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There are many Audio and Video players available online to play your files , here is the list of the best of them.

Winamp : A Audio-Video player which was developed by Nullsoft team and is part of AOL was one of the oldest players on the web which was responsible for drastic revolutions in the music industry. The winamp community has grown very large right now and has around 20,000 skins and over 400 plugins.

The player can handle many music extentions like AAC, it, mod, nst, stm, AIF, itz, MP1, NSV, stz, AIFF, KAR, MP2, OGG, ult, amf, M2V, MP3, okt, flac, VLB, mp3, m3u, m3u8, pls, ASF, M4A, MP4, ptm, WAV, AU, mdz, MPEG, RMI, WMA, AVI, MID, MPG, s3m, WMV, CDA, MIDI, mtm, s3z, xm, far, MIZ, NSA, SND, xmz, 669, VOC, b4s, asx, wpl etc

Winamp.com offers Winamp Radio with no advertisements and with the slogan - Of the people, for the people brought in by the Shoutcast technology. A Free player which can be very much useful for playing your music files.

Real Player : A Player which can handle a lot of file extentions and can help you handle low quality audio files and the .rm format which saved a lot of your music file size in other to broadcast the music live on the internet, best suited for lower speed broadband connections. Real player services include Rhapsody, RealPlayer for mobile, RealSlideshow, RealPlayer, Helix Server, RealPlayer Music Store, Helix Proxy, RealArcade & SuperPass.

Real player 10 is not only available for Windows operating system, but also available for Mac OS X with RadioPass & Linux with features which allows it to support RealAudio, RealVideo 10, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Theora, H263, AAC etc based on open source Helix player. Real player is now also available for mobile phones with compatibity to Symbian OS, and Palm OS 5 for PDAs. Currently the service is available in limited handsets like Nokia 60 Series mobile phones, Nokia 9200, Nokia 7650 and Nokia 3650 handsets.

BS Player : A Complete multimedia player which plays movies, DVDs, music, tv streams, teletext, radio streams and podcasts. This player supports many file extentions like DIVX, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, XVID, 3IVX, OGM, MATROSKA , ASF, WMV, DV, M1V, M2V, MOV, MP4, MPV, QT, RM, SWF, VOB and WAV, MPA, MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, AAC, AC3, AIF, RAM and WMA. BS Player is widely used with more than 90 language translations with a very high number of downloads. The main feature of this player is the low resource usage of computers which makes it compatible with older computers (or) in computers which have lower resources / RAM’s. Defined as the World’s most popular multimedia player, BS Player was launched in the year 2000 with it being the world’s first movie player which can handle movies on lower computer capabilities.

K-Lite Codec Pack : A Famous codec pack which comes with a media player classic which is really classic and can ultimately support any music audio or video file extention on the earth. The video and Audio decoders , filters , codecs and tools make this player my favourite player over the other audio and video players. All these features come in a 13mb based setup file with tools and configuration options.

Windows Media Player : A Preinstalled Audio and Video player by microsoft with the latest version being the Media Player 11 using which you can store your pictures, video, music and recorded television. The player is compatible with windows xp service pack 2 . Media player is very well known among all windows operating system users and its now also available for Mac OS X, Windows Mobile–based Pocket PCs and Smartphones.