Foobar2000 1.2.4 available for download

Foobar2000 1.2.4 is now available for download. This build contains a number of enhancements and bug fixes over the previous release.

Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Main features:
Here are main features of Foobar2000:
  • 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.
  • 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.

Download Foobar2000 1.2.4
Foobar2000 is available for download here: http://www.foobar2000.org/download

Foobar2000 1.2 new features
Foobar2000 1.2 contains the following new features:
  • Support for streaming to arbitrary UPnP MediaRenderer devices through the new UPnP output component.
  • FFmpeg is now used for MP3, AAC and Vorbis decoding
  • Extended playback thread priority options in Advanced Preferences.
  • New: Converter “Quick Convert” dialog, for simplified casual conversions without advanced features.
  • New: Menu commands to switch between playback output devices.
  • New: Component installer now shows component licenses when available.
    • Package license.txt or license.rtf with the component to get it shown on install.
    • License not shown when autoupdating components.
  • Equalizer is now an open-source component, separate from the standard DSP array.

What's new in Foobar2000 1.2.4
This build contains the following:
  • ReplayGain scanner improvements:
    • Improved speed.
    • No longer ignores up to 100ms of last audio data.
  • Faster SSE-optimized codepaths for various sample type conversions; most notably more efficient handling of 24-bit content.
  • Option to verify integrity of played files and report errors immediately (however it does not check whole-file checksums).
  • Fixed status bar glitch with misplaced volume icon.

Source:
Release notes

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