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The followingcomparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of softwaremedia 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. Multi-media players designed for video playback, which can also play music, are included undercomparison of video player software.

General

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Name

Author

First public release

Latest stable version

Cost

Software license

Framework used

Written in

AIMP

AIMP DevTeam

August 8, 2006

Windows: 5.30, build 2533 (December 20, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-12-20)^[1]) [±]

Android: 4.05, build 1393 (December 27, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-12-27)^[2]) [±]

No cost

Proprietary

BASS audio library (decoder)

Delphi

Amarok

Mark Kretschmann

June 1, 2003

3.3 (July 8, 2025; 7 months ago (2025-07-08)) [±]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

viaPhonon:GStreamer,xine,MPlayer,VLC,DirectShow,QuickTime

C++

aTunes

Alex Aranda et al.

January 1, 2006

3.1.2 (June 22, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-06-22)) [±]

Audacious Development Team

October 30, 2005

4.2 (July 9, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-07-09)^[3]) [±]

No cost

BSD-2-Clause

XMMS based

C, C++

(GTK & Qt)^[4]^

Banshee

Aaron Bockover

February 17, 2005

2.6.2 (February 18, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-02-18)^[5]) [±]

No cost

MIT

GStreamer

BTR Amp

BTR Labs

February 13, 2020

15.1 (March 21, 2023)

$0.99/month, $9.99/year, $29.99 one-time

Proprietary

BZR Player

aargirakis

April 12, 2008

2.0.82 (Aug 6, 2025)

No cost

GPL-3.0-or-later

C++ (Qt)

Clementine

Clementine Team

February 22, 2010

1.3.1 (April 19, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-04-19)) [±]

No cost

GPL-3.0-or-later

GStreamer

C++ (Qt)

cmus

Timo Hirvonen

January 18, 2005

2.12.0 (October 26, 2024; 15 months ago (2024-10-26)) [±]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

Cog

Vincent Spader

May 1, 2006

0.07 (December 24, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-12-24)) [±]

Oleksiy Yakovenko

August 2009

1.9.6 / November 7, 2023

No cost

GPLv2,zlib

C,C++,Objective-C,Assembly language

Exaile

Adam Olsen

May 24, 2006

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

GStreamer

Python (GTK)

Ecoute

Louka Desroziers & Julien Sagot

September 2008

3.0.8

No cost (until version 4)

Proprietary

AV Foundation &QuickTime

Objective-C

Flash MP3 Player

Reality Software

March 11, 2008

1.00

No cost

Proprietary

foobar2000

Peter Pawlowski

November 29, 2002

2.25.6^[6]

(22 January 2026) [±]

No cost

Proprietary (core),
BSD (SDK)

C++

Guayadeque Music Player

Juan Rios, Tiago T Barrionuevo

March 12, 2009

0.7.5 (January 1, 2026)

No cost

GPL-3.0-or-later

GStreamer

C++ (wxWidgets)

January 9, 2001

JRiver, Inc.

February 1, 1999

34.0.24 (Windows) (May 6, 2025; 9 months ago (2025-05-06)^[7]) [±]

$59.98 to $79.98

Proprietary

JRiver code

C++

JuK

Scott Wheeler

February 1, 2003

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

C++

MediaMonkey Standard

Ventis Media Inc.

August 25, 2003

5.0.4.2690 (November 23, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-11-23)) [±]

No cost

Proprietary

Delphi, C

MediaMonkey Gold

Ventis Media Inc.

August 25, 2003

5.0.4.2690 (November 23, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-11-23)) [±]

$24.95USD

Proprietary

Delphi, C

MediaMonkey Lifetime

Ventis Media Inc.

August 25, 2003

5.0.4.2690 (November 23, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-11-23)) [±]

$49.95USD

Proprietary

Groove Music

Microsoft

2012

No cost

Proprietary

Mpxplay

January 1, 1998

3.24^[8]

(24 August 2025) [±]

No cost

Proprietary

Music on Console

Damian Pietras

January 1, 2002

2.5.1 (April 24, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-04-24)) [±]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

Music Player Daemon

Warren Dukes

May 1, 2003

0.21.22 (April 2, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-04-02)^[9]) [±]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

MusicBee

Steven Mayall

December 4, 2008

3.6.9202 (March 17, 2025; 11 months ago (2025-03-17)) [±]

BASS audio library

Casey Langen

January 1, 2005

3.0.5^[10]

