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:
- Undecodable tracks now get substituted with 1s of silence to prevent deadlocks with dodgy third-party components.
- Worked-around bug in Windows 7 with status bar repaint glitches.
- Windows Media streaming compatibility improvements.
- Fixed notification area icon being incorrectly shown in certain conditions.
- Audio format support updates: added support for decoding Wave64 and RF64 formats, added built-in support for writing Wave64 format.
- Added folder name wildcard matching for album art search.
- Added a workaround for horribly broken Asus Xonar drivers.
- Converter: worked-around misbehaviors of command-line encoders when the output file name begins with - or @.
- Converter: refreshed MP3 encoding configuration dialog.