I like foobar2000. It's the best player ever.

Say your words.

First version of foobar that I used was some 0.2x version and even then it was love at first sight (I instantly made it my default player, bye bye Winamp). I just loved the simplicity and the fact that it was already by then really customizable and - the perhaps the biggest reason - it actually looks like it belongs on my desktop as it uses the standard Windows GUI, which was the thing I had been searching for ages.

The interface is great, it lets me scan everything with ReplayGain, and it has a really, really nice SDK.

It is highly customizable, supports many many formats out of the box, it's not overloaded with crap, it plays music...

because it sounds great.

I use foobar as my primary player since 0.3x version. When I saw foobar for the first time, I was disappointed by it's ascetic interface (I love nice skins ), but this simplicity is the power of foobar! Few weeks later I found some very useful plugins, I learned string formatting techniques, and today I would not change foobar to any other player!
I love foobar!!!

I use it because of the large playlist window!
I use Columns UI to make it look exactly like I want!

In players like WA if you wanted all the info I have in my playlist! you would have to make a large playlist window and you could not make it look as good!

Formatting String is a cool feature!

Other things:
The DSP system
Memory use
Format Support
TABS as playlists
All the nice settings

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Neksus

The three most important reasons are:
-Formatting strings (the default UI is still my favourite)
-Replaygain
-The ability to customize everything.

I also appreciate what I experience as a the focus on quality, in the sense that everything is well thought through. Even things that seems to work just fine are improved further (e.g. speed of Replaygain scanning) and hackish solutions is avoided (as far as possible I guess). Nifty features like playlist tabs are great, and there are quite a few useful plugins too. It's all those little things in addition to the three main reasons that makes me enjoy it so much. It has had a great impact on the way I listen to music and I would say that it has enhanced my listening experience. I have also had alot of fun making formatting strings and now looks for foo_looks. So it goes without saying that I don't agree with this statement:IMHO it's a great plugin for it's use, and my case that is as a now playing/"remote control" feature.

foobar is great because:

* Small memory footprint
* Formatting strings
* Gapless playback
* Tabbed playlists
* Replaygain support/scanning

There are a lot of reasons to like foobar, these are just the reasons that make me love it the most though.

Non-bloated

I use it because I like
* the interface
* global hotkeys
* the amount of options

ALL OF THE ABOVE!!

Honestly though, Foobar2K is the only program where I'm extremely eager to see updates - not because of a buggy nature - but because it seems that with each update (core/component,) Foobar just keeps getting better and better.

My system specs can handle any bloated multimedia managers thrown at it, but Foobar stands out because of it's intuitive configuration, album management, small footprint, and above all else, interface-configurability (upNorth and Neksus are the ones to thank here.)

... plays music.

(Serious answer. Other players do that but they also p*ss me off in various ways. Foobar2000 only rarely p*sses me off, so it's my favourite player).

There, the author can use my line aswell:
"Foobar. Plays Music. Won't p*ss you off [as much as other players]"

I can't think of anything right now, but nothings perfect. Umm. i'll get back to you

Beacuse my girlfriend won't let me use anything else.....

1) Best Sound
2) Best GUI when used with Foo_tunes
3) ReplayGain
4) Best Sound
And the most important, Best Sound

"Foobar. my girlfriend won't let me use anything else"

yeah that's an even better tagline.

Seriously girls seem to like foobar, from my (limited) experience. Not sure if that's praise or criticism (flame suit on )

Girls dig cats, and guys dig llamas.

that's a good one

i switched cause i really never liked winamp. i always had it minimized and didn't care for vis or skins. Plus, having the playlist right there with play buttons and global hotkeys is nothing to pass up on. FORMATTING STRINGS!

1) Great SDK so I can make crap I enjoy making
2) Great plugin architecture so I can choose which crap to use
3) Active forum which I don't use to pan the crap I don't use

i love...
* custom shortcuts/hotkeys
* string formatting
* eye-saving interface

i dislike...
* low documented sdk
* not open source

Because for some reason concert traders have standardized on NOT tagging files and NOT putting the song title in the file name but rather putting the setlist and other info in a text file. Foobar can (with an extension) tag and name the tracks based on the text file.

no bloat
no ugly overly graphical skin
kernel streaming
and just about everything else

being the opensource/beta junkie i am, i tried fb2k back when i heard about it (around 0.5) and instantly deleted winamp.

all i ever used in winamp was the playlist view, with a few choice plugins to enhance audio quality and remove gaps.

this was all in fb2k and more - it's the perfect player for people who just want *MUSiC* and not some ugly bloaty skin.

i'm getting more and more of my friends into it lately. it seems to be the player of choice for people who are really into music

I think the thing I like most about it is the minimalistic interface combined with the incredible flexibility of use.

It's just a (highly customizable) window with some nice DSPs. What more do you need?

I still use Winamp, because I'm addicted to the Adapt-X plugin, which allows me to run DirectX plugins. I'll have to take a look at this foo_colvolver thingy I've heard about, to see if I can make a fingerprint of my current DirectX plugin settings and apply them to Foobar.

