foobar2000 1.2.6

1.2.6
Windows 8 “connected standby” countermeasures:
Option to keep display up while playing - seems to be the only way to prevent Windows desktop apps from being shut down while the machine turns idle
Fixed misbehavior when updating attached pictures in files with ID3v2.2 tags.
ReplayGain tagging now works with AIFF.
Fixed crashing when embedding specific picture files into Ogg Vorbis files.
Attached picture manager dialog tweaks.


1.2.5
Converter: fixed writing of WAV files with odd byte counts (eg. 24-bit mono).
Improved handling of various malformed WAV files.
Converter: fixed writing of file types that foobar2000 cannot tag.
Fixed “verify integrity of played files” option disabling HDCD & DTS decoder components.
It's a feature of individual decoder components; third party decoder components such as Monkey's Audio decoder must be updated separately.
“Add Folder” now skips over hidden files & subfolders.
AIFF file format tagging support.
Added authenticode signatures to foobar2000 binaries.
Added WAV & AIFF attached picture handling (beta 2).
Added attached picture transfer option in Converter (beta 2).
Support for touchscreen gesture scrolling on Windows 8 tablet devices (final).


2013-04-17
foobar2000 v1.2.5 beta 3 has been released. More AIFF tagging bugs have been fixed.


2013-04-14
foobar2000 v1.2.5 beta 2 has been released. Tagging of newly written AIFF files now works every time.
As an addition, attached picture handling has been added for AIFF & WAV; Converter can now transfer attached pictures to the newly created file.


1.2.5
Converter: fixed writing of WAV files with odd byte counts (eg. 24-bit mono).
Improved handling of various malformed WAV files.
Converter: fixed writing of file types that foobar2000 cannot tag.
Fixed “verify integrity of played files” option disabling HDCD & DTS decoder components.
It's a feature of individual decoder components; third party decoder components such as Monkey's Audio decoder must be updated separately.
“Add Folder” now skips over hidden files & subfolders.
AIFF file format tagging support.
Added authenticode signatures to foobar2000 binaries.


1.2.4
ReplayGain scanner improvements:
Improved speed.
No longer ignores up to 100ms of last audio data.
Faster SSE-optimized codepaths for various sample type conversions; most notably more efficient handling of 24-bit content.
Option to verify integrity of played files and report errors immediately (however it does not check whole-file checksums).
Fixed status bar glitch with misplaced volume icon.


2013-03-19
foobar2000 v1.2.4 beta 3 has been released. Crashes on various old machines have been fixed.
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1.2.4
ReplayGain scanner improvements:
Improved speed.
No longer ignores up to 100ms of last audio data.
Faster SSE-optimized codepaths for various sample type conversions; most notably more efficient handling of 24-bit content.
Option to verify integrity of played files and report errors immediately (however it does not check whole-file checksums).
Fixed status bar glitch with misplaced volume icon.


1.2.3
Updated FFmpeg code to 1.1.1.
FFmpeg DLLs now use unique names to avoid collisions with certain other software.
Reverted problematic Media Library folder monitoring tweaks from 1.2.
“Downmix 5.1 to stereo” DSP now accepts more different channel masks.
FLAC decoding improvements (beta 3):
Work-around for certain broken files producing loud glitches.
SSE optimizations to counter slowdown from the above work-around.
File Integrity Verifier component now detects such files.
Worked around incompatibility with some very old Vorbis files (final).

1.2.2
Bug fix: 1.2.1 regression - rare crash on specific malformed files.
Bug fix: worked around MS listview bug - disappearing Converter preset list in certain scenarios.


1.2.1
Bug fix: Menu commands to switch between playback output devices not entirely working.
Bug fix: Incorrect decode of odd/malformed Vorbis files.
Bug fix: Archive Reader DLL was accidentally made dependant on MSVCR100.DLL in 1.2.
Improved compatibility with malformed AIFF files.
Bug fix: 1.2 regression - some filesystem operations in mointored folders would cause foobar2000 to crash.


1.2.1
Hot fix: Menu commands to switch between playback output devices not entirely working.


1.2
Support for streaming to arbitrary UPnP MediaRenderer devices through the new UPnP output component.
FFmpeg is now used for MP3, AAC and Vorbis decoding
Extended playback thread priority options in Advanced Preferences.
New: Converter “Quick Convert” dialog, for simplified casual conversions without advanced features.
New: Menu commands to switch between playback output devices.
New: Component installer now shows component licenses when available.
Package license.txt or license.rtf with the component to get it shown on install.
License not shown when autoupdating components.
Equalizer is now an open-source component, separate from the standard DSP array.


