How do I convert my audio files to another format?
Load tracks you want to convert into a playlist, right click, choose 'Convert' from the context menu, click one of sub-options. Converting functionality requires the Converter component to be installed ('Optional Features → Tools → Converter' during installation). First time you convert to some format, you will be asked for a location of a commandline encoder executable required to encode to that format (unless relevant executable can be found in your standard paths or in foobar2000 application directory).
- Are specifications of foobar2000's configuration file format (.cfg) available? Why doesn't foobar2000 use some user-editable XML-based configuration file format instead?
- Are specifications of the FPL playlist format available? Why doesn't foobar2000 use some user-editable XML-based playlist file format instead?
- Can I have 'Previous' / 'Next' buttons in the Properties dialog, to go to properties of previous / next track in my playlist?
- Does foobar2000 sound better than other players?
- Does foobar2000 work on Windows Vista?
- How can I add ID3v1, ID3v2, or APEv2 tags to my MP3 files, or how can I remove them?
- How can I rename files based on information from the tags?
- How do I convert my audio files to another format?
- How do I edit tags of my files ?
- How do I enable volume display or playlist selection total time display in my status bar?
- How do I install additional components?
- How do I make foobar2000 my default player?
- How do I make the currently playing track to be selected (highlighted) and stay always in view?
- How do I use title formatting strings?
- How will upgrading affect my settings?
- I am experiencing high system resource usage (memory or CPU) while playing.
- I can't find some command in my playlist context (right-click) menu. What do I do?
- MP3 tags (ID3v2) added or modified by foobar2000 are not read or are read improperly in application X or portable player Y. What can I do?
- Random mode: Why do I hear the same track more than once a day in a very long playlist?
- Shuffle mode: Why do I hear the same tracks regularly, played in the same order?
- Some of my files are not seen by the Media Library...
- The Converter is asking me for an oggenc.exe file, but all I have is oggenc2.exe from RareWares, what do I do?
- What should I do before reporting a problem?
- What should I do if foobar2000 refuses to load a component DLL?
- What tag types does foobar2000 write to my MP3 files?
- What's the difference between Shuffle and Random playback order modes?
- What's the purpose of Shuffle (albums) and Shuffle (directories) modes?
- When trying to use Album List, Equalizer or Spectrum Visualization, I'm getting a "service not found" error message. What to do?
- Where's the File Types page in Preferences? I can't find it...
- Why can't I use $replace() to create custom substitution schemes for characters that can't be used in file names?
- Why do some menu commands not work when bound to global keyboard shortcuts?
- Why does foobar2000 write question marks to my ID3v1 tags?
- Why is 'Tagging -> MP3 tag types' missing from the context menu?
- Why is Autoplaylist Manager no longer maintained?
- Why is seeking so slow while playing MP3 files?