vlc..?

I am a big fan of VLC, and I just wrote an article about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/vlc_guru_gong/

But VLC is a multi-function tool that can play audio and video.

Foobar is, as far as I can tell, just an audio player. It's more focussed and consequently smaller and simpler. That's what I like about it.

I keep both on my machines and I use both... but I use VLC for video, and Foobar for just listening to music.

it's a good player but it's always been clunky and oddly buggy

maybe it's less so on mac but on linux i get random long pauses on video playlist playback that often end with it just stopping

foobar2000 was released for macOS in around 2017, and I'm pretty sure it's still not really at parity with the Windows version. Not that it's bad, but just saying.