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foobar2000 is a well known favorite player along chiptune enthusiast, not only by being one of the lightiest memory consuming music player, also because it has a huge repository of plugins that enhances some features to the player; they are called components, good thing of these is that they expanded support for all well known chiptune formats!


'[#[Screenshots];
you can customize quite much everything on foobar and furthermore by adding components here are pics of some designs;

- '[l[http://i.imgur.com/pGOO8eY.png[Skin by vilxdryad]


'[#[Download];
here is the link to the download page of foobar2000 for Windows operative systems

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/download[foobar2000's Download page]

also, few days ago after a successful fundraiser campaign, foobar2000 is now supported on mobile phones BUT no component system are implemented at the moment, even so; they still can playback a bunch of chiptune formats natively:

foobar2000 for android

- '[l[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foobar2000.foobar2000[foobar2000 on Play Store]

foobar2000 for iOS

- '[l[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foobar2000/id1072807669[foobar2000 on App Store]

foobar2000 for Windows Universal (Windows 10)

- '[l[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/foobar2000-beta/9nblggh5x8tr[foobar2000 on MIcrosoft Store]

They all are on a very early stage of development, your feedback is encouraged to support these apps, you can talk to the developers in their also brand new forum:

- '[l[http://forum.foobar2000.com/forum/[foobar2000's Forum]

'[#[Format support components];
you need to have installed these plugins in order to play the correspondent format here is a list of foobar plugins that makes you able to listen more formats;

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_ac3.fb2k-component[foo_ac3] (Adds support to the ATSC A-52 Bitstream's .AC3 format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_adpcm.fb2k-component[foo_adpcm] (Adds support to .DSP, .GCM, .HPS, .IDSP, .SPT/SPD, .MSS, .ADP, .EA, .MUS/ASF, .MAP, .PCM, .DVI, .XA, .WAF, .WPD, .MPF, .WDT, .KWF, .NWA, .PX, .BW and so on... formats.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_asap[foo_ac3] (Adds support to the Atari 8-bits chiptunes in the .SAP, .CMC, .CM3, .CMR, .CMS, .DMC, .DLT, .MPT, .MPD, .RMT, .TMC, .TM8, .TM2 and FC formats.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/getcomponent/e7749d92f8b71da7cc185fc7337087a6/8aafc449c3ff7caed1befe71b9c379d3/foo_hdcd.fb2k-component[foo_input_hdcd] (Adds support to the .HDCD format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_dumb.fb2k-component[foo_dumb] (Adds support to .MOD, .S3M, .XM, .IT, .STM, .669, .PTM, .PSM, .MTM, .DSM, ASYLUM .AMF, .UMX and J2B formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_gep.fb2k-component[foo_gep] (Adds support to .GBS, .GYM, .HES, .KSS, .NSF, .NSFE, .SAP, .SPC and VGM formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_adplug.fb2k-component[foo_input_adplug] (Adds support to the AdPlug formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_adplug.fb2k-component[foo_input_avs] (Adds support to the AviSynth Scripts's .AVS format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_dsdiff.fb2k-component[foo_input_dsdiff] (Adds support to the DsDiff's .DFF format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_dts.fb2k-component[foo_input_dts] (Adds support to .DTS .DTSWAV .FLAC, WAVPACK .TAK formats.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/getcomponent/52d4f7a9afdbd7fd3b055b30c828cf06/10b74fb8f5ca5b9c716a5ded8a686db5/foo_gep.fb2k-component[foo_input_gep] (Adds support to .AY, .GBS, .GYM, .HES, .KSS, .NSF, SAP, .SGC, .SPC and VGM formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_gsf.fb2k-component[foo_input_gsf] (Adds support to the .GSF and .MiniGSF format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_ht.fb2k-component[foo_input_ht] (Adds support to Sega Dreamcast's and Sega Saturn's .DSF, .MiniDSF, .SSF, .MiniSSF formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_hvl.fb2k-component[foo_input_hvl] (Adds support to the Hively Tracker .HVL and Abyss .AHX formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_kdm.fb2k-component[foo_input_kdm] (Adds support to the .KDM format.)

