Comparison of audio player software. The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, audio players are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback. H264Bible/DeblockingSelectDecodetimeWM.png' alt='Core Player Software' title='Core Player Software' />Multi media players designed for video playback, which can also play music, are included under comparison of video player software. GeneraleditName. Core Player SoftwareAuthor. First public releasestable version. Cost. Software license. Based framework. Written in. AIMPAIMP Dev. Team. August 8, 2. 00. 6Windows v. Software for video, audio, image converting and editing. Support all popular formats and devices. VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure digital workspace technology, accelerates digital transformation for evolving IT environments. Ninja Gaiden 2 Pc Full. Learn More Now. October 3. Android v. 2. 6. October 3. Free. Proprietary. VQ/TY4m7Pd_InI/AAAAAAAAGxA/bdKQzBnLqOc/s1600/TTPod+v4.0+Final+S60v5.jpg' alt='Core Player Software' title='Core Player Software' />Core Player SoftwareBASS audio library decoderDelphi. Amarok. Mark Kretschmann. June 1, 2. 00. 32. August 1. 6, 2. 01. Free. GPLv. 2via Phonon GStreamer, xine, MPlayer, VLC, Direct. Show, Quick. Time. CAqualung. Tom Szilagyi et al. January 1, 2. 00. January 3. 0, 2. 01. Free. GPLv. 2 or later. Ca. Tunes. Alex Aranda et al. January 1, 2. 00. June 2. 2, 2. 01. Free. GPLv. 2Java. Audacious. Audacious Development Team. October 3. 0, 2. 00. August 1. 9, 2. 01. Free. GPLXMMS based. C, C GTKBanshee. Aaron Bockover. February 1. 7, 2. February 1. 8, 2. Free. MITGStreamer. CClementine. Clementine Team. March 1, 2. 01. 11. April 1. 9, 2. 01. Free. GPLGStreamer. C Qtcmus. Timo Hirvonen. January 1. 8, 2. 00. July 1. 3, 2. 01. Free. GPLCCog. Vincent Spader. May 1, 2. 00. 60. December 2. 4, 2. Free. GPLObjective CExaile. Adam Olsen. 00. 00. May 2. 4, 2. 00. 63. April 2. 7, 2. 01. Free. GPLv. 2 or later. GStreamer. Python GTKEcoute. Louka Desroziers Julien Sagot. September 2. 00. 83. Free until version 4Proprietary. AV Foundation Quick. Time. Objective CFlash MP3 Player. Reality Software. March 1. 1, 2. 00. Free. Proprietaryfoobar. Peter Pawlowski. 00. November 2. 9, 2. November 2. 4, 2. Free. Proprietary core,BSD SDKCGMusic. Browser. Quentin Sculo. August 8, 2. 01. 11. August 2. 0, 2. 01. Free. GPLGStreamerMPlayermpg. GTK2 Perl. Guayadeque Music Player. February 1, 2. 00. February 4, 2. 01. Free. GPLGStreamer. C wx. Widgets, wx. SqliteGear Player. Zsolt Szatmri. 00. April 2. 01. 21. 4. Non free. Proprietary. Core Audio. Objective Ci. Tunes. Apple Inc. October 3. 1, 2. 01. Free. Proprietary. Quick. Time JRiver Media Center. JRiver, Inc. 0. 00. February 1, 1. 99. Version 2. 3Non free. Proprietary. JRiver code. CJu. KScott Wheeler. February 1, 2. 00. February 4, 2. 01. Free. GPLCMedia. Monkey Standard. Ventis Media Inc. August 2. 5, 2. 00. August 1. 6, 2. 01. Free. Proprietary. Delphi, CMedia. Monkey Gold. Ventis Media Inc. August 2. 5, 2. 00. August 1. 6, 2. 01. Non free. Proprietary. Delphi, CMedia. Monkey Lifetime. Ventis Media Inc. August 2. 5, 2. 00. August 1. 6, 2. 01. Non free. Proprietary. Groove Music. Microsoft. Free. Proprietary. MPXPLAYMPXPLAY0. 00. January 1, 1. 99. August 2. 8, 2. 01. Free. GPLCMusic on Console. Damian Pietras. 00. January 1, 2. 00. April 2. 4, 2. 01. Free. GPLCMusic Player Daemon. Warren Dukes. 00. May 1, 2. 00. 30. August 2. 4, 2. 01. Free. GPLCMusic. Bee. Steven Mayall. 00. December 4, 2. 00. May 1. 1, 2. 01. 6 1. Free. Proprietary. BASS audio library. Visual Basic. NETmusik. Cube. Casey Langen. January 1, 2. 00. Final1. 0March 2. Free. BSDNapster. William Christopher Gorog. October 1, 2. 00. August 3. 1, 2. 01. Non free. Proprietary. Quod Libet. Quod Libet Team. November 8, 2. 00. June 6, 2. 