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foobar2000 for Mac

Advanced audio player.

Free
In English
Version 2.24
4.8
Based on 4 user rates

foobar2000 overview

foobar2000 is an advanced audio player.

Main features
  • 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 2.24

  • New version numbering scheme: 2.24 for planned stable release year of 2024.
  • Lowest supported Mac OS version is now Mac OS 11 "Big Sur".
  • Entirely new Mac user interface, allowing various panels to be embededd in main foobar2000 window.
  • Lots of appearance & usability improvements, reworked various windows to look more consistently with modern Mac OS.
  • 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: Added update checks - checks for last public beta/stable build, same as Windows version; Added menu commands to configure Audio Units without going through Preferences; Utilized monospace digit font in for most of user interface; Implemented meta autocomplete in Properties dialog; Implemented Advanced Preferences search; Made possible to keep running after closing main window; Made current console backlog saved when toggling logging on; Made File menu dynamic-generated properly, made various previously-hidden commands accessible, including "Reset Configuration", "Browse Configuration Folder", etc; Cleaned up title capitalization in menu commands; Implemented Cmd+F search in Playlist.
  • General improvements, most notably: New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance of 64-bit build; Fixed whole lot of bugs related to wildcard characters (*, ?) in file names; Improved recovery of corrupted configuration data.
  • 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.
  • Third party code libraries updated.
  • Various other tweaks & fixes, see release notes for full list of changes.

foobar2000 for Mac

Free
In English
Version 2.24
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4.8

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ERNEST UNGUREANU
ERNEST UNGUREANU
Dec 19 2023
2.6
0.0
Dec 19 2023
0.0
Version: 2.6
Avec une telle icône, je ne crois pas que j'aurais du plaisir à utiliser cette application.
pperezdiaz1
pperezdiaz1
Jan 10 2024
2.6
4.0
Jan 10 2024
4.0
Version: 2.6
The_Blinded
The_Blinded
May 17 2023
2.5
5.0
May 17 2023
5.0
Version: 2.5
cinam
cinam
May 11 2023
2.5
5.0
May 11 2023
5.0
Version: 2.5
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
May 11 2023
2.5
5.0
May 11 2023
5.0
Version: 2.5