foobar2000 vs Legacy Music Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
foobar2000
An advanced audio player for mobile devices supporting a wide range of formats. Enjoy gapless playback, automatic volume adjustment, and customization options. Stream music from UPnP servers.
- Wide audio format support (MP3, FLAC, AAC, etc.)
- Gapless playback
- ReplayGain volume adjustment
- UPnP media server streaming
- Customizable appearance with skins
Read full descriptionHide full description
foobar2000 mobile is an advanced audio player for mobile devices. Main features: * Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack. * Gapless playback. * ReplayGain support - automatic playback volume adjustment. * Supports playback and downloading music from UPnP media servers. * Appearance can be customized with skin files (basic black and white themes inlcuded with the app).
Legacy Music Player
Organize and play your retro game music collection. This app automatically extracts metadata, indexes composers and games, and offers instant search. Enjoy high-fidelity playback of classic sound chip formats and discover new music through curated picks and a podcast.
- VGM, NSF, SPC, GBS, NSFE playback
- Automatic metadata extraction
- Composer and game indexing
- Instant library search
- Offline podcast listening
- High-fidelity sound chip emulation
- Export to MP3/WAV
Read full descriptionHide full description
Legacy Music Player is the iOS home for retro game music (VGM). Build a personal library from your collection of VGM, NSF, SPC, GBS, NSFE, and dozens of other classic chiptune formats. Drag in files, zips or whole folders and Legacy Music Player handles the rest - automatic metadata extraction, composer and game indexing, and instant search across every track in your library. We keep the data updated so you get the most accurate game, composer and song information out there. Discover new music every week. The Discover tab surfaces fresh picks and ships with new episodes of the Legacy Music Hour podcast - a long-running show celebrating the music of classic gaming. Episodes can stream directly or auto-download into your library so you can listen offline. Turn on "Oshaberi Mode" to have the hosts of The Legacy Music Hour keep you company while you listen. Built as a modern solution to listening to VGM files. Legacy Music Player plays the original sound chip data at full fidelity - Game Boy, NES, Genesis, SNES, Neo Geo, PC Engine, arcade boards, and more. Loop tracks, browse by composer or system, and export your favorites to MP3 or WAV. Export WAV stems to make your own mixes. This syncs with the MacOS app as well, be sure to check that out.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Legacy Music Player at 5.0 against foobar2000's 4.5. Legacy Music Player also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). foobar2000's advantage is ratings volume (231 vs 15). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Legacy Music Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: foobar2000 has 231 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of foobar2000's written reviews are positive against 100% of Legacy Music Player's.
foobar2000 ships an update monthly, Legacy Music Player every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | foobar2000 | Legacy Music Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (231 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 231 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Resolute | Gabriel Castro |
Customer experience
foobar2000
Legacy Music Player
Bugs and requests
foobar2000
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes on startup for some users
- Playback issues with certain audio formats
- Network detection failures
- SMB/DLNA server connectivity problems
- Album art not displaying correctly
Requested features
8 requests- Add queue and repeat single track features
- Improve playlist management and song deletion
- Implement CarPlay support
- Add more UI customization options
- Improve search functionality
Show 3 moreShow fewer
- Implement Last.fm scrobbling
- Add tag editing capabilities
- Provide sort options by artist, genre, etc.
Legacy Music Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
foobar2000
No in-app purchases
Legacy Music Player
No in-app purchases
