Foobar2000:Foobar2000

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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

Supported through plug-ins:

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

Official Site

Community

Guides

Appearance

Components / Plugins

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

Thanks

picmixer: ReplayGain tutorial