foobar2000 Components of Hydrogen Wiki
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This page contains most foobar2000 components available at time of history last update.
Offical Components
Included in Installer
thumb|The Optional Features screen of the fb2k Installer
In addition to foobar2000's core functionality, the following components can be installed as needed, in the Optional Features section of the installer.
Audio CD Support (foo_cdda) Adds Support for
Audio CD Playback
Album List (foo_albumlist) Gives quick access to Media Library Content with customizable tree view
Archive Reader (foo_unpack) Adds support for playing files directly from ZIP RAR and GZIP archives
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ReplayGain Scanner (foo_rgscan) advanced solution for volume matching
Standard DSPs (foo_dsp_std) Equalizer, resampler, advanced limiter, hard limiter, stereo to 4 channel upmixer and a couple other effects
Additional Components
3rd Party Components
User Interfaces
Columns UI
Columns UI (foo_ui_columns) Very popular alternate interface for foobar2000 based on a columns and panel layout.
Columns UI introduced components with panel capability which extend the user interface.
User Interface Addons
UI Elements
Panels
Panels extend the functionality of Columns UI components.
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Dockable Panels (foo_dockable_panels) It allows you to create windows that host columns ui panels as floating windows that can be attached to the side of the main foobar2000 window or each other.
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Tabs (foo_uie_tabs) Tabs allows you to break Pauli's Exclusion principle by placing multiple panels in the same position at the same time.
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DSP
Multichannel audio
Headphones
Utilities
Effects
Converters
HDCD Decoder (foo_dsp_hdcd) This DSP component will decode HDCD data in any 16-bit PCM stream passed through it, resulting in 20-bit PCM.
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Multi-purpose
Music Decoders
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MIDI Synthesizer Host (foo_midi) Adds decoding support for General MIDI files (.MID) and RIFF MIDI files (.RMI) as well as several proprietary MIDI formats (.MIDS, .GMF, .HMI, .HMP, .MUS, .XMI).
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Other Decoders
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NSF Decoder (foo_input_nsf) NSF file is a sound data file containing instructions for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sound hardware.
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Visualisation
Other
General
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Replaygain Override (foo_rg_trn) Allows you to automatically switch between replaygain modes based on specified criteria (e.g. use track based RG for shuffle mode, etc.)
Run (foo_run) Able you to run a external program with the foobar syntax.
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Seek (foo_seek) offers different ways of seeking inside one or more tracks: preview, rewind/fast-forward, loop, and repeat A–B.
Seekbox (foo_seek_box) Main menu item that pops up a box for seeking to a particular hh:mm:ss time in the current track.
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Lyrics
Notifier
AMIP Wrapper (foo_amipwrapper) Complete now-playing plug-in for mIRC, PIRCH, Klient, Bersirc, other
IRC and Mail clients, supporting full player control from mIRC, playlist search, clipboard integration, HTTP, dynamic image signatures, etc.
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Online database
Audioscrobbler (foo_audioscrobbler) Audioscrobbler will send the name of every song you play on your computer to Last.fm. This effortlessly populates your profile to play radio you like and make personalized recommendations.
Online radio
Podcatcher (foo_podcatcher) A podcatcher component for subscribing to, downloading, and playing RSS and Atom podcast feeds in foobar2000.
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MeowDB (foo_meowdb) Takes the Media Library and outputs the results to a form and uploads it to your server using the cURL library.
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Replaygain Override (foo_rg_trn) Allows you to automatically switch between replaygain modes based on specified criteria (e.g. use track based RG for shuffle mode, etc.)
Run (foo_run) Able you to run a external program with the foobar syntax.
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Seek (foo_seek) offers different ways of seeking inside one or more tracks: preview, rewind/fast-forward, loop, and repeat A–B.
Seekbox (foo_seek_box) Main menu item that pops up a box for seeking to a particular hh:mm:ss time in the current track.
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Queue Manager (foo_queuemanager) It provides a window that shows the queue's contents and allows you to delete parts of them or clear the whole queue.
Non-ColumnUI obsolete version, try panel version instead.
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Rating (foo_rating) Display an icon in the systray with a tooltip popup from which you can choose a rating between 1 and 5 for the currently playing file.
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Soft Playlists (foo_softplaylists) Can create different Last.fm related playlists, love tracks on Last.fm and save and load XSPF playlists (make playlists without hard paths).
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Track Position (foo_trackpos) Provides a new context menu item «place after current playing», that allows you to place any tracks after the current playing one in the playing playlist.
XSPF (foo_xspf) Adds XSPF support. XSPF is an open, XML based playlist format.
Playback Statistics
Remote control
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Remote Control (foo_remotecontrol) Adds support to Melloware Intelliremote software which claims to work with Creative remote control (Soundblaster Live!, Audigy, Extigy, Audigy ZS and Soundblaster X-Fi.)
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Titlebar (foo_managedWrapper) Create a personal title bar that shows the currently playing song on the top of the screen all the time. It supports custom-made skins.
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Tagging
Chacon (foo_chacon) Chacon is a simple tool for fixing tags by converting them between different character sets.
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Links