2013-06-14
foobar2000 v1.2.
8 has been released. Converter regression from 1.2.7 final has been corrected.
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2013-06-13
foobar2000 v1.2.7 final has been released.
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2013-06-02
foobar2000 v1.2.7 beta 1 has been released:
FLAC decoder has been updated to the newly released version 1.3.0
WAV & AIFF handling compatibility has been again improved.
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2013-05-04
foobar2000 v1.2.6 final has been released.
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2013-04-28
foobar2000 v1.2.6 beta 1 has been released, with tagging related bug fixes and Windows 8 tablet compatibility improvements.
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2013-04-20
foobar2000 v1.2.5 final has been released.
New feature: improved usability on Windows 8 touchscreen devices.
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2013-04-17
foobar2000 v1.2.5 beta 3 has been released. More AIFF tagging bugs have been fixed.
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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.
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2013-04-12
foobar2000 v1.2.5 beta 1 has been released - with various bug fixes and AIFF tagging support.
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2013-03-29
foobar2000 v1.2.4 final has been released.
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2013-03-19
foobar2000 v1.2.4 beta
3 has been released. Crashes on various old machines have been fixed.
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2013-03-18
foobar2000 v1.2.4 beta 1 has been released, featuring new much faster ReplayGain scanner.
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2013-02-13
foobar2000 v1.2.3 final has been released.
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2013-02-09
foobar2000 v1.2.3 beta 3 has been released.
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2013-02-03
foobar2000 v1.2.3 beta 1 has been released. Various known issues have been fixed.
Update: now at beta 2 - Vorbis & AAC bad channel interleaving regression has been corrected.
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2013-01-18
foobar2000 v1.2.2 has been released.
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2013-01-11
foobar2000 v1.2.1 has been released.
Various bugs and regressions from the 1.2 release have been fixed.
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2012-12-29
foobar2000 v1.2.1 beta 1 released.
The new beta version addresses bugs/regressions found in the 1.2 release (currently only one issue).
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2012-12-28
foobar2000 v1.2 final has been released!
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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).
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Additionally, the
Free Encoder Pack has just been updated with latest binaries.
2012-12-17
foobar2000 v1.2 beta 1 has been released. Main changes:
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2012-11-29
foobar2000 10th anniversary special:
Classic User Interface
2012-11-25
Hot fix: foobar2000 v1.1.18 - deadlock detection feature has been disabled due to unwanted side effects.
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2012-11-16
foobar2000 v1.1.17 final has been released
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2012-11-13
foobar2000 v1.1.17 beta 1 has been released; various minor bugs have been fixed.
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2012-10-27
foobar2000 v1.1.16 final has been released.
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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.
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2012-10-19
foobar2000 v1.1.16 beta 1 has been released. This is a maintenance update with various bug fixes and compatibility improvements.
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2012-10-11
New release:
Command-Line Decoder Wrapper.
2012-09-30
New release:
Free Encoder Pack - a simple installer distributing encoder binaries for use with the foobar2000 Converter component.
Currently includes encoders for: FLAC (bugfixed encoder with 2GB+ file support), Ogg Vorbis, Opus, Musepack and WavPack.
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2012-09-14
foobar2000 v1.1.15 final has been released.
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2012-09-07
foobar2000 v1.1.15 beta 2 has been released.
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2012-09-02
The long-awaited update of the WASAPI output component has been released.
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2012-08-26
foobar2000 v1.1.15 beta 1 has been released. You can now automatically tag ripped CDs with
MusicBrainz; shell integration incompatibility with Windows 8 has been worked-around.
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2012-08-18
foobar2000 v1.1.14
a 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.
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2012-08-17
foobar2000 v1.1.14 final has been released. In addition to
IETF Opus codec support introduced in the betas, the final version addresses various stability issues.
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2012-08-11
foobar2000 v1.1.14 beta 3 has been released; now with support for Opus encoding through the Converter component.
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2012-08-01
foobar2000 v1.1.14 beta 2 has been released, with Opus related fixes and ID3v2 handling improvements.
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2012-07-16
foobar2000 v1.1.14 beta 1 has been released; introducing support for the
IETF Opus codec.
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2012-06-07
foobar2000 v1.1.13 final has been released.
