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.
* Worked around playback/output preferences crash on Windows 2003.
* ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements:
- Non-compliant ID3v2.3 TYER allowed by default since various other popular software does it.
- Option to write “rating†as TXXX for the few people who want it.
* Fixed properties dialog field copy/paste inconsistency when copying specific fields from single to multiple files.
* ReplayGain scanner: added additional warnings when trying to scan a very large group of tracks as a single album.
* ReplayGain scanner: addressed extreme memory usage when scanning a large group of tracks as a single album.
* Cleaned up embedded cuesheet handling code.
* Faster FLAC tag updates when full file rewrite is necessary.
* Sanitized FLAC tag updating behaviors in low-memory conditions.