Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support 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, 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:

  • Fixed Properties dialog glitches when scrolling content horizontally.
  • Fixed Converter setup dialog crash when using mouse forward/back buttons to navigate pages.
  • Fixed truncated text in Converter at 125% text size.
  • Fixed bad behavior of stricmp_utf8() function in shared.dll causing incorrect behavior of some components.
  • Fixed incorrect rendering of some Preferences page elements with Windows 7 classic theme.
  • Fixed a bug preventing some large folders from being added to playlist correctly.
  • Worked around apparent incorrect playback of audio tracks beginning with early drum hits with default output settings.
  • Updated middle-click-scroll marker.
  • Cleaned up various leftovers from old versions.
  • Fixed blank Properties content after some (but not all) of tag writes failed.
  • Visual consistency fixes in Preferences, mainly affecting Windows 7 in classic mode.

Previous release notes

  • Fixed visual glitches when scrolling lists horizontally with mouse wheel through Logitech software.
  • Improved output format negotiation with exclusive output.
  • Fixed failure to install components from store-mode (uncompressed) zip archives.
  • Improved handling of malformed FLAC files, prevented crash from too many cuesheet entries.
  • Correct reporting of AC3 channel count in MP4 files even without AC3 component installed (before it would incorrectly report stereo).
  • Allowed UTF-8 cuesheets without UTF-8 header.
  • Fixed htmlspecialchars misuse in component update list / component page link.
  • Mapped MP4 @mvn field to "movement name".
  • Prevented the same folder from being added more than once to the Media Library.
  • Properties dialog: deferred logging of user-entered field names for the dropdown list until the tags are saved, effectively preventing typos from being remembered.
  • Fixed a bug causing alt+f4 (and possibly other keyboard events) to be disregarded if mouse pointer is above specific interactive portion of a window (list controls, buttons in editboxes).
  • Improved handling of files with malformed APE tags - some files were entirely unplayable.
  • More thorough 'remove tags' for Vorbis, Opus and Musepack.
  • Fixed text truncation in ReplayGain Scanner preferences page.
  • Made possible to add attached pictures by drag and drop to relevant Properties dialog page.