Comparison of audio player software

Comparison of audio player software: This article is about audio player software. For a comparison of video player software (including software capable of playing both audio and video), see Comparison of video player software. For a comparison of hardware device type portable media players, see Comparison of portable media players.

The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs.

For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player which can only play audio files. Players capable of video playback are included under comparison of video player software, even if they are primarily well known for audio playback.

Contents

1 General

2 Operating system requirement

3 Features

3.1 Extended features

4 Audio format capability

5 Container format capability

6 Scalable, composite and emulation format capabilities

7 Protocol capabilities

8 Playlist format capability

9 Metadata capability

10 Optical media capability

11 See also

12 References

General

Name Author First public release Most recent stable version Cost Software license Based Framework Written in

ALLPlayer Allplayer ltd 00 Jan 1998 3.7 (24 December 2008) Free Proprietary

Amarok Mark Kretschmann 00 Jun 2003 2.4.3 (August 1, 2011; 3 months ago (2011-08-01)) Free GPL via Phonon: GStreamer, xine, MPlayer, VLC, DirectShow, QuickTime C++

aTunes Alex Aranda et al. 00 Jan 2006 2.1.0 (2011-10-01) Free GPL Java

Audacious Audacious Development Team 30 Oct 2005 3.1 (November 8, 2011; 13 days ago (2011-11-08))

Free GPL C, C++

Audion Panic 16 Aug 1999 3.0.2 (2002) Free Proprietary

Beep Media Player Milosz Derezynski 06 Jun 2004 0.9.7.1 (22 October 2005) Free GPL C

Calaym Jan Vorel 11 August 2002 19 September 2011 Free GPL FModEx/FMod / BASS VB6 / PureBasic

CDPlayer Microsoft 00 Nov 1992 4.00.950 Free Proprietary

Clementine Clementine Team 00 March 2011 0.7.1 (March 27, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-03-27)) Free GPL C++

cmus Timo Hirvonen 18 Jan 2005 2.4.2 (24 Jul 2011) Free GPL C

Cog Vincent Spader 1 May 2006 0.07 (23 December 2007) Free GPL Objective-C

Creative MediaSource Creative Technology 00 Jan 2002 5.10.38 Non-free—Bundled (requires Creative product) Proprietary

Decibel Audio Player François Ingelrest 13 May 2007 1.05 Free GPL GStreamer Python

Exaile Adam Olsen 24 May 2006 0.3.2.2 (July 18, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-07-18)) Free GPL GStreamer Python

Flash MP3 Player Reality Software 11 Mar 2008 1.00 Free Proprietary

foobar2000 Peter Pawlowski 00 Dec 2002 1.1.9 (4 November 2011; 17 days ago (2011-11-04)) Free Proprietary (core),
BSD (first-party components) C++

JuK Scott Wheeler 00 Feb 2003 3.4 (February 9, 2010; 20 months ago (2010-02-09)) Free GPL C++

Listen Mehdi Abaakouk 04 Mar 2006 0.6 Free GPL GStreamer Python

Media Jukebox J. River 00 Jan 1998 14.0.166 (July 15, 2010) Free Proprietary

MediaMonkey Standard Ventis Media Inc. 25 Aug 2003 4.0.0.1459 (November 14, 2011; 7 days ago (2011-11-14)) Free Proprietary Delphi, C

MediaMonkey Gold Ventis Media Inc. 25 Aug 2003 4.0.0.1459 (November 14, 2011; 7 days ago (2011-11-14)) Non-free US$19.95 Proprietary Delphi, C

MediaMonkey Lifetime Ventis Media Inc. 25 Aug 2003 4.0.0.1459 (November 14, 2011; 7 days ago (2011-11-14)) Non-free US$29.95 Proprietary Delphi, C

MPXPLAY MPXPLAY 00 Jan 1998 1.58 (May 22, 2011; 5 months ago (2011-05-22)) Free GPL

Music on Console Damian Pietras 00 Jan 2002 2.4.4 (January 4, 2009; 2 years ago (2009-01-04)) Free GPL C

Music Player Daemon Warren Dukes 00 May 2003 0.16.5 (9 October 2011) Free GPL

MusicBee Steven Mayall 04 Dec 2008 1.1.3599 (RC2) / 09 Nov 2009 Free Proprietary BASS Audio Library VB.NET

musikCube Casey Langen 00 Jan 2005 1.0 Final (December 2, 2006; 4 years ago (2006-12-02)) Free BSD

