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Audio File Players

Boom Audio Player ~ Foobar2000 Simplified

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Frome the same developer who brought you Foobar2000 comes Boom.

Boom is an easy to use audio player intended for casual computer users who do not wish to spend their time on figuring more sophisticated software out. All of its most important features are easily accessible out-of-the-box.

Features:

  • No installation or administrator rights required! Just download and run.
  • Gapless playback of properly encoded files. Enjoy smooth transitions between tracks.
  • ReplayGain support. External software is currently required to write ReplayGain information to file tags to utilize this functionality.
  • Contents of your music folders are shown, in a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view.
  • By default, contents of “my music” folder or Windows Music library folders are shown. You can configure Boom to index music from any other folders though.
  • You can install Boom to removable media and have it index contents of the folder it is installed in.
  • Are your files badly tagged or missing tags all together? No problem, Boom can browse your music library by its folder structure.
  • Supports variety of popular audio formats, including: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A, WMA.
  • For emergency tagging needs, Boom includes a simplified version of the foobar2000 Properties dialog.
  • Easily configured to run from removable media.
  • Multi-language support.
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Ex Falso / Quod Libet ~ Tag Editor / Player

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Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file, for all the file formats it supports.

Unlike some, Quod Libet will scale to libraries with tens of thousands of songs. It also supports most of the features you’d expect from a modern media player: Unicode support, advanced tag editing, ReplayGain, podcasts & Internet radio, album art support and all major audio formats – see the screenshots.

Ex Falso is a program that uses the same tag editing backend as Quod Libet, but isn’t connected to an audio player. If you’re perfectly happy with your favorite player and just want something that can handle tagging, Ex Falso is for you.

Quod Libet

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Quod Libet Companion Plugins

Foobar2000 ~ Extensible Audio Interface & Player

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An advanced and evolved freeware audio player for Android, Mac, Windows and Wine. Foobar2000 can be extensively extended, modified and themed.

This is the basic Default User Interface or DUI. You will need to configure and extend the DUI Foobar2000 interface according to your preferences and requirements.

Foobar2000 v2.16 Default User Interface
Foobar2000 Default User Interface

Features:

  • Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components.
  • Gapless playback.
  • Easily customizable user interface.
  • Advanced tagging capabilities.
  • Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
  • Full ReplayGain support.
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • Open component architecture allows third-party developers to extend functionality.
  • Multiplatform: Android, Mac, Windows 32|64-bit and ARM (ARM64EC).

Interfaces:

Foobar2000 is not limited to the Default User Interface or DUI. There is an alternative popular interface called Columns User Interface or CUI. CUI is most often used for theming or skinning foobar2000. There is also a Classic User Interface but it is rarely used or referenced.

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Packages & Store Versions:

Official Foobar2000 Forums At Hydrogenaudio:

References:

Foobar2000 ~ The First Steps