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Here are the best portable MP3 players for Windows that I use everyday and all for different reasons.

All of these free portable MP3 players for Windows fill a certain niche for me. They can all be put on a USB drive and none of them need to be installed.

1by1 Directory Player

The 1by1 Directory Player is the best MP3 player if you are a person that just keeps all your Mp3 files in a few folders. Because of this it is very quick and convenient as all you do is point the player to your folders and you’re ready to go.

1by1 Directory Player is light and fast and takes me less then a second to launch the program. The benefits of the 1by1 player is that you can see all of your MP3 files in a glance and you can sort, shuffle play and repeat directories in a flash without much worry about setup.

1by1 Free Portable Mp3 Player Features

* Directory Player: directly plays your folder contents
* Full Resume play: remembers last track and position
* Supported decoders: ACM (mp3), mpglib (mp2, mp3)
* Winamp 2.x input plugin support (ogg, wav, cd..)
* Gapless play · simple crossfading · Audio enhancer
* Folder tree file navigation · Directory finder: plays a whole drive
* File utils: copy, move, rename while play, delete, date change
* Cue sheet support · Playlist support · Favorites
* Folder compare utility · Rename tool · Big title display
* Very small size · Low resource usage · portable

Foobar2000 MP3 Player

The Foobar2000 Mp3 player is the second MP3 player that I use a lot.

What I like about the Foobar Mp3 player is that it’s light and quick and provides great organization and playlist creation. Foobar2000 player also has a great plugin system that allows additional functionality such as iPod compatibility and synchronization, visualizations and equalizers that can enhance play.

Overall Foobar2000 is a great feature-rich portable Mp3 player that you can carry with you on any USB drive and launch from any Windows based computer that you happen to be on.


Foobar2000 Main features

* Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components.
* Gapless playback.
* Full unicode support.
* Easily customizable user interface layout.
* Advanced tagging capabilities.
* Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
* Full ReplayGain support.
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player