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- Improved compatibility with specific UPnP renderers again.
2026-09-18:
- Refined on_playback_dynamic_info() timing fix again.
2026-09-16:
- Improved compatibility with specific UPnP renderers.
- UPnP output is built against static VS runtime because normal build crashes on Wine.
2026-09-14:
- Made print name of file format handler used to console, after "opening track for playback".
- Fixed multiple bugs in smooth seeking implementation.
2026-09-12:
- Added ui_element_subclass_playback_information section to View menu.
- Added console notice why Properties doesn't autocomplete stuff if secret low memory mode is active.
- Mac: Cleaned up 'add location' and 'choose playlist format' dialogs.
- Increased accepted HTTP reply line length because some sites tripped the old limit in legitimate responses.
2026-08-28:
- Fixed longtime Null Output bug causing playback position jitter when paused.
- Worked around wrong MP3 sample rate shown with specific internet radio station due to server sending conflicting data.
- Fixed "Verify with AccurateRip" command not showing if your tracknumbers don't strictly match most common numbering scheme.
- Mac: Fixed Album Art Viewer in "fixed size" mode feeding downscaled image to full-size view on double click.
2026-08-05:
- Fixed certain malformed MP4/M4A/M4B files being presented with thousands of chapters.
- Improved reading of RAR archives on network shares.
- Faster opening of MP4/M4A files on network shares.
- Fixed missing AAC codec details on specific internet radio stream.
- ARDFTSRC: Prevented insane mode being invoked programmatically
- Windows: Updated SQLite to the latest version.
2026-07-23:
- Windows: Reverted & frozen UPnP output DLL to build 2026-06-18, as newer versions crash on Wine due to missing C++ runtime functions.
- Improved SMB read throughput over high-latency connections.
- Fixed ARDFTSRC resampler integer overflow if fed extreme sample rates.
2026-07-17:
- File Operations: Made gracefully refuse to rename archive contents.
- Converter: Reduced "read size" maximum value to 64MB for 32bit version, higher may cause stability issues.
- Converter: Made recover from read cache allocation errors and continue conversion.
2026-07-09:
- More accurate on_playback_dynamic_info() timing, should restore correct operation of OpenMPT visualizations.
- Windows / Advanced Preferences: Dsable Wine treeview workarounds if running Wine newer than 11.12, as relevant issues are being fixed in Wine.
- Updated 7-zip library to 26.02
- Updated UnRAR library to 7.2.7
- Internal changes in archive readers, should not have visible effects.
2026-06-26:
- Revised the interface used to tell decoders & file readers to cancel time-consuming operations (abort_callback).
- Now compatible with C++20 std::stop_token semantics.
- New SDK will enable these upgrades, while remaining compatible with past foobar2000 versions with a slight performance penalty. - Updated 7-Zip library to 26.01.
- Updated UnRAR library to 7.2.6.
2026-06-23:
- Fixed Ogg/Opus files with single chapter not showing correct track numbers.
- Windows: Fixed Direct2D visualizations getting stuck after GPU driver reinitialization.
- Mac: Replaced obsolete NSSavePanel methods with modern equivalents.
- Refactored thread synchronization helper code, should not have visible effects.
2026-06-18:
- More spec-compliant writing of FLAC/Vorbis/Opus cover art (number of colors field).
- Converter: More reliable reading of encoder error logs.
- Converter: Worked around FLAC refusing to encode odd-length 24-bit files since recent changes.
- Windows: Made respect filesystem:: open_shareable flag for opening local files (opens with all FILE_SHARE_*).
2026-06-10:
- Converter: Made show detailed error messages when encoding via temp file as well.
- Converter: Restored encoder process priority class mapping.
- Mac: Fixed obscure file path mangling bug in helper code, no known symptoms.
2026-06-09:
- Prevented specific search queries with too many nested or chained operators from crashing foobar2000 with a stack overflow.
- Fixed earlier 2.26 regression causing playlist search to be stuck showing "working" state if results haven't changed from previous lookup.
- Fixed a longtime UPnP search bug affecting discovery of specifc rare devices.
- Converter: made show output of command-line encoder program in error popup if conversion has failed.
- Improved handling of M4A tags with blank values.
- Improved handling of Matroska Segment Title field.
2026-05-26:
- Fixed UPnP incompatibility with Denon receivers introduced in build 2026-05-15.
- Windows: Fixed Converter crash regression from build 2026-05-20.
2026-05-21:
- Windows: Converter regression fix - last samples were missing when encoding through external encoder.
2026-05-20:
- Windows: Improved UPnP renderer initialization if the machine has virtual network adapters.
- Windows: Improved Converter WAV writing CPU usage.
2026-05-19:
- Resolved UPnP discovery disagreement with BubbleUPnP.
2026-05-16:
- ARDFTSRC resampler update.
- UPnP resource leak regression really fixed.
- Windows: Fixed "suppress HTTPS certificate checks" regression from build 2026-05-14.
- Windows: Also fixed ftpes:// connections failing if the server doesn't have a trusted certificate.
2026-05-14:
- Upgraded HTTPS encryption code on both Windows and macOS. TLS v1.3 is now supported, if your operating system supports it.
- Fixed "remove chapters" not working of Ogg files with chapters.
- Windows: Fixed some windows discarding multimedia keyboard events.
- Added Help / Search Query Syntax.
