Version history Foobar 2000

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Changes from v0.9.6 Beta 2 -> v0.9.6 Beta 3

• Media Library now automatically keeps track of any changes made to its folders; no more need to manually rescan them.
• Improved compatibility of file type associations with Windows Vista.
• No more delay when playing/enqueuing files from Windows Explorer.
• The installer now includes “portable mode” that works in limited user contexts and doesn't make any changes to system configuration, registry, etc.
• New Converter user interface.
• Built-in Matroska support.

Changes from v0.9.6 Beta 1 -> v0.9.6 Beta 2

• Media Library now automatically keeps track of any changes made to its folders; no more need to manually rescan them.
• Improved compatibility of file type associations with Windows Vista.
• No more delay when playing/enqueuing files from Windows Explorer.
• The installer now includes “portable mode” that works in limited user contexts and doesn't make any changes to system configuration, registry, etc.
• New Converter user interface.
• Built-in Matroska support.

Changes from v0.9.5.6 -> v0.9.6 Beta 1

• Media Library now automatically keeps track of any changes made to its folders; no more need to manually rescan them.
• Improved compatibility of file type associations with Windows Vista.
• No more delay when playing/enqueuing files from Windows Explorer.
• The installer now includes “portable mode” that works in limited user contexts and doesn't make any changes to system configuration, registry, etc.
• New Converter user interface.
• Built-in Matroska support.

Changes from v0.9.5.5 -> v0.9.5.6

• Fixed a major bug in Speex decoding, introduced with one of previous udpates.
• Updated Speex libraries to 1.2 RC.
• Added correct handling of multichannel WMA content.
• Various other minor/cosmetic fixes.

Changes from v0.9.5.4 -> v0.9.5.5

• Bugs fixed
• Fixed handling of the & character in context menu command names.
• Fixed handling of audio CDs with 99 tracks.
• Workarounds for issues with decoding some of ADPCM WAV files.
• Copying/pasting autoplaylists in Playlist Manager now preserves the autoplaylist status.
• Fixed handling of the @ character in HTTP AUTH username.
• Fixed crashes related to using the Crossfader DSP.
• AAC decoder fixes.

Changes from v0.9.5.3 -> v0.9.5.4

• Ability to view/edit queries used to create autoplaylists.
• Media Library Search: queries using “SORT BY” create always-sorted autoplaylists by default.
• File format handling updates:
• Security updates to Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and WavPack libraries.
• Fixed a rare Ogg seeking accuracy bug.
• Improved MP4 parser security.
• Converter improvements:
• No longer aborts the entire operation when one of queued tracks can't be processed.
• Optional status log popup after conversion.
• Album List: ability to select multiple items at once by holding shift or control keys.
• New built-in DSPs: Crossfader, Skip Silence.

Changes from v0.9.5.4 Beta 2 -> v0.9.5.4 Beta 3

• Ability to view/edit queries used to create autoplaylists.
• Media Library Search: queries using “SORT BY” create always-sorted autoplaylists by default.
• File format handling updates: Security updates to Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and WavPack libraries. Fixed a rare Ogg seeking accuracy bug. Improved MP4 parser security.
• Converter improvements: No longer aborts the entire operation when one of queued tracks can't be processed. Optional status log popup after conversion.
• Album List: ability to select multiple items at once by holding shift or control keys.
• New built-in DSPs: Crossfader, Skip Silence.

Changes from v0.9.5.3 -> v0.9.5.4 Beta 2

• Ability to view/edit queries used to create autoplaylists.
• Media Library Search: queries using “SORT BY” create always-sorted autoplaylists by default.
• File format handling updates:
• Security updates to Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and WavPack libraries.
• Fixed a rare Ogg seeking accuracy bug.
• Improved MP4 parser security.
• Converter improvements:
• No longer aborts the entire operation when one of queued tracks can't be processed.
• Optional status log popup after conversion.
• Album List: ability to select multiple items at once by holding shift or control keys.
• New built-in DSPs: Crossfader, Skip Silence.

Changes from v0.9.5.3 -> v0.9.5.4 Beta 1

• Ability to view/edit queries used to create autoplaylists.
• Media Library Search: queries using “SORT BY” create always-sorted autoplaylists by default.
• File format handling updates: Security updates to Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and WavPack libraries. Fixed a rare Ogg seeking accuracy bug. Improved MP4 parser security.
• Converter improvements: No longer aborts the entire operation when one of queued tracks can't be processed. Optional status log popup after conversion.
• Album List: ability to select multiple items at once by holding shift or control keys.
• New built-in DSPs: Crossfader, Skip Silence.

Changes from v0.9.5.2 -> v0.9.5.3

• 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%.

Changes from v0.9.5.2 -> v0.9.5.3 Beta 2

• 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.
• (New in beta 2) Playback queue index is now displayed in the “Playing” column of Default UI / Playlist View; it can be also accessed using %queue_index%.

Changes from v0.9.5.2 -> v0.9.5.3 Beta 1

• New: Startup notification when some of loaded components are 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

Changes from v0.9.5.1 -> v0.9.5.2

• 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.

Changes from v0.9.5.1 -> v0.9.5.2 Beta 2

• 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.

Changes from v0.9.5.1 -> v0.9.5.2 Beta 1

• 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.

