User Reviews and Votes for foobar2000

Submitted by DeL on 18-Aug-2004 13:16:55

Submitted by Henbe on 19-Aug-2004 07:13:27

Details: foobar!

Period used: 3yrs

Other products used: all of them, really

Submitted by w e on 20-Aug-2004 10:33:53

Pros: extesions, fast, low on cpu, free

Cons: has trouble with some streaming stuff

Period used: 8 months

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by appel on 20-Aug-2004 11:16:52

Summary: on the way....but still a bit slow

Details: I am using the latest foxytunes from your site...my default player is foobar 0.8.3 and I am having some trouble...when I hit pause, the player opens and doesn't pause, the volume slider doesn't work... ALL IN ALL THOUGH>>>>THANKS!!!! I have told every Firefox user about your AWESOME extension...and I cannot wait to see what you come up with next!

Submitted by jonathan santiago on 21-Aug-2004 17:14:31

Period used: Every Day

Submitted by asee on 22-Aug-2004 23:09:48

Submitted by yfb on 23-Aug-2004 08:37:34

Details: THE BEST !!! :))) Some bugs... but the BEST !!!

Period used: One Year

Other products used: Windows Media Player, Winamp, RealPlayer, Quintessential, Sonique...

Submitted by silasaul on 25-Aug-2004 14:22:25

Summary: small, fast & functional

Details: prog is slim, loads of advanced options. recording,masstagger,conversion between different audio codecs... functional design (or better : no design at all - kiddiez beware, this prog's not for you).

Pros: slim,advanced options

Cons: no skinning

Period used: 2 months

Other products used: winamp3, sonique 1.96, sonique2 beta, windows media player 9

Submitted by Fusselwurm on 29-Aug-2004 16:14:16

Submitted by xf on 30-Aug-2004 10:45:19

Summary: just a great player

Pros: small, fast, reliable

Other products used: most of them :

Submitted by oscariii on 30-Aug-2004 12:48:49

Summary: The Best One

Details: I've tried numerous players. Winamp et al don't even start doing what this totally reconfigurable, all-playing, non-memory-devouring player does. And it's free.

Pros: Audio quality, ease-of-use, utterly configurable, plays everything

Cons: can be a bit tricky to set up for a first-time user

Period used: over a year

Other products used: Winamp, RealPlayer, WMP (all versions, even current 10 beta), iTunes, Musicmatch Jukebox, Apollo, Sonique, XMMS

Submitted by Niklas Pivic on 31-Aug-2004 02:55:05

Summary: Very light and powerfull. Lot of extensions available

Cons: User interface a bit "old fashion"

Other products used: Winamp, WMP, Zinf

Submitted by Benoit BAILLEUX on 31-Aug-2004 05:44:48

Submitted by Calen Kaneko on 31-Aug-2004 15:55:04

Summary: Full featured music player with a barebones UI

Details: Very small memory footprint with a huge list of supported media types that comes FREE with no spy/adware. Say no to Winamp bloat!

Pros: Small, free extensive.

Cons: Unattractive UI

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: Haven't had the need to try any others.

Submitted by Brad on 31-Aug-2004 18:21:54

Summary: Cool player

Pros: Simplicity

Cons: To simple

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: Winamp,iTunes,WMP9

Submitted by Venkat on 01-Sep-2004 11:24:40

Summary: Highly Customizable Experience

Details: If you tire of squinting at the tiny skinned text in Winamp, wish that you could customize your media player more, or really enjoy working with configuration scripts, than foobar2000 is just right. Fueled by an open SDK and highly modularized core, developers have created tons of components that can completely change the interface, add on advanced DSP effects, and allow for input or output in just about any format available. All of these components can be added or deleted at will, allowing you to use a player thats as robust or slim as you desire. After you breach the learning curve, you'll never want to go back.

