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Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform.

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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

- Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, WMA, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA.
- Full unicode support.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats).
- ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

What's New:

* Ability to view/edit queries used to create autoplaylists.
* Media Library Search: queries using “SORT BY” create always-sorted autoplaylists by default.
* File format handling updates:
o Security updates to Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and WavPack libraries.
o Fixed a rare Ogg seeking accuracy bug.
o Improved MP4 parser security.
* Converter improvements:
o No longer aborts the entire operation when one of queued tracks can't be processed.
o Optional status log popup after conversion.
* Album List: ability to select multiple items at once by holding shift or control keys.
* New built-in DSPs: Crossfader, Skip Silence.