Foobar2000 components, also known as fb2k is a free audio player that is compatible with Windows Operating System, iOS devices, and Android devices. The audio player is popular for its user-interface customization configuration and its varieties of features. It can support many audio file formats such as MP1, MP2, MP3, Opus, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, SND, CD, Speex, ALAC, WMA, etc.
Foobar2000 audio players also can read inside RAR, ZIP, and GZIP archives with the help of Foobar2000 components. All these abilities of Foobar2000 audio players are attributed to its featured components as mentioned above. The audio player has several Foobar2000 components responsible for each of its performances and these Foobar2000 components of the audio player are discussed down below in this article for your reference.
- 7 – ZIP Reader 1.12: The 7-ZIP Reader component of Foobar2000 is responsible for unpacking 7-Zip archives (.7z) for use with any format that is supported by the audio player.
- 2SF Decoder 0.24.16: This Foobar2000 component enables us to decode the game music for Nintendo DS console, as it is ripped in the .2SF or .MINI2SF formats.
- AC3 Decoder 0.9.13: This component job is to decode .AC3 audio files and any stream that contains .AC3 format audio in other containers.
- Affix silence 0.0.10: The Affix silence 0.0.10 performs the role of inserting a configurable amount of silence after and before each track or before each track to aid external devices.
- ASAP Decoder 5.0.1: This decoder adds decoding support for the Atari 8-bit chiptunes in formats such as CMC, CMR, CMS, DMC, and SAP.
- Alternative ReplayGain 1.0: This component stores the replay-gain information in the Foobar2000 player.
- Audio CD Writer 3.0.3: This allows the user to be able to burn audio CDs from any of the supported audio formats through the context menu commands.
- Album list panel 0.4.0-beta.7: This is a Columns User Interface (UI) version of the album list on your audio player, it allows the user to browse the music library in a hierarchical structure.
- ASIO SUPPORT 2.1.2: This component provides the ASIO output support.
- AdPlug 1.50: The AdPlug 1.50 component decodes several old MSDOS and game formats specific to the AdLib or OPL2 sound chip.
- Autosave & Auto backup 10: This is responsible for the periodic automatic saving of configuration and other data and also for keeping backup copies in Foobar2000.
- Audioscrobbler 1.4.7: It is a Last.fm or Audioscrobbler component for Foobar2000.
- Binary Comparator 2.1.5: The role of this component in the Foobar2000 audio player is to perform a binary comparison between two or more tracks and then report the differences between the tracks.
- Beefweb Remote Control 0.4: This component provides a web interface and REST-like Application Programming Interface (API) for controlling the Foobar2000 audio player remotely.
BPM Analyser 0.2.4.6: The role of this is to analyze the BPM of audio files automatically. Classic User Interface 1.2:
- This is the default User Interface of the Foobar2000 audio player.
- Columns UI 1.4.1: This is an alternative User Interface (UI) that can be used in the Foobar2000 audio player.
- Chacon 3: This component is a tool for fixing tags by converting them between several character sets.
- Console panel 1.0.1: This is a Columns UI panel version of the console that displays the diagnostic messages.
- Command-Line Decoder Wrapper 0.5.3: This allows the user to comfortably play or convert any audio format with a standalone command-line.
- Coverflow 0.5.1: This is also known as foo_chronflow. It displays a three-dimensional (3D), animated, browses able cover-flow view of your library.
- Decoding Speed Test 1.2.5: This measures the decoding speed of the audio files in the Foobar2000 component.
- D-emphasis postprocessor 0.2: This component performs phono/RIAA CD de-emphasis either as a selectable DSP or decodes postprocessor.
- Deskband Controls 3.7.1: This a customizable windows-taskbar deskband.
- Dolby Headphone Wrapper 1.4.1: This is a Dolby Headphone technology component that gives its users the sound of a 5.1 surround system through any pair of headphones.
- Equalizer split 0.0.1: This is a meta-DSP that feeds each channel into a separate equalizer instance.
- File Integrity Verifier 1.3: The file integrity verifier performs the role of checking the specified media files for decoding errors but its accuracy is limited with most audio formats.
- Foobar2000 Advanced Controls 0.6.7.4: This component is responsible for controlling all the playback functions of Foobar2000 from icons on the taskbar.
- GSF Decoder 3.0.19: The GSF decoder decodes Gameboy Advance music in .MINIGSF or .GSF format.
- HDCD decoder 1.19: This component automatically decodes HDCD streams in 16-bit PCM that is passed through it and result in it to 20-bit PCM.
- Infospect 1.0.3: This displays the low-level playback information in Foobar2000.
- KDM Decoder 1.3: This decodes Ken Silverman’s .KDM music files.
- Keep Queue 0.3.5: Keep Queue prevents the playback queue from being removed when changing the song manually.
- LHA reader 1.13: This unpacks the archives in LHARC/LHA format with the aid of source code from an old Unix utility.
- Logitech LCD Display & Visualization 0.5.5: This component displays the visualizations and track information on several Logitech LCD screens.
- Masstagger 1.8.5: This performs the role of automating various tag editing operations.
- New Named Playlist 1.0: This component performs the same regular “New playlist” command with a customizable pattern in advanced configuration.
- Onewaysync 0.6.4: It exports playlists and their files to an MP3 compatible player such as Foobar2000.
- Playlist Attributes 0.5.5: To assign different attributes to a playlist, this is the Foobar2000 component that will help you with it.
- Playlist Organizer 2.6: This allows the user to organize his playlists in a treeview fashion.
- QSF Decoder 3.1.1: This Foobar2000 component helps to decode the game music for arcade machines which features the QSound hardware in the .QSF or .MINIQSF formats.
- QUICK Search Toolbar 3.6: This is a search toolbar in Foobar2000 that enables the search results to a playlist to be displayed.
- Replaygain Override 0.1.3: This component provides a way to specify the replay-gain mode to be used for each playback order.
- Run Command 1.1: This is responsible for finding and executing menu commands.
- Scheduler 4.19: This component adds support for scheduling actions such as stop, play, system shutdown, system wake up, etc.
- Skip Track 1.25: This allows the skipping of tracks that corresponds to a specified search query.
- Stop After Queue 1.1.1: This component stops playback at the end of the playback queue.
- Subwoofer 2.0: The Subwoofer component extracts bass from the source signal with the aid of the linear phase low-pass filter and sends it to the LFE channel.
- TagBox 0.212: This component performs the role of tag editing the UI element and standalone window.
- Timebomb 0.0.2: This is a menu component to stop or end playback after a configurable period.
- Unix archive reader 1.10: This unpacks archives in different Unix formats including GZIP .gz, .bz2, etc.
- USF Decoder 2.3.4: This Foobar2000 component helps to decode game music from the Nintendo 64 console since it is ripped in the .USF or .MINIUSF formats.
- V2M Decoder 0.2.4: This component is a Farbraush V2 module decoder.
- Vocal Exciter DSP 1.0.1: This adds harmonically related distortion to high frequencies to give more presence.
- WASAPI shared output 0.6.8: This component is a shared mode WASAPI output for Windows Vista and other newer Windows versions.
- Waveform Seekbar 0.2.45: This component is a UI element that provides a seek bar that displays the waveform of the song that is playing currently in Foobar2000.
- Youtube Source 3.6: This component adds the possibility to play YouTube playlists and videos directly by their URL.
- ZXTune Player 0.0.7: The ZXTune Player is a component player of music from ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, PC, Amiga, Acorn, C64, SNES, etc.
Wrapping Up
The above discussed are some of the Foobar2000 components. I hope you find this article to be useful.
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