Fennec 1.2 Beta 1  beta

Publisher's Description:

Fennec lets you listen to the highest quality sound (64-bit floating point). Now with almost everything you need. Converting, joining, ripping, tag editing, multichannel processing, media library, skins, themes, effects and so on. With ~70 playback formats and ~30 encoding formats.

Latest Changes:

• New icon pack (icons.dll) with Vista icons, 8 icons separated for almost all the available decoders
• Musepack codec (decoder for now)
• Multichannel audio conversion into Vorbis and sound file formats which support multichannel coding
• Multichannel audio playback
• Media Library
• AAC/MP4/"Sound File" input - 64-bit floating point
• Vorbis input - 32-bit floating point
• Now supports: 8 (Signed/Unsigned)/16/24/32/64*/32 floating point/64* floating point bit depths. * - Currently not supported by DirectX/Sound Cards. (Direct Sound output only)
• New equalizer with multichannel/internal parametric features
• 64-bit floating point internal audio processing
• Direct Sound output plugin with multichannel output
• Context menu item (Shell)
• Module playback (midi/mod...)
• Extra Bass effect
• Updated external skin: "skin - player"

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Ian C.	Nov 16, 2007
Version:	1.1 Beta 1
Decent looking media player, might give it a better rating once it's more mature, but it's not all that useful as of yet. Many of the buttons don't do anything because the features aren't implemented yet. It crashes a lot. I had to open it and close it without clicking anything else before it would run without crashing. The default priority settings boggle me, why would the GUI thread have normal priority and decoder threads get idle priority? Had skipping sound with the defaults. It has a much bigger memory footprint than most players, and doesn't trim it when it's minimized to the tray. The skin is kind of cluttered and disorganized, but I'm not really a fan of free form UI's to begin with. It did not however mess with my file associations. Gonna stick with XMPlay still.
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Reviewer:	Galifray	Nov 15, 2007
Version:	1.1 Beta 1
Well, I gave this a whirl and while the interface is nice and color customizable, it is a bit big and awkward for me. Also, the player committed one of the cardinal sins of media players, it wiped my pre-existing file associations. So, even though fennec had not taken them to itself, it took them from my present audio player and (for some reason) from my video player.
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