Recursive drive search, built-in encoder/decoder/normalizer, cool animations, great display, more...

Quick search your hard drive, drag 'n drop into playlist, highly pleasing interface layout, CD play mode. Made with MultiMediaBuilder.

Eye-candy, not much innovation or forethought and high CPU usage. Usable playlisting.

Sounds great, looks good, and has too many features to list.

Local/streaming MPx player, stable and useable, but no frills. Your fast access, small footprint player.

Small, useful, will build playlists for you. Somewhat buggy, streaming not implemented yet.

Essentially Windows Media Player, but with playlists, shuffle, ID3 tag recognition and other features. What WMPlayer should have been.

No llamas were whipped during the making of C-4. Too many features to list - really nice GUI (with skins!).

Now with MP3 support. Still has problems displaying the spectrum though.

Fast, small, functional playlist support, equalizer, neat skins, XAudio engine.

Lots of features including visualization, unfortunately only command line support.

Excellent "Just Player". Clean car-stereo like interface, built-in drive search. Made with MultiMediaBuilder. Clone of Amp2000.

Excellent module, electronic format and MP3 player. If you have an obscure electronic music format (from times of Amiga), this will play it. Excellent sound quality for all formats, hundreds of options - Streamcoder still costs $20 to register.

Adjustable layout (Netscape collapso-bar like), smooth playback, rudimentary controls. Some resizing problems.

Run several of them and mix your MP3's like a DJ. Pitch and cross fade controls.

An interesting but very clunky and amateurish multi-functional player.

Good-looking, functional MP3 player, skin support, playlist, streaming.

All format player, ripper and encoder. Hefty download size. Now adware (free, but with ads displayed).

A playlisting tool as well as a player. Will play your MP3s, MIDIs, MODs, movies...

The player with the (formerly) lowest CPU usage, now suffering from complete stagnation and lack of development. Play MOD files with this plugin, and VQF files with this plugin.

Discontinued effort since '97, but this could've been WinAmp.

Multi-format player, but awkward interface.

CD, WAV, MP3, MOD and MIDI player. Pretty, functional and easy to use.

Plays video formats as well as audio, nifty streaming progress indicator.

Following in the steps of Real, MS makes their own multi-player jukebox. Skins, internet searches, digital CD reading and more. Very CPU intensive.

Limited file formats supported, excellent for mixing.

The only player that circumvents bulky playlists by directly scanning your drive for MP3s. Great for MP3 CDs.

Right click on an MP3 to play it. Great for previewing newly obtained MP3s.

Can also encode, includes a Charts-Database feature which lets you know what's on the Singles Charts now.

Spiffy DOS 5.0 and higher MP3 player. Low CPU and system requirements, many options. Get 1.43 ALFA 2here.

Great for keeping track of mp3s, easy to use interface (now improved), many nice options like pitch control.

Attractive player. Small download and low price for a recorder.

Make a playlist and webcast your favorite songs with this easy to use player/caster.

Great player for its file size, moderate CPU usage, still some problems with filename fonts.
Here is the latest beta.

Needs MS Media Player, can use skins, wake-up timer. Get the version with MS Media Player here.

Another player for the Windows CE driven Palm Pilots. Screenshots look nice...

Multi-format support, 4 audio stream mixing.

Previously just a CD player, now a large (loadsize and CPU usage-wise in the large display mode) multiformat player. Lots of options, great default interface, very gadget-like.

Great visuals, display, videogame like interface, much animation everywhere, it's fun!

Great player, small size, built-in encoder, many other options.

Previously just a CD player, now a multi-format player. VisualBasic-driven clunky, unstable and unfriendly.

Highly configurable, plays many formats (including CDs).

Nice interface, MP3, MOD, CD and MIDI player.

Great visual effects, supports many sound formats, three display modes - occasionally slow.

Easy to use interface, uninstall a little tricky.

Plays CD and MP3 format, will search your drive for MP3s, cool interface.

Just a minibar and only MP3 player, but still nice. Not many features.

Good tray player for shuffle play, lots of extras, options and near-hierarchical playlist.

Good for mixing, includes 13 audio devices.

Intuitive and easy to use DJ-machine. Load some MP3s and mix!

Still a very basic VQF Player. Use Kjofol instead.

Multi-format player with many features. Kinda neat!

Excellent skins, nice functionality and interface, multi-mode. Think faster Sonique without the bloat.

Nice looking basic player with instant directory read support.
Impressive playlist management. Slightly awkward.

Multi-format player, decoder and browser. Lots of skins and plugins available. Now free. Increasingly bloated. Get Lite version (no WMA, no MJuice, no VIS Studio) here.

Mainly a way to listen to Wired Planet broadcasts, it also features equalizer and playlist for local file playing. Nice.

Many features including rip/encoding and great skins but no CDDB support yet.

Another MP3 Player for handheld PCs.

Useable and good-looking interface, standard features.

Clean, pretty, easy-to-use and packed with features multi-format player.

A streaming player with recording support and excellent hierarchical display.

A streaming player with recording support and excellent hierarchical display.

Neat and fully functional WinAmp-like player, but bloat-free and nicer.

Clean, pretty, easy-to-use but basic MP3 and CD player (CDDB supported).

As above, but for the upcoming Os X. Pre-release (beta) version.

Very high CPU usage DJ utility.

Decent usage, lousy radio selections, invasive browser redirects upon every station selection. Stick with Wired Planet.

Looks nice, plays OGG, features streaming support, fully configurable visualizer and skins.

Great "Just Player." Minimal effect on system performance, even on older Macs.

Lots of features and skins, the standard for Mac MP3 playback. Get mikmod (to play MODs) here.

Packed with options, small profile, neat appearance.

Plays video formats as well as audio, nifty streaming progress indicator. Requires PowerPC system 7.6.1 or later.

Multi-format player with all the standard options and a well-designed layout. Get your 68K version.

Excellent QuickTime based player in your control strip, with hierarchical playlist display.

Very simple just player. Few features.

Multi-format Mac player and format converter. Also available in 68K format.

Audion-compatible skins, CDDB, easy rip and encode, tons of features for every aspect of program. This version has full functionality for 30 days, then only the player continues to function.

A frontend player to the QuickTime engine with playlists - nothing to make it stand out though.

Still a very basic VQF Player.

Good-looking, functional MP3 player, skin support, playlist, streaming.  If you need other Linux versions, go here.

N/R

Command-line driven, but with graphic interfaces, fast player with impressive playlisting.

N/R

Ncurses based simple player with playlists. Mail the author with suggestions.

N/R

Probably the premier Linux player with skins (WinAmp compatible), visual plugins, and WinAmp-compatible options.  If you need the source, get it here. You can get other versions and binaries at the homepage.

Primarily a multi-module (103 kinds of modules) player, APlayer can also playback all forms of MPEG formats, including MP3.

Excellent player that can use WinAmp's skins - tons of plugins - can play WAV, modules, MP3's, write out to WAV, lots more!
R4 version here. PowerPC users get this version - compiled by Evan Knop.

Easy and obvious interface, can use WinAmp skins, has pitch control and crossfade, multiformat support including MOD and Vorbis OGG.
Get PowerPC version 4.3 (530 KB).

A player capable of playing the MPEGPlus codec.

N/R

All the required playing functions are here - even skins.

Cubic-style interface (kind-of a DOS window box), good speed.

N/R

Here's the SPARC version.

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Here's the SPARC version.

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Here's the SPARC version.