foobar2000 change log

2.0

Now available as x86 32-bit (legacy), x86 64-bit. ARM 64-bit version coming soon. 64-bit versions require updated versions of add-on components.
Dark mode support on Windows 10 and 11. Add-on components need to be updated to utilize it.
Entirely new media library engine, backed by SQLite. Much faster startup and shutdown with large libraries, greatly reduced memory usage.
Greatly improved performance of media library search queries that don't use %patterns%.
Playback Statistics functionality is now built-in. Old foo_playcount data gets imported on first run. Please remove foo_playcount as instructed.
Added album art in Default User Interface playlist view.
Clickable rating stars in Default User Interface playlist view.
New Default UI element: ReFacets, reimplementing most of Facets functionality. Old Facets component doesn't work with new 64-bit foobar2000.
Improved Default UI splitter, now allows any number of panes.
Added 'remember per playlist layout' to Default User Interface playlist view.
Added 'stream selector' element to Default User Interface toolbar.
New audio output device management features - unwanted devices can be disabled, bit depth and DSP can be configured per-device.
New internal playlist format, changes instantly saved to disk, no more recent changes lost on crash.
New configuration data format, changes instantly saved to disk, no more recent changes lost on crash.
Can display file creation time (%file_created%) and attributes (%file_attributes%).
For non-portable installs, profile folder is now %appdata%\foobar2000-v2. There is no need to back up old profile before upgrading, your foobar2000 v1.x profile will be left untouched.
First run performs import of old configuration data (playlists, library).
More audio formats supported out of the box: TAK, APE, AC3, DTS.
Updated FFmpeg to version 5.1.
Improved Properties behavior if 'reload info' detects a change in number of chapters etc.
Rewritten built-in visualisations (VU/peak meters, spectrum, oscilloscope), now using hardware accelerated rendering.
Some Default UI Elements (ReFacets, Equalizer, visualisations) now also accessible as Columns UI panels.
Internet Radio dialog (File menu), remembers previously played Internet radio streams.
Modernized Explorer integration, no longer needs separate 32bit/64bit shell extension DLLs.
Properties dialog now follows theme colors of the active UI.
Utilized Windows Imaging Component for image parsing, removed libwebp dependency. Album covers in HEIF, AVIF, etc can now be viewed if system codecs are present.
Added %year% mapping, takes year part of %date%, discarding content past first four digits.
Changed default Album List patterns to use %year%.
Added sample rate exclusions to SSRC resampler.
Added crossfeed DSP from foobar2000 mobile.
New console logging system, writes per-instance log files to the specified folder.
New full config reset semantics - now clears profile folder (optionally leaving user-components intact) instead of asking all components to reset themselves.
These add-on components are now obsolete as their functionality is available out of the box: foo_benchmark, foo_bitcompare, foo_verifier, foo_input_monkey, foo_ac3, foo_sanitizer, foo_input_dts.
These components previously included with the installer are no longer optional (features always enabled): foo_rgscan, foo_cdda, foo_albumlist
libFLAC 1.4, made possible to decode 32 bits per sample FLAC files.

1.6.12

Added support for playing Opus audio in MP4 container.
Fixed obscure UI glitches (list controls, Default UI splitter).
Suppressed repeating library scan error messages.
More consistent behavior of Properties dialog/element vs channel mask info on multi-selection.
Made possible to autoupdate components larger than 16MB.
FTP protocol bug fixes.
Improved media library compatibility with some read-only network shares.
Removed annoying 'legacy page' prompt for preferences pages not implementing apply/cancel logic.

1.6.11

Fixed bugs in HTTP redirect behaviors.
Added more exclusive output tweaks.
Fixed incorrect reported duration of very long WavPack files.
Fixed a bug preventing parent folder from being added to playlist if a subfolder is inaccessible.
Fixed some very old bugs in Preferences / Shell Integration page.
Updated FLAC code to version 1.3.4.
Updated zlib to 1.2.12.
FFmpeg is now used to decode Apple Lossless format.

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.
Better formatting of HTTPS related error messages.
Fixed a rare shutdown crash.

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.

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.

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-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.
Allowed per-track REM COMMENT in cuesheets.
HLS radio bug fixes.
Fixed crashing on failed paste operations in Properties dialog.
Fixed incorrect handling of UTF-8 file names inside ZIP archives.
Removed 8-bit output option.
Fixed inaccurate preamp decibel formatting in Converter setup dialog.
Prevented popup of Preferences page prompting for a valid output device if the audio device was unplugged with foobar2000 in background.
Added .weba (WebM audio) to recognied extensions.
Fixed issues with playing certain streamed M4A files.

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.
Worked around 7-zip reading crash.
Fixed missing no-artwork pic in some scenarios.
Fixed slower playlist & library search regression from earlier betas.
Fixed failure to read some rare MP4/M4A files.
Converter: Added a toggle for FLAC seektable fix.
Fixed Default UI playlist rendering glitches with millions of items.
Fixed decoding of 7-channel FLAC files.
Made FLAC channel mask not cleared with 'remove tags'.
Improved compatibility with badly configured HLS radio servers.
Fixed odd samplerate autoresampling regression from earlier betas.

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.

1.6.4

Fixed playback queue display glitch regression from 1.6.3 final.
Added mouse previous/next navigation in Preferences.
Fixed ctrl+backspace working incorrectly in some edit boxes.
Standard DSP Array is now loaded in safe mode - otherwise basic playback would fail.
Fixed a crash when decoding certain AAC streams introduced in 1.6.3.
Updated WavPack decoder to version 5.4.0.

