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

In this comparison, audio players are defined as media players which cannot play video files by default.

Contents

General

Video players

Name Author First public release date Stable version Cost Software license
ALLPlayer MarBit 1998 Template:Latest stable release/ALLPlayer Free Proprietary
ALShow ESTsoft vel-1"> 2004 1.62  (February 1, 2008 (2008-02-01); 220 days ago) Free Proprietary
Aunsoft FLV player Aunsoft software 2008-08-28 1.0.2.1 Free Proprietary
Banshee Aaron Bockover 2005-08 1.2.1  (2008-08-12) Free MIT
BS.Player Webteh 2000 2.30  (August 11, 2008 (2008-08-11); 28 days ago) Free (AdWare), €29,90 (Pro), €9,90 (Lite) Proprietary
Chroma mirailabs 2003 2007.3  (January 1, 2007) Free (trial), $22.00 Proprietary
Creative MediaSource Creative Technology 2002 5.10.38  (December 22, 2006 (2006-12-22); 626 days ago) Free (Requires Creative product) Proprietary
CorePlayer CoreCodec, Inc. 2006 1.2.9  (March 14, 2008 (2008-03-14); 178 days ago) $19.95 Proprietary
CrystalPlayer Crystal Reality LLC 2002-10 1.98  (May 31, 2007 (2007-05-31); 466 days ago) $29,95 Proprietary
Elecard MPEG Player Elecard Ltd. 1999-11 5.0  (March 1, 2008 (2008-03-01); 191 days ago) $19.99 Proprietary
FLV-Media Player HYBRIDWEB.de (Patrick Müller) 2006-10 Template:Latest stable release/FLV-Media Player Free Proprietary
FLV Player Moyea Ltd 2007-05 1.1  (October 25, 2007 (2007-10-25); 319 days ago) Free Proprietary
GOM Player Gretech Corporation 2003-01-07 2.1.9.3754  (March 28, 2008 (2008-03-28); 164 days ago) Free Proprietary
iTunes Apple Inc. 2001-01-09 7.7  (July 10, 2008 (2008-07-10); 60 days ago) Free Proprietary
jetAudio Cowon Systems 1997 7.1.1.3101  (May 28, 2008 (2008-05-28); 103 days ago) Free (Basic), $29 (Plus) Proprietary
Kaffeine KDE 2003 0.8.7  (July 6, 2008 (2008-07-06); 64 days ago) Free GPL
Kantaris Christofer Persson 2007-07 0.3.4  (March 1, 2008 (2008-03-01); 191 days ago) Free LGPL
KMPlayer Koos Vriezen, Joonas Koivunen 2003-01 Template:Latest stable release/KMPlayer Free GPL
KPlayer KPlayer Team 2003-01 0.7  (January 11, 2008 (2008-01-11); 241 days ago) Free GPL
LCPlayer LCSoftware & Design 2008-03-15 Template:Latest stable release/LCPlayer Free Proprietary
Light Alloy Velikanov Ilya 2001-12-21 4.1  (January 2, 2007 (2007-01-02); 615 days ago) Free (trial), $9.95 Proprietary
MediaFrame Airlock Limited 2004-10 2.0 rc3  (February 13, 2005 (2005-02-13); 1303 days ago) Free GPL
Media Center J. River 2003-07 12.0.526  (July 24, 2008 (2008-07-24); 46 days ago) $40.00 Proprietary
Media Player Classic Gabest 2003-05-29 6.4.9.0  (March 20, 2006 (2006-03-20); 903 days ago) Free GPL
MPlayer Árpád Gereöffy 2000-09 1.0rc2  (October 7, 2007 (2007-10-07); 337 days ago) Free GPL
Nemesis Player Michaël Cherubini 2007 1.1  (March 31, 2007 (2007-03-31); 527 days ago) Free GPL
