foobar2000 Components

For foobar2000 v1.3 and v1.1

List components designed for foobar2000 v2.0+

List components for foobar2000 v1.4

Showing components compatible with foobar2000 v1.3 and newer. Most components are compatible down to foobar2000 v1.1.


ComponentDescriptionLast Updated
Waveform Minibar (mod) v1.0.19Seekbar 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.
  • 1.0.19 (2018-08-24): Added optional logarithmic scale for waveform display.
  • 1.0.18 (2018-08-14): Removed buggy color client entry from Columns UI color configuration. Made border style adjustment take effect immediately.
  • 1.0.17 (2018-07-16): Render cursor even in halted mode.
  • 1.0.16 (2018-07-14): Changed halt status into a saved setting. Unhalting will now automatically process the current waveform. Added experimental feature where automatic waveform extraction gets terminated when decoding happens too slowly.
  • 1.0.15 (2018-06-18): Added third waveform display method that prefers playing track and reverts to selected track in stopped state. Added menu command to temporarily stop waveform processing.
  • 1.0.14 (2018-05-29): Added option to reverse the mouse wheel seeking direction.
  • 1.0.13 (2018-05-27): Added vertical scaling setting for waveform. Fixed config having unintentionally editable comboboxes.
  • 1.0.12 (2018-03-02): Fixed a typo in the code so sync-with-library can actually be started. Changed SQLite not to allow opening the database in read-only mode. Made the component refuse to perform long scan operations if database can't be written. Added file names to console scan reports. Switched compression routines to use the zlib1.dll bundled by the player. Whitelisted tone:// and sweep:// protocols so their waveforms are shown.
  • 1.0.11 (2018-02-28): Added support for seeking with mouse wheel.
  • 1.0.10 (2018-02-25): Fixed crash with decode errors.
  • 1.0.9 (2018-02-23): Enabled waveform display for local files that report no length. Added a hack to allow seeking in non-seekable local files.
  • 1.0.8 (2018-01-21): Fix to waveform not updating when stopping from a paused state. Made waveform not disappear when layout is modified.
  • 1.0.7 (2018-01-20): Made refresh rate configurable. Screen updating is halted while playback is paused or stopped.
  • 1.0.6 (2018-01-10): Added option not to show the waveform for active track when player is started and nothing is playing.
  • 1.0.5 (2018-01-06): Fixed a situation where database was loaded too late and the first track after player start was rescanned unnecessarily.
  • 1.0.4 (2017-12-16): Fixed a bug that waveforms scanned with the context menu tool were always saved in the database. Added option to always show playback position cursor. Normally it's visible only when waveform can't be shown.
  • 1.0.3 (2017-12-11): Seekbar now allows starting playback of the viewed track from the selected position by clicking on the waveform. Modified selection based waveform viewing to require single selected track.
  • 1.0.2 (2017-12-09): Moved configuration from advanced preferences to regular preferences. Added ability to use UI colors and changed the waveform to use UI colors by default.
  • 1.0.1 (2017-12-08): Fixed scanning hanging with very short files
  • 1.0 (2017-12-07): First released modified version of zao's Waveform Minibar component. Changed database name not to conflict with the original. Added some safety checks to prevent crashing on errors. Modified the waveform display to show waveform shape for short files. Fixed RMS rendering not to overlap with waveform. Added ability to optionally show waveform for selected track instead of currently playing track.
2018-08-24 18:25
Vocal Exciter DSP v1.0Adds harmonically related distortion to high frequencies to give more presence. Based on similarly named Audacity plug-in.
  • 1.0 (2017-07-29): Initial version.
2017-01-28 23:00
V2M Decoder v0.2.4Farbrausch V2 module (V2M) decoder.
  • 0.2.4 (2018-04-14): Added tag reading. Without it the written APE tags were quite useless
  • 0.2.2 (2017-07-14): Fixed more potential memory leaks with corrupted files. Allows loading V2M files that have invalid speech data but are otherwise valid
  • 0.2.1 (2014-07-01): Fixed theoretical memory leaks. Fixed a crash caused by uninitialized speech synth memory with some files.
