A couple of years late, but anyway I thought I'd announce the latest version of my MOD/S3M/XM/IT/MP3/OGG/FLAC/WMA/WAV/CD freeware player for Windows:
http://www.vuplayer.com/files/vuplayersetup.exe (1.19Mb installer)
http://www.vuplayer.com/files/vuplayer.zip (890Kb zip archive)

Features include:
- gapless OGG/FLAC/CD playback
- optional 32-bit mixing
- 9-band graphic equalizer
- full system tray functionality
- timer playback/screen saver feature
- optional background control of main playback functions
- support for multiple visuals via a plug-in system
- digital audio extraction
- encoding to Ogg Vorbis, FLAC & Windows Media Audio 9 formats
- remote freedb support
- CD-Text support

System requirements:
- Microsoft Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2000 or XP.
- Microsoft DirectX version 3 or later.
- 32-bit mixing requires WDM audio drivers.
- Graphic EQ requires DirectX 8 (version 9 required for 32-bit mixing).
- Windows Media Audio support requires Windows Media Player or Encoder 9.
- Audio CD support requires Windows 2000 or XP.
- CD-Text support requires Windows XP.

If you're not put off by the fairly standard UI (screenshot here), you might want to give it a try.

Cheers,
Jim

Why don't you combine player and vuplayer? In particular, I wish Vuplayer has the CDDB2 and cdplayer.ini export/import capabilities of the Player...

I decided to add freedb support instead of CDDB2, as it requires a lot less overhead (and no dealing with COM interfaces). The freedb database still holds details on most discs, even though it supports less information than CDDB2.

Jim

Nice proggie.
Any chance of including support for .ape(monkey's audio)?
LIF

I have to say, sometimes CDDB2 information is much more accurate. And that's probably the only reason I use Player To export CDDB2 info to cdplayer.ini then import it in EAC. I love that. VuPlayer seems really cool, but lack of CDDB2 is a minus for me. Why not incorporate them both and let the user decide?

1) how can you refresh cd drive contents when AIN is off, i could never find a way?

2) how about editing CD titles (retrieved from freedb) directly (like windows, in-place) instead of going to the CD Info dialog?

3) is there a way to use custom name templates for the ripped cd titles?

other than those, i like it.

Unfortunately it's not possible to use Gracenote & another CD database in the same program. I've enabled freedb submits in the latest version, so if you want to update any inaccurate information, go ahead

I decided to leave out .ape support for the timebeing, although I have written the code for it. The decoding was much slower compared to other lossless formats (FLAC & WMA9 lossless), but I only tested with a few files compressed using Extra High, so I may have gotten a false impression.

MyMaster:
Not sure about AIN, although it sounds like I'll have to incorporate a manual refresh option. In-place editing is something I've looked at, and file-naming as well.

Jim