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Also known as foobar, f2k, foobar2k, fb2k, foobar 2000, fb2kPortable, fb2k Portable

foobar2000 (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. Standard "skin" elements can be individually augmented or replaced with different dials, buttons, and visualizers. foobar2000 offers third-party user interface modifications through a software development kit (SDK).

Key facts

Software.name
foobar2000
Software.screenshot
Foobar2000 v1.3.12 on Windows 10, with LibriVox audio books in playlist, "visualization + album art + tabs" view.png
Software.caption
foobar2000 v1.3.12 on Windows 10
Software.developer
Peter Pawłowski and contributors
Software.programming language
C++
Software.platform
Windows NT, iOS, Android, macOS
Software.genre
Audio player
Software.license
Core: FreewareSDK: BSD (3 clause)

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
tag editor
Country of origin
Poland
Official website
www.foobar2000.org
Image
Foobar2000 v2.6 preview 2023-08-18 on macOS 11.7.7.png
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Commons category
Foobar2000
software version identifier
2.26 preview 2026-04-20
readable file format
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
programmed in
C#
copyright license
freeware
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.freenode.net/foobar2000
operating system
macOS
language of work or name
English language
inception
2002-12-20
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • History and development
  • Features
  • Core
  • Optional
  • Derivative works
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

foobar2000 (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. Standard "skin" elements can be individually augmented or replaced with different dials, buttons, and visualizers. 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “foobar2000” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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