Foobar For Mac

Foobar2000 music player for Windows is not for the faint hearted. It's for the tinkerers, the curious and the patient. If you get the hang of it, it's pretty much the best music player for Windows. Don't believe it? Read about the 5 features that make it so.

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Foobar2000 is like Lego for music players. It's built with bricks (referred to as panels and components interchangeably, plugins in layman's terms) and you're free to arrange the bricks however you please. But this also brings a challenge because an empty canvas is overwhelming.

This pack includes every natively supported free encoder binary for use with the Converter foobar2000 component. The binaries are conveniently installed into a subfolder of the foobar2000 installation folder. Current versions of foobar2000 will automatically recognize these encoders and no longer ask you for encoder binary location.

• For older PCs, check foobar2000 v1.5 series on old versions page. Additional downloads. Browse official components Browse all components Free Encoder Pack: encoder binaries for the Converter component Old versions of foobar2000. Foobar2000 for Mac foobar2000 for Mac web site.
• Super Audio CD Decoder input plugin for foobar2000. Decoder is capable of playing back Super Audio CD ISO images, DSDIFF, DSF and DSD WavPack files.

We've already talked about the best ways to build a UI suitable to your needs in the linked article above, so today let's focus on adding functionality and components.

How To Install Components (Plugins)

All the supported components are listed on this page but you're free to download it from anywhere. Once downloaded, unzip the file to a destination you remember

Open Foobar2000, go to Library -> Configure and select Components from the left menu. You can either select the Install button and browse to the location of the downloaded file or just drag and drop the file to the components list. Select Apply to install the components, you should know that it will require restarting the app.

How To Configure Plugins In The Default Interface

So you downloaded some plugins to display lyrics and other stuff. How do you add them to the UI? Let me show you.

Go to View -> Layout and click Enable Layout Mode. This means you're now free to move the Lego bricks around. Now go to any panel you want to switch out or add stuff to, and right-click on it.

Click on Replace UI Element and you'll get a list of app level functions and at the end will be your downloaded components under the Utility banner. Select the one you want, click OK and the panel will be replaced.

If don't want to replace it, select Splitter from the list. It will split the panel into half and give you a blank panel. From there right-click and add a new component just like you did above.

The Best Plugins For Foobar2000

1. Columns UI

The first recommended plugin for any Foobar2000 beginner is the one that brings a different take on the UI. Columns UI takes a columnar approach to the layout and makes it much easier to swap out or add new components. After you've installed the plugin, go to Layout and select Live Editing.

Now right-click on any component and you get options to switch out panels, add separators and new components directly in this menu, as you can see in the screenshot below. It's much easier this way.

2. Lyrics Show Panel

No power user's music player is complete without a lyrics plugin and Lyrics Show Panel is the best option for Foobar2000.

3. Audioscrobbler

Use Last.fm to scrobble your songs and discover new music? Get this plugin for Foobar2000.

4. Graphic Equalizer

Every sound system can use a bit of customization, especially the computer speakers. Get the audio output just the way to want with Graphic Equalizer.

5. Podcatcher

Podcatcher is an easy way to download and listen to the latest episodes from your favorite podcasts. You'll have to input the RSS feed manually but once you've done that, you're all set.

6. Discogs Tagger

The last thing you want in a superbly customized music player is songs without proper metadata. Discogs Tagger uses the website's generous repository of song metadata to bring your song collection up to date with data and album art.

7. Playlist Organizer

Best ifr flight simulator for mac. Organize your playlists in a branched tree fashion (like folders) for easy navigation with Playlist Organizer.

Your Foobar2000

What does your Foobar2000 look like? Out of this world? Show us in the comments below.

Did You Know

The Apple Watch lets you stream music even if you don't have the phone with you.

More in Windows

Top 3 Fixes for Camera Not Working on Windows 10 PC

Overview

Foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP. It supports a large number of audio file formats including MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND and more with additional components. With it, you can custimize user-interface, organise metadata, files, and folders. In addition, foobar2000 supports for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the converter component.