  • 0.2 (2014-06-22): Now uses the original assembler synthesizer when possible. Since it doesn't support multiple instances, additional decoder instances will use the c++ port.
  • 0.1 (2014-06-19): First public version. Contains several stability fixes to the decoder library and optional tag writing support.
2018-04-14 11:58
UPnP WAV Playback Workaround DSP v1.0Workaround 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.
  • 1.0 (2017-12-23): Initial version
2017-12-23 15:18
Trifield LR→LRC Decoder DSP v1.1.2Implementation of Michael Gerzon's Trifield decoder.
  • 1.1.2 (2018-08-27): Fixed left and right channels being reversed
  • 1.1 (2017-06-07): Added more information to the about dialog. Lowered minimum crossover frequency to 350 Hz. Removed 192 kHz upper limit for sampling frequency
  • 1.0 (2017-06-02): Initial version
2018-08-27 15:29
Tag Normalizer v0.2Normalizes Unicode characters in tags.
  • 0.2 (2018-03-16): Added information about the character changes to the result dialog. Possible file access problems are listed on the result dialog.
  • 0.1 (2018-03-11): Initial version
2018-03-16 00:05
Stop on Error v0.6Stops playback after user configurable number of tracks that fail to be decoded.
  • 0.6 (2018-05-06): Now checks for decoding errors with other protocols than file:// too.
  • 0.5 (2018-05-05): Can now stop playback also when files exist but can't be decoded.
  • 0.4 (2013-03-22): Fixed stopping on streams
  • 0.3 (2010-01-14): Detects file open errors a bit better now
  • 0.2 (2010-01-13): Fixed a crash bug on non standard input files (such as tone://). Added little configuration and removed playback menu entry
  • 0.1 (2010-01-10): First version
2018-05-06 10:23
Stop on Current v0.6Stops playback at the end of currently playing track.
  • 0.6 (2016-08-22): Removed leftover debug code, fixed Stop after current state resetting
  • 0.5 (2016-08-21): Fixed bugs
  • 0.4 (2009-06-18): Fix for failure to stop with very short tracks
  • 0.3 (2009-06-17): Changed stop to utilize Core's 'Stop After Current' + playback queue
  • 0.2 (2009-06-10): Changed stopping to work based on timer. One second accuracy only
  • 0.1 (2009-06-08): First version
2016-08-21 21:59
Stop After Queue v1.1Stops playback at the end of the playback queue.
  • 1.1 (2017-08-16): Reverted the change from v1.0 as it was a misunderstood feature request. Improved Stop after current state restoring
  • 1.0 (2017-08-14): Allows disabling overriding the Stop after current setting
  • 0.9 (2017-08-09): Doesn't stop at the end of the queue if user clears the queue
  • 0.8 (2017-08-09): Fixed a potential unitialized variable use
  • 0.7 (2016-08-09): Disables Stop after current when stopping if it was off initially
  • 0.6 (2016-08-07): Doesn't touch Stop after current state when playback stops
  • 0.5 (2016-08-04): Restores Stop after current state when appropriate
  • 0.4 (2016-08-02): Made the component disable Stop after current when adding new tracks to the queue. Fixed playback not stopping when the last track gets removed from the queue while playing the second last track
  • 0.3 (2016-06-11): Added option to reset after stop in Advanced Preferences -> Playback
  • 0.2 (2016-06-09): Changed the stopping method to use Stop after current functionality
  • 0.1 (2009-06-19): Initial version
2017-08-15 21:59
SRC Resampler DSP v1.0.8Secret Rabbit Code resampler. Uses libsamplerate 0.1.9.
  • 1.0.8 (2018-03-24): Added extra checks against malformed audio chunks
  • 1.0.7 (2018-03-19): Fixed resampler being listed twice on DSP Manager
  • 1.0.6 (2018-03-16): Fixed upsampling truncating the ending
  • 1.0.5 (2018-03-15): Added ability to exclude frequencies and frequency ranges
  • 1.0.4 (2018-01-28): Disabled ability to use linear and ZOH modes with resampler service. Fixed priority config to allow zero priority
  • 1.0.3 (2018-01-21): Added resampler service entry. Priority of the service can be configured in advanced preferences
  • 1.0.2 (2018-01-17): Added signal extrapolation to help with gapless track transitions when converting individual tracks
  • 1.0.1 (2018-01-15): Recompile with faster float-to-int conversion functions enabled
  • 1.0 (2018-01-15): Initial version
2018-03-24 21:51
Smart Dither DSP v1.0.4TPDF dither DSP that leaves digital silence untouched.
