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Lashiec:
One thing I absolutely love about New Year's Day (apart from insane partying and sleeping 'til night :P), is that every year a new version of a software application gets released, and a version that absolutely knocks the socks off. And they never failed to disappoint me.

2008 does it again, with the release of the final version of foobar2000 0.9.5, which has been mentioned briefly by other fellow members. I'm absolutely blown away by this update, because it literally puts foobar in another level, bridging the gap that existed between it and the competition, while retaining the customization possibilities for which foobar is so loved. What are those impressive features that makes foobar so attractive to a user like me you may be wondering? Exactly one, a new default user interface, check it out:

foobar2000 0.9.5
Peter Pawloski (foobar2000 main developer) managed to design a flexible and attractive frontend, heavily inspired by the 3rd party plugin ColumnsUI, not as powerful, that's for sure, but much more easy to handle for the mainstream user, thanks to the addition for a wizard that lets you choose from a predefined set of appearances, without messing with 'Tagz' (foobar's scripting language) but still giving you enough choice to find something it accommodates your tastes. The addition of other elements of customization, very easy to use for anyone, further lets you customize the chosen look, again without messing with code. The new customization system used by the interface also lets you add new UI Elements (akin to ColumnsUI panels), which already spawned interesting possibilities, like Facets.

The list of improvements around the program is really big, feels almost like a major new version. Check out the changelog, the release notes, further explaining what's new in 0.95, with screenshots, and a screenshot gallery.

vegas:
If you haven't given foobar2000 a try, you owe it to yourself to do so.  I've been using all of these betas up to the final and not only have they been awesome, but the program is more powerful than ever.  So much easier to use than I ever thought, once I started to dig around inside the preferences.

f0dder:
That new default layout sure looks nice.

One of my pet peeves about FooBar was that it's scripting language sucks, and that you needed scripting at all to have a usable/attractive interface... and that those scripts got insanely complex, as well as hogging CPU badly. But with a default interface like that, well... let's give it a go.

nontroppo:
Ah, Foobar 0.9.5 makes it almost worth firing up my windows XP VM!  8)

Armando:
I've installed winamp 5.5 after reading all the good comments.
I tried foobar a long while ago... How does it now compare to winamp, or even to KMPlayer for example?

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