foobar2000 is a complicated freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some essential options embrace full Unicode support, ReplayGain support, and native support for widespread audio formats.
The player offers a utilitarian and straightforward user interface, making it ideal for anyone who wants to focus on the music. It delivers a clean, minimalist design that avoids flashy buttons and bright colors while placing the listening experience at the center.
foobar2000 employs tabs and panels to streamline navigation within its straightforward and functional user interface. You can customize the interface using several layout options. Menu options and recognizable command buttons reside at the top of the window.
Two panels, each with tabbed menus, reside on the left side of the window. From there, you can view the album list and the properties of a selected artist or song.
Within foobar2000, easily access tabs for spectrogram, spectrum, and VU meter visualizations, together with album art display. This versatile player also enables direct synchronization with portable players, including iPods, for convenient on-the-go listening.
foobar2000 Main features:
- Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with extra elements.
- Gapless playback.
- Easily customizable person interface structure.
- She advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for ripping Audio CDs and transcoding all supported audio formats utilizing the Converter element.
- Full ReplayGain support.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- An open component architecture allows third-party developers to extend the player’s functionality.
Changes in foobar2000 version 2.25.2 – Final Release
- Workaround for “database is readonly” crash.
- Improved compatibility by resolving the TAK album art reader’s issues with decoder merit management.
- Enabled album art reading & editing for: AC3/EAC3, DTS.
- Microsoft WMA runtime no longer handles RTSP, providing an accurate error message when attempted.
- Increased the size limit for cover images in MP4/M4A files or APE tags to 64MB and prevented writing covers too large for foobar2000 to read.
- Made the MP4/M4A publisher field recognized.
- Fixed false errors when seeking in Matroska/FLAC with “verify integrity of played files”.
- Made odd-sized covers rendered with the correct aspect ratio in the Properties dialog.
- Matroska seeking/chapters fixes:
- Fixed seeking accuracy regression introduced in 2.24.
- Duration mismatches between decoded and reported times on affected files are no longer reported by the verifier (fixed since pre-2.24).
- Fixed a bug causing various window positions not to be restored if too close to screen edges.
- Suppressed flushing of pending visualization data when only running visualization momentarily disappears, fixes visualization going blank when resizing the window with just one visualization running.
- Fixed issues with implicit resampling (WASAPI shared) vs low latency in smooth seeking mode.
- When performing both implicit resampling and channel remapping, do them in the order that minimizes CPU usage: resample then upmix, or downmix then resample.
- The console now automatically sanitizes malformed UTF-8 in received text, ensuring stable operation.
- Fixed a bug that made files where tag reading fails impossible to add to the playlist.
- Fixed glitches in the playback error log on Wine.
- Fixed incorrect handling of non-alphanumeric characters in network passwords.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
- Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019
- Mac OS 10.11 “El Capitan” or newer.
