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Old Nov 9, 2003, 12:25 PM   #1
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foobar2000 0.7.3

Foobar2000 Media Player is a very very recommendable player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski who is or used to work on Winamp3.

FB2000 uses a plain and simple UI - no skins, no fuss. Filesize is 200 kb, while in playback mode the player approximately consumes 1.9 Mbyte of your RAM which is so much less compared to Winamp or MS Media Player.

Supported input formats:

- MP3
- MP2
- Musepack
- Ogg Vorbis
- WAV
- AIFF
- VOC
- AU
- SND
- CDDA
- MPEG-4 AAC
- FLAC
- Monkey's Audio
- WavPack
- Speex
- Mod
- SPC

Included outputs:

- waveOut
- DirectSound
- Kernel Streaming

Included general components:

- Console
- HTTP reader
- ReplayGain scanner
- Diskwriter
- Album list
- Masstagger
- Archive reader
- Jump to time

Included DSP components:

- Standard DSP array

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
· Audio formats supported through official addons: MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR & 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)

What's New in This Release:

· added special check for id3 tags inside mp3 stream
· albumlist can now skip entire hierarchy level when there are no characters between separators
· various bugfixes
· entire SDK now verified compatible with MSVC7.1 (standard distributions still built with MSVC6 to avoid evil msvcrt71.dll dependency)
· improved masstagger's "guess values from filename", now accepts "%blah%/%bleh%/%meh%" for directory structure

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