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foobar2000 is a free music player for Windows. It features multiple playlists, a music database, streaming, ReplayGain support, extensive plug-ins support and more.

Supported...

Playback Formats

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.

Languages

English

Platforms

Windows

No known plans exists to port it to other platforms, but attempts have been made, with varying degrees of success, to run foobar2000 on x86 Linux systems by using Wine.

User Interface

Standard

By default foobar2000 uses the standard interface, foo_ui_standard. This interface is based around a tabbed list of playlists. Playlists are then formatted according to the title formatting strings entered by the user. These allow access to tag data, as well as information about the state of the program in the playlist display.

Columns UI

foo_ui_columns is an extension of the ideas used in the standard interface. It takes the open area of the playlist and divides it into one or more columns that have individual formatting strings. Recent versions of Columns UI have also added support for UI Extension panels which appear in Columns UI's sidebar or in the toolbar.

Because of the useful extensions to the Standard UI, Columns UI is rapidly becoming popular and continues to be under rapid development.

Newbie/Novice/Advanced User Guides

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks for Foobar2000

Components

Find components for foobar2000 at the components page

FAQ

Foobar2000 FAQ

Encouraged Tag Standards

Foobar2000 Encouraged Tag Standards

Important Links

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

Components / Plugins

General

Most Sought-After Plugins (forum thread)

Official third-party components site

Columns UI thread: first post contains links to many Columns UI panel extensions

A comprehensive guide to foobar2000 components (French)

Specific Components

case's Page: special installer, diskwriter components, etc.

kode's Page: file-formats, archive-support, OSD, shuffle (temporary mirror since the primary host is down)

foosion's Page: dbsearch, cut n' paste, history, etc.

Messer's page: freedb-masstagger, streaming with save-function, etc.

musicmusic's Page: textwriter, quicktag, custom sort, ui_columns, panels

Thanks

picmixer: ReplayGain tutorial

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 === Encouraged Tag Standards ===
+[[foobar2000:Encouraged Tag Standards|Foobar2000 Encouraged Tag Standards]]
-FIELD_NAME [format] (component)
-* ALBUM ARTIST [e.g., Various Artists, The Foobar Collective] (none)<br>''Notes'': Field name is ALBUM ARTIST, with ''no underscore''.  Tag should exist if and only if an album is by multiple artists, and be contained in every track.  Track-specific artists should be entered in the ARTIST tag, never in the TITLE tag.<br>[http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000_Encouraged_Tag_Standards#ALBUM_ARTIST (more about this standard)]
-* LAST_PLAYED [2005-03-22 19:00:00...] ([http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20719 foo_playcount])<br>''Notes'': Any amount or type of data may be placed after the time.  Compliant TAGZ code shall use $substr() instead of $right() when extracting substrings from this field.<br>''See also'': [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000#Standardize_my_PLAY_DATE_and_PLAY_TIME_fields Standardize my PLAY_DATE and PLAY_TIME fields]<br>[http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000_Encouraged_Tag_Standards#LAST_PLAYED (more about this standard)]
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 === Important Links ===