Napster William Christopher Gorog 00 Oct 2003 4.0.4.8 Non-free US$9.95+ Proprietary

Rhapsody RealNetworks 00 Jan 2003 14.0 (16 October 2006) Free Proprietary

Rhythmbox Colin Walters 00 Apr 2004 0.13.3 (January 16, 2011; 9 months ago (2011-01-16)) Free GPL GStreamer C

Sonique Media Science 00 Nov 1998 1.96 (March 2002) Free Proprietary

Style Jukebox Antiu M. Ionut Alexandru 00 Jul 2009 Beta 1.1 (July 19, 2010; 15 months ago (2010-07-19)) Free Proprietary C#

XMMS XMMS Team 00 Nov 1997 1.2.11 (16 November 2007) Free GPL original C

Zinf Zinf Team 00 Apr 2002 2.2.5 (14 February 2004) Free GPL

Name Author First public release date Stable version Cost Software license Based Framework Written in

Operating system requirement

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 Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)

Amarok Not yet officially^{[osnotes 1]} Not yet officially^{[osnotes 2]} Yes Yes Yes Yes No

aTunes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No

Audacious Partial No Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Audion No PPC native^{[osnotes 3]} No No No No No

Calaym Yes No No No No No No

cmus No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Cog No 10.4+ No No No No No

Clementine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Decibel Audio Player No No Yes No No No No

Exaile Not yet officially No Yes No No No No

foobar2000 Yes No No No No No No

JuK Not yet officially^{[osnotes 4]} No Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Listen No No Yes ? ? No No

Media Jukebox Yes No No No No No No

MediaMonkey Yes No No No No No No

MPXPLAY Yes No No No No No Yes

Music Player Daemon cygwin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

MusicBee Yes No No No No No No

Musicmatch Jukebox Yes No No No No No No

musikCube 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista only No No No No No No

Rhapsody Yes No Yes No No No No

Rhythmbox No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Sonique Yes No No No No No No

XMMS No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Zinf Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Audio player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)

^ Amarok for Windows Download Page - not yet officially supported

^ OS X Amarok for Mac OS X Download Page - not yet officially supported

^ Might be usable with Rosetta.

^ KDE on Windows Project - Part of kdemultimedia

Features

Audio player Video playback Outbound streaming Skinnable Media database Gapless audio decoding Visualizer Remote controllable Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria)

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

Calaym No No No No No Yes No No

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 No Yes

foobar2000 No Partial^[1] Yes^{[featurenotes 3]} Yes Yes Yes Partial^[1] Yes

JuK No No No Yes No No Yes^{[featurenotes 4]} ?

Listen No No No Yes No Yes ? ?

Media Jukebox No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MediaMonkey Partial^[1] Partial^[1] Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial^[1] Yes

MPXPLAY Only sound output ? text-interface Yes Yes Yes Yes (also LCD capability) ?

Music Player Daemon No Yes Client dependent Yes Yes Client dependent Yes Client dependent

MusicBee No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes

Musicmatch Jukebox No No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?

musikCube No No No Yes No Partial^[1] ? Yes

Rhapsody No No No Yes ? No ? ?

Rhythmbox No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Sonique Partial^[1] No Yes No No Yes ? No

XMMS Partial^[1] Partial^[1] Yes No Partial^[1] Yes Yes 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)

Extended features

Audio player ReplayGain Mass tagging Flexible tagging^{[featurenotes 5]} Time stretching Pitch shifting A-B repeat Bookmark Auto resume Shutdown on play complete Archive capability

Amarok Yes Yes Yes No No Yes^{[featurenotes 6]} Yes Yes No No

Audacious Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No

Audion ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Calaym No No No No No No No Yes No 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 ? No No Yes^[1] Yes^[1] Yes Yes^[1] No

foobar2000 Yes Yes Yes Yes^[1] Yes^[1] Yes^[1] Partial^[1] Yes Partial^[1] Yes

JuK ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Listen ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Media Jukebox Yes Yes ? Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes

MediaMonkey Yes Yes Yes Partial^[1] Partial^[1] Partial^[1] Partial^[1] Yes Yes ?

MPXPLAY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

MusicBee Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Musicmatch Jukebox ? Partial^{[featurenotes 7]} ? No No ? ? ? ? ?

musikCube ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Rhapsody ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Rhythmbox Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No No

Sonique No No ? Yes Yes No No No No ?

