Foobar2000 2024 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

Windows version 2.24

  • New version numbering scheme: 2.24 for planned stable release year of 2024.
  • Internet radio bug fixes & reliability improvements.
  • Codec & audio format fixes, most notably:
  • Implemented Ogg chapter support.
  • MP4/M4A/M4B tagging & chapter manipulation fixes.
  • WAV compatibility fixes; made zero-length WAV files reported as broken.
  • Cuesheet compatibility improvements - allowed absolute path, allowed playback over network.
  • Usability improvements, most notably:
  • Fixed inconsistent drag&drop behavior when dragging items between playlists.
  • Made current console backlog saved when toggling logging on.
  • Prevented Media Library search from clearing other playlists with enter key if library selection playlist feature is active.
  • General improvements, most notably:
  • New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance of 64-bit build.
  • Improved stability of hardware-accelerated visualizations.
  • Improved recovery of corrupted configuration data.
  • Converter
  • Mitigation for Converter failures when writing to a Google Drive volume.
  • More detailed error messages for specific file creation errors.
  • Can write multichapter Ogg files after disabling Ogg chaining support.
  • File Operations
  • Suppressed useless secondary progress bar if renaming files.
  • Defer info reload to prevent bugged display of cuesheets after moving whole folder.
  • Added an option to overwrite existing files.
  • Updated recycle bin detection logic, mitigating lag/lockup occurring for some users.
  • Third party code libraries updated.
  • Various other tweaks & fixes, see release notes for full list of changes.

Android version 1.6.6

  • Crash regression fix.
  • Icon resource cleaned up.
  • New skin file format, possible to edit with commonly available tools. Old skins still work.
  • Default skin update, added codec information.
  • Exposed "Skins" folder via FTP server.
  • Made playlist view scroll with playing track.
  • Added picture viewer - long tap album header, skin cover art, or a picture file in folder view to view the picture with zoom.
  • Added Ogg chapter support.
  • Made possible to store ReplayGain peak information in Opus files.
  • Made search button hidden on main page if library view is hidden via tweaks.
  • Made possible to edit media library folder paths.
  • Added reverb and echo DSPs from mudlord's foo_dsp_effect.
  • Fixed incorrect use of url-encoding in file names inside HTTP folders.
  • Made Equalizer bands vertical in landscape layouts.
  • Fixed Equalizer usability on Android TV.
  • Fixed Decoding Speed Test usability on Android TV.
  • Improved handling of cuesheets in folder browsing mode, removed arbitrary denial of reading of cuesheets over FTP/HTTP/etc.