On a Windows computer, you can always find the Windows Media Player program which despite the years still remains an awkward application to use. In Windows 8 in addition to Windows Media Player there is also a music player on the Start screen, useful for listening to music but certainly not up to a complete program.
Basically, if you use a Windows PC to listen to the mp3 music of your favorite albums, you need to install additional programs.
In this collection we see 12 of the most useful free programs to manage music on your computer, so you can hear it in the best way .
1) iTunes
After years of unsuccessful attempts, Apple, with the latest version of iTunes, has finally developed a good program not only to listen to the songs on its computer, but also to manage and organize the music tracks .
The cleaner interface allows you to control music playback from the practical Mini Player, to create and manage playlists easily and to buy new songs from the Store.
And if you have an iPhone or iPad, you can synchronize music from your computer to your mobile phone / tablet.
2) Musiczen
To organize the Music folder on your computer, with the mp3s scattered everywhere, it is worth using Musiczen which allows you to automatically catalog the mp3 files, based on reading the tags.
Basically you can organize the music in new folders based on the artist, the album, the song title and so on.
Other programs like MusicZen are listed in the article on how to rename mp3, and download automatic tags and covers for music on PC
3) Mp3Jam
The first site you go to when looking for new songs to listen to via streaming is Youtube
The Mp3Jam program allows you to search for music directly from the desktop .
In Mp3Jam just enter a search term that can be the name of an artist, the title of the song or the title of the album, to see all the results, even with the album covers.
Each title found has a ' Play ' button to listen to the song and one for download.
During installation, avoid pressing the sponsor program by pressing Skip.
4) Xamasoft Songr
Another convenient PC program to search for songs and stream them via the internet is Songr, the Cloud Music Player that works similarly to Mp3Jam, with a more minimal interface.
With Songr, songs can also be downloaded to your PC if you want to keep and hear them without an internet connection.
For each artist sought, you can also read a presentation sheet taken from Wikipedia, also in Italian.
The complete text of each song can also be read.
5) MusicBee player
Perhaps this is the best program to organize music on your PC, manage tracks, songs, artists, categories and therefore listen to each song in an orderly way.
6) Winamp
With 16 years of age Winamp can be considered the most used and most popular program in the world to listen to music from a Windows PC .
Compared iTunes is a more streamlined and classic program, without too many functions that are not related to playing music.
By supporting more than 60 audio and video file formats there is never a risk that a file will not play.
You can create playlists, update and edit MP3 tags, read information about your favorite artists.
In another article you can read the full Winamp Lite review.
7) MediaMonkey
To import and organize music on your PC, an excellent program is MediaMonkey which becomes the best alternative to iTunes.
The program quickly synchronizes and imports even the largest music libraries from any device, including Android, automatically renames MP3 files, manages music files in folders, adds tags and notifies you of any duplicates.
8) Advanced Renamer is a powerful tool to rename, copy or move files that works on Windows with any type of file.
If you have hundreds of MP3 files without any organization and with different names, so much so that it is impossible to even order them in alphabetical order, then you can change the names of the files all at once according to a defined criterion.
9) Foobar2000 is another program to play and manage music that makes things really simple.
The music player supports all audio formats and all functions and options for playing and managing music are collected in a program of just 7 MB of space.
Foobar2000 can also be installed in portable mode, without installation.
10) Freemake Audio Converter
Among the programs to convert audio and music files, Freemake Audio Converter is perhaps the easiest to use and the most complete.
Freemake supports most audio formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A and OGG.
various audio settings (bitrate, sampling frequency, channels) can be changed to obtain the best compromise between sound quality and file size.
11) LMMS
Among the programs for creating music this is perhaps the most powerful, at least if we talk about open source and free software.
LMMS is one of the programs for mixing and creating music on the PC as professional DJs
13) Audacity
To record and edit audio tracks on your computer you can use this famous free and open source audio editor, not very easy to use for comquneu capable of doing almost everything a professional program would do.
With Audacity it is quite simple to cut pieces of tracks, join them and add various types of effects.
