foobar2000 v2.26 preview change log

2025-11-25

• Fixed lockup regression with default-sorted autoplaylists when no default sort pattern is specified.

2025-11-24

• Refined workaround for foo_tags (M-Tags) component bugs. No longer hammers all subsongs when starting playback.
• Addressed properties dialog info reload glitch inflicted by disabling multi-subsong support.
• Made M3U playlists referencing multi subsong files show all subsongs, restoring behavior of past foobar2000 versions.
• Made entering blank incoming item sort pattern preserve original track order handed by app interacting with foobar2000, restoring behavior of old foobar2000 versions.

2025-11-21

• Added advanced preferences toggle to turn off all subsong support.
  • Use carefully, might have unwanted side effects or work partially.

2025-11-18

• Windows: Fixed crashing when a picture cannot be decoded for whatever reason.
• Windows: Added Gdiplus fallback when Windows Imaging can't decode some image, so systems without Windows Imaging codecs can again show album art.
• Mac: Implemented album art downscale-on-load, lowering memory usage of album art viewers etc (full size image is not loaded in contexts that will never show it).

2025-11-15

• Various fixes in new album art rendering routines.

2025-11-14

• Experimental Windows Imaging Component / Direct2D album art rendering in Default User Interface.

2025-11-07

• Windows: Enabled reading of EXIF orientation info from album cover pictures.
• Fixed a regression that prevented shortwindow AAC from being bounced to add-on decoder if available.
• Fixed more accidentally insane resampler behaviors.

2025-11-05

• Fixed accidentally insane default resampler settings.
• Windows: Added console output to troubleshoot specific portable mode bug.

2025-11-04

• Resampler settings update.
• Removed decades old hack for MP3 radio without content-type - should work as before and get recognized by content checks.
• Title formatting help updated again.

2025-11-01

• Updated title formatting help with some recent and some not-really-recent additions.
• Fixed one more obscure resampler bug.

2025-10-31

• Resampler fixes.
• Made resampler priority setting accept short names of resamplers, e.g. "retroarch;ardftsrc".
• Windows: Fixed certain DSP setting pages being impossible to navigate if DSP manager was created as a modal popup.

2025-10-30

• Resampler fixes.
• Suppressed specific slow Matroska integrity checks when opening file for both playback and integrity verification.

2025-10-29

• Replaced built-in SSRC resampler with ARDFTSRC.
• Cleaned up resampler settings, removed pointless "exclude rates" checkboxes, added explicit hints about formatting.
• Fixed TrueHD & MLP being shown as lossy.

2025-10-24

• Mac only evening update, fixed lockup regression fix.

2025-10-24

• Fixed very old race condition bugs in decoder merit management, potentially causing decoder to be listed twice.
• Fixed regression turning playback file open errors to "critical errors", incorrectly halting playback instead of playing next file.
• Added support for decoding TrueHD & MLP streams in Matroska.
• Removed both extremely inefficient and inaccurate probing of Matroska track bitrate. Only bitrates reported by decoders (that is all AC3 bitrates) are shown, as well as live bitrates while playing.
• Fixed missing info reload when changing stream via toolbar dropdown.
• Added support for M4A "long description" tag.
• Enabled experimental memory-mapped SQLite reading for configuration and metadb.
• Made manual metadb garbagecollect always perform sqlite vacuum.
• Mac: Fixed File Operations destination being editable in "rename" mode.

2025-10-17

• Windows: Attempted workaround for repaint glitches in multiline editboxes introduced in latest Windows 11 update. Note that this is a bug in Windows not foobar2000.
• Windows: Workaround for stuck visualizations if playback ends while foobar2000 is invisible.

2025-10-16

• Mac: Changed remove-item-from-playlist selection behavior, now selects next item so keyboard navigation doesn't move selection to top of the playlist.
• Fixed LD & ELD AAC not being reliably sent to alternate packet decoders.
• Fixed Decoding Speed Test not remembering last used DSP chain.

2025-10-12

• Windows: Fixed missing winsock init for SMB operations, causing all SMB access to fail if no other network features have been used first.
• Fixed bad interaction between WebDAV filesystem and media library.

2025-10-10

• Improved recovery of malformed UTF-8 text in various tag formats.
• Made malformed UTF-8 tags text reported in integrity verifier.
• MP4 tagging improvements:
  • Tagtype info (Apple, Nero)
  • No longer writes Nero tags by default for single chapter files, only for multi chapter where other tagging formats can't store per track tags.
  • Added support for more rarely used Apple tag elements.
  • No longer alters binary structure of Apple tag elements which are not affected by edits.
• Monkey's Audio decoding moved to FFmpeg, no longer including Monkey's Audio library with foobar2000 setup.
  • You can once again install Monkey's Audio decoder component to replace built-in FFmpeg decoder.
• New info field: container (MP4, Matroska, Ogg, etc)
• New title formatting field: %_cpu_arch%
• Mac: made playlist view receive copy/paste from Finder
• Mac: New icon from Apple Icon Composer
• Mac: Built with Xcode 26, enabled macOS Tahoe looks.
• Mac: Install components by drag&drop from Finder to components list.
• Mac: Playlist Manager columns can be toggled.
• Added drag&drop from Internet Radio pages to playlist.
• Attempt to play a password-protected resource such as radio stream now shows a password prompt.
• Converter: Better error messages when receiving unexpected data format change in mid-conversion; made discard blank chunks before checking for format match.
• Equalizer now accepts presets via drag&drop from Explorer/Finder.
• Workaround for foo_tags issue [being backported to 2.25.x]
• Workaround for WAV headers claiming zero length [being backported to 2.25.x]
• Fixed File Operations link vs portable relative paths [being backported to 2.25.x]