(21 September 2025) [±]

No cost

BSD-3-Clause

Napster

William Christopher Gorog

October 1, 2003

4.6.3.4 (August 31, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-08-31)) [±]

Subscription

Proprietary

Quod Libet

Quod Libet Team

November 8, 2004

4.5.0wikidata:Q1621193 (March 2022; 3 years ago (2022-03)) [±]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

GStreamer

Python (GTK) PyGTK

Rdio

Rdio Inc

August 3, 2010

Microsoft Windows: 1.12.0.0 (2013)WP 8+ : 4.0.5.0 (28 October 2013; 12 years ago (2013-10-28))

iOS: 3.0.3 (27 September 2014; 11 years ago (2014-09-27))

January 1, 2003

14.0 (16 October 2006) [±]

Subscription

Proprietary

Rhythmbox

Colin Walters

April 1, 2004

3.4.8 (November 10, 2024; 15 months ago (2024-11-10)) [±]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

GStreamer

Sayonara Player

Michael Lugmair (until 2020 under the pseudonym Lucio Carreras)

2011

1.5.1-stable5 / 29 August 2019

No cost

GPL-3.0-or-later

GStreamer

C++

Songbird

POTI Inc.

February 8, 2006

2.2.0, Build 2453 (February 4, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-02-04)) [±]

No cost

GPL

GStreamer

Sonic Visualiser

Centre for Digital Music atQueen Mary, University of London

May 10, 2007

3.1.1 (August 14, 2018)

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

Sonique

Media Science

November 1, 1998

1.96 (March 2002)

No cost

Proprietary

Spotify

Spotify LTD

October 7, 2008

Android	9.1.6.1145 / December 22, 2025; 57 days ago (2025-12-22)^[11]
Wear OS	8.9.24.633 / March 22, 2024; 22 months ago (2024-03-22)
iOS	9.1.6 / December 17, 2025; 2 months ago (2025-12-17)^[12]
iPadOS	9.1.6 / December 17, 2025; 2 months ago (2025-12-17)^[13]
Windows	1.2.66.447 / June 2025; 8 months ago (2025-06)^[14]
macOS	1.2.66.447 / June 2025; 8 months ago (2025-06)
Linux	1.2.74.477 / November 19, 2025; 2 months ago (2025-11-19)^[15]

Subscription

Proprietary

Style Jukebox

Digital Geek LTD

July 1, 2009

2.2.1 (October 8, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-10-08)) [±]

No cost

Proprietary

Video.js(used on Wikipedia as of 2024)

Brightcove, Inc.

2010

1996

Windows, Linux, & macOS	3.0.23^[16] / 8 January 2026; 40 days ago (8 January 2026)
Android	3.6.5^[17] / 7 May 2025; 9 months ago (7 May 2025)
ChromeOS	1.7.3^[18] / 23 December 2015; 10 years ago (23 December 2015)
iOS, Apple TV	3.7.0^[19] / 8 January 2026; 40 days ago (8 January 2026)
Windows (UWP)	3.1.2 / 20 July 2018; 7 years ago (2018-07-20)^[20]^[21]
Windows Phone	3.1.2 / 20 July 2018; 7 years ago (2018-07-20)^[22]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

C,C++, (withQt), ...

Wax

Jeffrey Barish

July 19, 2024

1.0.4 (build 366)

No cost

MIT

GStreamer

Python (GTK 3.0)

Winamp

Nullsoft

April 21, 1997

5.9.2 Build 10042^[23] (April 26, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-04-26)) [±]

XMMS Team

November 1, 1997

1.2.11 (November 16, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-11-16)) [±]

No cost

GPL-2.0-or-later

original

XMPlay

Un4seen Developments

1998

3.8 (December 23, 2013)

No cost

Proprietary

BASS audio library

Name

Author

First public release

Stable version

Cost

Software license

Framework used

Written in

Operating system compatibility

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This section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player for different operating systems.