If you just switched to Mac from Windows system, you may also want to run Foobar2000 on your Mac to take care of music playing on Mac, but only disappointed to find that there is actually no Foobar2000 for Mac. In fact, you are only one of those who search for Foobar2000 for Mac or at least a Foobar similar for Mac, or Foobar replacement for Mac or Foobar alterntaive for Mac. TechiSky will introduce several Foobar for Mac alternatives and their shortcomings in the following.

Free Foobar for Mac Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks Alternatives

• Cog: Cog is a free OS X music player with lots of audio formats supported such as Ogg, Musepack, Monkeys Audio, Shorten, Musepack. Cog cannot convert CD or audio formats. Though the latest version developed in February, 2009, many OS X Lion users reported it works well in OS X Mountain lion. Some people may find Cog crash on Mountain lion.
• Play: Play from Sbooth is an application for playing and managing audio files. It supports playback of FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats. Sbooth may crash on some Macs running OS X Mountain lion. Play is unable to convert CD or audios. Play processes all audio using 32-bit floating point precision, providing the highest possible playback quality for files sampled at all bit depths.
• Songbird: Songbird is an open sorce audio player for Mac. With it, you can play and manage your music and videos, build playlists, browse, and sort. Then sync your music to your portable music player or phone. Songbird does not support converting audio and CD. It was also reported that it crashes in Mountain Lion. Some people found that Songbird is too slow and too buggy.
• Vox: Vox 0.3 Beta is a FLAC player for Mac OS X which can only play FLAC files.

Commercial Foobar for Mac El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks Alternatives

• Decibel: Decibel from Sbooth (costs $33) is an audio player tailored to the particular needs of audiophiles. Decibel supports all popular lossless and lossy audio formats including FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, Speex, True Audio, Apple Lossless, AAC, MP3, WAVE and AIFF. Decibel processes all audio using 64-bit floating-point precision, providing the highest possible playback quality for files sampled at all bit depths. Play is unable to convert CD or audios.
• Amarra: Amarra by Sonic Studio integrates with iTunes, or can be used stand-alone importing tracks into a playlist with one click from the Finder or iTunes. It supports for sample rates up to 384 kHz. Amarra costs $189 or more and the licence either requires an iLok USB key or the software is locked to a single computer which can't be transferred.
• BitPerfect: BitPerfect is an Mac OS X app available on Mac App Store at the price of $9.99. BitPerfect is a simple, easy to use, audiophile grade music player that works with iTunes to deliver the highest possible sound quality.
• Amarra: Amarra by Audiophile Engineering has a main window that looks like a piece of high-end hi-fi gear, but far more classy than that of audirvana, it has the ability to play music directly from iTunes playlists without needing to have iTunes running. Also included are a selection of on-the-fly resampling methods, including iZotope and remote control software for the iPhone and iPod Touch available in the App Store. Amarra costs $19.99.
• Pure Music: Pure Music ($7.99 to buy) by Channel D integrates with iTunes, running in a window alongside and can re-sample music on the fly. Pure Music requires iTunes to be running to select tracks, but offers a considerable slew of other options.
• Swinsian: Swinsian ($19.99 to buy) is designed to entirely replace iTunes, including iDevice sync support. It has, among other features Last.fm integration, watch folders, device sync transcoding rules, a duplicate finder and Airplay support.

Foobar Equivalent For Mac

TechiSky's Favor: iTunes is the best free Foobar for Mac (macOS Mojave, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks included)

TechiSky has tried many music players for Mac till he wrote this article and found there is always something missing in the players. Some free audio players crash on Mountain Lion and do not support OS X 10.9 Mavericks or OS X Yosemite 10.10, El Capitan 10.11, macOS 10.12 Sierra or Mojave. The price of commercial audio players for OS X is so high but do not work as expected. So after trying so many OS X audio players, TechiSky found iTunes is still TechiSky's favor. iTunes may be crap on Windows but is really great on Mac. It's true iTunes can only play Apple friendly audio formats like MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless ALAC, AIFF, but we can free convert FLAC, APE, CAF, etc to iTunes supported audio. Considering other audio players may mass your music, costs higher than their price lists, unbearable crashes, etc., it's deserve to convert to use iTunes to manage your music library, especially you have a large music library.

