Zojuist is versie 0.9 beta 3 van Foobar2000 uitgekomen. Foobar2000 is een no-nonsense audiospeler voor het Windows-platform. Dit programma kan overweg met een groot aantal audioformaten, waaronder Ogg Vorbis, mp3, mpc en aac. Met behulp van verschillende plugins is de functionaliteit en de ondersteuning van audioformaten verder uit te breiden. Het programma is in twee verschillende varianten verkrijgbaar, namelijk Normal en Full, en alleen via BitTorrent te downloaden. De release notes van versie 0.9 beta 3 zien er als volgt uit:
Components in normal version:Components in full version:
- Default User Interface
- Standard input array
- Standard DSP array
- Album List
- Converter (formerly known as Diskwriter)
- Masstagger
- ReplayGain Scanner
New features (incomplete):
- all components from the normal version, plus
- ABX comparator
- AC3 decoder
- ALAC decoder
- Archive reader (supports 7-Zip, RAR, ZIP, GZIP)
- Audio CD writer
- Autoplaylist
- CD Audio decoder
- Crossfeed DSP
- Database search
- DUMB module decoder
- DXi MIDI synthesizer host
- Festalon
- Game Emu Player
- OggPreview
- sidplay2
- Utilities
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- 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)
- Instantaneuos 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)