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[Question] Looking for the best free local music file player for PC (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/budgetaudiophile@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone.

I'm on a campaign to move my audio listening closer to nearly all offline. My current quest is to research which are the best options for offline music player on the PC.

I have a mix of FLAC and MP3 files, and desire to add more high end music files from physical media in the future. But the main need right now, is to learn what are the best free music players out there.

My current knowledge of PC music players worth a try are, WINamp, foobar2000, and VLC.

What would you recommend I check out?

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[–] spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The one problem I have with VLC is that it waits to read the next file from disk until it's time to play it, which can be disconcerting when switching from one track to the next.

If you use cue/flac, then you don't need to worry about this. VLC 4.0 will fix the problem, but until then I find strawberry to be an adequate solution.

Strawberry is paywalled on windows, but WSL would be worth a try, and clementine, which strawberry is based on, is not.