Foobar2000:Components

This page contains most Foobar2000 v0.9.x components available at time of last update.

1st Party

The following components are created and maintained by the foobar2000 development team. Support for them should be asked for in the Support forum

Included in the Installer

The Optional Features screen of the fb2k Installer

In addition to foobar2000's core functionality, the following components can be installed as needed, in the Optional Features section of the installer.

Name	foo name	description
Audio CD Support	foo_cdda	Adds Support for Audio CD Playback
Album List	foo_albumlist	Gives quick access to Media Library Content with customizable tree view
Standard DSPs	foo_dsp_std	Equalizer, resampler, advanced limiter, hard limiter, stereo to 4 channel upmixer and a couple other effects
ReplayGain Scanner	foo_rgscan	advanced solution for volume matching
Converter	foo_converter	Converts files to WAV or any other formats using command line encoders
File Operations	foo_fileops	Renames, moves, or copies files according to specified patterns
Archive Reader	foo_unpack	Adds support for playing files directly from ZIP RAR and GZIP archives
ABX Comparator*	foo_abx	ABX component for double blind listening tests (*removed from installer as of v0.9.6.9 beta 1, available as optional download)
freedb Tagger	foo_freedb2	Tag retrieving support from freedb service for any set of files: mp3,mpc,flac,...-not only CDDA tracks

Additional Components

These components are provided as separate downloads, found on the Official Components page.

Input

• Monkey's Audio Decoder (foo_input_monkey) Adds decoding support for Monkey's Audio files (.APE) as well as APE Link files (.APL).
• ALAC Decoder (foo_input_alac) Apple Lossless (ALAC) decoder.

Output

• Kernel Streaming support (foo_out_ks) Allows bit-exact playback bypassing Windows kernel mixer.
• ASIO output support (foo_out_asio) Adds ASIO output support.
• WASAPI output support (foo_out_wasapi) Adds Windows Audio Session API exclusive mode output support, allowing bit-exact output and muting all other sounds on Windows Vista systems.

Other

• Playback Statistics (foo playcount) Collects playback statistics for your Media Library content.
• Binary Comparator (foo_bitcompare) Performs binary comparison between two or more tracks and reports differences.
• File Integrity Verifier (foo_verifier) Checks specified media files for decoding errors.
• Quick Tagger (foo_quicktag) Adds customizable context menu commands for quickly setting tag fields to preconfigured values
• Text Tools (foo_texttools) Adds customizable context menu commands for copying information about the selected tracks to Windows Clipboard.
• Decoding Speed Test (foo_benchmark) Measures decoding speed of audio files.
• Impulse response convolver (foo_convolve) Allows arbitrary effects to be captured and used inside foobar2000. (More Info)
• Audio CD Writer (foo_burninate) CD burning support (requires Nero to be installed on your system.)
• Masstagger (foo_masstag)
• ABX Comparator (foo_abx) Component for double blind listening tests.

3rd Party

The following components are created and maintained by 3rd-party authors, using foobar2000's SDK. Support for these components should be asked for in the 3rd Party Plugins forum Asking for help directly in the component's thread is usually preferred.

User Interfaces

Columns UI

Columns UI (foo_ui_columns) Very popular alternate interface for foobar2000 based on a columns and panel layout.

Columns UI introduced components with panel capability which extend the user interface.

GFX

GFX window (foo_ui_gfx) is a skinnable user interface, which doesn't only focus on looking good but tries to be as fast and "lightweight" as possible, too. It uses lua as scripting language. Two skins are included in the archive. Development of this component appears to have ceased.

Panels UI

Panels UI (foo_ui_panels) gives the ability to manage multiple panels through titleformating. No longer maintained and not compatible with current foobar2000 releases anymore.