NicePlayer Jay Tuley & Robert Chin 2004-06 0.96.1  (November 10, 2007 (2007-11-10); 303 days ago) Free GPL / MPL
Ogle Chalmers University of Technology 1999 0.9.2  (November 6, 2003 (2003-11-06); 1768 days ago) Free GPL
Passion audio player George Boudouris 2002-07 2.5  (May 30, 2008 (2008-05-30); 101 days ago) Free Proprietary
PowerDVD CyberLink 1995 8.0.1730.50b  (June 10, 2008 (2008-06-10); 90 days ago) $49.95 (Standard), $59.95 (Max), $69.95 (Deluxe) Proprietary
QuickTime Apple Computer 1991-12-02 7.50.61.0  (June 9, 2008 (2008-06-09); 91 days ago) Free (Basic), $29.95 (Pro) Proprietary
Quickview Pro Wolfgang Hesseler 1994 2.58  (March 1, 2007 (2007-03-01); 557 days ago) $23/$15 Proprietary
Quintessential Player Paul Quinn 1997 4.51  (May 11, 2004 (2004-05-11); 1581 days ago) Free Proprietary
Radioactive Player Shady Industries 2005 1.0.1 Free Proprietary
RadLight RadLight  ? 4 (2005-11-18) Free (Basic; Pro, AdWare), €29.95 (Pro) Proprietary
RealPlayer RealNetworks 1995 11.0.2 (Windows),
11.0.0.876 (Mac OS X),
11.0.0.4028 (Linux/Unix),
1.6.1 (Palm)
  (March 14, 2008 (2008-03-14); 178 days ago (Windows)
May 29, 2008 (2008-05-29); 102 days ago (Mac OS X))		 Free (Basic), $19.99 (Plus) Proprietary
SimpleCenter Universal Electronics Inc. 2002-2003 Template:Latest stable release/SimpleCenter Free Proprietary
SMPlayer RVM 2006-12-11[1] 0.6.1 (2008-05-28) Free GPL
Songbird Pioneers of the Inevitable 2006-02-08 0.7  (August 20, 2008 (2008-08-20); 19 days ago) Free GPL
The Core Media Player CoreCodec, Inc. 2006-06 named "TCMP" 4.11  (January 20, 2006) Free (Basic), $9.95 (Plus) Proprietary
The Core Pocket Media Player Gabor Kovacs 2004-07 named "BetaPlayer" 4.11 (2007-04-07) Free GPL
The KMPlayer Kang, YoungHuee 2002-12 2.9.3.1428  (December 16, 2007 (2007-12-16); 267 days ago) Free Proprietary
TrayPlayer @MAX software 2003-06-21 1.01b (2005-07-07) Free Proprietary
Totem Movie Player Totem Team 2002-07 2.22.1  (April 8, 2008 (2008-04-08); 153 days ago) Free GPL
Vidlizard Softdepia software agency 2003-12 1.25  (2007-05-08) $24.95 Proprietary
VLC media player VideoLAN 2000-02 0.8.6i  (July 12, 2008 (2008-07-12); 58 days ago) Free GPL
ViPlay URUSoft 2002-12-01 2.09 (2004-03-06) Free GPL
Winamp Nullsoft 1997-06 5.541 (5.5.4.2165)  (August 3, 2008 (2008-08-03); 36 days ago) Free (Bundle,full and lite), $19.95 (Pro) Proprietary
Windows Media Player Microsoft 1992-11 11.0.6001.7000  (4 February 2008) Free, Windows-License needed Proprietary
WinDVD Corel 1998 9.0B14.084  (2008) $39.95(Gold), $59.95(Platinum) Proprietary
XBMC Team-XBMC 2003-10 2.0.1  (2006-11-12) Free GPL / LGPL
XAnim Mark Podlipec 1999-03-14 2.80.1  (1999-03-21) Free GPL
xine xine Team 2000-08-15 0.99.5  (May 3, 2007 (2007-05-03); 494 days ago) Free GPL
Zoom Player Inmatrix 2000-12-31 5.00  (2006-12-28) Free (Basic) $27.95 (Pro) $35.95 (WMV Pro) Proprietary
Name Author First public release date Stable version Cost Software license

