What's a good audio player for musicians?

Question

Can you recommend any free audio players (for windows) which are well suited for musicians? Some of the features I'd like to see in a player are:

• change the pitch of a song (e.g. transpose songs in half-tone steps)
• change the playback speed
• loop a part of a song (A-B repeat)

Solution 1

What I'm currently using is WinAmp with the PaceMaker plugin.

The PaceMaker plugin allows to change the tempo or pitch (or both) of a song and has some other nice features (e.g. save settings for each song, remove vocals). The plugin should also work with the MediaMonkey player.

I guess there are also WinAmp plugins for repeating a part of a song (but so far I didn't need it).

Solution 2

Foobar2000 had plugins to do all the above last time I used it and runs on Windows.

Solution 3

There is a software available that does everything you require. It is called MPfm: Music Player for Musicians. It is free and open source (GPLv3). It requires the .NET Framework 4.0. Unfortunately it is only available for Windows.

Solution 4

Transcribe will do everything you've mentioned as well. It's available for Windows, Linux and OSX.

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Comments

[Dentrasi]

Not free, which was emphasised in the question.

[M4N]

I can't find any plugins (e.g. for pitch-shift, change playback speed).

[M4N]

It's not free.

[M4N]

I guess I added the "free" part after this answer was posted.

[alex]

There are such plugins, if you want.

[Mike McQuaid]

Look harder, I've done both before on Windows.