User Interface Addons

UI Elements

The default user interface (foo_ui_std), included in the standard installation package, can be extended with the following component(s):

• Facets (foo_facets) Flexible media library viewer based on linked lists.
• Infospect (foo_infospect) Displays low level playback information.
• Screen Saver Host (foo_vis_screensaver) Displays a screen saver inside foobar2000 main window.
• Shpeck (foo_vis_shpeck) Winamp visualisation plugins wrapper.
• Text Display (foo_textdisplay) Displays information about the playing or selected track.

Panels

Panels extend the functionality of Columns UI / Panels UI components.

• Album Art Panel (foo_uie_albumart) Panel to display album art.
• Album Art Panel for matroska (foo_uie_albumart_mka) Albumart mod to read matroska covers.
• Album List Panel (foo_uie_albumlist) Displays the database in a treeview using customizable sorting methods (by genre, artist, directory, etc.)
• Bookmarks (foo_uie_bookmarks) Help you remember positions in songs.
• Console (foo_uie_console) Panel version of console. Displays diagnostic messages. Requires Columns UI 0.1.3 beta 1 or newer.
• Cover Flow (foo_bubble_coverflow) The plugin can work either as a UI panel or a standalone window (found in the view menu), and a fullscreen mode for both.
• Dockable Panels (foo_dockable_panels) It allows you to create windows that host columns ui panels as floating windows that can be attached to the side of the main foobar2000 window or each other.
• Egoh Spectrum Analyser (foo_uie_vis_egoh) Similar to the default spectrum analyser.
• ELplaylist panel (foo_uie_elplaylist) Displays the playlist in a single column with a header. Highly customizable.
• Explorer Panel (foo_uie_explorer) Displays a treeview of selected disks/folders.
• Grouped playlist panel (foo_uie_pvt) Preview version of columns playlist with grouping.
• Lyrics Panel (foo_uie_lyrics_panel) Display lyrics stored in file tags.
• Music Browser (foo_browser) Panels for Browsing Library, Similar to iTunes.
• Panel Stack Splitter (foo_uie_panel_splitter) Allows free positioning of panels within the foobar2000 window and displays track info.
• Playlist Dropdown (foo_uie_playlists_dropdown) Displays the playlist in a dropdown menu.
• Playlist Tree (foo_playlist_tree) Tree based media library with many available customizations.
• ProjectM Visualisation Panel (foo_uie_vis_projectM) Based on the ProjectM project, which is a reimplementation of Milkdrop under OpenGL.
• Queue Manager (foo_uie_queuemanager) It provides a window that shows the queue's contents and allows you to delete parts of them or clear the whole queue.
• Quicksearch Panel (foo_uie_quicksearch) Search toolbar that sends results to a playlist.
• Shpeck (foo_vis_shpeck) Winamp visualisation plugins wrapper.
• Single Column Playlist Viewer (foo_uie_single_column_playlist) Displays the playlist in a single column with "headers". Useful for creating a narrower and smaller layout.
• Tabs (foo_uie_tabs) Tabs allows you to break Pauli's Exclusion principle by placing multiple panels in the same position at the same time.
• Track Info Panel (foo_uie_trackinfo) Uses TAGZ to display information about a selected track.
• Track Info Panel Mod (foo_uie_trackinfo_mod) Improved Track Info panel with the ability to use multiple fonts in the same panel. Also has the ability to display images.
• Typefind (foo_typefind) Provides some in-line search facilities.
• WmpVis (foo_uie_wmpvis) Uses the visualizations from WMP.
• WSH panel (foo_uie_wsh_panel) Windows script host panel.

