Foobar2000 is an audio participant that features full unicode assist, ReplayGain assist and native assist for a number of common audio codecs.
Does Foobar2000 assist video playback?
No. Foobar2000 doesn’t assist video, it’s a extremely customizable audio participant solely, with superior options like gapless playback, open part structure, and audio file converter.
What is “open part structure”?
“Open Component Architecture” implies that Foobar2000 permits you to prolong the performance of the participant as wanted. You can examine Foobar’s elements part right here.
What audio codecs does Foobar2000 assist?
Foobar2000 helps the next audio codecs out of the field: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, and SND. Through further elements you possibly can prolong that assist to another main audio format.
Can Foobar2000 rip CDs?
Yes, Foobar2000 helps audio CD ripping and transcoding of all supported audio codecs utilizing the converter part.
Does Foobar2000 work on macOS or Linux?
No, Foobar2000 is barely accessible for Windows. For macOS or Linux, we advocate testing VLC, which gives comparable performance and can be free.
Features
- Supported audio codecs: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and extra with further elements.
- Gapless playback.
- Easily customizable consumer interface structure.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for ripping Audio CDs in addition to transcoding all supported audio codecs utilizing the Converter part.
- Full ReplayGain assist.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Open part structure permitting third-get together builders to increase performance of the participant.
What’s New
Playback:
- Added an choice to toggle further decoding (DTS, HDCD, and many others) throughout playback, so you possibly can play DTS-WAV with out decoding DTS.
- Changed how DSP settings are utilized when enjoying via a excessive-latency output similar to UPnP.
- WASAPI unique channel masks negotiation logic replace – 5.1-facet could possibly be most well-liked over 7.1, inflicting undesirable channel remapping.
- Fixed a bug that prompted present monitor restart in sure situations, similar to quickly altering playback settings.
- Fixed a bug inflicting audio glitching close to the top of final music with WASAPI unique.
- Rewritten full file buffer function, not blocks till entire file has been learn. Large FLAC information for an instance ought to now open with no delay.
User interface:
- Fullscreen dimension of visualisations is not saved as final window dimension (2.0 regression).
- Fixed playlist structure infinite replace loop with column auto sizing and album artwork.
- Fixed unhealthy dealing with of preferences web page creation errors (improper message, damaged darkish mode).
- ReFacets sorting modified to match playlist & album checklist sorting.
- Made not flash primary window if began with /disguise change.
- Rewrote exterior album artwork lookup code, wildcard lookup now works the place it did not earlier than.
- Renamed “Notification Area” to “System Tray” in all places.
- Fixed dragging of WebP photographs to Properties dialog paintings tab.
- Fixed seekbar & quantity bar flickering in Default UI.
- Forcefully suppressed darkish mode if High Contrast is energetic.
- Fixed some rendering glitches with large major font chosen.
- Fixed first run dialog textual content truncation at 175% textual content dimension.
- Default UI: Fixed toolbar font getting reverted to system default in response to sure occasions, similar to system theme change.
- Default UI: Fixed media library & playlist search edit bins being too small if a big font is chosen.
- Properties: Fixed misbehavior of “Clear ReplayGain info” if the dialog was opened for only one monitor.
- Various darkish mode refinements.
- Various display screen reader accessibility points addressed.
- Various keyboard navigation glitches fastened.
Converter:
- Fixed unhealthy encoding of AIFF 8-bit (unsigned as an alternative of signed).
- Added constructed-in profile for TAK.
- Added constructed-in profile for Monkey’s Audio.
- Restored previous conduct with .bat information, utilizing full paths to begin.
Internet radio & networking:
- Added Internet Radio Search function, utilizing radio-browser.
- Rewritten HLS radio playback.
- Improved FTP/HTTP playback & shopping, fewer connections used.
- Lots of FTP points fastened. Encrypted FTP now works correctly.
- Fixed particular instances of HTTP redirects being incorrectly dealt with.
Archive studying:
- Fixed non-working extraction of .RSN (renamed .RAR).
- Updated RAR unpacker code to the most recent RAR library model.
- Updated zlib to v1.3.
- Fixed stack overflow with particular archive information in listed music folders.
Codec updates:
- Fixed incorrect dealing with of sure uncommon Monkey’s Audio configurations.
- Fixed lacking decode postprocessor (DTS/HDCD and many others) for TAK.
- Fixed improper reported size of sure RF64 WAV information.
- Made potential to play Vorbis muxed into MP4.
- Added assist for tagging Wave64 & RF64 codecs.
- Report LC-AAC codec lengthy identify as simply “AAC”.
- Fixed lacking HE-AAC delay compensation, breaking gapless playback of HE-AAC encoded with trendy encoders.
- Made potential to learn & write itunesalbumid & itunesartistid tags in M4A/MP4.
- Implemented studying of multiplexed Ogg information.
- Fixed unhealthy dealing with of undefined-size chunks in WAV information.
- Made MP3 VBRI delay reported and skipped accurately. Note that VBRI information are nonetheless not gapless.
- Fixed lacking “encoding” data subject for AC3.
- Fixed DTS codec data for DTS in Matroska.
- Made TAK MD5 checksums learn with out TAK decoder part, permitting audio integrity verification.
- Made FLAC seektable software additionally rewrite outsized seektables.
- FLAC decoder: log untimely EOF, mark partially encoded information as unhealthy even when they do not seem corrupted in any other case.
- Added normal %codec_long% subject to correctly show detailed names of all codecs.
- Improved reporting of AAC & DTS codec/profile data.
- Fix for “DTS 96/24”, made bit depth reported as 24-bit.
- Made potential to decode float16 & float24 WAVs once more.
- Made potential to learn ReplayGain data from Musepack APE tags (usually it is presupposed to be in Musepack headers).
- Updated libopus to v1.4
- Updated Monkey’s Audio to 10.30.
Other:
- Fixed bug in Media Library stopping beforehand-unplayable information from being reindexed after set up of latest decoders (2.0 regression).
- Improved restoration from corrupted configuration information.
- Suppressed pointless playlist rewrite on autoplaylist startup.
- Fixed lack of autoplaylist content material order when upgrading from v1.x.
- Made autoplaylist kind logic work extra persistently with v1.x, that’s, kind by simply date/album/and many others implicitly applies default kind standards to this point/album/and many others teams.
- Made search question GREATER/LESS/EQUAL deal with numbers as floating-level somewhat than integer.
- Crash log author added timestamps to latest occasions.