foobar2000 ist ein kostenloser Audio-Player, der eine schlichte Oberfläche besitzt, aber dennoch zahlreiche Funktionen bietet. Der Player will vor allem durch Schnelligkeit und Anpassungsfähigkeit überzeugen und bietet eine Vielzahl von Einstellungsmöglichkeiten.
(http://screenshots.winfuture.de/Kostenloser-Audio-Player-foobar2000-1193029539.jpg)
In Version 0.9.6.5 werden in erster Linie Fehler behoben, darunter in der seit einiger Zeit enthaltenen Fehlerberichterstattung. Darüber hinaus besteht jetzt die Möglichkeit, sich mit Hilfe des integrierten Artwork-Viewers auch Bilder des entsprechenden Interpreten bzw. der Band anzeigen zu lassen.
Changelog:
* Online troubleshooter feature, accessible from the Help menu.
* Fixed: Album List was being compiled with all optimizations disabled until now, since at least 0.9.5, due to bugs in MSVC9.
* Various improvements to the crash report submission system.
* Fixed an obscure bug in the ABX component.
* Fixed a crash when trying to open a lossy WavPack3 file.
* Fixed a crash when decoding certain corrupted AAC files.
* Built-in album art viewer can now view artist pictures (embedded in tags and artist.jpg in the same folder).
Website: http://www.foobar2000.com/
Lizenztyp: Freeware/Kostenlos
Download: foobar2000 0.9.6.5 Beta 2 (http://winfuture.de/downloadvorschalt,1749.html) (3,0 Mb; englisch)
Quelle : http://winfuture.de
Changelog
1.3.9
New high-quality but slow resampler based on dBpoweramp/SSRC code, as an alternative to fb2k's PPHS resampler.
Prevented clobbering of certain exotic M4A tags.
Smooth scrolling in Default User Interface list controls.
Beta 2: made smooth scrolling disabled by default as it stalls visualisation updates. You can enable it in advanced preferences.
Added missing menu command for the new ReplayGain playback mode.
Added oversampled peak scanning in ReplayGain scanner.
Beta 2: Added tweaks for ReplayGain peak results display, in advanced preferences.
Fixed 96 kHz AAC & ALAC playback.
Added whitelist of HTTPS domains to suppress certificate validity checks on, for home media streaming uses [beta 3].
Added readable error messages about “Add location” failures [beta 3].
Improved detection of total duration of Constant Bit Rate (CBR) MP3 files [beta 4].
More robust recovery from network errors when playing MP3 & AAC internet radio streams [beta 5].
Removed “LegacyDisable” key in file type associations handling as it's been known to cause problems with modern Windows versions [beta 5].
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Fixed writing of empty ID3v2 tags when attempting to remove all attached pictures from files that do not have an ID3v2 tag yet.
Added handling of M4A tag “Conductor” metadata value.
Fixed crash on too long URLs.
Updated Opus decoder to 1.1.1
Worked around spurious context menu items in Windows Explorer.
Fixed reading of iTunes “compilation” flag from ID3v2.2 tags as written by default by iTunes.
Improved handling of malformed AIFF files.
Updated FFmpeg to 3.0
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Added support for raw AAC files with ID3v2 tags. Note that use of raw AAC format is discouraged, please use MP4/M4A instead.
“Add Folder” now accepts multiple selected folders if running Windows Vista or newer.
Reverted all shell integration fixes from 1.3.9 and 1.3.10 beta 1. They broke more than they fixed while attempting to work-around an obvious bug in Windows 10.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Fixed dBpoweramp/SSRC resampler glitching in extreme upsampling cases.
Fixed misbehavior of FFmpeg -strict level override option.
Writing of SoundCheck tags [experimental] as well as batch copying ReplayGain to SoundCheck.
Fixed “Remove tags” not removing every possible tag type with FLAC and M4A formats.
Fixed Properties dialog locking up on certain metadata.
Made cuesheet & chapter edit operations automatically update affected playlists.
Fixed Ctrl+A in various multiline editboxes, Properties dialog and its sub-dialogs in particular.
Improved compatibility with certain malformed M4A files.
Fixed Equalizer bug causing inconsistent file lengths when batch converting.
Made internet radio streams disconnect/reconnect on pause/unpause.
Implemented updated Opus ReplayGain specification.