Changes from v0.9.5 -> v0.9.5.1

• Improvements to new Default User Interface:
• New built-in Media Library Search dialog, with advanced autoplaylist creation features.
• Configurable left/center/right alignment of custom columns in Playlist View.
• Usability: switching layouts now flashes labels to reduce user confusion.
• Ability to customize toolbar buttons.
• New: Warning popup when trying to close foobar2000 while tasks such as conversion or ReplayGain scan are active.
• Various UI responsivity improvements and speed optimizations; much faster Album List refresh with large libraries.
• Usability: positions of various dialogs are now remembered, relative to their parent windows.
• Properties dialog: “Tools” button, “Automatically Fill Values” can now use clipboard as source.
• Converter clean-ups, ability to manually edit commandline encoder executable paths through Advanced Preferences.
• WMA handling bug fixes, ability to store arbitrary metadata fields in WMA tags.
• ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Changes from v0.9.5 -> v0.9.5.1 Beta 2

• Improvements to new Default User Interface:
• New built-in Media Library Search dialog, with advanced autoplaylist creation features.
• Configurable left/center/right alignment of custom columns in Playlist View.
• Usability: switching layouts now flashes labels to reduce user confusion.
• Ability to customize toolbar buttons.
• New: Warning popup when trying to close foobar2000 while tasks such as conversion or ReplayGain scan are active.
• Various UI responsivity improvements and speed optimizations; much faster Album List refresh with large libraries.
• Usability: positions of various dialogs are now remembered, relative to their parent windows.
• Properties dialog: “Tools” button, “Automatically Fill Values” can now use clipboard as source.
• Converter clean-ups, ability to manually edit commandline encoder executable paths through Advanced Preferences.
• WMA handling bug fixes, ability to store arbitrary metadata fields in WMA tags.
• ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Changes from v0.9.5 -> v0.9.5.1 beta 1

• Improvements to new Default User Interface:
• New built-in Media Library Search dialog, with advanced autoplaylist creation features.
• Configurable left/center/right alignment of custom columns in Playlist View.
• Usability: switching layouts now flashes labels to reduce user confusion.
• Ability to customize toolbar buttons.
• New: Warning popup when trying to close foobar2000 while tasks such as conversion or ReplayGain scan are active.
• Various UI responsivity improvements and speed optimizations; much faster Album List refresh with large libraries.
• Usability: positions of various dialogs are now remembered, relative to their parent windows.
• Properties dialog: “Tools” button, “Automatically Fill Values” can now use clipboard as source.
• Converter clean-ups, ability to manually edit commandline encoder executable paths through Advanced Preferences.
• WMA handling bug fixes, ability to store arbitrary metadata fields in WMA tags.
• ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Changes from v0.9.4.5 -> v0.9.5 Beta 5

• 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
• Improved Windows Clipboard interaction - now you can use copy/paste to transfer values between fields or between different sets of tracks
• Converter component improvements
• Replaced “show output directory when done” functionality with a new dialog showing a list of created tracks
• Built-in support for writing AU/SND and AIFF files
• Updated FLAC support - FLAC encoding now requires FLAC encoder 1.2.0 or newer
• Improved handling of hung command-line encoder processes
• Audio format decoding updates
• Updated libFLAC to 1.2.1
• Rewritten support for AU/SND and AIFF audio formats
• New “File Operations” component, for moving, copying and deleting audio files
• Old Masstagger component no longer included with the installer (available for download separately)
• Windows XP or newer is now required

Changes from v0.9.4.5 -> v0.9.5 Beta 1

• 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
• Improved Windows Clipboard interaction - now you can use copy/paste to transfer values between fields or between different sets of tracks
• Converter component improvements
• Replaced “show output directory when done” functionality with a new dialog showing a list of created tracks
• Built-in support for writing AU/SND and AIFF files
• Updated FLAC support - FLAC encoding now requires FLAC encoder 1.2.0 or newer
• Improved handling of hung command-line encoder processes
• Audio format decoding updates
• Updated libFLAC to 1.2.0
• Rewritten support for AU/SND and AIFF audio formats
• New “File Operations” component, for moving, copying and deleting audio files
• Old Masstagger component no longer included with the installer (available for download separately)
• Windows XP or newer is now required

Changes from v0.9.4.4 -> v0.9.4.5

• Musepack SV8 decoding support

Changes from v0.9.4.3 -> v0.9.4.4

• 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

Changes from v0.9.4.3 Beta -> v0.9.4.3

• Fixed multiple bugs in ReplayGain Scanner
• Musepack decoding bug fixes
• Fixed a rare crash in the Properties dialog
• Fixed bugs in File Types preferences page

Changes from v0.9.4.2 -> v0.9.4.3 Beta

• Fixed multiple bugs in ReplayGain Scanner
• Musepack decoding bug fixes
• Fixed a rare crash in the Properties dialog
• Fixed bugs in File Types preferences page

Changes from v0.9.4.1 -> v0.9.4.2

• Updated Musepack decoder with support for accurate fast seeking on files produced by mppenc 1.16 and newer.
• Improved compliance with HTTP specifications
• Fixed MP1/MP2 handling bugs

Changes from v0.9.4.1 -> v0.9.4.2

• Updated Musepack decoder with support for fast seeking on files produced by mppenc 1.16 and newer.
• Improved compliance with HTTP specifications

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