New:

• direct access to the Shoutcast and Icecast Stream Directories with thousands of Internet radio stations listed
• recording of Internet radio streams:
• direct MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC, AAC+ audio stream saving, no loss of quality (PRO feature)
• encoding to MP3 (lossy, but can be used on any kind of stream)
• ability to load custom SoundFonts for MIDI playback (this also means that owners of non-Creative sound cards can now play and convert MIDI files too)
• support for ASX (Advanced Stream Redirector) playlists
• "Load playlist", "Save playlist" and "Add to Favorites" actions can now be accessed via hotkeys
• Track Info scroll label can now be dragged with mouse
• Mute Toggle and corresponding action
• Help on command line options of custom encoders (the "?" button)
• "Take no action on CD insertion" option
  

Improved:

• Options window is modeless again
• Play -> CD -> drive_letter command now works for Data CDs (e.g. MP3 CDs) as well
• faster start-up
• much faster loading of PLS playlists
• drag & drop to any window
• smarter sample rate info detection
• "Check for updates" now shows the list of changes if update was found
• when Drag & Drop a folder with lots of files, the source Explorer window no longer hangs until all files from that folder have been added
  

Fixed:

• incorrect bitrate detection of some Internet radio streams
• better handling of problem PLS playlists
• fixed saving of PLS playlists
• now paused playback won't resume if position slider was dragged
• click in the no column area of the Converter caused a fatal error
• access violation when trying to save tags to a FLAC file
• crashes, clicks, no sound when playing some URLs with the equalizer turned on
• "Edit Title..." command caused a "List index out of bounds (-1)" error if performed on empty playlist
• when was listening to an Internet radio station, application's title at taskbar didn't change when a new song began
• player couldn't get info from FreeDB for some CDs
• Failed to set data for '' error when assigning file associations if not logged in as administrator
• other minor fixes