foobar2000 Components

For foobar2000 v1.4 and newer

List components designed for foobar2000 v2.0+

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Components listed here are compatible with foobar2000 v1.4 and newer. They work on Windows XP and do not require any special instruction sets from the CPU.


ComponentDescriptionLast Updated
Audio MD5 v0.6.1A tool for generating and verifying MD5 checksum of audio data. Uses ffmpeg.exe and supports all formats FFmpeg supports. 2022-01-19 15:57
Amplifier DSP v1.0.2A simple volume adjustment DSP allowing the signal amplitude to be both boosted and lowered. 2018-04-07 18:10
Crossmix DSP v0.1Mixes the beginning of the next track over the ending of the previous track without any fading. 2019-09-01 14:14
Smart Dither DSP v1.0.7TPDF dither DSP that leaves digital silence untouched. 2021-11-14 14:01
Downmixer DSP v1.0Downmixes source to the selected output format. 2020-08-15 11:43
Fade In/Out DSP v1.0.5Allows adding linear, sine, cosine, or logarithmic shaped fade-in and fade-out effects. 2019-10-06 15:49
Fake Gapless DSP v0.4Briefly fades track changes to silence to avoid glitches with gapless tracks when encoded with lossy codecs. Meant to be used with the Converter component when creating files for portable players. 2018-01-07 00:10
Hard Clip DSP v1.0.1Clips peaks forcing foobar2000 output to match players that don't support floating point output. 2018-04-07 17:26
mda Dither DSP v0.1Range of dither types for word-length reduction. Almost direct conversion of Paul Kellett's VST plug-in. 2018-07-24 23:00
Meier Crossfeed DSP v1.1.1Software implementation of Meier Audio's crossfeed. 2018-01-07 00:10
Gap Killer DSP v0.4.2Removes silence from track transitions. 2019-01-26 21:22
Gap Killer DSP v0.4.4Removes silence from track transitions. Alternative work-in-progress version with manually configurable threshold. 2020-02-22 14:32
Pregap DSP v1.0.5Inserts silence before real playback begins. For use with slowly initializing digital receivers. 2019-12-15 11:22
ReplayGain DSP v0.2.8Alternative RG implementation with smart RG mode selection based on playback mode and playlist contents, automatic loudness estimation for tracks with missing RG info and different methods for clipping prevention. 2021-07-26 07:00
Skip Silence DSP v1.0.3Automatically fast forwards over extended periods of silence. Now a built-in feature but this component allows leaving in longer silence. 2018-01-07 00:10
SRC Resampler DSP v1.0.12Secret Rabbit Code resampler. Uses libsamplerate 0.2.1. 2021-02-20 09:58
Trifield LR→LRC Decoder DSP v1.1.2Implementation of Michael Gerzon's Trifield decoder. 2018-08-27 15:26
Vocal Exciter DSP v1.0.1Adds harmonically related distortion to high frequencies to give more presence. Based on similarly named Audacity plug-in. 2018-01-07 00:10
Dynamic Decoder Info v1.0.6Exposes the decoded sample rate, number of channels and bitdepth to components that can only use static information natively. 2020-09-23 19:00
External Tags v1.5.12Adds tagging support for non-taggable file formats. 2021-11-08 19:32
TAK Decoder v0.5.7A TAK decoder component. 2022-07-15 13:52
V2M Decoder v0.2.4Farbrausch V2 module (V2M) decoder. 2018-04-14 11:52
No Display Standby v1.1.2Disables monitor power saving feature while music is playing. 2018-01-07 00:10
No Sleep v1.0Prevents system from entering standby mode while foobar2000 is running. 2018-03-06 18:59
WASAPI shared output v0.6.16Shared mode WASAPI output for Vista and newer Windows versions. This component tries to provide smoother volume adjustment and seek/pause/stop transitions than existing outputs. 2020-12-27 07:37
WASAPI shared output (debug) v0.6.16dShared mode WASAPI output debug version. Monitors buffer filling timings and some other issues and reports problems on console.
  • 0.6.16d (2020-12-27): Added advanced config setting to adjust the quality scale of the automatic resampler.
  • 0.6.15d (2020-10-10): Fixed mix format reading to not require WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure.
  • 0.6.14d (2020-08-04): Added 22.2 channel downmixer.
  • 0.6.13d (2020-07-25): Fixed playback of very short tracks. Removed unnecessary reporting of buffer going empty at the end of playback.
  • 0.6.12d (2020-06-29): Added ability to play over 8 channel audio content with missing channel mapping.
  • 0.6.11d (2020-06-27): Ignore device disappearing error when playback is paused.
  • 0.6.10d (2020-06-24): Improved standby handling. Playback should no longer error out when the machine is resumed from sleep.
  • 0.6.9d (2020-06-16): Added standby event handling.
  • 0.6.8d (2019-09-28): Removed locks from the playback thread. Added error details previously only shown on console to the error popup
2020-12-27 07:36
Play Next v0.2.1Adds the selected track to the beginning of the playback queue to be played next. 2018-01-07 00:10
Enqueue Random v0.4.1Enqueues random item from current playlist. 2018-01-07 00:10
Recorder v0.2.1Record audio from selected sound card input. 2019-04-11 11:32
Renamer v0.3.0An alternative file renamer for people who wish to configure reserved character replacement rules manually. 2020-04-19 09:10
Seek to Time v0.3Allows defining timestamps to directly seek to with keyboard shortcuts. 2019-12-03 16:24
Skip Track v1.35Skips tracks that match user configurable title formatting string. By default skips over each track with Rating set to 1. 2022-07-01 16:38
Skip Album v0.3Allows quickly jumping to the next or previous album. 2020-06-15 19:17
Stop After Queue v1.2.1Stops playback at the end of the playback queue. 2020-10-18 06:11
Stop on Current v0.6.1Stops playback at the end of currently playing track. 2018-01-07 00:10
Stop on Error v0.6Stops playback after user configurable number of tracks that fail to be decoded. 2018-05-06 10:20
Tag Normalizer v0.2Normalizes Unicode characters in tags. 2018-03-15 23:57
UPnP WAV Playback Workaround DSP v1.1Workaround DSP for UPnP receivers that do not support LPCM. If the receiver is sent continuous WAV stream the playback stops once maximum size is reached. To be used with foo_out_upnp. 2019-07-07 15:26
Waveform Minibar (mod) v1.0.51Seekbar that shows the waveform of the track. Lighter, fully software implemented version of the original Waveform Seekbar. Heavily based on zao's excellent Minibar component. 2022-09-03 09:01
Bookmark File v0.1Keeps the name and the playback position of the last played track stored in an external bookmark file. Allows synchronizing playback position between different machines you use foobar2000 on. 2018-03-09 18:45