Foobar2000 1.2.5 now available for download

Foobar2000 1.2.5 is now available for download. This build includes a number of new features, various improvements over 1.2.4.

Overview
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 1.2.5
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 1.2.5
This build contains the following:
  • Converter: fixed writing of WAV files with odd byte counts (eg. 24-bit mono).
  • Improved handling of various malformed WAV files.
  • Converter: fixed writing of file types that foobar2000 cannot tag.
  • Fixed "verify integrity of played files" option disabling HDCD & DTS decoder components.
    • It's a feature of individual decoder components; third party decoder components such as Monkey's Audio decoder must be updated separately.
  • "Add Folder" now skips over hidden files & subfolders.
  • AIFF file format tagging support.
  • Added authenticode signatures to foobar2000 binaries.
  • Added WAV & AIFF attached picture handling (beta 2).
  • Added attached picture transfer option in Converter (beta 2).
  • Support for touchscreen gesture scrolling on Windows 8 tablet devices (final).

Source:
Release notes

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