Improved properties dialog info display of Opus files.
Fixed a random crash regression from 1.3.10.
Fixed reading of Apple gapless information from specific old M4A files.
Fixed a rare lockup when batch moving/renaming/copying a lot of files.
Updated FFmpeg to 3.1.2.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Improved compatibility with certain internet radio stations.
Tag manipulation improvements.
When editing tags of iTunes-encoded M4A files, excess padding (often as much as 32 kilobytes) will be removed.
Better handling of WMA “rating” field.
Default UI album art viewer now less likely to make app unresponsive when attempting to load pictures from a lagging network share.
Embedded album art loading performance tweaks.
Updated FLAC library (1.3.2)
Updated zlib (1.2.11)
Updated FFmpeg (3.2.4)
Unicode filenames within ZIP files now work correctly.
Added “skip all” button to Converter overwrite prompt dialog.
Fixed resampler configuration sample rate pickers not allowing more than five digits.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Network streaming: added handlers for more HTTP redirect codes.
Fixed:
Horrible, horrible bug with inverted checkmarks in advanced preferences at 150% text size;
foobar2000 process not setting its working directory to its installation location on startup;
FLAC tagging.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Fixed horrible, horrible bug with Ctrl+A “select all” handler in edit boxes stealing altgr+a making it impossible to type “ą”.
Made possible to retag MP4/M4A files without 'ftyp' header.
Prevented decoding of broken MP3 frames that overlap with apparent file tags.
Allowed decoding of WAV files with sample rates above 1MHz.
Converter: Made format list sorting remembered.
Fixed tags not being read from certain WAV files.
Internal fixes to allow foo_input_exe/foo_input_ffmpeg decoding of HLS & RTMP streams.
Added internal IMA ADPCM decoder for specific WAV files that system codec refuses to process.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Added preferences page to adjust priority order of installed decoders.
Greatly improved DSP manager dialog.
Added output mode switcher toolbar item to Default User Interface.
Converter improvements:
Keeping incomplete/problematic output files is now optional; they're deleted by default.
New and improved overwrite prompt dialog.
ReplayGain scanner improvements:
Apply gain to file content feature now runs in multiple threads and supports MP2 content.
Added command to manually manipulate Opus header gain field for both .opus and Matroska.
Playlist & Media Library search use a new text-matching algorithm similar to Unicode Asymmetric Search.
Reworked Default User Interface Preferences pages; improved options for minimize & close behaviors.
Cosmetic tweaks; prettier buttons attached to editboxes in various dialogs.
Cleaned up Opus header gain manipulation, reported value no longer offseted by 5 dB, made header gain respected when embedded in Matroska container.
Matroska support improvements, improved seeking performance on files without seektables.
Made possible to choose between alternate audio streams in MP4 and Matroska files.
Implemented WebM internet stream playback.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Configuration saving now uses transacted NTFS if available
Improved handling of various file formats over HTTP, AIFF and Musepack in particular
New file format icons
New, different scheme of storing user's playlists in app data:
Playlists now reside under playlists-v1.4, you can delete the playlists-v1.3 folder if you no longer need it.
Unchanged playlists are no longer rewritten on each app shutdown.
Merged networking features from foobar2000 mobile:
FTP reader!
Refreshed HTTP/HTTPS reader; added the ability to read remote folder listings.
More robust M3U/M3U8/PLS playlist handling:
iTunes-created M3U8 playlists now load correctly.
Big fat warning when trying to save a M3U/PLS file that may not be readable correctly due to international characters.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Changes
Removed ReplaceFile() API use (introduced in earlier 1.4 series) due to error codes that do not let us retry-loop on file-in-use ( symptoms )
Improved visual feedback of button-in-editbox control, used in various parts of the app.
Default UI status bar segment width tweaks ( discussion ).
Worked around Preferences / DSP page crashes due to certain DSP component using broken modal dialogs - allowing the Preferences dialog to be closed while a DSP configuration dialog is still active.
Added probing of apparent MP3 streams in Matroska files to detect MP2 disguised as MP3. Note that we already do this for MP4, where many other apps incorrectly report audio codec as MP3 when the actual data is MP2.
Content Group metadata mapping fixes ( details )
In Default UI playlist, cursor-follows-playback now results in view centering on the newly focused track, if it's not visible before.
