April 30th, 2010· Fixed incorrect behaviors with both “cursor follows playback” and “playback follows cursor” enabled.
· Improved compatibility with dodgy ASX files written by Windows Media Player.
· Fixed notification area icon minimize bugs (again).
· Fixed problems with encoding very long audio streams to Vorbis.
· Fixed a very rare crash when using the Media Library preferences page.
· Various other maintenance updates and bug fixes.
April 11th, 2010· Worked-around a bug in Windows XP causing incorrect rendering of the Properties dialog in 1.0.2.
April 1st, 2010· Portable install: playlists now reference files by paths relative to the parent folder of the foobar2000 installation folder.
· Various bug fixes.
· Made Nero AAC encoder setup tag visible as “encoder”.
· Third party library updates (zlib and libvorbis).
April 1st, 2010· Converter: worked-around misbehaviors of command-line encoders when the output file name begins with - or @.
· Converter: refreshed MP3 encoding configuration dialog.
April 1st, 2010· Undecodable tracks now get substituted with 1s of silence to prevent deadlocks with dodgy third-party components.
· Worked-around bug in Windows 7 with status bar repaint glitches.
· Windows Media streaming compatibility improvements.
· Fixed notification area icon being incorrectly shown in certain conditions.
· Audio format support updates: added support for decoding Wave64 and RF64 formats, added built-in support for writing Wave64 format.
· Added folder name wildcard matching for album art search.
· Added a workaround for horribly broken Asus Xonar drivers.
· Converter: worked-around misbehaviors of command-line encoders when the output file name begins with - or @.
· Converter: refreshed MP3 encoding configuration dialog.
February 21st, 2010· New context menu structure - better out-of-the-box layout but less customizable.
· Built-in support for Windows Media and RTSP streaming.
· “Edit” menu operates on the currently selected object rather than always on the active playlist.
· Improved compatibility with multimedia keyboards.
· Improved, more customizable album art support.
· Portable installs now remember Media Library paths relatively to the install folder.
· Reworked Preferences: OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, new layout of standard pages.
· New options regarding selection viewer behavior.
· Default User Interface: new pseudo color code system for status bar and playlist view.
CD ripping improvements:
· Results can be now checked against the AccurateRip database on-the-fly.
· CD-TEXT reading support.
· Ability to choose individual tracks to rip in the “Rip Audio CD” dialog.
February 21st, 2010· New context menu structure - better out-of-the-box layout but less customizable.
· Built-in support for Windows Media and RTSP streaming.
· “Edit” menu operates on the currently selected object rather than always on the active playlist.
· Improved compatibility with multimedia keyboards.
· Improved, more customizable album art support.
· Portable installs now remember Media Library paths relatively to the install folder.
· Reworked Preferences: OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, new layout of standard pages.
· New options regarding selection viewer behavior.
· Default User Interface: new pseudo color code system for status bar and playlist view.
CD ripping improvements:
· Results can be now checked against the AccurateRip database on-the-fly.
· CD-TEXT reading support.
· Ability to choose individual tracks to rip in the “Rip Audio CD” dialog.
February 21st, 2010· Bug fixed: Importing themes while having Default User Interface preferences open causes inconsistent behaviors of the status bar formatting editbox.
· Bug fixed: Some Windows Media streams stop playback on track change.
· Bug fixed: ASX playlist parsing fails if the file contains XML comments.
· Bug fixed: WMA cover art is not loaded from some files.
· .WVX playlists (a variation of ASX) are now supported.
February 21st, 2010· Bug fix: Having "full file buffering" feature enabled breaks Windows Media streaming over HTTP.
· Bug fix: Incorrect sorting of the "Duration" column in Default UI.
· Bug fix: Cannot convert to WAV+CUE.
· Added support for ASX files referencing other ASX files.
· Installer now forcefully removes very old components that can no longer be loaded. You will be prompted before anything gets deleted so you can back relevant files up.
· Old behavior of the Converter's [...] button has been restored.
· Added a hidden-by-default main menu command to access Playlist Search regardless of current focus.
February 21st, 2010· Bug: Certain ASX files fail to load when dragged from a webbrowser or added through "add location".
· Bug: Windows Media stream .WAX files can't be opened.
· Bug: Titles of certain Windows Media streams are not displayed.
February 21st, 2010· New: Converter encodes to .m4a rather than to .mp4.
· New: Notices for components that no longer serve any purpose.
· Bug: Certain ASX playlist files are not parsed properly.
· Bug: Unwanted playlist view scrolling when deleting items in certain scenarios.
· Bug: cannot bind context menu commands to toolbar buttons.
· Bug: "initialization failure" errors when making a clean non-portable install rather than upgrading from an earlier version.
