Foobar2000 Media Player is a very very recommendable player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski who is or used to work on Winamp3.

FB2000 uses a plain and simple UI - no skins, no fuss. Filesize is 200 kb, while in playback mode the player approximately consumes 1.9 Mbyte of your RAM which is so much less compared to Winamp or MS Media Player.

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform.

Here are some key features of "Foobar":

· Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
· Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
· Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
· Full Unicode support on Windows NT
· ReplayGain support
· Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
· Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
· Highly customizable playlist display
· Customizable keyboard shortcuts
· Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New: Startup notification when a component is known not to cooperate correctly with this version of foobar2000.
· New: “Library Viewer Selection” playlist, compatible with Album List and Media Library Search.
· New title formatting functions: $stripprefix(), $swapprefix(), $year(), $month(), $day_of_month(), $date(), $time().
· New extensions to the search query syntax.
· Album List: faster refresh when using the built-in search box.
· ReplayGain scanner: applying ReplayGain to MP3 data no longer chokes on noncompliant ID3v2 tags with false MPEG sync words.
· ReplayGain scanner: new services allowing third-party components to perform ReplayGain analysis.
· No longer compatible with components using metadb_display_hook API.
· Changed component DLL loading logic - only “components” subdirectory along with its subdirectories is processed if it exists.
· Playback queue index is now displayed in the “Playing” column of Default UI / Playlist View; it can be also accessed using %queue_index%.