I have never seen such conflicting studies. Some say Groove is better cuz its newer, less bugs, and will be updated more frequently. Others say VLC is still king as it can run more format and even some corrupted formats to some degree. Some sources says there is no difference and other say we have to look at the codex or something.

Should there be a more concert answer to this, we are dealing with 1s and 0s after all how can their be so many conflicting opinions on quality. I mainly want to focus on audio quality so if someone can help me navigate this mess that would be great.

are there any ? 99% of the stuff i see doesnt have the features im lf or barely even works.

just something as replacement for youtube, considering how broken and useless yt became.

'm looking for a basic music player for PC- something with a good queue system like Musicolet and easy playlist management. Right now, I use Foobar, but maybe due to my customizations, I can't properly set up queues, and most resources I've found about it are over 10 years old.

I don't want to use Plex since I'm not interested in paying for a license. I did try Jellyfin, but also want to have an offline copy of my library on my phone. Unfortunately, the player I used with Jellyfin behaved strangely-it felt like it was made primarily for streaming, and downloading was more of an afterthought.

Right now, I've just set up an FTP server on my phone, copy files from my PC, and use Musicolet which works for now because my collection is pretty small (30 GB MP3s 320/kb). Maybe there's a better way to use Jellyfin for offline playback, or perhaps I should just use two different players on my devices. I do like Musicolet, but I haven't found a good player for PC yet

For a very long time the experience of listening to music on my pc truly sucked, I never quite found a player that doesn't feel like a relic from the 2000s (like the wmp) or has a frustrating lack of features (Grove-Music). With the VLC or Foobar I missed a good looking way to search through my library and Spotify sometimes is just overwhelming with it's limitless choices and with all of those I still needed Mp3tag to reliably tag my files.

But now I think I've finally found one that does it all, looks gorgeous, is a truly powerful media player that can pretty much handle every format and even streams and podcasts and to go for the trifecta it even is a powerful tool to manage your library and tags. MusicBee truly is great and I finally enjoy choosing music to listen to at my PC and don't always want to stand up and look at my physical collection to pick something.

So yeah I just wanted to share that in the hope to help out someone who has the same odd problem I had.

I tried Winamp, Foobar2000, VLC. For some god forsaken reason, they are unable to do the following: When I click "next", have it play the next song file in the folder.

I don't want to have to create a playlist or to update it every time. I thought every program would have this very simple feature....any programs that can actually do this?

edit: Reworded for clarity.

As the title says, is there a recommended music player for my audio files (loseless FLAC) that actually would make a difference in sound quality compared to the player installed by default? I have a Focal Radiance headphones, and I played one song in Youtube and one in the default player and to be honest, sound was way better in Youtube. I have seen Music bee or others recommended, but I am not sure how would it improve. Thanks.

Do music player programs (Foobar, Winamp, Dopamine, etc.) affect the quality of digital music file playback? Or do they just spit out digital information to the DAC? Or sound quality changes due to prebuilt internal EQ from the player (software)? I am wondering if some programs fail to send complete digital information of a FLAC file to the DAC? Maybe it's placebo thing; Potplayer (I use it to watch video files) makes the music much noisier than VLC to my ears.

If no difference, are there some better programs (for Windows) to playback digital music files (ie FLAC)? No commercial, no privacy theft, etc.

Thanks!

After Microsoft changed "Groove Music" into "Media Player", it turned into a sluggish laggy app that has no features. So, I am looking for a better music player that has great equalizer, good integration with Windows 11 and has all that for free. I used to run "AIMP" back in the day but is there anything else that I should consider?

Does anybody know of any good music clients on windows that look like Apple Music. Don’t need to have streaming options just a place to store and sort music like iTunes but perhaps with a dark mode? Any help is appreciated!

Switched from Windows Media Player for windows 11 to apple music a while back due to countless bugs and lag, recently got into the habit of listening to high quality audio (.FLAC format) but apple music doesnt let me add them to my library, looking for a music player that is capable of playing FLAC files whilst having a decent UI. Thank You in advance:)

Am using JRivers but it's not accessing folders within folders within folders.

|----Folder1

  |     |----Folder1.1

  |     |     |----Folder1.1.1

  |     |     |     |----Folder1.1.1.1 (not showing up on "Audio>Files>Play Shuffled")

  |     |     |     |----Folder1.1.1.2 (not showing up on "Audio>Files>Play Shuffled")

  |     |     |----Folder1.1.2

  |     |     |----Folder1.1.3

  |     |----Folder1.2

  |----Folder2

I've brought this up, for years, on their Interact forum but they seem more interested in trying to capture the "I can play music from my TV!!" market and expect me to have a CS degree or something anyways I'm ready to try something else. Such a shame that 10 years into this...there's *still* such a lack of adequate software!

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As stated in title. Looking for what you guys consider your go to music player when using the pc for testing hires files?

Hey there! What are some of the top music players? Been sick of itunes for years. Also needs to be able to sync with an android and carry over playlists. thanks!

Greetings! I always used to use foobar2000 as my main music player, but since now I’m away from my PC, I needed a player that can sync with my iPhone so I can just access my library from anywhere.

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!

Something that can :

• Play high bitrates flawlessly

• simple, easy and fast

• if you press CTRL + A and double click it automatically adds all media files to a list and starts playing all of them by order

• doesn't include awkward hotkeys, something like KMPlayer instead of something awkward like MPC-HC

• Aesthetic, something elegant

Edit : Settled on Dopamine here's some screens

i've tried several music players for playing local music files on my pc , mainly foobar2000 and musicbee , but foobar2000 has a very outdated and basic UI while musicbee's UI is kinda messy and the lyrics implementation is bad . even spotify's local files function doesn't read .lrc files for lyrics

I'm looking for a music player with a modern beautiful UI and good lyrics implementation , i'd really appreciate suggestions

I was wondering if there was a music player app that could play music by folders instead of by album. like in android. the ones i found in windows would either play standalone tracks or only by album.

I've been trying music players but all the ones I tried had one or more bugs.

Things I am looking for in a music player:

• Simple search in playlist (Preferably Ctrl + F)

• Clean UI

• Can be minimized to tray

• Plays all formats of audio

Music players I have tried and failed:

Windows media player: None of the features above.

Clementine: My favorite so far, but it has a major bug which makes it stop playing randomly when starting a new song.

MusicBee: Has a bug that causes media keys in my keyboard to not work randomly, and I have to restart it to get it to work again. When closed to tray, you have to open it back from the tray, just clicking on it from the taskbar again doesn't do anything.

I probably tried others, but no luck finding the perfect music player.

What music player do you use?

EDIT:

After a 20 minutes of search, foobar2000 initially has all the features I am looking for. I'll post here again if anything new comes up. Cheers!

EDIT 4 months later:

foobar2000 is awesome, no issues so far, and a surprisingly smooth experience.