

Some of the highlights are a YouTube extension that lets you build playlists from multiple videos, an add-on for streaming music from SoundCloud, and an extension for controlling the player remotely. By contrast, AIMP's plugins include some real gems. Most music player extensions are extra visualizations and skins that, although cool, have little practical use. Your AIMP library can be built using files from multiple directories and ripped from CDs, with automatic track numbering and tag filling to help you get it in shape.ĪIMP supports a huge number of formats, and additional encoders are available as user-created add-ons. Like all the best free music players, AIMP makes organizing your songs a breeze – even if your collection is currently a sprawling mess of tracks in different formats and locations, with incomplete or missing metadata.


We know that enjoying music on your computer is not only about listening, but also keeping things organised. It is with this in mind that we've approached sharing this roundup of the best free music players around. Like a digital photo collection, a digital music library is something that grows and evolves over the years, and there is organisation well as consumption to consider. There is a lot to be said in favour of streaming music services, but even if you use one there's a good chance that you have a collection of music files on your hard drive as well.
