A Lean And Free Windows Music Player [1]

If you're a PC user of a certain age you'll remember a music player called Winamp. It was small, quick to load, and did pretty much you ever needed in just a handful of megabytes. If you yearn for those days, rather than having to use the huge bloated media players of today, then take a look at a program called Foobar 2000.

It's a lightweight media player for Windows that will handle all your audio files, and can play direct from CDs too. It's a download of less than 4 MB and you'll find it at http://www.foobar2000.org/ [3]

The program was updated last week, and runs on Windows 7, 8 and 10. The installer is malware-free, according to VirusTotal and Web of Trust.

When you run the installer you can choose whether to install in portable mode. If you do, no changes are made to the Windows registry so it's easy to delete the program by simply deleting its folder from your desktop. This makes it really easy to try out the program to decide whether you like it.