Looking for the best free local music file player for PC

Hello everyone.

I'm on a campaign to move my audio listening closer to nearly all offline. My current quest is to research which are the best options for offline music player on the PC.

I have a mix of FLAC and MP3 files, and desire to add more high end music files from physical media in the future. But the main need right now, is to learn what are the best free music players out there.

My current knowledge of PC music players worth a try are, WINamp, foobar2000, and VLC.

What would you recommend I check out?