XMMS Partial Yes ? No No No No Yes No No

Zinf ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No ?

Audio player ReplayGain Mass Tagging Flexible tagging^{[featurenotes 5]} Time Stretching Pitch Shifting A-B Repeat Bookmark Auto Resume Shutdown on play complete Archive capability

^ Basic function with NMM

^ Context Browser uses CSS.

^ UIs may be switched. Shares Windows' themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000.

^ Using DCOP

^ ^a ^b Flexible tagging means 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 via ID3v2.4 (via the TXXX tag field), Vorbis comments and APEv2.

^ Through plugin: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Repeat+A+B?content=45993&PHPSESSID=a86dadfbbaf38573a7287e13947745e7

^ Paid version only

Audio format capability

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

Audio player Lossy compression Lossless compression

MP3 WMA RealAudio Vorbis Musepack AAC AC3 APE FLAC ALAC SHN WV

Amarok Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes Partial No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Audacious Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes

Audion Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No

Clementine Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ?

Calaym Yes Partial^[2] No Yes No No^[3] No No No^[3] No No No

cmus Yes Yes^[4] No Yes Yes Yes Yes^[4] Yes^[4] Yes Yes^[4] Yes^[4] Yes

Cog Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Exaile Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5]

foobar2000 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Partial^[1] Yes Yes Partial^[1] Yes Yes

JuK Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No

Listen Yes Yes^{[audionotes 1]} No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No

Media Jukebox Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MediaMonkey Yes Yes No Yes Yes Partial^[6] Partial^[6] Yes Yes Yes Partial^[1] Partial^[1]

MPXPLAY Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes

Music Player Daemon Yes Yes^[4] Partial^[4] Yes Yes Yes Yes^[4] Yes^[4] Yes Yes Yes^[4] Yes

MusicBee Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes

Musicmatch Jukebox Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No

musikCube Yes Partial^[6] No Yes Partial^[6] Partial^[6] Partial^[6] Yes Yes No No Partial^[6]

Rhapsody Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No No

Rhythmbox Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5] Yes^[5]

Sonique Yes Yes No Yes Partial^[6] Partial^[6] No No No No No No

XMMS Yes Partial^[6] Partial^[6] Partial^[6] Yes Yes No Partial^[6] Yes No Partial^[6] Yes

Zinf Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No

Audio player MP3 WMA RealAudio Vorbis Musepack AAC AC3 APE FLAC ALAC SHN WV

^ Requires following fix: http://www.listen-project.org/ticket/722.

Container format capability

Information about what container formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities 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

Amarok Yes Yes Yes Yes Basic Basic Yes ? ? ?

Audacious No Yes No Yes No No Yes No No No

Audion No No No No No No No ? ? ?

Calaym No ? No Vorbis only No No No ? No No

cmus No No No Vorbis only No Basic Yes ? ? ?

Cog No No No Yes No No Partial ? ? ?

foobar2000 Partial^[1] Yes No Yes No Yes^{[containernotes 1]} Yes ? ? Audio only

JuK No No No Vorbis only No No No ? ? ?

Listen No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?

Media Jukebox Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?

MediaMonkey No No No Vorbis only No No No ? ? ?

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 No No Vorbis only No No Yes^[5] ? ? ?

Sonique No^[6] No No Yes No No No ? ? ?

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

^ Native Matroska tag reading and writing

Scalable, composite and emulation format capabilities

Audio player Flash RealPix QuickTime Video Effects in mov HTML+TIME(+VML) Silverlight smil/smi SVG MIDI(smf) MIDI(kar) MIDI(xmf) MIDI(rmi) MIDI(xmi) NSF SPC PSF

Amarok ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Audacious No No No No No No No Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Audion ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Calaym No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No

cmus No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No

Cog ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

foobar2000 No No No No No No No Yes (plugin) ? ? Yes (plugin) Yes (plugin) Yes (plugin) Yes (plugin) Yes (plugin)

JuK ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Listen ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Media Jukebox ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

MediaMonkey ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes (winamp plugin) Yes (winamp plugin) Yes (winamp plugin)

MPXPLAY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

MusicBee ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Musicmatch Jukebox ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

musikCube ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Rhapsody ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Rhythmbox ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Sonique ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

XMMS ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Zinf ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Audio player Flash RealPix QuickTime Video Effects in mov HTML+TIME(+VML) Silverlight smil/smi SVG MIDI(smf) MIDI(kar) MIDI(xmf) MIDI(rmi) MIDI(xmi) NSF SPC PSF

Protocol capabilities

Information about which internet protocols the players understand, for receiving streaming media content. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Audio player HTTP RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT) MMS (MMSU, MMST) Podcasting Other

Amarok Yes Yes Yes Yes

Audacious Yes No Yes No ?