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2012-06-02
foobar2000 v1.1.13 beta 1 has been released.
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2012-05-27
Hot fix: foobar2000 v1.1.12a has been released. This version corrects a regression in 1.1.12 final.
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2012-05-26
foobar2000 v1.1.12 final has been released.
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2012-05-11
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 6 has been released, including further incremental fixes (
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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 (
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2012-04-28
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 4 has been released.
This incremental update brings various performance and compatibility updates (
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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.
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2012-03-25
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 2 has been released.
This is a quick fix for apparent regressions in the beta 1.
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2012-03-24
foobar2000 v1.1.12 beta 1 has been released.
This is a maintenance update focusing on various bugs documented since the last release.
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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 libraries.
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2012-01-25
foobar2000 v1.1.11 beta 5 released.
This update includes incremental bug fixes over beta 4 as well more customizable fading.
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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.
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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.
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2012-01-14
foobar2000 v1.1.11 beta 1 released. Main changes include new built-in crossfading functionality and easy installation of add-on components through new .fb2k-component file type.
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2011-12-10
Source code of the modified Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder used in foobar2000 v1.1.10 is now public.
Web site
2011-12-02
foobar2000 v1.1.10 final has been released. Various stability issues have been addressed since the last beta version. Updating from any older version is highly recommended.
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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.
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2011-11-18
foobar2000 v1.1.10 beta 1 has been released. This version adds native ALAC support using the newly released Apple decoder library; the ALAC decoder component is now obsolete.
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2011-11-04
foobar2000 v1.1.9 has been released.
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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.
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2011-10-21
foobar2000 v1.1.9 beta 1 has been released. This version adds long-awaited tagging support for the WAV file format.
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2011-09-20
foobar2000 v1.1.8 has been released. Various known regressions from the beta versions have once again been addressed.
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Some of you might want to check a newly released foobar2000 codebase spin-off,
Boom Audio Player.
2011-08-25
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 6 has been released. It corrects a preferences crash regression from beta 5.
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2011-08-23
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 5 has been released.
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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.
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2011-07-29
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 3 has been released. This update addresses various bugs related to Musepack file format handling.
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2011-07-13
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 2 has been released. Various regressions from the previous version have been corrected.
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2011-07-10
foobar2000 v1.1.8 beta 1 has been released.
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2011-06-05
1.1.7 final has been released.
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2011-05-22
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.
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2011-05-18
1.1.7 beta 3 out.
Changes: new batch picture attaching functionality, improved external album art loading logic for multi-disc albums.
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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.
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2011-04-30
foobar2000 v1.1.7 beta 1 has been released. This update adds basic attached picture (embedded album art) editing capabilities.
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2011-04-22
foobar2000 v1.1.6 final has been released.
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2011-04-15
foobar2000 v1.1.6 beta 5 has been released.
This update introduces various improvements to ID3 tag handling.
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2011-04-08
foobar2000 v1.1.6 beta 4 has been released.
This update again
improves tagging compatibility with other software as well as corrects inconsistent ReplayGain scanner behavior for mono files.
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2011-04-02
foobar2000 v1.1.6 beta 3 has been released.
This update resolves multiple known problems with the new ReplayGain scanner.
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2011-03-25
foobar2000 v1.1.6 beta 2 has been released.
This update refines the tagging compatibility improvements.
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2011-03-20
foobar2000 v1.1.6 beta 1 has been released.
This update focuses on
improving tagging compatibility with Windows Media Player and iTunes.
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2011-02-27
Another update and an apology.
As you have noticed, there has been a lot of hot-fixing going on recently.
Certain experimental changes made between versions 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 did not exactly function as intended and caused various problems.
This is now hopefully resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
To ease the pain in case situations like this happen again, the latest version - 1.1.5 - can now check for foobar2000 core updates and redirect you to the download page if your foobar2000 version is outdated.
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2011-02-23
foobar2000 v1.1.4 has been released. This version corrects a regression in AAC decoder introduced in version 1.1.3.
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2011-02-21
foobar2000 v1.1.3 has been released. This is a single-bug-fix release addressing issues on new AMD processors.
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2011-01-22
foobar2000 v1.1.2 has been released.
