Foobar2000 is een audiospeler met ondersteuning voor een groot aantal formaten, waaronder mp3, wav, aac, mpc en ogg. De functionaliteit van het programma is uit te breiden met behulp van plugins. Op het forum van Foobar is de eerste Release Candidate verschenen van de 0.9-bètaserie. Deze versie kan hier als installatieprogramma gedownload worden en wordt geleverd met de volgende release notes:
0.9 Release Candidate is out. Only changes from now on (until 0.9 release) will be fixes for reported bugs.New features (incomplete)
- Improved playlist management: all playlists are editable without being active, multiple playlists with the same name, Autoplaylists
- Field remappings in titleformat scripts: see Titleformat Introduction and Titleformat Reference for details
- Tag merging: combines information from multiple tag formats on the same file
- ID3v2 support with padding for fast tag updates
- Cleaned-up preferences
- On-line help system for preferences pages (uses the HA wiki)
- Playback queue (contents are currently not viewable)
- Instantaneous volume changes
- User interface selection: if a new user interface is detected at start-up, you can chose which one to use
- File type associations editor in preferences
- Ability to reset individual pages in preferences (if supported by the component that provides the page)
- Enhanced playlist generator syntax; also used in other components like Autoplaylist (details)
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