foobar2000 portable (for audio encoding)

[hello_hello]

foobar2000 portable 2.25.8.zip 295.5 MB (most of which is due to ffmpeg being included again).

Unfortunately foobar2000 is no longer XP compatible.

About the portable foobar2000 in the zip file:

The link above is for a portable version of foobar2000 v2.25.8. I'm uploading this as there's often threads asking how to convert audio files. This version of foobar2000 has conversion and encoder presets for converting just about any format to any format.

You only need to extract the zip file somewhere, move the Encoders folder to C:\Encoders, move the "foobar2000 portable" folder to wherever you like, and run foobar2000.exe from there. It's setup to be both an audio player and a converter (I use it for the latter almost daily). It's a "business only" configuration. It doesn't display album art or visualizations etc (aside from the output meters), but it displays a fair bit of information about audio files. The left side of the GUI is dedicated to displaying your media library and won't display anything unless you tell FB2K where to find it. The right side of the GUI has tabs at the top for displaying playlists, and tabs below for displaying information about the files in those playlists.

There's lots of conversion presets. They can be used as a guide for creating your own. There's even more encoder presets. I rarely use many of them, but they've been saved as a reference so I don't need to remember the required command lines.

The text display section on the lower right side of the GUI requires a mono-space font, otherwise the text won't line up. If the mono-space font it's configured to use isn't available for your version of Windows (it should be for Windows 10 and 11), right click on the text area and select "settings" to change it. It'll need to be changed twice, for the text areas under both the "Playing" and "Selected" tabs.

The first attached screenshot shows this foobar2000 setup running on Windows 11. The second is a similar screenshot of it running in Wine on Linux, and the third screenshot shows how the portable version will look when it's first run (although it's a screenshot of an old version on XP which is no longer supported).


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[shans]

foobar2000 1.5.3 Portable.zip[/URL] (104MB because there's lots of goodies included).

The link above is for a portable version of foobar2000 1.5.3 (XP compatible encoders).

I have downloaded the Zip file. Scanned it by virus total and found 2 engines detected this file.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8993a3bcc7fb5c9e899d63b066e9902d5eff15c740719ac347...3a01/detection

For information please.

Anyway, I have been using FB2K with your presets for conversion of various formats almost every day. Thanks for your offerings.

[hello_hello]

You're welcome.

I looked at your link and it appears the file was scanned with a bunch of antivirus engines and two of them resulted in false positives. The rest of them declared the file to be clean.

I'm going to replace the zip file in the opening post with a new version shorty. I discovered the bundled ffmpeg wasn't built with the Rubberband filter that some of the speedup/slowdown encoder presets use, and as a result of checking that I also discovered I'd named the ffmpeg/Rubberband encoder presets incorrectly, so I've fixed those. I'll upload a new zip file without ffmpeg. That'll reduce the file size quite a bit, and I'll add a link for the most recent XP compatible version of ffmpeg to the opening post at the same time.

[hello_hello]

For anyone who's interested, I've updated foobar2000 to version 2.0 and there's an updated link in the opening post.

[hello_hello]

For anyone who's interested, I've updated foobar2000 to version 2.25.8 and there's an updated link in the opening post.

[cholla]

@ hello_hello ,
I have the version you gave me.
It is for Windows 7 32-bit. I shows to be v2.25 with no additional .# .
Is there a way to check if it has ffmpeg built with the Rubberband filter ?
I have never used any preset with the Rubberband filter so I likely won't change it.
If I decided to use just the ffmpeg in the newer version. Would it work for my OS ?
If you know.
I have done some changes to the GUI & added some components. So I do not want to update f2k unless it is really necessary.

On a side note I ran into this the other day.
F2K would not play a file as .aac .
All I had to do was change the extension to .m4a & the same file played with no problem.


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cholla,
You must have installed a different version at some stage, but everything you need to retain your configuration, aside from the audio encoders themselves, is in the Profile folder. If you're using a portable installation of foobar2000 it'll be in the folder where foobar2000 is installed. For a non-portable installation it's wherever Windows prefers programs to store their data files these days.

If you use foobar2000's File menu, there'll be a menu item Folders/Browse Profile Folder, so you can use that to find your profile folder's location if need be. Everything unique to your foobar2000 setup is in the profile folder (aside from the encoders), so if you back it up you can mess with the foobar2000 configuration as much as you like and go back to the original configuration by replacing the Profile folder with your backup copy. Or you can install a fresh version of foobar2000 and copy the backup of your profile folder to the appropriate location to restore your previous configuration. Updating foobar2000 shouldn't touch the Profile folder, but having a backup copy just in case is still a good idea.

The easiest way to check if the version of ffmpeg you're using was built with RubberBand would be to try one of the encoder presets that use it to see if it works. The version of ffmpeg included in the zip file now is 64 bit so it won't be any good to you.

Apparently these 32 bit ffmpeg builds should work on Win7, provided UCRT is installed.
https://github.com/defisym/FFmpeg-Builds-Win32/releases
Just replace the ffmpeg exes in the Encoders folder with the new versions, and if there's problems revert back to the ones you're currently using.
ffmpeg-master-latest-win32-gpl.zip is probably what you want.

[Alwyn]

For anyone who's interested

I am! Thanks HH, it's a great program for levelling my MP3s and MP4s.