aEgis MP3 DOS player - cool, another free DOS MP2/MP3 player, based on maplay v1.81 by jeff tsay, supports lots of cards (MIDAS used, GUS dudes must choose software mixing!, includes a 486 and a pentium version
Aries Breathe - The first MP3 player which reads ID3 Tag Version 2 !!! A fairly decent MP3 player, supports most of the standard features like ID3 tags, playlists, & volume control, not really a CPU hog, but uses more processing power than both WinAMP & WinPlay3. Skip control isn't functional yet.
Aries Breathe - direct download. News: new decoding DLL. Current version: 0.91 beta
Blue Labelle Jukebox - this player plays all kind of multimedia files (mp3, mp2, mid, kar, wav, avi, mov, au, mod, xm, s3m, it). Supports MIDI & MP3 karaoke, ID3 & Lyrics3 tags. Configurable mini vu-meter.
Blue Labelle Jukebox - direct download. Current version: 1.11
DosAmp - a DOS version of Amp. Plays MP3s & MP2s, supports downmixing & downsampling. Compatible with SoundBlaster, SB16, & Interwave soundcards with experimental support for the GUSmax. Works fine on 486's.
DosAmp - direct download. Current version: 0.8
eMusic - Linux sound/music player : Plays MP3, MOD, WAV, AU, and CD files.. Eats CPU cycles with funky eye candy =) Uses your wasted screen space with a great big DEFAULT theme. Converts winamp skins to eMusic themes. Makes people think you're using x11amp, until they see the source =)
Jet Audio - A sweet-looking *rack*-style MP3 player - also plays WAV, MIDI, AVI, MOV, QTW, & just about any other format! NEW: added RealPlayer v5.0 engine, bugfixes with CD Audio & Digital Audio components.
Jet Audio - direct download. Current version: 3.12
K-Jöfol - MP3/VQF player for 95/98/NT. Uses fast MPG123 decoding engine. Looking nice, not as much CPU as some other players. Supports WinAmp plugins and skins, besides it has such open architecture, that you can by resource files fully reconfigure all you can imagine. Includes 32-band equalizer.
MAPlay Win95/NT - 32 bit port of maPlay, my archive is the PENTIUM build w/o Install Shield, console versions, 486 and versions w/ Install Shield (600 K bigger archive) are at the authors home, the best: it's totally free.
MAPlay Win95/NT - direct download. Current version: 1 alpha
MpegDJ - another great MP3 Player for Windows 95/98/NT supports all Mpeg-Formats in all Bitrates. The features are: Drag-And-Drop, ID3-Tag-Support, Drag-and-Drop, Archive and Playlist, Cover-Photo, easy-to-use CD-Player-like GUI, native Win-32-Bit Software.
MpegDJ - direct download. People say: "The Best Player available on the scene for all ya Dj's around". Current version: 1.31
MPlay - Spectrum analyzer, Nice simple interface - playlist support, integrated VU meters, draggable skip & volume control, low CPU usage.
MPLaye - direct download. Current version: 0.97 beta
museArc - MP2 + MP3 player with comfortable interface, playlist-management (graphical track list editor), playback quality scalable, output device selection, task bar playback controls, *NEW*: continuos playback - no pausing between tracks! WITH: improved playlist editor WITH: ID3 tag support.
museArc - direct download. Current version: 4.8.98.2 (trial)
NAD - Nice MP3 player, *very* cool interface (adopted from Linux Enlightenment Xwin-manager), it's as fast as it's main competitor WinAmp, it's free.
NAD - direct download. New: Song name/info display, speedups and bug fixes. Current version: 0.94 prebeta
Novastation - Supports ISO MPEG Audio Layer I, II and III at various sample rates. No special hardware required to play MP3 songs; just your Pentium. Fully supports any 16-bit stereo sound card. (Sb, ESS chipset, OPTi chipset, Aztech, ..) Supports any Pentium-based system. User-friendly GUI and powerful, yet easy-to-use Playlist controls. Low CPU usage. Supports multi-Mpeg audio formats: i.e: *.mpg, *.mp2, and *.mp3. Current version: 2.1.1
ts, assign buttons to sound files, & log everything that goes on. Supports MP3, MP2, & WAV files. Demo version has to be restarted every 30 minutes.
