it all)
• Freeware (Windows License needed)
• Good Interface
• Not a bad option if have codecs installed

5. Songbird – For all the Open Source Community.

• Cross platform
• Open Source (GPL)
• iTunes + Firefox like interface
• Has every ingredients of  great audio player

6. Rythmbox – Best there is for Gnome.

• Linux only
• Open Source (GPL)
• Inspired by iTunes
• Does a pretty decent job

7. Amarok – Power packed as is KDE.

• Lunix and Windows (through KDE)
• GPL
• Very good inteface compliments KDE in every way
• Loads of Features

I am currently using Winamp + VLC + WMP + Klite codec for all my media playing needs. What audio player do you prefer?

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