Foobar2000:Version 2.2 Preview Change Log

(newest first)

2024-03-18

• Fixed foobar2000 v2.0 regression causing folder watch events to be dropped without triggering full rescan if there's too many of them pending.

2024-03-14

• Playback CPU usage reduced.
• Fixed exclusive output lagging in specific scenarios.
• Add Location now strips extra non-text characters from the entered URL.
• Made Ogg chapters beginning from CHAPTER001 recognized.
• Allowed absolute paths in cue sheets.
• Extended MP4 chapter manipulation commands to work with other formats that support chapterizer interface, such as Ogg or Musepack.

2024-03-08

• Mitigation for Converter failures when writing to Google Drive volume.
• Opus decoder updated to 1.5.1
• WavPack decoder updated to 5.7.0; made WavPack library version shown in components list.
• Monkey's Audio decoder updated to 10.52
• Cleaned up and bugfixed detection of MP4 video codec names.
• Prevented nonsense sample rate & channel count from being shown on MP4 files with no audio track.
• File Operations: Defer info reload to prevent bugged display of cuesheets after moving whole folder.

2024-03-04

• Worked around audio glitches with very low output buffer size introduced in previous build.
• Fixed glitchy seekbar movement in certain scenarios.
• Prevented nonsensical video codec names from being reported for certain MP4 files.
• Fixed regressions in ASX playlist loader.
• Converter: More detailed error messages for specific file creation errors.

2024-02-28

• Playback CPU usage optimizations.
• Small chunks returned by decoder are merged into one to reduce amount of wakeup cycles during playback.
• Made possible to store peak information in Opus files.

2024-02-19

• Fixed regression preventing internet radio album covers from being shown.
• Applied dark mode to component license popup.
• Updated zlib to 1.3.1.

2024-02-12

• Improved ReFacets performance.
• Fixed erratic behavior if ID3v2 tag contains multiple date fields.
• Suppressed advancing to the next playlist item if internet radio playback stops due to a network error.
• File Operations: Added an option to overwrite existing files.
• Suppressed repeating console messages about decoder shims used.
• More thorough error reporting for blank WAV files.
• Added video_codec info for Windows Media Video.
• Added stream_count info for formats that support multiple streams.

2024-02-05

• Implemented Ogg chapter support. Converter can write multichapter Ogg files after disabling Ogg chaining support.
• New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance of 64-bit build.
• Allow local M3U referencing remote M3U to be both read as playlists, prevent HLS reader being used on non-HLS content.
• Updated File Operations recycle bin detection logic, mitigating lag/lockup occurring for some users.
• Made network encryption error messages more useful.
• Stop decoding ADTS AAC when running into APE tags, instead of reporting errors.
• Report zero-length WAV files as broken.
• Wine compatibility fixes.