foobar2000
Are you tired of all these so called free MP3 players that are loaded with bloatware and crash? Then take a look at foobar2000. Is was designed by Peter Pawlowski (initially released on December 20, 2002). It’s updated often and does an awesome job at playing back almost all file formats. I even use the Crossfader DSP to fade from 1 song into another.
I personally use foobar2000 with the ASIO plug-in to output audio to my low latency ASIO audio cards. Plus, you can customize it to look any way you want thanks to all the 3rd Party Support. This is my custom theme (make sure to unzip the file first) that you can import by going to File, Preferences, Display, Default User Interface. Under Theme management, click import theme.
You can also add BPM to the column.
foobar2000 is a advanced freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface. While supporting a large number of audio file formats, it has many features for metadata support, full unicode support, ReplayGain support and file organization, and it has a converter interface for use with command line encoders. To maximize the audio fidelity of consumer-grade equipment, it provides noise shaping and dithering. It features a number of official and third-party components which add many additional features. While the core is closed source, the SDK is licensed under the BSD license.
Since version 0.9.5, foobar2000 supports Windows XP and later releases only. This version features a revamped default interface, with embedded support for album list, album art, spectrum visualization, and some other features and improvements.
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.
Main features
- Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components.
- Gapless playback.
- Full unicode support.
- Easily customizable user interface layout.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as 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.
Features added using optional official components
- Audio formats supported through official components: APE, ALAC.
- Playback statistics.
- Kernel streaming support.
- ASIO support.
- WASAPI output support.
- CD burning support.
- Ability to read within archives (7z, RAR, ZIP )
- UPnP media server
Screenshots
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/main.png) Main window. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/main-alternate.png) Main window – including Album List and Spectrogram. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/main-black.png) Main window – black color scheme. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/main-simple.png) Main window – simple playlist with tabs only. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/equalizer.png) Equalizer window. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/fileops-preview.png) File Operations component: file move preview dialog. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/preferences-dsp.png) Preferences: DSP Manager. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/preferences-general.png) Preferences: General. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/preferences-library.png) Preferences: Media Library. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/preferences-playback.png) Preferences: Playback. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/spectrum.png) Visualisation: Spectrum. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/vumeter.png) Visualisation: VU Meter. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/spectrogram.png) Visualisation: Spectrogram. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/oscilloscope.png) Visualisation: Oscilloscope. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/freedb.png) freedb tagger component. |
![[screenshot]](http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/rip.png) Rip Audio CD dialog. |
For internet radio in foobar2000, go to File, Add Location and paste these links. Make sure and save them in a playlist.
Power Today’s Hip-Hop and R&B hits
90′s Dance Hits Channel (Formerly 93.1 The Beat & Euro Dance)
http://wms-11.streamsrus.com:13910/listen.pls
Dance Hits (Chicago) The Net’s #1 Energy Dance Hit Music Station for Today’s Dance Hits and Top 40 Remixes.
http://streamsrus.com/listen/1CFM10010.pls
For some reason, they are now only playing in low quality 32kbps
Go here instead:
http://1club.fm/rlplayer/housemiami.htm
Step By Step for Rating provided by jayjo
Step 1: Get Quick Tagger which is needed to update “Rating” tag
Download: Quick Tagger from http://foobar2000.org/components/
Then add this to the foobar2000 /components directory on your hard drive.
Step 2: Set Up Rating Field for PlayList
Open Foobar Preferences -> Display -> Default User Interface -> Colors And Fonts
You will need a Unicode font for this.
Open Foobar Preferences -> Display -> Default User Interface -> Playlist View
Under Custom Columns, Click “Add New” button
Set Name To: Rating
Set Pattern To: $pad($repeat(★,%rating%), 5,✩)
Step 3: Add “Rating” to Preferences box
Open Foobar Preferences -> Advanced -> Display -> Properties Dialog -> Standard Fields.
Add “Rating=RATING;” to the end of the string
Now when you open the properties field, you can change the rating for single or multiple files, just like you can for other properties.
Step 4: Set Up Quick Tagger for “Rating” tag
Open Foobar Preferences -> Tools -> Tagging -> Quick Tagger
Click “Add New” button
Field Name Values (semicolon-separated)
Rating 0; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5
I’ve used 0 as an easy way to clear a rating. Under this you’ll see another box:
Require confirmation before processing more [ ] tracks
Set this to 1 if you don’t want confirmation for single updates. Set to a very high number if you never want confirmation on multiple file updates. Set it to 1000 if you have trouble tagging multiple files.
Now that this is done, you can on your song to change the rating. Choose “Tagging -> Quick Tagger -> Set To -> 0 through 5.
Step 5: Set Up Quick Keyboard Shortcuts To Update Tags
Open Foobar Preferences -> General -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Click “Add New” button
Action: to
Filter List by: Rating
You’ll See: Tagging -> Quick Tagger -> Set
Underneath are the Values set in Step 3 (0 to 5 for this example)
Key: Press the key you want:
I’ve used Ctrl 0->5 to set 0 to 5 as my rating when I do single file updates.
Now Click “Save All” button when done
Unrecoverable playback error: The ASIO device does not support specified sample rate (44100Hz); please configure resampler appropriately
Preferences > Playback > DSP Manager. Add Resampler to DSP chain. Configure Selected and set target sample rate to 48000 Hz.