2012-12-19
foobar2000 v1.2 beta 2 has been released. Bugs found so far in the previous beta have been fixed (crashes, bad AAC channel order).


1.2
Support for streaming to arbitrary UPnP MediaRenderer devices through the new UPnP output component.
FFmpeg is now used for MP3, AAC and Vorbis decoding
Extended playback thread priority options in Advanced Preferences.
New: Converter “Quick Convert” dialog, for simplified casual conversions without advanced features.
New: Menu commands to switch between playback output devices.
New: Component installer now shows component licenses when available.
Package license.txt or license.rtf with the component to get it shown on install.
License not shown when autoupdating components.
Equalizer is now an open-source component, separate from the standard DSP array.


1.1.18
Hot fix: deadlock detection feature has been disabled due to newly documented harmful side effects.
No more crash when playing during a machine standby cycle.


1.1.17
Converter works on non-seekable sources again, such as Internet streams.
Fixed rare crash bug with “full file buffering”.
Fixed oscilloscope inversion bug
Improved media library relative path handling in portable installs.
Ctrl+A now works in generic text popup dialogs (popup_message API).
Crash reporting improvements for hopefully more meaningful data about deadlocks.
Updated zlib to 1.2.7.


1.1.16
Worked around playback/output preferences crash on Windows 2003.
ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements:
Non-compliant ID3v2.3 TYER allowed by default since various other popular software does it.
Option to write “rating” as TXXX for the few people who want it.
Fixed properties dialog field copy/paste inconsistency when copying specific fields from single to multiple files.
ReplayGain scanner: added additional warnings when trying to scan a very large group of tracks as a single album.
ReplayGain scanner: addressed extreme memory usage when scanning a large group of tracks as a single album.
Cleaned up embedded cuesheet handling code.
Faster FLAC tag updates when full file rewrite is necessary.
Sanitized FLAC tag updating behaviors in low-memory conditions.
The File Operations component now be used to create links to files, in addition to copying/renaming/moving (beta 2).
Improved album art loading performance with huge libraries and complicated lookup patterns (beta 2).


2012-10-23
foobar2000 v1.1.16 beta 2 has been released.
Album art reading performance has been improved for very large libraries; a new feature (create links) has been added to the File Operations component.


1.1.16
Worked around playback/output preferences crash on Windows 2003.
ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements:
Non-compliant ID3v2.3 TYER allowed by default since various other popular software does it.
Option to write “rating” as TXXX for the few people who want it.
Fixed properties dialog field copy/paste inconsistency when copying specific fields from single to multiple files.
ReplayGain scanner: added additional warnings when trying to scan a very large group of tracks as a single album.
ReplayGain scanner: addressed extreme memory usage when scanning a large group of tracks as a single album.
Cleaned up embedded cuesheet handling code.
Faster FLAC tag updates when full file rewrite is necessary.
Sanitized FLAC tag updating behaviors in low-memory conditions.


1.1.15
Added basic MusicBrainz tagging capability to the audio CD ripper.
CD ripper can now look up CD information automatically each time a new CD is about to be ripped.
Worked-around shell integration incompatibility with Windows 8.
Converter performance tweaks for multi-core encoding (beta 2).
Resolved incompatibility with Matroska files processed with mkvclean (beta 2).
ID3v2: “rating” tags now compatible with Windows Media Player (beta 2).
Resolved Converter incompatibility with new Opus encoder (beta 2).
Worked-around drag&drop incompatibility with Windows explorer read-only optical media (final).
Added an advanced preferences option to minimize the app on [x] close (final).
Worked-around NSIS installer incompatibility with Windows 8 address space layout randomization (final).

2012-08-18
foobar2000 v1.1.14a has been released. A regression that slipped into 1.1.14 final has been corrected; thanks to all the people who submitted crash telemetry so quickly. We apologize for the inconvenience.


1.1.14
Added support for the IETF Opus codec.
Improved compliance of ReplayGain tagging for Opus files (beta 2).
More robust handling of ID3v2.3 TDAT frames (beta 2).
Added Opus encoding support in Converter (requires external opusenc.exe binary) (beta 3).
Fixed a deadlock when reading strange/corrupted zip files (final).
Fixed a rare deadlock related to updating tags on the file being currently played.
Fixed a rare deadlock related to starting/stopping playback.