Pros: Strong modular design, uses native Windows widgets

Cons: Takes time to set up 'just right,' documentation is lacking

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: Winamp, QCD

Submitted by Andy on 01-Sep-2004 18:19:41

Summary: Foobar 2000 with foo_columns dosn't work.

Details: Foobar 2000 with foo_columns just gets brought to the front when you try to use the controls inside firefox. The only option that actually works is mute. If I use the fix posted in the forums nothing seems to work at all.

Pros: Very versatile, skinnable, customizable, player

Cons: Very steep learning curve

Period used: months++

Other products used: Winamp, iTunes, WMP, sasami2k (lol)

Submitted by Harrison Powers on 01-Sep-2004 18:23:36

Submitted by GerboNeko on 04-Sep-2004 10:32:03

Pros: fast

Other products used: winamp 1 -> 5

Submitted by GURT on 09-Sep-2004 12:49:18

Summary: my favourite player

Details: Foobar is very small but still powerfull, and the ease of use reamains to be exceeded!

Pros: Very small and fast

Cons: no video

Period used: 1 + 1/2 year

Submitted by Chris Stenico on 11-Sep-2004 10:57:50

Summary: The 1337 of Windows players

Details: Very customizable, a very simple interface. The mass tagger is awesome

Pros: Sounds great

Cons: A pain to get the albums set up

Period used: 3 months

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Josh on 12-Sep-2004 19:30:10

Summary: Amaizing!

Details: + Very fast, compact, small CPU/memory usage, great quality, Freeware, lots of very small and very usefull plug-ins etc - Real troubles with MIDI.

Pros: ?

Cons: ?

Period used: About 5 months

Other products used: Used Sonique, Winamp 2x, WMP9, Apollo. But tried almost all.

Submitted by Ronny on 15-Sep-2004 18:55:35

Summary: No frills, just good sound

Details: Foobar may not be the prettiest player out there, but it's very good at what it's made for. Uncompromising playback quality and very low resource usage, not to mention plugins for more formats than I knew existed. Built-in support for replaygain means no more lunging for the volume control between tracks.

Pros: Excellent quality, low resource requirements, built-in replaygain support

Cons: Barren UI and no eye-candy

Period used: uh, couple years I think

Other products used: Winamp, Musicmatch, iTunes, XMMS, Windows Media Player, Sonique

Submitted by Dave on 16-Sep-2004 18:47:55

Summary: A great player with great sound

Details: This player is great. Though it could be easier to use. The sound is unmatched and the optional plugins make it able to do about anything you could want.

Pros: Great sound, great features

Cons: Could be easier

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: winamp, musicmatch

Submitted by Wade Alberty on 17-Sep-2004 00:03:08

Submitted by Thomas Swan on 17-Sep-2004 15:48:43

Submitted by mke on 18-Sep-2004 07:47:45

Summary: Highly configurable! Even with scripts!

Details: Highly configurable! Even with scripts!

Submitted by yuku on 18-Sep-2004 13:11:05

Submitted by andrew on 18-Sep-2004 17:46:02

Submitted by Jan on 19-Sep-2004 13:21:41

Summary: the simplest looking, the best!

Details: its amazing. So many friggin features. Best sound. Low resources. LOVE IT

Pros: everything

Cons: people who like candy have to use crappy skin extension thingies

Period used: too long, heh

Other products used: winamp, QCD, XMMS, iTunes, WMP, long list ;)

Submitted by theflinger on 20-Sep-2004 20:52:22

Summary: Brilliant overall, apart from gui issues

Details: Sound quality is second to none. Features and sheer user power is phenominal in comparison to other players. Takes a while to get used to, though once One starts getting used to Foobar2000, it becomes second nature, and impossible to live without. The "special" download isn't that large, and includes support for most known, and unknown, formats. There are a lot of features even in this small download that I didn't install. The user interface, on the large part, is simple (at least at the very front - not in the menus and configuration!), and easy to understand. Aesthetically, it looks very good in comparison to most players. Fits into the XP theme environment, at least on the large part, very well. There are two gui issues that bug me. One is the actual toolbar buttons aren't exactly polished. Secondly, moreover, the menu bar "buttons" don't fit in with XP themes, onmouseover & onclick. They look like regular generic buttons rather than actual menu buttons (compare them to explorer). Still, much better than most other players in the gui department even. Mostly fits in.

