A music player is a multimedia player software used to play various music files. It covers various music format playback tools, such as: MP3 player, WMA player, MP4 player, etc. Not only do they have beautiful interfaces, but they are also easy to operate, taking you into a perfect music space. Basic introduction Chinese name: Music player Function: Playback software category for playing various music files: MP3 player, MP4 player, etc. Format: MP3 format and other software principles, music software, PC terminal, mobile terminal, file format, common formats ,Other formats, software principle The music player is the visual operation interface of the audio decoder, and its essence is a decoder for various audio encoding formats. For example, the ape format calls Monkey's Audio decoder, the flac format calls the flac decoder, and the mp3 format calls the lame decoder. Most music players support files in multiple music formats because these players package different audio codecs and create a unified playback interface, allowing users to easily play and listen to various music. Because the music player only packages the audio decoder, and the decoding method of the same audio is fixed, in theory, the sound quality of all players should be exactly the same, and there is no music player with the best sound quality. Some music players will add DSP plug-ins based on the decoder to convert and distort the original music to suit people's preferences (such as enhancing the bass or filtering details), which is called optimizing the sound quality to obtain the sounds of nature. The essence of the sound is to destroy the original music. Although it can make some music sound better, it also causes the sound quality of other music to be greatly reduced. The humanized interface and scalability of music players are the characteristics of various music players. Most commercial playback software often has a very gorgeous interface and is very easy to operate, but it lacks scalability and supports fewer formats. Open source playback software can generally be expanded better and support more music formats, but the interface is often simple and difficult to attract users. Music software PC side Foobar 2000: A powerful player, currently recognized as the player with the best playback scalability KKBOX (paid): Online music player, authorized by millions of record companies for on-demand music. Baidu Music (formerly Qianqianjingting): A common player installed, the famous free music player software in China. Kugou Music: a very popular free Chinese player software in China. Kuwo Music Box: A music aggregation player that integrates song and MV search, online playback, and synchronized lyrics. QQ Music: A player with wonderful music recommendation function. Winamp: A long-established and classic music player software with strong scalability. In addition, there are the following players that perform relatively well: AirPlay: streamlined and slim, claiming to be the smallest player, with good sound quality, lossless playback of compressed files, and a variety of visual effects, it is one of the choices for local music playback. BeoPlayer: A player with good sound quality, which requires more memory, is a paid software (there is a free version), and has a simple interface. JetAudio: An integrated multimedia player with sound changing effects launched by South Korea's COWON company. It has many functions, a beautiful interface, and is easy to operate. It is a wonder among multimedia players. iTunes: Apple's music playing software, with the help of Apple's huge music database, its music management function is quite excellent. Yige: Internet status is required to enable it. The interface is a Flash interface, which is exactly the same as the online version of Yige. Simple, practical, and powerful music library. Xiami: The player of Xiami.com has a simple interface and a self-created closed p2p function. The music library adopts the 192k mp3 format with lower quality and volume, making it convenient to listen to music online. YoYoPlayer: an open source player developed in java. Since it is developed based on Java, it can also be used normally under the Linux series operating systems.

Duomi Music: Duomi Music can be played locally or online. It supports downloading MVs, etc. However, sometimes the folder of the Duomi Music application cannot be found, so it is best to create a desktop shortcut when using Duomi Music. You must have gprs service on your mobile phone to proceed. Sogou Music: Sogou Internet Music Box, based on Sogou's search technology and its own closed p2p download technology, Sogou Music Box (desktop version) is a music player software. AIMP: It is a free music player software from Russia, a better music management system, and supports skins. Mobile version Kugou Mobile The mobile version of Kugou, one of the common mobile music players. Dingdong (formerly known as Mobile Kugou) is a free music software. The beautiful interface brings music audio-visual enjoyment, has the function of synchronous playback of karaoke lyrics word for word, and supports full-screen singer background avatars. Mobile QQ Music is the mobile version of QQ Music Player, suitable for playing popular music. This is a player with a music recommendation function. You can listen to music when you are bored. It also supports the playback of online music and local music. It is a music platform with rich content in China. Music search and recommendation functions allow users to enjoy popular and beautiful music. Happy Listening is a mobile music player that improves the intelligence of mobile phones. It is a mobile music player software designed for young people. Kaixin Ting is a free mobile music player with good sound quality and sound effects. It supports playing, searching and downloading songs at any time, and can automatically match lyrics and album pictures. It has a smart music library, combined with dynamic photo albums, and can play songs. and other functions, making the mobile phone a tool similar to an iPod. Tiantiandongting is a mobile phone player driven by user needs and integrates users' thoughts into it. It is one of the domestic mobile phone music player software. This is a free mobile music player software that supports the downloading of lyrics and song images. The skin can be replaced and has a variety of visualization effects. It also presets a variety of equalizer effects, supports sound effect enhancement, and is simple to operate, allowing you to listen to music on your phone. It has a better experience and is a commonly used music playback tool for thumb users. File format Common formats 1. MP3 format The full name of MP3 is Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer III. It is an audio compression technology. Since the full name of this compression method is MPEG Audio Layer3, people call it MP3 for short. Due to its age, the sound quality is poor at the same bit rate. Even the 192k bit rate is far inferior to the 96k AAC format, and it is facing the fate of being eliminated. 2. WMA format The full name of WMA is Windows Media Audio, which is an audio format strongly promoted by Microsoft. 3. WAV format WAV format is a sound file format developed by Microsoft. It is also called a waveform sound file. It is the earliest digital audio format and is widely supported by Windows platforms and their applications. Other formats 4. ASF format The full name of ASF is Advanced Streaming Format. It is a media playback format developed by Microsoft and is suitable for playback on the Internet. 5. AAC format AAC is actually the abbreviation of Advanced Audio Coding. AAC is an audio format jointly developed by Fraunhofer IIS-A, Dolby and AT&T. It is part of the MPEG-2 specification. 6. Mp3Pro format Mp3Pro is an upgraded version of the Mp3 encoding format 7. VQF format The VQF format is an audio compression technology jointly developed by YAMAHA and NTT***. 8. FLAC format FLAC is the abbreviation of Free Lossless Audio Codec, which can be interpreted as lossless audio compression coding in Chinese. 9. APE format APE is one of the early popular digital music file formats. Unlike lossy compression methods such as MP3, APE is a lossless compression audio technology. 10. MID format MIDI is the abbreviation of Music Instrument Digital Interface in English, which translates as "digital musical instrument interface".

11. OGG format The full name of Ogg should be OGG Vobis (ogg Vorbis). It is a new audio compression format, similar to existing music formats such as MP3. But one thing is different: it is completely free, open and patent-free. 12. M4A format M4A is the file extension of the MPEG4 audio standard. It is mentioned in the MPEG4 standard that the common MPEG4 file extension is .mp4. 13. eAAC+ eaac+ format is the new generation of the most optimized music format for mobile phones. The extension of eaac+ is M4A. It can be close to CD sound quality and takes up less storage space than MP3 format.