foobar2000 (often abbreviated as fb2k or f2k) is a freeware audio player for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, and formerly Windows Phone, developed by Peter Pawłowski. foobar2000 was first released on 20 December 2002. According to Wikipedia, at its core, foobar2000 natively supports a range of audio formats, including MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC, AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, ALAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, Audio CD, Speex, and Opus.

foobar2000 is very flexible and powerful but has a steep learning curve. I used Windows Media Player (legacy) to rip my audio CDs to my laptop. I chose the lossless file format WMA. The files are however large in WMA format. foobar2000 plays them no problem. I have found that I need to spend time with foobar2000 to be sure the CDs are placed in the correct genres. I also find that the CD graphic covers are often not found. I search for and download the graphics files from the Internet and I can save the file in the appropriate folder and then attach the file to the interface.

Learn with YouTube

Go to YouTube How to Organize Your Music Library Like a Pro | Foobar2000 File Operations and Conversions Tutorial

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32-Bit

Eole theme needs the 32-bit foobar2000 to work.

Create Playlists

With Foobar200 you can create playlists. Click Playlists at the top and right-click an empty space on the left and choose Add… New Playlist. Type a name for it and click OK. When you are view music files you can add them to your new playlist. Right-click a song and choose Send to… and click the name of your new playlist. You can click Playlist at the top menu and play the choices in order. You can right-click the first song and then click Select All. At the bottom left of the screen click the right arrow to begin playing the playlist

You can right-click the list and copy all of those files to another folder of your choice. Choose File Operations, Copy To… to copy the files to a new location. You can now use other software to play those files. You can even merge those files into one file and simply play that one file in software of your choice. You might try the app called Free MP3 Cutter Joiner, but that’s only for MP3s as input. To convert your files you could try VLC media player.