vgmstream/vgmstream

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

vgmstream is a C library for decoding and playing hundreds of streamed (prerecorded) audio formats used in video games, with support for loops, subsongs, and companion files. It ships as a command-line decoder plus plugins for players like foobar2000, Winamp, XMPlay, and Audacious.

Use cases

• convert video game audio files to wav
• play game music formats in foobar2000
• decode proprietary game audio codecs
• listen to looped bgm from game files
• extract subsongs from a game audio container
• play raw game audio with a txth config
• batch convert game sound files to wav

When to choose

• you need to play or convert streamed audio from video games
• you need accurate loop handling and subsong support for game music
• you want a plugin for foobar2000, Winamp, XMPlay, or Audacious
• you need to reverse-engineer or support obscure game audio formats via TXTH

When to avoid

• you need to play common formats like mp3 or flac only
• you need a general-purpose audio converter for non-game media
• you need real-time audio synthesis rather than decoding prerecorded streams

Facets

library · maturity active

audio-processing parser cli gaming-tools media files cross-platform windows cli game-audio audio-decoder codec winamp-plugin foobar2000-plugin vgm audio-conversion audio linux macos

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