Alternatives to foobar2000 for Windows with any license

VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.
- Definitely not meant for playing audio files, missing proper organization, tagging such as replaygain, CDDB connection, etc... Guest • Jun 2017 • 25 agrees and 5 disagrees
- VLC might be capable of playing MP3s, doesn't mean it does it well. This is a video player has the feature of playing digital audio too. Guest • Jun 2017 • 22 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Unlike foobar2000, VLC only has basic audio playing and playlist Guest • Jul 2017 • 18 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Missing the conversion and organization features. Guest • Jul 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees
- VLC is great for video, or a single audio file, but not made for audio libraries. Guest • Oct 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees
- General Media player. DIfferent functionality to dedicated audio player Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- They both play music but have massively different feature sets and focuses. SiNevesh • Mar 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Great for video but it's nothing like foobar2000 Guest • Aug 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's designed to be an overall good media player. It's not designed to be specifically a music player and so doesn't suit that well. Guest • 10 days ago
- It can play the audio files but that is where the similarity stops. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- it's designed for video playing only, not audio, god, how many times i should tell you. altersoft • Jan 2018 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Windows S Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Apple TV PortableApps.com Kindle Fire Haiku Xbox
Lightweight Replay Gain Ad-free Audio recording ... Automatic conversion to multiple formats Automatic subtitles download Automatic Tagging Built-in Media converter Built-in subtitle search Integrated codecs Create PlayList Customizable Google Drive integration Internet radio Low memory usage Multiple languages Media Streaming Music Library Network Traffic Obfuscation Playlists management Portable Support for subtitles Visualize Music Voice pitch visualization Add a feature

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Clementine

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4.
- It's free, it has a lot of features, but it is not as good as foobar2000. bug: memory leak. Guest • Jul 2017 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Lightweight Built-in Tag editor IDevice sync Integrated last.fm scrobbler ... Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync iTunes integration Last.FM Scrobbler Music Library Add a feature

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AIMP

Freeware Winamp-like media player, based on BASS audio library with support for large number of formats and playlists. It works with multiple playlists immediately...
- Fast and continuous playing. Option to edit meta data. Guest • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It is a very good audio player with a pristine sound quality Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's even better than foobar, nice interface also we can handle the music playlists, set hotkeys local/global, quick play/pause from icon in the tray and more of good features ososstar • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Downloaded an .ogg file, foobar2000 didn't open it (as most apps), this did. munteanzeno • Jun 2018
Free Windows Android PortableApps.com
Internet radio Music Library Built-in Tag editor Collaborative Playlists ... Customizable Icon sets Interface Overlay Internet radio Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Multiuser mode support Playlists management Portable Skinnable Support for Hotkeys Support for Themes Support for VST plugins Waveform Seekbar Add a feature

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Winamp

Winamp is a media player for Windows and OS X developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to...
- Discontinued, yes, but set the standard in Windows audio playback. Incredibly feature rich and sounds excellent. Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Windows 98 + Winamp + MP3 + Limewire = The good old days of adopting a new music format. Still works in W10. Guest • Apr 2018 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Freemium Mac Windows
Crossfading Music Library Shoutcast streaming Android Sync ... Audio Analysis Automatic Tagging Integrated Web Browser Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Mix Music Parametric Equalizer Playlists management Skin customization Visualize Music Add a feature

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- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed and there are no news after October 2016: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?p=3072003#post3072003 Last version, 5.666 Build 3516 patched, can be still downloaded from the official website forums.
MusicBee

MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.
- Can easily reorganize and rename large and messy music collections. Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Personal Windows
Customizable Auto tag music Automatic Lyrics Finder Automatic Tagging ... Built-in CUE Sheet Editor Built-in Tag editor Doesn't rely on any Eco-system Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Internet radio Last.FM Scrobbler Playlists management Podcast Hosting Portable Soundcloud integration Virtual Tags Waveform Seekbar Add a feature

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Audacious

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting...
- gapless playback work perfectly :) bothing worse than those short pauses! if this had a remote function would be awesome the only thing i dont like is not being able to navigate to the folder from the context menu Guest • Mar 2017
- 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. Guest • Dec 2017
- Poor audio settings and useless/featureless gui. Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
Automatic Lyrics Finder Clear interface Integrated codecs Create PlayList ... Crossfading Drag n drop Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Last.FM Scrobbler Lightweight Music Library Parametric Equalizer Playlists management Skinnable Add a feature

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MediaMonkey

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...

Freemium Windows Android Windows RT
Music Library Android Sync Automatic album art download Automatic file renaming ... Automatic Lyrics Finder Automatic Tagging Built-in Equalizer Crossfading Extensible by Plugins/Extensions iPhone/iPod sync Moddable Multiple languages Playcount Accessability Add a feature

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iTunes

Media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and iPhone device management application.
- Foobar is highly configurable, iTunes is just a store frontend with an iPod sync, without customization Guest • Jun 2015 • 12 agrees and 1 disagrees
- There is no FLAC and any other convenient lossless formats, except ALAC. Guest • Dec 2015 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Customizability is the killer feature of foobar2000, iTunes has none. Guest • Aug 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Super heavy by comparison, radically different in design Guest • Aug 2018
Free Mac Windows iPhone Windows S iPad
iPhone/iPod sync ALAC support Access the AppStore Auto volume ... Crossfading Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Music Library Music store Playlists management Selecting songs Sync iTunes Libraries Add a feature

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Amarok

Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever...
- I have not seen a better yet still good-looking software than Amarok. Guest • Jun 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Meant for power users. Has global shortcuts, replay gain and a ton of features. Guest • Apr 2016
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Add a feature

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Tomahawk

Tomahawk gives you to access to all of your favorite music in one powerful media player. Seamlessly jump from playing a song off your local machine, to one streaming...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android
Spotify integration Deezer integration Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Google Play Music integration ... Last.FM Scrobbler Music discovery Owncloud integration Soundcloud integration Youtube integration Add a feature

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- Discontinued The project is no longer maintained. Last version, 0.8.4, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Banshee

Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio....

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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- Discontinued No new releases and features since 2014. Latest versions, 2.6.2 (stable) and 2.9.1 (development), released in February and March 2014, are still working and can be downloaded from the official website.
Quod Libet

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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Debian Xfce
Custom filters Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for MPRIS Music Library ... Sits in the System Tray Voice Notes Add a feature

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Windows Media Player

The media player provided pre-installed with all modern Windows versions (7 and higher): Windows Media Player 12 plays more music and video than ever, including Flip...

Free Windows
Music Library Visualize Music Voice pitch visualization Bundled with Windows Add a feature

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Harmony Music Player

Music player with sleek interface & cloud compatibility. Features: • Play tracks from SoundCloud, Google Play Music, Spotify, Deezer, Hype Machine or your local...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux
Dark theme Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple Account support Stream audio Add a feature

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XMPlay

A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others....
- If you want a really lightweight audio player don't look further than this one, i love the minimalist way of this one. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Music Library Portable Add a feature

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