foobar2000 Components

For foobar2000 v1.5 and newer

List foobar2000 v1.4+ components (last versions with Windows XP support)

List older foobar2000 v1.1+ components

These components are designed for foobar2000 v2.0.

They are compatible with foobar2000 v1.5 and newer but require at least Windows 7 and CPU with SSE2 instruction set.

The components support both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the player and they handle dark mode.


ComponentDescriptionLast Updated
Audio MD5 v0.6.5A tool for generating and verifying MD5 checksum of audio data. Uses ffmpeg.exe and supports all formats FFmpeg supports. 2023-09-08 18:21
Amplifier DSP v1.0.4A simple volume adjustment DSP allowing the signal amplitude to be both boosted and lowered. 2023-03-16 12:06
Crossmix DSP v0.4Mixes the beginning of the next track over the ending of the previous track without any fading. 2023-10-13 19:09
Smart Dither DSP v1.0.9TPDF dither DSP that leaves digital silence untouched. 2023-03-16 12:06
Downmixer DSP v1.2Downmixes source to the selected output format. 2023-03-16 12:05
Fade In/Out DSP v1.0.7Allows adding linear, sine, cosine, or logarithmic shaped fade-in and fade-out effects. 2023-03-16 12:05
Fake Gapless DSP v0.6Briefly 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. 2023-03-16 12:05
Hard Clip DSP v1.0.3Clips peaks forcing foobar2000 output to match players that don't support floating point output. 2023-03-16 12:06
mda Dither DSP v0.3Range of dither types for word-length reduction. Almost direct conversion of Paul Kellett's VST plug-in. 2023-03-16 12:05
Gap Killer DSP v0.4.6Removes silence from track transitions. 2023-03-16 12:06
Pregap DSP v1.0.7Inserts silence before real playback begins. For use with slowly initializing digital receivers. 2023-03-16 12:06
Skip Silence DSP v1.0.5Automatically fast forwards over extended periods of silence. Now a built-in feature but this component allows leaving in longer silence. 2023-03-16 12:05
ReplayGain DSP v0.2.10Alternative 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. 2023-03-16 12:05
SRC Resampler DSP v1.0.14Secret Rabbit Code resampler. Uses libsamplerate 0.2.1. 2023-03-16 12:05
Trifield LR→LRC Decoder DSP v1.1.4Implementation of Michael Gerzon's Trifield decoder. 2023-03-16 12:05
Vocal Exciter DSP v1.0.3Adds harmonically related distortion to high frequencies to give more presence. Based on similarly named Audacity plug-in. 2023-03-16 12:06
External Tags v1.5.14Adds tagging support for non-taggable file formats. 2023-03-16 12:05
TAK Decoder v0.5.8Decoder for TAK - (T)om's lossless (A)udio (K)ompressor. 2023-03-16 12:05
TTA Audio Decoder v4.0.2TTA decoder component. Slightly improved version of Aleksander Djuric's original foo_input_tta. 2023-11-30 19:52
V2M Decoder v0.2.8Farbrausch V2 module (V2M) decoder. 2023-07-27 14:43
No Display Standby v1.1.4Disables monitor power saving feature while music is playing. 2023-03-16 12:05
No Sleep v1.2Prevents system from entering standby mode while foobar2000 is running. 2023-03-16 12:05
WASAPI shared output v0.6.21Shared mode WASAPI output for Vista and newer Windows versions. This component tried to provide smoother volume adjustment and seek/pause/stop transitions than existing outputs. Now core supports identical features.
  • 0.6.21 (2023-09-15): Reduced delay before playback actually stops when hitting stop. Updated to the latest SDK.
  • 0.6.20 (2023-09-11): Changed some error messages to be more clear. Increased timeout before stopping playback forcefully terminates the playback thread in case it's not responding.
  • 0.6.19 (2023-03-16): Recompile with latest SDK and foobar2000 v1.5 compatibility.
  • 0.6.18 (2022-09-11): Fixed a bug that playback didn't automatically stop after the last track under certain conditions.
  • 0.6.17 (2022-02-05): Support for foobar2000 64-bit version
  • 0.6.16 (2020-12-27): Added advanced config setting to adjust the quality scale of the automatic resampler.
  • 0.6.15 (2020-10-10): Fixed mix format reading to not require WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure.
  • 0.6.14 (2020-08-04): Added 22.2 channel downmixer.
  • 0.6.13 (2020-07-25): Fixed playback of very short tracks.
  • 0.6.12 (2020-06-29): Added ability to play over 8 channel audio content with missing channel mapping.
  • 0.6.11 (2020-06-27): Ignore device disappearing error when playback is paused.
  • 0.6.10 (2020-06-24): Improved standby handling. Playback should no longer error out when the machine is resumed from sleep.
  • 0.6.9 (2020-06-16): Added standby event handling.
  • 0.6.8 (2019-09-28): Removed locks from the playback thread. Added error details previously only shown on console to the error popup
  • 0.6.7 (2019-09-03): Fixed stuttering with extreme downsampling ratios. Problem was introduced by the processing change in v0.6.5.
  • 0.6.6 (2019-06-28): Reduced the glitch size when default audio device changes and buffer gets converted to the new format. Fixed player getting stuck when pausing a short track (bug introduced in 0.6.5)
