foobar2000 mobile

I have been a long time fan of the classic foobar2000 desktop application due to its unique combination of sonic transparency, wide configurability, and ease of use. However, foobar2000 mobile continues to have an issue with sonic transparency that has yet to be fixed. I have conducted various blind tests via Sennheiser HD 800 headphones using this player, the classic desktop version of foobar2000, and Groove Music player. For this formal test, I ensured all plug-ins were disabled, and ReplayGain was disabled. Consistently, both classic foobar2000 and Groove Music sound noticeably sharper, better sounding and indistinguishable from one another. However, foobar2000 mobile has a hazy, constrained sound (e.g. cymbals are blurred and suppressed, the antithesis of the HD 800 sound signature) over it compared to the other players, as if (my speculation) a low-quality filtering was being applied to the output. As such, I will not be using foobar2000 mobile until the author fixes this.

Just like its Win32 counterpart, the UWP foobar2000 does exactly what I need it to do: play music without getting in the way. It monitors your music folder for changes and has a super quick and powerful search that easily outperforms that of the app I used before. It also has a bag of audio features I haven't even tried yet. This app gets something close to a 5; I think if it supported playlists/playlist creation (or does it?) it'd be perfect to me. Also, funnily enough, this version doesn't support wma files.

This app just works! - flawless playback quality - Groove glitches into terrible death sometimes - fast - Groove takes a minute to start playing after a phone reboot, foobar starts instantly - perfect progress tracking: It even survives a reboot while playing! Groove doesn't even survive a day of idling - properly implemented shuffle - the list only changes when you add music to your device - proper album images - Groove loves to pick the ugliest image to display for all 'Unknown album' songs - awesome format support - Groove deletes my FLAC files - correct tag reading - Groove claims most of my songs are unknown album - fast library scanning - updated in a minute with 1300+ tracks - support for alternative song locations - clean UI: No sliding up down left and right for different things