Foobar2000:Foobar2000

foobar2000

foobar2000

Screenshot of foobar2000 v1.0 using the default user interface
Developer(s)	Peter Pawlowski
Release information
Initial release	December 20, 2002; 22 years ago
Stable release	1.6 (September 2, 2020)
Preview release	1.6.1 beta 1 / September 2, 2020
Compatibility
Operating system	Windows
Additional information
Use	Media Player
License	Proprietary, BSD
Website	foobar2000.org

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full Unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Platforms

foobar2000 has been written specifically for the Windows platform, and there are no plans to port it to any others. However, although not officially supported, it is known to run on Linux and Mac OS X through Wine and WineBottler, respectively. Also there is an Arch Linux native package maintained by a community member.

Features

• Powerful open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player, including the ability to fully replace the user interface.
• Full Unicode support: File names, user interface, tagging, etc.
• ReplayGain support: Both playback and writing ReplayGain information to file tags.
• No Gapless playback after version 0.8.3 - to many bugs with all plugins("Fake Gapless"/"Crossfader"/"Skip Silence") from official library, only version 0.8.3 have 100% Gapless mode with plugin "Gap killer" (set to 1100ms for CD albums).
• Advanced tagging capabilities - through built-in Properties dialog and various optional tagging-related components.
• Built-in Media Library functionality.
  • Intuitive query syntax for searching the Media Library.
  • Autoplaylist support: Generate dynamically updating playlists based on queries.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external command-line encoder executables for different output formats).
• Secure CD ripping.
• Streaming support.
• Efficient handling of large playlists.
• User interface with simple configuration to create even complex layouts quickly and easily.
• Highly customizable display of track information using title formatting scripts.

Supported audio formats

Natively supported ("out-of-the-box"):

• MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, Musepack, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, Speex, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU/SND, CDDA, WMA, Matroska, ALAC, MMS, RSTP, Opus.

Supported through optional components:

• TTA, Monkey's Audio, MOD, SPC, Shorten, OptimFROG, AC3, DTS, PSF, NSF, XID, XA, TAK, AMR, etc.

In addition, foobar2000 can also play audio files within ZIP and RAR archives (typically compressed) directly, i.e. without requiring the user to extract the files first. More archive formats are supported via additional components: LHA/LZH, 7-Zip, JMA

Using foobar2000

Important pages

• foobar2000 FAQ on foobar2000.org
• foobar2000 components
• foobar2000 encouraged tag standards
• foobar2000 FAQ (unofficial)
• foobar2000 guides (category)
• foobar2000 preferences (category)

Specific guides

Preferences

• Preferences dialog

Metadata

• Tag editing: the Properties dialog
• Query Syntax: details of Syntax for querying metadata.

Title formatting

• Introduction to titleformat scripts
• Titleformat Reference: reference guide to all fields and functions
• Titleformat Examples: user-submitted code for various purposes; submit your own!

Others

• File operations dialog: move, copy, rename, and delete files from within foobar2000
• Commandline usage

External Guides

• German-language guides
• fb2k Wiki Page for Japanese users.
• Winamp To Foobar Guide with information relevant for general users also.

Technical information

• ID3 Tag Mapping
• Metadata Compatibility: information about compatibility with metadata written by other applications

Important Links

Official site

• foobar2000.org: Homepage
• foobar2000.org: Download
• foobar2000.org: Components

Community

• Official IRC Channel: #foobar2000 on freenode
• foobar2000 Forums on hydrogenaudio
• German Support Forum
• Polish Support Forum
• Russian-language forum
• Another Russian-language forum

Appearance

• Default UI .fth thread on hydrogenaudio (fast way to clone another's DUI configuration)
• Columns UI appearance customization guides
• Columns UI configurations on hydrogenaudio