{"slug": "foobar2000", "name": "foobar2000", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "Freeware audio player for Windows, with versions for macOS, iOS and Android.", "recommenders": 8, "commenters": 11, "warners": 0, "score": 7.909, "rising": 1.36, "first": "2025-11-14", "latest": "2026-09-07", "why": "Liked as a simple, focused audio player that plays many music formats without conversion and extends through plugins and integrations.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 8, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Extensions", "Cross-platform"], "caveat": "Wine on Linux", "short_quote": "foobar2000 already has an osx version (https://www.foobar2000.org/mac), I've been using it for years.", "icon": true, "domain": "foobar2000.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.foobar2000.org/", "pricing": "free", "aliases": ["foobar2000"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked as a simple, focused audio player", "cites": [{"id": 735105809, "item_id": 45944113, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944113", "by": "lproven", "date": "2025-11-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Foobar for just listening to music", "excerpt": "I am a big fan of VLC, and I just wrote an article about it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/vlc_guru_gong/ But VLC is a multi-function tool that can play audio and video. Foobar is, as far as I can tell, just an audio player. It's more focussed and consequently smaller and simpler. That's what I like about it. I keep both on my machines and I use both... but I use VLC for video, and Foobar for just listening ", "context": "", "use_case": "music playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}, {"id": 734820704, "item_id": 45926294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926294", "by": "andreww_young", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "later I switched to foobar. I prefer foobar's simple interface.", "excerpt": "Memories from over 20 years ago, but later I switched to foobar. I prefer foobar's simple interface. Does anyone still remember foobar?", "context": "", "use_case": "music player", "switched_from": "Winamp", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}]}, {"text": " that plays many music formats without conversion", "cites": [{"id": 748464272, "item_id": 46779017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779017", "by": "anal_reactor", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative", "excerpt": "I have lots of music in exotic formats and an installation of foobar2000 that plays all of them. I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative that will allow me to play music without forcing me to convert everything. Also, I have an Android app to control foobar2000 from my phone. Big downsides are that scaling is broken on Wine so the UI is tiny. 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Let me start: I was going to recommend foobar2000 with the spotify plugin but the lack of a winamp mode must be a dealbreaker for many!", "context": "", "use_case": "music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fastpotify"}, {"id": 772790992, "item_id": 48299437, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299437", "by": "progmetaldev", "date": "2026-05-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've used one with foobar2000 for non-streaming", "excerpt": "I'm glad I kept using an Audioscrobbler since 2008. Right now I have it hooked up to Spotify, but I've used one with foobar2000 for non-streaming, and have found other players to have the functionality for the most part (at least the ones I've made use of). I even had an extension for Chrome and Firefox that would send the data from YouTube's website when I used to listen to music on there. Happy they are independent", "context": "", "use_case": "local music playback with scrobbling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Last.fm is now independent"}, {"id": 748130848, "item_id": 46758178, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758178", "by": "keyringlight", "date": "2026-01-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use the search/directory built into foobar2000 or apps like radiodroid", "excerpt": "I'd say streaming radio in general is low profile in how it lets you discover new things. I use the search/directory built into foobar2000 or apps like radiodroid, but there are sites like https://www.radio-browser.info/ for the web. It's an interesting and low cost way to find things you wouldn't otherwise be exposed to and likely curated by whoever is running the station. What really stood out to me is how differen", "context": "", "use_case": "discovering streaming radio", "switched_from": "", "story": "First, Make Me Care"}]}, {"text": " Complaints are scattered: run under Wine on Linux, its UI scaling breaks,", "cites": [{"id": 748464272, "item_id": 46779017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779017", "by": "anal_reactor", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative", "excerpt": "I have lots of music in exotic formats and an installation of foobar2000 that plays all of them. I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative that will allow me to play music without forcing me to convert everything. Also, I have an Android app to control foobar2000 from my phone. Big downsides are that scaling is broken on Wine so the UI is tiny. Moreover, whenever", "context": "Fedora KDE user", "use_case": "playing exotic audio formats", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}]}, {"text": " and the iOS version lacks queue controls and sorting by date added.", "cites": [{"id": 793569312, "item_id": 49598082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598082", "by": "socalgal2", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me", "excerpt": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me 1. I often want to play a single song and then go back to random - it doesn't have this. If I pick song it's now going to play that song forever and I have to go back and manually pick \"random tracks\" 2. This is probably just a variant of the first but it would be great to be able to pick \"Add to head/tail of que\" so I could add 2 or 3 songs I want to hear a", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "music player on iPhone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Extensions", "summary": "Commenters use it with a Spotify plugin, scrobbling, a built-in radio directory and an Android remote app.", "quotes": [{"id": 792298336, "item_id": 49518646, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518646", "by": "egeozcan", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was going to recommend foobar2000 with the spotify plugin", "excerpt": "Winamp feature is great but so random, and I love how it's listed as if it's a usual feature expected from any music player. Hoping for a future in which people complain about missing basic functionality like winamp mode being missing in their music player of choice! Let me start: I was going to recommend foobar2000 with the spotify plugin but the lack of a winamp mode must be a dealbreaker for many!", "context": "", "use_case": "music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fastpotify"}, {"id": 772790992, "item_id": 48299437, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299437", "by": "progmetaldev", "date": "2026-05-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've used one with foobar2000 for non-streaming", "excerpt": "I'm glad I kept using an Audioscrobbler since 2008. Right now I have it hooked up to Spotify, but I've used one with foobar2000 for non-streaming, and have found other players to have the functionality for the most part (at least the ones I've made use of). I even had an extension for Chrome and Firefox that would send the data from YouTube's website when I used to listen to music on there. 