Audio player (software)

An audio player is a kind of media player for playing back digital audios, including optical discs like CD/SACD/DVD-Audio/HDCD and files like MP3, RealAudio and Windows Media Audio.

Besides VCR-like functions like playing, pausing, stopping, rewinding and forwarding, some common functions include playlisting, tagging format support and equalizer.

Many of the audio players also support simple playback of digital videos.

See also

• List of audio players
• Comparison of media players