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foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player.
Main features
- Plays all mainstream audio formats out of the box.
- Additional decoder components enable even more formats.
- Gapless playback.
- Stream music on your local network; foobar2000 can be used to control network audio players or foobar2000 running on another device.
- Easily customizable user interface layout on Windows and macOS.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats.
- Full ReplayGain support.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Many built-in DSP effects, additional available through DSP components; can load VST effects via VST adapter on Windows, Audio Units on macOS.
- Internet radio support, including integration with Radio Browser.
- Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player - browse add-on components
- Available on: Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. Windows version works on Linux via Wine.
- No strings attached, no telemetry, no data collection.
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Latest news
2026-01-22
foobar2000 v2.25.6 has been released, with urgent fix for "error 380" bug introduced in latest Windows 10/11 updates.
If your music files are in OneDrive or other cloud-backed folder, we strongly recommend upgrading foobar2000 to avoid erratic behaviors when editing tags, as there's no confirmed fix available from Microsoft at this time.
Download page (Windows)