Audion Yes No No No ?

Calaym Yes No No No No

cmus Yes No No No ?

Cog No No No No ?

foobar2000 Yes Yes Yes Partial^{[protocolnotes 1]} ?

JuK ? ? ? ? ?

Listen Yes Yes No Yes ?

Media Jukebox Yes ? ? Yes ?

MediaMonkey Yes No No Yes^{[protocolnotes 2]} ?

MusicBee Yes ? ? Yes ?

Musicmatch Jukebox Yes ? ? ? ?

musikCube Yes No No ? ?

Rhapsody Yes Yes Yes Yes ?

Rhythmbox Yes Yes No Partial^{[protocolnotes 3]} upnp

Sonique Yes ? ? ? ?

XMMS Yes ? ? ? ?

Zinf Yes Yes No No ?

Audio player HTTP RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT) MMS (MMSU, MMST) Podcasting Other

^ 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 capability

Information about which playlist formats the players understand.

Audio player asx/wax/wvx M3U pls xspf

Amarok ? Yes ? ?

Audacious Partial Yes Yes Yes

Audion ? ? ? ?

Calaym No Yes^[7] No No

cmus No Yes Yes No

Cog ? ? ? ?

Exaile Yes Yes Yes Yes

foobar2000 Yes Yes Yes Yes

JuK ? ? ? ?

Listen ? ? ? ?

Media Jukebox Yes Yes Yes ?

MediaMonkey ? Yes ? No

MPXPLAY ? ? ? ?

MusicBee ? Yes ? ?

Musicmatch Jukebox ? ? ? ?

musikCube ? ? ? ?

Rhapsody ? ? ? ?

Rhythmbox ? ? Yes ?

Sonique ? Yes Yes ?

XMMS ? Yes Yes ?

Zinf ? ? ? No

Audio player asx/wax/wvx m3u8 pls xspf

Metadata capability

Information about what metadata, 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 capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Audio player ID3v1 ID3v2 APEv2 tag Vorbis comment Cue sheet CD-Text

Amarok Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]} Partial^{[metadatanotes 1]} Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]} Yes No^{[metadatanotes 2]} ?

Audacious Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Audion Yes Yes No No ? ?

Calaym Partial^[8] Partial^[8] No Partial^[8] No No

cmus Yes Yes Yes Yes No No

Cog Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?

foobar2000 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes^{[metadatanotes 3]}

JuK Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]} Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]} Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]} Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]} ? ?

Listen Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?

Media Jukebox Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

MediaMonkey Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes

MPXPLAY Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?

MusicBee Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Musicmatch Jukebox Yes Yes No ? ? Yes

musikCube Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?

Rhapsody Yes Yes No No ? ?

Rhythmbox Yes 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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.

^ Only older 1.5.* versions work with CUE files, it may work in future versions of 2.*.

^ There is a plugin called CD-TEXT Reader adding such a feature.

Optical media capability

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

Audio player Audio

CD DVD-Audio HDCD

Amarok Yes No No

aTunes No No No

Audacious Yes No No

Audion Yes No No

Calaym 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

Media Jukebox Yes No No

MediaMonkey Yes No No

MusicBee Yes ? ?

Musicmatch Jukebox Yes No No

musikCube Yes No No

Rhapsody Yes No No

Rhythmbox Yes No No

Sonique Yes No No

XMMS Yes No No

Zinf Yes No No

Audio player CD DVD-Audio HDCD

Audio

^ http://dvdadecoder.sourceforge.net/

^ http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_hdcd

^ Requires K3B

See also

Free software portal

List of codecs

Open source codecs and containers

Comparison of audio codecs

Comparison of container formats

Comparison of portable media players

References

^ ^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 Plugin available.

^ The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.

