foobar2000 AlternativesOnly apps categorised as CD Rippers

The best CD Ripper alternative to foobar2000 is AIMP, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to foobar2000 and 14 are CD Rippers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting CD Ripper alternatives to foobar2000 are MusicBee, Winamp, Strawberry and MediaMonkey.

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  1. AIMP icon

    AIMP

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    Feature-rich audio player for Windows and Android supporting diverse codecs and interfaces. Includes conversion tools, skins, plugins, and custom equalizer for enhanced audio streaming and podcast playback.

    342 AIMP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • PortableApps.com
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    Comments about AIMP as an Alternative to foobar2000
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    4

    Fast and continuous playing. Option to edit meta data.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Kart45
    Positive
    0

    Everything that in foobar2000 needs to be done for hours to make, you can done in AIMP in a matter of seconds. I tried many different players, been using foobar2000 for a long time, but in the end I still switched back to AIMP. The most convenient and functional without unnecessary movements.

    Daltro Auguso Campanher de Souza
    Negative
    -3

    It's not as customizable as foobar. The latter can be hackeable to the point where you write a script that changes completely any single point of its UI.

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    • Almost everyone thinks AIMP is a great foobar2000 alternative.

    • AIMP is the most popular Windows & Android alternative to foobar2000.

    • AIMP is the most popular free alternative to foobar2000.

    • AIMP is Free and Proprietaryfoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. MusicBee icon

    MusicBee

     588 likes
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    Offers library and playlist management, auto folder monitoring, podcast downloads, web radio, advanced tagging, custom ID3 tags, CD ripping with validation, syncing to iPods, iPhones, MTP, USB, converts and normalizes audio, fetches album art and tags from web.

    124 MusicBee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Daltro Auguso Campanher de Souza
    Positive
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    Amazing piece of software! I think it can do pratically anything Foobar can (even with extensions).

    Guest
    Positive
    1

    Can easily reorganize and rename large and messy music collections.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    I can manage 1000+ files with it

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    • Almost everyone thinks MusicBee is a great foobar2000 alternative.

    • MusicBee is Free Personal and Proprietaryfoobar2000 is also Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. Winamp icon

    Winamp

     894 likes
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    Media player for Windows offering ease of use, skinnable design, advanced audio visualizers, and support for plug-ins, playlists, music library, and various audio formats. Known for extensibility, music visualization, and online community support.

    259 Winamp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    Positive
    1

    Discontinued, yes, but set the standard in Windows audio playback. Incredibly feature rich and sounds excellent.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Windows 98 + Winamp + MP3 + Limewire = The good old days of adopting a new music format.

    Still works in W10.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    -2

    Winamp is around but an old version no longer updated at Winamp.com and using the old version site you can get earlier versions. Foobar2000 is the main replacement.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Winamp is a great foobar2000 alternative.

    • Winamp is the most popular Web-based & iPhone alternative to foobar2000.

    • Winamp is Free and Proprietaryfoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    Strawberry

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    Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.

    242 Strawberry alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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    Guest
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    Strawberry has many features that are similar to the ones I use most in foobar2000. I particularly like the queuing system as it allows me to maintain my playlists in the order I want while easily being able to cherry pick what I want to listen to right now. This is the best music player I have found that is available for Linux and it gets me closest to the experience I loved about using foobar2000 in Windows.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Strawberry is a great foobar2000 alternative.

    • Strawberry is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    MediaMonkey

     489 likes
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    MediaMonkey is a music player and a music library manager with support for 50,000+ files and many features for organizing, tagging, converting and burning your music. It also has advanced podcasting and syncing features.

    123 MediaMonkey alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Android
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    Rhythmbox

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    Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software that is designed to work well under the .

    151 Rhythmbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • GNOME
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    Lacks the library features, as well as the modular approach to the interface.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Daltro Auguso Campanher de Souza
    Negative
    0

    Lacks library features, lacks more DSP options, lacks scrobbling, lacks audio converter, output selection...

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    • Some users think Rhythmbox is a great foobar2000 alternative, some don't.

    • Rhythmbox is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    Windows Media Player

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    Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...

    218 Windows Media Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    TuneBrowser

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    TuneBrowser is the software that manages a large number of music tune files on the disk. TuneBrowser is supporting native playback of high resolution (Hi-Res) PCM and DSD sources by ASIO and WASAPI.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    aTunes

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    aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.

    134 aTunes alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Aqualung

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    Aqualung is an audio player that aims to be versatile: it is capable of producing completely gapless output, has several skins, supports Audio CDs, Internet radio streams, Podcasts, most file formats, and has an intuitive interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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