Windows has a plethora of applications for playing music and videos. Each of them have some or the other unique abilities. Here I list some of them:
Windows Media Player
Undoubtedly one of the oldest and "faithful" media players anyody has known since PCs became household items is our beloved Windows Media Player. It comes bundled with every modern version of Windows and can play audio and video alike. Definitely not a player I'd go crazy about but it was worthy enough to be mentioned.
Winamp
The most popular and versatile of all media players available on Windows, Winamp stands out as a very unique one. With support for applying multiple amazing skins on the interface and being able to play podcats, etc., online music Winamp is also lightweight and comes free (the basic version ofcourse.. but the advanced proprietary version is an overkill of features anyway -- not required if you just want to play simple music).
KMPlayer
Not good not bad -- this player has a loyal fan following for valid reasons. The design and functionality is very easy and smooth. The dark background offers a fine interface for disturbanceless video viewing. Though, definitely not great for playing music like other media players like Winamp -- KMPlayer is a smooth free alternative software that is rather small in size.
VLC Media Player
No media player list will be complete without mentioning this super-popular software. Available in both Windows and Linux this is the default software many Linux distros will provide. However, since we are speaking about Windows here, it is very easy to download and install this player. Again like the last player not very ideal for playing only music but yes very suited to play high quality videos. One of the most awesome features of VLC Media Player is to display subtitles from SRT files.
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema
The name might sound a bit "generic" but functionally this wonder of a media player can play numerous codecs. Similar to VLC Media Player in many ways, MPC is great for playing high quality videos.
iTunes
The iTunes is - as the name suggests - is a media player for playing audio/video from iTunes. Apart from that definitely it could also play media files. The interface of iTunes 11 the latest one has been designed from the scratch and provides numerous new functionalities.
Foobar2000
A very lightwight audio player that is extremely light on system resources. A machine with 256 MB memory and multiple simultaneous applications can also easily run this amazing player easily. However, all this comes at a price. The sound quality is rather mediocre and the interface looks like Windows 95! :D Jokes apart but it comes very handy when you are running a system bogged with applications but still want to play some music. Definitely Winamp and Windows Media Player are not going to be helpful in such situation.
This is a very limited list though and there are many players such as GOM Player, etc. But these players are known to be the most popular. Please suggest any more players in the comments box and I will include them in this list!
Windows Media Player
Undoubtedly one of the oldest and "faithful" media players anyody has known since PCs became household items is our beloved Windows Media Player. It comes bundled with every modern version of Windows and can play audio and video alike. Definitely not a player I'd go crazy about but it was worthy enough to be mentioned.
Winamp
The most popular and versatile of all media players available on Windows, Winamp stands out as a very unique one. With support for applying multiple amazing skins on the interface and being able to play podcats, etc., online music Winamp is also lightweight and comes free (the basic version ofcourse.. but the advanced proprietary version is an overkill of features anyway -- not required if you just want to play simple music).
KMPlayer
VLC Media Player
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema
iTunes
The iTunes is - as the name suggests - is a media player for playing audio/video from iTunes. Apart from that definitely it could also play media files. The interface of iTunes 11 the latest one has been designed from the scratch and provides numerous new functionalities.
Foobar2000
A very lightwight audio player that is extremely light on system resources. A machine with 256 MB memory and multiple simultaneous applications can also easily run this amazing player easily. However, all this comes at a price. The sound quality is rather mediocre and the interface looks like Windows 95! :D Jokes apart but it comes very handy when you are running a system bogged with applications but still want to play some music. Definitely Winamp and Windows Media Player are not going to be helpful in such situation.
This is a very limited list though and there are many players such as GOM Player, etc. But these players are known to be the most popular. Please suggest any more players in the comments box and I will include them in this list!
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