Foobar2000 is a free audio player with high performance, extensive metadata functionality, high-quality audio playback and extensibility.
The program is distributed as an official component and third-party builds with extended functionality. Foobar2000 is designed only for the family of Windows operating systems and has only the English interface. Only unmodified copies of the program installer are allowed to be freely distributed.
Features of Foobar2000:
- Noise shaping and dithering is performed before audio playback.
- Full Unicode support.
- Possibility to extend program's functionality by third-party developers.
- ReplayGain method of volume equalization.
- Copying audio CDs.
- Mass metadata editing.
- Efficient work with large playlists.
- File information display, advanced file processing.
- Supports work with Music Library.
- A large number of playlist display options.
- Last.fm scrubber support.
- With ABX-testing you can reliably estimate the sound quality of various file formats.
- Work with audio streams.
- Transcoding of supported audio formats (external encoders are required).
- Possibility of adjusting interface's appearance.
- Play music and read metadata from files, which are packed in archives (files are extracted to temporary files).
- Built-in masstager.
Additional features:
- Direct output function to sound card.
- Direct output to sound card via ASIO 2.0.
- Output via Windows Audio Session (in Windows Vista SP1 and higher).