  • 1.0.4 (2017-01-26): Added option to disable high-pass filtering of the dither noise.
  • 1.0.3 (2017-01-05): Fixed DC offset introduced by bitdepth truncation.
  • 1.0.2 (2014-12-16): Truncates the audio signal to target bitdepth.
  • 1.0.1 (2014-07-03): Changed dither scale to 0.1 - 4.0 bits. Supports unlimited number of input channels. Changed default dither amount to 1.0 bits.
  • 1.0 (2014-04-13): Initial version.
2017-01-25 23:00
Skip Track v1.9.9Skips tracks that match user configurable title formatting string. By default skips over each track with Rating set to 1.
  • 1.9.9 (2017-08-15): Skipping the end of a track prevented Stop after current from working. Now playback is stopped in this case. Unfortunately cursor won't advance to the next track like it normally would
  • 1.9.8 (2016-04-17): Fixed incorrect behavior when using Previous-command after skipping a track
  • 1.9.7 (2015-01-05): Fixed conflicts between SKIP tag and other components that try to seek
  • 1.9.6 (2014-12-03): Fixed DSP part playing silence if component was enabled while playing a track that should be skipped
  • 1.9.5 (2014-11-06): Fixed to work with other DSPs that request track change marks
  • 1.9.4 (2014-10-13): Added safety checks to callbacks to stop all action after on_quit is called
  • 1.9.3 (2014-09-30): Fixed query string length limit
  • 1.9.2 (2014-09-29): Moved settings from advanced preferences to main preferences
  • 1.9.1 (2014-09-20): Bugfixes
  • 1.9 (2014-08-05): Fixed muted output when resuming in paused state. SKIP and BOOKMARK fields no longer override playback resume position. Allows other components to seek to any position on track start regardless of SKIP field's presence.
  • 1.8.9 (2014-07-19): Changed not to skip tracks if skip query is empty.
  • 1.8.8 (2014-07-06): Fixed %playlist_name% handling.
  • 1.8.7 (2014-05-01): Fixed playback skipping not always working.
  • 1.8.6 (2014-04-28): Properly fixed Converter DSP failing to skip parts. Fixed playback failing to skip ending of track if SKIP tag specified also beginning of track.
  • 1.8.5 (2014-04-27): Fixed Converter DSP failing to skip end of track.
  • 1.8.4 (2014-04-20): Fixed skip check for the next track if component was enabled during playback. Added status printing for queue sourced tracks.
  • 1.8.3 (2014-03-06): Removed the DSP change checks introduced in version 1.7.3. These were misbehaving with at least foo_playlist_attributes.
  • 1.8.2 (2014-03-04): Now considers queued tracks to be manually selected and uses the appropriate skip rule.
  • 1.8.1 (2014-02-27): Recompile with SSE2 optimizations disabled.
  • 1.8 (2014-02-23): Moved track skip logic to be performed entirely in the DSP. Fixed partial skipping with SKIP tag. Now also comes with an additional DSP for Converter use. Converter behavior when skipping entire tracks depends on output codec. WAV for example produces zero byte file and converter reports error, FLAC produces no output.
  • 1.7.8 (2013-04-13): Changed DSP skip check to allow core callbacks more time to skip track before giving up
  • 1.7.7 (2013-03-24): Fixed bug that component did not respect playback queue
  • 1.7.6 (2013-03-23): Documented all the special fields skip query supports
  • 1.7.5 (2013-01-26): Added support for $rand() function
  • 1.7.4 (2011-07-02): Bookmark tag isn't updated if another component changes playback position immediately after track is opened. Fixed 'Skip to end' behavior with 'Repeat (track)' playback mode. Allowed use of 'Skip to end' feature together with bookmarks.
