Foobar2000 is an advanced Audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include Replay Gain Support, a low-memory footprint, and native support for several popular audio formats. Features include open-component architecture, allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player; built-in support for WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, and SPC; support through third-party plug-ins; extraction on-the-fly from RAR; 7-Zip and ZIP archives; full Unicode support on Windows NT; efficient handling of large playlists; a highly customizable playlist display; and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

1.1.8 ChangeLogs:

• Worked-around a reported security problem with certain WAV files and buggy system codecs.

• Skip silence DSP improvements.

• Improved MP3 tag handling (ID3v2) compliance:

  • More compliant WXXX parsing.

  • More compliant ID3v2.4 date handling.

  • Compressed 2.3 tags are now readable.

  • Due to heavy structural changes in relevant code, please watch out for MP3 tagging regressions.

• Musepack decoding bug fixes. (beta 3)

• Fixed a converter bug with writing multichapter files. (beta 3)

• Improved FLAC/Vorbis metadata compatibility with other software. (beta 4, beta 5)

  • Affected fields: “album artist”, “totaltracks”, “totaldiscs”.

  • The old behavior can be restored with an Advanced Preferences switch.

• Support for playing WebM audio (beta 5)

• Support for iTunes gapless information in MP3 files (beta 5)