Does anyone know any good open source music players for windows?

Tom-eg

As above? Ideally something that isn't resource extensive and has descent features

mp22

dose media monkey or audacity qualify as open source?

ttm

VLC media player - plays almost any format

http://www.videolan.org/

Pyro Boy

What about songbird http://getsongbird.com/ it's open source and you can connect your ipod to it and has extensions like firefox.:D

boonen

ttm wrote: »

VLC media player - plays almost any format

http://www.videolan.org/

Idd, with VLC there is no need for codecs or whatsover

Orion

+1 for vlc - it's the canine's testicles.

Tom-eg

Media monkey isnt open source and audacity is a sound editor. Ill give media monkey another go though. I did try it before but didn't give it much of a chance.

Songbird is great except its not lightweight. Quite the opposite. I have used it but i dont think its ready. Will wait a few more releases before trying it again.

I LOVE VLC but i mostly use it for watching Dvd's or previewing audio files. It doesn't have a great playlist which is a feature that i would be looking for.

I love open source but lets just go with free software for now cause i don't think that open source has much to offer for media players on Windows just yet. I have tried Foobar2000 and its the closest to what i want really. Nice and lightweight and does what i want it to do. Are there any similar players out there?

roashter

VLC is excellent

Rofl Lundgren

Pyro Boy wrote: »

What about songbird http://getsongbird.com/ it's open source and you can connect your ipod to it and has extensions like firefox.:D

I'm on a bit of a "No more iTunes" trip at the moment and gave songbird a shot for a few days. It's not quite there yet though.

It's got some nice features, like it integrates with your iTunes library files so you're metadata is carried over, an it definitely looks the business, but it's certainly not light on resources. Especially if you're not going to use the admittedly abundant features it has. But the plug-ins are shot to bits, since the version updates kills the older extensions and there's no tool to force compatibility (that I could find when I was using it).

Instead I'm using Foobar2000, which was crazy-intimidating to start with, since it's a bare-bones audio player to kick off, and you add the components you need. Right now I've got maybe 90% of the functionality of my old iTunes set-up:

• iPod and Shuffle support.
• Smart playlists, which are satisfying difficult to get the hang of.
• Google Reader fetching my podcasts.
• Album-art and lyrics display.
• MP3 conversion.
• Last.fm scrobbling.

This is after a long afternoon of messing about, so I can't wait to see what else it'll do. Pretty much the only things iTunes still does that Foobar won't is keep my library organised and also it's got the eye-candy edge for the time being (although Deviant Art has some really nice skins). As soon as I get those two out of the way, I'll be uninstalling iTunes.

gcdwebmaster

Open Source S/W for Windows songbird or videolan.org for playing media files

irish_stickman

VLC is great for videos but messy for music, i'd stick to media monkey or winamp

Fib

if ur looking for something for just music itself look at

spotify

http://www.spotify.com/en/


all the music u could ever want threw a client

but for video u really cant go wrong with VLC player... use it all the time with movies..

Rebel021

Mediamonkey for music,Gom player for movies http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

irishpaddy

i use winamp. so easy to download and to use. i have used it for the last number of years.

croo

winamp is not open source though!

Rayhan

Try Media Player Classic
All Audio/Video format can be played with this application and its totally Free.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm

croo

Rayhan wrote: »

Try Media Player Classic
All Audio/Video format can be played with this application and its totally Free.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm

Free as in Gratis or Free as in Libre?
I suspect the answer is Gratis.
Really people I don't understand, is this a lack of understanding or a do people simply ignore this forums "Open Source" name?
While Open Source is more than often free, free software is not necessarily Open Source.

irishpaddy

croo wrote: »

winamp is not open source though!

what's the difference, open source; forgive my ignorance but its there to be downloaded no hassle. i would be glad if you could tell me what is meant by open source.

croo

what's the difference, open source; forgive my ignorance but its there to be downloaded no hassle. i would be glad if you could tell me what is meant by open source.

The "source" in open source refers to the source code of a program... is it made available to freely distribute?

The term "open source" is often referred to as "Free Software", but the free here is in reference the "Freedom" access to the source provides. This difference is often expressed as the "Gratis versus Libre" argument or by the father of Free software (Richard Stallman) as the "Free as in speech versus Free as in beer" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre

So software can be free in price but not Free/Open Source software. And while free in price might seem to provide the same benefit, its gain is a short term benefit but it is access to the source code that ultimately makes us free. This argument is well articulated all over the web so I will stop there - a little googling will provide all the references and debate you need.

Rayhan

Hmm.... then try SMPlayer, is open source application for audio/video applications.
Download

Cyclonius

Media Player Classic is open source Groo; it's licensed under the GPL. Both Media Player Classic and VLC are good open source media players, though VLC would be superior. It's definitely more modern, as there hasn't been a new version of Media Player Classic in several years due to problems with the development team. There is a related project called the Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which is an offshoot of the project with a new team, though I haven't tried it personally.

irishpaddy

croo wrote: »

The "source" in open source refers to the source code of a program... is it made available to freely distribute?

The term "open source" is often referred to as "Free Software", but the free here is in reference the "Freedom" access to the source provides. This difference is often expressed as the "Gratis versus Libre" argument or by the father of Free software (Richard Stallman) as the "Free as in speech versus Free as in beer" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre

So software can be free in price but not Free/Open Source software. And while free in price might seem to provide the same benefit, its gain is a short term benefit but it is access to the source code that ultimately makes us free. This argument is well articulated all over the web so I will stop there - a little googling will provide all the references and debate you need.

thanks for all that for sure. half way through i was beginning to know how jim hacker felt in yes minister:-). and now i know where to come to if i ever need a good lawyer; seriously thanks, and have a great christmas.:)