Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
Gapless playback.
Easily customizable user interface layout.
Advanced tagging capabilities.
Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
Full ReplayGain support.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.
What’s new in version 2.5
Updated on May 11 2023
User interface and media library updates:
Preferences dialog similar to that of Windows foobar2000.
Added Media Library with realtime folder monitoring.
Added Media Library viewers: Album List, ReFacets, Library Search.
Added all playback order options from Windows foobar2000.
Added Playlist View columns customizations.
Added Playlist Search.
Added Playback Statistics feature (rating, play count, etc).
Playback Queue feature.
Codec technology updates:
Added FFmpeg Decoder Wrapper, enabling decoding of arbitrary audio formats via external FFmpeg program.
Updated internal FFmpeg to version 6.0.
Updated WavPack to version 5.6.0.
Updated libFLAC to version 1.4.2, made possible to decode 32 bits per sample FLAC file.
Latest revision of APE format is supported (Monkey's Audio 10.09).
libvorbis is now used for decoding Vorbis format instead of FFmpeg, as some rare files continue to cause compatibility issues.
Cleaned up Ogg reader, made possible to seek in remote (HTTP etc) Ogg files.
Made FLAC tag updater remove ID3v2 garbage prefixing FLAC stream.
Made MP3 reader report MP3 frame count not matching Xing/LAME header info when verifying integrity.
Fixed bad MD5 verification of AIFF sourced WavPacks.
Added extra sanity checks to tag update operations in built-in codecs: made sure that attempts to remove covers from files that didn't have them in first place don't alter files at all.
Video game audio formats currently missing.
Properties dialog updates:
Improved behavior if 'reload info' detects a change in number of chapters etc.
Updated Automatically Fill Values logic, better results if searched pattern appears more than once.
Logs tag update errors to console.
Other:
New output device management options.
Full array of DSPs from Utility DSP Array component.
Tag Sanitizer component (right click menu / tagging).
Apple Audio Unit DSP support.
Exclusive audio output support.
Better console logging of internet radio stream reconnect events.
Many bugs fixed.
Added many other options and features from classic foobar2000.
Required Mac OS version is now 10.13 "High Sierra".