He created foobar2000 with the audiophile community in mind. The core is closed source, whereas the SDK is licensed under the Three-Clause BSD license.įoobar2000 was first released in 2002 and developed by Peter Pawłowski, who had previously worked at Nullsoft and developed plugins for Winamp.
There are a number of official and third-party components which add many additional features. To maximize audio fidelity in cases where resampling or downscaling in bit depth is required, it provides noise shaping and dithering. foobar2000 offers third-party user interface modifications through a software development kit (SDK).įoobar2000 supports many audio file formats, has many features for organizing metadata, files, and folders, and has a converter interface for use with command line encoders. Standard 'skin' elements can be individually augmented or replaced with different dials and buttons, as well as visualizers such as waveform, oscilloscope, spectrum, spectrogram (waterfall), peak and smoothed VU meters. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in configuration and customization. Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows NT, macOSįoobar2000 (often abbreviated as fb2k or f2k) is a freeware audio player for Microsoft Windows, iOS and Android developed by Peter Pawłowski.
