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Foobar2000 is a highly customizable and lightweight media player designed for Windows. The user interface can be customized and modified to act like almost any other media player. A variety of innovative features are included.
MSRP $0.00
Release date December, 2002
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Released January, 2001
Pros
- Easy-to-use synching with iPod device
- Clean, slick, easy to use interface.
- Excellent support for podcasts, mostly free podcast subscriptions.
Cons
- Installs many services and bloatware
- Slows down Windows
- High startup time on Windows
foobar2000
53%
vs.
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47%
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Released June, 1997
Pros
- Extensive plugin support
- Not a computer resource hog like WMP
- Great UI, with easy to access library, playlist, EQ, visualization, etc.
Cons
- Windows Only
- default installation includes a lot of useless bloat
- owned by AOL
foobar2000
59%
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41%
MSRP $0.00
Released December, 2008
Pros
- expandable with extensions
- cross-platform
- stable
Cons
- still missing many standard features
- internal browser is somewhat useless
- No PowerPC build for Mac
foobar2000
67%
vs.
Songbird
33%
MSRP $0.00
Released February, 2001
Pros
- Supports lots of codecs
- Does not use much memory and opens quickly
- Available for Windows and Macintosh
Cons
- Can't select multiple objects and have them play in succession
- Can't handle dynamic soft subtitles as well as some competitors.
- Artifacts sometimes appear when skipping through some filetypes.
foobar2000
100%
vs.
VLC media player
0%
MSRP --
Released January, 2006
Pros
- Automatically tag and Album Art lookup
- Auto volume leveling
- Auto tagging
- Audio CD ripping
Cons
- PC Only
- Separate for-pay "gold" version
foobar2000
100%
vs.
MediaMonkey
0%
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Released May, 2009
BonkEnc is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular audio formats. It can rip to and transcode between MP3, MP4/AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WAV and supports Winamp input plugins to allow decoding of more formats. BonkEnc also integrates freedb queries and supports writing ID3v2, Vorbis Comment and MP4...
foobar2000
100%
vs.
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0%
Reviews
April 1, 2009
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reviewer
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Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
- Supports many tagging formats for metadata
- built in ReplayGain
- built in transcoder
Cons
- Windows only
- does not work with some media keyboards, or difficult to configure.
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November 11, 2009
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reviewer
Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
- Supports many tagging formats for metadata
- built in ReplayGain
- built in transcoder
Cons
- does not work with some media keyboards, or difficult to configure.
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Friday, 8:31 AM
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reviewer
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love it
Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
- Supports many tagging formats for metadata
- built in ReplayGain
Competitors
Fugazi prefers
foobar2000 over
Winamp
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September 2, 2009
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reviewer
Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
- Supports many tagging formats for metadata
- built in ReplayGain
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July 11, 2009
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reviewer
Pros
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
- built in ReplayGain
- built in transcoder
Cons
Did not agree with any cons
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March 28, 2009
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Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
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July 11, 2008
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Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
Competitors
cazssiew prefers
foobar2000 over
Winamp
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July 11, 2008
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reviewer
Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
- Supports many tagging formats for metadata
Cons
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October 29, 2009
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Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
- Supports a wide range of audio codecs
Cons
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February 7, 2008
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Pros
- limited memory usage
- highly customizable
Cons
- does not work with some media keyboards, or difficult to configure.
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