Audio player (software)

An audio player is a kind of media player for playing back digital audio, including optical discs such as compact discs, Super Audio CDs, DVD-Audio, HDCD, and audio files.

In addition to Video cassette recorder-like functions like playing, pausing, stopping, rewinding, and forwarding, some common functions include playlisting, tagging format support, and equalizer.

Many of the audio players also support simple playback of digital videos.

=See also=

*List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players