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.
* Fixed Musepack HTTP streaming bugs.
* Fixed incorrect MP3 decoder behavior on certain rare files.
* Fixed crash reporter dialog crash (duh).
* Detection of proxy server settings from Internet Explorer.
* Fixed multi-channel FLAC encoding (channel mask now gets preserved).
* Fixed multi-channel WavPack decoding (channel mask now gets preserved).
* Now possible to use HDCD & DTS decoder components with ALAC.
* Changed MP3 tag reading behaviors when multiple tags are present.
- ID3v2 content now takes priority over APE and then ID3v1.
* Various time-consuming operations such as conversion or ReplayGain-scanning now prevent the computer from automatically going to sleep (opt-out).