foobar2000 0.9.6.2 Beta 3

foobar2000 0.9.6.2 Beta 3 offers an effective tool which functions as a very recommendable player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski who also worked on Winamp3.

FB2000 uses a plain and simple UI - no skins, no fuss. Filesize is 200 kb, while in playback mode the player approximately consumes 1.9 Mbyte of your RAM which is so much less compared to Winamp or MS Media Player.

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Major Features:

1. Support audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
2. Gapless playback.
3. Have full unicode support.
4. Have easily customizable user interface layout.
5. Have advanced tagging capabilities.
6. Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
7. Have full ReplayGain support.
8. Have customizable keyboard shortcuts.
9. Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Enhancements:

1. Media Library is now aware of newly installed decoder components and will re-check your folders for files that could not be indexed before.
2. New options to control tag fields searched by simple search queries, in Advanced Preferences.
3. Various bug fixes and cosmetic changes.
   

Requirements: Windows 2K/XP