foobar2000 is a very recommendable media player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski, who used to work on Winamp3. It uses a plain and simple UI – no skins, no fuss. While in playback mode, it approximately consumes 1.9 megabytes of RAM.
Changelog:
0.6:
- bumped component version, pre-0.6 components no longer load
- fixed time-display-on-seek-while-paused
- added new statusbar options
- improved speed of database operations
- redesigned database, default config no longer permanently stores info, you need to configure it to get albumlist stuff to work
- added new DSP helper classes in SDK
- added reset button on titleformatting page, resets only one of strings
- improved diskwriter & replaygain, they no longer block main window
- added $rgb(), $progress2(), $transition()
- added new playlist format (.fpl)
- fixed rare crash with querying for currently selected file
- added configurable file info reading logic
- “restrict added files” now affects more actions
- ported dithering routines from SSRC with tweaked parameters; dithered output is no longer bit-identical to source lossless format
- added one-time reminder in foo_out_ks
- added file type recognition based on mime
- switched internal data format from 32bit floatingpoint to 64bit floatingpoint
- VBR extrainfo on MP3 files is back, more reliable now
- changed API for archiver support, now much nicer to work with, shared code handles boring tasks such as file path parsing
- added user profile support
- new mp3 seeking code, slower but sample-exact
- added full file buffering option
- increased size of preferences window
- positions of playlist search and file info box are now remembered if “remember window position” is enabled
- added “sort only selection” in playlist
- moved diskwriter to a separate dll
- added command to reset total playback time counter
- following Xiph’s recommendations, Ogg files containing garbage at the beginning no longer play
- vorbis streaming should now update title on track change
- updated Vorbis decoder to latest CVS
- various config options now use dropdown lists
