Foobar 2000 - The advanced audio player

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    http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/foobar2000/

    From the URL above, you can download the Foobar2000 player for Win32. It's an advanced audio player with support for MP3, Vorbis, Musepack. It also supports APE-tags and ReplayGain. It can also decompress ZIP/RAR archives and play songs within them. Included are also advanced features like on-the-fly resampling, which can improve sound quality on cards that force 48khz resampling (most SoundBlasters, many others too).

    Currently supported audio formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, WAV, MOD. More support is planned.

    Foobar also has support forum at Hydrogen Audio:
    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?s=&act=SC&c=12

    And the author 'zZzZzZz' can usually reached directly via IRC at irc.freenode.net #project_mayhem
     
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    So test, give feedback, report bugs, tell opinions.
     
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    Nothing to "complain" up so far. Runs nicely on my XP, task manager shows up it using "magnificient" 1,5 MB amount of memory..:)

    No installation hasle, so pretty damn straight forward.

    One question thou:
    Lower left corner, there is Volume-value: 0.00 dB, it doesn't change to anything, is it purposed to be so or is that info depending about file-format or what?

    After browsing through hydrogen-forum info about FUUBAR, I won't mention anything for further development, I'll just stay tuned
    (erhm, referring to this post from from developer zZzZzZz:
    before anyone else complains: foobar2000 is about functionality, technical capabilities and high-quality audio playback, NOT about cool-looking user interface. if you want skinning, visualisation, etc, then fb2k is not for you. ) Point taken..:)
     
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    Use + and - on the keyboard to adjust volume. Yeah, there will be no lame skinning or freaking mini browsers.
     
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    We have added Foobar to our software sections. It has also gained a lot of attention around the web.I very strongy recommend this player for everyone.
    http://cd-rw.org/software/audio_software/audio_players/foobar2000.cfm

    Current feature list (20.12.2002) includes:
    - supported formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, WAV, MOD (needs foo_mod.dll), SPC (needs foo_spc.dll), monkey's audio (needs foo_ape.dll)
    - 32bit floating point audio processing pipeline, with 6dB hard limiter and conversion to 16/24bit (dithered) at the end.
    - lossy formats (MP3, Vorbis, MPC) are decoded directly to 32bit FP so there's no clipping
    - transparent rar/zip reading (slow)
    - full unicode support, new playlist format (m3u8) storing international filenames properly (using UTF-8)
    - runs *only* on win2k/winxp or newer
    - built in SSRC resampler component (DSP)
    - reads APEv2 tags from MP3 files (id3v2 is not supported and will never be)
    - fully customizable keyboard shortcuts, including global hotkeys
     
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    cd-rw.org, Dec 21, 2002
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