Smart Album Player vs foobar2000
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Album Player
This music player focuses on playing entire albums rather than individual tracks. It offers shuffle and repeat options for both albums and tracks, allowing you to curate your listening experience by album.
- Plays whole albums
- Album shuffle
- Album repeat
- Track repeat
- Track shuffle
- Plays selected albums
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Smart Album Player is iPod Library player with album shuffle functionality. It can play whole albums instead of dividing albums by artists. Features: - Plays whole albums, does not divide albums by artists - Album repeat - Album shuffle - Track repeat - Track shuffle - Plays albums you selected NOTE: - Does not support gapless playback - Stops the playback for an instant when the application is closed during playback - Stops the playback of default iPod player when the application launches
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
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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).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: foobar2000 at 4.5 against Smart Album Player's 3.0. foobar2000 also leads on ratings volume (206 vs 2) and update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months). Smart Album Player's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
foobar2000 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: foobar2000 has 206 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Smart Album Player's written reviews are positive against 80% of foobar2000's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Smart Album Player ships an update every 5 months, foobar2000 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Album Player | foobar2000 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (206 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 79.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 206 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuji Koike | Resolute |
Customer experience
Smart Album Player
foobar2000
Bugs and requests
Smart Album Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
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- Implement Last.fm scrobbling
- Add tag editing capabilities
- Provide sort options by artist, genre, etc.
In-app purchases
Smart Album Player
No in-app purchases
foobar2000
No in-app purchases
Questions
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