Software to use for convert audio to iTunes supported formats on Mac OS X (Mojave/Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks/Mountain Lion included)

Foobar For Mac Download

This pack includes every natively supported free encoder binary for use with the Converter foobar2000 component. The binaries are conveniently installed into a subfolder of the foobar2000 installation folder. Current versions of foobar2000 will automatically recognize these encoders and no longer ask you for encoder binary location.

• For older PCs, check foobar2000 v1.5 series on old versions page. Additional downloads. Browse official components Browse all components Free Encoder Pack: encoder binaries for the Converter component Old versions of foobar2000. Foobar2000 for Mac foobar2000 for Mac web site.
• Super Audio CD Decoder input plugin for foobar2000. Decoder is capable of playing back Super Audio CD ISO images, DSDIFF, DSF and DSD WavPack files.

We've already talked about the best ways to build a UI suitable to your needs in the linked article above, so today let's focus on adding functionality and components.

How To Install Components (Plugins)

All the supported components are listed on this page but you're free to download it from anywhere. Once downloaded, unzip the file to a destination you remember

Open Foobar2000, go to Library -> Configure and select Components from the left menu. You can either select the Install button and browse to the location of the downloaded file or just drag and drop the file to the components list. Select Apply to install the components, you should know that it will require restarting the app.

How To Configure Plugins In The Default Interface

So you downloaded some plugins to display lyrics and other stuff. How do you add them to the UI? Let me show you.

Go to View -> Layout and click Enable Layout Mode. This means you're now free to move the Lego bricks around. Now go to any panel you want to switch out or add stuff to, and right-click on it.

Click on Replace UI Element and you'll get a list of app level functions and at the end will be your downloaded components under the Utility banner. Select the one you want, click OK and the panel will be replaced.

If don't want to replace it, select Splitter from the list. It will split the panel into half and give you a blank panel. From there right-click and add a new component just like you did above.

The Best Plugins For Foobar2000

1. Columns UI

The first recommended plugin for any Foobar2000 beginner is the one that brings a different take on the UI. Columns UI takes a columnar approach to the layout and makes it much easier to swap out or add new components. After you've installed the plugin, go to Layout and select Live Editing.

Now right-click on any component and you get options to switch out panels, add separators and new components directly in this menu, as you can see in the screenshot below. It's much easier this way.

2. Lyrics Show Panel

No power user's music player is complete without a lyrics plugin and Lyrics Show Panel is the best option for Foobar2000.

3. Audioscrobbler

Use Last.fm to scrobble your songs and discover new music? Get this plugin for Foobar2000.

4. Graphic Equalizer

Every sound system can use a bit of customization, especially the computer speakers. Get the audio output just the way to want with Graphic Equalizer.

5. Podcatcher

Podcatcher is an easy way to download and listen to the latest episodes from your favorite podcasts. You'll have to input the RSS feed manually but once you've done that, you're all set.

6. Discogs Tagger

The last thing you want in a superbly customized music player is songs without proper metadata. Discogs Tagger uses the website's generous repository of song metadata to bring your song collection up to date with data and album art.

7. Playlist Organizer

Best ifr flight simulator for mac. Organize your playlists in a branched tree fashion (like folders) for easy navigation with Playlist Organizer.

Your Foobar2000

What does your Foobar2000 look like? Out of this world? Show us in the comments below.

Did You Know

The Apple Watch lets you stream music even if you don't have the phone with you.

More in Windows

Top 3 Fixes for Camera Not Working on Windows 10 PC

Overview

Foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP. It supports a large number of audio file formats including MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND and more with additional components. With it, you can custimize user-interface, organise metadata, files, and folders. In addition, foobar2000 supports for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the converter component.

If you just switched to Mac from Windows system, you may also want to run Foobar2000 on your Mac to take care of music playing on Mac, but only disappointed to find that there is actually no Foobar2000 for Mac. In fact, you are only one of those who search for Foobar2000 for Mac or at least a Foobar similar for Mac, or Foobar replacement for Mac or Foobar alterntaive for Mac. TechiSky will introduce several Foobar for Mac alternatives and their shortcomings in the following.

