- Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
- Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
- Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
- Full Unicode support on Windows NT
- ReplayGain support
- Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
- Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
- Highly customizable playlist display
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

Supported input formats in foobar2000 0.9 normal :

MPEG-4, AAC, MP3, MP2, Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, CDDA, MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, Mod, SPC

MPEG-4, AAC, MP3, MP2, Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND

Supported input formats in foobar2000 0.8.3 special :

MPEG-4, AAC, MP3, MP2, Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, CDDA, MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, Mod, SPC, TFMX, Shorten, OptimFROG, LPAC, WMA, AC3, PSF, NSF, SID, XA, Matroska

- CD pregap detection feature has been disabled until identified problems with it are sorted out, most likely for 0.9.1 release.

Download:
foobar2000 0.9 RC (2006-03-05) 1.57MB