foobar2000, reimagined.
A modern interface built around your album art that takes its colours from whatever is playing,
with foobar2000's sound and speed underneath.
Free · one installer · English, Русский, Deutsch, Español, 中文 · Читать по-русски
- 🎨 Every screen wears your music. Covers fill the window and the whole interface takes its colours from the album that's playing.
- 🎧 Nothing lost from foobar2000. Gapless, every format, ReplayGain, DSP, WASAPI and all your components work exactly as before.
- 🧠 It knows how your songs sound. Optional on-device analysis makes radio, mood playlists and «Similar tracks» from your own files. Nothing is uploaded.
- ⚡ Ready in a minute. One installer sets up foobar2000, the component and the theme, and updates come in one click.
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| Now playing with synced lyrics and up next | Albums as a wall of covers |
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| Tracks: every song in one list | Folders: your library as it lies on disk |
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| Playlists by how the music sounds | Playlists you can really edit |
- Download
Gatefold-Setup.exefrom the latest release. - Run it. It brings foobar2000 (if you don't have it), the foo_ui_webview2 component and the WebView2 Runtime.
- Done. foobar2000 opens straight in Gatefold. Your old setup is backed up, and you can switch back in Preferences → Display.
New versions show an Update available button in the sidebar: one click, checked against SHA256SUMS.txt, and you can roll back.
- Now playing: a large cover, format badges (codec, bit depth, DR, ReplayGain), synced lyrics from your files or LRCLIB, and up next.
- Library: albums, all tracks, or your folders. Editions of one album stay separate, «A; B» shows an album under each artist, and the library can be sorted by cover colour.
- Smart playlists without a query language: recently added, forgotten favourites, a decade, hi-res, or a mood. These are real foobar2000 autoplaylists.
- Covers that look after themselves: missing ones are found, low-resolution ones are replaced, and a cover you choose is never touched.
- Volume levelling: albums play equally loud while keeping their own dynamics, using EBU R128 and standard ReplayGain tags.
- Canvas: full-screen Now playing, also on a second monitor. There's also a mini player, taskbar controls, a tray icon, Liked songs and YouTube.
Requirements
| Windows | 10 or 11, 64-bit |
| foobar2000 | 2.x, 64-bit (the installer brings it) |
| foo_ui_webview2 | 2.0 or later (the installer brings it) |
| Optional | foo_playcount (play statistics), foo_dr_meter (DR badge) |
Manual installation
- Install foo_ui_webview2: open the
.fb2k-componentfile, confirm, restart foobar2000. - Preferences → Display → WebView2 UI → Manage… → Create…, name it
gatefold, press Open…. - Copy the contents of
gatefold-theme-x.y.z.zipthere, so thatindex.htmlsits directly inside. - Preferences → Display: choose Webview2 UI, template
gatefold, Apply.
Privacy: no telemetry, no account
Every network request belongs to a feature you can see and switch off, and all of them go through foobar2000.
| Feature | Goes to | When |
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| Cover art | iTunes, Deezer, MusicBrainz / Cover Art Archive | Albums without art (can be turned off) |
| Artist photos | Deezer, MusicBrainz / Wikidata | The Artists screen (can be turned off) |
| «More like this» radio | Deezer, MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz | Only when you start a radio |
| Lyrics | LRCLIB | Tracks without lyrics in tags or files |
| YouTube | youtube-nocookie.com; Google API with your own key | Only on the YouTube screen |
| Updates | api.github.com, github.com | Every 12 hours (can be turned off) |
| Sound analysis | this repository's ml-assets branch |
Once, when you turn it on. The analysis never leaves your PC |
| Genres (with sound analysis) | musicbrainz.org | Once per artist (can be turned off) |
Optional unofficial sources, off by default: lyrics from Musixmatch, NetEase, QQ Music and Kugou, and a keyless YouTube search. They use private interfaces, may break at any time and may go against those services' terms. Lyrics and covers are for personal use only.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Keys | Action |
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| Space | Play / pause |
| ← / → | Seek ±5 s (Ctrl: ±30 s) |
| Shift + ← / → | Previous / next track |
| ↑ / ↓ · M | Volume ±5 · mute |
| L | Like |
| Ctrl+F | Search |
| Alt+1…8 | Switch screens |
| F11 · F | Full screen · Canvas |
| Ctrl+R · Ctrl+P | Reload the interface · foobar2000 Preferences |
In lists: Shift/Ctrl+click, Ctrl+A, Delete, Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y, Alt+↑/↓, Enter, Esc.
Troubleshooting
- foobar2000 opens in its old interface: choose Webview2 UI in Preferences → Display.
- A white page: the
gatefoldtemplate isn't selected, orindex.htmlisn't directly inside its folder. - Covers aren't downloaded: the Covers screen shows the last error, and View → Console shows
[Gatefold]lines. - Odd window behaviour: Settings → Window and startup → turn off Custom window frame, then press Ctrl+R.
When reporting a problem, please include your foobar2000 and foo_ui_webview2 versions and the [Gatefold] lines from the console.
Building, translating, contributing
- Building: the theme needs no build step. The installer is built by GitHub Actions from
installer/gatefold.iss, and every bundled file is downloaded from its official source and checksummed (docs/RELEASING.md). - Translating: copy
theme/js/locales/en.js, translate the values and register the language intheme/js/i18n.js. - Contributing: see CONTRIBUTING.md. Issues and ideas are welcome.
Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. Status: applied for. Until then installers are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run (More info → Run anyway). Every release lists SHA-256 checksums in SHA256SUMS.txt.
Committers and reviewers: the members of this repository. Approvers: the repository owner. Every release is built by GitHub Actions from this repository and approved by hand. This program sends no information anywhere unless a feature you use needs it (see Privacy above).
MIT © Gatefold contributors. Third-party components keep their own licenses (THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md). foobar2000 is freeware by Peter Pawłowski; Gatefold is an independent project, not affiliated with foobar2000 or foo_ui_webview2.
The screenshots show real albums released under Creative Commons licences.
Nine Inch Nails: The Slip, Ghosts I–IV · Kai Engel: Calls and Echoes · Broke For Free: Slam Funk · Derek Clegg: Across Town · Tigerberry: Cold Wave · rolemusic: The Black Dot · Edith Frost: Demos · Giraffe: Giraffe LP · Sergi Boal: Nylon & Turtle · Bottlesmoker: Let's Die Together in 2012 · Jahzzar: Dune · The Sleeping Tree: Leaves and Roots. All from the Internet Archive under their CC licences (BY, BY-SA, BY-NC, BY-NC-SA). Covers and titles belong to their authors. Genres, moods and playlists in the pictures are what Gatefold's own analysis made of these recordings.