This section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player for different operating systems.
Information about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality.
Latest AIMP for Windows changelog http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=changelog
Latest AIMP for Android changelog http://www.aimp.ru/?do=changelog&os=android
"Audacious 4.2 released". 9 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022. https://audacious-media-player.org/news/53-audacious-4-2-released
"Audacious - An Advanced Audio Player". audacious-media-player.org. Retrieved 2022-09-08. https://audacious-media-player.org/news/32-audacious-3-6-released
"October 10, 2012". banshee.fm. October 3, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012. http://banshee.fm/download/archives/2-6-2/
"foobar2000: Change Log". Retrieved 23 February 2025. https://www.foobar2000.org/changelog
"Release Notes MC". Retrieved 30 July 2024. https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes
"Releases - MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD". Retrieved 12 April 2020 – via GitHub. https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/releases
"Release 3.0.4". 14 July 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024. https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/releases/tag/3.0.4
"Spotify: Discover music, podcasts, and playlists - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&hl=en_US
"Spotify New Music and Podcasts". App Store. https://apps.apple.com/app/id324684580
"Spotify New Music and Podcasts". App Store. https://apps.apple.com/app/id324684580
"Open Source". Spotify. Retrieved 2024-12-05. https://www.spotify.com/us/opensource/
"Spotify Flathub page". Flathub. https://flathub.org/apps/com.spotify.Client
"VLC for Windows Store". 5 June 2024. Archived from the original on 1 April 2025. Retrieved 6 April 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20250401025858/https://www.videolan.org/news.html#news-2024-06-10
"3.6.3". 31 January 2025. Retrieved 4 March 2025. https://get.videolan.org/vlc-android/3.6.3/
"VLC - Chrome Web Store". 23 December 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2022. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vlc/obpdeolnggmbekmklghapmfpnfhpcndf
"VLC media player on the App Store". Retrieved 7 January 2025. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962
"VLC for Windows Store". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. Archived from the original on 2025-04-01. Retrieved 2025-04-06. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-winrt.html
"VLC UWP". www.microsoft.com. VideoLAN. Retrieved 2025-04-06. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/vlc/9nblggh4vvnh
"VLC for Windows Phone". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. Retrieved 2025-04-06. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windowsphone.html
"Winamp: Supported versions: Latest supported version". Winamp Forums. December 22, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2023. http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=265777
"foobar2000 for Mac". www.foobar2000.org. https://www.foobar2000.org/mac
"WineHQ - foobar2000 1.0". appdb.winehq.org. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18689
"WineHQ - foobar2000 1.0". appdb.winehq.org. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18689
"MusicBee help and FAQ". getmusicbee.com. https://getmusicbee.com/help/faq/
"Releases · clangen/Musikcube". GitHub. https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/releases
Basic function with NMM /wiki/Network-Integrated_Multimedia_Middleware
Context Browser uses CSS. /wiki/CSS
Chow Loong, Jin (2012-01-02). "With plug-in remuco-exaile". packages.debian.org. Retrieved 2017-04-18. https://packages.debian.org/jessie/remuco-exaile
Plugin available.
UIs may be switched. Shares Windows' themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Using DCOP /wiki/Desktop_communication_protocol
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Flexible tagging is the ability to read or write custom tags, apart from the default ones like title, album and date. Users can use custom tags to provide additional information to media files. Custom tags work via ID3v2.4 (via the TXXX tag field), Vorbis comments and APEv2. /wiki/ID3
Through use of the Advanced Tag Editor.
"Repeat A/B". https://www.linux-apps.com/p/1135516
Kuzník, Ondřej; Christine, Spang; Tristan, Seligmann (2017-01-23). "With plug-ins Ex Falso and Group Tagger". packages.debian.org. Retrieved 2017-04-18. https://packages.debian.org/jessie/exfalso
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
"Repeat A/B". https://www.linux-apps.com/p/1135516
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Paid version only
Through Audio Pitch, Speed plugin
Through Audio Pitch, Speed plugin
Available through a Winamp plugin. /wiki/Winamp
Amarok uses non-Amarok libraries to decode audio. It will play any file for which a codec is available on the system. The default libraries in Linux are from the GStreamer project, and in Windows from the VLC project. /wiki/GStreamer
"Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Windows". Retrieved 24 February 2013. http://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Windows#2.6.0
"VLC playback Features". VideoLAN Organization. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20100103042927/http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.php?cat=audio#audio_notes
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through the opusfile plugin.
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Plugin available.
Requires External Encoding App
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a FFmpeg plugin. /wiki/FFmpeg
Available through a Winamp plugin. /wiki/Winamp
Available through a Winamp plugin. /wiki/Winamp
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Local files. Spotify.com. https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen-to-local-files/
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Plugin available.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Plugin available.
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation.
Plugin available.
Available through a Gstreamer plugin. /wiki/Gstreamer
Only WMA files are playable by foobar2000 through an RTSP connection. RealMedia, AAC, etc. are not supported.
3rd party plugin for 0.9 allows reading RSS 2.0 feeds as playlists. No subscription/automatic update features.
Present in version 3.0 currently going through Alpha Testing.
Provided by the "curl" plugins.
Provided by the "ffmpeg" plugin.
Provided by the "mms" plugin.
As of 0.9.2 it allows reading RSS as podcast source. Issues if links in RSS do not point directly to playable media. Automatic update of podcasts available.
Import and export m3u playlists. Spotify.com. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Import-and-export-m3u-playlists/idi-p/196732
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
Amarok does not understand embedded covers.
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
Yes Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine, but buggy. http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Not_yet_implemented_features_in_Amarok_2
There is a plugin called CD-TEXT Reader adding such a feature. http://skipyrich.com/wiki/Foobar2000:CD-TEXT_Reader
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
"DVD-Audio Decoder and Watermark Detector". SourceForge. February 24, 2024. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdadecoder/
"Foobar2000: Components Repository - HDCD decoder". http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_hdcd
Requires K3B /wiki/K3B
"How to rip audio from DVD/DVD Audio". https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,113597.msg785322.html