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.
Now complains on startup if mixing files from different foobar2000 releases.
Fixed wrong stream labels in "Select Stream" on Matroska if not all streams were readable by installed decoders.
Made "Select Stream" dialog show more info about each stream.
Fixed enter key behavior in "Select Stream" dialog list.
Various obscure Matroska PCM configurations now decode correctly.
Converter: Improved long filename support.
Fixed incorrect behavior of playlist_execute_default_action() method.

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.
Added workarounds for wrong audio mix format reported by certain buggy soundcard drivers.
Added workaround for too quiet playback since removal of Windows Mixer volume slider synchronization in previous versions.
Fixed crashing when attempting to read from 7-zip archive that does not exist.
Increased playback queue length limit to 256 tracks.
Fixed incompatibilities with certain bluetooth headsets introduced in 1.6.1.
Fixed incorrect handling of embedded pictures in Speex tags.
Fixed incorrect info shown for IMA ADPCM in Matroska.
Fixed no error message on failure to update embedded pictures if embedding of pictures is not supported for this file type.
Removed nonsensical bit depth info shown with some Matroska files.
Cleaned up listed file types in various "import picture" dialogs.
Workaround for stuck process if attempting to update foobar2000 while running foobar2000 is busy.

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.
Changing volume no longer affects Windows Mixer sliders; restarting foobar2000 no longer resets Windows Mixer slider to 100%.
Mitigated crash when initiating drag&drop of a very large number of songs (such as Album List "all music").
Enabled support for 7-zip archives using PPMd compression.

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.

1.5.11

Bug fix update with latest fixes from 1.6 series.
Codec libraries updated.
Fixed context menu use-after-free in Default User Interface splitter.
FTP protocol bug fixes.
Made possible to autoupdate components larger than 16MB.
Improved media library compatibility with some read-only network shares.
Removed annoying 'legacy page' prompt for preferences pages not implementing apply/cancel logic.

1.5.10

Bug fix update with latest fixes from 1.6 series.
Apple Lossless decoder update, improved handling of malformed files.
Fixed a bug preventing parent folder from being added to playlist if a subfolder is inaccessible.
Fixed some very old bugs in Preferences / Shell Integration page.
Fixed incorrect reported duration of very long WavPack files.
Fixed a rare shutdown crash.
Properly focus newly spawned UI Element popup - Library Search etc is now focused if invoked via global hotkey.
Playlist Search: Don't reload view / drop selection if search refresh changed nothing.
Workaround for certain radio serving .pls that 302-redirects to audio/mpeg stream.

1.5.9

Bug fix update with latest fixes from 1.6 series.
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 a bug preventing some large folders from being added to playlist correctly.
Fixed blank Properties content after some (but not all) of tag writes failed.

1.5.8

Bug fix update with latest fixes from 1.6 series.
Fixed visual glitches when scrolling lists horizontally with mouse wheel through Logitech software.
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).
Fixed htmlspecialchars misuse in component update list / component page link.
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.
Backported Matroska tagging code from 1.6 series, many bugs fixed.
Converter: Fixed some warning prompts not being possible to permanently disable.

1.5.7

Bug fix update with latest fixes from 1.6 series.
Increased playback queue length limit to 256 tracks.
Fixed ctrl+backspace working incorrectly in some edit boxes.
Fixed various cases of Matroska/PCM files not playing.
Fixed unresponsive Album List when selecting lots of items.
Fixed wrong stream labels in "Select Stream" on Matroska if not all streams were readable by installed decoders.
Converter: Improved long filename support.

1.5.6

Bug fix update with latest fixes from 1.6 series.
Fixed crash when trying to alter gain on a Matroska file with no recognized audio track.
Fixed 'remove tags' not correctly stripping tags from raw AAC files.
Fixed ZIP reader memory leak.
Fixed incorrect handling of folder/file.ext relative paths in playlists served over HTTP/HTTPS/FTP.
Improved handling of last modification times in ZIP and RAR archives.
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.

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.

1.5.4

Pointed freedb metadata lookup at freedb.dbpoweramp.com, since original freedb is being shut down.
Corrected a 1.5.3 regression causing certain very short MP4/M4A files to decode incorrectly.
Internal changes to allow add-on components to correctly decode xHE-AAC/USAC format.
Allowed multi-value ID3v2 tags: TPUB (Publisher) and TLAN (Language).

1.5.3

Crash bug fixes.
Made component autoupdate show change logs before updating.
Made possible for components to provide alternate decoders for AAC format versions not supported by the internal decoder.
Made Default UI volume sliders alter volume in 0.5dB steps.
Improved responses to Windows Defender blocking tag update operations.
Fixed resampler crashing on exotic sample rates.

1.5.2

Fixed a bug in IMA ADPCM WAV decoder.
Improved handling of truncated Matroska/WebM files.
Fixed incorrect handling of MP4/M4A files with QuickTime chapters.
Rare shutdown crash fixed.
Updated Apple SoundCheck info handling.

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.

1.5

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 updates:
- Delete/recycle prompt always says “Delete” rather than “Recycle”, since not every volume supports recycle action.
- Copy operations now preserve creation/modification time.
- Added pause.
- More consistent behaviors when cancelled while moving files.
- Fixed a bug preventing hard deleting (not recycling) of now playing audio track.
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.
Made strange/malformed MP4 files not refuse to play entirely if the first audio frame can't be decoded.
Fixed a long-time bug with erratic behavior of audio output device selection.
Fixed unnecessary flashing / spurious updates of current item text box in generic progress dialogs.
Fixed resampler DSP crashing when asked to resample to 0 Hz.
Fixed a bug with could lead to stuck foobar2000 process after playing a network stream.
Fixed a rare crash bug in new list controls.

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