Foobar2000:Version 2.0 Beta Change Log

Beta 2

• Fixed crash on old configuration import.

Beta 3

• Component loader no longer probes menu command GUIDs, which was crashing some components. Was meant to prevent specific known incompatible components from loading.
• Now shows CPU architecture (x86 or x64) in about box.
• Fixed Media Library performing unnecessary tag reloads in some scenarios.
• Crash bugs fixed.
• Made Preferences / Output / Devices usable without a mouse.

Beta 4

• MP4 tagging: do not set Various Artists if itunescompilation is present but set to 0.
• Crash bugs fixed.
• Made installer refuse to upgrade old non-portable installs containing profile data in application folder, which is no longer supported.
• Fixed metadb lock up with large queryInfoMulti() batches.
• Fixed library search by rating not working.
• Added ReFacets to library viewers list.
• Fixed missing double click to fullscreen in Default UI visualisations.
• Fixed disappearing live playback info on playback statistics update.
• Fixed longer-than-necessary gap when reopening exclusive-mode output on format change.
• Fixed seekbar & visualisation glitches when playing very short audio tracks with exclusive-mode output.

Beta 5

• Fixed various crash bugs.
• Improved rendering performance of very large playlists with grouping & album art enabled.
• Made ReFacets sorting remembered.
• Fixed inverted titles of "Add Files" vs "Open" dialogs.
• Reduced output reopen delay when input format (channel count etc) changes.
• Improved dark mode rendering of checkboxes.
• Suppressed library error log lines about folder.jpg etc inside archive files.

Beta 6

• Fixed playlist layout glitch regression from beta 5.

Beta 7

• libFLAC 1.4, made possible to decode 32 bits per sample FLAC files.
• Upgrading from v1.x retains file timestamps of profile folder contents.
• Fixed bad handling of user-components folder in upgraded legacy portable installs without a "profile" folder.
• Playlist rendering and 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.
• Made possible to enable album art columns in Default UI playlist even without grouping enabled - the old behavior was confusing.
• Added dark mode to Default UI toolbar buttons configuration dialog.
• Made settings of old foo_albumlist & foo_sanitizer imported on startup, if present.

Beta 8

• Fixed beta 7 regression with wrong handling of blank meta values.
• Fixed some visual glitches in Converter.
• Rare crash bug workarounds.
• Improved crash log writer in 64-bit version.

Beta 9

• 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.
• Crash bugs fixed.

Beta 10

• Fixed Ogg seeking regressions from the previous beta.
• Made column order correctly remembered per-playlist.
• libFLAC 1.4.1.
• Rewritten asymmetric library search feature.
• Library search speed optimizations, made more queries utilize search index.
• Restored multi-folder-selection for "add folder".

Beta 11

• 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.
• Various crash bugs fixed.

Beta 12

• Improved behavior when watched library folders are on temporarily unavailable network shares.
• 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.
• Fixed failure to read specific odd FPL files.

Beta 13

• Fixed poor search performance with asymmetric search enabled.
• Fixed dark mode in Converter overwrite prompt.
• Reverted visualisations to GDI rendering by default. Use advanced preferences toggle to enable D2D. Too many systems fail at D2D rendering.
• Mitigated media indexing crash on Wine by cutting down use of std::current_exception() / std::rethrow_exception().
• libFLAC & zlib update.
• Channel mask display fixes.
• Fixed wrong length reporting in Binary Comparator.
• No longer reports FLAC files with ID3 tags as corrupted.
• Workarounds for poor performance of metadb_index operations compared to v1.x series (affects third party components only).
• Programming interface extensions for components:
  • Made possible to apply DSP config changes without reinitializing affected DSPs.
  • Allowed DSPs to manipulate their shown name depending on preset data.
  • Addded non-blocking DSP configuration popups.
  • Added library_manager_v5 with extra status info methods (new SDK needed to utilize).

Beta 14

• 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.
• Fixed a very old bug in 8-bit AU writer.
• Added sanitization of internet radio metadata as certain station was serving nonsensical sample rate info.
• Improved compatibility with MP4 files made with yt-dlp.
• Improved compatibility with stripped down Windows 10 distributions.

Beta 15

• Fixed various library search expression handling bugs.
• Made FLAC tag updater remove ID3v2 garbage prefixing FLAC stream.
• Made ERROR_BAD_LENGTH condition crash to debug specific network share compatibility issue.
• Made MP3 reader report MP3 frame count not matching Xing/LAME header info when verifying integrity.

Beta 16

• Improved compatibility with network shares - worked around specific server refusing GetFileInformationByHandle() resulting in previous foobar2000 v2.0 betas being unable to play or index media from such.
• More search regression fixes.
• Fixed missing ES_AUTOHSCROLL in ReFacets search box - was limiting length of typed search pattern to size of the editbox.
• Added lock toggle to Default UI splitter.
• Rating field handling fixes - %rating% now looks up rating meta if no rating is present in the database.
• Reverted larger font in Properties tabs as everyone seems to hate it.
• Fixed 64-bit setup being unable to close running foobar2000 instance before updating.
• Fixed archive content being invisible in Album List's folders view, possibly in other components too (library_manager::get_relative_path).

Beta 17

• libvorbis is once again used for decoding Vorbis format instead of FFmpeg, as some rare files continue to cause compatibility issues.
• Default Playlist View: Fixed column size remembering bugs.
• 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.
• Fixed bad import of old foo_playcount ratings (0.5 added), made first run clean up existing database and badly imported values from the old version.
• Fixed Console not obeying color settings.

Beta 18

• Made all track info cached in memory like it was in old foobar2000 versions. The performance loss from keeping all info in SQLite only was not acceptable.
• Rewritten search index. If you find a case where new foobar2000 search is slower than 1.x series, please let us know.
• Removed internal playback statistics, made Playback Statistics component (foo_playcount) operational again. First run of new foo_playcount imports foobar2000 v2.0 beta database back.
• 64-bit version no longer moves user-components folder to user-components-x64 on first run.
• Fixed playback of 8-channel Vorbis, beta 17 regression.