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Foobar2000 is an advanced 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. Built in audio converter tool. Mac OS version also available.

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Latest version

2.1.2 / 2.2 Preview (March 14, 2024)



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Download foobar2000 2.1.2 Windows 64-bit  6MB  Win64

Download foobar2000 2.1.2 Windows  6MB  Win

Download foobar2000 2.6.2 Mac  9MB  Mac




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Download foobar2000 2.1.2 Portable Windows 64-bit  8MB  Win64  Portable

Download foobar2000 2.1.2 Portable Windows  7MB  Win  Portable

Download foobar2000 2.2 Preview Windows 64-bit  7MB  Win64

Download foobar2000 2.7 Preview Mac  6MB  Mac

Download foobar2000 2.1.2 Windows ARM64 5MB Windows ARM

Download foobar2000 1.5.11 Windows XP 4.2MB WinXP




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Software License

Freeware (Free download and usage!)



Supported operating systems

WinWindows MacMac OS



More information and other downloads

Download Free Encoder Pack 2024-03-08 1.7MB Win
Free Encoder Pack includes free encoders, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, Musepack, WavPack, AAC + Apple Lossless (qaac) - requires iTunes to be installed (read more...), AAC (fhgaacenc) - requires Winamp to be installed (read more...), Apple Lossless (refalac), MP3 (LAME)



Version history / Release notes / Changelog / What's New


Version 2.2 Preview

2024-03-14
Playback CPU usage reduced.
Fixed exclusive output lagging in specific scenarios.
Add Location now strips extra non-text characters from the entered URL.
Made Ogg chapters beginning from CHAPTER001 recognized.
Allowed absolute paths in cue sheets.
Extended MP4 chapter manipulation commands to work with other formats that support chapterizer interface, such as Ogg or Musepack.

2024-03-08
Mitigation for Converter failures when writing to Google Drive volume.
Opus decoder updated to 1.5.1
WavPack decoder updated to 5.7.0; made WavPack library version shown in components list.
Monkey's Audio decoder updated to 10.52
Cleaned up and bugfixed detection of MP4 video codec names.
Prevented nonsense sample rate & channel count from being shown on MP4 files with no audio track.
File Operations: Defer info reload to prevent bugged display of cuesheets after moving whole folder.

2024-03-04
Worked around audio glitches with very low output buffer size introduced in previous build.
Fixed glitchy seekbar movement in certain scenarios.
Prevented nonsensical video codec names from being reported for certain MP4 files.
Fixed regressions in ASX playlist loader.
Converter: More detailed error messages for specific file creation errors.

2024-02-28
Playback CPU usage optimizations.
Small chunks returned by decoder are merged into one to reduce amount of wakeup cycles during playback.
Made possible to store peak information in Opus files.

2024-02-19
Fixed regression preventing internet radio album covers from being shown.
Applied dark mode to component license popup.
Updated zlib to 1.3.1.

2024-02-12
Improved ReFacets performance.
Fixed erratic behavior if ID3v2 tag contains multiple date fields.
Suppressed advancing to the next playlist item if internet radio playback stops due to a network error.
File Operations: Added an option to overwrite existing files.
Suppressed repeating console messages about decoder shims used.
More thorough error reporting for blank WAV files.
Added video_codec info for Windows Media Video.
Added stream_count info for formats that support multiple streams.

2024-02-05
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.

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All 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.




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31 reviews, Showing 1 to 5 reviews


I use Foobar to equalise the volumes of my MP4 music videos. Works great!

Review by Alwyn on Dec 1, 2022 Version: 1.6.11 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




The wasapi component still does not work on windows 11.

Review by Goran on Oct 20, 2021 Version: foobar2000 1.6.7 / 1.6.8 Beta 4 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Rating by Romsryu on Jun 22, 2021 Version: 1.6.7 Beta 12 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by iShurex on Apr 12, 2021 Version: 1.6.5 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 5/10




Rating by drjtech on Apr 6, 2021 Version: 1.6.5 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10


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