Media player (application software)

A media player is a computer program for playing multimedia files like videos movies and music. Media players display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD players, such as play ( ), pause ( ), fastforward, backforward, and stop ( ) buttons.

Mainstream operating systems have at least one built-in media player. For example, Windows comes with Windows Media Player while OS X comes with QuickTime Player. Linux distributions may also come with a media players, such as SMPlayer, Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, MPlayer, Rhythmbox, Totem, VLC, and xine. Android OS comes with Google Play Music as default media player and many apps like Poweramp, Beautiful Music Player, VLC Media Player.