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Extensive configuration options distinguish Foobar2000 from its competitors. Although most features of the program are not visible in the main window, a long list can be accessed through the main menu and in the Preferences section. Here you can configure, among other things, the display interface, disk writer, and album list, and even limit the CD reading speed.
The powerful equalizer and resampler are particularly impressive. Unfortunately, the program doesn't support the RM audio format, though it supports most others. Foobar2000 is likely to please those looking for a greater measure of control over their audio players.
Publisher's Description
From Peter Pawlowski:
Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include Replay Gain support, a low-memory footprint, and native support for several popular audio formats. Features include open-component architecture, allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player; built-in support for WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, and SPC; support through third-party plug-ins; extraction on-the-fly from RAR; 7-Zip and ZIP archives; full Unicode support on Windows NT; efficient handling of large playlists; a highly customizable playlist display; and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Version 0.9.5.3 adds new title formatting functions and new extensions to the search query syntax.
What's new in this version: Version 0.9.5.3 adds new title formatting functions and new extensions to the search query syntax.
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All versions:
4.2 starsout of 136 votes
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Current version:
3.8 starsout of 11 votes
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"Best Sound(except the Liquid Player)"
Version: Foobar2000 0.9.5.3
Pros
this player works reliably and is slim, and like i said: super-class sound
Cons
Some features are not understandable to me (maybe because i am german and my english....), and the player could have better optics
Summary
Just because The Sound
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"Simple and Useful!!"
Version: Foobar2000 0.9.5.3
Pros
- useful functions
- quick and easy to load music file, folders
- (despite others' opinion) fantastic layout
- great sound qualityCons
takes quite some CPU usage to run
Summary
Favourite mp3 player!! I would've liked it more if it can minimize itself into the icon tray...
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"Music program used for just that."
Version: Foobar2000 0.9.5.3
Pros
Extremely fast and simple. Easy to learn, and even easier to customize. The program opens and loads my playlist of over 2500 songs within one second, and I am not exaggerating. Support for custom keyboard shortcuts is a very nice touch as well. cont.
Cons
No real eye candy here, but honestly, who watches their media player program the whole time they are playing music?
Summary
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Also, it is supported by the last.fm scrobbler. Great sound quality. Minuscule memory footprint. -
"Simple and great"
Version: Foobar2000 0.9.5.3
Pros
The first time i tried Foobar was with a album i got in FLAC format, and the program worked great. It's simple, quick and easy to use, and is not bogged down by an over obsession with style.
Cons
This is an immensely simple program, and can't doi much but play music... the only thing i don't like.
Summary
Great program for those who need a simple program that can play planty of different music formats.
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"Extremely SLOW to load a playlist."
Version: Foobar2000 0.9.5.3
Pros
Not much really.
Cons
This software suffers from the same glitch as iTune. It takes forever to load songs into it's playlist. Winamp does it almost instantly regardless of the size of the mp3 folder.
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"New version released"
Version: Foobar2000 0.9.5.3
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"Who submitted this?"
Version: Foobar2000 0.9.5.3
Cons
I'm the author of this software and I don't quite remember ever submitting anything to cnet. The description apparently attributed to me is wrong/confusing, contains outdated info (apparently copied from our wiki without permission) and most certainly doesn't come from me.
Does cnet do anything to verify software submissions?
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