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VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.
For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback. Multi-media players designed for video playback, which can also play music, are included under comparison of video player software.
Well known examples of media player software include Windows Media Player, VLC media player, iTunes, Winamp, Media Player Classic, MediaMonkey, foobar2000, AIMP, MusicBee and JRiver Media Center. Most of these also include music library managers. Although media players are often multi-media, they can be primarily designed for a specific media.
Windows? Note License Firefly Media Server: Yes Yes Yes streams music to DAAP clients like iTunes and Rhythmbox: GPL-2.0-or-later: Icecast: Yes Yes Yes a broadcast server, serves audio signals to clients over the HTTP protocol GPL-2.0-only: VLC media player: Yes Yes Yes Yes media and server programs for video and audio streaming VLC: GPL-2.0-or ...
The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, video players are defined as any media player which can play video , even if it can also play audio files.
Windows Media Player, bundled with Microsoft Windows. foobar2000, an audio player, supports UPnP via a plugin. MusicBee, an audio player, supports UPnP via a plugin. [2] AIMP, an audio player, supports UPnP via a plugin. Winamp, an audio player, supports UPnP via a plugin (ml_upnp.dll).
Common logo for all VideoLAN projects. VideoLAN is a non-profit organization which develops software for playing video and other media formats. It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN Server (VLS), but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result renamed VLC media player.
This section only includes software, not services. For services programs like Spotify, Pandora, Prime Music, etc. see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services. Likewise, list includes music RSS apps, widgets and software, but for a list of actual feeds, see Comparison of feed aggregators.