foobar2000 1.1.2

(2011.01.22)

Changes in 1.1.2
* New foobar2000 application icon.
* foobar2000's volume slider is now synchronized with Windows Mixer application volume slider on Windows Vista and newer.
* Progress of various operations is now displayed on Windows 7 taskbar.
* Fixed various freedb related bugs; freedb support works again.
* Fixed 1.1.1 regression with Media Library configuration reset when upgrading from versions older than 1.1.
* Fixed 1.1.1 regression with Media Library being stuck in “initializing” state if foobar2000's portable installation files are inside one of the watched folders.
* Improved startup time and memory usage with very large media libraries. [beta 4]

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foobar2000 1.1.2

foobar2000 1.1.1

(2010.11.05)

Changes in 1.1.1
* Improved first run experience
    - With standard (non-portable) installs, foobar2000 Media Library defaults to indexing your music folders indexed by Windows itself.

* HTTPS support in networking services
    - This is mainly relevant to component developers. You can now access HTTPS URLs through filesystem and http_client services.

* Fixed a rare crash when closing the Preferences dialog in specific conditions.

* Improved compatibility with broken MP4 files.

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foobar2000 1.1.1

foobar2000 1.1

(2010.08.23)

Changes in 1.1
* New component installation and automatic updating functionality.
    - Optional components are now installed into user's profile folder, allowing different components installed for different users on one system.
* Entirely new Converter user interface.
* Reworked appearance of various Preferences pages and other utility dialogs.
* Improved ID3v2 tag writing standard compliance.
* Improved Matroska compliance.

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foobar2000 1.1

foobar2000 1.0.3

(2010.04.30)

Changes in 1.0.3
* Fixed incorrect behaviors with both “cursor follows playback” and “playback follows cursor” enabled.
* Improved compatibility with dodgy ASX files written by Windows Media Player.
* Fixed notification area icon minimize bugs (again).
* Fixed problems with encoding very long audio streams to Vorbis.
* Fixed a very rare crash when using the Media Library preferences page.
* Various other maintenance updates and bug fixes.

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foobar2000 1.0.3

foobar2000 1.0.2.1

(2010.04.10)

Change in 1.0.2.1
* Worked-around a bug in Windows XP causing incorrect rendering of the Properties dialog in 1.0.2.

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foobar2000 1.0.2.1 / Mirror

foobar2000 1.0.1

(2010.03.06)

Changes in 1.0.1
* Undecodable tracks now get substituted with 1s of silence to prevent deadlocks with dodgy third-party components.
* Worked-around bug in Windows 7 with status bar repaint glitches.
* Windows Media streaming compatibility improvements.
* Fixed notification area icon being incorrectly shown in certain conditions.
* Audio format support updates: added support for decoding Wave64 and RF64 formats, added built-in support for writing Wave64 format.
* Added folder name wildcard matching for album art search.
* Added a workaround for horribly broken Asus Xonar drivers.
* Converter: worked-around misbehaviors of command-line encoders when the output file name begins with - or @.
* Converter: refreshed MP3 encoding configuration dialog.

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foobar2000 1.0.1

foobar2000 1.0

(2010.01.09)

Changes in 1.0
* New context menu structure - better out-of-the-box layout but less customizable.
* Built-in support for Windows Media and RTSP streaming.
* “Edit” menu operates on the currently selected object rather than always on the active playlist.
* Improved compatibility with multimedia keyboards.
* Improved, more customizable album art support.
* Portable installs now remember Media Library paths relatively to the install folder.
* Reworked Preferences: OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, new layout of standard pages.
* New options regarding selection viewer behavior.
* Default User Interface: new pseudo color code system for status bar and playlist view.
* CD ripping improvements:
    - Results can be now checked against the AccurateRip database on-the-fly.
    - CD-TEXT reading support.
    - Ability to choose individual tracks to rip in the “Rip Audio CD” dialog.