2012-08-11
foobar2000 v1.1.14 beta 3 has been released; now with support for Opus encoding through the Converter component.


2012-08-01
foobar2000 v1.1.14 beta 2 has been released, with Opus related fixes and ID3v2 handling improvements.


1.1.14 (work-in-progress)
Added support for the IETF Opus codec.


1.1.13
Fixed ID3v2 regressions from version 1.1.12
Fixed playback-getting-stuck bugs with fade-on-track-advance enabled.
ID3v2 compliance changes: multiple TXXX allowed again, semicolon used for multiple genre separator.
Changed ID3v2.3 TYER/TDAT handling, now merged into one DATE field formatted as YYYY-MM-DD.
Fixed incorrect volume control behavior when cycling output methods.


2012-05-27
Hot fix: foobar2000 v1.1.12a has been released. This version corrects a regression in 1.1.12 final.


1.1.12
Fixed Musepack HTTP streaming bugs.
Fixed incorrect MP3 decoder behavior on certain rare files.
Fixed crash reporter dialog crash (duh).
Detection of proxy server settings from Internet Explorer.
Fixed multi-channel FLAC encoding (channel mask now gets preserved).
Fixed multi-channel WavPack decoding (channel mask now gets preserved).
Now possible to use HDCD & DTS decoder components with ALAC.
Changed MP3 tag reading behaviors when multiple tags are present.
ID3v2 content now takes priority over APE and then ID3v1.
Various time-consuming operations such as conversion or ReplayGain-scanning now prevent the computer from automatically going to sleep (opt-out).
Tuned ReplayGain scanner for fast multicore CPU / slow HDD scenarios (beta 4).
Fixed Converter misbehavior on files with misplaced “cuesheet” tags (beta 4).
Improved performance when playing MP3 files from internet HTTP sources (beta 4).
Improved compatibility with Apple's HFS driver (beta 4).
ID3v2 handling improvements (beta 5):
Fixed TXXX field name sometimes incorrectly written.
No longer possible to write multiple values per ID3v2.3 frame in various scenarios.
Improved ID3v2.3 specification compliance for TXXX and TCON (genre) frames (beta 6).
COMM frames with a description now show as “COMMENT <description>”.
Certain broken APIC (cover art) frames are now visible.
APEv2 tag writing: relaxed tracknumber/discnumber field content restrictions (beta 5).
Fixed Converter having trouble locating oggenc.exe (beta 6).
Fixed WAV handling exploits affecting versions 1.1.9-1.1.12b6.
Thanks to FuzzMyApp for the report and samples.
Files with .M4R (MP4 ringtones) extension are now recognized (1.1.12 final).
Fixed incorrect handling of hidden files with certain Media Library configurations (1.1.12 final).


2012-05-11
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 6 has been released, including further incremental fixes


2012-05-04
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 5 has been released.
This update addresses various ID3 tag handling issues and improves ID3 specification compliance


2012-04-28
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 4 has been released.
This incremental update brings various performance and compatibility


2012-04-15
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 3 has been released.
This update fixes an MP3 decoder regression causing glitches when decoding files that have been split from a longer original file.


2012-03-25
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 2 has been released.
This is a quick fix for apparent regressions in the beta 1.


1.1.12
Fixed Musepack HTTP streaming bugs.
Fixed incorrect MP3 decoder behavior on certain rare files.
Fixed crash reporter dialog crash (duh).
Detection of proxy server settings from Internet Explorer.
Improved crash report generation for infinite recursions / stack overflows.
Fixed multi-channel FLAC encoding (channel mask now gets preserved).
Fixed multi-channel WavPack decoding (channel mask now gets preserved).
Now possible to use HDCD & DTS decoder components with ALAC.
Changed MP3 tag reading behaviors when multiple tags are present.
ID3v2 content now takes priority over APE and then ID3v1.
Various time-consuming operations such as conversion or ReplayGain-scanning now prevent the computer from automatically going to sleep (opt-out).


