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.