Disclosed is a method and apparatus for playing media resources. The method includes that: a multimedia resource server is searched for multimedia resources including identity attribute information, and a first play list is generated according to a search result; when there is a first multimedia player that is pre-selected, the first play list is searched for multimedia resources corresponding to multimedia file formats supported by the first multimedia player, and a second play list is generated on the basis of the found multimedia resources; and multimedia resources in the second play list are sequentially pushed to the first multimedia player for playing. By means of the technical solutions of the present disclosure, favorite multimedia resources of a user can be conveniently selected, and the favorite multimedia resources of the user are correspondingly played in a selected multimedia player.