Zinf

Zinf is an open source audio player that is built for both Linux and Windows. It has a good looking interface and is really easy to use. It was a project based on FreeAMP, the open source answer to Winamp. You can get a whole range of themes for the player. It also supports SHOUTcast or Icecast streaming audio, Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, WAV, Audio CDs, PLS or M3U playlists, a skinnable interface, and more. I does not support or play video but.

One of its best features is that it can save the streaming SHOUTcast/Icecast to your hard disk. Of course you need to take care that you aren’t breaking any law, but you can surely save the free streams with no license limitations.

One drawback is that it doesn’t have any equalizer. But overall if you are looking for a plain audio player which uses little system resources and gives the basic functionality then this is surely your best bet.

It runs easily on Windows 95/98/NT/200/XP
Linux 2.x, Pentium 100 MHz, 32 MB RAM

MPlayer

From the site: “MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NupelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.”

I think that pretty much says it all about the MPlayer capabilities..
To have an actual experience just download the Beta GUI version from the site, unless you just want to be GEEKY and use the command line version!!

You can also get the various skins for the Player.

Open Audio Players

Hey everybody I am back with the audio players……
Though many of us are happy with our usual players such as Winamp or Windows Media Player, still there are some of us who prefer the flexibility they get through the use of Open source Players….
These open source players are actually a lot customizable and improvable if you know the programming.
So now comes…