Skip Silence DSP bug fixes ( details )
Made possible to reorder decoder priority list via context menu.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Fixed a bug in HTTPS reader causing incompatibility with Google websites.
Relaxed beta version timeout, now possible to dismiss the message and launch without updating.
Fixed a bug in CD drive configuration dialog - automatic drive offset lookup works again.
Fixed various bugs related to audio device hotplugging.
Fixed wrong descriptions of certain context menu commands.
Fixed wrong handling of certain types of MP4 chapter tags.
Improved safeguards against Media Library configuration loss if foobar2000 dies while saving its settings.
Media Library now handles very long filenames correctly.
Fixed inconsistent mapping of “Content Group” metadata field for: WMA, MP4/M4A, Vorbis Comments.
Fixed Skip Silence DSP bugs.
Made MP2 audio in MP4/Matroska container reported correctly. It was reported as MP3 in some cases before.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Added preferences page to adjust priority order of installed decoders.
Greatly improved DSP manager dialog.
Default User Interface improvements:
New toolbar items for switching output modes, ReplayGain modes and DSP presets.
Improved status bar: added optional display of selected track count.
Reworked Preferences pages; improved options for minimize & close behaviors.
Converter improvements:
Keeping incomplete/problematic output files is now optional; they're deleted by default.
New and improved overwrite prompt dialog.
FDK AAC is now among the default presets.
ReplayGain scanner improvements:
Greatly improved “Apply Gain to File Content” feature, with multi threading and more supported formats.
Added command to manually manipulate Opus header gain field for both .opus and Matroska.
New Preferences pages.
Playlist & Media Library search use a new text-matching algorithm similar to Unicode Asymmetric Search.
Cosmetic tweaks; prettier buttons attached to editboxes in various dialogs.
Cleaned up Opus header gain manipulation, reported value no longer offseted by 5 dB, made header gain respected when embedded in Matroska container.
Amended Matroska tagging, certain rare files that would fail to update before are now taggable.
Matroska support improvements, improved seeking performance on files without seektables.
Made possible to choose between alternate audio streams in MP4 and Matroska files.
Implemented WebM internet stream playback.
Compiled using dynamic VC runtime, raising the limit of how many component DLLs can be loaded.
Made Album List remember expanded nodes.
Raised track count limit for cue sheets from 99 to 999.
Integration with Windows 10 Universal Volume Control.
Playback controls in taskbar on Windows 7 and newer.
Configuration saving now uses transacted NTFS if available.
Changed the way playlists and media library data are stored to minimize the amount of rewriting on each app shutdown.
Merged networking features from foobar2000 mobile:
FTP/FTPES/FTPS reader!
Refreshed HTTP/HTTPS reader; added the ability to read remote folder listings.
Improved handling of various file formats over HTTP, AIFF and Musepack in particular.
More robust M3U/M3U8/PLS playlist handling; shows a warning when trying to save a M3U/PLS file that may not be readable correctly due to international characters.
New file format icons.
Improved media library search performance.
Made various playlist and search result sorting operations use multiple CPU cores.
All communication with foobar2000 website (troubleshooter, crash reporting, update checks) is now encrypted.
Refreshed File Operations preset management, now stored in a plain text files instead and possible to import/export/edit.
Work around for DirectSound audio stutters with Windows 10 1803 (beta 19).
Fix implemented for splitter lock bug.
Workaround implemented for HTTPS issues on Windows XP.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Better error message when trying to open M4A file renamed to .aac.
Added %video_codec% info for Matroska and MP4 files.
Added support for PCM audio in MP4 container.
Made mouse wheel work in playlist view during a drag&drop operation.
Improved handling of classical music metadata for iTunes M4A files.
Added %bitspersample_extra% info to tell between int32/float32 PCM files.
Added support for ID3v2 iTunes Grouping field.
Converter: advanced-preferences option to encode to temp folder and move encoded-and-tagged files to the intended destination.
Made tag update operations not fail when another application has the file open for reading.
Corrected wrong bitrate shown for FLAC in Matroska container.
Corrected labels for F13-F24 keyboard shortcuts.
Fixed bugs with ReplayGain Scanner's automatic resampling of high sample rate content.
Bumped maximum allowed sample rate to deal with DSD1024 content.
