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foobar2000 News
« on: April 23, 2006, 12:19:44 AM »


foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Main features
• Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
• Gapless playback.
• Full unicode support.
• Easily customizable user interface layout.
• Advanced tagging capabilities.
• Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
• Full ReplayGain support.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend

Features added using optional official components:
• Audio formats supported through official components: APE, ALAC.
• Playback statistics.
• Kernel streaming support.
• ASIO support.
• WASAPI output support.
• CD burning support.
• Ability to read within archives (7z, RAR, ZIP )

Product Info: foobar2000
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Re: foobar2000 News
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 06:45:04 AM »
Additional components for foobar2000
These components require foobar2000 0.9.3 or newer

• Monkey's Audio decoding support
• ALAC decoding support
• CD burning support
• Decoding speed test
• Playback Statistics
• Binary Comparator
• Autoplaylist Manager
• Kernel Streaming
• ASIO support
• Impulse response convolver

More Info: foobar2000 Components
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Re: foobar2000 News
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 06:45:18 AM »
foobar2000 v1.0 Released
12.09.2010

Whats New:
• New context menu structure - better out-of-the-box layout but less customizable.
• Built-in support for Windows Media and RTSP streaming.
“Edit” menu operates on the currently selected object rather than always on the active playlist.
• Improved compatibility with multimedia keyboards.
• Improved, more customizable album art support.
• Portable installs now remember Media Library paths relatively to the install folder.
• Reworked Preferences: OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, new layout of standard pages.
• New options regarding selection viewer behavior.
• Default User Interface: new pseudo color code system for status bar and playlist view.
CD ripping improvements:
• Results can be now checked against the AccurateRip database on-the-fly.
CD-TEXT reading support.
• Ability to choose individual tracks to rip in the “Rip Audio CD” dialog.

Download: Foobar2000 1.0
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Re: foobar2000 News
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 06:45:40 AM »
foobar2000 v1.0.1 BETA 2 Released
02.27.2010

Whats New:
• 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.
This is a maintenance update addressing various issues found in the
1.0 release as well as adding minor new features.


Download: foobar2000 1.0.1 BETA 2
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