Audio players

Name Author First public release date Stable version Cost Software license
1by1 Martin Pesch 2006-12-13 1.63 (2008-01-15) Free Proprietary
AIMP Artem Izmailov 2006-08-08 2.11 (2008-03-14) Free Proprietary
AlbumPlayer Albumon 2003 4.9d €29.90 Proprietary
ALLPlayer MarBit 1998 Free Proprietary
ALSong ALTools  ? 1.52 Free Proprietary
Amarok Mark Kretschmann 2003-06 1.4.10  (August 13, 2008 (2008-08-13); 26 days ago) Free GPL
Aqualung Tom Szilagyi 2004-09-02 0.9beta9.1 (2008-02-10) Free GPL
aTunes Alex Aranda et al. 2006 1.9.0  (2008-6-12) Free GPL
Audacious Audacious Team 2005-10-30 1.5.1:  (2008-05-23) Free GPL
Audion Panic 1999-08-16 3.0.2 (2002) Free Proprietary
Banshee Aaron Bockover 2005-08 1.2.1  (2008-08-12) Free MIT
BOSSA Swami Systems 2006-12 2.0 Free (Basic), $24 (Pro) Proprietary
Beep Media Player Milosz Derezynski 2004-06-24 0.9.7.1  (2005-10-22) Free GPL
Billy Sanne Schaap 2004-06-20 1.03 Free General
Cactus Jukebox Sebastian Kraft 2005-03-02 0.3.8 Free GPL
cmus Timo Hirvonen 2005-01-18 2.2.0  (2007-07-27) Free GPL
Cog Vincent Spader 2006-05-01 0.07  (2007-12-23) Free GPL
Creative MediaSource Creative Technology 2002 5.10.38 Free (Requires Creative product) Proprietary
damp Matt Craven 1999 0.96 (2000-04-09) Free Proprietary
Decibel Audio Player François Ingelrest 2007-05-13 0.10 Free GPL
DeliPlayer Peter Kunath, Florian Vorberger 2000 2.03b (2004-04-04) Free (Basic), $20 (Pro) Proprietary
Exaile Adam Olsen 2006-05-24 0.2.13  (April 2, 2008) Free GPL
Express Scribe NCH Software 1997-07-17 4.11 (2007-04) Free Proprietary
foobar2000 Peter Pawlowski 2002-12 0.9.5.5  (August 4, 2008 (2008-08-04); 35 days ago) Free Proprietary (core),
BSD (first-party components)
Helium Music Manager 2007 Intermedia Design 2007 2007.0.0.5445 (2007-03-14) $39.00 Proprietary
Jajuk Jajuk Team 2004-03 1.6.4  (2008-08-26) Free GPL
JuK Scott Wheeler 2003-02 3.0 (as part of KDE 4.0)  () Free GPL
KSP Sound Player Kalliope s.c. 2005-12 2006R2  (2006-08-28) Free Proprietary
Listen Mehdi Abaakouk 2006-03-04 0.5 Free GPL
Media Jukebox J. River 1998 12.0.047 (2008-07-14) Free Proprietary
MediaMonkey Ventis Media Inc. 2003-08-25 3.0.4.1185  (August 29, 2008 (2008-08-29); 10 days ago) Free (Standard), $19.95 (Gold), $29.95 (Lifetime) Proprietary
Mesk Travis Shirk 2006-05-27 0.3.2 Free GPL
MP3Toys Robert Frahm 2004-04 2.2 $14.95 Proprietary
MPXPLAY MPXPLAY 1998 1.56beta (2008-05-26), 1.55 (2007) Free GPL
Music Player Daemon Warren Dukes 2003-05 0.13.2  (2008-06-17) Free GPL
Musicmatch Jukebox Yahoo! 1998-05 10.1  (2005) Free (Basic), $19.99 (Plus) Proprietary
musikCube Casey Langen 2005 1.0  (2006-12-03) Free BSD
Muzikbrowzer Pecan Ventures 2003 1.0 $20.00 Proprietary
Napster William Christopher Gorog 2003-10 4.0.4.8 $9.95 and up Proprietary
Quod Libet Joe Wreschnig ? 1.0  (May 5, 2007) Free GPL
QuickPlayer Jan Vorel 2006-07 1.00 beta 61a  (2008-04-05) Free GPL
QuuxPlayer Quux Software 2008-06 2.0.6 Free Proprietary
Rhapsody RealNetworks 2003 4.0  (2006-10-16) Free Proprietary
Rhythmbox Colin Walters 2004-04 0.10.1  (May 28, 2007 (2007-05-28); 469 days ago) Free GPL
SnackAmp Tom Wilkason 2002-01 3.1.2  (2005-07-02) Free GPL
Sonique Media Science 1998-11 1.96 (2002-03) Free Proprietary
Songbird Pioneers of the Inevitable 2008-2006 0.6 Free GPL
Spider Player Vitaly Kravchenko 2006-04 2.3.5 Free (Basic), $19.95 (Pro) Proprietary
VUPlayer James Chapman 2000 2.42 Free Proprietary
XBMC Team-XBMC 2003-10 2.0.1  (2006-11-12) Free GPL / LGPL
XMMS XMMS Team 1997-11 1.2.11  (2007-11-16) Free GPL
XMPlay Ian Luck 1998-07 3.4.2.1  (July 19, 2007 (2007-07-19); 417 days ago) Free Proprietary
Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yahoo! 2005 2.2.2.058  (2008-02-05) Free (Basic), $19.99 (Plus) Proprietary
Zinf Zinf Team 2002-04 2.2.5  (2004-02-14) Free GPL
Name Author First public release date Stable version Cost Software license