Made Media Library respect 'include hidden files & folders' setting in Advanced Preferences.
Converter with “don't reset DSP between tracks” now respects DSP-reported latency for proper handling of gapless albums.
PPHS resampler bug fixes (inaccurate reported latency, crashing with extreme sample rates).
Fixed ReplayGain scan results showing zero peaks on near-silent 24-bit files.
New and improved buffering scheme for improved network streaming performance (ported from foobar2000 mobile).
Internet radio handling regressions from 1.4 fixed; added an Advanced Preferences setting for ShoutCast metadata codepage.
Fixed component auto update on Windows XP (1.4 regression).
Added an Advanced Preferences option to toggle asymmetric search, reverting search behaviors to 1.3 style.
Added title formatting fields for showing track/album peaks as decibel values.
Improved status feedback from batch attach album art tool.
Pressing “next” past the end of playlist now restarts the playlist even without “repeat” mode.
Made Converter “copy other files” feature respect parent folder (..pattern) references.
Added EXTM3U info writing (enabled via advanced preferences).
Added 5.1 and 7.1 upmix DSPs.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Reworked batch attach album art dialog once again, no more obtrusive popups.
Internet radio codec info reported correctly again (beta 1 regression).
Repaint glitches with editbox/buttons of Media Library Search have been fixed.
Deleting the now playing track no longer shows error messages about missing file (1.4 regression).
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Now using libopus v1.3
Fixed a bug in Default UI playlist causing poor performance with tens of thousands of items.
Fixed incompatibility with certain HTTP servers, causing music files to fail to play from them with "object not seekable" message.
Fixed some more Internet radio metadata regressions.
Made DSP presets sorted in the toolbar dropdown list.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Worked around the disappearing window bug of Windows 10 1809.
Converter updates:
Advanced-preferences option to encode to temp folder and move encoded-and-tagged files to the intended destination.
“Don't reset DSP between tracks” now respects DSP-reported latency for proper handling of gapless albums.
Made Converter “copy other files” feature respect parent folder (..pattern) references.
Better error message when trying to open M4A file renamed to .aac.
Added %video_codec% info for Matroska and MP4 files.
Added support for PCM audio in MP4 container.
Made mouse wheel work in playlist view during a drag&drop operation.
Improved handling of classical music metadata for iTunes M4A files.
Added %bitspersample_extra% info to tell between int32/float32 PCM files.
Added support for ID3v2 iTunes Grouping field.
Made tag update operations not fail when another application has the file open for reading.
Corrected wrong bitrate shown for FLAC in Matroska container.
Corrected labels for F13-F24 keyboard shortcuts.
Fixed bugs with ReplayGain Scanner's automatic resampling of high sample rate content.
Bumped maximum allowed sample rate to deal with DSD1024 content.
Made Media Library respect 'include hidden files & folders' setting in Advanced Preferences.
PPHS resampler bug fixes (inaccurate reported latency, crashing with extreme sample rates).
Fixed ReplayGain scan results showing zero peaks on near-silent 24-bit files.
New and improved buffering scheme for improved network streaming performance (ported from foobar2000 mobile).
Internet radio handling regressions from 1.4 fixed; added an Advanced Preferences setting for ShoutCast metadata codepage.
Fixed component auto update on Windows XP (1.4 regression).
Added an Advanced Preferences option to toggle asymmetric search, reverting search behaviors to 1.3 style.
Added title formatting fields for showing track/album peaks as decibel values.
Improved status feedback from batch attach album art tool.
Pressing “next” past the end of playlist now restarts the playlist even without “repeat” mode.
Added EXTM3U info writing (enabled via advanced preferences).
Added 5.1 and 7.1 upmix DSPs.
Deleting the currently playing files no longer shows error popups (1.4 regression).
Fixed repaint glitches in media library search edit box.
Updated Opus decoder to latest libopus 1.3.
Fixed a bug causing poor Default UI playlist performance with tens of thousands of item.
Fixed incompatibility with certain HTTP servers causing music files to fail to play from those servers.
Internet radio regression fixes.
Made DSP presets in the toolbar sorted.
Made technical info properly shown for various Ogg based internet radios (Vorbis, Opus, FLAC).
Fixed 1.4 regression causing incorrect detection of Internet Explorer proxy server settings.