2012-02-04
foobar2000 v1.1.11 stable has been released.
Various bugs have been fixed again; the deadlock detection feature has been toned down - in stable releases it will no longer kill the app due to slow operations on large music librarie


1.1.11
Improved built-in crossfading functionality, new fading configuration in Preferences / Output.
Fading functionality available with built-in DirectSound mode only.
New .fb2k-component file type extension for foobar2000 component packages.
Fixed some potential security issues.
Added type-find in the default playlist view.
Added support for album art in APEv2 tags on MP3 files.
Fixed more WAV handling bugs.
Converter update - now you can restrict specific encoder to run in one thread only.
Experimental deadlock detection (beta 2)
After long periods of apparent UI unresponsiveness, the application will automatically terminate and produce a crash report.
Cleaned up advanced preferences for MP3 tagging (beta 2)
“Force preferred tagging scheme” option gone - use the “MP3 tag types” dialog to convert between different tag types.


2012-01-25
foobar2000 v1.1.11 beta 5 released.
This update includes incremental bug fixes over beta 4 as well more customizable fading.


2012-01-22
foobar2000 v1.1.11 beta 3 and beta 4 released.
Various UI responsivity bugs have been fixed using the telemetry data from beta 2 - thanks to everyone who submitted crash reports.
Update: Now at beta 4. The short-lived beta 3 had a major stability problem that should be fixed now - special thanks to the 15 people who submitted crash reports so quickly.


2012-01-19
foobar2000 v1.1.11 beta 2 released. Various beta 1 quirks have been sanitized.
This version introduces an experimental deadlock detection feature - the application will automatically terminate and produce a crash report after long periods of apparent UI unresponsiveness.
Please always send reports of any crashes that you encounter, chances are that they can be worked-around in the next version or forwarded to the developer of the problematic component.


1.1.11

Improved built-in crossfading functionality, new fading configuration in Preferences / Output.
Fading functionality available with built-in DirectSound mode only.
New .fb2k-component file type extension for foobar2000 component packages.
Fixed some potential security issues.
Added type-find in the default playlist view.
Added support for album art in APEv2 tags on MP3 files.
Fixed more WAV handling bugs.


1.1.10

Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoding support is now included out-of-the-box, using the newly published Apple library.
Fixed WAV handling bugs introduced in 1.1.9.
Worked around buggy Asus Xonar drivers, volume control no longer requires toggling specific options in the driver control panel.
Various stability fixes.
New �about� dialog.


2011-11-22
foobar2000 v1.1.10 beta 2 has been released. This update addresses various security issues in the new ALAC decoder and introduces a workaround for the infamous Asus Xonar volume control bug.


1.1.10

Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoding support is now included out-of-the-box, using the newly published Apple library.
Fixed WAV handling bugs introduced in 1.1.9.


1.1.9

Added WAV file format tagging support.
Implemented experimental support for 16-bit floating-point WAV files.
Fixed ID3v2 handling bugs from 1.1.8.


2011-10-28
foobar2000 v1.1.9 beta 2 has been released. This update fixes more MP3 tagging regressions from 1.1.8 and refines the WAV tagging feature.


1.1.9

Added WAV file format tagging support.
Implemented experimental support for 16-bit floating-point WAV files.
Fixed ID3v2 handling bugs from 1.1.8.


1.1.8

Worked-around a reported security problem with certain WAV files and buggy system codecs.
Skip silence DSP improvements.
Improved MP3 tag handling (ID3v2) compliance:
More compliant WXXX parsing.
More compliant ID3v2.4 date handling.
Compressed 2.3 tags are now readable.
Due to heavy structural changes in relevant code, please watch out for MP3 tagging regressions.
Musepack decoding bug fixes. (beta 3)
Fixed a converter bug with writing multichapter files. (beta 3)
Improved FLAC/Vorbis metadata compatibility with other software. (beta 4, beta 5)
Affected fields: �album artist�, �totaltracks�, �totaldiscs�.
The old behavior can be restored with an Advanced Preferences switch.
Support for playing WebM audio (beta 5)
Support for iTunes gapless information in MP3 files (beta 5)


2011-08-25
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 6 has been released.
It corrects a preferences crash regression from beta 5.


2011-08-23
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 5 has been released.
Support for playing WebM audio (beta 5)
Support for iTunes gapless information in MP3 files (beta 5)


2011-08-07
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 4 has been released.
This update improves "album artist" metadata compatibility for FLAC & Vorbis formats. Details are included in the change log.
This is an experimental change; reports of scenarios where compatibility has been degraded are welcome.


2011-07-29
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 3 has been released. This update addresses various bugs related to Musepack file format handling.


2011-07-13
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 2 has been released. Various regressions from the previous version have been corrected.


