Foobar is a free media player for Windows. Foobar is more than just play good audio.
It has good audio quality – I say ‘good’ because I am not an audiophile. Several users (some of which are audiophiles and sound professionals) say it has better audio quality than other players like iTunes, WinAmp etc. provided the hardware is good and remains the same. It also has support for ripping and conversion, batch editing ID3 tags.
Unlike a lot of media players that add features and get bloated, Foobar is noted for its excellent resource management. Startup time is minimal, it manages large media libraries without any lag or performance issues.
The interface is customizable. There are also customizable shortcuts, so if you do not like any of the defaults, just edit them to suit your tastes (or habits with your previous media player of choice).
There are lots of components (which are like plugins) to add and extent features not present by default in Foobar. The component architecture is open, so if you are a programmer, you could code your own. This puts it above a lot of closed media players – because users know best the features required by them, and often, closed source players lag behind in feature implementation.
It has support for a wide variety of formats – MP3, MP4, AAC, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. There are components for even more formats.
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Sounds awesome. I’ll give it a try
. Thanks for the tip!