Foobar2000:Mac Version 2.5 Beta Change Log

Beta 2

• Fixed "Show in Finder" vs old Mac OS.
• Fixed Media Library performing unnecessary tag reloads in some scenarios.
• Editing 'rating' field no longer alters playback statistics database.

Beta 3

• MP4 tagging: do not set Various Artists if itunescompilation is present but set to 0.
• Fixed loading DSP presets not applying them in Preferences.
• Crash bugs fixed.
• Fixed library search by rating not working.
• Switched to 64-bit floating-point for internal processing (was still using 32-bit in beta 1 & 2).

Beta 4

• ReFacets sorting is now remembered.
• Fixed beta 3 regression with 32 bits per sample output producing noise.
• Reduced output reopen delay when input format (channel count etc) changes.
• Suppressed library error log lines about folder.jpg etc inside archive files.

Beta 5

• libFLAC 1.4, made possible to decode 32 bits per sample FLAC files.
• Playlist manipulation performance fixes.
• DTS decode_postprocessor now works, for decoding DTS in WAV, FLAC, etc.
• Fixed incorrect behavior after a watched media library folder disappears then reappears.
• Allowed blank meta values in metadb.

Beta 6

• Shutdown crash regression fix.

Beta 7

• Updated WavPack library to 5.5.0.
• Updated Monkey's Audio library to 8.70.
• Changed replacement for slash character in file naming.
• Fixed a regression that made it impossible to play certain M4A HE-AAC files from remote (HTTP etc) sources.
• Various ReFacets glitches fixed.
• Made new library search implementation more robust.
• Cleaned up Ogg reader, made possible to seek in remote (HTTP etc) Ogg files.
• Fixed playlist sorting not respecting ascending/descending state.

Beta 8

• Fixed Ogg seeking regressions from the previous beta.
• libFLAC 1.4.1.
• Rewritten asymmetric library search feature.
• Library search speed optimizations, made more queries utilize search index.

Beta 9

• Fixed internet radio playlist parsing bug.
• Fixed incorrect MD5 verification of 32-bit FLAC files.
• Fixed non-decoding of DTSHD files.
• Added option to override DRC behavior on AC-3 audio.

Beta 10

• Fixed failure to read specific odd FPL files.
• Fixed race condition crash in module decoder.
• Fixed failure to read specific XM modules (nothing added to playlist).

Beta 11

• Fixed window position remembering bugs.
• Closing main window now exits foobar2000.
• Added Audio Unit DSP support.
• Verifier: do not report ID3 tags in FLAC as corrupted file errors.
• Fixed lockup bug with stale/dead net shares in Media Library.
• Required Mac OS version is now 10.13.

Beta 12

• Fixed a beta 11 regression causing "open...", "add folder..." etc to fail.

Beta 13

• Audio Unit support improvements.
• Enabled search indexing of file paths by default.
  • Because this somewhat affects performance and some people just don't care, an advanced option to turn it off has been added.
• WavPack library update.
• More compatible reading of exotic AIFF files.
• Added sanitization of internet radio metadata as certain station was serving nonsensical sample rate info.
• Improved compatibility with MP4 files made with yt-dlp.

Beta 14

• Fixed various library search expression handling bugs.
• Made FLAC tag updater kill ID3v2 garbage prefixing FLAC stream.
• Made MP3 reader report MP3 frame count not matching Xing/LAME header info when verifying integrity.
• Mac: Continuous dragging of Audio Unit sliders.

Beta 15

• libvorbis is now used for decoding Vorbis format instead of FFmpeg, as some rare files continue to cause compatibility issues.
• Updated Properties / Automatically Fill Values logic, better results if searched pattern appears more than once.
• Fixed missing quotation mark recognition in new library search system.
• More search regression fixes.
• Rating field handling fixes - %rating% now looks up rating meta if no rating is present in the database.
• Fixed archive content being invisible in Album List's folders view.

Beta 16

• Rewritten search index for better performance.
• Playback statistics feature is now powered by foo_playcount code, ratings & statistics pinned to metadata instead of location.
• Fixed playback of 8-channel Vorbis, beta 15 regression.
• Fixed various UI glitches.

Beta 17

• Fixed various RIFF64 WAV reading bugs.
• Fixed beachballing on app shutdown when indexed network shares cannot be resolved.
• Improved Playback Statistics XML import/export, made possible to import XML written by old betas.

Beta 18

• Fixed a bug resulting in nonsensical channel mask being passed around.
• No longer recreates all DSPs when manually cycling tracks in playlist.
• Fixed incorrect behavior when adding Media Library folders via drag&drop from Finder.
• Fixed total playback time not being remembered since beta 16.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some internet radio station names from being shown.
• Made error message shown when an Audio Unit cannot be loaded, instead of appearing stuck.
• Properties dialog blank value crash fixed.

Beta 19

• Properties Autofill logic amended.
• Album List & ReFacets: improved handling of | character in tags.
• Made FFmpeg from homebrew etc auto-detected.
• Fixed bad MD5 verification of AIFF sourced WavPacks.
• Made Audio Units grouped by vendor.
• Mitigated buggy ftruncate() on Windows network shares.
• Reworked fb2k::configStore, now less prone to silly errors saving random configuration bits, should recover from momentary problems with the configuration file instead of crashing.
• Better console logging if internet stream reconnect events.
• Added zoom to cover picture viewer.
• Fixed ugly downscaled version of image being shown after double clicking attached picture in Properties.
• Fixed ugly scaling of cover art in playback controls bar.
• Ported classic MP3 utilities (tag types, header editor, stream rebuild etc).
• Module renderer update, fixed nonsensical looping behaviors.
• Replaced "Scale" DSP with "Gain / Scale", made possible to edit gain value.

Beta 20

• Audio Unit UI fixes, added reset button.
• Better info reporting for lossless DTS files.

Beta 21

• Exclusive audio output support.
• Misc bug fixes.

Beta 22

• Release candidate build.
• Made DSP chain presets sorted in Preferences / DSP.
• Removed FFmpeg Monkey's Audio decoder which was incorrectly playing specific files, included latest Monkey's Audio library instead.
• Removed obsolete/meaningless verifier option for verbose AccurateRip output.
• Verifier: Don't use decode postproc for AccurateRip checking.
• Fixed glitching when seeking with smooth playback and CPU-heavy DSPs active.

Beta 23

• Release candidate build.
• Restored remembering of main window position.

Final

• No more changes. Enjoy.