This player means business: quality over flashy buttons, performance over eye candy.Ī must have for all hardcore music lovers.

However if you like full control of how you wish your audio player looks and sounds then try foobar2000 if you haven't already. However if you want a audio player that automatically comes with things like a playlist and synthesizer then foobar2000 is not for you.The only downside to foobar2000 is how stripped down it is and is meant more for advanced users or people with enough time to play around with the different features and plugins you can add to it.So if your one like me who wants everything pre-installed you might want to stick to Winamp, MediaMonkey, or Spider Player. For those with a lot of time and want full control of how they want their audio player to look at sound, foobar2000 is perfect for them. Out of the package it's very bare bones and can take a long time to customize it to your needs. Great Sounding Audio Player But Too Basic For Most.įoobar2000 is the Miranda of audio players. If you value lightness and functionality over appearance in an audio player, don't hesitate: foobar2000 is the program you're looking for. However, if you are still not convinced you can also try other alternatives such as AIMP or Winamp. In all, foobar2000 would never win a design contest, but it's undoubtedly one of the lightest, fastest and most functional audio players you'll find. It plays a dozen formats (the list of which can be easily expanded with additional components), features gapless playback, supports full Unicode, includes advanced tagging functionality and even lets you rip audio CDs and convert files from one format to another, provided you install the necessary plug-ins. Like I said, foobar2000 hides a bunch of interesting features under its simple appearance. Also, as foobar2000 can be controlled with customizable keyboard hotkeys (or media keys, if your keyboard has them) you don't really to open the program's window. To begin with, foobar2000 is extraordinarily fast – it hardly took half a minute to index my huge music library – and extremely light on resources.

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