Fixed 1.4 regression causing some tag updates to fail with 'access denied' when another app is accessing the files.
Fixed various 175% text size rendering glitches.
Fixed odd behaviors while installing regular foobar2000 alongside MS Store foobar2000.
Fixed ReplayGain scanner preferences page glitches.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Added new iTunes ID3 classical fields.
Improved playlist behaviors when deleting the now playing file.
ReplayGain apply-gain-and-prevent-clipping no longer presumes 1.0 peak when peak is unknown.
Fixed occasional errors when saving configuration.
Converter: Improved behavior when output file names repeat.
Fixed HTTP client bugs (internet radio, network shares).
Made MP4 files with missing duration info playable.
Windows 10 Universal Volume Control integration disabled by default due to bugs. This should address “multimedia keys don't work” issues.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Added new iTunes ID3 classical fields.
Improved playlist behaviors when deleting the now playing file.
ReplayGain apply-gain-and-prevent-clipping no longer presumes 1.0 peak when peak is unknown.
Fixed occasional errors when saving configuration.
Converter: Improved behavior when output file names repeat.
Fixed HTTP client bugs (internet radio, network shares).
Made MP4 files with missing duration info playable.
Windows 10 Universal Volume Control integration disabled by default due to bugs. This should address “multimedia keys don't work” issues.
Fixed a bug that would cause spurious rewrites of certain configuration files [beta 2].
Made default MP4 handler gracefully fail to decode files with no supported audio tracks - so another decoder lower on the list can handle them [beta 2].
Worked around an “Open…” dialog lockup with lots and lots of supported file formats provided by third party components [final].
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Fixed disappearing metadata and playlist content corruption with certain internet radio playlists.
Fixed high CPU usage with read-ahead options active.
Converter: Fixed broken save-as dialog with | character in encoder names.
Made foo_ui_std.dll & foo_input_std.dll report version number of the foobar2000 release that they came with, as some people seem to mix binaries from different releases then run into issues.
Made possible to fall back to another decoder with WMA files that standard WMA decoder doesn't accept.
Fixed disappearing & appearing 'version' file in library configuration folder.
Updated FFmpeg to 3.4.5.
Fixed certain AIFF files not playing (beta 2).
Restored foobar2000 version number in HTTP user-agent string (beta 2).
Added an option to force HTTP CONNECT with proxy servers (beta 2).
Fixed 1.4 regression causing odd behaviors when the currently playing track is removed from playlist (beta 2).
Fixed 1.4 regression causing certain combinations of shuffle and playlist operations to crash (beta 2).
Fixed 1.4 regression with missing HTTP host field in proxy server requests (beta 3, beta 5).
Fixed a bug causing random crashes when decoding Vorbis (possibly also MP3 and AAC) due to bad parameters fed to FFmpeg (beta 4).
Converter: Made malformed UTF-8 in source file tags no longer cause conversion to FLAC to fail (beta 5).
Fixed ReplayGain alter file content crash (final).
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Fixed drag&drop glitches on Windows 10 with multiple monitors having different pixel densities.
Regardless, this is still a bug in Windows 10, not in foobar2000.
Fixed Default UI preferences groups & columns drag&drop glitches.
Fixed incorrect formatting of written EXTM3U playlists.
Fixed incorrect truncation of specific long filenames in File Operations.
Fixed unnecessary reopening of remote files being played.
Fixed playback marker in playlists not being correctly retained in some conditions.
Improved internal IMA ADPCM WAV decoder (fixed rounding errors, fixed incorrect output duration).
foobar2000 now refuses to open 24-bit WMA lossless files on Windows 10 - which would otherwise decode incorrectly.
You can work around it by feeding WMA files to foo_input_ffmpeg component.
https://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Workaround for WMA tag editing failing on long file paths.
Converter: Prefer user specified converter paths over %PATH%.
Fixed Resampler DSP crashing on very old PCs due to a VS2017 compiler bug.
Various obscure crash bugs have been addressed (Converter, ReplayGain Scanner, Default UI).
MS Store: Fixed .FTH file type association; made MS Store mode reported to console on startup.
Fixed crashing when exiting foobar2000 while playing an internet radio stream (beta 2).
https://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
New and improved Properties dialog, with the ability to manipulate attached pictures as well as scan and modify ReplayGain values.