^ ^a ^b Requires another sound system.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Available through a FFmpeg 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 Available through a Gstreamer plugin.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation

^ Order of songs is discarded

^ ^a ^b ^c Displays some tags as formated text

v · d · eMedia players

Technologies

Articles

Codec · Demultiplexer · Internet radio · Internet television · Playlist · Media resource locator · Music visualization · Syndication · Podcast · P2PTV

Preferences

Video player (Comparison) · Audio player (Comparison) · Portable media player (Comparison) · HD media player · Home Theater PC · Home cinema

Commercial

Mobile

Various

Media Player (Windows Mobile), Pocket Tunes (Palm OS) Multi-Platform: CoreAVC CorePlayer · Core Pocket Media Player

Android

DoubleTwist Media Player · RealPlayer for Android · TuneWiki for Android · Winamp for Android

OS

Microsoft Windows

Connect Player · Iriver plus 3 · Media Center · PowerDVD · SonicStage · Core Media Player · WinDVD · Windows Media Center · Windows Media Player · Yahoo! Music Jukebox · Zune

Mac OS X

Centerstage · Chroma · DVD Player · Front Row · Peel · Flip4Mac WMV Player

Freeware or Free software

Microsoft Windows

Adobe Media Player · CrystalPlayer · Dell MediaDirect · foobar2000 · GOM Player · jetAudio · K-Multimedia Player · Macromedia Shockwave · MadCat Media Browser · Media Go · Media Player Classic · MediaMonkey · Mod4Win · Mpxplay · MusicBee · MusikCube · PC Friendly · QuickPlayer · Quintessential Player · QuuxPlayer · Style Jukebox · Winamp · WinPlay3player

Linux

Baudline · Beep Media Player · cmus · Decibel Audio Player · Exaile · Gnome Music Player Client · Helix · JuK · Kaffeine · LinuxMCE · Lsongs · Miro · Mpg123 · Muine · Music Player Daemon · Music on Console · Noatun · Ogle DVD Player · Rhythmbox · Totem · Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator · Xine · XMMS · XMMS2

Multi-Platform

Adobe Flash Player · Adobe Shockwave · Amarok · Audacious · Banshee · Boxee · Clementine · DivX Player · ffplay · iTunes · Miro · MPlayer · QuickTime · RealPlayer · Songbird · VLC media player · XBMC · Zinf

v · d · eHome theater PC software and related devices

Windows
Beyond TV · GB-PVR · Meedio · MediaPortal · J. River Media Center · ShowShifter · Windows Media Center · XBMC

Mac OS X
Centerstage · Front Row · ITheater · Plex · XBMC

Linux
Distributions Element OS · GeeXboX · LinuxMCE · Mythbuntu · Mythdora · XBMC Live · MythTV · OpenELEC · Video Disk Recorder

Cross-platform
Boxee (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) · SageTV (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) · XBMC (Apple TV, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Xbox)

Set-top boxes/
Digital media receivers
Apple TV · DBox2 · Dreambox · HP MediaSmart Connect · Hauppauge MediaMVP · Google TV · Netgear Digital Entertainer · Roku · TiVo · Vu+ · WD TV · Windows Media Center Extender

Related hardware
ATI Theater Cards · Elgato EyeTV devices · Hauppauge Computer Works WinTV PVR Cards · HDHomeRun · Remote control (Touchscreen) · Mac Mini · Nvidia TV-Tuner Cards · Quiet PC

System manufacturers
Alienware · Apple Inc. · Dell · Gateway · Hewlett-Packard · Intel · Logitech · Interact-TV · Shuttle Inc. · Sony (VAIO series) · Toshiba · Velocity Micro · Zotac ·

Related articles
10-foot user interface · Comparison of video player software · Comparison of audio player software · Digital media receiver · HD media player · Home cinema · Home theater PC · Internet television · Media server · Portable media player · Set-top box (Hybrid IPTV) · Smart TV · Video player

