Foobar2000 - Free Audio Player

Foobar2000 is an advanced 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.

Foobar2000 Features


• Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
• Full unicode support.
• Advanced tagging capabilities.
• Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats).
• ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Tagging related questions

Q: How can I add/remove ID3v1/ID3v2/APEv2 tags to/from my MP3 files
A: Just use the 'Tagging > MP3 tag types' feature from the context menu.

Q: How can I rename files based on information from the tags?
A: You can find this feature at 'File operations > Move, rename or copy files' from the context menu (you need to enable the Masstagger component during installation).

Q: What tag types is foobar2000 writing to my MP3 files?
A: foobar2000 updates existings tags and adds ID3v1 (and ID3v2.4 if necessary) to files without tags. ID3v2.4 is added to files with ID3v1 tags when information you are trying to write can't be fully stored in ID3v1.

Q: ID3v2 tags added/modified by foobar2000 are not read from application X or portable Y. What can I do?
A: foobar2000 writes ID3v2.4 tags encoded as UTF-8 (specified in late 2000). Please ask the vendor of X or Y to support this revision of the ID3v2 standard.

Q: foobar2000 writes question marks to my ID3v1 tags. What's going on?
A: only ASCII characters are allowed in ID3v1. Any other characters are replaced by question marks on rewrites.