Foobar2000:Foobar2000

Introduction

Foobar2000 is a freeware audio player, and more. It can not only play, it can also make a library, transcode files, rip CDs, ... the list goes on and on. A very powerful tool.

Check it out to explore its full power.

Features

• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
• Full Unicode support on Windows NT
• ReplayGain support
• Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
• Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
• Highly customizable playlist display
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Gapless Playback
• Multiple playlists
• Music database
• Streaming Support
• Extensive "plug-in" support
• Free

Audio Formats Supported

Native Support ("out-of-the-box"):

• MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, VOC, SND

Supported through plug-ins:

• TTA, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, Mod, SPC, TFMX, Shorten, OptimFROG, LPAC, WMA, AC3, PSF, NSF, XID, XA, Matroska

In addition, foobar2000 can also play music directly from compressed RAR, ZIP and 7-Zip archives without requiring the user to extract the files prior to playing.

Foobar2000 has been coded exclusively for the Windows platform with an English interface. The author does not intend to provide alternate language versions nor alternate platform versions. However, several people have had success running foobar2000 on x86 Linux systems by using Wine, although the Columns UI plugin is known to be problematic.

User Guides

General Guides

• Newbie User Guide
• Intermediate User Guide
• Advanced User Guide

Specific Guides

• Preferences Dialog
• Introduction to titleformat scripts
• Reference of fields and functions for titleformat scripts
• Tagz (Simple Syntax)
• Tagscript (Script-like Syntax)
• Masstagger
• Commandline Usage

External Guides

• TechSpot's "complete guide to Foobar 2000"
• Guruboolez's French-language guide
• Bachi-Bouzouk's guide
• SH/SC New user guide
• Frank Bicking's German-language guide
• Howard Rogers' Beginners' Configuration Guide

Important Links

Official Site

• foobar2000.org: Homepage
• foobar2000.org: Download
• foobar2000.org: Requirements

Community

• Official foobar2000 forum
• Russian-language forum
• Polish-language forum

Appearance

• Foobar Gallery: screenshot thread
• Default UI formatting strings: cut-n-paste ready
• Columns UI configs: .fcs file format
• foo_ui_gfx (alpha): skin support for foobar

Misc Links

• foobar2000 Tips & Tricks
• foobar2000 Components
• foobar2000 FAQ
• foobar2000 Directories
• foobar2000 Encouraged Tag Standards

Thanks

picmixer: ReplayGain tutorial