foobar2000 2.26 Preview 2026-01-07/ 2.25.5

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 2.26.0:

• Improved recovery of malformed UTF-8 text in various tag formats.
• Made malformed UTF-8 tags text reported in integrity verifier.
• MP4 tagging improvements:
  • Tagtype info (Apple, Nero)
  • No longer writes Nero tags by default for single chapter files, only for multi chapter where other tagging formats can’t store per track tags.
  • Added support for more rarely used Apple tag elements.
  • No longer alters binary structure of Apple tag elements which are not affected by edits.
• Monkey’s Audio decoding moved to FFmpeg, no longer including Monkey’s Audio library with foobar2000 setup.
  • You can once again install Monkey’s Audio decoder component to replace built-in FFmpeg decoder.
• New info field: container (MP4, Matroska, Ogg, etc)
• New title formatting field: %_cpu_arch%
• Mac: made playlist view receive copy/paste from Finder
• Mac: New icon from Apple Icon Composer
• Mac: Built with Xcode 26, enabled macOS Tahoe looks.
• Mac: Install components by drag&drop from Finder to components list.
• Mac: Playlist Manager columns can be toggled.
• Added drag&drop from Internet Radio pages to playlist.
• Attempt to play a password-protected resource such as radio stream now shows a password prompt.
• Converter: Better error messages when receiving unexpected data format change in mid-conversion; made discard blank chunks before checking for format match.
• Equalizer now accepts presets via drag&drop from Explorer/Finder.
• Workaround for foo_tags issue [being backported to 2.25.x]
• Workaround for WAV headers claiming zero length [being backported to 2.25.x]
• Fixed File Operations link vs portable relative paths [being backported to 2.25.x]

Changes in version 2.25.5:

• Corrected a regression in 2.25.4; incomplete removal of foobar2000 v2.0 beta code leftovers resulted in crashing on a fresh profile.

Changes in version 2.25.4:

• Refined workaround for foo_tags (M-Tags) component bugs. No longer hammers all subsongs when starting playback.
• Default User Interface: made cycling tabs by keyboard shortcuts cancel tab rename in progress.
• Converter: Made “no DSP reset” explicitly shown in overview, as it’s dangerous if enabled unintentionally.
• Fixed various regressions with network shares in Media Library preferences page.
• File Operations: Fixed error with renaming files on redirected portable music folders.
• Fixed tag writing issues on fragmented/streaming M4A/MP4 files.
• Fixed bugs related to copy-paste of file-relative locations in portable installs.

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: 6.38 MB

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