foobar2000 v1.5 Released SEPT 21 2019 Whats New: • 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 • And Much More........ Download foobar2000
foobar2000 v1.5.1 Released (December 31, 2019) Changelog Download Spoiler: Changes v1.5.1 1.5.1 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.
foobar2000 v1.5.5 Released (June 29, 2020) Changelog Download Spoiler: Changes v1.5.5 1.5.5 Component autoupdate dialog visual fixes. Fixed an obscure bug in FPL playlist loader. MP4 AAC/USAC compatibility fixes (additional component still required). Fixed incorrect behavior of shared printf() function on large hex values. Made creation time explicitly retained when a file needs to be rewritten during a tag update. Fixed lockup on dropped HTTPS internet radio connection. Equalizer settings are no longer forgotten after disabling equalizer via the checkbox. Fixed missing seekbar with remote MP3 files containing embedded cuesheets. Audio CD ripper: removed outdated AccurateRip support based on outdated specification. Proper AccurateRip support will be restored in a future update.
foobar2000 v1.6 Released (September 2, 2020) Changelog Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6 1.6 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.
foobar2000 v1.6.1 Released (September 25, 2020) Changelog Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6.1 1.6.1 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)
foobar2000 v1.6.2 Released (October 22, 2020) Changelog Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6.2 1.6.2 HLS radio bug fixes. Double clicking album covers in Default User Interface shows full-size picture. Archive reader optimizations; much more efficient handling of uncompressed (store-mode) archives. Drag-and-drop or copy-to-clipboard of large number of tracks no longer copies their plaintext titles. Fixed unresponsive Album List when selecting lots of items. (beta 2). Added workarounds for wrong audio mix format reported by certain buggy soundcard drivers. (beta 3, beta 4) Added workaround for too quiet playback since removal of Windows Mixer volume slider synchronization in previous versions. (beta 4) Fixed crashing when attempting to read from 7-ziup archive that does not exist. (beta 5) Increased playback queue length limit to 256 tracks. (beta 5) Fixed incompatibilities with certain bluetooth headsets introduced in 1.6.1. (beta 7) Fixed incorrect handling of embedded pictures in Speex tags. (beta 7) Fixed incorrect info shown for IMA ADPCM in Matroska. (beta 7) Fixed no error message on failure to update embedded pictures if embedding of pictures is not supported for this file type. (beta 7) Removed nonsensical bit depth info shown with some Matroska files. (final) Cleaned up listed file types in various "import picture" dialogs. (final) Workaround for stuck process if attempting to update foobar2000 while running foobar2000 is busy. (final)
foobar2000 v1.6.3 Released (January 18, 2021) Changelog Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6.3 1.6.3 Fixed RAR reading crash bug introduced in 1.6.2. Improved WASAPI compatibility with specific audio devices. Fixed playback queue being flushed when playing a song from library search result. (beta 2) Now complains on startup if mixing files from different foobar2000 releases. (beta 2) Fixed wrong stream labels in "Select Stream" on Matroska if not all streams were readable by installed decoders. (beta 3) Made "Select Stream" dialog show more info about each stream. (beta 3) Fixed enter key behavior in "Select Stream" dialog list. (beta 3) Various obscure Matroska PCM configurations now decode correctly. (beta 3) Converter: Improved long filename support. (beta 3) Fixed incorrect behavior of playlist_execute_default_action() method. (final)
foobar2000 1.6.5 Released (April 6, 2021) Changelog Release Notes Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6.5 1.6.5 Rewritten internal 7-zip support - now opens large files without running out of memory. Updated ReplayGain scanner: improved speed, added classic ReplayGain scanning mode as an option. Converter now warns about conversion of float32 to integer format, as it is not lossless if the source file isn't peak-normalized. "Remove Tags" now retains Apple gapless (iTunSMPB) information on MP3 files. Rationale: tag manipulation should not cause the file to decode differently. Opt-out of this behavior in Advancd Preferences. Fixed some M4A chapter titles not reading correctly. Added support for itunescatalogid for M4A files. Fixes for instability from extreme 7-zip reader memory usage. Fixed a glitch in ReplayGain scanner preferences.
foobar2000 1.6.6 Released (May 17, 2021) Changelog Release Notes Download Spoiler: Changes 1.6.6 1.6.6 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
foobar2000 1.6.7 Released (August 10, 2021) Changelog Release Notes Download Spoiler: Changes 1.6.7 1.6.7 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)
foobar2000 1.6.8 Released (November 8, 2021) Changelog Release Notes Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6.8 1.6.8 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. Made possible to add attached pictures by drag and drop to relevant Properties dialog page.
foobar2000 1.6.9 Released (January 3, 2022) Changelog Release Notes Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6.9 1.6.9 Fixed Properties dialog glitches when scrolling content horizontally. Fixed Converter setup dialog crash when using mouse forward/back buttons to navigate pages. Fixed truncated text in Converter at 125% text size. Fixed bad behavior of stricmp_utf8() function in shared.dll causing incorrect behavior of some components. Fixed incorrect rendering of some Preferences page elements with Windows 7 classic theme. Fixed a bug preventing some large folders from being added to playlist correctly. Worked around apparent incorrect playback of audio tracks beginning with early drum hits with default output settings. Updated middle-click-scroll marker. Cleaned up various leftovers from old versions. Fixed blank Properties content after some (but not all) of tag writes failed. Visual consistency fixes in Preferences, mainly affecting Windows 7 in classic mode.
foobar2000 1.6.10 Released (February 14, 2022) Changelog Release Notes Download Spoiler: Changes v1.6.10 1.6.10 Fixed stuck now playing album art with many single tracks in one folder. Workaround for certain radio serving .pls that 302-redirects to audio/mpeg stream. Playlist Search: Don't reload view / drop selection if search refresh changed nothing. Properly focus newly spawned UI Element popup - Library Search etc is now focused if invoked via global hotkey. Implemented #EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME for HLS internet radio. Fixed incorrect decoding of FLAC files with 3 channels and no explicit channel mask set. (beta 3) Better formatting of HTTPS related error messages. (beta 4) Fixed a rare shutdown crash. (beta 4)
