Open Source foobar2000 Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to foobar2000 for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is Clementine. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to foobar2000 and loads of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to foobar2000 are DeaDBeeF, Audacious, Strawberry and Quod Libet.

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  1. Clementine icon

    Clementine

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    Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

    251 Clementine alternatives

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    • Free
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    Comments about Clementine as an Alternative to foobar2000
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
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    It's free, it has a lot of features, but it is not as good as foobar2000. bug: memory leak.

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    Top Negative Comment
    Daltro Auguso Campanher de Souza
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    It's not well maintained, so... Expect encoders and decoders to be a lot obsolete, specially if you use Windows and the common static libraries! Also, you can expect a lot of online service libraries to not work very well. See Strawberry instead.

    Guest
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    Clementine is just a basic audio player, whereas foobar2000 is a very advanced player.

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    • Most users think Clementine is a great foobar2000 alternative.

    • Clementine is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to foobar2000.

    • Clementine is the most popular Open Source alternative to foobar2000.

    • Clementine is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. DeaDBeeF icon

    DeaDBeeF

     198 likes
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    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    180 DeaDBeeF alternatives

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    • Free
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    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
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    Comments about DeaDBeeF as an Alternative to foobar2000
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
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    Like Foobar2000, you can customize the interface as well as you want, it supports easily flac files and metadata edition. DeadBeef is the alternative and open source furthermore.

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    23C5DA
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    Very similar to foobar2000 but lacks a lot of refinements and details. Some hotkeys binding simply doesn't work. Cannot import/export theme and settings.

    Barrett
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    Very customizable, with a default GTK interface! Looks and runs great! Exactly what I wanted from a music player :)

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    • Most users think DeaDBeeF is a great foobar2000 alternative.

    • DeaDBeeF is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. Audacious icon

    Audacious

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    Lightweight open-source audio player for Unix-like platforms focused on high sound quality, extensive codec support, playlist handling, Internet radio, plugins, Winamp-style skins, cue sheets, metadata display, effects, equalizer, and efficient resource usage.

    133 Audacious alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Haiku
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    Comments about Audacious as an Alternative to foobar2000
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
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    If you are looking for a Linux program to do the same thing foobar2000 does, this is probably your best bet. Has a gui very reminiscent of fb2k, a similar plugin system bundled with it, and support for almost all video game music formats out of the box.

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    RA
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    It's open source, runs on Linux and Windows, has an intuitive UI and just works without any unexpected shortcomings.

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    Unk42 Roman M
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    Very similar to foobar2000 minimalistic interface. There is also support for Winamp skins + its a open source software.

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    • Most users think Audacious is a great foobar2000 alternative.

    • Audacious is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 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.

    243 Strawberry alternatives

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    • Free
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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.

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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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    Quod Libet

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    A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

    164 Quod Libet alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Debian
    • Xfce
    The paned browser, providing a customizable hierarchy of filters for finding your music
     
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    Dopamine

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    Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
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  9. Wora icon

    Wora

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    Wora is a beautiful player for audiophiles (pun intended). An open-source lossless music player app that lets you organize and play your favorite tracks seamlessly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
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    Elisa

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    Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users.

    70 Elisa alternatives

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    • Free
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    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Snapcraft
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    Harmonoid

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    🎵 Plays & manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy. Playlists, visuals, synced lyrics, pitch shift, volume boost & more.

    58 Harmonoid alternatives

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    • Free
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  13. Rune Player icon

    Rune Player

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    Enhance your music experience with a player that combines classic design and advanced tech. Features dynamic playlists, community-driven development, and privacy-first approach, all tailored for seamless and visually appealing music exploration.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
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    • Steam
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    Exaile

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    Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

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