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2011-01-14
foobar2000 v1.1.2 beta 4 has been released. Highlights:
- Improved startup time and memory usage with very large libraries
- Hopefully a more solid workaround for Windows 7 audio mixer crashes
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2011-01-08
foobar2000 v1.1.2 beta 3 has been released. This update introduces a work-around for Windows audio stack bugs which caused crashes in the previous 1.1.2 betas when changing the system default audio output device.
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2011-01-02
foobar2000 v1.1.2 beta 2 has been released. This version addresses multiple documented bugs from the previous releases, including 1.1.1-specific regressions.
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2010-12-25
foobar2000 v1.1.2 beta 1 has been released. The new features include improved integration with Windows 7 taskbar and Windows Vista / Windows 7 audio mixer.
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2010-11-05
foobar2000 v1.1.1 has been released.
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2010-10-20
foobar2000 v1.1.1 beta 1 has been released. This update improves first run experience for new users and resolves certain known bugs.
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Update: Beta 2 has been released, correcting wrong license file included with beta 1.
2010-08-23
foobar2000 v1.1 has been released.
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2010-08-19
foobar2000 is now featured on Flattr, a micro donation platform. You can now once again contribute to keep foobar2000 development active.
foobar2000 on Flattr
2010-08-13
foobar2000 v1.1 beta 3 has been released.
This update introduces further refinements of the new Converter user interface.
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2010-08-03
foobar2000 v1.1 beta 2 has been released.
This update fixes known bugs in beta 1 as well as improves usability of the new Converter user interface.
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2010-07-17
foobar2000 v1.1 beta 1 has been released.
New features include a new component installation scheme as well as automatic updating of components published on
the official components site.
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2010-04-30
foobar2000 v1.0.3 has been released.
This is a maintenance update addressing various bugs documented since the previous release.
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2010-04-10
foobar2000 v1.0.2 has been released.
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2010-04-01
foobar2000 v1.0.2 beta 1 has been released.
This is a maintenance update addressing known bugs and introducing minor new features.
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2010-03-06
foobar2000 v1.0.1 has been released.
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2010-02-27
foobar2000 v1.0.1 beta 2 has been released.
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2010-02-20
foobar2000 v1.0.1 beta 1 has been released.
This is a maintenance update addressing various issues found in the 1.0 release as well as adding minor new features.
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2010-01-09
foobar2000 v1.0 has been released.
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Additionally, a new major update of the
Software Development Kit has been released, providing access to the new features.
2009-12-31
The donation button has been removed due to PayPal being thieves.
Thanks to everybody who donated so far, your funds mostly got through.
2009-12-28
foobar2000 v1.0 beta 6 has been released; various bugs found since beta 5 have been fixed.
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2009-12-18
foobar2000 v1.0 beta 5 has been released; various bugs found since beta 4 have been fixed.
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2009-12-11
foobar2000 v1.0 beta 4 has been released; various bugs found since beta 3 have been fixed.
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2009-12-04
foobar2000 v1.0 beta 3 has been released; various bugs found since beta 2 have been fixed.
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2009-11-27
foobar2000 v1.0 beta 2 has been released; various bugs found since beta 1 have been fixed.
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2009-11-20
foobar2000 v1.0 beta 1 has been released.
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2009-10-05
The File Integrity Verifier component has been updated; it can now verify complete disc rips against the AccurateRip database.
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2009-08-22
foobar2000 v0.9.6.9 has been released.
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2009-08-08
foobar2000 v0.9.6.9 beta 1 has been released.
From now on, all beta versions will be available through bittorrent only.
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2009-07-26
The optional components section of the site has been entirely re-worked; you can now browse components by category as well as download popular third-party components directly from our site.
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2009-06-21
Multiple optional components have been updated.
Masstagger (version 1.8.2): Added %now% in "format from other fields", various cosmetic changes.
File Integrity Verifier (version 1.0.5): Fixed focus stealing upon completion, added display of calculated audio MD5/CRC32 values.
Audio CD Writer (3.0): No longer requires Nero to be installed. CD-TEXT support is currently missing.
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2009-06-07
foobar2000 v0.9.6.8 has been released.
This is a bugfix-only release; no new features have been added.
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2009-05-22
foobar2000 v0.9.6.7 has been released.
This is a hotfix release addressing various regressions that appeared in previous updates.
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