
foobar2000
Sign in to saveAlso 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)
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- download URL
- www.foobar2000.org/mac
- operating system
- macOS
- language of work or name
- English language
- inception
- 2002-12-20
- Stack Exchange tag
- superuser.com/tags/foobar2000
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- 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.
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