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Analog VU Meter Visualisation

By: oops

Version: 0.13.0, released on 2026-08-16 (archived)

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Change log:

  • Enable VU meter component to run under Wine [feature]
    • Extract `IDeviceResources` backend interface
    • Add DirectX 11 `DeviceResources` backend
    • Select Direct3D 11 or Direct3D 12 backend at runtime
    • Harden UI element for Wine and Direct3D 11 backend
    • Add `DrawBitmap()` AIMP panel composition for Wine
    • Skip using the custom menu bitmaps under Wine
    • Cancel threadpool timers without `SetThreadpoolTimerEx()`
  • Add VU ballistics movement, replacing PID control [feature, breaking change]
  • Merge BS.1770 and R 128 into a unified LUFS loudness level [feature]
  • Add "Automatic Gain Control" and "Needle Correction" features/options [feature]
  • Add 7Z and XZ support [feature]
  • Color active and inactive channel mixer slider thumbs [feature]
  • Add actions for unused touch gestures [feature]
  • Create new application icon [change]
  • Open ZIP archives through a wide-character path source [change]
  • Change render backend configuration encoding [change, breaking change]
  • Implement Brotli multi-panel decompression [change]
  • Harden decompression against bombs and truncation [change]
  • Harden panel meter header parsing against malformed data [change]
  • Drive playback state from transport callbacks [change]
  • Create the client through `initquit` with lazy fallback [change]
  • Use event-based file scan synchronization and atomic counters [change]
  • Detach the render timer before canceling it [change]
  • Refactor meter flavor swapping into a free factory [change]
  • Update FPS counter font when font selection changes [change]
  • Refresh mixer color field on panel change and add separator [change]
  • Make the screenshot flag atomic [change]
  • Change screenshot file name format [change]
  • Trim retained meter buffers [change]
  • Release the parent background bitmap when window hidden or opaque [change]
  • Clean up font dialog [change]
  • Remove "Cubic Interpolation" option [defeature, breaking change]
  • Guard Brotli decoder and exclude from Release builds [defeature, breaking change]
  • Fix COM initialization ocurring before client creation [bug]
  • Fix COM vs. memory optimization crashes [bug]
  • Guard meter state against freed or failed panel loads [bug]
  • Ensure playback state queries only run on the main thread [bug]
  • Harden path handling against `MAX_PATH` truncation [bug]
  • Register modeless dialogs for keyboard navigation [bug]
  • Fix dark mode trackbar thumb visibility [bug]
  • Enlarge dialog sliders so the Wine trackbar thumb is not clipped [bug]
  • Inherit the dialog font for the mixer panel [bug]
  • Match mixer panel background to the control face color [bug]
  • Clamp counter opacity to the 1-100% range and heal a zeroed counter color [bug]
  • Set explicit range on the font opacity trackbar [bug]
  • Fix ampersand in marked menu comparison [bug]
  • Fix tuning tooltip coordinates [bug]
  • Fix file scan `fread()`/`fseek()` argument order bugs [bug]
  • Fix "VU Ballistics" menu hint [bug]
  • Synchronize device resources with latest template [developer]
  • Synchronize device resources [developer]
  • Use conformant preprocessor for build [developer]
  • Update Columns UI SDK build configuration [developer]
  • Make GitHub Actions CI workflow is the source of truth for library versions [developer]
  • Enable building "Sanitize|ARM64" configurations as AddressSanitizer now supports ARM64 targets [developer]
  • Add knob to force console output on non-Debug builds [developer]
  • Attach operation name to `com_exception` failures [developer]
  • Check Detours return codes in COM registration hooks [developer]
  • Harden file and bitmap helper functions [developer]
  • Refactor tuning dialog to table-driven parameter specification [developer]
  • Add color provenance alpha tag helpers [developer]
  • Track auto-restored layout with optional [developer]
  • Rename UTF-8/wide string conversion helper functions [developer]
  • Rename `WM_INERTIA_CHANGE` to `WM_MOVE_CHANGE` [developer]
  • Add missing override specifiers [developer]
  • Change panel index loop variable type [developer]
  • Tidy up const-correctness of local variables [developer]
  • Disable manifest generation and remove embedded manifest [developer]
  • Remove `LOG_LIMIT()` macros [developer]
  • Fix minor oversights in build scripts [developer]
  • Fix GitHub Actions workflow [developer]
  • Change GitHub Actions runner name [developer]
  • Fix version header [developer]
  • Update foobar2000 SDK patch [developer]
  • Update Windows 11 SDK to 10.0.28000.2114 [developer]
  • Update LZMA to 2602 [developer]
  • Update UnRAR to 7.2.7 [developer]

Supported systems: Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Windows ARM.

Works with foobar2000 v2.0 and newer.

Works on Windows 10 and newer.

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