foobar2000 v2.25.2 preview change log

2025-10-02

• Workaround for "database is readonly" crash.
• Increased size limit for cover pictures embedded in APE tags; made refuse to write covers too large for foobar2000 to read back.
• Fixed bad interaction of TAK album art reader with decoder merit management.
• Enabled album art reading & editing for: AC3/EAC3, DTS.
• Windows: RTSP appears no longer supported by Microsoft WMA runtime - made fail with correct message.

2025-09-30

• Increased size limit for cover pictures embedded in MP4/M4A files to 64MB; made refuse to write covers too large for foobar2000 to read back.
• Made MP4/M4A publisher field recognized.
• Fixed false errors when seeking in Matroska/FLAC with "verify integrity of played files".
• Windows: Made odd-sized covers rendered with correct aspect ratio in Properties dialog.

2025-09-29

• Made more compatible with http://user:pass@host URLs entered in old versions; some no longer worked since special character urlencoding fix.
• Matroska seeking/chapters fixes:
  • Fixed seeking accuracy regression introduced in 2.24.
  • Verifier no longer complains about decoded vs reported duration mismatch on affected files (did in pre-2.24).

2025-09-24

• No longer feeds autoresampled & autoupmixed content to visualizations (2025-09-23 regression).
• Fixed a bug causing various window positions not to be restored if too close to screen edges.
• Suppressed flushing of pending visualization data when only running visualization momentarily disappears, fixes visualization going blank when resizing window with just one visualization running.

2025-09-23

• Thorough fix for implicit resampling (WASAPI shared) vs low latency in smooth seeking mode.
• When doing both implicit resampling and channel remapping, do it in order that costs less CPU (resample then upmix, or downmix then resample).
• Console now sanitizes bad UTF-8 in received text instead of going off the rails.
• Fixed a bug that made files where tag reading fails impossible to add to playlist.

2025-09-22

• Windows: Fixed glitches in playback error log on Wine.
• Fewer C++ exceptions thrown during app startup.

2025-09-15

• Fixed incorrect handling of non-alphanumeric characters in network passwords.
• Mac: Fixed ReplayGain scanner crashing on malformed UTF-8 in tags.