DSP

• 4Front Headphones (foo_dsp_headphones9) Effects for headphone users.
• ATSurround Processor (foo_dsp_atsurround) Reproduces surround sound information present in many stereo audio material and more.
• BS2B (foo_dsp_bs2b) Improves headphone listening of regular hi-fi stereo records.
• Voice Cut Filter (foo_dsp_centercut) Voice cut filter.
• Channel Mixer (foo_channel_mixer) Up/down mix to/from 1-6 channels.
• Crossfeed (foo_dsp_crossfeed) Filters the music to help reduce fatigue caused by listening to music with headphones.
• Dolby Headphone Wrapper (foo_dsp_dolbyhp) Dolby Headphone engine DLL.
• Dolby Pro Logic II wrapper (foo_dsp_pl2) Dolby Pro Logic II engine DLL (dll not included).
• Downmix (foo_dsp_downmix) Downmix AC3, DTS, etc. to stereo.
• FreeSurround (foo_dsp_fsurround) It takes Dolby Surround / Pro Logic I/II encoded stereo music and decodes it into 5.1 sound.
• George Yohng's VST Wrapper (foo_dsp_vstwrapper) Enables VST plug-ins.
• LPCM - Delta-PCM Converter (foo_dsp_delta) Noise sharpening filter.
• OSS/3D (foo_dsp_oss3ddsp) Audio enhancement. SHAREWARE.
• Post-track Silence (foo_dsp_silence) Inserts a configurable amount of silence after each track to help external devices like MiniDisc players to sync track changes.
• Secret Rabit Code Resampler (foo_dsp_src9) Mega Nerd's Secret Rabbit Code sample rate converter.
• Soundtouch (foo_dsp_soundtouch) Ajust pitch, tempo and rate.
• SSRC (foo_dsp_ssrc) Sample rate converter.
• Stereo Convolver (foo_dsp_stereoconv) Take stereo audio and convolve each channel with two impulse responses.
• Surround Pan (foo_dsp_span) WYSIWYG Surround panning.
• Tube Sound (foo_dsp_tube) Emulate tube sound.
• VLevel (foo_dsp_vlevel) Dynamic compressor which amplifies the quiet parts of music.
• VST Host (foo_dsp_vst) Adds support to Virtual Studio Technology audio interface.
• Winamp DSP Bridge (foo_dsp_winamp) Allows the use of Winamp DSPs.
• XOver (foo_dsp_xover) Implements this digital crossover to achieve active multi-amplification.

Input

Music codecs

• AC3 Decoder (foo_ac3) Decodes Dolby Digital lossy audio compression technologies format (AC3).
• AC3 Packet Decoder (foo_packet_decoder_ac3) Needed for AC3 in Matroska.
• DTS Decoder (foo_input_dts) Decodes Digital Theater Systems (DTS) audio format.
• MIDI Synthesizer Host (foo_midi)
• OptimFROG Lossless Audio Decoder (foo_input_ofr) Decodes both the Lossless (OFR) and DualStream (OFS) audio format.
• Shorten Decoder (foo_input_shorten) Decodes Shorten (SHN) audio format.
• SPDIF Passthrough (foo_spdif) SPDIF passthrough for AC3 and DTS files.
• TTA Audio Decoder (unofficial) (foo_input_tta) Decodes True Audio (TTA) audio format.

Other codecs

• ADPCM Decoder (foo_adpcm) Plays GameCube ADPCM audio data and some. (DSP, ADP, GCM, HPS, STM, AST, etc.)
• Another Slight Atari Player (foo_asap) ASAP is a player/converter of Atari 8-bit music for modern computers. It provides high-quality, identical to the popular Atari800 emulator, emulation of the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.
• DUMB Module Decoder (foo_dumb) Plays your favorite module files, and then some. (MOD, S3M, XM, IT, 669, PTM, PSM, MTM, UMX)
• Game Audio Decoder (foo_game) Plays Westwood's audio (AUD), Sierra's sounds (SFX/AUD), Core design's cd audio (cdaudio.WAD), Funcom's music (ISS), Rome Total War's IDX (.IDX/DAT), Timegate's format (RWD), EA's Pathfinder audio (MUS) and Ben Gerard's music (SC68).
• Game Emu Player (foo_gep) Plays several emulation formats. (GBS, NSF, SPC, GYM, HES, VGM)
• Ganbatte! (foo_ganbatte) Plays compressed Edlib (.d00, .d01) files.
• Lunar 2 PCM Decoder (foo_lunar2) Plays audio files found on the original Lunar: Eternal Blue CD (RP*.PCM).
• M1 Decoder (foo_m1) Plays arcade/pinball game sound.
• MDX Decoder (foo_input_mdx) MDX is a MIDI-like format that is designed to be played using the X68000's FM synthesizer.
• NSF Decoder (foo_input_nsf) NSF file is a sound data file containing instructions for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sound hardware.
• PSF Decoder (foo_psf) Plays PlayStation Sound Format (PSF) files.
• Reverse (foo_input_reverse) Play music in reverse.
• SID Player 2 (foo_sid) Sound chip of Commodore's CBM-II, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 home computers.
• S98 Decoder (foo_input_s98) Sound format for the NEC PC-98 microcomputer.
• USF Decoder (foo_input_usf) Decodes sound data ripped directly from a Nintendo 64 video game.

