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BBox is a free music player for the PC that lets you play, edit, convert and manage audio files, rip CDs, and enjoy all the free music to the maximum. An authentic music center with numerous possibilities to take control of almost any task related to digital music.

This application isn't aimed exclusively at novice users, because behind the simple interface hide advanced and interesting utilities.

With BBox you can:
  play almost any sound format from any source: files on the PC, on-line radio, CDs ... whatever.
  extend your music collection with the BBox CD ripper
  convert existing music files from any format to MP3
  edit the embedded tags
  organize your music collection neatly with the BBox organizer.


Highlights:
  Easy to use
  Integrated in the Windows© Shell
  Supports Media Keys
  CD player & ripper (convert your CD's to MP3 files)
  Plays online radio (.pls and .asx)
  Advanced Music Organizer
  Tag Editor (ID3), with advanced auto-capitalize options
  Download additional album info from Amazon.com
  Filename to Tag wizard
  Smart Volume
  Fully adjustable Intro Scan
  Backwards playing
  Variable playback speed
  Random playback with Normal and Selective (rated) mode
  CrossFade with Standard and Smart mode
  FX's: Equalizer and Compressor
  Supports Sonique visualization plug-ins
  Convert any format to MP3
  MP3, WMA, Wave, MP1, MP2, MP4, AIFF, OGG, M4A, M4V, M4P, AAC, AC3, APE, TTA, OFR, SPX, FLAC & CDA


- Without music, life would be a mistake - (Friedrich Nietzsche)


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News Newsflash
05/05/2008
Released BBox version 2.0.0.460. BBox now runs under Vista!

04/18/2008
BBox received an outstanding review from Freewaregenius "BBoxV2 is definitely a winner." You can read the review here.

04/14/2008
BBox website moved to new domain (www.bboxplayer.com) and new internet provider. Enjoy!

04/11/2008
BBox received a 5 out of 6 rating from Nonags!
BBox received an excellent review from Baixaki "BBox é, sem dúvida, um grande jukebox." You can read the review here (Portugees).

04/08/2008
BBox received a 4 out of 5 rating from Softonic! "As a feature rich, intelligent and intuitive alternative to iTunes, BBox is definitely a contender worth trying." You can read the review here (English) or here (Spanish).

04/07/2008
Released BBox version 2.0.0.440.
BBox received an excellent review from Internet Echo "Es muss nicht immer Winamp sein." You can read the review here (German).

04/01/2008
Launched the new BBox website.

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What's New What's New

Latest version: 2.0.0.460, released on 05/05/2008


General:

This release is focused on Vista compatibilty!
Many (hopefully all) multi threading issues (like deadlocks) are solved in this release.

New Features:

- When adding files from the explorer (drag and drop a large folder to the BBox queue for instance) the tag reading is now done in a seperate thread now
- The quick filters are now propagated in a seperate thread
- Added unicode support to player's labels
- BBox now remembers all splitter positions
- BBox now remembers the last choosen visualization
- Added a popup to the album-preview. You can no choose between displaying the selected or the playing track
- Added player controls to full-screen visualization form (move mouse to the top of the form and a panel with playercontrols will appear)
- Added Virgin radio stations
- Added support for compilation CD's to online info form. When the title contains both artist and title, the title is now split into 2 seperate fields upon saving

Fixes:

- Fixed startup deadlock under Vista (The applications seems to be frozen)
- Fixed checkbox "When Queue is empty or CD has ended then continue playing
from the Music Library"
- Fixed the Windows Explorer common task link "play-all"
- Fixed the "Play in BBox" context menu item in Windows Explorer
- Fixed the "Enqueue in bbox" context menu item in Windows Explorer
- Fixed .ogg radio stations
- Fixed CD Album selector (kept appearing after choosing cancel)
- Fixed Access Violation when deleting tracks
- Changed theme's to themes ;-)

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