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Moreover, whenever", "context": "Fedora KDE user", "use_case": "playing exotic audio formats", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}]}, {"label": "Cross-platform", "summary": "Commenters use the macOS and iOS versions, not only the Windows original.", "quotes": [{"id": 792349536, "item_id": 49521846, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521846", "by": "fami-com", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "foobar2000 already has an osx version (https://www.foobar2000.org/mac), I've been using it for years.", "excerpt": "But foobar2000 already has an osx version (https://www.foobar2000.org/mac), I've been using it for years.", "context": "", "use_case": "music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 743610513, "item_id": 46475657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46475657", "by": "doublerabbit", "date": "2026-01-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "An abandoned Java App called aTunes and foobar2000 on iOS.", "excerpt": "An abandoned Java App called aTunes and foobar2000 on iOS. For day-to-day I use a non-android hardware music DAC (Lotoo PAW 6000) which allows me to stream bluetooth to it. I can playback songs from my iPhone or use the inbuilt SD card slot.", "context": "", "use_case": "music playback on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"}, {"id": 793569312, "item_id": 49598082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598082", "by": "socalgal2", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me", "excerpt": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me 1. I often want to play a single song and then go back to random - it doesn't have this. If I pick song it's now going to play that song forever and I have to go back and manually pick \"random tracks\" 2. This is probably just a variant of the first but it would be great to be able to pick \"Add to head/tail of que\" so I could add 2 or 3 songs I want to hear a", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "music player on iPhone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source"}]}, {"label": "Hard to replace", "summary": "Long-time users see no worthy alternative on Mac or Linux.", "quotes": [{"id": 791127345, "item_id": 49445459, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445459", "by": "jack1243star", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Still waiting for a worthy alternative to foobar2000 on either Mac or Linux...", "excerpt": "iTunes is trash on both of the jobs you mentioned though. Still waiting for a worthy alternative to foobar2000 on either Mac or Linux...", "context": "", "use_case": "music library", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 748464272, "item_id": 46779017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779017", "by": "anal_reactor", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative", "excerpt": "I have lots of music in exotic formats and an installation of foobar2000 that plays all of them. I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative that will allow me to play music without forcing me to convert everything. Also, I have an Android app to control foobar2000 from my phone. Big downsides are that scaling is broken on Wine so the UI is tiny. Moreover, whenever", "context": "Fedora KDE user", "use_case": "playing exotic audio formats", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}, {"id": 792349536, "item_id": 49521846, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521846", "by": "fami-com", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "foobar2000 already has an osx version (https://www.foobar2000.org/mac), I've been using it for years.", "excerpt": "But foobar2000 already has an osx version (https://www.foobar2000.org/mac), I've been using it for years.", "context": "", "use_case": "music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}]}, {"label": "Simple interface", "summary": "Valued as a smaller, simpler player dedicated to audio.", "quotes": [{"id": 734820704, "item_id": 45926294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926294", "by": "andreww_young", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "later I switched to foobar. I prefer foobar's simple interface.", "excerpt": "Memories from over 20 years ago, but later I switched to foobar. I prefer foobar's simple interface. Does anyone still remember foobar?", "context": "", "use_case": "music player", "switched_from": "Winamp", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}, {"id": 735105809, "item_id": 45944113, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944113", "by": "lproven", "date": "2025-11-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Foobar for just listening to music", "excerpt": "I am a big fan of VLC, and I just wrote an article about it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/vlc_guru_gong/ But VLC is a multi-function tool that can play audio and video. Foobar is, as far as I can tell, just an audio player. It's more focussed and consequently smaller and simpler. That's what I like about it. I keep both on my machines and I use both... but I use VLC for video, and Foobar for just listening ", "context": "", "use_case": "music playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}]}, {"label": "Format support", "summary": "Plays music in exotic formats without forcing conversion.", "quotes": [{"id": 748464272, "item_id": 46779017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779017", "by": "anal_reactor", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative", "excerpt": "I have lots of music in exotic formats and an installation of foobar2000 that plays all of them. I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative that will allow me to play music without forcing me to convert everything. Also, I have an Android app to control foobar2000 from my phone. Big downsides are that scaling is broken on Wine so the UI is tiny. Moreover, whenever", "context": "Fedora KDE user", "use_case": "playing exotic audio formats", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Wine on Linux", "summary": "Under Wine the UI scaling is broken and track changes can produce a loud