Quintessential Player 4.51

Quintessential Player is a freeware rich media player. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. It is also highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.

• CD Playback
• Video Playback with the aid of External Codecs
• Full Speed CD Ripping
• MP3 Encoding
• Streaming Audio
• Tag Editing
• Gracenote CDDB
• Crossfading & EQ
• Multiple Visualizations
• Skins and Plugins

A wide range of audio formats playable via the use of plugins, and many more skins allowing the customization of the players interface are obtainable from the Quinnware site.

• License: Freeware
• Requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
• Limitations: No limitations
• Publisher link: Quinnware
• Download link: Quintessential Player 4.51 (2.3 MB)

Foobar 2000

Foobar2000 is an advanced 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. Apart from audio playback, it also supports media libraries, file conversion, CD ripping, and many more powerful features.

• Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
• Full unicode support.
• Advanced tagging capabilities.
• Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats).
• ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
  

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• License: Free
• Requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
• Limitations: No limitations
• Publisher link: Foobar2000
• Download link: Foobar v0.9.4.5 (1.62 MB)

Foobar2000 useful links:

• Screenshots
• Additional Components
• Foobar2000 on Wikipedia