Visualisation

• Peakmeter for Columns UI (foo_uie_peakmeter) Displays the level for each channel in dB.
• Peakmeter and spectrum analyzer (foo_uie_vis_peakmeter_spectrum) Plugin that combines a peakmeter with a spectrum analyzer.
• ProjectM Visualisation (foo_vis_projectM) Based on the ProjectM project, which is a reimplementation of Milkdrop under OpenGL.
• Shpeck (foo_vis_shpeck) Winamp visualisation plugins wrapper.
• WmpVis (foo_uie_wmpvis) Uses the visualizations from WMP. Panel version only.

Other

General

• Alarm (foo_alarm) Starts playback at the specified period of time.
• Autosave (foo_jesus) Automatically saves configuration and other data at configured intervals.
• Channel Usage Visualisation (foo_vis_channelusage) Channel Usage Visualisation.
• Common Services (foo_common) Common services.
• Converter (foo converter)
• Cwbowron's Title Format Hooks (foo_cwb_hooks) Adds various global titleformat functions/variables, tagger window, new file tagger, and more. No longer maintained, not compatible with current foobar2000 versions anymore.
• Directory Monitor (foo_dirwatch) Allows you to specify directories to monitor, and notifies the Media Library of any changes (additions, renames, deletions) that occur.
• EXTM3U Playlist Creater (foo_extm3u) Allow to save current playlist in the EXTM3U format.
• Feature Watcher (foo_whatsnew) Watches for added or removed features.
• File Date (foo_filedate) Add to file tag date added, accessed, created or modified from context menu entries.
• HyperIM (foo_2hyperim) Provides 19 media macros.
• iPod Manager (foo_dop) Experimental iPod plugin for foobar2000 0.9.2+, currently in alpha version.
• Logitech G15 LCD Display (foo_g15lcd) Control the LCD panel on a Logitech G15 keyboard.
• Menu Addons (foo_menu_addons) Adds a few shortcuts in menu.
• Open URL (foo_openurl) Adds a context menu item to open URLs from metadata fields in a web browser.
• Pause On Lock (foo_lock) Pauses/unpauses foobar2000 on workstation lock/unlock.
• Pause on Lock (extended) (foo_lock_ex) Pause playing on workstation lock. Optimized for use with Windows XP/2003.
• Preview (foo_preview) Play only part of each track in the playlist.
• Replaygain Override (foo_rg_trn) Allows you to automatically switch between replaygain modes based on specified criteria (e.g. use track based RG for shuffle mode, etc.)
• Run (foo_run) Able you to run a external program with the foobar syntax.
• Run Commands (foo_runcmd) Search and execute menu commands.
• Scheduler (foo_scheduler) Plugin for scheduling actions like play, stop, system shutdown/wake up and many more.
• Send To Device (foo_sendtodevice) Add "Send to Device" feature.
• Shell Link Resolver (foo_lnk) Shell link resolver.
• Timebomb (foo_timebomb) Stop playback / exit program after a specified time.
• Unpacker for JMA archive (foo_unpack_jma)
• Unpacker for LHA archive (foo_unpack_lha)
• Winamp API Emulator (foo_winamp_spam) Designed to create a fake Winamp 1.x window which will act as a wrapper between applications written to use the Winamp API and foobar2000.

