Windows operating system has been criticized a lot for lack of applications but it does have decent number of apps. Take the music category for instance. It has several apps related to music and here we listed the five such applications which are widely considered as best of the lot.
So if you are planning to get buy the newly launched Micromax Canvas Win series Windows smartphones or any other Windows based device, here are best five music related apps that you can consider.
Gaana
Enjoy free unlimited music streaming through this App and browse through the large library of songs – Bollywood, English and even regional. The app offers over thousands of playlists that have top songs listed to enjoy uninterrupted music. Users can set those playlists or songs as their favourite and also share the details over the social networks. Radio Mode allows the user to build an automatic radio station to stream similar kind of songs.
Alternatively, you can choose Raaga which too is available for free from Windows app store.
Coke Studio
As apparent, this app represents the hugely popular music show – Coke Studio – of MTV. This app brings you the rich and diverse music styles of India that brings together the biggest musicians of India combining independent, classical, folk , Sufi and popular genre music in an all new setting encompassing all 3 Seasons; Producers like Rahman, Clinton Cerejo, Amit Trivedi, Ehsaan, Loy, Hitesh Sonik, Karsh Kale among others.
You can download all the songs and videos right inside the app and on top of that it is available for free in India.
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Radio India
As is obvious from its name itself, this application brings to you online radio stations from across the world that deal with Indian music. It offers access to 200 channels in 10 Indian languages (Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil).
Its interface is quite simple: on the left hand side 10 languages are mentioned. As soon as you choose a language, related radio stations would show up. The application is available for free of cost from Windows app store.
MP3 Skull
It is a free public domain music search engine. You can also download songs and save it on your device itself to listen them later (offline). This app also keeps track of your downloads so you do not have to download the same song twice. 
Moreover, MP3 Skull has its own built-in music player and you can preview songs before downloading.
Media Player
All handsets do not come with support for all media formats. So even if you download a music file on to your phone, in absence of a proper media player, you can’t enjoy it. Thus apps like Media Player hold so much importance.
This application supports “.mp3”, “.wav”, “.m4a”, “.wma”, “.aac”, “.adt”, “.adts”, “.ac3”, and “.ec3” files. It also allows changing equalizer setting, creating and editing playlists, access to cloud services, LastFM, and playing media content from popular social networks.