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foobar2000

The full version of a very recommendable media player





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Foobar2000 Media Player is a very very recommendable player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski who is or used to work on Winamp3. Key features: sophisticated interface full of buttons, lights and other types of eye-candy.

Pros:
  • Support for all popular formats
  • Include tools to rip CDs and convert files
  • Customize keyboard shortcuts
  • Support unicode fully
Cons:
  • Don't support Windows 7
  • Organize advanced options badly

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Beneftis:

With this foobr2000 audio player, you can play all kinds of audio formats with easy steps and high quality, for example MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and it own more with additional components.

foobar2000, one powerful audio player software, supports for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component. First time you convert to some format, you will be asked for a location of a commandline encoder executable required to encode to that format (unless relevant executable can be found in your standard paths or in foobar2000 application directory). Commandline encoders for most audio formats can be found on RareWares.

Open component architecture of foobar2000 allows third-party developers to extend functionality of this audio player software.

System Requirements:

* CPU: 200 MHz, AMD K5 or Pentium or equivalent(500MHz Athlon or Pentium III recommended)
* RAM: 32 MB
* Display: 800x600 screen resolution

Setup:

Upgrading from any version to the latest version - foobar2000 will leave your settings intact, provided you install the new version on top of the old one. Do not uninstall the old version first! The uninstaller will delete all your settings.

Interface:

This audio player sofware features a revamped default interface, with embedded support for album list, album art, spectrum visualization, and some other features and improvements. It also has a converter interface for use with command line encoders.

Conclusion:

On the whole, 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 almost all popular audio formats.


The full version of a very recommendable media player Foobar2000 Media Player is a very very recommendable player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski who is or used to work on Winamp3.
Foobar2000 v1.1's New features include a new component installation scheme as well as automatic updating of components.

Main changes in Foobar2000 1.1 Finnal:
* New component installation and automatic updating functionality.
* Optional components are now installed into user's profile folder, allowing different components installed for different users on one system.
* Entirely new Converter user interface.
* Reworked appearance of various Preferences pages and other utility dialogs.
* Improved ID3v2 tag writing standard compliance.
* Improved Matroska compliance.

Main changes in Foobar2000 v1.1 beta:
*Fixed incorrect behaviors with both "cursor follows playback" and "playback follows cursor" enabled.
*Improved compatibility with dodgy ASX files written by Windows Media Player.
* Fixed notification area icon minimize bugs (again).
*Fixed problems with encoding very long audio streams to Vorbis.
*Fixed a very rare crash when using the Media Library preferences page.
*Various other maintenance updates and bug fixes.

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.

Here are some key features of "Foobar":

  • Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
  • Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
  • Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey\'s Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
  • Full Unicode support on Windows NT
  • ReplayGain support
  • Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
  • Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
  • Highly customizable playlist display
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts
  • Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

    Requirements:
  • CPU: 200 MHz, AMD K5 or Pentium or equivalent (500MHz Athlon or Pentium III recommended)
  • RAM: 32 MB
  • Display: 800x600 screen resolution
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