  • 0.6.5 (2019-06-27): Fixed player UI freeze while processing very large audio chunks
  • 0.6.4 (2019-06-22): Fixed noise issue during channel count change when automatic resampling was active
  • 0.6.3a (2019-06-17): Version 0.6.2 introduced glitches when buffer refill events were signalled too early. Restored the retry logic for most parts to match v0.6.1
  • 0.6.3 (2019-06-17): Fixed fade-in missing when initial playback didn't start from the beginning of a track
  • 0.6.2 (2019-06-15): Fixed audio glitches when switching tracks. Changed playback thread not to abort so easily on buffering problems. Increased the fade duration to 50 ms to improve interpolation smoothness
  • 0.6.1 (2019-04-07): Reverted the 0.6 buffering change. Default device change mid-playback will now resample and convert the already buffered samples to new target format. The transition isn't as smooth as with 0.6 but better than in prior versions. Fixed a glitch when seeking while paused
  • 0.6 (2019-03-31): Buffer is no longer flushed when using the default device and the device changes mid-playback. Added a short fade-in after default device change
  • 0.5.8 (2019-03-21): Improved compatibility with audio drivers that signal events incorrectly
  • 0.5.7 (2019-03-14): Mixer setting report now includes channel mask configuration
  • 0.5.6 (2019-03-09): The output device was incorrectly reinitialized when default changed even when not using default output
  • 0.5.5 (2019-03-09): Made default output notice changes and automatically switch to new device
  • 0.5.4 (2019-02-15): Hopefully fixed playback thread init failure related crashing
  • 0.5.3 (2019-01-31): Added COM library initialization to device enumerator
  • 0.5.2 (2018-10-29): Fixed crash on device close
  • 0.5.1 (2018-10-27): Volume adjustment was incorrectly delayed during initial playback start
  • 0.5 (2018-10-18): Fixed glitching with sub 100 ms output buffers, the component incorrectly played silence when its buffer went empty. Eliminated need for Sleep() which should make the component immune to timer resolution fluctuations
  • 0.4.1 (2018-10-15): Fixed device identification by GUID
  • 0.4 (2018-10-13): Improved error handling
  • 0.3 (2018-10-06): Fixed inability to start playback in paused state. Made volume adjustment smoother. Further reduced glitching with seeking. Attempts to reinitialize output device on error
  • 0.2 (2018-09-30): First public version
2023-09-15 08:32
WASAPI shared output (debug) v0.6.21dShared mode WASAPI output with extra diagnostics. Monitors buffer filling timings and some other issues and reports problems on console. 2023-09-15 08:32
XAudio2 output v0.4.2XAudio2 output for Windows 7 and newer. 2024-03-14 19:36
XAudio2 output (debug) v0.4.2XAudio2 output version with extra diagnostics. Monitors possible playback glitches and reports issues on console in real time. 2024-03-14 19:36
Play NextAdds the selected track to the beginning of the playback queue to be played next. 2023-03-16 12:05
Recorder v0.2.3Record audio from selected sound card input. 2023-03-16 12:05
Renamer v0.3.5An alternative file renamer for people who wish to configure reserved character replacement rules manually. 2024-01-13 07:04
Reset Stop after current v0.1Replicates the core feature 'Reset the above when stopping' for 'Stop after current' so that it can be added to the UI as a button. 2024-01-06 09:42
Seek to Time v0.5Allows defining timestamps to directly seek to with keyboard shortcuts. 2023-03-16 12:05
Skip Track v1.39Skips tracks that match user configurable title formatting string. By default skips over each track with Rating set to 1. 2024-01-09 17:08
Stop After Queue v1.2.3Stops playback at the end of the playback queue. 2023-03-16 12:06
Stop on Current v0.6.3Stops playback at the end of currently playing track. 2023-03-16 12:05
Stop on Error v0.6.2Stops playback after user configurable number of tracks that fail to be decoded. 2023-03-16 12:05
Tag Normalizer v0.2.2Normalizes Unicode characters in tags. 2023-03-16 12:05
Waveform Minibar (mod) v1.2.58Seekbar 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. 2024-01-16 11:24
BPM AnalyserRecompile of foo_bpm by Michael Balzer/Holger Stenger. Added support for dark mode and 64-bit foobar2000. 2023-10-06 08:00
Stereo Convolution DSPRecompile of foo_dsp_stereoconv by Eric Larson. Added support for dark mode and 64-bit foobar2000. 2022-08-28 17:44
VLevelRecompile/update of foo_dsp_vlevel by wiesl/wore/Tom Felker/ssamadhi97/G-Lite. Fixed crash bugs, added support for dark mode and 64-bit foobar2000. 2023-08-27 19:22
Cuesheet Creator v0.4.6dRecompile of foo_cuesheet_creator by Synthetic Soul. Adjusted for the latest SDK and added 64-bit support. 2023-08-29 10:09
fdk-aac packet decoderRecompile of foo_pd_aac by kode54. Added 64-bit support. 2022-09-06 06:45
Taskbar Playback Progress BarRecompile of foo_taskbar_playback_progress_bar by Alexey V. Grishin. Fixed potential divide by zero crash and added 64-bit support. 2022-09-25 07:01