Audio player^[24]	Windows	macOS	Linux	iOS	Android	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix	DOS

AIMP	Yes	No	viaWine	No	Yes	viaWine	No	No	No
Amarok	Yes	beta	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
aTunes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Audacious	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audion	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Banshee	alpha	beta	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
BTR Amp	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
cmus	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Cog	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Clementine	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	remote controller only	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
DeaDBeeF	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Ecoute	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Exaile	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
foobar2000	Yes	beta ^{[osnotes 1]}	viaWine ^{[osnotes 2]}	Yes	Yes	viaWine ^{[osnotes 2]}	No	No	No
Guayadeque Music Player	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Groove Music	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
iTunes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	remote controller only	Yes	No	No	No	No
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
MPXPLAY	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Music Player Daemon	cygwin	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MusicBee	Yes	No	Partial ^[25]	No	No	No	No	No	No
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
musikCube	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	remote control only ^[26]	Yes	No	No	No
Quod Libet	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Rdio	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Rhythmbox	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Sayonara Player	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Songbird	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Sonique	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Spotify	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Style Jukebox	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Wax	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Winamp	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
XMMS	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XMPlay	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Zinf	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audio player	Windows	macOS	Linux	iOS	Android	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix	DOS

^"foobar2000 for Mac".www.foobar2000.org.
^^a ^b"WineHQ - foobar2000 1.0".appdb.winehq.org.

Features

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Audio player	Video playback	Outbound streaming	Skinnable	Media database	Gapless audio decoding	Visualizer	Remote controllable	Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria)
AIMP	No	via Plugins	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	via Plugins	No
Amarok	Partial ^{[featurenotes 1]}	Yes	Partial ^{[featurenotes 2]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audacious	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audion	No	No	Yes	No	?	Yes	?	No
BTR Amp	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
cmus	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Cog	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Clementine	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Exaile	No	?	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes ^[27]	Yes
foobar2000	No	Partial^[a]	Yes ^{[featurenotes 3]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[a]	Yes
iTunes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[a]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JRiver Media Center	Yes	via Plugins	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	via Plugins	Yes
JuK	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes ^{[featurenotes 4]}	?
MediaMonkey	Yes	Partial^[a]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[a]	Yes
MPXPLAY	Yes (with MMC v2.00a)	?	text-interface	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (also LCD ability)	?
Music Player Daemon	No	Yes	Client dependent	Yes	Yes	Client dependent	Yes	Client dependent
MusicBee	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?
musikCube	No	No	No	Yes	No	Partial^[a]	?	Yes
Quod Libet	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Rhapsody	No	No	No	Yes	?	No	?	?
Rhythmbox	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sayonara Player	No	?	No (Dark Mode available)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Sonique	Partial^[a]	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	?	No
Spotify	Yes	?	No	No	Yes	No	Yes (via app)	No
Wax	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Winamp	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
XMMS	Partial^[a]	Partial^[a]	Yes	No	Partial^[a]	Yes	Yes	No
XMPlay	Partial^[a]	Partial^[a]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Zinf	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	No	?	?
Audio player	Video playback	Outbound streaming	Skinnable	Media database	Gapless audio decoding	Visualizer	Remote controllable	Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria)

Audio player	ReplayGain	Tag mass	Tag flexible ^{[featurenotes 5]}	Time stretch	Pitch shift	A-B repeat	Bookmark	Auto resume	Shutdown on play complete	Archive ability
AIMP	Yes	Yes ^{[featurenotes 6]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes ^{[featurenotes 7]}	Yes	Yes	No	No
Audacious	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Audion	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
BTR Amp	Yes	?	Yes	?	No	?	No	Yes	No
cmus	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Cog	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Clementine	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	No	No	No	No
Exaile	Yes	Yes	Yes ^[28]	No	No	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes	Yes^[a]	No
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Partial^[a]	Yes	Partial^[a]	Yes
iTunes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes ^{[featurenotes 7]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
JuK	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[a]	Partial^[a]	Partial^[a]	Partial^[a]	Yes	Yes	?
MPXPLAY	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	?	Partial ^{[featurenotes 8]}	?	No	No	?	?	?	?	?
musikCube	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Quod Libet	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial ^{[featurenotes 9]}	Partial ^{[featurenotes 9]}	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Rhapsody	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Sayonara Player	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	Yes	Yes	?	?
Sonique	No	No	?	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	?
Spotify	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Wax	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Winamp	Yes	Yes	?	No	Yes	?	Yes	?	No	?
XMMS	Partial	Yes	?	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
XMPlay	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Zinf	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	No	?
Audio player	ReplayGain	Tag mass	Tag flexible	Time stretch	Pitch shift	A-B repeat	Bookmark	Auto resume	Shutdown on play complete	Archive ability

^Basic function withNMM
^Context Browser usesCSS.
^UIs may be switched. Shares Windows' themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000.
^UsingDCOP
^Flexible tagging is the ability to read or write custom tags, apart from the default ones like title, album and date. Users can use custom tags to provide additional information to media files. Custom tags work viaID3v2.4 (via theTXXX tag field),Vorbis comments andAPEv2.
^Through use of the Advanced Tag Editor.
^^a ^b"Repeat A/B".
^Paid version only
^^a ^bThroughAudio Pitch, Speed plugin

Audio format ability

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Information about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality.

