foobar2000 2.25 Preview 2025-08-18/ 2.24.6

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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 2.25:

Built-in UPnP media renderer, both client (play to another device) and server (be controlled by another device).
- Other foobar2000 instances on your local network, with UPnP remote control feature active, will be listed as output devices.
- foobar2000-to-foobar2000 playback shows tags with album covers on the other end, using Ogg FLAC as stream container.
FFmpeg updated to 7.1, added native support for xHE-AAC decoding.
Media Library can natively index FTP/WebDAV/SMB network shares.
Added preferences page for network share credentials so you don’t have to place them in URLs anymore.
Made editing DSP settings momentarily lower output latency to make DSPs appear more responsive.
Portable install: Changed the way relative paths are handled, so cached tags are no longer forgotten after relaunching from a different path.
Allowed = character in tag field names. Will be converted to _ in formats that don’t allow =.
Installer is now hi-DPI friendly.
Rewritten Ogg FLAC tag handling, properly implemented embedded album art.
Made system file dialogs invoked out-of-process, to avoid stability issues.

Changes in version 2.24.6:

Fixed excessive memory usage of visualizations in certain conditions.
Restored old behavior of M3U loader, local playlists referencing internet radio can again specify station names.
Improved compatibility with AAC radio streams that mix different metadata encoding types.
Made HTTP folders possible to load again.
Fixed erratic behavior when seeking back from near end of track.
Fixed safe mode (triggered after app crash) failing to start up.
Made respect embedded color profiles of JPEG & PNG album covers.
Fixed WASAPI shared mode audio stream format negotation bug.

Changes in version 2.24.5:

Changed mapping of channels when playing 7.1 material on 5.1-rear setup; side channels no longer play on front+rear in such scenario.
Fixed incorrect handling of quotation marks in certain search queries.
Cleaned up error handling of Album List & ReFacets autoplaylist creation; no autoplaylist is created if entered search pattern isn’t valid.

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.

foobar2000 2.25 Preview 2025-08-18/ 2.24.6

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