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foobar2000 v2.26 preview change log

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]

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at the heart of your media network
A DLNA & UPnP compatible audio server, streaming audio around the home.