HippoPlayer Alternatives

HippoPlayer

The original HippoPlayer is something I used a lot when I had my Amiga. Over many years I tried various players and while some of them hold up none of them has been what I been looking for. Before starting this project I looked around quite a bit for alternatives and nothing really fit the bill.

Closest is likely XMPlay, but that's for Windows only and closed source which isn't what I want either but feature wise it's fairly good. I started this project roughly 7 years ago. I did some work in a private repository and had something very basic up and running. Then other things happened and the project has been on ICE for quite many years but I always had it back in my head that I wanted to come back to it.

The aim I have with HippoPlayer is "a modern music player for your oldsk00l needs" This means it should feel nice and great to use with features that you can expect from a modern player but allow you to play older formats in the best way possible.

Best Free HippoPlayer Alternatives

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foobar2000

FreeWindowsAndroidiPhoneWindows Phone

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Main features Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus...

Features:

Customizable
Lightweight
Music Library
Plugins
Replay Gain
Minimalistic
UI customization
CD Ripper
Audio conversion
Audio processing/resampling
Automatic Tagging
Auto update
Better tags service
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
File-organization
Flexible customizations
Gapless Playback
Great Opus codec support
Library Organization
Mic music playing
Music collection
Music Player
Night mode/Dark Theme
Portable
Sample packs
Sorting by folder
Support for Themes
Waveform Seekbar

Audacious

FreeOpen SourceWindowsLinuxBSDXfce

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting...

Features:

Dynamic Range Compressor
Windows Compatible
3D visualization
Automatic Lyrics Finder
Integrated codecs
Create PlayList
Crossfading
Drag n drop
Equalizer
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Last.FM Scrobbler
Lightweight
Music Library
Music Player
Parametric Equalizer
Playlists management
Plugins
Queued Operations
Skinnable
Supports audio media keys

DeaDBeeF

FreeOpen SourceMacWindowsLinuxBSDKDECinnamonGNOMEMATEXfce

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.

Features:

Audio conversion
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Fully customizable interface
Lightweight
Music Player
Playlists management
Support for Hotkeys

XMPlay

FreeWindowsPortableApps.com

A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others....

Features:

Lightweight
Portable
Voxel-editor
AAC
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Supports for MIDI
Music collection
Music Library
Music Player
OGG

Qmmp

FreeOpen SourceWindowsLinuxBSDXfce

Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms. Extra features XMMS and Winamp 2.

Features:

Built-in Media converter
Last.FM Scrobbler
Music Player

Features:

Music Player
Unix-like

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