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From the development website: Foobar2000 is an advanced 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.
Features:
- Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC,
Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA.
- Full unicode support.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for transcoding all supported audio formats
using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder
executables for different output formats).
- ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Open component architecture allowing third-party
developers to extend functionality of the player.
What's new in this version: foobar2000 0.9
- Reworked UI structure, removed various redundant
/ rarely used features.
- New: Media Library, replacing old
'database" functionality.
- Improved playlist management - better
handling of multiple playlists, native multilevel undo and more.
- Changes in title formatting script
(field remappings) to make common operations easier.
- New: Converter, replacing old
'Diskwriter" component. Includes album image writing (cuesheet creation,
direct encoding to MP4 with chapters), preview generation and
multi-CPU
optimizations. Most popular encoders are supported out-of-the-box; more
encoders can be added using generic commandline encoder setup.
- Improved support for specific file
formats: faster tag updates with MP3 and FLAC, new native ID3v2
support, rewritten MP4 support now including chapters, rewritten
cuesheet handling with improved handling of embedded cuesheets, improved
AAC streaming
support, and more.
- Various speed optimizations, improved
UI responsivity during
time-consuming operations; better handling of overkill playlist
scripts.
- New: file type associations page in
preferences.
- New and improved ReplayGain scanner with
proper multichannel support and multi-CPU optimizations; now with
option to apply RG adjustment directly to audio data in MP3 files.
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Improved audio CD support, with simple secure ripping
functionality.
Rewritten network code.
Improved security by replacing various
third party libraries with own implementations.
Various usability improvements.
Dropped Windows 95/98/ME/NT4 OS support. Windows 2000, XP or newer
is now
required.
Those interested can head on over to this location
to snag a download!
Source: Foobar
