foobar2000 - universeller Audio-Player/-Konverter

[B]1.3.2[/B]


    Improved handling of FLAC files with malformed cuesheets.
    Improved ReplayGain scanner performance on CPUs with 8 and more threads.
    Updated FFmpeg to 2.2.1
        Very old Vorbis files are once again playable.


[B]1.3.1[/B]


    ReplayGain scanner component: support for altering loudness of MP4/AAC files.
    ID3v2 - improved compatibility with iTunes “release date” tag.


[B]1.3[/B]


    Generic performance optimizations, mainly affecting very large playlists and libraries.
    Improved configuration save cycle and shutdown performance with very large libraries [beta 3].
    Playlist & Media Library search dialogs no longer block UI when performing lookups.
    Converter: added an option to transfer ReplayGain information to the destination files.
    Spurious/oversized metadata such as whole EAC logs entries are now dropped from foobar2000's cache, for better search performance and lower resource usage.
        The feature is now customizable by editing LargeFieldsConfig.txt in foobar2000 profile folder [beta 3].
    Updated FFmpeg to 2.1 [beta 5].
    Corrected gapless playback of HE-AAC files made with iTunes.
    Improved smooth playlist scrolling.


[B]1.2.9[/B]


    Cosmetic fixes:
        ReplayGain scanner context menu tweaks - “Remove ReplayGain Info” grayed out when there's nothing to remove.
        Made batch picture attach related commands appear in more cases where they didn't appear in previous versions.
    Fixed incompatibility with vgmstream input plug-in
        Files with .afc extension that are not recognized by standard decoders can now be handled by third party decoders.
    Workaround for buggy ID3v2 readers (Windows Explorer) - Front Cover is now always stored first.
[B]
1.2.8[/B]


    Corrected Converter regression from 1.2.7 final.
[B]
1.2.7[/B]


    Now using latest & greatest libFLAC 1.3.0.
    Fixed WAV tag writer potentially creating files of odd byte count (non-standard-compliant).
    Improved handling of various malformed AIFF file cases.
    Made WavPack files with malformed channel mask info play (final).
    New “Downmix channels to stereo” DSP replacing old “Downmix 5.1 to stereo”; now capable of downmixing various channel configurations (final).


[B]1.2.6[/B]


    Windows 8 “connected standby” countermeasures:
        Option to keep display up while playing - seems to be the only way to prevent Windows desktop apps from being shut down while the machine turns idle
    Fixed misbehavior when updating attached pictures in files with ID3v2.2 tags.
    ReplayGain tagging now works with AIFF.
    Fixed crashing when *****ding specific picture files into Ogg Vorbis files.
    Attached picture manager dialog tweaks.


[B]1.2.5[/B]


    Converter: fixed writing of WAV files with odd byte counts (eg. 24-bit mono).
    Improved handling of various malformed WAV files.
    Converter: fixed writing of file types that foobar2000 cannot tag.
    Fixed “verify integrity of played files” option disabling HDCD & DTS decoder components.
        It's a feature of individual decoder components; third party decoder components such as Monkey's Audio decoder must be updated separately.
    “Add Folder” now skips over hidden files & subfolders.
    AIFF file format tagging support.
    Added authenticode signatures to foobar2000 binaries.
    Added WAV & AIFF attached picture handling (beta 2).
    Added attached picture transfer option in Converter (beta 2).
    Support for touchscreen gesture scrolling on Windows 8 tablet devices (final).


[B]1.2.4[/B]


    ReplayGain scanner improvements:
        Improved speed.
        No longer ignores up to 100ms of last audio data.
    Faster SSE-optimized codepaths for various sample type conversions; most notably more efficient handling of 24-bit content.
    Option to verify integrity of played files and report errors immediately (however it does not check whole-file checksums).
    Fixed status bar glitch with misplaced volume icon.
[B]
1.2.3[/B]


    Updated FFmpeg code to 1.1.1.
    FFmpeg DLLs now use unique names to avoid collisions with certain other software.
    Reverted problematic Media Library folder monitoring tweaks from 1.2.
    “Downmix 5.1 to stereo” DSP now accepts more different channel masks.
    FLAC decoding improvements (beta 3):
        Work-around for certain broken files producing loud glitches.
        SSE optimizations to counter slowdown from the above work-around.
        File Integrity Verifier component now detects such files.
    Worked around incompatibility with some very old Vorbis files (final).


[B]1.2.2[/B]


    Bug fix: 1.2.1 regression - rare crash on specific malformed files.
    Bug fix: worked around MS listview bug - disappearing Converter preset list in certain scenarios.

New high-quality but slow resampler based on dBpoweramp/SSRC code, as an alternative to fb2k's PPHS resampler.
Prevented clobbering of certain exotic M4A tags.
Smooth scrolling in Default User Interface list controls.
Beta 2: made smooth scrolling disabled by default as it stalls visualisation updates. You can enable it in advanced preferences.
Added missing menu command for the new ReplayGain playback mode.
Added oversampled peak scanning in ReplayGain scanner.
Beta 2: Added tweaks for ReplayGain peak results display, in advanced preferences.
Fixed 96 kHz AAC & ALAC playback.
Added whitelist of HTTPS domains to suppress certificate validity checks on, for home media streaming uses [beta 3].
Added readable error messages about “Add location” failures [beta 3].
Improved detection of total duration of Constant Bit Rate (CBR) MP3 files [beta 4].
More robust recovery from network errors when playing MP3 & AAC internet radio streams [beta 5].
Removed “LegacyDisable” key in file type associations handling as it's been known to cause problems with modern Windows versions [beta 5].

Fixed writing of empty ID3v2 tags when attempting to remove all attached pictures from files that do not have an ID3v2 tag yet.
Added handling of M4A tag “Conductor” metadata value.
Fixed crash on too long URLs.
Updated Opus decoder to 1.1.1
Fixed reading of iTunes “compilation” flag from ID3v2.2 tags as written by default by iTunes.
Improved handling of malformed AIFF files.
Updated FFmpeg to 3.0
Added support for raw AAC files with ID3v2 tags. Note that use of raw AAC format is discouraged, please use MP4/M4A instead.
“Add Folder” now accepts multiple selected folders if running Windows Vista or newer.
Worked around spurious context menu items in Windows Explorer.
Reverted all shell integration fixes from 1.3.9 and 1.3.10 beta 1. They broke more than they fixed while attempting to work-around an obvious bug in Windows 10.
Added an advanced preferences option to override FFmpeg -strict level to allow standard-compliant 7.1 AAC decoding.
Added an advanced preferences option to disable media key event processing.
Corrected crashing on certain malformed RAR files.