Windows Media Player is one of the most familiar software among all the Windows users. It is a default player which comes with Microsoft Windows 7, XP and 98. It provides user the facility to see videos and listen to the audio tracks. But now-a-days, Windows Music player is not self sufficient. Because now the audio and video tracks are available in different formats and Windows Media Player is insufficient to play those files. For that either you need to download some codec to make the file compatible or convert the file into playable format.
Instead of doing all this stuff you can shift to some other player which gives you compatibility to all the different formats. Here are top five alternatives to Windows Media Player:
1. ALL Player
ALL Player is an alternative for Windows Media Player. It is popular for the feature it offers for watching movie with matching subtitles. The other features which it offer are detection of missing codes needed to open missing files, a speech synthesizer for reading subtitles, automatically downloading subtitles from net, creating a menu, password protection of media and also its availability in different languages like English, Russian, Polish etc.
2. Real Player
Real Player offers lots of features along with compatibility to almost all the video and audio media file formats. It is a cross-platform player by RealNetwords. It plays number of multimedia formats including QuickTime, MP3, MP4,Windows Media and other different versions of RealAudio and RealVideo formats. For Windows, Real player plays wonder by offering large number of features like, automatic transcoding, social network sharing and at a single click you can download a video. The latest version of Real Player has more add on features which are now compatible to even more devices. Now Real Player shows library of various USB-connected smartphones and cameras in the main application Window which allows user to quickly transfer and connect to the device and transfer can be done easily by drag and drop. Hundreds of plug-ins are available for enhancing the Real Players features.
3. Winap
One of the most widely used alternative player for Windows Media Player. It is compatible with Windows, Linux and Android Operating Systems. It supports music playback for MP3, MIDI, MPEG, MOD audio formats and M4A, WAV, FLAC and WMA formats. It was one of the first music players supporting the Windows to playback by default Ogg Vorbis. Winamp offers a playlist options to make playlist while you are playing media. Another most effective feature it provides is that, it has an in-built equalizer setting which gives you option to adjust the sound quality and its output. Winamp offers you thousands of skins and plug-ins which allow you to give a varied look to your player as well as add new and latest features to it.
4. Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic is a player for 32 bit and 64 bit Microsoft Windows Operating system. It is a compact media player. K-lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack are its forks and both of them are standard media players. Look wise it resembles the old Windows Media Player 6.4 but it is compatible to almost all the latest media file formats. It is free software. One more feature of Media Player Classic is that it is available in different languages like English, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Korean, Japanese etc. DVDs are easily loaded and played in Media Player Classic.
5. VLC Media Player
VLC player is the best player among all the other alternatives for Windows Media Player. Almost all kinds of media file formats are played in VLC. The range of Video and Audio files played in VLC player is wide which includes OGG, DivX, MP2, MP3, MP4, HD Codecs like Raw Dirac, AES3 and even Zipped files are supported by VLC Player. VLC Media Player is a cross platform freeware, i.e. it is compatible with Lunix, Windows and Mac Operating Systems. It is an open source and a freeware. It provides the user an opportunity to customize its toolbars by giving toolbars which are fully customizable where you can have only the necessary buttons on your interface.
