Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.

Features:

• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
• Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
• Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
• Full Unicode support on Windows NT
• ReplayGain support
• Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
• Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
• Highly customizable playlist display
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

Changes in 1.3

• Optimized performance when using large libraries/playlists
• Improved save cycle and shutdown
• Playlist and Media dialog bugfix
• Added option to transfer ReplayGain information
• Oversized metadata are dropped for improved performance
• updated FFmpeg to 2.0.1
• Smoother playlist scrolling

Changes in 1.2.7

• Using libFLAC 1.3.0.
• Better handling of various malformed AIFF file cases.
• Fixed issue with WAV tag writer

Changes in 1.1.23

• Updated FFmpeg code to 1.1.1.
• FFmpeg DLLs now use unique names to avoid collisions with certain other software.
• Reverted problematic Media Library folder monitoring tweaks from 1.2.
• “Downmix 5.1 to stereo” DSP now accepts more different channel masks.
• FLAC decoding improvements (beta 3):
• Work-around for certain broken files producing loud glitches.
• SSE optimizations to counter slowdown from the above work-around.
• File Integrity Verifier component now detects such files.
• Worked around incompatibility with some very old Vorbis files (final).

Changes in 1.2.1

• Bugfix for Menu commands to switch between playback output devices not entirely working.
• Bugfix for Incorrect decode of odd/malformed Vorbis files.
• Bugfix for Archive Reader DLL was accidentally made dependant on MSVCR100.DLL in 1.2.
• Improved compatibility with malformed AIFF files.
• Bugfix for 1.2 regression - some filesystem operations in monitored folders would cause foobar2000 to crash.

Changes in 1.1.17

• Bugfix for rare crash bug with “full file buffering”.
• Bugfix for oscilloscope inversion bug
• Enhanced media library relative path handling in portable installs.
• Ctrl+A now works in generic text popup dialogs (popup_message API).
• Converter now works on non-seekable sources again, such as Internet streams.
• Crash reporting improved for more meaningful data about deadlocks.
• Updated zlib to 1.2.7.

Changes in 1.1.16

• Bugfix for playback/output preferences crash on Windows 2003.
• ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements:
• BugFix for properties dialog field copy/paste inconsistency when copying specific fields from single to multiple files.
• Added additional warnings when trying to scan a very large group of tracks as a single album.
• Addressed extreme memory usage when scanning a large group of tracks as a single album.
• More effecient embedded cuesheet handling code.
• Faster FLAC tag updates when full file rewrite is necessary.
• Sanitized FLAC tag updating behaviors in low-memory conditions.

Changes in 1.1.15 Beta 2

• Added basic MusicBrainz tagging capability to the audio CD ripper.
• CD ripper can now look up CD information automatically each time a new CD is about to be ripped.
• Worked-around shell integration incompatibility with Windows 8.
• Converter performance tweaks for multi-core encoding (beta 2).
• Resolved incompatibility with Matroska files processed with mkvclean (beta 2).
• ID3v2: “rating” tags now compatible with Windows Media Player (beta 2).
• Resolved Converter incompatibility with new Opus encoder (beta 2).