(based on 193 reviews)

foobar2000 1.0.1

Rated 40/50 by emanresU deriseD at Mar 1, 2010

Aww, I have a new friend! Hi, anomoly! Angry much? :)

Rated 50/50 by baddy_3- at Feb 23, 2010

"Sound is all it needed." Easy , straightforward interface. No cosmetics. 18-band equalizer( Hard work required to get the sweet spot). Sounds better than wmp11, winamp and dozen others on any type of speaker. Crisp and airy. Bass can go really low and deep.Nice icons ;) . No help file. A 'do yourself'-ware. But default configs are good-enough for a novice.Slider-bar is unavailable for .AAC files (unlike vlc,kmplayer,winamp) during playback. Bloat-free, highly customizable. Has everything needed to play a song. An advanced help-file would've been nice addition.

Rated 50/50 by sld at Feb 22, 2010

Dear uncle roj, It's been years, and you're still ranting about Foobar2000. 1) It's well-known that you prize exquisite sound with a little bit of aesthetics. Hop over to XMPlay if you have to praise it in the review page of Foobar2000. 2) Why blatantly lie that there's no user-friendliness in Foobar's sub-forum? Let's hope that your foolish outburst doesn't backfire on you. There's certainly a need for less curt responses, but the few bans I've seen were imposed on punk users barging in with unreasonable demands phrased improperly. 3) This version is a BETA. The reason why it's only available on torrent is because it's BETA. Peter has your welfare in mind, he doesn't want you crashing your com (and whining about it) when you install unstable software like Foobar2000 1.01 BETA 1. =)

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Feb 22, 2010

When it was a nightmare to configure I didn't use it. Now? As a fully functional portable installation it took me literally 30 sec to update and not a single issue whatsoever. I laugh at those who mess with all the gui plugins. Be nice to have a proper plugin updater though (like xmplay ha) At undesire: go play with yourself f**got!

Rated 50/50 by roj at Feb 22, 2010

sld: 1) I also use XMPlay - it does very well against Foobar, which I also use and have for a while now. The Foobar interface remains painfully spartan but the font adjustments are very vision friendly, which sadly matter a very great deal to me now. 2) I lurk, I watch. The results I see speak for themselves. I now rarely participate in forums - it's largely a waste of my time. 3) If you'd taken a wee bit care to notice, I commented on 1.0 Final - not beta. I rarely run beta software (EAC being the notable exception and everyone knows it's a final anyway). At any rate, it's good to see you still around Old Man. :) :) ;)

Rated 50/50 by Zarggg at Feb 22, 2010

@dhry: The reason they did that was because they made MAJOR API/plugin changes since the 0.9.x line and the version of those plugins that you had installed WERE confirmed to cause the application to crash. That's why they delete them. Go get updated versions for them. @sld: I believe they want to make torrent distribution the standard for all releases. @roj: Relax. The forums are fine. They just don't like idiots. :p

Rated 40/50 by emanresU deriseD at Feb 22, 2010

I laugh at those who don't mess with all the gui plugins.

Rated 40/50 by JustForMyMemory at Feb 11, 2010

think foobar2000 is pretty idiot, it is really not smart and restricted..

Rated 40/50 by rkuhonta at Jan 26, 2010

"Great media player but limited to playing music." Easy to install and use. Does what is supposed to and very configurable in terms of designing your own interface. Limited to playing music. :( Foobar is great but it could be better if it would be able to play videos. :)

Rated 50/50 by dhry at Jan 25, 2010

Finally got around to installing v1.0 (backed up my existing config first, of course) and sure enough, I get the following dialog: The following components are either not installed correctly or no longer supported in this version: foo_amipwrapper.dll, foo_audioscrobbler.dll, foo_discogs.dll, foo_dsp_ssrc.dll, foo_dsp_vlevel.dll, foo_infobox.dll, foo_input_tta.dll, foo_lyricsdb.dll, foo_playlist_bind.dll, foo_prettypop.dll, foo_uie_quicksearch.dll, foo_uie_trackinfomod.dll, foo_uie_vis_projectm.dll. They will be deleted when you click OK. Really? They'll break the program if you keep them there? No thanks. Great music player but I got too much invested in existing plugins and frankly I simply don't have the time to run off looking for updates for plugins I'm already exceedingly happy with. Ship an update checker with the program next time, or include a "cancel, I've changed my mind and I don't want thirteen of my plugins blown away" button. Seacrest out.