Pros: Sound quality, low resource needs, blending gui, power freak-esque

Cons: Slight gui bug, ugly toolbar button graphics,

Period used: 3 months

Other products used: WinAmp, MPC, WMP, XMMS, dBPowerAmp player, SonicStage, iTunes etc ...

Submitted by Matt on 21-Sep-2004 15:21:45

Summary: Best Audio Player Ever

Details: The ease of use is a little lacking, merely because there's so much power there that for the n00b it'd be too much. The user interface is the greatest. No useless skins to get in the way, no skins to have to coordinate with your visual style, just raw power. Never mind that it has more technical features than any of the other players out there and has the most powerful masstagger in existence. There's no reason to use any other player (for music) once you've got this one figured out.

Other products used: WinAMP, WiMP, XMplay, QCD, Media Player Classic, iTunes, BSplayer, CoolPlayer

Submitted by Ben Cook on 21-Sep-2004 23:03:53

Summary: great sound quality, not pretty

Details: great sound quality, not pretty

Period used: MOnths

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Commando on 22-Sep-2004 21:09:49

Summary: power lies in simplicity!

Pros: very powerfull, free, simple

Cons: not very attractive at first

Period used: at least a year

Other products used: winamp 2.93, winamp 3, Zinf

Submitted by aexelmetzel on 24-Sep-2004 12:39:44

Summary: it;'s visually ugly.

Details: I like foobar a lot, it gives me a lot of control over my music (easy tagging, tabbed playlists, etc), and it always sounds great. But the interface, though fairly easy to use and powerful when controlling the program, is really, really ugly, so FoxyTunes is a real blessing, it takes up a lot less screen space and accomplishes the same thing as a Winamp windowshade always had for me. Thanks a lot, Charlie Adams

Pros: Sounds great, does a lot for me very easily

Cons: It's ugly.

Period used: 6/04-present

Other products used: Winamp 2, 3, 5, Sonique, Windows Media Player (and classic), Zinf, Irfanview

Submitted by Charlie Adams on 25-Sep-2004 09:53:32

Summary: Great media player, not recommended to users who change their media players skin every week...

Details: It's a great music player if you like to listen to music... it plays with great sound quality and it takes up little memory, it can display a long list of songs on the screen, and it's highly customisable... however, if you like a cool LOOKING media player... this is NOT for you.

Pros: Great sound quality, customizability (NON-visual...), ease of use, low mem usage

Cons: Visual

Period used: Month

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, RealPlayer.

Submitted by Alex P on 26-Sep-2004 04:52:08

Summary: exactly what i needed

Details: uses tiny amount of memory, not much to look at but does everything you could want, everything is customizable: context menus, the menu bar, the audio processing chain (don't want a volume control? save the memory!), all keyboard shortcuts/global hotkeys and did i mention it uses no memory. playlists in tabs is awesome. a database & search that you can basically code yourself.

Pros: database, files in tabs, customizable everything - including the audio processing chain, only turn on what you need, tabbed playlists

Cons: maybe not as pretty as the others, difficult to tweak the database

Period used: this week

Other products used: winamp, winamp2, winamp3, winamp5, wmp, xmms, realplayer, sonique, musicmatch

Submitted by john on 26-Sep-2004 13:28:28

Period used: 1 Year

Other products used: WinAMP 2, 3, 5.

