An advanced and very complete freeware audio player for the Windows

Foobar2000

Foobar2000 1.4

  -  4.25 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    Foobar2000 2.1.6

  • Operating System

    Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10

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  • Filename

    foobar2000_v1.4.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    f44619426a392dec0a600481c157b7d2

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Foobar2000 1.4.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Foobar2000 or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

- Added preferences page to adjust priority order of installed decoders
- Greatly improved DSP manager dialog

Default User Interface improvements:
- New toolbar items for switching output modes, ReplayGain modes and DSP presets
- Improved status bar: added optional display of selected track count
- Reworked Preferences pages; improved options for minimize & close behaviors

Converter improvements:
- Keeping incomplete/problematic output files is now optional; they're deleted by default
- New and improved overwrite prompt dialog
- FDK AAC is now among the default presets

ReplayGain scanner improvements:
- Greatly improved “Apply Gain to File Content” feature, with multi threading and more supported formats
- Added command to manually manipulate Opus header gain field for both .opus and Matroska
- New Preferences pages
- Playlist & Media Library search use a new text-matching algorithm similar to Unicode Asymmetric Search
- Cosmetic tweaks; prettier buttons attached to editboxes in various dialogs
- Cleaned up Opus header gain manipulation, reported value no longer offseted by 5 dB, made header gain respected when embedded in Matroska container
- Amended Matroska tagging, certain rare files that would fail to update before are now taggable
- Matroska support improvements, improved seeking performance on files without seektables
- Made possible to choose between alternate audio streams in MP4 and Matroska files
- Implemented WebM internet stream playback
- Compiled using dynamic VC runtime, raising the limit of how many component DLLs can be loaded
- Made Album List remember expanded nodes
- Raised track count limit for cue sheets from 99 to 999
- Integration with Windows 10 Universal Volume Control
- Playback controls in taskbar on Windows 7 and newer
- Configuration saving now uses transacted NTFS if available
- Changed the way playlists and media library data are stored to minimize the amount of rewriting on each app shutdown

Merged networking features from foobar2000 mobile:
- FTP/FTPES/FTPS reader
- Refreshed HTTP/HTTPS reader; added the ability to read remote folder listings
- Improved handling of various file formats over HTTP, AIFF and Musepack in particular
- More robust M3U/M3U8/PLS playlist handling; shows a warning when trying to save a M3U/PLS file that may not be readable correctly due to international characters
- New file format icons
- Improved media library search performance
- Made various playlist and search result sorting operations use multiple CPU cores
- All communication with foobar2000 website (troubleshooter, crash reporting, update checks) is now encrypted
- Refreshed File Operations preset management, now stored in a plain text files instead and possible to import/export/edit
- Work around for DirectSound audio stutters with Windows 10 1803 (beta 19)
- Fix implemented for splitter lock bug
- Workaround implemented for HTTPS issues on Windows XP