foobar2000 2.24 Preview 2024-11-14 / 2.1.6

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

This player isn’t just for early adopters or software jukebox fetishists. It doesn’t mess with fancy buttons or bright colors. Instead of to prefer a utilitarian, straightforward user interface it lets the music speak for itself.

foobar2000 uses tabs and panels to help the user navigate its plain, but functional, user interface. You can customize the interface using several layout options. Menu options and recognizable command buttons reside at the top of the window.

Two panels, each with tabbed menus, reside on the left side of the window. From there, you can view the album list and the properties of a selected artist or song.

In foobar2000 you’ll also find tabs for viewing a spectrogram, a spectrum, and VU meter of music currently being played, display album art. Furthermore, you can synchronize it with portable players including iPods.

Main 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
• 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.

Changes in version 2.2 Preview:

• Implemented Ogg chapter support. Converter can write multichapter Ogg files after disabling Ogg chaining support.
• New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance of 64-bit build.
• Allow local M3U referencing remote M3U to be both read as playlists, prevent HLS reader being used on non-HLS content.
• Updated File Operations recycle bin detection logic, mitigating lag/lockup occurring for some users.
• Made network encryption error messages more useful.
• Stop decoding ADTS AAC when running into APE tags, instead of reporting errors.
• Report zero-length WAV files as broken.
• Wine compatibility fixes.

Changes in version 2.1.6:

• Prevented all MP4 tag fields prefixed with replaygain_ from being treated as technical information, only actual ReplayGain fields are now such.
• Fixed ReplayGain scanner attempting to scan Audio CD in multiple threads.
• Fixed webm audio renamed to .opus being very slow to open.
• Fixed FLAC files with exotic bit depths incorrectly failing audio MD5 verification.
• 24-bit rounding issues fixed, performance improved.
• Fixed nonsensical messages in Converter log when copying non audio files over.
• No longer drops DLLs for other CPU architectures than the running one when installing components.
• Mitigated very long tag fields causing playlist view to behave erratically.

Changes in version 2.1.5:

• Removed gnudb from default online tagger settings, as gnudb now demands users to input their actual email addresses.
  • If you wish to use gnudb, you can configure it manually, but we strongly recommend against it.
  • Online tagger now defaults to freedb.dbpoweramp.com which works once again.
  • Changed storage of freedb-compatible server list settings, to a text file in profile folder.
• Reverted compiler to Visual Studio 2019, as current version of Visual Studio 2022 outputs AVX opcodes when explicitly configured not to, making foobar2000 crash on old PCs.
• ReFacets added “last modified” column, fixed playlist interaction bugs.
• Converter: Fail harder if “don’t reset DSP between tracks” is on and one of files can’t be converted – output past the point of failure wasn’t valid anymore anyway.
• Fixed WASAPI Exclusive timing glitches with exotic settings.

Changes in version 2.1.4:

• Fixed crash if freedb/gnudb server returns more tracks than asked for (regression since 2.0).
• Fixed very old and very rare lockup when opening Album List.
• Some CPU usage optimizations backported from 2.2 series.

Homepage – http://www.foobar2000.org

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
• Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019
• Mac OS 10.11 “El Capitan” or newer.

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Size: 5.71 MB

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