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Name	Author	First public release	Most recent stable version	Cost	Software license	Based Framework	Written in
ALLPlayer	Allplayer ltd	00 Jan 1998	3.7 (24 December 2008)	Free	Proprietary
Amarok	Mark Kretschmann	00 Jun 2003	2.4.3 (August 1, 2011; 3 months ago (2011-08-01))	Free	GPL	via Phonon: GStreamer, xine, MPlayer, VLC, DirectShow, QuickTime	C++
aTunes	Alex Aranda et al.	00 Jan 2006	2.1.0 (2011-10-01)	Free	GPL		Java
Audacious	Audacious Development Team	30 Oct 2005	3.1 (November 8, 2011; 13 days ago (2011-11-08))	Free	GPL		C, C++
Audion	Panic	16 Aug 1999	3.0.2 (2002)	Free	Proprietary
Beep Media Player	Milosz Derezynski	06 Jun 2004	0.9.7.1 (22 October 2005)	Free	GPL		C
Calaym	Jan Vorel	11 August 2002	19 September 2011	Free	GPL	FModEx/FMod / BASS	VB6 / PureBasic
CDPlayer	Microsoft	00 Nov 1992	4.00.950	Free	Proprietary
Clementine	Clementine Team	00 March 2011	0.7.1 (March 27, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-03-27))	Free	GPL		C++
cmus	Timo Hirvonen	18 Jan 2005	2.4.2 (24 Jul 2011)	Free	GPL		C
Cog	Vincent Spader	1 May 2006	0.07 (23 December 2007)	Free	GPL		Objective-C
Creative MediaSource	Creative Technology	00 Jan 2002	5.10.38	Non-free—Bundled (requires Creative product)	Proprietary
Decibel Audio Player	François Ingelrest	13 May 2007	1.05	Free	GPL	GStreamer	Python
Exaile	Adam Olsen	24 May 2006	0.3.2.2 (July 18, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-07-18))	Free	GPL	GStreamer	Python
Flash MP3 Player	Reality Software	11 Mar 2008	1.00	Free	Proprietary
foobar2000	Peter Pawlowski	00 Dec 2002	1.1.9 (4 November 2011; 17 days ago (2011-11-04))	Free	Proprietary (core), BSD (first-party components)		C++
JuK	Scott Wheeler	00 Feb 2003	3.4 (February 9, 2010; 20 months ago (2010-02-09))	Free	GPL		C++
Listen	Mehdi Abaakouk	04 Mar 2006	0.6	Free	GPL	GStreamer	Python
Media Jukebox	J. River	00 Jan 1998	14.0.166 (July 15, 2010)	Free	Proprietary
MediaMonkey Standard	Ventis Media Inc.	25 Aug 2003	4.0.0.1459 (November 14, 2011; 7 days ago (2011-11-14))	Free	Proprietary		Delphi, C
MediaMonkey Gold	Ventis Media Inc.	25 Aug 2003	4.0.0.1459 (November 14, 2011; 7 days ago (2011-11-14))	Non-free US$19.95	Proprietary		Delphi, C
MediaMonkey Lifetime	Ventis Media Inc.	25 Aug 2003	4.0.0.1459 (November 14, 2011; 7 days ago (2011-11-14))	Non-free US$29.95	Proprietary		Delphi, C
MPXPLAY	MPXPLAY	00 Jan 1998	1.58 (May 22, 2011; 5 months ago (2011-05-22))	Free	GPL
Music on Console	Damian Pietras	00 Jan 2002	2.4.4 (January 4, 2009; 2 years ago (2009-01-04))	Free	GPL		C
Music Player Daemon	Warren Dukes	00 May 2003	0.16.5 (9 October 2011)	Free	GPL
MusicBee	Steven Mayall	04 Dec 2008	1.1.3599 (RC2) / 09 Nov 2009	Free	Proprietary	BASS Audio Library	VB.NET
musikCube	Casey Langen	00 Jan 2005	1.0 Final (December 2, 2006; 4 years ago (2006-12-02))	Free	BSD
Napster	William Christopher Gorog	00 Oct 2003	4.0.4.8	Non-free US$9.95+	Proprietary
Rhapsody	RealNetworks	00 Jan 2003	14.0 (16 October 2006)	Free	Proprietary
Rhythmbox	Colin Walters	00 Apr 2004	0.13.3 (January 16, 2011; 9 months ago (2011-01-16))	Free	GPL	GStreamer	C
Sonique	Media Science	00 Nov 1998	1.96 (March 2002)	Free	Proprietary
Style Jukebox	Antiu M. Ionut Alexandru	00 Jul 2009	Beta 1.1 (July 19, 2010; 15 months ago (2010-07-19))	Free	Proprietary		C#
XMMS	XMMS Team	00 Nov 1997	1.2.11 (16 November 2007)	Free	GPL	original	C
Zinf	Zinf Team	00 Apr 2002	2.2.5 (14 February 2004)	Free	GPL
Name	Author	First public release date	Stable version	Cost	Software license	Based Framework	Written in