Audio player	Lossy compression									Lossless compression
Audio player	MP3	WMA	RealAudio	Vorbis	Musepack	AAC	Dolby AC-3	VQF	Opus	APE	FLAC	ALAC	SHN	WV	WMA L
AIMP	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[b]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Amarok^[c] ^[29]^[30]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audacious	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes^[d]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?
Audion	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	No	No	No	No	No	?
Banshee	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	No	?	?	?	?	?
BTR Amp	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
cmus	Yes	Yes^[d]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[d]	?	Yes^[e]	Yes^[d]	Yes	Yes^[d]	Yes^[d]	Yes	?
Cog	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Exaile	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?	Yes	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[a]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Groove Music	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JuK	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	?	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	?
Media Jukebox	Yes ^{[audionotes 1]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Partial^[g]	Partial^[g]	?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[a]	Partial^[a]	?
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Partial^[a]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	?
Music Player Daemon	Yes	Yes^[d]	Partial^[d]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[d]	Yes^[d]	Yes	Yes^[d]	Yes	Yes	Yes^[d]	Yes	?
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[b]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[b]	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	No	No	No	No	No	?
musikCube	Yes	Partial^[g]	No	Yes	Partial^[g]	Partial^[g]	Partial^[g]	?	?	Yes	Yes	No	No	Partial^[g]	?
Quod Libet	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?	Yes	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	?	?	No	No	No	No	No	?
Rhythmbox	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?
Sayonara Player	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	No	?	Yes	?	Yes	?	?	?	?
Sonique	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Partial^[g]	Partial^[g]	No	?	?	No	No	No	No	No	?
Spotify^[31]	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Style Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Wax	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[f]	?
Winamp	Yes	Yes	Yes^[a]	Yes	Yes^[a]	Yes	?	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	Yes^[a]	?
XMMS	Yes	Partial^[g]	Partial^[g]	Partial^[g]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes^[a]	?	Partial^[g]	Yes	No	Partial^[g]	Yes	?
XMPlay	Yes	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	?	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	Yes^[a]	?
Zinf	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	No	No	No	No	No	?
Audio player	MP3	WMA	RealAudio	Vorbis	Musepack	AAC	Dolby AC-3	VQF	Opus	APE	FLAC	ALAC	SHN	WV	WMA L

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Container format ability

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Information about whatcontainer formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality.

Audio player	AVI	ASF	QuickTime	Ogg	OGM	Matroska	MP4	MPEG-21	NUT	FLV
AIMP	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Partial	No	No	No
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic	Basic	Yes	?	?	Yes
Audacious	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Audio only
Audion	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	?
cmus	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	Basic	Yes	?	?	?
Cog	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Partial	?	?	?
foobar2000	Partial^[a]	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	?	?	Audio only
JuK	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	?	?
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
MediaMonkey	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	?	?
MOC	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	?
MusicBee	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	AAC only	No	No	No
Musicmatch Jukebox	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	?
musikCube	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	?	?
Rhapsody	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	No	Yes	No	Vorbis only	No	No	Yes^[f]	?	?	?
Sayonara Player	No	?	No	Vorbis only	?	?	?	?	?	?
Sonique	No^[g]	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	?
Winamp	Yes	Yes	Yes^[a]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
XMMS	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	?	?
Zinf	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	?	?
Audio player	AVI	ASF	QuickTime	Ogg	OGM	Matroska	MP4	MPEG-21	NUT	FLV