  • 1.7.3 (2011-06-29): Fixed DSP chain adjustments causing pauses in audio. Fixed bookmarks disappearing unintentionally in some cases.
  • 1.7.2 (2011-06-25): Fixes to bookmarking related features. Changed autobookmarking not to tag files during the first ten seconds of playback.
  • 1.7.1 (2011-06-25): Added an option to keep bookmarks of manually bookmarked tracks updated too. Now updates bookmark also when playback is stopped.
  • 1.7 (2011-06-25): Added support for bookmarking tracks. Can also automatically bookmark tracks that are in Media Library.
  • 1.6 (2011-06-20): Added support for querying current playback order name using %playback_order%
  • 1.5.1 (2011-03-27): Fixed an issue where the DSP could start playing silence in some situations when using time expressions.
  • 1.5 (2011-03-12): Fixed manual playback of files from Media Library Search window. Added support for time expressions in the skip string (time expressions in the DSP component require foobar2000 v1.1.6 or newer).
  • 1.3 (2010-08-23): Allows skipping both the beginning and the end of a track.
  • 1.2 (2010-07-04): Allows skipping a part inside a track. Syntax SKIP=[from-time]-[to-time]. Changed status bar description for main menu entry to show current skip query string.
  • 1.1 (2010-07-04): Added support for querying current playlist name using %playlist_name%. Added support for skipping the beginning or the end of a track by using tag field SKIP. To skip the beginning, use syntax SKIP=-<time>. To skip the end, use SKIP=<time>-.
  • 1.0 (2010-05-02): Previous version broke gapless playback. Simplified the DSP code. Skip Track should be the last DSP in the chain.
  • 0.9 (2010-05-02): Beginning of a skipped track was still played even when using DSP.
  • 0.8 (2010-04-24): Bugfix: DSP component skipped some short tracks always. Added console notification about skipped track.
  • 0.7 (2010-01-16): Better thread safety. Should no longer hang playback when changing DSP configuration while playing. Added support for dynamic title change detection.
  • 0.6 (2010-01-16): Added optional DSP component for increased skipping accuracy. Changed configuration to use search query syntax.
  • 0.5 (2009-12-25): Added option to force skip tracks even when manually selecting them.
  • 0.4 (2009-01-03): Behavior change: track is not skipped if formatting string evaluates to 0.
  • 0.3 (2008-11-03): Bugfix: backwards skipping didn't work properly when there were more than one track to skip.
  • 0.2 (2008-11-02): Doesn't skip manually selected track or currently playing track when foobar resumes after restart. Skips to previous track when to-be-skipped track was reached by user pressing Prev-button.
2017-08-14 21:59
Skip Silence DSP v1.0.2Automatically fast forwards over extended periods of silence. Now a built-in feature but this component allows leaving in longer silence.
  • 1.0.2 (2014-10-21): Now fades the audio signal around skipped parts
  • 1.0.1 (2014-02-22): Adjusted various limits and defaults. Length is now ajustable between 0.5 seconds and 2 minutes
  • 1.0 (2011-06-26): Ported to foobar2000 v1.1
  • 0.0.2 (2003-06-12): Added config to specify minimum length of silence needed to start skipping
  • 0.0.1 (2003-05-28): First version
2014-10-20 21:59
Skip Album v0.2Allows quickly jumping to the next or previous album.
  • 0.2 (2018-04-08): Added ability to jump to previous album. Uses playlist to select the track to jump to with playback orders that respect the playlist
  • 0.1 (2014-11-29): Initial version. Simply called Next until album changed
2018-04-08 15:59
Recorder v0.1Record audio from default sound card input.
  • 0.1 (2010-01-23): First version converted from old sources. Only usable with record:// playlist entry syntax.
2010-01-22 23:00
Pregap DSP v1.0.3Inserts silence before real playback begins. For use with slowly initializing digital receivers.
  • 1.0.3 (2019-03-23): Removed silence on pause as output buffer prevents it from working correctly.
  • 1.0.2 (2018-01-19): Added option for inserting silence on stream format changes
  • 1.0 (2016-05-08): Moved config to Tools menu. Added option to insert noise instead of silence. Now adds silence after pause and optionally after seek and manual track change.
