Music Center Alternatives

VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.

Features:

• Lightweight
• Ad-free
• Built-in Media converter
• Support for subtitles
• Video playback
• Replay Gain
• Playlists management
• Supports loads of file formats
• Automatic subtitles download
• Apps with Chromecast Support
• Integrated codecs
• Create PlayList
• Customizable
• Support for Themes
• Audio playback
• Hotkeys
• In built video player
• Interface
• Multiple languages
• Optimal performance
• Playback speed control
• Plugins
• Portable
• UI customization
• 360 Videos
• Audio Recording
• Sync Audio & Video
• Automatic conversion to multiple formats
• Automatic Tagging
• Built-in subtitle search
• Built-in video/audio codecs
• Google Drive integration
• Internet Radio
• Low memory usage
• Media Streaming
• Music Library
• Music Player
• Network Traffic Obfuscation
• Resume video after shutdown
• Scripting language
• Subtitle Effects for Custom Fonts
• Video converter
• Video streaming
• Visualize Music
• Voice pitch visualization

foobar2000

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

Winamp

Full-featured media player known for its ease of use, skinnable design and advanced audio visualizers.

Features:

• Crossfading
• Music Library
• Music Player
• Shoutcast streaming
• Skin customization
• Android Sync
• Audio Analysis
• CD Ripper
• Automatic Tagging
• Built-in themes
• Integrated Web Browser
• Internet Radio
• iPhone/iPod sync
• Mix Music
• Music Player
• OGG
• Parametric Equalizer
• Playlists management
• Visualize Music

Clementine

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4.

Features:

• Smart playlists
• Dynamic/Intelligent Playlists
• Lightweight
• Moodbar
• Podcast Player
• Ratings
• Subscribe to podcast
• Album shuffle mode
• Audio visualization
• Built-in Equalizer
• Built-in Tag editor
• IDevice sync
• Integrated last.fm scrobbler
• Internet Radio
• iPhone/iPod sync
• iTunes integration
• Last.FM Scrobbler
• Music Library
• Music Player

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software...

Features:

• CD Ripper
• Crossfading
• Internet Radio
• iPhone/iPod sync
• Music Player
• Spotify integration

MusicBrainz Picard

Python-based music tagging software with CD lookup and AcoustID to effortlessly ID music.

Features:

• Acoustic fingerprinting
• AcoustID audio fingerprints
• Automatic album art download
• Automatic Tagging
• Autotagging
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Fix missing information
• Portable
• Support for Unicode

Windows Media Player

The media player provided pre-installed with all modern Windows versions (7 and higher): Windows Media Player 12 plays more music and video than ever, including Flip...

Features:

• CD Ripper
• Music Library
• Music Player
• Visualize Music
• Voice pitch visualization
• Bundled with Windows

MusicBrainz

A community-maintained open source database and encyclopedia of music information.

Features:

• Community based
• Database
• Tagging

Strawberry

Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It's written in C++ using the Qt 5 framework.

Features:

• Advanced fading
• Goal setting
• Auto fetch album covers
• Automatic album art download
• Cross-platform
• Custom cover image
• Download podcast as mp3
• Hotkeys
• Jamendo integration
• Last.FM Scrobbler
• ListenBrainz scrobbling
• Music Library
• Music Player
• Playlists management
• Podcast Subscription
• Soundcloud integration
• Stream audio

Gracenote

Gracenote, Inc., formerly called CDDB (Compact Disc Data Base), is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the...