1.1.8 beta

Worked-around a reported security problem with certain WAV files and buggy system codecs.
Skip silence DSP improvements.
Improved MP3 tag handling (ID3v2) compliance:
More compliant WXXX parsing.
More compliant ID3v2.4 date handling.
Compressed 2.3 tags are now readable.
Due to heavy structural changes relevant code, please watch out for MP3 tagging regressions.


1.1.7

Ability to add/remove embedded pictures in media files - currently supports: MP3, MP4, FLAC, WMA, WavPack, Musepack, Vorbis and APE.
Improved bitrate reporting accuracy for various audio formats.
Updated ReplayGain scanning code to the latest version of libebur128.


1.1.7 beta 6 out.
This update improves MP4 tag handling robustness and more properly addresses the beta 4 regression.


1.1.7 beta 5 out.
This is a hotfix release to address beta 4 regression with MP4 tagging.


1.1.7 beta 4 out.
Changes: improved reported bitrate calculation for various audio formats so oversized tags no longer affect it; new command to remove all attached pictures.


1.1.7 beta 3 out.
Changes: new batch picture attaching functionality, improved external album art loading logic for multi-disc albums.


2011-05-07
New beta version (1.1.7 beta 2) is out. Various bugs have been fixed; support for attaching pictures to Vorbis files has been added.


v1.1.7
Ability to edit embedded pictures in media files - currently supports: MP3, FLAC, WMA, WavPack, Musepack and APE.
Updated ReplayGain scanning code to the latest version of libebur128.


v1.1.6
Improved performance when playing very short tracks.
Improved tag compatibility with other software.
�Album artist� is mapped to ID3v2 TPE2 like in WMP/iTunes.
Support for iTunes �itunescompilation� tags, in MP3/ID3v2 and MP4.
ID3v2.3 tags are now written by default since version 2.4 seems to be widely ignored by software vendors.
Added support for multi-value WMA tags.
Read more about tagging changes
Improved reading of MP3 encoding information headers written by alpha versions of LAME.
ReplayGain scanner now uses libebur128 for improved accuracy.


v1.1.6 beta 5
This update introduces various improvements to ID3 tag handling. http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Metadata_Compatibility_1.1.6_changes


v1.1.6 beta 4

This update again improves tagging compatibility with other software as well as corrects inconsistent ReplayGain scanner behavior for mono files.


v1.1.6 beta 3

This update resolves multiple known problems with the new ReplayGain scanner.


1.1.6 beta 2

This update refines the tagging compatibility improvements


1.1.6

* Improved performance when playing very short tracks.
* Improved tag compatibility with other software.
o �Album artist� is mapped to ID3v2 TPE2 like in WMP/iTunes.
o Support for iTunes �itunescompilation� tags, in MP3/ID3v2 and MP4.
o ID3v2.3 tags are now written by default since version 2.4 seems to be widely ignored by software vendors.
o Added support for multi-value WMA tags.
o Read more about tagging changes
* Improved reading of MP3 encoding information headers written by alpha versions of LAME.
* ReplayGain scanner now uses libebur128 for improved accuracy


1.1.5

* Fixed various 1.1.3 / 1.1.4 regressions.
* Added a menu item to check for new foobar2000 versions.
* Added a menu item to more easily check for updated components.


1.1.4

* Fixed regression: incorrect AAC decoder behaviors introduced in version 1.1.3.


1.1.3

* Fixed crashing on newest AMD processors.


1.1.2

* New foobar2000 application icon.
* foobar2000's volume slider is now synchronized with Windows Mixer application volume slider on Windows Vista and newer.
* Progress of various operations is now displayed on Windows 7 taskbar.
* Fixed various freedb related bugs; freedb support works again.
* Fixed 1.1.1 regression with Media Library configuration reset when upgrading from versions older than 1.1.
* Fixed 1.1.1 regression with Media Library being stuck in �initializing� state if foobar2000's portable installation files are inside one of the watched folders.
* Improved startup time and memory usage with very large media libraries. [beta 4]


1.1.1

* Improved first run experience
o With standard (non-portable) installs, foobar2000 Media Library defaults to indexing your music folders indexed by Windows itself.
* HTTPS support in networking services
o This is mainly relevant to component developers. You can now access HTTPS URLs through filesystem and http_client services.
* Fixed a rare crash when closing the Preferences dialog in specific conditions.
* Improved compatibility with broken MP4 files.


1.1

* New component installation and automatic updating functionality.
o Optional components are now installed into user's profile folder, allowing different