Version 2.0 overview

This is a major update introducing new features and functional changes.

Requirements

Windows 7 or newer.
An x86 (Intel/AMD) processor that is less than 20 years old.
Version for ARM 64-bit will soon be available as well.

Notable new features

Now available for x86 32-bit (legacy) and x86 64-bit.
Dark mode support on Windows 10 and 11.
Entirely new media library engine, backed by SQLite. Much faster startup and shutdown with large libraries, greatly reduced memory usage.
Greatly improved performance of media library search queries that don't use %patterns%.
Playback Statistics functionality is now built-in.
Added album art in Default User Interface playlist view.
New UI element: ReFacets, reimplementing most of Facets functionality.
New audio output device management features - unwanted devices can be disabled, bit depth and DSP can be configured per-device.
More audio formats supported out of the box: TAK, APE, AC3, DTS.
Rewritten built-in visualisations (VU/peak meters, spectrum, oscilloscope), now using hardware accelerated rendering.

For Columns UI users

Some of Default User Interface elements are now available in Columns UI:

Equalizer
ReFacets
All visualisations

Component features that are now available out of the box

These add-on components are now obsolete as their functionality is available out of the box:

foo_benchmark
foo_bitcompare
foo_verifier
foo_input_monkey
foo_ac3
foo_sanitizer
foo_input_dts.

These components previously included with the installer are no longer optional (features always enabled):

foo_rgscan
foo_cdda
foo_albumlist

Full list of changes

Read the change log

Upgrading from an older version

Just install the new foobar2000 version without uninstalling.

With standard installs, there's no need to backup your profile as foobar2000 v2.0 stores its profile data in a separate folder, importing old profile on first run.