Edit: yay, foo_convolver works, this thread finally converted me to Foobar! Bye, Winamp, it's been fun...

my reasons:
0) perfect interface - love not being forced to have buttons or a seekbar clutter up my screen. The only look I touch personally is the interface from the first release.
1) supports everything (aside from dinosaurs like VQF) 'out of the box' or by adding a simple .dll file
2) powerful diskwriter -only reason I upgraded to 0.8 actually
3) ideal for those who are keyboard-centric

one minor gripe, nothing big though:
has an installer from 0.7 on (APE 3.98 support was the only reason I upgraded from 0.6), much preferred the .zip versions and manual file associations. At least the installer is unobstrusive and avoids the 'write 500 registry entries' syndrome like some programs out there.

All of the above...
I love Foobar because it can do everything related to playing music.
With this program I can replaygain, tag, convert and search for my music files, all in one place.
And I can configure everyting I want.

It's one of the programs keeping me from switching my main operating system to linux.

pro:
- low memory usage
- foo tunes (it's great!)
- dsp
- formatting
- available components

About foo-looks: it could be a good feature, but I don't need it simply because I'm using foobar scripts for BlackBox :-)

Wow that was totally rude and inconsiderate. foobar2000 is free and so are all of the plugins so the least you could do is show some appreciation.

1) kernel streaming/ASIO
2) low memory usage
3) replaygain
4) foo_convolver
5) the formatting playlist!!!
6) native mpc
7) dithering

i can find more
simply it's the best PLAYER!!!!!!
THE BEST!

i have used musicmatch, winamp, quintessential... and one day a friend converts me 8 months ago
alléluiah...

1) formatting strings, for playlist (thx upNorth) and albumlist
2) uses Windows GUI by default
3) Replaygain
4) global keyboard shortcuts
5) good choice of 3rd party components!

the reason is
1.look simple to use
2.full power
3.wonderful quality of sound
4.less system resource
5.better used in old computer
everything looks like professional.
SO I LIKE IT

sounds better?

how? proof?


I use it cause its clean, simple, 40GB of music can be organized. can convert from ape,flac, mpc to mp3 (mp3 player) quickly. good tagger, good renamer

Main five reasons among a lot more :

1. Flexibility of the playlist,
2. Native support of a lot of audio formats,
3. Tagging capabilities & flexibility (APEv2),
4. ReplayGain,
5. Not bloated.

Edit: typo

FYI: Best = There's nothing better but there can be others that are equal. In this special case: "Best sound" *can* mean "Many other players may sound the same, but no player sounds better for sure". Problem solved I guess.

Made FOR people with ears BY people with ears.

+ Title formatting
+ Converter
+ Masstagger
+ Replaygain
+ Gapless playback
+ supports many formats
+ no skin

ReplayGain, SSRC, Kernel Streaming

Port it to Linux and there will be nothing to dislike!

The lack of dynamic playlists is why I haven't chosen foobar2000.

Rob

It's simple, but yet powerful.
It fits great in Windows GUI.
It has great systray integration.

It's incredible l33tness.
Nothing more to say.

1) flawless *gapless* replay of my LAME archive.

2) ASIO. allowing the SPDIF out on my M-Audio card to work properly, and thence feed my treasured dual-18-bit *multibit* Audio Alchemy DAC (I guess kernal streaming would also work).

I need absolutely nothing more from a player.

RF

1) out of the box best sounding player IMO
2) tabbed playlists
3) native file support for everything! I love .cue's for all my ape single file cd rips
4) customizable UI, simple yet powerful

I like foobar because:

It's playlist-centric, rather than whatever one would call Winamp. I have a lot of tracks, and I want to work with them all, not just look at the pause / play / skip buttons.

Conversion.

ReplayGain.

MassTagger, especially with the "trader's friend" plugin.

Format strings. They aren't perfect or anything, but I can do pretty much everything I need to with them.

APEv2 tags.

Did I miss anything?

I initially loved it because it takes up the least RAM ever. I've come to love it for lots of other reasons--the fantastically flexible DSP and the sheer usefulness of the diskwriter, for instance.

Why do I like foobar?

1. Formats: supports my new fav format .mpc (musepack) out of the poverbial box.
2. I don't look at it other than when I'm changing the playlist around, and I tend to run through long strings of entire albums, so it plays nicely in the tray.
3. Memory.
4. Replaygain!
5. See 4, and hug k-14 headroom while you are at it

My reasons :

+ playlist capability (I always load one playlist containing my whole 17,000 audio files collection, and another with the same playlist minus some albums I don't like at the moment). Winamp would usually crash at no more than 1000 files.
+ native MPC
+ masstagger & massrenamer (scripts, access to freeddb)
+ APE tags native support (allows all kinds of custom tags)
+ playlist formatting (combined with APE custom tags)
+ replaygain
+ foo_pl_hopper (jumping from one album to the next, just using my remote control, is just great)
+ "copy names" function (customisable!)
(edit :
+ tabbed playlists
+ gapless lame playback)

A few cons only:

- not so good looking GUI (aliased fonts & buttons, no check boxes)
- default volume control (no GUI controls, waiting time when turning it up or down)
- not so intuitive menus (Preferences)
- (seemingly) buggy progress bar

support lots of format
small
less memory