What is HikiPlayer?
HikiPlayer is a free, open-source cross-platform media player software for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Developed as an alternative to mainstream commercial media players like VLC media player and Media Player Classic, HikiPlayer focuses on providing a lightweight yet full-featured media playback experience.
Some key features of HikiPlayer include:
- Supports a wide range of media codecs and formats including MP4, MKV, AVI, MP3, FLAC, etc.
- Allows organizing large media libraries with custom playlists and tagging
- Provides adjustable audio equalizers and playback speed control
- Has keyboard shortcuts for convenient control while playing media
- Offers metadata fetching of artist, album covers from the internet
- Available in multiple languages including English, Spanish, Chinese, etc.
- Regularly updated by a community of developers adding new features
The intuitive minimal interface design makes HikiPlayer easy to navigate and control for causal as well as power users. With HW-Accelerated decoding unavailable in most media players, smooth 4K and 8K video playback makes HikiPlayer stand out. It consumes relatively less system resource enabling seamless background media playback.
Winamp, MusicBee, Poweramp, AIMP, foobar2000, Rhythmbox, Audacious, Clementine, Strawberry, Amarok, Spider Player, Quod Libet, DeaDBeeF are some alternatives to HikiPlayer.