Music lovers often have a favourite program for playing it, but sooner or later will graduate away from default programs like Windows media player. Exaile is perfect for aficionados who want more functions and want to stay away from the major companies. This free software has many features, including smart playlists with extensive filtering/search capabilities, automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, tabbed playlists and more. The interface is very simple and not that pretty, but easy to learn. You even have access to 50+ plugins to specialise your experience.