Top 10 Best Media Player Software Programs for Windows

Vote for the best media player software (audio and video) for Windows.
The Top Ten
1 PotPlayer Visit Website
2 VLC Media Player

It can play literally any video format and has tons of neat features!

Best of all time.

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3 Windows Media Player

It's amazing because you can watch videos and listen to music with this app. Plus, you can create playlists, burn CDs, and download music files to other devices such as an MP3 player with Windows Media Player.

4 KMPlayer
5 GOM Player
6 iTunes
7 DSPlayer
8 Media Player Classic
9 QuickTime
10 CherryPlayer
The Contenders
11 Winamp
12 JetAudio
13 Xmplay
14 MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc. Established in 2001, the software is designed to manage extensive music collections, offering features like tagging, ripping, and synchronization. MediaMonkey supports various audio formats and can also... read more

Post-desktop era, Windows Media Player never really did it for me. I used iTunes because it was easy to use, but sometime around 2011, it tried modernizing and just became a cluttered mess (it's a little better now). After iTunes, I tried Rhapsody. It had cool features, but it would freeze all the time. I tried a few others, but I couldn't shake off the feeling they were spam or malware.

After some research, I found MediaMonkey. It's a bit of a mix of Rhapsody and old iTunes. Not perfect, but good. It balances volume levels and transitions songs really well.

15 RealPlayer
16 MPlayer
17 QQ Player
18 MusicBee MusicBee is a freeware media player for playback and organization of audio files on Microsoft Windows, built using the BASS audio library.
19 Kodi
20 MPV
21 SMPlayer
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