Free Foobar for Mac Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks Alternatives

• Cog: Cog is a free OS X music player with lots of audio formats supported such as Ogg, Musepack, Monkeys Audio, Shorten, Musepack. Cog cannot convert CD or audio formats. Though the latest version developed in February, 2009, many OS X Lion users reported it works well in OS X Mountain lion. Some people may find Cog crash on Mountain lion.
• Play: Play from Sbooth is an application for playing and managing audio files. It supports playback of FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats. Sbooth may crash on some Macs running OS X Mountain lion. Play is unable to convert CD or audios. Play processes all audio using 32-bit floating point precision, providing the highest possible playback quality for files sampled at all bit depths.
• Songbird: Songbird is an open sorce audio player for Mac. With it, you can play and manage your music and videos, build playlists, browse, and sort. Then sync your music to your portable music player or phone. Songbird does not support converting audio and CD. It was also reported that it crashes in Mountain Lion. Some people found that Songbird is too slow and too buggy.
• Vox: Vox 0.3 Beta is a FLAC player for Mac OS X which can only play FLAC files.

Commercial Foobar for Mac El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks Alternatives

• Decibel: Decibel from Sbooth (costs $33) is an audio player tailored to the particular needs of audiophiles. Decibel supports all popular lossless and lossy audio formats including FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, Speex, True Audio, Apple Lossless, AAC, MP3, WAVE and AIFF. Decibel processes all audio using 64-bit floating-point precision, providing the highest possible playback quality for files sampled at all bit depths. Play is unable to convert CD or audios.
• Amarra: Amarra by Sonic Studio integrates with iTunes, or can be used stand-alone importing tracks into a playlist with one click from the Finder or iTunes. It supports for sample rates up to 384 kHz. Amarra costs $189 or more and the licence either requires an iLok USB key or the software is locked to a single computer which can't be transferred.
• BitPerfect: BitPerfect is an Mac OS X app available on Mac App Store at the price of $9.99. BitPerfect is a simple, easy to use, audiophile grade music player that works with iTunes to deliver the highest possible sound quality.
• Amarra: Amarra by Audiophile Engineering has a main window that looks like a piece of high-end hi-fi gear, but far more classy than that of audirvana, it has the ability to play music directly from iTunes playlists without needing to have iTunes running. Also included are a selection of on-the-fly resampling methods, including iZotope and remote control software for the iPhone and iPod Touch available in the App Store. Amarra costs $19.99.
• Pure Music: Pure Music ($7.99 to buy) by Channel D integrates with iTunes, running in a window alongside and can re-sample music on the fly. Pure Music requires iTunes to be running to select tracks, but offers a considerable slew of other options.
• Swinsian: Swinsian ($19.99 to buy) is designed to entirely replace iTunes, including iDevice sync support. It has, among other features Last.fm integration, watch folders, device sync transcoding rules, a duplicate finder and Airplay support.

Foobar Equivalent For Mac

TechiSky's Favor: iTunes is the best free Foobar for Mac (macOS Mojave, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks included)

TechiSky has tried many music players for Mac till he wrote this article and found there is always something missing in the players. Some free audio players crash on Mountain Lion and do not support OS X 10.9 Mavericks or OS X Yosemite 10.10, El Capitan 10.11, macOS 10.12 Sierra or Mojave. The price of commercial audio players for OS X is so high but do not work as expected. So after trying so many OS X audio players, TechiSky found iTunes is still TechiSky's favor. iTunes may be crap on Windows but is really great on Mac. It's true iTunes can only play Apple friendly audio formats like MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless ALAC, AIFF, but we can free convert FLAC, APE, CAF, etc to iTunes supported audio. Considering other audio players may mass your music, costs higher than their price lists, unbearable crashes, etc., it's deserve to convert to use iTunes to manage your music library, especially you have a large music library.

Software to use for convert audio to iTunes supported formats on Mac OS X (Mojave/Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks/Mountain Lion included)

Foobar For Mac Download

Foobar2000 For Mac

To convert CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND, APE, CAF, etc to iTunes supported MP3, AAC, M4A, AIFF and Apple Lossless ALAC, you can hire the free OS X audio converter MAX or X Lossless Decoder. Light cyan ink code l800. You can also use professional audio converter like Xilisoft Audio Converter Pro to convert your audio files to iTunes supported formats. Visit TechiSky's article dBpoweramp for Mac to learn more about best free and professional audio converter for Mac (Mojave/Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks/Mountain Lion included).