Operating system support

Video players

Video player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS) eComStation
ALLPlayer Yes No No No No No No No
ALShow Yes No No No No No No No
BS.Player Yes No No No No No No No
Chroma No Yes No No No No No No
CorePlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
CrystalPlayer Yes No No No No No No No
Elecard MPEG Player Yes No No No No No No No
Fusion Media Player Yes No No No No No No No
GOM Player Yes No No No No No No No
iTunes 2000/XP/Vista only Included No No No No No No
jetAudio Yes No No No No No No No
Kantaris Yes No No No No No No No
KMPlayer  ?  ? KDE native  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
KPlayer No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Kaffeine No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
LCPlayer Yes No No No No No No No
Light Alloy Yes No No No No No No No
MediaFrame Yes PPC native[2] Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Media Center Yes No No No No No No No
Media Player Classic Yes No No No No No No No
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Nemesis Player Yes No No No No No No No
NicePlayer No Yes No No No No No No
Ogle No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
QuickTime Yes Included No No No No No No
Quintessential Player Yes No No No No No No No
Quickview pro 9x/ME only No Yes No No No Yes No
Radioactive Player Yes No No No No No No No
RealPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
SimpleCenter Yes No No No No No No No
SMPlayer Yes No Yes No No No No No
Songbird 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista only Yes Yes No Yes No No No
Spider Player 2000/XP/Vista only No No No No No No No
The KMPlayer 2000/XP/Vista only[3] No No No No No No (No GUI)
Totem Movie Player No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Vidlizard Yes No No No No No No No
VLC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Winamp Yes Mac 9 Last version is a beta of 2.x No No No No No
Windows Media Player Included Dropped (WMP9) No No Dropped (WMP6.3) No No No
XBMC Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
xine unmaintained WIP for 1.2 series Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Zoom Player Yes No No No No No No No
Video player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS) eComStation

Audio players

Audio player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)
1by1 Yes No Yes (via Wine) No No No No
AIMP Yes No No No No No No
Albumplayer Yes No No No No No No
ALSong Yes No No No No No No
Amarok No[4] Yes (via X11 layer) Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Aqualung Yes No Yes Yes ? ? No
aTunes Yes No[5] Yes No Yes No No
Audacious No Yes(via GTK+ Quartz) Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Audion No PPC native[2] No No No No No
Banshee No No Yes ? ? ? No