Streaming Services
- Tidal: High-fidelity streaming known for better artist payouts.
- Spotify: The most common mainstream streaming app.
- Apple Music: Apple’s native streaming service.
- YouTube / YouTube Music: Google’s video and music streaming platforms.
- SoundCloud: Known for hosting user-uploaded tracks, remixes, and unreleased music.
- Audiomack: A streaming platform popular for mixtapes and independent artists.
- Bandcamp: A platform where fans can buy music directly from artists (digital and physical).
- Demus: An iOS app that allows users to stream music (often sourced from YouTube) and organize a library without a subscription.
- VLC Media Player: A versatile, open-source player that handles almost any file format.
- foobar2000 (mobile): A highly customizable advanced audio player.
- Poweramp: A popular Android-only local music player with a powerful audio engine.
- Vox: A high-res music player for Mac and iOS, often used for FLAC files.
- Lark Player: An Android music and video player often used for offline files.
- Musi: An iOS app that streams music from YouTube (sometimes faces App Store availability issues).
- iTunes: Apple’s legacy software for managing local music libraries and syncing devices.
- Rockbox: Open-source custom firmware used to replace the original OS on MP3 players (like iPods) to add more features and format support.
- YouTube Revanced / YouTube Music Revanced: Patched versions of the official apps that provide Premium features (like no ads) for free.
- yt-dlp: A command-line tool used to download videos/audio from YouTube and other sites.
- Soulseek: A peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network famous for high-quality and obscure music finds.
- Internet Archive: A digital library that hosts a massive amount of free, legal music and live recordings.
- ytmp3: A generic term for web-based “YouTube to MP3” converters.
- iPod Classic: The iconic Apple dedicated music player.
- MP3 Player: General term for dedicated digital audio players (DAPs).
- Vinyls & CDs: Physical music formats.
- FLAC / MP3 / Mpeg audio layer iii: Digital audio file formats (FLAC is lossless; MP3 is compressed).