Rated 50/50 by Opa-Loka at Jan 21, 2010

"Small, effective, to the point. A great app" Easy to work with, makes great playlists. Sounds impressive. Nothing at all. It plays audio files, and that's it.

Rated 50/50 by Carlos Poblete at Jan 19, 2010

"Insofar, it is the best player I know" It has a good repertoire if codecs, I can play whatever I want For many people It could be the austerity of the intrface. For me it is OK as it is Actually, it is the only one I use to listen to music. I have eliminated from my computers all other music players.

Rated 50/50 by DjKraid at Jan 17, 2010

"Try It, You'll Love It!" It uses almost no ram / cpu, always works, easy to use! The only bad thing about it is that you can't watch videos with it...but there are other programs for that (like vlc)

Rated 50/50 by jerm1027 at Jan 17, 2010

Very little is required from a hardware point of view. When playing music, it only uses 11MB of RAM on my computer! Also when you make changes to your music folders, you will see the changes in foobar the instant you make the changes. See summary. The visualizations could be better; they're too simple. Foobar may also take some time to get use to if you are switching from a fully-featured, shiny GUI, type of music manager, such as iTunes. Also the global shortcuts makes multitasking faster and easier. I don't have to switch to foobar to change the song. I just press the shortcut key no matter which application I'm in. Also the search feature is really fast as well. If you don't have an iPod, foobar will blow any music manager out of the water, ESPECIALLY iTunes!!!! It's the fastest manager around, so as noted in the title, it is ideal for any minimalist.

Rated 50/50 by tsouka2008 at Jan 15, 2010

"THE PLAYER" EVERYTHING-VERY VERY GOOD PLAYER-I USE IT OVER THREE YEARS ........... IT HAVE & DO EVERYTHING-RECORD,RIP,VERY GOOD SOUND

Rated 50/50 by Rivehorse661 at Jan 12, 2010

"The most feature-rich audio player on the planet" -Very flexible and Adjustable player-Tons of audio formats-Very comfortable working with files and tags -Bad that no localization-Graphical interface could be more likable Not seen the problem, which would be impossible to solve in foobar2000. This is simply the best Audi-player, it bypasses the rest easily and peacefully. In the future it will only get better.

Rated 40/50 by emanresU deriseD at Jan 11, 2010

I'm with roj. No more custom context menus? There goes half the point of using the easy-to-access functionality of foo_quicktag, and all the other first-level menu tweaks I had in place. Now, all I see for many of them is a crappy "Legacy Commands (unsorted)" menu item. Wow.

Rated 40/50 by taxis at Jan 11, 2010

Still my favourite player: Supports a lot of formats, still relatively simple layout, has some nice functionality like converting/adjusting tags/normalisation that some players lack. However, in my eyes the development goes in the wrong direction: - still no localisations (no respect for people speaking different languages?) - no support for MIDI files (so you can't make foobar your only player if you use them) - bloated with useless GUI configurability, which increases its size and prevents it on running on older operating systems such as Windows 2000

Rated 50/50 by khagaroth at Jan 11, 2010

For MIDI files - http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_midi

Rated 40/50 by emanresU deriseD at Jan 11, 2010

I'm with roj. No more custom context menus? There goes half the point of using the easy-to-access functionality of foo_quicktag, and all the other first-level menu tweaks I had in place. Wow.