Freeware Pick: VLC Media Player

It doesn’t have the most appealing icon to look at, being nothing more than an orange traffic cone, but VLC player is, well, basically a tank, when compared to most other media players, premium or free. Before you judge the player on it’s interface, the fact that it’s an Opensource, means that it supports a ridiculous amount of file types. Unlike Windows Media Player, or iTunes, you don’t need to search for codecs, or use a converter. The best thing about VLC Media

Player, is that basically everything just… plays.

Also what doesn’t matter how obscure your file type is, if it’s MP3, or Alaw, VLC probably will support it, unless the file is corrupted, or damaged in some way. VLC is also supported across a wide range of modern Operating systems, including all versions of Windows, OS X, Linux, as well as Tarballs, and Familiar Linux.

And of course, if you don’t like that Traffic Cone anyway, you can just download some skins to make it look more modern. You can grab VLC HERE