Submitted by Carlos on 27-Sep-2004 15:38:55

Summary: love at first sight

Details: i have been looking for a player that fits my taste for quite some time, i went and tried almoust everything i could get my hands on. all players out there play music ;P, but non met my needs till i decided to give winamp another shot after being really disapointed with its previous updates. well, i loved it and thought i had really found the one player for all my needs. it does everything, has tons of skins and its REALLY user friendly and the best overall player IMO. anyway, it was all good untill i realized i needed more control over the audio and i had heard about foobar2k from many others. i decided to give it a try. to sum it up it was a love at first sight ;P. TOTTAL controll over audio and support of all audio files and tons of features not found anywhere else. within 20 min i had already decided to make it my default player. havent uninstalled winamp yet cause i like to turn it on once in a while to just lough at it lol. foobar > bells and whistles

Pros: low on resorces, easy to use yet lots of features, tottal control over audio, library handles tons of media w/o problem, replaygain, DSP, tottal support for all audio formats for which i am more then ready to give up video

Cons: no video support

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: pritty much anything worth trying - WMP, winamp 2/5.5, real, ATI mmc, mediasource, mplayer2, itunes, BS, jetaudio, nero, QP

Submitted by ken j on 28-Sep-2004 21:37:14

Summary: IHMO, the best audio player :)

Details: It's very good, easy, and it hasn't any graphic... it's good 'cos is light, but my eye want a skin! :D

Pros: Support every format, includes RAR

Cons: No skin...

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: Coolplayer (ok, but...), WMP (bleah!), Winamp 5( HEAVY!!), Sonique

Submitted by Gianluca on 29-Sep-2004 10:35:58

Submitted by theo on 29-Sep-2004 18:26:01

Submitted by mistletoe on 01-Oct-2004 00:58:23

Details: Nice, Clean & installed it for 20 clients & they all loved it

Submitted by Sharaf on 02-Oct-2004 14:34:03

Summary: An excellent player!

Details: It's not bloated, has lots of support for audio formats like MPC, FLAC, APE built-in, a nice mass-tagger, and other cool stuff which comes together to make a fast, responsive player that's not memory hungry like some other audio players. Simply does its job, and does it well!

Pros: Fast, responsive, small memory footprint, free, powerful!

Cons: GUI is a bit plain--Columns_UI helps fix that but it's hard to configure. Stuff like ColumnsUI and title formatting configuration is a bit confusing!

Period used: half year

Other products used: (in order of most usage) -- Winamp (2, 5, 3), Windows Media Player, iTunes, XMMS, Sonique

Submitted by Luke D on 02-Oct-2004 23:13:24

Submitted by Jeff Robelen on 05-Oct-2004 10:38:18

Summary: Best player out there!

Details: Try it... no need to say more! http://www.foobar2000.org

Pros: Sound quality, configurability, light, practical interface, open-source, many plug-ins

Cons: A little bit complicated

Period used: 3years

Other products used: Winamp, iTunes, Sonique, Quintessential, WMP9/10

Submitted by Dominic M. on 07-Oct-2004 14:04:28

Submitted by Hannes on 13-Oct-2004 13:59:05

Submitted by not for you on 14-Oct-2004 06:36:55

Summary: FOOBAR2000

Details: Use F00BAR2000...

Pros: Best

Cons: Nothing

Period used: Since Release

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Furry on 14-Oct-2004 19:56:10

Submitted by antoker on 16-Oct-2004 02:04:13

Submitted by YtrewQ on 16-Oct-2004 04:59:47

Period used: 1.5 years

Submitted by Antoxa on 16-Oct-2004 16:41:26

Pros: playlist management

Other products used: winamp; mplayer 7,8,9,10; mplayer classic..

Submitted by spi on 18-Oct-2004 06:14:38

Submitted by zevele on 19-Oct-2004 16:40:27

Submitted by yann on 20-Oct-2004 10:43:32

Summary: Excellent Player...ease of use could be improved

Details: I need skins!!

Pros: fast, good quality,low memory usage

Cons: no skins

Period used: about 8-10 months

Other products used: winamp (all versions),sonique (1,2),ultraplayer,apollo,WMP

Submitted by Srinivas Ganapathi on 20-Oct-2004 12:27:54

Summary: Lightweight, gets the job done!

