What is foobar2000?
Since this software is so different from the others I’ve reviewed lately I though a short description of the application was in order. foobar2000 (avilable here for free) is not a music organization application at the same level as MediaMonkey, WMP12 or WinAmp as it can’t sync with MTP devices, which frankly most of the MP3 player market today uses. As such I’ve chosen to treat it as a computer side music player only. You can organize content on a MSC device with it, but there are fewer and fewer players suing this. What makes it so special on the computer side is that it is extremely lightweight while also being very extensive in it’s area. It doesn’t look fancy or try to be that fancy; it does music playback and nothing more. In these days of netbooks and UMPC/MIDs running “real” OSes on low power hardware, the need for something lightweight is definitely there.
