Foobar2000 0.8 Released

moultano

<div class="IPBDescription">for all your audiophiles needs</div> The best audioplayer out there just got incrementally better.
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0.8:
- almost all components starting from some 0.7 beta SDK still work, though recompilation with new SDK is recommended to take advantage of new features
- "open" dialog now lists supported file types
- file modification time tracking, goodbye "reload file info"
- file size tracking
- new menu item config, massively improved menu system
- improved matroska component (fully extendable through third-party components, improved speed, etc)
- fixed UI glitch in masstagger
- masstagger scripts can be now exported to files
- new diskwriter
- new albumlist
- replaygain shows total progress
- toolbar menu now completely fakes regular menu behaviors
- found a way to get rid of dreaded beep when pressing alt+key
- various minor UI tweaks, improved playlist tabs
- fixed multimedia keys displayed in shortcuts page
- AIFF input fixes
- FLAC input fixes
- SDK side change: all uppercase/lowercase character conversion had to be moved to utf8api, some string8 methods are missing (replaced with utf8api functions)
- new icons, thanks to picmixer
- improved drag&drop support, thanks to foosion
- improved commandline handling (wildcards, relative paths, etc)
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Forlorn

So why is this better than WinAMP?

moultano

It has a ton of functionality beyond anything winamp offers, and it smaller and faster. It was actually written from the ground up by a former member of nullsoft who was unhappy with the bloat that got into winamp. (minibrowser anyone?)

My favorite features are the masstagger, native replay gain support, unified conversion interface. It also supports every tag type and file type imaginable. It doesn't have visualization plugins as good as some of winamp's, but hopefully more of those are coming.

DOOManiac

My old old version of winamp loads instantly, plays mp3s, and doesn't crash. What else would I possibly want?

moultano

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Well suppose you download some files that are tagged right but they aren't named the way you like them. Open up the masstagger, hit rename files and put in your format. You could rename your whole library consistently in under a minute. Alternately, suppose your files are named in a consistent pattern, but the tags aren't right. Open up the masstagger, put in the format you use for the names and it will go through reading the fields and filling them in.

Suppose you've got a lot of stuff from different genres and as a result the recording volumes vary a lot. Everytime you switch from a classical piece to heavy metal you have to fiddle with the volume. Select the files in your library, and run the replaygain scanner. It will put metadata into the file so that when you play the songs back you can have every album sound about equally as loud overall as every other album. If you don't have things organized by full album, you can also do it by track.

For people with high end systems, it also sounds better.

If you don't listen to a lot of music on your computer, you probably wont think its all that much better than winamp. If you've got a huge music library though, there's nothing better.

moultano

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Actually, scratch that. I just found a plugin in the foobar forums that lets you use any winamp visualization plugin. It's a little buggy since its still in beta, but so far it runs milkdrop fine.

BOBDolol

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