Foobar2000 is an audio player that includes full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Does Foobar2000 support video playback?

No. Foobar2000 does not support video, it is a highly customizable audio player only, with advanced features like gapless playback, open component architecture, and audio file converter.

What is "open component architecture"?

"Open Component Architecture" means that Foobar2000 allows you to extend the functionality of the player as needed. You can check Foobar's components section here.

What audio formats does Foobar2000 support?

Foobar2000 supports the following audio formats out of the box: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, and SND. Through additional components you can extend that support to any other major audio format.

Can Foobar2000 rip CDs?

Yes, Foobar2000 supports audio CD ripping and transcoding of all supported audio formats using the converter component.

Does Foobar2000 work on macOS or Linux?

No, Foobar2000 is only available for Windows. For macOS or Linux, we recommend checking out VLC, which offers similar functionality and is also free.

Features

  • Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
  • Gapless playback.
  • Easily customizable user interface layout.
  • Advanced tagging capabilities.
  • Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
  • Full ReplayGain support.
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

What's New

  • Built-in UPnP media renderer, both client (play to another device) and server (be controlled by another device).
  • Other foobar2000 instances on your local network, with UPnP remote control feature active, will be listed as output devices.
  • foobar2000-to-foobar2000 playback shows tags with album covers on the other end, using Ogg FLAC as stream container.
  • FFmpeg updated to 7.1, added native support for xHE-AAC decoding.
  • Media Library can natively index FTP/WebDAV/SMB network shares.
  • Added preferences page for network share credentials so you don't have to place them in URLs anymore.
  • Made editing DSP settings momentarily lower output latency to make DSPs appear more responsive.
  • Portable install: Changed the way relative paths are handled, so cached tags are no longer forgotten after relaunching from a different path.
  • Allowed = character in tag field names. Will be converted to _ in formats that don't allow =.
  • Installer is now hi-DPI friendly.
  • Rewritten Ogg FLAC tag handling, properly implemented embedded album art.
  • Made system file dialogs invoked out-of-process, to avoid stability issues.