foobar2000.org - (Freeware)
Foobar2000 is a great solution for audio playing supporting a wide range of formats.
Foobar2000 is an audio player that supports many popular audio formats.
Its interface is very simple with only the presentation of a play list while the progress bar and the controls can be only text characters.
The software is very flexible and incorporates a variety of functions ranging from simple multi-standard playback (MP3, OGG, WMA, Flac, MusePack, etc.) to the audio compression through management of albums, writing WAVE, the crossfading, etc.
Foobar2000 is also one of the few MP3 players that incorporate a "gapless" powerful function to solve the problem of blank created by MP3 compression and management of playlists is exemplary (organization, search, sort .
The application consumes very little memory and CPU, it offers a simple interface that includes only strictly necessary elements for reading.
Changes since last release
0.9.5
New Default User Interface
Allows embedding of Album List and other components in the main window
Quick setup dialog on first startup allowing easy UI customization
Theme import/export support for transferring appearance-related settings easily
Built-in playlist view supports columns and grouping
New Playlist Search dialog
Embedded album art support
New built-in spectrum visualisation
New Album List component
Updates automatically with Media Library content changes (#Refresh# command no longer needed)
Embeddable in the main window
Supports direct creation of autoplaylists from Album List tree branches
Properties dialog improvements
New commands: #Format from Other Fields#, #Capitalize#, #Clean Up#
Improved #Automatically Fill Values# functionality
Improved Windows Clipboard interaction - now you can use copy/paste to transfer values between fields or between different sets of tracks
Converter component improvements
Replaced #show output directory when done# functionality with a new dialog showing a list of created tracks
Built-in support for writing AU/SND and AIFF files
Updated FLAC support - FLAC encoding now requires FLAC encoder 1.2.0 or newer
Improved handling of hung command-line encoder processes
Audio format decoding updates
Updated libFLAC to 1.2.1
Rewritten support for AU/SND and AIFF audio formats
New #File Operations# component, for moving, copying and deleting audio files
Old Masstagger component no longer included with the installer (available for download separately)
Windows XP or newer is now required