A foobar2000 component that renders animated GIF files as album art. Drop it in, point the artwork panel at a .gif, and your covers come alive — with transparency, smooth scaling, and graceful fallbacks when there’s no GIF to be found.

Features

• Animated GIF playback in the Album Art Viewer
• Static images too: JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP
• Embedded album art fallback when no external file matches
• Transparency and smooth scaling

Install & use

Grab the pre-built .fb2k-component from the releases page and drag it into foobar2000 (or copy the .dll into components/), then add Album Art Viewer to your layout from UI elements.

Name your art files so the component finds them, next to the music:

Requires foobar2000 2.1+ (x64) on Windows 10 or newer.

Building

C++ against the foobar2000 SDK (2025-03-07+) with WTL 10, built with Visual Studio 2022 / MSBuild — the README walks through the SDK layout and the wtl.props path setup. MIT-licensed.