foobar2000 2.25.2 Preview 2025-09-15/ 2.25.1

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 2.25.2:

• Fixed incorrect handling of non-alphanumeric characters in network passwords.
• Mac: Fixed ReplayGain scanner crashing on malformed UTF-8 in tags.

Changes in version 2.25.1:

• Fixed some list control styles not drawing background correctly.
• Fixed Monkey’s Audio seeking bugs – reverted Monkey’s Audio library to version 10.93, same as in foobar2000 v2.24 series.
• Fixed a rare bug causing unwanted changes in titles when editing attached pictures on M4A files containing valid chapter list but with just one chapter.
• Fixed Ogg FLAC tagging bug that caused metadata to disappear if writing pictures.
• Made Ogg FLAC tag writer refuse to write pictures too large to fit size permitted by the specification.
• Internet Radio dialog fixed missing tab texture in light mode.
• Suppressed UPnP initialization if foobar2000 is invoked by installer.

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.
• Media Library improvements, most notably:
  • Can natively index FTP/WebDAV/SMB network shares.
  • Improved response to enabling/disabling/installing/uninstalling decoders – only reloads info from affected music files.
• Codecs, most notably:
  • FFmpeg updated to 8.0, added native support for xHE-AAC decoding.
  • Rewritten Ogg FLAC tag handling, properly implemented embedded album art.
  • Fixed ReplayGain tags not being saved in multichapter Ogg/Opus files.
• Portable install improvements
  • Changed the way relative paths are handled, so cached tags are no longer forgotten after relaunching from a different path.
  • Made possible so specify no-cover pics as relative path to install location.
• Converter:
  • Enabled RF64 writing.
  • Fixed Converter failing to function until foobar2000 restart after removal of %TEMP%\foo_converter.
• Other
  • 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.
  • Fixed Properties ‘rewrite tags’ not working if nothing has been edited.
  • Installer is now hi-DPI friendly.
  • Made system file dialogs invoked out-of-process, to avoid stability issues.

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: 6.36 MB

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