01. 7 5 months ago 2. Free. GPLGStreamer. Python GTK Py. GTKRdio. Rdio Incwhen9. Microsoft Windows 1. WP 8  4. 0. 5. 0 2. October 2. 01. 3 4 years ago 2. OS 3. 0. 3 2. 7 September 2. Proprietary. Rhapsody. Real. Networks. 00. January 1, 2. 00. October 2. 00. 6subscription requiredProprietary. Rhythmbox. Colin Walters. April 1, 2. 00. 43. October 8, 2. 01. Free. GPLGStreamer. CSongbird. POTI Inc. February 8, 2. 00. Build 2. 45. 3 February 4, 2. Free. GPLGStreamer. Sonique. Media Science. November 1, 1. 99. March 2. 00. 2Free. Proprietary. Spotify. Spotify LTD0. 00. Android. 8. 4. 2. October 2. 01. 7 4. Android Wear. 7. 6. March 2. 01. 7 8 months ago 2. OS8. 4. 2. 4 2. October 2. Windows, mac. OS1. September 2. 01. 7 2 months ago 2. Linux. 1. 0. 6. 4. September 2. 01. 7 2 months ago 2. Non free. Proprietary. Style Jukebox. Digital Geek LTD0. July 1, 2. 00. 92. October 8, 2. 01. Free. Proprietary. CWinamp. Nullsoft. April 2. 1, 1. 99. December 1. 2, 2. Free. Proprietary. Wasabi. CCXMMSXMMS Team. November 1, 1. 99. November 1. 6, 2. Free. GPLoriginal. CXMPlay. Un. 4seen Developments. December 2. 3, 2. Free. Proprietaryoriginal based on the BASS audio libraryName. Author. First public release date. Stable version. Cost. Software license. Based framework. Written in. Operating system compatibilityeditThis section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player for different operating systems. FeatureseditExtended featureseditAudio format abilityeditInformation about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or pluginsfilters that provide such functionality. Requires External Encoding App. Container format abilityeditInformation about what container formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality. Scalable, composite and emulation format abilitieseditProtocol abilitieseditInformation about which internet protocols the players understand, for receiving streaming media content. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality. Only WMA files are playable by foobar. RTSP connection. Real. Media, AAC, etc. are not supported. RSS 2. 0 feeds as playlists. No subscriptionautomatic update features. Present in version 3. Alpha Testing. As of 0. RSS as podcast source. Issues if links in RSS do not point directly to playable media. Automatic update of podcasts available. Playlist format abilityeditInformation about which playlist formats the players understand. Metadata abilityeditInformation about what metadata, or tagging, formats the players understand. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality. Understanding of ID3v. ID3v. 2, APEv. 2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called Tag. Lib. Amarok does not understand embedded covers. Yes. Archived 2. 01. Wayback Machine., but buggy. There is a plugin called CD TEXT Reader adding such a feature. Optical media abilityeditInformation about what kinds of optical discs the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality. Playback of Super Audio CD is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists. All media players capable of audio CD playback will also play the Redbook core of any HDCD disc, providing no sound quality benefits over standard audio CDs. See alsoeditReferenceseditLatest AIMP v. Latest AIMP for Android changelog. Lindgren, John 1. August 2. 01. 7. Retrieved 1. August 2. October 1. October 3, 2. 01. Retrieved October 1. News. 2. 01. 7 1. Retrieved 2. 01. 7 1. DL1. 81. 4http quickgit. Releases Music. Player. DaemonMPD. Retrieved 1. September 2. Full Player video player for all files dvd, mp. Supports all the popular media formats, including DVDRip, HDTV, RMVB, Quick. Time, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, AC3DTS, VP367, Indeo, XVD, OGGOGM, APE, FLAC, TTA, AAC, MPC, 3. GPAMR, and subtitles.