Audio player	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix	DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)
Amarok	Not yet officially^{[osnotes 1]}	Not yet officially^{[osnotes 2]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
aTunes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Audacious	Partial	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audion	No	PPC native^{[osnotes 3]}	No	No	No	No	No
Calaym	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
cmus	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Cog	No	10.4+	No	No	No	No	No
Clementine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Decibel Audio Player	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Exaile	Not yet officially	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
foobar2000	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
JuK	Not yet officially^{[osnotes 4]}	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Listen	No	No	Yes	?	?	No	No
Media Jukebox	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
MPXPLAY	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Music Player Daemon	cygwin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MusicBee	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
musikCube	2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista only	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Rhythmbox	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Sonique	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
XMMS	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Zinf	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audio player	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix	DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)

Audio player	Video playback	Outbound streaming	Skinnable	Media database	Gapless audio decoding	Visualizer	Remote controllable	Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria)
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
Calaym	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
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	No	Yes
foobar2000	No	Partial^[1]	Yes^{[featurenotes 3]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[1]	Yes
JuK	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes^{[featurenotes 4]}	?
Listen	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	?	?
Media Jukebox	No	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MediaMonkey	Partial^[1]	Partial^[1]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[1]	Yes
MPXPLAY	Only sound output	?	text-interface	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (also LCD capability)	?
Music Player Daemon	No	Yes	Client dependent	Yes	Yes	Client dependent	Yes	Client dependent
MusicBee	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?
musikCube	No	No	No	Yes	No	Partial^[1]	?	Yes
Rhapsody	No	No	No	Yes	?	No	?	?
Rhythmbox	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sonique	Partial^[1]	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	?	No
XMMS	Partial^[1]	Partial^[1]	Yes	No	Partial^[1]	Yes	Yes	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	Mass tagging	Flexible tagging^{[featurenotes 5]}	Time stretching	Pitch shifting	A-B repeat	Bookmark	Auto resume	Shutdown on play complete	Archive capability
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes^{[featurenotes 6]}	Yes	Yes	No	No
Audacious	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Audion	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Calaym	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	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	?	No	No	Yes^[1]	Yes^[1]	Yes	Yes^[1]	No
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[1]	Yes^[1]	Yes^[1]	Partial^[1]	Yes	Partial^[1]	Yes
JuK	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Listen	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Media Jukebox	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[1]	Partial^[1]	Partial^[1]	Partial^[1]	Yes	Yes	?
MPXPLAY	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	?	Partial^{[featurenotes 7]}	?	No	No	?	?	?	?	?
musikCube	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhapsody	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Sonique	No	No	?	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	?
XMMS	Partial	Yes	?	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Zinf	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	No	?
Audio player	ReplayGain	Mass Tagging	Flexible tagging^{[featurenotes 5]}	Time Stretching	Pitch Shifting	A-B Repeat	Bookmark	Auto Resume	Shutdown on play complete	Archive capability

Audio player	Lossy compression	Lossless compression
MP3	WMA	RealAudio	Vorbis	Musepack	AAC	AC3	APE	FLAC	ALAC	SHN	WV
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes	Partial	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audacious	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Audion	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Clementine	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes	?	?
Calaym	Yes	Partial^[2]	No	Yes	No	No^[3]	No	No	No^[3]	No	No	No
cmus	Yes	Yes^[4]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[4]	Yes^[4]	Yes	Yes^[4]	Yes^[4]	Yes
Cog	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Exaile	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[1]	Yes	Yes	Partial^[1]	Yes	Yes
JuK	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Listen	Yes	Yes^{[audionotes 1]}	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Media Jukebox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Partial^[6]	Partial^[6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^[1]	Partial^[1]
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Music Player Daemon	Yes	Yes^[4]	Partial^[4]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[4]	Yes^[4]	Yes	Yes	Yes^[4]	Yes
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
musikCube	Yes	Partial^[6]	No	Yes	Partial^[6]	Partial^[6]	Partial^[6]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Partial^[6]
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhythmbox	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]	Yes^[5]
Sonique	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Partial^[6]	Partial^[6]	No	No	No	No	No	No
XMMS	Yes	Partial^[6]	Partial^[6]	Partial^[6]	Yes	Yes	No	Partial^[6]	Yes	No	Partial^[6]	Yes
Zinf	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Audio player	MP3	WMA	RealAudio	Vorbis	Musepack	AAC	AC3	APE	FLAC	ALAC	SHN	WV

