Vorbis Software Players

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Here is a list of media players for various operating systems that comes with “out-of-the-box” support for Ogg Vorbis.

windows

free software

  • Songbird : player from the great guys at Mozilla, etc. Plays all major formats (including ogg).
  • wxmusik: player with support for Ogg Vorbis, as well as MP3, WAV, AIFF and WMA. makes use of an sql based media libary for quick searching
  • coolplayer: very small player
  • mediaportal: home theater software
  • mpeg audio collection: organizer for music collection
  • mediamonkey: easy-to-use player/tagger/media library with built-in ripper & burner which can even encode & transcode to Ogg Vorbis
  • Jajuk: Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different ways to perform the same task.

proprietary software

Multi-platform

free software

  • jOggPlayer: Open Source Java GUI Vorbis Player. It features the usual basics needed to enjoy your files and internet streams.
  • VLC Media Player: Open Source media player and streaming server that support virtually every video and audio format
  • Mplayer: Open Source video player that supports also many audio formats
  • Zinf: Open Source player with support for Ogg Vorbis, as well as MP3, WAV and Audio CDs
  • SnackAmp: Tcl/Tk player
  • HelixPlayer: Open source player from RealNetworks
  • Jajuk: Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different ways to perform the same task.
  • Firefox 3.1 Alpha: Open Source web browser (Alpha quality software)

proprietary software

  • JOrbisPlayer: Java Player that uses the JOrbis Java decoder
  • jlGui: Winamp clone for Java
  • RealPlayer: proprietary player from RealNetworks (version 10 does not play Ogg)
  • Microsoft Windows Media Player: Freeware player from Microsoft (version 10 needs DirectShow filter; see Windows players, above). Runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

DOS

free software

GNU/Linux & *BSD

free software

  • AlsaPlayer: ALSA audio player ─ “First player worldwide that did perfect reverse Ogg playback!”
  • amaroK: Open Source player for KDE with support for Ogg Vorbis among other formats, streaming, Last.FM, lyrics and covert art download and many many more.
  • Beep Media Player (a.k.a. BMPx): XMMS fork that uses GTK+ 2.x and is compatible with both XMMS and Winamp skins
  • BossOgg: Jukebox system
  • CAJUN: Car audio system
  • cplay: curses frontend for Ogg123, mpg123 etc
  • GiantDisc: Jukebox system that can be controlled by a Palm
  • Gmerlin
  • GQmpeg: GTK frontend for mpg123/Ogg123 etc
  • Herrie
  • JuK: Open Source player for KDE with support for Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3.
  • LAMIP: Modular audio player
  • MPD: Music Player Daemon is a sound server that supports different clients. Supports many formats, among them Ogg Vorbis and FLAC
  • Muine: Open Source player for GNOME with support for Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3.
  • Noatun: KDE audio player
  • Mesk
  • MythTV: PVR project
  • PyTone: Python-based jukebox player
  • Quodlibet: Based on GStreamer 0.10 and PyGTK. Keep your music organised.
  • Rhythmbox
  • Sonic-Rainbow
  • s.q.u.e.l.c.h.: Vorbis only player
  • wxMusik: Open Source player with support for Ogg Vorbis, as well as MP3, WAV and AIFF. Makes use of an SQL based media libary for quick searching.
  • Xine: video player with long list of supported formats
  • XMMS
  • Jajuk: Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different ways to perform the same task.

Mac OS X

free software

  • Cog – requires Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and greater
  • Jajuk: Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different ways to perform the same task.

proprietary software

  • Quicktime components for Quicktime 6 and Quicktime 7 – enables rudimentary support for iTunes 4.7 and greater
  • Whamb – supports Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Vorbis streams, requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and greater
  • kJams – Karaoke program which supports encoding (or re-encoding) of any audio type to Ogg Vorbis, enables editing of comments with the VCEdit Framework, requires 10.3 and the XiphQT package. More Info.

Other

free software

  • Nintendo DS: **MoonShell 1.71 is a homebrew media player for the Nintendo DS. It can play Ogg Vorbis. It has two Vorbis decoders (both using Tremor), a “high accuracy” one limited to 128kbps average, and a “normal accuracy” one that can use higher bitrates, the default being the normal one.
    • DSOrganize transforms the Nintendo DS into a PDA capable of playing Ogg Vorbis audio.
  • Xbox: the Xbox Media Center is an open source project that transforms a modded Xbox with Linux into a media center and streaming client.
  • Rockbox: A replacement firmware developed for various digital audio players such as the Ipod, various Archos players, and more. It uses the Tremor library to implement Ogg Vorbis playback.

proprietary software

PalmOS

free software

proprietary software

PocketPC

free software

proprietary software

Symbian

free software

proprietary software

  • Ogg Vorbis Controller: plugin for Symbian's Multimedia Framework that allows decoding and playing back of Ogg Vorbis compressed audio files

For hardware “MP3-players” that support Ogg Vorbis see VorbisHardware

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