7 best free music apps for your Windows
Music makes even the
dullest day more fun, but the default players that come with Windows' various
versions aren't exactly all-singing, all-dancing audio extravaganzas.Here are
the apps that make music amazing on your PC.
Foobar2000
Foobar2000 is a powerful
free music app that can be as simple or advanced as you like thanks to its
modular design.
It doesn't look like much
this free music app is designed to be simple and memory-efficient but you can
make it look any way you like and add whatever features you want. Components
include CD burning, decoding of PlayStation sound files, visualisations,
playlist organisers and all kinds of useful things. You can even customise the
keyboard shortcuts to suit your way of doing things.
Spotify
Spotify's desktop app gives
you access to all of the service's best features, including community options.
As you'd expect from a
service that's primarily about subscriptions the free version is limited in
what it can do tracks shuffle and you will get the odd advert -but if you
don't mind somebody else controlling the playlist it's a great way to
soundtrack whatever you're doing.
MusicBee
It's an impressive free
music app for Windows that puts a wealth of information at your fingertips.
MusicBee describes itself
as the ultimate music manager and player. There's a multi-band equaliser with
digital signal processing effects, support for high-end audio cards, upmixing
from stereo to surround sound and even support for some WinAmp plugins to
expand the app further.
Dopamine
Dopamine is wonderfully
easy to use, with a simple wizard to help you import your songs and get
started.
This free music app is
designed to make organising and listening to music as simple as possible, and
it looks absolutely brilliant on Windows 10. It supports WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis,
FLAC, WMA and M4AAAC, and there are a range of views from full-window to
sitting in the taskbar.
MediaMonkey
If your music library is
looking a bit disorganised, MediaMonkey will help you get it in order.
MediaMonkey can't stop
unwanted U2 albums turning up, but this free music app can automatically tag
your music as well as other useful things including DLNA streaming, syncing
with devices including Android and iPods, run in DJ mode, automatically set
volumes so tracks don't vary, record CDs and download audio from the internet.
Winamp
What Winamp lacks in gloss,
it makes up for in downloadable addons for dozens of other programs and
services.
It's ancient in software
terms, but there's a charm to it that more modern players lack partly because
it looks unimpressive. But the real fun is in its visualisations and plugins,
which have the benefit of two decades of developers' efforts. If you fancy
kicking it oldschool, it's a lot of fun.
VLC Media Player
A brilliant free music app,
VLC Media Player can play just about any file or music stream.
VLC Media Player might not
be as pretty as some other media apps, but that's never been a key part of its
appeal: it's the fact that VLC can import and export in file formats so
numerous that we're secretly convinced some of them are complete ly made up. It
plays any kind of disc you can throw at it .
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