Foobar2000

foobar2000
Developer(s)Peter Pawłowski and contributors[1]
Initial releaseDecember 20, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-12-20)[2]
Stable release
2.1.6[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 September 2024; 2 months ago (19 September 2024)
Preview release
2.2_2024-05-23[4] Edit this on Wikidata / 23 May 2024; 6 months ago (23 May 2024)
Written inC++
PlatformWindows NT, iOS, Android, macOS
TypeAudio player
LicenseCore: Freeware
SDK: BSD (3 clause)
Websitewww.foobar2000.org

foobar2000[a] (often abbreviated as fb2k or f2k) is a freeware audio player for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, and formerly Windows Phone, developed by Peter Pawłowski. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in configuration and customization.[5] Standard "skin" elements can be individually augmented or replaced with different dials and buttons, as well as visualizers such as waveform, oscilloscope, spectrum, spectrogram (waterfall), peak and smoothed VU meters, which all of them are analysis-oriented, at least for built-in visualizations. foobar2000 offers third-party user interface modifications through a software development kit (SDK).

foobar2000 supports many audio file formats, has many features for organizing metadata, files, and folders, and has a converter interface for use with command line encoders. To maximize audio fidelity in cases where resampling or downscaling in bit depth is required, it provides noise shaping and dithering. There are a number of official and third-party components which add many additional features. The core is closed source, whereas the SDK is licensed under the Three-Clause BSD license.

  1. ^ "License". foobar2000. Archived from the original on 28 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Official foobar2000 site & foobar2000 0.3 & SDK!". Hydrogenaudio. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  3. ^ "foobar2000: Change Log". Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  4. ^ "foobar2000: Change Log". 23 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  5. ^ "foobar2000 v0.9.6.9 Review". Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2012.


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