Greatly improved Selection Properties performance for large track lists.
Various prompts (such as delete/recycle) now come with a “do not show this again” checkbox.
Restored pre-1.4 behavior of main-window-hidden/notification-icon-only status being remembered after foobar2000 restart.
Added logging of Media Library scanning errors - “show errors” button in Media Library Preferences.
Added Advanced Preferences option for flushing playback queue on manual track change (default: on).
Made “Open containing folder” command work with tracks in archives - opens folder containing the archive.
Added an option to preserve last-modified timestamps of tracks when updating tags.
Additional safeguards against corrupted configuration in case of a system crash while saving (FlushFileBuffers).
File Operations: delete/recycle prompt always says “Delete” rather than “Recycle”, since not every volume supports recycle action.
FFmpeg 3.4.6, now compiled with MS compiler, binary size reduced due to DLL runtime.
Implemented reading of cue+bin audio CD images.
Implemented asynchronous drag&drop, for less stalls when dragging tracks from foobar2000 to another program.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Fixed preserve-file-timestamp bugs.
Fixed missing file-not-found error message. forum thread
Fixes for bad interaction between pre-1.4-SDK components and track info filters.
Fixed possible rare shutdown crash with certain components installed.
Playlist behavior fix. forum thread
Fixed metadb edit callbacks not being fired in some conditions.
Removed transacted filesystem support. There are no known benefits to it and even Microsoft documentation says not to use it.
Fixed track info filters (foo_external_tags) vs MP3 remove-tags.
Made track info filters (foo_external_tags) enabled by default once installed.
FLAC 1.3.3
Made WavPack/DSD MD5 visible - using another field so Verifier doesn't try to verify it.
Enabled embedded cuesheet support for MP3 files.
New list control in various Converter dialogs.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Prettier startup UI picker upon installation of a new UI component.
Made possible to check for updates of components listed but not hosted on foobar2000.org.
Changed Properties dialog autocomplete behaviors
Attempted workaround for reported shutdown lockup
Changed order of FLAC metadata block to mitigate bugs in Windows 10
Fixed non-decoding of specific Ogg Vorbis files
Workaround for slow seeking in Matroska files.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
New and improved Properties dialog, with the ability to manipulate attached pictures as well as scan and modify ReplayGain values.
Greatly improved Selection Properties performance for large track lists.
Various prompts (such as delete/recycle) now come with a “do not show this again” checkbox.
Restored pre-1.4 behavior of main-window-hidden/notification-icon-only status being remembered after foobar2000 restart.
Added logging of Media Library scanning errors - “show errors” button in Media Library Preferences.
Added Advanced Preferences option for flushing playback queue on manual track change (default: on).
Made “Open containing folder” command work with tracks in archives - opens folder containing the archive.
Added an option to preserve last-modified timestamps of tracks when updating tags.
Additional safeguards against corrupted configuration in case of a system crash while saving (FlushFileBuffers).
File Operations: delete/recycle prompt always says “Delete” rather than “Recycle”, since not every volume supports recycle action.
FFmpeg 3.4.6, now compiled with MS compiler, binary size reduced due to DLL runtime.
FLAC 1.3.3
Implemented reading of cue+bin audio CD images.
Implemented asynchronous drag&drop, for less stalls when dragging tracks from foobar2000 to another program.
Removed transacted filesystem support. There are no known benefits to it and even Microsoft documentation says not to use it.
Improved programming interfaces for External Tags and Skip Track components.
Made album art loading/resizing operations in Default User Interface asynchronous. Large pictures no longer make the app momentarily unresponsive.
Converter: Added Opus encoder selection for –music / –speech modes.
Converter: New list control in various dialogs. Column sizes are remembered.
Improved playback position reporting with Skip Silence and similar DSP effects.
Made possible to check for updates of components listed but not hosted on foobar2000.org.
Enabled embedded cuesheet support for MP3 files.
Made WavPack/DSD MD5 visible - using another field so Verifier doesn't try to verify it.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Reworked integration with Windows 10 Universal Volume Control. Enabled by default once again.
Fixed a bug in upmix DSPs causing incorrect behavior when working with a mono source.
Improved reading of certain malformed ID3 tags written by other software.
Generic progress dialog now shows yellow pause status when paused.
