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AIMP 5.40 Build 2716

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:42:00 +0000

AIMP is a full-featured free music player designed with sound quality and wide, customizable functionality in mind. Over twenty audio formats are supported. This is one of the best music players you can find on the Internet. Audio is processed in 32-bit for crystal-clear sound. The player features a 18-band graphics equalizer with extra built-in sound effects. The existing functionality can be extended by adding Input, DSP and Gen plug-ins from Winamp. All local and global hotkeys are customizable. Full Unicode support. It is able to convert AudioCD to MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA. Similarly, AIMP can grab sound from any audio device on your PC to MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA formats.

Changes in 5.40 Build 2716:

Fixed: sound engine - player sometimes does not jump to next track if the pause between tracks is enabled (regression 2715)

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Daum PotPlayer 260422 (1.7.22859)

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:40:00 +0000

PotPlayer - A freeware multimedia player published by Daum. Supports almost every available video formats out there. Player contains internal codecs and there is no need to install codecs manually. Other key features include Webcam/Analog/Digital TV devices support, gapless video playback, DXVA, live broadcasting. PotPlayer is a network of Daum's players have their own independent copyright, not by the original Mr. Jiang Longxi, KMPlayer by the original author of the independent development of the follow-up. Current (1428 or later) KMPlayer by the team responsible for the collective Pandora.TV Because the development of the same developers PotPlayer into the natural KMPlayer part of the essence.

Changes in 260422:

Added the ability to output subtitles using libass
Added the ability to handle HLS/Dash playback using built-in modules
Improved subtitle output speed
Improved speed for some video filters
Fixed an issue where external audio could not be connected when multiple audio files were present
Fixed an issue where certain Unicode characters were displayed incorrectly
Fixed an issue where playback always started from the beginning upon completion in the temporary playback queue

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foobar2000 2.25.9 / 2.26 Preview 2026-05-26

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:46:00 +0000

foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include Replay Gain support, a low-memory footprint, and native support for several popular audio formats. Features include open-component architecture, allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player; built-in support for MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, Musepack, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, Speex, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU/SND, CDDA, WMA, Matroska, ALAC, MMS, RSTP, Opus; support through third-party plug-ins; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-Zip and ZIP archives; full Unicode support on Windows NT; efficient handling of large playlists; a highly customizable playlist display; and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

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GOM Player 2.3.119 Build 5389

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:23:00 +0000

GOM Player is a free multimedia player with popular video and audio codecs built-in. GOM Player supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF. Users don't have to install codecs separately. GOM Player is capable of playing incomplete or damaged AVI files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play locked or partially downloaded files. Its other features include drag-and-drop support, HTTP streaming, editable skins, subtitling, overlay mixer, key remapping, enhanced filter rendering, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files and unicode support among others.

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KMPlayer 4.2.3.35 / 2026.5.26.13 (x64)

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:59:00 +0000

The KMPlayer is all in one media player covering various formats. It has an extra feature to play Incomplete/Damaged AVI file, Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing, Compressed Audio Album (zip, rar) and so on. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment without grappling with DirectShow merit system. The player can set multifarious audio and video effects, control playback speed and octave, select parts of a video as favorites, do a powerful A-B repeat, remap the keys of remote interface for HTPC including overlay screen controls, change a skin dynamically depending on a media type playing, and many more. It is completely customizable thanks to a wide selection of skins and color schemes.

Changes in 4.2.3.35:

Improvement of URL download function
Improved URL playback function

Changes in 2026.5.26.13:

URL download engine update
Other bug fixes and stabilization

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Kodi 21.3

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:07:00 +0000

Kodi® (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet, including TV shows, PVR and Live TV. Kodi also features Add-ons, Skins, UPnP compatibility, Web Interfaces, Remote Controls support and a lot more. The Kodi project is managed by the non-profit XBMC Foundation and developed by volunteers located around the world.

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Media Player Classic Home Cinema 2.7.2

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:37:00 +0000

Media Player Classic Home Cinema, fork by clsid, is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows. MPC-HC is based on the original Guliverkli project and provides a huge number of features. The new Media Player Classic Home Cinema has anti-tearing options, subtitle synchronization, support for latjest OSes, 32bit and 64bit, has additional video decoders and in particular H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support, support for EVR renderer and a lot more. But probably the best thing about this player is the range of formats it supports. It'll play just about anything you throw at it, whether it's an MP3, an Ogg, a MP4 or even a WEBM file. It supports almost all the video and audio codecs, from H.264 to H.265 (HEVC) to even AV1, from MP3 to AAC and a lot more.

Changes in 2.7.2:

Updates:
- Updated LAV Filters to version 0.81-23-g6fadb
- Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.2.2540
- Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 26.05
- Updated MPC Audio Renderer
Fixes:
- Several crash fixes, bug fixes and small improvements.

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MediaMonkey 2024.2.2.3222

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:22:00 +0000

MediaMonkey is a powerful music manager and jukebox which allows you to organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a intuitive interface. Unlike other media players MediaMonkey allows you to manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down. Recording CDs and converting MP3, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WMA and more files are also parts of its feature set. If you're having a party you can just create a playlist and let Auto-DJ and Party Mode take care of your party. Of course syncing iPhones, iPods and MP3 players is also supported. MediaMonkey can be extensively enhanced with skins, plugins and scripts.

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MPC-BE 1.8.9

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:09:00 +0000

Media Player Classic - Black Edition (aka MPC-BE) is based on the original "Media Player Classic" project (Gabest) and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project (Casimir666). MPC-BE contains additional features and bug fixes. With MPC-BE you can play almost all types of video and audio files. MPC-BE also supports hardware decoding and deinterlacing. With MPC-BE, you can watch Youtube videos directly inside the player by just copy and pasting the Youtube link inside it. MPC-BE also allows you automatically mount ISO images and a lot more.

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VLC (VideoLAN) Media Player 3.0.23

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:59:00 +0000

The Video LAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestrial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. Video LAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavors, all BSD flavors, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux. Video LAN is free software and is released under the GNU General Public License. It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.

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Winamp 5.9.2 Build 10042

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:06:00 +0000

Winamp is an audio player that can handle audio CDs, MP3 audio files, and streaming audio broadcasts. It combines extensive functionality with an intuitive interface. Winamp features a playlist editor and a 10-band graphic equalizer with user-definable presets that can automatically load specific files. It also includes Windows Media Technology 4.0 input/output support and the industry standard Fraunhofer MP3 decoder. This download no longer includes VIS/DSP plug-ins; you can download them separately.

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Notes: The Pro & Full installers are the same for this release (No OpenCandy/Emusic/AOLSearch/Toolbar).