foobar2000 is a very recommendable media player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski, who used to work on Winamp3. It uses a plain and simple UI - no skins, no fuss. While in playback mode, it approximately consumes 1.9 megabytes of RAM. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link Download Link Home Page What's New: workedaround bloody WM_ENDSESSION handling problem, settings etc should now get saved on windows shutdown tweaked response to clicking on empty playlist area some changes in directsound output prebuffering logic improved system tray functionality fixed problems with URLs containing '?' character confusing function extracting file extension from file path changed "follow cursor" behavior changes in albumlist component, now uses titleformatting for hierarchy