Top 5 Free Media Players for Windows

Music and media has been a part of our day-to-day life. We all have varied interests and preferences for listening music or watching videos. To serve all our media needs a lot of media players have come into the market. Here are some media players, which offers very advanced quality along with many customization options.

Comparing media players is actually a pretty difficult task. Yes, some players are more feature-packed while others are barebones. But ultimately the choice comes down to your own preferences.

Here is a list of top 5 free media players for Windows users. I use a few ones from this list, personally:

1. VLC Media Player

VLC media player is cross platform supporting player and runs smoothly on almost all the operating systems. It is a all in one media player & has a very simple user interface. It is a quite fast and powerful media player that can play almost everything.

It can play most of the codecs without any special codec pack. As it is an open source software, you can find many addons for it to make it more entertaining.

2. Foobar2000

Foobar2000 is an advanced music player with amazing flexibility. It provides a variety of customization options that helps both the casual listeners and the music enthusiast to enjoy best.

The player features a variety of plugins and supports wide range of audio and video formats. It offers many tabs and panels to help users navigate through the lists, various layout options are also provided for users to choose and use the one they like.

3. MediaMonkey

MediaMonkey is a very rich and powerful media player. You can customize its layout. The interface is very neat and easy. You can keep tabbed playlists, categories, net radio, party modes that you would like to listen. They offer many addons, extensions to modify the application.

4. MusicBee

MusicBee is a great media player for managing your extensive collection of media files. You can very easily organize your files, find songs etc. It comes with a comprehensive feature that includes, fully customizable, advanced audio tools and support.

5. Songbird

Songbird can run on almost every platform. It is easily customizable, you can even install themes and addons to it. You can organize your music in a handy catalog. Make categories or playlists as you prefer for your favourite songs.

Songbird also supports global hotkeys. It’s an open source music player and organizer so with this you can manage your media files and play them more efficiently.

The list is based on many parameters including quality, performance etc. Do you think some other media player should be part of this list? Do let us know in comments.