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.
* Converter: fixed writing of WAV files with odd byte counts (eg. 24-bit mono).
* Improved handling of various malformed WAV files.
* Converter: fixed writing of file types that foobar2000 cannot tag.
* Fixed “verify integrity of played files†option disabling HDCD & DTS decoder components.
- It's a feature of individual decoder components; third party decoder components such as Monkey's Audio decoder must be updated separately.
* “Add Folder†now skips over hidden files & subfolders.
* AIFF file format tagging support.
* Added authenticode signatures to foobar2000 binaries.