Download Foobar2000 0.9 release candidate

Foobar2000 is an audio player with support for a large number of formats, including mp3, wav, aac, mpc and ogg. The functionality of the program can be expanded using plugins. On Foobar’s forum is the first Release Candidate appeared of the 0.9 beta series. This version can here downloaded as an installer and comes with the following 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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