Foobar2000

Foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows from Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance employee of Nullsoft.

Development

The player will be further developed at irregular intervals since the first version in 2002. The official forum is not only desired new features and feedback on the latest beta versions will be discussed, but collected.

During the program core is closed source, the author offers quite an extensive SDK under the rules of a BSD license, which contains the source code of most components.

Functions

In the standard, the player has a simple user interface with lots of customization options and features, including the metadata display and editing, a support for a high-quality audio output (eg, 24 -bit, 96 -kHz output; dithering, noise shaping ), and a number of plugins for various tasks. It also integrates simple visualizations, eg for waveform, pitch or frequency domain analysis.

Some features of this player are:

  • Display of songs in the playlist, in the database and in various other places can be adjusted by a relatively complex scripting language
  • Multiple playlists parallel to tabs
  • Fully customizable keyboard shortcuts
  • Variable and customizable shortcut menus ( since version 1.0.0 only limited )
  • Customizable default user interface ( since version 0.9.5 )
  • Flexible plug-in API allows developers to change almost any function or add ( UI / Skins, decoding, output, visualization, DSP, etc. )
  • Integrated Replay Gain support
  • Integrated freedb support ( since version 0.9.4 )
  • Integrated function for setting ID3 tags, also convert and read from filenames
  • Built-in function to add / remove embedded pictures in audio files. Currently, MP3, MP4, FLAC, WMA, WavPack, Musepack, Vorbis and APE are supported. ( since version 1.1.7)
  • Error detection and correction when reading Audio CDs, similar to EAC
  • Conversion (from any source that can read foobar2000 convert it to various formats)
  • Integration of cue sheets, which contain the song boundaries of large audio files
  • Seamless playback of MP3 files using LAME tag; in MP3s without such a day, this can be subsequently created using foobar2000, if encoder delay and the exact length of the original sample is known.
  • Reading and playing audio files from ZIP or RAR archives
  • Supports audio streaming
  • Full Unicode support

Supported audio formats

Lossless or uncompressed formats: Apple Lossless, AIFF, AU, Audio - CD, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, SND, WAV, WavPack

Lossy formats: AAC, MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, WMA, Opus

Extensions

Features of foobar2000 can be extended by plug-ins. For example, lets foobar2000 remote control via a plug -in via Android or Apple iOS. Another plug-in allows the operation of a DLNA-enabled media server.

BSD licenses Proprietary software Dither#Digital audio Digital signal processing Exact Audio Copy Audio Interchange File Format Audio Units Au file format MPEG-1 Audio Layer I MPEG-1 Audio Layer II Android (operating system)
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