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foobar2000 0.9.6.4Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player developed by Peter Pawlowski, who worked on the development of WinAmp3. Without skins and other stuff, it is an extremely lightweight player that uses less than 6 MB of RAM when running. This version contains only minor repairs of bugs.

Main Foobar2000 features


* Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
* Gapless playback.
* Full unicode support.
* Easily customizable user interface layout.
* Advanced tagging capabilities. Updating of tags online via Freedb2.
* Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
* Full ReplayGain support.
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

For the changelog, click here.