  • 0.2 (2010-01-18): Added configuration
  • 0.1 (2010-01-17): First version. A test to deal with slow wakeup of external decoders when using digital connection.
2019-03-23 10:39
Play Next v0.2Adds the selected track to the beginning of the playback queue to be played next.
  • 0.2 (2016-06-12): Uses the playlist based queue when possible. Fixed inability to queue the same track multiple times.
  • 0.1 (2016-06-11): Initial version.
2016-06-11 21:59
No Sleep v1.0Prevents system from entering standby mode while foobar2000 is running.
  • 1.0 (2018-03-06): First version
2018-03-06 19:05
No Display Standby v1.1Disables monitor power saving feature while music is playing.
  • 1.1 (2013-03-22): Added a menu option to disable the component. Uses PowerSetRequest instead of SetThreadExecutionState on supported OSes (Windows 7 and newer).
  • 1.0 (2013-03-08): First version
2013-03-21 23:00
Meier Crossfeed DSP v1.1Software implementation of Meier Audio's crossfeed.
  • 1.1 (2016-06-11): Fixed bug that buffers weren't reset after multi-channel audio. Changed level label to strength. Added finer control over the effect strength.
  • 1.0 (2014-07-15): Initial version.
2016-06-10 21:59
Hard Clip DSP v1.0.1Clips peaks forcing foobar2000 output to match players that don't support floating point output.
  • 1.0.1 (2018-01-06): Changed the dll name to include _dsp_
  • 1.0 (2011-06-05): Initial version
2018-04-07 17:29
Gap Killer DSP v0.4Removes silence from track transitions.
  • 0.4 (2017-02-26): Tries to find best interpolation length on track change automatically. Added short fades to track transitions when sample rate or channel count changes
  • 0.3 (2017-02-18): Converted to work with foobar2000 v1.1+. Removed configuration
  • 0.2.1 (2003-07-26): Added silence removing to the end of playback
  • 0.2.0 (2003-07-17): Major improvements in silence detection code
  • 0.1.5 (2003-05-26): Fixes
  • 0.1.4 (2003-05-23): Console only reports total number of samples skipped at the beginning
  • 0.1.3 (2003-05-21): Added support to smooth cut position, improved unintended silence detector, added config
2017-02-25 23:00
Fake Gapless DSP v0.3Briefly 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.
  • 0.3 (2014-11-22): Changed fade to cosine shape and made fade length adjustable
  • 0.2 (2010-07-30): First public version
2014-11-26 23:00
Fade In/Out DSP v1.0.3Allows adding linear, sine, cosine, or logarithmic shaped fade-in and fade-out effects.
  • 1.0.3 (2018-11-07): Fixed buffer resize bug when channel count changed
  • 1.0.2 (2018-06-04): Changed buffering logic to be more robust. Added rejection for invalid audio chunks
  • 1.0.1 (2018-01-06): Added logarithmic fade option where volume adjusts linearly from -100 db to 0dB
  • 1.0 (2017-11-27): Initial version
2018-11-07 16:03
Enqueue Random v0.4Enqueues random item from current playlist.
  • 0.4 (2009-06-21): Corrected the name from Queue Random to Enqueue Random. DLL name stays the same.
  • 0.3 (2009-06-20): Fixed bug that random track number could be one above the number of tracks in the playlist. Uses random number generator from core. Tries to prevent enqueueing same tracks.
  • 0.2 (2009-06-19): Different behavior when playback order "Shuffle (album)" or "Shuffle (folder)" selected
  • 0.1 (2009-06-19): Initial version
2009-06-20 21:59
Amplifier DSP v1.0.2rA simple volume adjustment DSP allowing the signal amplitude to be both boosted and lowered.
  • 1.0.2r (2019-03-03): Recompiled with /d2notypeopt parameter to fix crashing
  • 1.0.2 (2018-04-07): Fixed rounding issue on the configuration screen
  • 1.0.1 (2017-02-06): Fixed crash when attempting to open About
  • 1.0 (2017-02-06): Initial version.
2019-03-03 14:34