glitch sound.", "quotes": [{"id": 748464272, "item_id": 46779017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779017", "by": "anal_reactor", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative", "excerpt": "I have lots of music in exotic formats and an installation of foobar2000 that plays all of them. I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative that will allow me to play music without forcing me to convert everything. Also, I have an Android app to control foobar2000 from my phone. Big downsides are that scaling is broken on Wine so the UI is tiny. Moreover, whenever", "context": "Fedora KDE user", "use_case": "playing exotic audio formats", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}]}, {"label": "iOS queue features", "summary": "The iOS app can't queue a few songs and return to random play, or sort by date added.", "quotes": [{"id": 793569312, "item_id": 49598082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598082", "by": "socalgal2", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me", "excerpt": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me 1. I often want to play a single song and then go back to random - it doesn't have this. If I pick song it's now going to play that song forever and I have to go back and manually pick \"random tracks\" 2. This is probably just a variant of the first but it would be great to be able to pick \"Add to head/tail of que\" so I could add 2 or 3 songs I want to hear a", "context": "iPhone user", "use_case": "music player on iPhone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source"}]}], "who": [{"by": "socalgal2", "context": "iPhone user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598082", "date": "2026-09-07"}, {"by": "anal_reactor", "context": "Fedora KDE user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779017", "date": "2026-01-27"}], "tags": ["for local music libraries", "for audio-only listening", "for Mac users", "for iOS users", "for Linux via Wine"], "use_cases": ["music player", "music player on iphone", "music library", "local music playback with scrobbling", "playing exotic audio formats", "discovering streaming radio"], "compared": [{"slug": "winamp", "name": "Winamp", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "spotify", "name": "Spotify", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "itunes", "name": "iTunes", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433292", "title": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926224", "title": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590524", "title": "Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517448", "title": "Fastpotify", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113338", "title": "CodePen 2.0", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295892", "title": "Last.fm is now independent", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 793569312, "item_id": 49598082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598082", "by": "socalgal2", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me", "excerpt": "I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me 1. I often want to play a single song and then go back to random - it doesn't have this. If I pick song it's now going to play that song forever and I have to go back and manually pick \"random tracks\" 2. 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Still waiting for a worthy alternative to foobar2000 on either Mac or Linux...", "context": "", "use_case": "music library", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"}, {"id": 785872514, "item_id": 49117032, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117032", "by": "zeroq", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "foobar is being developed by a single dev", "excerpt": "A textbook definition of \"feature creep\". I have absolutely no idea if CodePen is feeling pressure from their shareholders or want to cook before the IPO, but I often wonder why Spotify needs 3,000 [1] developers working full time on a streaming app. 4 weeks ago there was a thread about Spotify making over 4,000 production releases a day (or 10 in 10 minutes in another comment in that thread). 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Moreover, whenever", "context": "Fedora KDE user", "use_case": "playing exotic audio formats", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}, {"id": 748130848, "item_id": 46758178, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758178", "by": "keyringlight", "date": "2026-01-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use the search/directory built into foobar2000 or apps like radiodroid", "excerpt": "I'd say streaming radio in general is low profile in how it lets you discover new things. I use the search/directory built into foobar2000 or apps like radiodroid, but there are sites like https://www.radio-browser.info/ for the web. It's an interesting and low cost way to find things you wouldn't otherwise be exposed to and likely curated by whoever is running the station. What really stood out to me is how differen", "context": "", "use_case": "discovering streaming radio", "switched_from": "", "story": "First, Make Me Care"}, {"id": 743610513, "item_id": 46475657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46475657", "by": "doublerabbit", "date": "2026-01-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "An abandoned Java App called aTunes and foobar2000 on iOS.", "excerpt": "An abandoned Java App called aTunes and foobar2000 on iOS. For day-to-day I use a non-android hardware music DAC (Lotoo PAW 6000) which allows me to stream bluetooth to it. I can playback songs from my iPhone or use the inbuilt SD card slot.", "context": "", "use_case": "music playback on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"}, {"id": 735105809, "item_id": 45944113, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944113", "by": "lproven", "date": "2025-11-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Foobar for just listening to music", "excerpt": "I am a big fan of VLC, and I just wrote an article about it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/vlc_guru_gong/ But VLC is a multi-function tool that can play audio and video. Foobar is, as far as I can tell, just an audio player. It's more focussed and consequently smaller and simpler. That's what I like about it. I keep both on my machines and I use both... but I use VLC for video, and Foobar for just listening ", "context": "", "use_case": "music playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}, {"id": 734820704, "item_id": 45926294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926294", "by": "andreww_young", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "later I switched to foobar. I prefer foobar's simple interface.", "excerpt": "Memories from over 20 years ago, but later I switched to foobar. I prefer foobar's simple interface. Does anyone still remember foobar?", "context": "", "use_case": "music player", "switched_from": "Winamp", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}]}