Generic progress dialog no longer remembers its last position.
File Operations: improved removal of empty folders; should no longer leave empty folders behind when cancelled in mid-operation.
Installed component DLLs should now retain original file modification time, rather than time at which they were installed.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Reworked integration with Windows 10 Universal Volume Control. Enabled by default once again.
Fixed a bug in upmix DSPs causing incorrect behavior when working with a mono source.
Improved reading of certain malformed ID3 tags written by other software.
Generic progress dialog now shows yellow pause status when paused.
Generic progress dialog no longer remembers its last position.
File Operations: improved removal of empty folders; should no longer leave empty folders behind when cancelled in mid-operation.
Installed component DLLs should now retain original file modification time, rather than time at which they were installed.
Addressed some of known incompatibilities between foobar2000 v1.5 and third party components.
Made Converter not write MP3 files with embedded cuesheets. This was an unintended effect of a v1.5 change. A proper setting for this will be added at a later time.
Improved Converter feedback when trying to convert a multichannel track to MP3 or MPC, which accept no more than two channels.
Fixed a bug causing wrong playback position to be shown after listening to an internet radio.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Changelog
Changed system requirements: Windows 7 and a processor with SSE2 instruction set. Windows XP is no longer supported.
Default output mode is now WASAPI shared.
New fading capability that works with alternate output modes.
Default archive reader now supports 7-zip format.
Added support for WebP album covers (Default UI, Properties dialog). Settings need to be changed to look for folder.webp instead of folder.jpg.
Removed mixer volume sync feature due to bugs.
Cleaned up foo_rgscan alter-file-content & alter-opus-header methods.
Removed obsolete edit-replaygain-info menu command since Properties dialog does the same now.
Added an option to disregard mouse back/forward buttons (by default mapped to previous/next track).
Double clicking a line in Properties album art tab now opens a fullsize image viewer.
Fileops & Converter: Added alternate handling of invalid filename characters, toggled in Advanced Preferences.
Freedb component updated: now queries all configured servers and displays results grouped by server.
Updated File Operations & Converter file name pattern picker dialog, now auto selects current pattern on open if possible.
CDDA reading no longer requires admin privileges on Windows Server.
Updated autoplaylist editing dialogs, made resizable.
Standard DSP Array is no longer an optional component, as it's required for new WASAPI output to work correctly.
Converter: Added a toggle for encoding thru temp folder to custom command-line encoder setup, required for some encoders that don't support Unicode.
Added alternate menu commands for opening Properties dialog with specific tab open, for mapping keyboard shortcuts only.
Improved recovery from unplugged audio output device.
Additional editable Properties ReplayGain tab summary fields.
Fixed crash when trying to alter gain on a Matroska file with no recognized audio track.
Fixed incorrect handling of folder/file.ext relative paths in playlists served over HTTP/HTTPS/FTP.
New portable install puts all configuration data in 'profile' subfolder of install folder instead of saving in the installation folder directly. Doesn't affect upgraded installs or non-portable.
Fixed 'remove tags' not correctly stripping tags from raw AAC files.
Fixed ZIP reader memory leak.
Improved handling of last modification times in ZIP and RAR archives.
Fixed a bug causing high CPU usage with autoplaylists that are force-sorted but with no pattern specified.
Fixed installer incorrectly labelling some components as incompatible, if they have been installed by copying DLLs manually.
Fixed incorrect handling of ID3 itunescompilation=0.
Fixed a bug causing files with very long names inside ZIP archives to be unplayable.
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Changelog
Added support for HLS: HTTP Live Streaming. To use, add internet M3U8 file through Add Location dialog.
Enabled icy-metadata support for Ogg FLAC internet radio streams.
Updated Properties / ReplayGain page layout if editing a single file.
Improved Properties dialog performance, list of autocomplete entries is populated asynchronously.
Enabled embedded album art loading from raw .AAC files with ID3 tags.
Updated FFmpeg to 4.3.1.
Added support for playing Matroska A_MS/ACM content.
Fixes for rare AAC codec configurations that FFmpeg doesn't fully support - an add-on decoder can override the built-in one for such special cases.
Decoders are now made aware of output sample rate (from Windows Mixer settings) and can decode certain formats directly to the intended sample rate, skipping potential resampling steps.