Scalable, composite and emulation format abilities

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Audio player	Flash	RealPix	QuickTime Video Effects in mov	HTML+TIME (+VML)	smil/smi	SVG	MIDI (smf)	MIDI (kar)	MIDI (xmf)	MIDI (rmi)	MIDI (xmi)	NSF	SPC	PSF
AIMP	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Amarok	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Audacious	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audion	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
cmus	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Cog	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
foobar2000	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes (plugin)	?	?	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)
JuK	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
JRiver Media Center	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MediaMonkey	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes (Winamp plugin)	Yes (Winamp plugin)	Yes (Winamp plugin)
MPXPLAY	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MusicBee	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?^[f]	Yes	?	?
Musicmatch Jukebox	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
musikCube	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhapsody	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes	?
Sayonara Player	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Sonique	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
XMMS	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Zinf	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Audio player	Flash	RealPix	QuickTime Video Effects in mov	HTML+TIME (+VML)	smil/smi	SVG	MIDI (smf)	MIDI (kar)	MIDI (xmf)	MIDI (rmi)	MIDI (xmi)	NSF	SPC	PSF

Protocol abilities

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Information about whichinternet protocols the players understand, for receivingstreaming media content. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Audio player	HTTP	RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT)	MMS (MMSU, MMST)	Podcasting	Other
AIMP	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	UPNP
Audacious	Yes	No	Yes	No	?
Audion	Yes	No	No	No	?
cmus	Yes	No	No	No	?
Cog	No	No	No	No	?
foobar2000	Yes	Partial ^{[protocolnotes 1]}	Yes	Partial ^{[protocolnotes 2]}	?
JuK	?	?	?	?	?
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No	Yes ^{[protocolnotes 3]}	?
MusicBee	Yes	?	?	Yes	?
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	?	?	?	?
musikCube	Yes	No	No	?	?
Music Player Daemon	Yes^[h]	Yes^[i]	Yes^[j]	Yes	Music Player Daemon
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	No	Partial ^{[protocolnotes 4]}	UPNP
Sayonara Player	Yes	?	?	?	?
Sonique	Yes	?	?	?	?
XMMS	Yes	?	?	?	?
Zinf	Yes	Yes	No	No	?
Audio player	HTTP	RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT)	MMS (MMSU, MMST)	Podcasting	Other

^Only WMA files are playable by foobar2000 through an RTSP connection. RealMedia, AAC,etc. are not supported.
^3rd party plugin for 0.9 allows reading RSS 2.0 feeds as playlists. No subscription/automatic update features.
^Present in version 3.0 currently going through Alpha Testing.
^As of 0.9.2 it allows reading RSS as podcast source. Issues if links in RSS do not point directly to playable media. Automatic update of podcasts available.

Playlist format ability

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Information about whichplaylist formats the players understand.

Audio player	asx, wax, wvx	M3U	pls	XSPF	CUE	SMIL
AIMP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Audacious	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial
Audion	No	No	No	?	?	No
Clementine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
cmus	No	Yes	Yes	No	?	?
Cog	?	?	?	?	?	?
Exaile	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
iTunes	No	Yes	?	?	No	?
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
JuK	?	?	?	?	?	?
MediaMonkey	?	Yes	?	No	?	?
MPXPLAY	?	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Musicmatch Jukebox	?	Yes	?	?	?	?
musikCube	?	?	?	?	?	?
Quod Libet	Partial	Yes	Yes	No	?	?
Rhapsody	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	?	?	Yes	?	No	?
Sayonara Player	?	Yes	?	?	?	?
Sonique	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
Spotify^[32]	No	No	No	No	No	?
Winamp	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
XMMS	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
Zinf	?	?	?	No	?	?
Audio player	asx/wax/wvx	M3U	pls	XSPF	CUE	SMIL

Metadata ability

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Information about whatmetadata, 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.

Audio player	ID3v1	ID3v2	APEv2 tag	Vorbis comment	Cue sheet	CD-Text	WAVE chunks
AIMP	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Amarok	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 1]}^{[metadatanotes 2]}	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 3]}	?	Yes
Audacious	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Audion	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	?	?
cmus	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?
Cog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 4]}	Yes
iTunes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JuK	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes ^{[metadatanotes 1]}	?	?	?
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?
Mixxx	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	Yes	?
musikCube	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
Quod Libet	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
Sayonara Player	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?	?	?
Sonique	Yes	No	?	?	?	?	?
XMMS	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	?	?
Zinf	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	?	?
Audio player	ID3v1	ID3v2	APEv2 tag	Vorbis comment	Cue sheet	CD-Text	WAVE chunks

^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^gUnderstanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
^Amarok does not understand embedded covers.
^Yes Archived 2012-05-12 at theWayback Machine, but buggy.
^There is a plugin calledCD-TEXT Reader adding such a feature.

Optical media ability

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Information about what kinds ofoptical discs the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.Playback ofSuper Audio CD is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists.All media players capable ofaudio CD playback will also play theRedbook core of anyHDCD disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.

