foobar2000 2.26 Preview 2025-11-07/ 2.25.3

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 2.25.3:

• 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
  • Can natively index FTP/WebDAV/SMB network shares.
  • Improved response to enabling/disabling/installing/uninstalling decoders – only reloads info from affected music files.
  • Made retain info whether specific folder was scanned completely; fixed upgrading from foobar2000 v1.x causing no-scan-on-startup folders becoming empty.
  • Made not touch files with .bak, .bk, .off extensions, in addition to .tmp and .temp which were already ignored before.
• Codecs
  • FFmpeg updated to 8.0, added native support for xHE-AAC decoding.
  • Allowed = character in tag field names. Will be converted to _ in formats that don’t allow =.
  • Rewritten Ogg FLAC tag handling, properly implemented embedded album art.
  • Fixed ReplayGain tags not being saved in multichapter Ogg/Opus files.
  • Fixed ID3 tags in AAC radio stream causing playback to stop.
  • M4A metadata field mapping updates (atID, cmID, geID, sfID, plID, xid).
  • More robust reading of malformed MP3 LAME tags.
  • Fixed a bug that made exotic FLAC configurations unplayable if muxed into Ogg/Matroska/MP4.
  • Tweaked MP4 tag padding to rewrite large files less.
  • Added advanced preferences toggle for alternate multi-value MP4 tag storage – more compatible with specific apps but less compatible with others. Old versions of foobar2000 read both schemes.
• 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.
  • UnRAR code updated to unrarsrc-7.1.10. This is just a precaution. Our copy of UnRAR code has all file access capabilities stripped away. There is no indication of recent WinRAR vulnerabilities possibly affecting current or past foobar2000 versions.
  • Fixed potential resampler issues if attempting to upsample very large audio chunks.
  • Fixed extreme memory usage of visualizations with specific file types.
  • Fixed failure to resume internet radio streams after specific patterns of connection issues.
  • Made Verifier detect multichapter files with FLAC-style audio MD5, now prompts to scan as whole.
  • Improved interaction between Verifier and built-in FFmpeg decoders; more errors get reported.
  • Made “Edit Chapters” show progress dialog when manipulating files, avoid unresponsive UI when rewriting large MP4.
  • Playback prebuffering logic update, should fix stuttering with high-res internet radio streams.
  • Added an option to suppress detection of files with wrong extension, overriding new v2.0+ behavior of recognizing common music formats with wrong extension.
• Windows specific changes
  • Portable install: Changed the way relative paths are handled, so cached tags are no longer forgotten after relaunching from a different path.
  • Installer is now hi-DPI friendly.
  • Made system file dialogs invoked out-of-process, to avoid stability issues.
  • Improved screen reader behavior in Verify Integrity results dialog.
  • Enabled RF64 writing in Converter.
  • Fixed Converter failing to function until foobar2000 restart after removal of %TEMP%\foo_converter.
  • Made possible to specify relative no-cover pics in portable installs.
  • Decoding speed test fixed last used bit depth resetting itself to 16-bit.
  • Slightly updated Album List search box, made delay setting take immediate effect; previous behavior required reopening Album List to take effect.
  • Properties dialog no longer garbles lyrics etc with Unix style line endings.
  • Fixed startup crash if importing malformed foobar2000 v1.x configuration.
  • Made ARM reported correctly in crash report OS version field (was “x64” before).
  • Various bug fixes in dark mode listview substitution code.
  • Removed dotted lines from various treeviews, refreshed Album List tree looks.
  • More verbose output on “open containing folder” errors.
• Mac specific changes
  • Added keyboard shortcut mapping functionality.
  • Added visualisations: VU Meter, Peak Meter, Spectrum, Oscilloscope.
  • Layout: added font-mono (no arguments) to use system monospace font.
  • Improved handling of multi-line tags in Properties dialog.
  • Fixed blank filter picker text when clicked “filters” with no filter actually selected.
  • Fixed playlist view crash on specific configuration.
  • Fixed main menu rendering bugs (missing checkmarks in submenus, duplicate output device submenu).
  • Prevented mac-volume:// paths being saved in M3U playlists.
  • Cleaned up external FFmpeg decoder preferences.
  • Album List preferences allows multi-line patterns.

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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