· Bug: possible unnecessary tag reloads on Media Library contents on startup.
· Bug: doubleclicking the Selection Properties element no longer brings up the Properties dialog.
February 21st, 2010· New context menu structure - better out-of-the-box layout but less customizable.
· Built-in support for Windows Media and RTSP streaming.
· “Edit” menu operates on the currently selected object rather than always on the active playlist.
· Improved compatibility with multimedia keyboards.
· Improved, more customizable album art support.
· Portable installs now remember Media Library paths relatively to the install folder.
· Reworked Preferences: OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, new layout of standard pages.
· New options regarding selection viewer behavior.
· Default User Interface: new pseudo color code system for status bar and playlist view.
CD ripping improvements:
· Results can be now checked against the AccurateRip database on-the-fly.
· CD-TEXT reading support.
· Ability to choose individual tracks to rip in the “Rip Audio CD” dialog.
February 21st, 2010· Menu layout changes
· Reworked Preferences
· New Edit Menu behavior
· Custom cover art filename patterns
· New configuration file format
· Built-in support for Windows Media streaming
November 15th, 2009· Multiple stability/security fixes.
· Corrected various user interface glitches.
· “Help” button in Converter Setup dialog.
· ABX Comparator component no longer included with the installer - now available for download separately.
June 8th, 2009· Fixed WavPack playback over HTTP.
· Fixed weird shell extension behaviors with the “folder context menus” option active.
· Fixed weird behaviors of the “stop after current” option.
· Worked-around problems with dodgy Ogg streams produced by speexenc.
May 25th, 2009· Hotfix: fixed crash when seeking in files that can't be decoded completely.
· Hotfix: corrected weird behaviors after restart with playback paused and “resume playback after restart” active.
· Updated third-party component blacklist.
February 14th, 2009· Fixed multiple security vulnerabilities in AAC and Musepack decoders.
· Improved compatibility of Media Library with certain dodgy NAS devices.
· Media Library no longer ignores files/folders flagged as system.
· Improved shell integration behaviors when foobar2000 is taking very long to start.
May 28th, 2008· New: Startup notification when a component is known not to cooperate correctly with this version of foobar2000.
· New: Library Viewer Selection playlist, compatible with Album List and Media Library Search.
· New title formatting functions: $stripprefix(), $swapprefix(), $year(), $month(), $day_of_month(), $date(), $time().
· New extensions to the search query syntax.
· Album List: faster refresh when using the built-in search box.
· ReplayGain scanner: applying ReplayGain to MP3 data no longer chokes on noncompliant ID3v2 tags with false MPEG sync words.
· ReplayGain scanner: new services allowing third-party components to perform ReplayGain analysis.
· No longer compatible with components using metadb_display_hook API.
· Changed component DLL loading logic - only components subdirectory along with its subdirectories is processed if it exists.
· Playback queue index is now displayed in the Playing column of Default UI / Playlist View; it can be also accessed using %queue_index%.
April 10th, 2008· New array of built-in visualisations
· Cleaned up freedb component user interface
· Ability to auto-resize playlist columns to match playlist view size
· Improved ID3v2 specification compliance
· Converter: Improved handling of very long tracks
· Support for displaying cover art extracted from WMA files
November 27th, 2007· New Default User Interface
· Allows embedding of Album List and other components in the main window
· Quick setup dialog on first startup allowing easy UI customization
· Theme import/export support for transferring appearance-related settings easily
· Built-in playlist view supports columns and grouping
· New Playlist Search dialog
· Embedded album art support
· New built-in spectrum visualisation
· New Album List component
· Updates automatically with Media Library content changes (Refresh command no longer needed)
· Embeddable in the main window
· Supports direct creation of autoplaylists from Album List tree branches
· Properties dialog improvements
· New commands: Format from Other Fields, Capitalize, Clean Up
· Improved Automatically Fill Values functionality
November 20th, 2007· New Default User Interface
· Allows embedding of Album List and other components in the main window
· Quick setup dialog on first startup allowing easy UI customization
· Theme import/export support for transferring appearance-related settings easily
· Built-in playlist view supports columns and grouping
· New Playlist Search dialog
· Embedded album art support
· New built-in spectrum visualisation
· New Album List component
· Updates automatically with Media Library content changes (Refresh command no longer needed)
· Embeddable in the main window
· Supports direct creation of autoplaylists from Album List tree branches
· Properties dialog improvements
· New commands: Format from Other Fields, Capitalize, Clean Up
· Improved Automatically Fill Values functionality
October 19th, 2007· Musepack SV8 decoding support
August 22nd, 2007· Security update: updated Vorbis libraries to 1.2.0
· Fixed a bug in title formatting / $caps2()
· Fixed drag&drop bugs
· Fixed playlist file format detection over mime types
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