Audio player	Audio
Audio player	CD	DVD-Audio	HDCD
AIMP	Yes	No	No
Amarok	Partial	No	No
aTunes	No	No	No
Audacious	Yes	No	No
Audion	Yes	No	No
cmus	No	No	No
Cog	No	No	No
foobar2000	Yes	Yes (plugin)^{[opticalmedianotes 1]}	Yes (plugin)^{[opticalmedianotes 2]}
JuK	Yes ^{[opticalmedianotes 3]}	No	No
JRiver Media Center	Yes	Yes ^{[opticalmedianotes 4]}	Yes
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	No	No
musikCube	Yes	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	No	No
Rhythmbox	Yes	No	No
Sonique	Yes	No	No
Winamp	Yes	No	No
XMMS	Yes	No	No
Zinf	Yes	No	No
Audio player	CD	DVD-Audio	HDCD
Audio player	Audio

^"DVD-Audio Decoder and Watermark Detector".SourceForge. February 24, 2024.
^"Foobar2000: Components Repository - HDCD decoder".
^RequiresK3B
^"How to rip audio from DVD/DVD Audio".

Notes

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^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^asPlugin available.
^^a ^b ^cAvailable through aWinamp plugin.
^Amarok uses non-Amarok libraries to decode audio. It will play any file for which a codec is available on the system. The default libraries in Linux are from theGStreamer project, and in Windows from theVLC project.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^lAvailable through aFFmpeg plugin.
^Available through the opusfile plugin.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^azAvailable through aGstreamer plugin.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^oAvailable via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
^Provided by the "curl" plugins.
^Provided by the "ffmpeg" plugin.
^Provided by the "mms" plugin.

References

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^Latest AIMP for Windows changelog
^Latest AIMP for Android changelog
^"Audacious 4.2 released". 9 July 2022. Retrieved26 July 2022.
^"Audacious - An Advanced Audio Player".audacious-media-player.org. Retrieved2022-09-08.
^"October 10, 2012".banshee.fm. October 3, 2012. RetrievedOctober 10, 2012.
^"foobar2000 for Windows change log". Retrieved23 January 2026.
^"Release Notes MC". Retrieved30 July 2024.
^"Welcome to the PDSoft Homepage". Retrieved2 September 2025.
^"Releases - MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD". Retrieved12 April 2020 – viaGitHub.
^"Release 3.0.5". 21 September 2025. Retrieved24 September 2025.
^"Spotify: Discover music, podcasts, and playlists - Apps on Google Play".play.google.com.
^"Spotify New Music and Podcasts".App Store.
^"Spotify New Music and Podcasts".App Store.
^"Open Source".Spotify. Retrieved2025-06-25.
^"Spotify Flathub page".Flathub.
^"VLC 3.0.23 Vetinari - VideoLAN". Retrieved8 January 2026.
^"3.6.5". 7 May 2025. Retrieved25 June 2025.
^"VLC - Chrome Web Store". 23 December 2015. Retrieved4 April 2022.
^"VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS 3.7.0". Retrieved7 February 2026.
^"VLC for Windows Store".www.videolan.org.VideoLAN.Archived from the original on 2025-04-01. Retrieved2025-04-06.
^"VLC UWP".www.microsoft.com.VideoLAN. Retrieved2025-04-06.
^"VLC for Windows Phone".www.videolan.org.VideoLAN. Retrieved2025-04-06.
^"Winamp: Supported versions: Latest supported version".Winamp Forums. December 22, 2022. RetrievedJanuary 15, 2023.
^Recker, Sterling (2011-12-08),"Bizimana, Augustin",African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press,ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1, retrieved2025-05-12{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
^"MusicBee help and FAQ".getmusicbee.com.
^"Releases · clangen/Musikcube".GitHub.
^Chow Loong, Jin (2012-01-02)."With plug-in remuco-exaile".packages.debian.org. Retrieved2017-04-18.
^Kuzník, Ondřej; Christine, Spang; Tristan, Seligmann (2017-01-23)."With plug-ins Ex Falso and Group Tagger".packages.debian.org. Retrieved2017-04-18.
^"Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Windows". Retrieved24 February 2013.
^"VLC playback Features". VideoLAN Organization. Archived fromthe original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved25 February 2013.
^[1]. Spotify.com.
^Import and export m3u playlists. Spotify.com.

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