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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.

The latest stable version is: v0.9.6.2

The latest stable version is: v0.9.6.3 beta 1

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.
Gapless playback.
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 commandline 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 formating scripts.

Supported Audio Formats

Native Support ("out-of-the-box"):

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

Supported through optional components:

TTA, Monkey's Audio, ALAC, MOD, SPC, Shorten, OptimFROG, AC3, DTS, PSF, NSF, XID, XA, MMS, RSTP, TAK, etc.

In addition, foobar2000 can also play music directly from compressed ZIP and without requiring the user to extract the files prior to playing. More archive formats supported through additional components: JMA, LHA.

foobar2000 has been written for the Windows platform only. Ports to other platforms are not planned. However, several people have had success running foobar2000 on x86 Linux systems by using Wine.

foobar2000 user interface is in English language only. Translations are not supported.

Using foobar2000

Technical Information

ID3 Tag Mapping

Specific Guides

Preferences Dialog
Tag editing: the Properties dialog
Introduction to titleformat scripts
Titleformat Reference - Quick-Reference for fields and functions
Query Syntax - Details of Syntax for querying metadata.
File operations dialog - Move, copy, rename, and delete files from within foobar2000
Commandline Usage

External Guides

Bachi-Bouzouk's English/French guide Complete manual about foobar2000, Replay Gain, the masstagger (with a tutorial) and common plugins. Two rather extensive FAQ for UI columns and overall use. Step by step guide to help new users.
fb2k Wiki Page for Japanese users.
Frank Bicking's German-language guide.
Replay Gain focusing on foobar2000. (But the other articles on this site contain misleading information)
Winamp To Foobar Guide with information relevant for general users also.

Scripting Tutorials

Bachi-Bouzouk's Scripting Tutorial Color schemes detailed. Main functions explained, basic and complex code for your columns. Several .fcs explained, detailed FAQ.
Brother John's foobar2000 Scripting Tutorial

Important Links

Official Site

Community

Appearance

Configuration Distribution Thread Fast Way To Clone Another's Advanced Configuration.
Columns UI appearance customization guides
Columns UI / Panels UI appearance forum thread
Columns UI configurations

**foobar2000**
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Screenshot of foobar2000 v0.9.5.3 using the default user interface
Developer(s)	Peter Pawlowski
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	0.9.6.2
Preview release	0.9.6.3 beta 1
Compatibility
Operating system	Windows
Additional information
Use	Media Player
License	Proprietary, BSD
Website	www.foobar2000.org