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[Question] Looking for the best free local music file player for PC (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month 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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[–] moshankey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

VLC for the win.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Winamp gets my vote because it really whips the llama's ass.

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Classic. ha

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use VLC and my library system is just file directories. I found wlnamp good but it wanted to use the media tags which were often a mess on compilation / collaboration albums.

[–] spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Foobar2000 or DeaDBeeF

Kew if you want linux TUI.

[–] ReluctantlyZen@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago

Tbh, I actually still quite like the classic/legacy Windows Media Player

[–] hitagi@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago

I use Strawberry for playing music and MusicBrainz Picard for file renaming and cover art.