foobar2000 2.1 Preview 2023-09-22/ foobar2000 2.0

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foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

foobar2000 isn’t just for early adopters or software jukebox fetishists. It doesn’t mess with fancy buttons or bright colors. Instead of to prefer a utilitarian, straightforward user interface it lets the music speak for itself.

foobar2000 uses tabs and panels to help the user navigate its plain, but functional, user interface. You can customize the interface using several layout options. Menu options and recognizable command buttons reside at the top of the window.

Two panels, each with tabbed menus, reside on the left side of the window. From there, you can view the album list and the properties of a selected artist or song.

In foobar2000 you’ll also find tabs for viewing a spectrogram, a spectrum, and VU meter of music currently being played, display album art. Furthermore, you can synchronize it with portable players including iPods.

foobar2000 Main features:

Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND… and more with additional components.
Gapless playback.
Easily customizable user interface layout.
Advanced tagging capabilities.
Support for ripping Audio CDs
Transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
Full ReplayGain support.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Changes in foobar2000 2.1 Beta 1:

Changes in foobar2000 2.0:

Support for modern processor architectures. Now available as:
- x86 32-bit (legacy) – requires Windows 7 or newer.
- x86 64-bit – requires Windows 7 64-bit or newer.
  64-bit foobar2000 requires 64-bit builds of components; it can not load legacy 32-bit components. However, at this time, most components have 64-bit builds available already.
- ARM – requires Windows 11 ARM device.
  foobar2000 for ARM has been compiled in Emulation Compatible (ARM64EC) mode and can load components built for x86 64-bit. There’s no need for component developers to specifically build ARM components.
User interface updates:
- Dark mode support on Windows 10 and 11. Add-on components need to be updated to utilize it.
- Added album art in Default User Interface playlist view.
- Clickable rating stars in Default User Interface playlist view (with new Playback Statistics component only).
- New Default UI element: ReFacets, reimplementing most of Facets functionality. Old Facets component doesn’t work with new 64-bit foobar2000.
- Improved Default UI splitter, now allows any number of panes.
- Added ‘remember per playlist layout’ to Default User Interface playlist view.
- Added ‘stream selector’ element to Default User Interface toolbar.
- Some Default UI Elements (ReFacets, Equalizer, visualisations) now also accessible as Columns UI panels.
- Made more edit boxes recognize ctrl+backspace.
- Fixed remembered main window position/size not respecting system DPI settings.
Configuration management changes:
- New internal playlist format, changes instantly saved to disk, no more recent changes lost on crash.
- New configuration data format, changes instantly saved to disk, no more recent changes lost on crash.
- For non-portable installs, profile folder is now %appdata%\foobar2000-v2. There is no need to back up old profile before upgrading, your foobar2000 v1.x profile will be left untouched.
- First run performs import of old configuration data (playlists, library).
- New full config reset semantics – now clears profile folder (optionally leaving user-components intact) instead of asking all components to reset themselves.
DSP technology updates:
- Made possible to apply DSP config changes without reinitializing affected DSPs.
- Allowed DSPs to manipulate their shown name depending on preset data.
- Added crossfeed DSP from foobar2000 mobile.
- Added sample rate exclusions to SSRC resampler.
Audio codec technology updates:
- More audio formats supported out of the box: TAK, APE, AC3, DTS.
- Latest revision of APE format is supported (Monkey’s Audio 10.09).
- Updated WavPack to version 5.6.0.
- Updated FFmpeg to version 6.0.
- libvorbis is now used for decoding Vorbis format instead of FFmpeg, as some rare files continue to cause compatibility issues.
- Cleaned up Ogg reader, made possible to seek in remote (HTTP etc) Ogg files.
- Made FLAC tag updater remove ID3v2 garbage prefixing FLAC stream.
- Made MP3 reader report MP3 frame count not matching Xing/LAME header info when verifying integrity.
- Fixed bad MD5 verification of AIFF sourced WavPacks.
- Added extra sanity checks to tag update operations in built-in codecs: made sure that attempts to remove covers from files that didn’t have them in first place don’t alter files at all.
Properties dialog updates:
- Properties dialog now follows theme colors of the active UI.
- Improved behavior if ‘reload info’ detects a change in number of chapters etc.
- Updated Automatically Fill Values logic, better results if searched pattern appears more than once.
- Logs tag update errors to console.
These add-on components are now obsolete as their functionality is available out of the box:
- foo_benchmark
- foo_bitcompare
- foo_verifier
- foo_input_monkey
- foo_ac3
- foo_sanitizer
- foo_input_dts
These components previously included with the installer are no longer optional (features always enabled):
- foo_rgscan
- foo_cdda
- foo_albumlist
Other:
- Media Library efficiency improvements for very large music libraries.
- New audio output device management features – unwanted devices can be disabled, bit depth and DSP can be configured per-device.
- Can display file creation time (%file_created%) and attributes (%file_attributes%).
- Internet Radio dialog (File menu), remembers previously played Internet radio streams.
- Modernized Explorer integration, no longer needs separate 32bit/64bit shell extension DLLs.
- Utilized Windows Imaging Component for picture decoding, removed libwebp dependency. Album covers in HEIF, AVIF, etc can now be viewed if system codecs are present.
- Added %year% mapping, takes year part of %date%, discarding content past first four digits.
- Changed default Album List patterns to use %year%.
- New console logging system, writes per-instance log files to the specified folder.
- Fixed incorrect handling of M4A itunescompilation=0.
- Fixed glitching when seeking with smooth playback and CPU-heavy DSPs active.
- Converter: Pass float32 audio to LAME encoder.
- Changed replacement for slash character in file naming.
- Fixed audio glitching on screen resolution change in certain configurations.
- Improved exclusive output behavior with uncommon channel layouts, 4.1/5.0 would not play on a device expecting 5.1-side.
- Worked around ages old problem with external changes to file tags causing loss of foo_playcount data (needs new foo_playcount).
- Preferences / Shell: changed default target playlist name.
- Better console logging of internet radio stream reconnect events.
- Worked around foo_input_dvda bugs, no longer crashes on null album art data returned.
- Updated exclusive output device-specific workarounds.
- Compiled with Visual Studio 2022.