Fixed "fade on manual track change" setting not being used since version 1.6. (beta 6)
Changing volume no longer affects Windows Mixer sliders; restarting foobar2000 no longer resets Windows Mixer slider to 100%. (beta 7)
Mitigated crash when initiating drag&drop of a very large number of songs (such as Album List "all music"). (beta 8)
Enabled support for 7-zip archives using PPMd compression. (beta 8)
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Made Advanced Preferences searchable.
Added support for attaching pictures to Matroska files; fixed Matroska tag editing bugs.
More accurate reporting of Matroska bitrate (actual content is probed if needed).
Added itunesadvisory tag support for M4A.
Updated embedded cuesheet handling code.
Replaced PPHS resampler with much faster libretro resampler.
Added support for internet radio album art.
Converter: Encoded FLAC files are now updated with proper FLAC seektables, if FLAC.exe doesn't write them by itself.
Converter: Workarounds for clashes when writing to a Media Library indexed folder.
Converter: Added built-in profile for exhale AAC encoder.
Converter: Fixed some warning prompts not being possible to permanently disable.
Fixed slightly inaccurate bitrate reporting for Musepack and WavPack. Tags are now excluded from file size used to calculate the bitrate.
Now compiled with Visual Studio 2019 (was 2017 before).
Album art related regressions fixed. (beta 2)
Worked around 7-zip reading crash. (beta 2)
Fixed missing no-artwork pic in some scenarios. (beta 3)
Fixed slower playlist & library search regression from earlier betas. (beta 4)
Fixed failure to read some rare MP4/M4A files. (beta 5)
Converter: Added a toggle for FLAC seektable fix. (beta 5)
Fixed Default UI playlist rendering glitches with millions of items. (beta 6)
Fixed decoding of 7-channel FLAC files. (beta 7)
Made FLAC channel mask not cleared with 'remove tags'. (beta 7)
Improved compatibility with badly configured HLS radio servers. (beta 7)
Fixed odd samplerate autoresampling regression from earlier betas. (beta 8)
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Built-in WASAPI exclusive output.
Rewritten entirely in beta 7, old beta1-6 bugs should be gone.
Added 'smart stop' option in Advanced Preferences; press stop key once to stop-after-current, twice to stop now.
Fixed WavPack lossy not working regression from 1.6.6.
Made Output preferences reflect output device changes made by output picker toolbar. (beta 5)
Allowed per-track REM COMMENT in cuesheets. (beta 6)
HLS radio bug fixes. (beta 6)
Fixed crashing on failed paste operations in Properties dialog. (beta 6)
Fixed incorrect handling of UTF-8 file names inside ZIP archives. (beta 6)
Removed 8-bit output option. (beta 7)
Fixed inaccurate preamp decibel formatting in Converter setup dialog. (beta 7)
Prevented popup of Preferences page prompting for a valid output device if the audio device was unplugged with foobar2000 in background. (beta 13)
Added .weba (WebM audio) to recognied extensions. (beta 15)
Fixed issues with playing certain streamed M4A files. (beta 16)
Final
Removed startup popups about old WASAPI component being outdated.
Improved exclusive mode compatibility with audio drivers that incorrectly report supported format list.
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Fixed visual glitches when scrolling lists horizontally with mouse wheel through Logitech software.
Improved output format negotiation with exclusive output.
Fixed failure to install components from store-mode (uncompressed) zip archives.
Improved handling of malformed FLAC files, prevented crash from too many cuesheet entries.
Correct reporting of AC3 channel count in MP4 files even without AC3 component installed (before it would incorrectly report stereo).
Allowed UTF-8 cuesheets without UTF-8 header.
Fixed htmlspecialchars misuse in component update list / component page link.
Mapped MP4 @mvn field to "movement name".
Prevented the same folder from being added more than once to the Media Library.
Properties dialog: deferred logging of user-entered field names for the dropdown list until the tags are saved, effectively preventing typos from being remembered.
Fixed a bug causing alt+f4 (and possibly other keyboard events) to be disregarded if mouse pointer is above specific interactive portion of a window (list controls, buttons in editboxes).
Improved handling of files with malformed APE tags - some files were entirely unplayable.
More thorough 'remove tags' for Vorbis, Opus and Musepack.
Fixed text truncation in ReplayGain Scanner preferences page.
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