Lyrics

• Gasazip Lyrics (foo_gasazip) Search for lyrics and displays it in external window.
• LyricsDB (foo_lyricsdb) Search lyrics basing on song's artist and title.
• Mini Lyrics (foo_ui_minilyrics) Lyrics viewer for synchronizing and displaying lyrics of the currently playing song.
• Sakura Script Lyrics (foo_sstp_lyrics) Plays a SAKURA script lyrics to a SSP client.

Notifier

• AMIP Wrapper (foo_amipwrapper) Complete now-playing plug-in for mIRC, PIRCH, Klient, Bersirc, other IRC and Mail clients, supporting full player control from mIRC, playlist search, clipboard integration, HTTP, dynamic image signatures, etc.
• Listening To (foo_listeningto) Sends NowPlaying information to Miranda IM.
• Miranda IM Notifier (foo_mim_notify) Sends configurable information about the current playing song to Miranda-IM and shows popup windows with this info.
• MSN avatar changer (foo_uie_albumart_msn) Set currently playing song's album art as avatar.
• MSN Now Playing (alt) (foo_msnalt) Show the current song as "Now Playing" in MSN and MS Live messenger.
• WLM Notifier (foo_wlm) Show the current song as "Now Playing" in MSN and Windows Live messenger.
• On-Screen Display (foo_osd) On screen display of track information and volume bar.
• On-Screen Display GDI (foo_osd_gdiplus) Same as foo_osd but uses GDI+ for osd drawing.
• Pretty Popup (foo_prettypop) Display a moderately sized popup of song information when a new song plays.

Online database

• Audioscrobbler (foo_audioscrobbler) Audioscrobbler will send the name of every song you play on your computer to Last.fm. This effortlessly populates your profile to play radio you like and make personalized recommendations.
• Foosic Music Database (foo_sic) Sends track information to the foosic online database. You can currently view your top artist, album and track statistics with foosic. Now support FooID fingerprints.

Online radio

• MSLive (foo_input_mslive) Support for MMS and RSTP broadcast radio protocols.
• XM Radio Online Player (foo_xm) Allow you to listen to XM Radio channels over the Internet by using XM Radio Online.

Playlist tools

• Audioscrobble Charts (foo_scrobblecharts) Generate a playlist from an artist's Last.fm chart. It also allows you to sort a selection in the playlist by the artist's charts.
• Bin Pack (foo_binpack) Creates playlists from a list with a maximum length.
• Command Playlist (foo_cmd_playlist) Add /playlist-activate:"Name" to the foobar command line to activate the named playlist.
• Cuesheet Creator (foo_cuesheet_creator) Cuesheet creator.
• Database Search (foo_dbsearch) Database search.
• Default Video Player (foo_default_videoplayer) Allows you to play your video clips from foobar playlist with default external player.
• Delete Current (foo_deletecurrent) Adds a menu item giving the possibility to delete from computer the current playing track.
• Highlight Playing (foo_highlightplaying) Highlights actual now playing item even when the playlist has been broken.
• History (foo_history) Very basic song history.
• Inactive Tracks (foo_skip) Skips tracks that are marked via a tag as inactive.
• MeowDB (foo_meowdb) Takes the Media Library and outputs the results to a form and uploads it to your server using the cURL library.
• Navigator (foo_navigator) Advanced history component.
• Now Playing Simple (foo_np_simple) Simple now playing plugin to output formatted string to plain text file.
• Playback Queue Viewer (foo_pqview) Playback queue viewer.
• Playlist Bind (foo_playlist_bind) Synchronize playlist with contents of specific directory.
• Playlist Clear (foo_playlistclear) All playlists are cleared at startup.
• Playlist Manager (foo_playlist_manager) Playlist manager.
• Playlist Name Enhenced (foo_playlist_name_enhanced) Appends automatically playlist info ("items / length") to all playlist names.
• Playlist Tools (foo_utils) Provides various general commands.
• Playlist Tools for Matroska (foo_utils_mka) Provides various general commands.
• Queue Manager (foo_queuemanager) It provides a window that shows the queue's contents and allows you to delete parts of them or clear the whole queue. Non-ColumnUI obsolete version, try panel version instead.
• Randomized Playlist Entry (foo_random) Randomized playlist entry.
• Rating (foo_rating) Display an icon in the systray with a tooltip popup from which you can choose a rating between 1 and 5 for the currently playing file.
• Remove Played (foo_removeplayed) It removes tracks from the playlist once they've been played.
• Track Finder (foo_trackfinder) Displays a context menu that lets you quickly find songs based on their album title or artists name.
• Track Position (foo_trackpos) Provides a new context menu item "place after current playing", that allows you to place any tracks after the current playing one in the playing playlist.
• XSPF (foo_xspf) Adds XSPF support. XSPF is an open, XML based playlist format.

