Below are some recommended audio players you can download onto your PC or Mac to play instrumental music tracks. All players recommended below can be downloaded for free. However, please note that some of the features described below are only available for paid versions.

Windows Media Player is one of the most popular media players and is provided bundled free in Windows operating system.

Windows Media Player is designed to make it easier to download or stream, organize, and play digital media—from music to videos, pictures, and recorded TV. It also features faster access to ripping, burning and syncing. You can also fine-tune the layout, choose from a range of online music and video stores and services.

Visit Microsoft's Windows Media Player's site to download Windows Media Player.

iTunes, Apple's very popular player has captured a lot of attention and rightfully so for its features, styling and ease-of-use with its drag and drop feature. Its cool features include the ability to easily build and customize as many playlist as you want as well as giving you flexibility to create great mixes quickly and easily, according to your preference. Rate your tracks and even sort them based on the ratings you've given. iTunes enables you to complete your library-building of your favorite tracks by easily creating CDs and MP3 CDs for playback on other audio systems.

Visit Apple's iTunes site to download iTunes.

QuickTime provides gives you all the functionalities that are common to most media player/applications. QuickTime is an easy-to-use application with a great and intuitive interface that plays and streams video, web audio and virtual reality content. It also functions as a graphic viewer. It also supports MPEG-4 and video codec, offering you good compression time, high video quality and is able to interoperate with other MPEG-4 devices.

Visit Apple's QuickTime site to download the QuickTime Player.

Winamp is a multiformat player that plays both audio CDs and MP3 as well as WMA audio files. Its flexible playlist editor helps you better manage your playlist and it also has broadcast streaming web audio capabilities. Winamp has always been well known for its skin system. Have a blast dressing your Winamp player with the numerous skins offered or go design you own if you have some programming and design skills. Its freeform skin feature allows developers the flexibility of adding new functionalities aside from changing the design of their Winamp skins. The Winamp player also features a 10-band graphic equalizer and Winamp's Visualization Studio.

Visit Winamp's site to download the Winamp Player.