Best Media Players

Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix, and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before, and it looks good doing it! Much of where work has been invested in Amarok 2 is the Web services integration. Now Amarok can connect to various Web services and access the music directly, greatly expanding the potential number of songs at your fingertips. Thanks to the powerful API, adding additional services can be done with very little effort. Scrobble and listen to any Last.fm radio stream with fully featured Last.fm integration. Buy tracks from the integrated Magnatune store, and help support the music labels. Connect remotely to an Ampache music server and browse search, and playback media files. Find, subscribe, and download audio and video podcasts from all over the ultimate podcast directory. Listen to streaming audio books straight from the Librivox catalog.

Azure Media Player automatically picks the best format for a browser or device, and uses the dynamic packaging capabilities of Azure Media Services to play adaptive streaming content in formats like MPEG-DASH, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, or Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Media Player is also designed to select the correct technology based on the platform—HTML5 (MSE/EME), Adobe Flash Player, or Microsoft Silverlight. Regardless of the playback technology, there’s a simple interface to access APIs. Media Player gives you simplified development using standard HTML5 video tags. A unified JavaScript interface lets advanced customers create a media player experience without having to develop for specific platforms or features.

Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. Parole features playback of local media files, DVD/CD, and live streams. Parole is extensible via plugins, for a complete how to write a plugin for Parole see the Plugins API documentation and the plugins directory which contains some useful examples. Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. It is designed with simplicity, speed, and resource usage in mind. Parole features playback of local media files, including a video with subtitles support, audio CDs, DVDs, and live streams. Parole is completely free, meaning anyone can use it, redistribute and/or modify it under the GNU general public license. GStreamer Base plugins comprises the base functionality of GStreamer and are required for normal operation. GStreamer Good plugins comprises a set of high quality plug-ins under the LGPL license.

Kaffeine is a media player. What makes it different from the others is its excellent support of digital TV (DVB). Kaffeine has a user-friendly interface so that even first-time users can start immediately playing their movies, from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file. Media player with support for digital television (DVB-C/S/S2/T, ATSC, CI/CAM) It is now possible to run Kaffeine from Docker without installing it on your machine by using Docker. You need to have Docker already installed and configured. By default, libVLC will try to use hardware acceleration on the machine with Kaffeine. As described in Kaffeine's documentation, xmltv files are now supported. Kaffeine's internal logic will map the channels obtained by the grabber into the channel names it has stored internally.

SPlayer is a simple, powerful, and intelligent media browser. With the new SPlayer, you can play all video formats; watch online or streaming videos, fetch translation results in one click; have a nicer level of control over video playback, or else than you would hope and expect to find. The all-new SPlayer smashes the bonds of traditional thinking and habits that shackle your mind, by using the most avant-garde and forward design, and infusing the element of efficiency and practicability, to dedicate the ultimate immersive experience to you. SPlayer includes a massive collection of optimized video decoders, so it can automatically recognize any video files such as MPEG, MPEG2, VOB, DAT, M4V, TS, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, MOV, MKV, MPG, AVI, VP8, VP9, VP10, and more H.264/H.265/HEVC high definition videos. SPlayer has a built-in translation system that integrates real-time voice recognition and NLP (Natural Language Processing) technology to help you add captions.

The playlist is automatically populated with files from the same folder as the file opened for playback. The playlist can be opened by moving the mouse to the left or right side of the player (depending on user set up, right by default), with a shortcut (P by default) or through a button if opening with the mouse is disabled. The playlist can also overlay the video or push/resize it. Most actions in Haruna can be triggered with a keyboard shortcut that can be configured by the user. Assign actions to mouse buttons: left, middle, right single and double clicks, as well as scroll up and down.

Send your photos and videos in their original size to your PC, share them with your friends, and transfer your music files to your iPhone. You can send it anywhere you want instantly, for free. No login or registration is required. A security key that lets you send and receive files on Send Anywhere. It will be generated after selecting files. When the key is entered on the receiving device, files will be sent instantly. You can generate a link and share it with multiple people, links are valid for 48 hours. Send a notification to receiving devices, allowing them to receive files without having to enter a key. Received music files can be played right in the app! You can even make a music playlist of your own and send the file to your friends. Received Video files can be played in Send Anywhere's simple video player! Even multi-language subtitles are supported! Free your iPhone from iTunes. Implemented member withdrawal function.

Music moves people; it unites us, allows us to relax, and sometimes even manages to motivate us to do great things. Poweramp does great things. Features like gapless playback between songs, an unrivaled equalization system, an incredible crossfade function, and compatibility with the most popular music file formats. If you haven't already, try the full-featured free trial. With the trial version, you can enjoy a complete and uninterrupted experience of all that Poweramp has to offer. This means you'll be able to experience your music as only Poweramp can. If you need some reasons to get the full version of Poweramp, here are two good ones. All future updates are free, once you buy Poweramp, all future updates are free, as long as you have the unlocker. You will have a dedicated music player, Poweramp has a commitment that it will never give up, to be the best music player on the market. Poweramp is solely and exclusively focused on being an amazing music player.

Simple and modern GNOME media player. Clapper is a GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit. The media player is using GStreamer as a media backend and renders everything via OpenGL. The player works natively on both Xorg and Wayland. It also supports hardware acceleration through VA-API on AMD/Intel GPUs, NVDEC on NVIDIA, and V4L2 on mobile devices. The media player has an adaptive GUI. When viewing videos in "windowed mode", Clapper will use mostly unmodified GTK widgets to match your OS look nicely. When the player enters "fullscreen mode" all GUI elements will become darker, bigger, and semi-transparent for your viewing comfort. It also has a "floating mode" which displays only video on top of all other windows for a PiP-like viewing experience. Mobile-friendly transitions are also supported. We improved the GL/GLES context automatic selection. Additionally, it also has a few patches, thus some functionalities work better (or are only available) in Flatpak version.