Advantages
Portable apps (short for applications) are software distributions that don’t need to be installed on a computer to run. They are therefore perfect to carry around with your media library without you having to install the right software on every computer you use. Using this type of software isn’t just for external hardware devices either. You can burn MP3 CDs for example with a portable jukebox app on them so you can play your music on any computer with a CD-ROM drive. Another advantage of using a portable media player app is that everything remains on your portable device so you don’t have to be concerned with copying files over to a computer’s fixed hard drive or worry about leaving any traces of your activities. If you like the idea of having a portable media player app on your USB hard drive, flash pen, or MP3 player, so you can play your music on virtually any computer, then check out the list below. This list (in no particular order) covers some of the most popular software media players that come in portable form and support a wide range of different audio/video formats.