Raduga - direct download. Current version: 2.05
Sonique - An audio player created as a demonstration piece for our advanced graphical interface designs. Features are: Dynamic windowless interface design. Fully animated menu systems. Support for numelist editor. Comes with a varietyrous audio file formats as well as CD Audio. Full featured play of output visualization modes. CD-Player like control set for intuitive ease of use plus Jog/Shuttle Control. Utilizes custom versions of the NAD MP3 decoder & Mikit Module Player and much much more !
Unreal Player Max - A Win95/98/NT multimedia file player, freeware, the most popular mp3 player on the www.mp3.com site. This player supports mp2/mp3 + MCI types (mid, wav, avi ...) + Mod types (uses MIDAS, means mod, s3m, (it) and xm) + several playlist formats + ZIP archives, surround stereo, realistic reverb (MMX optimized), delay (MMX optimized). There are 2 different versions of this player - Pentium version and Cyrix, AMK K6 version.
Unreal Player Max - direct download. New: I don't know yet. Current version: 1.28r3
Virtual Turntables - This progie mix MP3s with no special hardware required, even has scratch & backspin effects! Full crossfading control, volume control, pitch control, BPM matcher, cue up songs seperately using a Y-adapter & earphones!
Virtual Turntables - direct download. New: Version 1.6 adds EQUALIZERS and a neat background wallpaper option! Current version: 1.60
WinAmp - Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT. Winamp supports MP3, MP2, MP1, MOD, S3M, MTM, ULT, XM, IT, 669, CD-Audio, Line-In, WAV, VOC, and other audio formats, custom interfaces called skins, and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Winamp is shareware, and users must either register or discontinue use after a 14-day evaluation period. Please register your copy, as it permits further development and bandwidth to be purchased. This is the must for y
WinAmp - direct download. New: MOD/XM/IT input plug-in sounds MUCH nicer, and has bugfixes. Nitrane 1.0 engine included, with MP3, MP2, MPG bugfixes. CD-Audio included, without CDDB support (coming soon!) Nullsoft's fullscreen and windowed visualization plug-ins included. Nullsoft's systray general plug-in included. Current version: 1.92 SP-1
WinPlay32 - freeware 32 bit version of WinPlay (doesn't give better performance than 16 bit version, but long filenames), still no chance to move within a song, output options: 8/16 bit, mono/stereo, 11/22/44 kHz to reduce the CPU usage for slower systems.
WinPlay32 - direct download. Current version: 2.3 beta 5
WPlay - WPlay MP3 player is based on the XAudio engine. It is one of the fastest players, and supports texture functions, and WinAmp skins too. Built-in CD Player and Playlist editor (Updated editor in 1.50). Now also a front end for L3enc/dec, so you can compress and convert MP3 files. Running on Windows95/98/NT.
WPlay - direct download. Current version: 1.60.2
x11amp - download page for particular Linux archive
x11amp - the mp3 player for Linux X11 - this player will have the same features as the original winamp from Windows 95 but it will of course feature some specials only available for the linux version. Some features that are already included are: Seeking in files, Volume/Balance, Playlist editor,Spectrum Analyzer, Skin support like winamp 1.8x,One Line mode al'a WinShade in WinAmp...
XAudio - Write your own MP3 player in a few lines of code. With the XAUDIO SDK, now available for the Windows95/NT and UNIX platforms, you can very easily write your own GUI or other front-end to the XAUDIO decoding engine. The SDK includes the libraries and sample code. The UNIX SDK also includes a special program that makes it easy to write a GUI, even from languages (like java, perl, tcl/tk, and others) that cannot easily link with a C library.
XTCW-Play - a Windows 95/98 version of well known XTC player for DOS, plays VOC, WAV, MP2, MP3. It supports WinAmp pluginz and Yamp designs. Planned support for MOD,XM,IT. Current version: 0.99b
Yamp - Tons of features: plays WAVs (all formats, also compressed ones), MIDs, RMIs, MODs, S3Ms, XMs, ITs, AVIs, MPAs, MP1s, MP2s and MP3s. audio CD support, ZIP support, playlist support, & you can also customize the design.