foobar2000 mobile is an advanced audio player for mobile devices.
Main features:
* Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack.
* Gapless playback.
* ReplayGain support - automatic playback volume adjustment.
* Supports playback and downloading music from UPnP media servers.
* Appearance can be customized with skin files (basic black and white themes inlcuded with the app).
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in United Kingdom
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Amazing Flac and Wave player!
My go-to player since Windows to Mac. Very good!Two bugs: if I go to Title section, I can see different cover for every single track. If I play songs there, I can see different covers in the player. 1) But under the album section, every song in the album shares the same cover in the player. 2)In my playlist, every song’s cover again is the same as their album cover. Please fix this!
Absolutely the best
When I switched fully to Linux in 2020, I was up the creek without a paddle, as iTunes isn't available on Linux and hasn't worked in WineHQ since 2018. This little app was exactly what I needed.
It's easy to customise, synchronisable using FTP, supports internet radio, and I was especially pleased to see that it's totally free without any ads or tracking. Not only that, I have complete control over the app's appearance using skins, which are available at no cost from the Hydrogen Audio forums.
I would seriously recommend this app to everybody. Great work!
Just stopped working
Worked OK for a few months, then stopped. Time to move on.
Much better than iTunes
Much better than iTunes, which seems obsessed with a slick/minimalist aesthetic but lacks/has stripped basic functionality - you can actually read song information, list/sort stuff as you would expect from a file browser and easily play/control music from the file system/outside Apple’s closed/proprietary ecosystem... The options for eg. experimenting with tempo/crossfeed are wonderful to have if you are a musician/dj/actually know a little/are interested in sound & there’s likely much more besides that I haven’t had a chance to use yet… I really just initially downloaded it because I wanted to play a folder of files of various types that I had either made myself/bought from other sources (with a sane interface/no data collected)! Deepest thanks to the developers/testers for treating users with respect/not patronising/exploiting them! :-)
OGG
Lost OGG files playback after last update
Excellent player but...
The search function is absolutely useless!
You can add music over Wi-Fi without giving any high level privileges
When you install the app it asks to “find and connect to devices on your local network” and “access Apple Music…”. I suspect these are fine, but I’ve always been paranoid about apps asking for permissions. You can say no to both and still use the ftp feature to add music from your computer. You simply turn it on with write access (an internal app permission, not system wide) then visit the ftp address in a file system eg windows explorer to copy and paste files. This maintains the security of the Apple app sandbox. Turn off the ftp server and you’ve turned off write access even to foobar2000s disk space.
FTP Server Not Allowing Writing (Uploading)
The FTP server, although seemingly offering an option to allow writing, cannot receive files. If you try to upload, you only get error 503. I notice that on the official forum a lot of users have been reporting this problem since 2021 (or earlier) but no effective reply from the developer yet.
A simple approach when Apple makes it difficult
Superb, simple and just works. It syncs with ftp and TuneFUSION and removes the need for the torturous imposition that is the playlist.
Foobar2000 makes Apple Music look like what it is; an anachronism from the tech Stone Age.
As an aside, the Foobar2000 app works great on M1 Macs as well.
Much better than iTunes
Much better than iTunes, which seems obsessed with a slick/minimalist aesthetic but lacks/has stripped basic functionality - you can actually read song information, list/sort stuff as you would expect from a file browser and play music from the file system/outside Apple’s seemingly increasingly closed/proprietary ecosystem... There’s likely much more besides that I haven’t used yet, but I really just wanted to play a folder of files of various types that I had either made myself/bought from other sources (with a sane interface/no data collected)!