Details: I love Foobar2000 because it takes up very little of your computer's resources. Fancy stuff is implemented in plugins so you can strip things down the the bare metal if you like, or have your bizarre visualizations if you prefer. :)

Period used: Several years

Other products used: Many

Submitted by Michael on 21-Oct-2004 09:51:07

Submitted by yon on 22-Oct-2004 14:40:41

Submitted by barzel on 22-Oct-2004 14:41:57

Pros: 24-bit audio output, mpglib mp3 decoder, etc. etc. etc.

Cons: too many options ;-)

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: WinAMP

Submitted by Andycar on 24-Oct-2004 06:36:11

Summary: foobar2000-for the audiophiles

Details: Its not easy to use, but its free, has a myriad of plugins, and youc an get your music to sound exactly the way you want it. Not to mention its superior playlist system and managing capabilities.

Pros: Its awesome

Cons: Learning vurve

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: WMP, WinAmp, BSPlayer

Submitted by Kyoji on 24-Oct-2004 13:44:00

Submitted by Einar Aleksejev on 24-Oct-2004 15:12:48

Submitted by davide on 24-Oct-2004 16:46:57

Summary: Everyone should try it!!

Submitted by Left on 27-Oct-2004 12:47:58

Summary: foobar2k the best audio player of the world, thanks Peter pavlovski!

Details: I use foobar for playback but also encoding/transcoding, tagging/renaming, burning CDA and so on... The only bad point with foobar is that even if in realty it's quite easy to use it looks like it were difficult and so it frighten noobs... :(

Pros: Most powerfull, very complete with a lot of wonderful plugins...

Cons: Seems complicated thought it's very easy to use in fact..

Period used: Used since v0.7 (nearly one since ebnd of 2002)

Other products used: Winamp 2.xx and then Winamp 3.xx but i rathered version 2.xx till foobar has been released in v0.7 (with an installer)

Submitted by Tanguy on 28-Oct-2004 20:36:57

Submitted by anykey on 29-Oct-2004 14:13:31

Summary: Easy to use and takes up little memory

Details: Very little to no problems whatsoever.

Pros: Low memory taken

Cons: Not flashy

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Frank on 29-Oct-2004 19:53:00

Period used: very day

Other products used: all others

Submitted by Jojo da Mojo on 30-Oct-2004 03:18:00

Other products used: WMP, Sonique, Winamp, Apollo etc

Submitted by Bootleg on 30-Oct-2004 07:15:12

Summary: Works quiet well with foobar2000.

Details: The track title could be better, because it isn't updating at all on my system. I use the latest Columns UI 0.1.2. beta 2.

Pros: Nice little controller

Cons: Track title in foobar2000

Period used: 3 months

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Benjamin Pahlke on 31-Oct-2004 09:29:31

Summary: Simple and powerful player

Details: foob2000 is as advanced as you want it to be. It is excellently designed internally, and very no nonsense in its user interface. No skins!

Pros: Poweful, flexible, small, efficient

Cons: A bit of a learning curve

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by JRB on 01-Nov-2004 08:02:17

Submitted by Derived on 01-Nov-2004 08:25:35

Summary: The best audio player ever

Details: PLayer with great posibilities, audio quality and ascetic but very powerfull interface. I'm using it since 0.6, and i'm happy i've dumped winamp - look at today's 5'th version - heavy and ugly.

Pros: powerfull configuration, lots of usefull plugins

Cons: hard to manage at the begining

Period used: since v0.6

Other products used: winamp, blaze media pro, WMP, kajfol, and some other

Submitted by zab0r on 01-Nov-2004 13:59:04

Submitted by SH0x on 02-Nov-2004 14:59:39

Summary: 5

Details: So, foobar is very nice 4 me, i like it :)

Period used: 9 months

Other products used: winamp, windows media player

Submitted by amarat on 02-Nov-2004 15:07:40

Details: Love it Great program

Submitted by Marc Poulin on 02-Nov-2004 19:54:35

Submitted by Christian Basch on 03-Nov-2004 07:43:18

Summary: Foobar 2000.

