What's a Alternative to Windows Media Player

I hate windows media player as it doesn't seem to work with some MKV's I get no sound or subtitles, is there a alternative as it seems to be so outdated.

VLC Media Player is a popular free alternative.

And for advanced media content, there is also Kodi if you have a large library. (Free, Built by volunteers)

Open Source Home Theater Software

There are tons of alternatives (too many to list) both free and paid; you just need to research.

I myself use JRiver Media Center, but it's an audiophile type player that's a paid app.

Hi Guys,

I was also fed up with the windows mediaplayer and searched looked for a good free mediaplayer and find it and it became the Potplayer 64 bit and I love it, it can play all sort of music and a lot of films, you can find it on
Potplayer
Daum Communications
Hope you can use it at your liking.

Just give the MediaPlayerClassic a try , its multilang and plays all extensions !
Im sure , you will like it..............

pietcorus2 said:

Just give the MediaPlayerClassic a try , its multilang and plays all extensions !
Im sure , you will like it..............

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I use it religiously and I love it. Plays every extension you can think of......Best part, it's free!

rdburke said:

I use it religiously and I love it. Plays every extension you can think of......Best part, it's free!

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Hi can you also place bookmarks in the mediaplayer when you stop watching a movie to look later further on???

My recommendation is Foobar2000..
its light weight but highly extensible with components..
with components you can play just about anything..
especially video game music files like SNES's spc files or Sega Genesis music files .vgm/.gym or Sony PlayStation 1&2 files .psf/.psf2 etc

here is a forum post here on it and other links
Download foobar2000

Do be reminded Foobar 2000 has a learning curve as it's highly customizable to how you want it to look and function. Not an app for the faint of heart.

And no, I'm not saying it isn't a good app, I said it has a learning curve.

Brownyboy70 said:

Hi can you also place bookmarks in the mediaplayer when you stop watching a movie to look later further on???

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I'm pretty sure you can do that, I just use mine for music but there is a Remember Position in advanced settings.

rdburke said:

I'm pretty sure you can do that, I just use mine for music but there is a Remember Position in advanced settings.

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Thanks rdburke for your answer I will give it a try.
Greetz, Brownyboy

I use MPC-HC for random audio files, Foobar2000 for for my music collection, and PotPlayer for videos. I think that Foobar2000 is simply the best, without all the fancy skins because it has tabs which I use for my music collection--a different tab for each decade of music. I've been using PotPlayer for many years and it will play absolutely anything. I run it as a portable.

MPC-BE

Dru2 said:

Do be reminded Foobar 2000 has a learning curve as it's highly customizable to how you want it to look and function. Not an app for the faint of heart.

And no, I'm not saying it isn't a good app, I said it has a learning curve.

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MusicBee gave me what I wanted out of Foobar2000 but still couldn't get quite satisfactory even after trying various Column UI skins. MusicBee is outstanding. That said, I use MusicBee for my large music library. I continue to use Foobar2000 as the default audio player, for when I launch files from Explorer windows.

For video, VLC is my default player, while I use Kodi for my library. I also use Kodi for my music library, when I want to use the 10 foot interface. To clarify, when I'm sitting at my computer and playing music from my library, I'm using MusicBee. When I'm sitting on my sofa, I'm using Kodi.

I just play music files (flac) so for local play JRiver Media Center. For Streaming Plex.