Foobar2000:Foobar2000

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

Support

• 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 is an English program and the author has stated that he does not plan to make translations possible.

Foobar2000 is a windows only program. 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.

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User Interface

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. For more information go to the Interface page.

User Guides

• Newbie User Guide
• Novice User Guide
• Advanced User Guide
• French-language guide; external

Other pages at the foobar2000 section

• Tips & Tricks for Foobar2000
• Find components for foobar2000 at the components page
• Foobar2000 FAQ
• Foobar2000 Encouraged Tag Standards

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

Thanks

picmixer: ReplayGain tutorial