Foobar2000
Foobar2000 (not always capitalized) is a free audio player for Windows. Although it has a utilitarian, graphics-light interface, it boasts many features for metadata support and improving audio quality (so far as that is possible,e.g. 24Bit, 96kHz output; dithering; noise-shaping), as well as a number of official and third-party plugins for a variety of purposes.
The strengths of the player are:
- Display of songs in the playlist, in the database and various other places can be modified through a rather complex script language called TAGZ.
- Tabbed playlists
- Its highly flexible and well-designed plugin-API allows developers to change/add almost any feature in the player (User interface, input, output, visualizations, DSP, etc...).
- Built-in Replaygain support.
- Diskwriter (transcode from any source foobar2000 can play to various formats)
- Kernel streaming
- Low memory footprint
- Default user interface integrates seamlessly with Windows XP Themes
External links
Official site:
- The official site contains general information and a forum where the development of foobar2000 is discussed
- The "special" version of Foobar2000, which contains many plugins
Other important sites:
- Foobar2000 Distribution Site and its mirror provide the offical installers and several 3rd-party plugins as well.
- foobar2000 3rd-party plugins is the semi-official place for other developers to submit their plugins.
- furthermore there is a list of must-know sites for foobar2000
Discussion and development:
- official foobar2000 forum for discussions, feature requests, bug reports, troubleshooting and more
- #foobar2000 on Freenode