An advanced and very complete freeware audio player for the Windows

Foobar2000

Foobar2000 2.24

  -  5.74 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    Foobar2000 2.24.1

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Illustrate / External Link

  • Filename

    foobar2000_v2.24.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    81a212adf3e29756851bd2238e5ec422

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 2.24.


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:

- New version numbering scheme: 2.24 for planned stable release year of 2024
- Internet radio bug fixes & reliability improvements

Codec & audio format fixes, most notably:
- Implemented Ogg chapter support
- MP4/M4A/M4B tagging & chapter manipulation fixes
- WAV compatibility fixes; made zero-length WAV files reported as broken
- Cuesheet compatibility improvements - allowed absolute path, allowed playback over network

Usability improvements, most notably:
- Fixed inconsistent drag&drop behavior when dragging items between playlists
- Made current console backlog saved when toggling logging on
- Prevented Media Library search from clearing other playlists with enter key if library selection playlist feature is active

General improvements, most notably:
- New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance of 64-bit build
- Improved stability of hardware-accelerated visualizations
- Improved recovery of corrupted configuration data

Converter:
- Mitigation for Converter failures when writing to a Google Drive volume
- More detailed error messages for specific file creation errors
- Can write multichapter Ogg files after disabling Ogg chaining support

File Operations:
- Suppressed useless secondary progress bar if renaming files
- Defer info reload to prevent bugged display of cuesheets after moving whole folder
- Added an option to overwrite existing files
- Updated recycle bin detection logic, mitigating lag/lockup occurring for some users
- Third party code libraries updated
- Various other tweaks & fixes, see release notes for full list of changes