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foobar2000 v2.26

👉 Advanced freeware audio player with tagging, conversion, replay gain, and customizable playback features.

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player designed for playing mainstream audio formats out of the box, with support for additional decoder components, gapless playback, advanced tagging, Audio CD ripping, transcoding, ReplayGain, internet radio, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and a flexible component architecture for extending functionality.




Features:
• Plays all mainstream audio formats out of the box
• Supports additional decoder components for more formats
• Gapless playback
• Stream music on your local network
• Easily customizable user interface layout
• Advanced tagging capabilities
• Audio CD ripping and audio transcoding
• Full ReplayGain support
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Built-in DSP effects with support for more through components
• Internet radio support
• Open component architecture for third-party extensions
• No telemetry or data collection

Supported operating systems:
• Windows 7 or newer
• macOS 11 Big Sur or newer

Supported languages:
• English

Changes:
v2.26 06-26-26
Converter changes
New preset format, presets stored as .ini files in profile subfolder. Old presets imported on first run.
Better error messages when receiving unexpected data format change in mid-conversion; made discard blank chunks before checking for format match.
Added extensible post-conversion actions which can be used for ReplayGain scanning, integrity testing, etc.
On conversion error, encoder's stderr output is forwarded to foobar2000 console.
Ogg chaining is now off by default, Ogg chapters written by default instead.
Added %source_list_index% & %source_list_total%, only for multi track image naming pattern use, to allow use of list indexes in the pattern.
Made file name preview recognize newly added %source_list_index%.
Made show output of command-line encoder program in error popup if conversion has failed.
Made "no DSP reset" explicitly shown in overview, as it's dangerous if enabled unintentionally.

ReplayGain Scanner changes
Added new interface for components to access ReplayGain scanning options.
Added option to write REPLAYGAIN_ALGORITHM tag.
Default mode is now more accurately named "ITU-R BS.1770".

Resampler technology updates
New resamplers: ARDFTSRC and Speex, replacing SSRC and libretro from previous versions. New resamplers provide better quality at comparable speeds / better speeds at comparable quality.
Cleaned up resampler settings, removed pointless "exclude rates" checkboxes, added explicit hints about formatting.
Made resampler priority setting accept short names of resamplers, e.g. "speex;ardftsrc".

Playback & file format handling changes
Added support for decoding TrueHD & MLP streams in Matroska.
New info field: container (MP4, Matroska, Ogg, etc)
Improved handling of Matroska Segment Title field.
Improved recovery of malformed UTF-8 text in various tag formats.
Made print name of file format handler used to console, after "opening track for playback".
More accurate on_playback_dynamic_info() timing, restored correct operation of OpenMPT visualizations.
Added advanced preferences toggle to turn off all subsong support, forcibly present 1 file as 1 playlist entry.
Faster opening of Matroska files.
Monkey's Audio format is now handled via FFmpeg.

MP4/M4A/M4B improvements
Tagtype info (Apple, Nero)
No longer writes Nero tags by default for single chapter files, only for multi chapter where other tagging formats can't store per track tags.
Added support for some rarely used Apple tag elements.
No longer alters binary structure of Apple tag elements which are not affected by edits.
More robust handling of unusual Apple tag fields.

General usability changes
New title formatting field: %_cpu_arch%
Added drag&drop from Internet Radio pages to playlist.
Attempt to play a password-protected resource such as radio stream now shows a password prompt.
Equalizer now accepts presets via drag&drop from Explorer/Finder.
Added "Play on" feature from foobar2000 mobile - accessible from playlist & internet radio context menu .
Made playlist sort operations recognize %queue_index% and other playlist specific fields.
Added "Playback Information" section to View menu, meant for components.
Made "Verify with AccurateRip" command available if your tracknumbers don't strictly match most common numbering scheme.
Added Help / Search Query Syntax.
Smarter "remove duplicates" code, made aware of various scenarios where different perceived paths point to same file.
Restored LargeFieldsConfig feature - https://www.foobar2000.org/LargeFieldsConfig-v2
Updated title formatting help with some recent and some not-really-recent additions.
File Operations: Made gracefully refuse to rename archive contents.

Networking
Improved reading of RAR archives on network shares.
Improved SMB read throughput over high-latency connections.

Windows specific changes
Advanced Preferences: Disabled Wine treeview workarounds if running Wine newer than 11.12.
Default User Interface: made render album art using Windows Imaging Component / Direct2D.
Enabled reading of EXIF orientation info from album cover pictures.
Libraries updated to newer versions: FFmpeg, Opus, zlib, RAR, 7-zip, SQLite

Mac specific changes
New icon made with Apple Icon Composer
Made playlist view receive copy/paste from Finder
Install components by drag&drop from Finder to components list.
Playlist Manager columns can be toggled.
Fixed jumpy seekbar on short tracks.
Fixed various issues with Audio Unit settings panels.
Implemented real Help menu.
Fixed File Operations destination being editable in "rename" mode.

iOS/Android specific changes
iOS: Restored A..Z index sidebar in varioius lists.
Various popup menus cleaned up.




👉 This download is for the Windows 64bit version (very bottom of page).
All other download assets are below:


Other Windows:
foobar2000_v2.26.exe (32bit)
foobar2000-arm64ec_v2.26.exe (ARM64)
Windows XP

MacOS:
foobar2000-v2.26.dmg

Android:
Google Play
foobar2000-mobile-v2.26-2026-10-02-arm32.apk
foobar2000-mobile-v2.26-2026-10-02-arm64.apk
foobar2000-mobile-v2.25.10-x86_32.apk
foobar2000-mobile-v2.25.10-x86_64.apk

iOS:
AppStore
foobar2000-mobile-v2.25.10.ipa


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6,754 20,894 foobar2000.org Oct 05, 2026 - 11:51 2.26 7.64MB EXE 5/5, out of 117 Votes.
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