New: BriskPlayer Portable 3.0.3 (lightweight audio player) Released

Zach Thibeau's picture
Submitted by Zach Thibeau on June 8, 2026 - 4:50pm

BriskPlayer Portable has been released. BriskPlayer is a small, fast, easy-to-use audio player. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

ScreenshotBriskPlayer is a lightweight, open-source audio player built from the classic discontinued CoolPlayer. It supports a wide range of formats including MP3, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, Opus, AAC (mp4), and WAV, with additional coverage through winamp input plugin compatibility. BriskPlayer features a simple skinnable interface with an advanced playlist editor, and an 8 band equalizer. It also includes quality-of-life features like ID3 tag support, ReplayGain, file renamer, and an MP3 to WAV converter, Discord Rich Presence, and a gettext translation engine so you can have your player in the language you speak, all while maintaining the small footprint and fast performance.

Learn more about BriskPlayer...

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

BriskPlayer Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

BriskPlayer Portable is available for immediate download from the BriskPlayer Portable homepage. Get it today!

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John T. Haller's picture

Thanks for your work on this, Zach! It's great that folks have a lightweight open source audio player like this again.

For folks using CoolPlayer, I'll likely push an automatic update for folks on Vista and up in the near future.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Zach Thibeau's picture

And thank you John for the making this release and giving some helpful suggestions. Also for those wanting to help translate the player into their language or improve any of the existing languages we have a Pot file available to help extend the players supported languages

your friendly neighbourhood ex-Moderator and developer Zach Thibeau