Playback Statistics

• Playback Statistics Custom (foo_playback_custom) Stores playback statistics in tags like foo_playcount_mod, with claimed faster response, and uses foo_custominfo db if file is unavailable for writing.
• Play Count Mod (foo_playcount_mod) Unofficial playcount modded to supress the update tag popups.

Remote control

• Advanced Controls (foo_advancedcontrols) Control all the playback functions from icons in the Taskbar Notification Area (play, pause, next, previous, open)
• Appcommand (foo_appcommand) Adds the ability to assign multimedia keyboard buttons that sends APPCOMMAND (for example some HP keyboards) as (global) keyboard hotkeys.
• Bluetooth Control (foo_bluetooth_ctrl) Control your favourite music player using your favourite Symbian-based bluetooth enabled phone.
• COM Automation Server (foo_comserver2) Allows controlling foobar2000 through COM Automation
• Control Server (foo_controlserver) Acts as a server to control Foobar2000. Connect with a telnet client and control it using ASCII commands.
• DDE Control (foo_ddecontrol) Control foobar remotelly with DDE interprocess communication (interface in japanese only).
• HTTP Writer (foo_write_http) It's TCP/IP server that listens on a specified port for incoming requests such as play, stop, etc.
• Joystick Control (foo_joystick_control) Control foobar2000 from a joystick/gamepad.
• Minibar2k (foo_Minibar2k) Control Foobar2k from your PDA (PocketPC based).
• Remote Control (foo_remotecontrol) Adds support to Melloware Intelliremote software which claims to work with Creative remote control (Soundblaster Live!, Audigy, Extigy, Audigy ZS and Soundblaster X-Fi.)
• RM-1800 (foo_mr1800) Adds support of Creative X-Fi's remote (RM-1800).
• RM-X Media Edition (foo_rmx) Yet another plugin for remote control. SHAREWARE.
• Titlebar (foo_managedWrapper) Create a personal title bar that shows the currently playing song on the top of the screen all the time. It supports custom-made skins.
• WinLIRC Client (foo_lirc) Control Foobar from a remote control.
• HTTP Control (foo_httpcontrol) Control Foobar using a browser.

Tagging

• Custom Info (foo_custominfo) Allows you to set info fields for files without modifying them.
• Discogs (foo_discogs) Retrieve info and album art from Discogs.com database.
• Freedb Tagger (foo_freedb2) Freedb.org tagger. Now included with official foobar2000 installers.
• Live Show Tagger (foo_tradersfriend) Live show tagger.
• Masstagger Addons (foo_masstag_addons) Some addons for masstagger, including code page conversion and chinese conversion.

Links

• Official components site
• Unofficial third-party components site

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