- '[l[http://www.vesta.dti.ne.jp/~tsato/soft_fb2k.html[foo_input_mdx] (Adds support to the Sharp X86000 .MDX format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_ncsf.fb2k-component[foo_input_ncsf] (Adds support to the Nitro Composer Sound Format's .NCSF format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_org.fb2k-component[foo_input_org] (Adds support to the Organya's .ORG format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_qsf.fb2k-component[foo_input_qsf] (Adds support to the Capcom's .QSF format.)

- '[l[http://www.vesta.dti.ne.jp/~tsato/soft_fb2k.html[foo_input_s98] (Adds support to NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801's OPN/OPNA/OPM/OPL's .S98 formats.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/getcomponent/a60e4500e857c4273331cc03b2c7fe1f/35c2d69b86d02d0524c8aa5afd8da195/foo_input_shorten-0.4.2.3-20140103.fb2k-component[foo_input_shorten] (Adds support to Shorten formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_spu.fb2k-component[foo_input_spu] (Adds support to the .SPU format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_syntrax.fb2k-component[foo_input_syntrax] (Adds support to the Jaytrax/Syntrax modules .JXS format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_tak.fb2k-component[foo_input_tak] (Adds support to the .TAK format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_tfmx.fb2k-component[foo_input_tfmx] (Adds support to .TFMX, .TFM, .TFX and MDAT formats.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_usf.fb2k-component[foo_input_usf] (Adds support to the Nintendo 64's .USF and .MiniUSF format.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/getcomponent/f2e8d6f4374c2ef3934625d2e8490fc0/f91d83f0acd5d9fb2166279b2cec73b6/foo_input_v2m.fb2k-component[foo_input_v2m] (Adds support to the Farbrausch V2 module's .V2M format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_vgmstream.fb2k-component[foo_input_vgmstream] (Adds support to most streamed music files.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_input_vio2sf.fb2k-component[foo_input_vios2f] (Adds support to the Nintendo DS's .2SF and .Mini2SF format.)

- '[http://www.foobar2000.org/getcomponent/51c586a4391ba301a25031ea55172abd/b133230042acdf85069be42e2b11b3cd/foo_input_ym.fb2k-component[foo_input_ym] (Adds support to Yamaha's .YM format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_midi.fb2k-component[foo_midi] (Adds support to the MIDI's format.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_psf[foo_psf] (Adds decoding support for Sony Playstation Sound Format files (.PSF/.MINIPSF) as well as Playstation 2 Sound Format files (.PSF2/.MINIPSF2).)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_sid.fb2k-component[foo_sid] (Adds support to the Commodore 64's .SID format.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_snesapu.fb2k-component[foo_snesapu] (Adds support to the Super Nintendo's/Super Famicom's .SPC format.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/getcomponent/4b796c2bedcacfc41a11d353bf81743f/488dc5d47316347f16148253d9501e7c/foo_lunar2.fb2k-component[foo_lunar2] (Adds support to the Sega CD's versions of the video game Lunar: Eternal Blue's .PCM format.)

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/getcomponent/4305adde8ebb21d89b7f8a33ee52c642/2ca6ce3073bb67713ac2540e6061020f/Monkey.fb2k-component[Monkey] (Adds support to the Monkey Audio's .APE and APL formats.)


'[#[Other useful components];

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_unpack_7z.fb2k-component[foo_unpack_7z] (Allows you to playback .7Z compressed files.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_unpack_jma.fb2k-component[foo_unpack_jma] (Allows you to playback .JMA compressed files.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_unpack_lha.fb2k-component[foo_unpack_lha] (Allows you to playback .LHA compressed files.)

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_unpack_unix.fb2k-component[foo_unpack_unix] (Allows you to playback files compressed in .GZIP, .GUNZIP, .ZCAT, .GZCAT, .TAR, .CPIO, .PAX, .BZIP2 and .ZIP formats.)


'[#[More components!];

All the components listed adobe where ripped from these sources, you should check the other ones too!

- '[l[http://www.foobar2000.org/components[Official foobar2000 website's foobar2000 component repositories]

- '[l[http://kode54.foobar2000.org/?v[kode54's foobar2000's component repositories]

- '[l[http://www.vesta.dti.ne.jp/~tsato/soft_fb2k.html[Ru^3 Honpo's foobar2000's component repositories]

 
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