Details: Is one of the best media players. Free, Light on resources, and high customizable.

Pros: Audio Quality, Able to play many formats

Cons: None.

Period used: a year

Other products used: Winamp, QCD, WMP, iTunes

Submitted by Jay on 03-Nov-2004 19:24:30

Summary: Simple and faithful

Details: perfect, just play music 'n no bullshit. Audio quality is the best, because it just care of playing music not selling lemonade. It's very light in ram too.

Pros: Light and well sounding

Cons: few personalizations

Period used: from the last month to maybe next ten years

Other products used: winamp

Submitted by antonio on 03-Nov-2004 21:54:20

Submitted by Alec Burrett on 21-Oct-2004 14:14:13

Submitted by yo on 04-Nov-2004 09:41:28

Summary: The Best Player

Submitted by Birk on 05-Nov-2004 02:47:28

Other products used: winamp, wmp,MeroMix

Submitted by Ykor on 05-Nov-2004 05:03:20

Details: Best player ever created!!!

Submitted by Judge on 05-Nov-2004 06:52:17

Submitted by bla on 05-Nov-2004 08:40:45

Submitted by str1k3r on 06-Nov-2004 03:06:03

Submitted by mark on 06-Nov-2004 11:21:48

Submitted by Tom Bayr on 07-Nov-2004 07:50:30

Submitted by Tom Bayr on 07-Nov-2004 07:50:30

Submitted by toxy on 08-Nov-2004 13:23:22

Summary: Audiophiles player

Details: Simply the best sound quality with the smallest RAM footprint and superb reliability...designed by one of the original developers of Win Amp before it became bloated and slow...foobar is the best player out there at the moment

Pros: Sound Quality

Cons: Skinnable but the defaul is bland

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: You name it

Submitted by David on 08-Nov-2004 22:15:20

Summary: KISS Keep it simple stupid

Details: I enjoy Foobar for it's simplicity and features. Today MP3 players are getting all skinned up and eating ram. This player is perfect for gamers, high end users or someone with a slow computer. It offers everything u need in a simple package. What else can u ask for in a player. Skins are kewl but who really needs or spends all day looking at them. Foobar u can have it always on top/transparent and not get in your way. So u can always select the song u want. just great.

Pros: Simple and easy on ram. Plays ALL formats.

Cons: None I see.

Period used: 2 year

Other products used: Winamp, WMP, Media player classic, BS player.

Submitted by Trevor on 09-Nov-2004 01:17:49

Submitted by curna on 09-Nov-2004 04:20:38

Submitted by Dariusz on 09-Nov-2004 14:49:33

Summary: Best audio player

Pros: HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE

Cons: somewhat of a learning curve

Period used: Over a year

Other products used: Winamp, Itunes, WMP8 and 9

Submitted by Jay Palacio on 09-Nov-2004 22:43:12

Submitted by Nimhaus on 10-Nov-2004 11:08:46

Details: may I'm hallucinating, but it has a better, more clear sound quality than winamp or wmp

Submitted by Nimhaus on 10-Nov-2004 11:08:46

Submitted by Henbe on 19-Aug-2004 07:13:27

Summary: No messing about

Details: Foobar, no messin about. No slow memory sucking-skins, no boring visualisations, no crappy spyware. Just a simple but endlessly customizable open source media player. The interface is functional. The audio quality settings and DSP interfaces are the best I've seen. Plus, it has an undo function for playlist alterations. (lol @ windows media player users)

Pros: no skins, undo function, low memory usage

Cons: not final version

Period used: about a year, maybe slightly longer

Other products used: winamp 2, 3, 5; xmms; wmplayer; zoom player; itunes; bsplayer;

Submitted by Stuart on 10-Nov-2004 20:40:14