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foobar2000 1.0

foobar2000 0.9.6.9

(2009.08.22)

Changes in 0.9.6.9
* Multiple stability/security fixes.
* Corrected various user interface glitches.
* “Help” button in Converter Setup dialog.
* ABX Comparator component no longer included with the installer - now available for download separately.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.9

foobar2000 0.9.6.8

(2009.06.07)

This is a bugfix-only release; no new features have been added.

Changes in 0.9.6.8
* Fixed WavPack playback over HTTP.
* Fixed weird shell extension behaviors with the “folder context menus” option active.
* Fixed weird behaviors of the “stop after current” option.
* Worked-around problems with dodgy Ogg streams produced by speexenc.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.8

foobar2000 0.9.6.7

(2009.05.22)

This is a hotfix release addressing various regressions that appeared in previous updates.

Changes in 0.9.6.7
*Hotfix: fixed crash when seeking in files that can't be decoded completely.
*Hotfix: corrected weird behaviors after restart with playback paused and “resume playback after restart” active.
*Updated third-party component blacklist.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.7

foobar2000 0.9.6.6

(2009.05.17)

Changes in 0.9.6.6
*Matroska files are now taggable even if they don't contain decodable audio tracks.
*Worked-around “Open Containing Folder” command opening two windows on certain machines.
*Added support for Multimedia Class Scheduler Service on Windows Vista and newer.
*Various changes to make specific obscure crashes easier to analyze.
*Updated third-party component blacklist.
*Improved drag&drop compatibility with Windows 7.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.6

foobar2000 0.9.6.5

(2009.04.25)

foobar2000 v0.9.6.5 has been released.
Starting with this foobar2000 release, specific versions of third party components with highest crash report rate are blocked from loading. This mainly affects outdated components with critical bugs and will have no impact on updated versions of those components. If some component that you use does not load, you should look for an updated version on the third party foobar2000 components site.

Changes in 0.9.6.5
* Online troubleshooter feature, accessible from the Help menu.
* Fixed: Album List was being compiled with all optimizations disabled until now, since at least 0.9.5, due to bugs in MSVC9.
* Various improvements to the crash report submission system.
* Fixed an obscure bug in the ABX component.
* Fixed a crash when trying to open a lossy WavPack3 file.
* Fixed a crash when decoding certain corrupted AAC files.
* Built-in album art viewer can now view artist pictures (embedded in tags and artist.jpg in the same folder).
* Specific third party components with known critical bugs are now blocked from loading.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.5

foobar2000 0.9.6.4

(2009.03.29)

Changes in 0.9.6.4
*Third party components can now register custom protocols with the File Types preferences page.
*Removed the restriction of just one instance of specific DSP in a DSP chain.
*Fixed incorrect handling of 3-channel and 5-channel FLAC and Vorbis files.
*Converter now accepts alternate names for some of command-line encoder binaries (mpcenc.exe, oggenc2.exe).
*Converter and File Operations components no longer strip trailing dots from names of created files.
*Improved compatibility with dodgy Windows shell replacements.
*Automated submission of crash reports.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.4

foobar2000 0.9.6.3

(2009.02.25)
Final version of foobar2000 v0.9.6.3 has been released. Since this version addresses multiple known security vulnerabilities, upgrading from any older versions is strongly recommended.

Changes in 0.9.6.3
*Fixed multiple security vulnerabilities in AAC and Musepack decoders.
*Improved compatibility of Media Library with certain dodgy NAS devices.
*Media Library no longer ignores files/folders flagged as system.
*Improved shell integration behaviors when foobar2000 is taking very long to start.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.3

foobar2000 0.9.6.2

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Changes in 0.9.6.2
*Media Library is now aware of newly installed decoder components and will re-check your folders for files that could not be indexed before.
*New options to control tag fields searched by simple search queries, in Advanced Preferences.
*Various bug fixes and cosmetic changes.

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foobar2000 0.9.6.2