foobar2000 v2.25 preview change log

2025-08-26

• Windows: Fixed Converter failing to function until foobar2000 restart after removal of %TEMP%\foo_converter.
• Windows: Made possible to specify relative no-cover pics in portable installs.
• FFmpeg updated to 8.0.

2025-08-22

• Fixed a bug in smooth seeking mode that caused audio glitches with DSP settings page open.
• Fixed multichapter Ogg/Opus files not storing ReplayGain tags.
• Windows: Fixed stuck low latency mode after opening DSP preferences page.

2025-08-18

• Fixed Properties 'rewrite tags' not working if nothing has been edited.
• Restored $info(cover_url)
• Windows: ARM build is back, preparing for final release.
• Windows: Decoding speed test fixed last used bit depth resetting itself to 16-bit.

2025-08-15

• UnRAR code updated to unrarsrc-7.1.10. This is just a precaution. Our copy of UnRAR code has all file access capabilities stripped away. There is no indication of recent WinRAR vulnerabilities possibly affecting current or past foobar2000 versions.
• Fixed potential resampler issues if attempting to upsample very large audio chunks.
• M4A metadata field mapping updates (atID, cmID, geID, sfID, plID, xid).
• Mac: Fixed blank filter picker text when clicked "filters" with no filter actually selected.
• Mac: Properties dialog, when editing a multi line field, dialog content scrolls if needed to show entire content.

2025-08-04

• More robust reading of malformed MP3 LAME tags.
• Mac: Fixed playlist view crash on specific configuration.

2025-07-31

• UPnP streaming reliability improvements.
• Mac: Fixed main menu rendering bugs (missing checkmarks in submenus, duplicate output device submenu).

2025-07-28

• Fixed a regression preventing optimal audio device bit depth from being detected, was always reported as 16-bit.
• Prevented file-relative:// and mac-volume:// paths being saved in M3U playlists.
• Less aggressive audio prebuffering.

2025-07-26

• Windows: Dark mode main window title bar regression fixed.

2025-07-25

• Fixed crash on malformed Ogg FLAC metadata.
• Windows: Obscure dark mode bugs fixed.

2025-07-10

• Various HLS & radio dynamic info issues fixed.
• Added 5s timeout to SMB network operations.

2025-07-06

• Fixed disappearing internet radio covers for specific Ogg streams.

2025-06-27

• Mac: Visualizations - fixed falling peaks for blank bars not being drawn.
• Cleaned up various inconsistent behaviors of filesystem API, correct read-ahead option is once again used for SMB.
• Reverted 2024 change breaking titles in local M3U playlists referencing internet radio M3U.
• Fixed extreme memory usage of visualizations with specific file types.
• Made title formatting date functions not throw C++ exceptions when fed input they can't process.
• Improved handling of AAC radio streams that have both ID3 tags and icy metadata.

2025-06-23

• Fixed a problem with yesterday's HTTP bug fix that broke adding whole local folders, by drag&drop etc.

2025-06-22

• Restored ability to list HTTP folders via "Add Location".
• Fixed saved network credentials not being used for HTTP/WebDAV resources.
• SMB bugs fixed.

2025-06-18

• Enabled RF64 writing in Converter.
• Amended WavPack in Matroska interaction with Verifier.
• Added advanced preferences toggle for alternate multi-value MP4 tag storage - more compatible with specific apps but less compatible with others. Old versions of foobar2000 read both schemes.

2025-06-16

• Fixed a bug that made exotic FLAC configurations unplayable if muxed into Ogg/Matroska/MP4.
• Fixed failure to resume internet radio streams after specific patterns of connection issues.
• Made Verifier detect multichapter files with FLAC-style audio MD5, now prompts to scan as whole.
• Improved interaction between Verifier and built-in FFmpeg decoders; more errors get reported.

2025-06-13

• Fixed ID3 tags in AAC radio stream causing playback to stop.
• Fixed "wrong URL format" error trying to list SMB server root folder without slash after hostname.
• Windows: Improved screen reader behavior in Verify Integrity results dialog.
• Made "Edit Chapters" show progress dialog when manipulating files, avoid unresponsive UI when rewriting large MP4.
• Tweaked MP4 tag padding to rewrite large files less.

2025-06-06

• Amended prebuffering code, no longer outputs very large chunks, which caused some DSPs to behave erratically.
• Fixed regression from the last build causing very short music files not to be played.
• Mac: Fixed erratic behavior of Properties dialog on multi line tags with Windows style line endings.

2025-06-05

• Playback prebuffering logic update, should fix stuttering with high-res internet radio streams.
• Windows: Slightly updated Album List search box, made delay setting take immediate effect; previous behavior required reopening Album List to take effect.
• Re-enabled decoding of xHE-AAC thru alternate decoders, as FFmpeg decoder is still buggy. This means aac_at decoding on Mac OS.
• Mac: Cleaned up external FFmpeg decoder preferences.
• Media Library made properly keep track of enabled decoders list; made remember which decoder was used for each file, so only affected files will be reloaded after uninstalling or disabling of specific decoder.
• Media Library added 'clean flag' to know if a rescan of specific folder actually completed; fixes upgrading from foobar2000 v1.x with no scan-on-startup folders becoming empty.
• Mac: Properties dialog properly allows multi-line fields.
• Windows: Properties dialog no longer garbles lyrics etc with Unix style line endings.
• Mac: Album List preferences allows multi-line patterns.

2025-05-31

• Made Media Library not touch files with .bak, .bk, .off extensions, in addition to .tmp and .temp which were already ignored before.
• Fixed UPnP streaming crash.
• Added an option to suppress detection of renamed files, overriding new v2.0+ behavior of recognizing common music formats with wrong extension.
• Fixed startup crash if importing malformed foobar2000 v1.x configuration.
• Windows: Made ARM reported correctly in crash report OS version field (was "x64" before).
• Windows: Fixed "add files" not remembering last used folder.
• Windows: New VC runtime again.
• Mac: Slightly refreshed FFmpeg adapter settings page.

2025-05-27

• FFmpeg updated to current git master, fixed more xHE-AAC decoding bugs.
• Windows: Made internal cover art reading routines respect embedded color profiles.
• Windows: Fixed failure to negotiate playback format on some exotic audio devices.

2025-05-22

• Fixed playing track info possibly becoming out of sync when using seekbar near track switch.
• Windows: Fixed initial directory not being set correctly in folder picker regression.

2025-05-20

• FFmpeg 7.1 updated to 7.1.1, fixed xHE-AAC bugs.
• Windows: Fixed wrong default folder in Quick Convert in portable installs.

2025-05-19

• Mac: Fixed keyboard shortcuts page glitches.
• Mac: Handle forward delete key in properties, playlist, etc.
• Windows: Fixed "save all playlists" crash.
• Windows: Various bug fixes in dark mode listview substitution code.
• Windows: New VC runtime.
• Windows: Made converter properly resolve redirected relative paths.

2025-05-14

• Made live playback info manipulation match behaviors of old foobar2000 versions better, should fix Internet radio issues.
• Windows: Removed dotted lines from various treeviews, refreshed Album List tree looks.
• Windows: Fixed bad import of relative library paths when upgrading from portable install of old version.
• Windows: More verbose output on "open containing folder" errors.

2025-05-12

• Windows: Fixed unintended capture of ctrl+shift+left/right by tab containers.
• Internet radio album art lookup regression fix.
• Amended handling of dynamic info (live bitrate etc), the behavior in previous build was causing OpenMPT visualization to malfunction.
• Monkey's Audio updated to 11.10.

2025-05-09

• Initial public release.
• See: main change log - Windows | Mac OS.