Foobar2000

My current favorite music player for Windows is foobar2000, not Winamp.
It does the decoding stuff very well, is not bloatware, has a small
footprint and an interface that won't make you sick. The only problem
is with the gapless playback, which is actually a more or less
essential feature to properly play a lot of music. However, mp3 does
not support gapless, so I find it works better to stick your own gaps
in when playing these in succession. Wav, ogg, wma, flac and other
formats work fine with gapless; just another aspect of the general
suckiness of mp3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar2000

drag n drop web links to it: check
see variable bit rates: check
can't see the time left of a linked ogg file, but winamp can't do that
either for some reason

nice find

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@...>
wrote:
>
> My current favorite music player for Windows is foobar2000, not Winamp.
> It does the decoding stuff very well, is not bloatware, has a small
> footprint and an interface that won't make you sick. The only problem
> is with the gapless playback, which is actually a more or less
> essential feature to properly play a lot of music. However, mp3 does
> not support gapless, so I find it works better to stick your own gaps
> in when playing these in succession. Wav, ogg, wma, flac and other
> formats work fine with gapless; just another aspect of the general
> suckiness of mp3.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar2000
>