Audio player	AVI	ASF	QuickTime	Ogg	OGM	Matroska	MP4	MPEG-21	NUT	FLV
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic	Basic	Yes	?	?	?
Audacious	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Audion	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	?	?
Calaym	No	?	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	No	No
cmus	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	Basic	Yes	?	?	?
Cog	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Partial	?	?	?
foobar2000	Partial^[1]	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes^{[containernotes 1]}	Yes	?	?	Audio only
JuK	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	?	?
Listen	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
Media Jukebox	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?
MediaMonkey	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No	?	?	?
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	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	Yes^[5]	?	?	?
Sonique	No^[6]	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	?
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

Audio player	Flash	RealPix	QuickTime Video Effects in mov	HTML+TIME(+VML)	Silverlight	smil/smi	SVG	MIDI(smf)	MIDI(kar)	MIDI(xmf)	MIDI(rmi)	MIDI(xmi)	NSF	SPC	PSF
Amarok	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Audacious	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audion	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Calaym	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
cmus	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Cog	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
foobar2000	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes (plugin)	?	?	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)	Yes (plugin)
JuK	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Listen	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Media Jukebox	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MediaMonkey	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes (winamp plugin)	Yes (winamp plugin)	Yes (winamp plugin)
MPXPLAY	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MusicBee	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Musicmatch Jukebox	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
musikCube	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhapsody	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Sonique	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
XMMS	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Zinf	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Audio player	Flash	RealPix	QuickTime Video Effects in mov	HTML+TIME(+VML)	Silverlight	smil/smi	SVG	MIDI(smf)	MIDI(kar)	MIDI(xmf)	MIDI(rmi)	MIDI(xmi)	NSF	SPC	PSF

Audio player	HTTP	RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT)	MMS (MMSU, MMST)	Podcasting	Other
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audacious	Yes	No	Yes	No	?
Audion	Yes	No	No	No	?
Calaym	Yes	No	No	No	No
cmus	Yes	No	No	No	?
Cog	No	No	No	No	?
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial^{[protocolnotes 1]}	?
JuK	?	?	?	?	?
Listen	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?
Media Jukebox	Yes	?	?	Yes	?
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No	Yes^{[protocolnotes 2]}	?
MusicBee	Yes	?	?	Yes	?
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	?	?	?	?
musikCube	Yes	No	No	?	?
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	No	Partial^{[protocolnotes 3]}	upnp
Sonique	Yes	?	?	?	?
XMMS	Yes	?	?	?	?
Zinf	Yes	Yes	No	No	?
Audio player	HTTP	RTSP (RTSPU, RTSPT)	MMS (MMSU, MMST)	Podcasting	Other

Audio player	asx/wax/wvx	M3U	pls	xspf
Amarok	?	Yes	?	?
Audacious	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audion	?	?	?	?
Calaym	No	Yes^[7]	No	No
cmus	No	Yes	Yes	No
Cog	?	?	?	?
Exaile	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JuK	?	?	?	?
Listen	?	?	?	?
Media Jukebox	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
MediaMonkey	?	Yes	?	No
MPXPLAY	?	?	?	?
MusicBee	?	Yes	?	?
Musicmatch Jukebox	?	?	?	?
musikCube	?	?	?	?
Rhapsody	?	?	?	?
Rhythmbox	?	?	Yes	?
Sonique	?	Yes	Yes	?
XMMS	?	Yes	Yes	?
Zinf	?	?	?	No
Audio player	asx/wax/wvx	m3u8	pls	xspf

Audio player	ID3v1	ID3v2	APEv2 tag	Vorbis comment	Cue sheet	CD-Text
Amarok	Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Partial^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes	No^{[metadatanotes 2]}	?
Audacious	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audion	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	?
Calaym	Partial^[8]	Partial^[8]	No	Partial^[8]	No	No
cmus	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Cog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^{[metadatanotes 3]}
JuK	Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]}	Yes^{[metadatanotes 1]}	?	?
Listen	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Media Jukebox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
MusicBee	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	Yes
musikCube	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	?
Rhythmbox	Yes	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

Audio player	Audio
CD	DVD-Audio	HDCD
Amarok	Yes	No	No
aTunes	No	No	No
Audacious	Yes	No	No
Audion	Yes	No	No
Calaym	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
Media Jukebox	Yes	No	No
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No
MusicBee	Yes	?	?
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	No	No
musikCube	Yes	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	No	No
Rhythmbox	Yes	No	No
Sonique	Yes	No	No
XMMS	Yes	No	No
Zinf	Yes	No	No
Audio player	CD	DVD-Audio	HDCD
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