- Mac: Implemented real Help menu.
- Fixed static HTTP files being perceived as radio streams and looped indefinitely with HTTP seeking disabled in preferences.
- Fixed another UPnP discovery regression.
2026-05-08:
- UPnP renderer lockup regression fix.
- Improved WebDAV reliability.
2026-05-07:
- Improved UPnP renderer discovery reliability.
- Enabled audio/x-wav type in UPnP renderer.
2026-05-04:
- Made send Windows version number when checking for component updates.
- Will only install component updates flagged compatible with system it's running on.
2026-04-30:
- UPnP output: Enabled streaming to OpenHome devices.
- UPnP renderer: Implemented SetNextAVTransportURI method to allow gapless playback with compatible clients.
- Fixed incorrect channel mapping in 6.1 FLAC files without explicit channel mask field.
- Improved remapping of rear-center channel when playing to 5.1-side speakers.
2026-04-27:
- UPnP renderer compatibility improved further (M-SEARCH handling, correct content type in SOAP responses).
- Windows: Keyboard shortcuts made show correct label for "context menu" key.
2026-04-20:
- Revised UPnP renderer code, implemented various missing methods required by the standard; made compatible with various popular UPnP remote control applications.
- Windows: Made various DSP configuration dialogs not crash if invoked off-main-thread, which certain unmaintained old component does.
2026-04-17:
- Fixed playlist search incorrectly refocusing first item in some scenarios.
- UPnP renderer: Made accept MP3 (audio/mpeg) streams.
- Windows: Updated zlib to 1.3.2. Note that system-bundled zlib is used on all other platforms.
- Mac: Fixed audio latency calculation bug that resulted in instability with smooth seeking mode.
- Mac: Included Playback Statistics v3.1.10.
2026-03-27:
- Added experimental float8 PCM support.
2026-03-23:
- Windows: Fixed lock up on specific playlist + album art + auto sizing column use pattern.
- Refactored MP4/M4A tag update code, should not affect output.
2026-03-19:
- Fixed lock up on specific album art tag update operations.
- Mac: Included Playback Statistics v3.1.9.
2026-03-18:
- Attempted fix for crashing in new radio-browser server finder.
2026-03-17:
- Windows: Implemented alternate, more resource-efficient method of finding radio-browser servers.
- Improved recovery from momentarily unplugged audio device while paused.
- Fixed missing URL-decode of WebDAV file names being shown.
- Refactored filename sanitization code (Converter, File Operations), actual behavior should not change.
- Fewer C++ exceptions thrown when reading file tags.
2026-03-04:
- Fixed multiple FPL load/save vs relative path handling issues.
- Fixed a regression which caused FPL loading to be much slower than it should be.
- Worked around recent change in radio-browser.info site configuration that broke foobar2000 client.
- Converter: Made file name preview recognize newly added %source_list_index%.
2026-03-03:
- Made write more compatible genre tags to MP4/M4A files.
- Made ignore duplicate genre tag values in MP4/M4A files.
- Windows: Made show better error message for ERROR_LOGON_FAILURE.
- Windows: Fixed incorrect dark mode checkbox rendering of "do not ask again" in various popups.
- Windows: Album List worked around Wine bug #59448, made multi-selection visible on Wine.
- Converter: Added %source_list_index% & %source_list_total%, only for multi track image naming pattern use, to allow use of list indexes in the pattern.
- Converter: Restored remembering of last-used output folder per preset
- Converter: Restored ability to use .bat/.cmd files as external encoders.
- Converter: Restored console logging of external encoder parameters.
2026-02-25:
- Improved M4A Apple tag compatibility, made recover tags containing null bytes in UTF-8 content.
- Smarter "remove duplicates" code, made aware of various scenarios where different perceived paths point to same file, made non case sensitive on Windows.
- Windows: Album List fixed repaint glitches when using multi selection mode.
- Windows: Upgraded toolchain from VS2019 to VS2022.
- Mac: Cosmetic changes in Preferences.
2026-02-18:
- Fixed a regression causing crashes when trying to sort a large playlist that is currently playing.
- Windows: Restored GDI rendering of album art & visualizations by default, Direct2D is opt-in, to prevent GPU driver bugs breaking default foobar2000 settings.
- Fixed a bug in SMB code that prevented password-less user logins (other than guest user) from working.
2026-02-16:
- Fixed horrible regression in FPL serialization code that caused nonsensical output when copying or drag&dropping playlist contents between foobar2000 instances using relative paths.
- Windows: Updated SQLite to the latest version.
- Made report video codec for H.266 and VP9 in MP4.
- Improved behavior of Advanced Limiter, made sure it resumes outputting bit identical signal after attenuation.
- Internet Radio: Worked around radio-browser site not working as documented, all tags get fetched again.
- Windows: Disabled delayload of ws2_32.dll, makes no sense on most configs.
2026-02-11:
- Updated FFmpeg to latest git.
- Windows: Rebuilt FFmpeg without MSVC /fp:fast, which fixes a mis-compilation bug that resulted in crashing on Wine.
- Mac: Fixed window focus tracking bug which made playlist "remove"/"crop" menu command block incorrectly grayed after cycling windows.
- Mac: Mitigation for bugs in Apple's SMB support & folder watching. Moving folders with specific Unicode characters around no longer results in duplicate library items.
- Fixed WMA album art reader being not disabled if WMA decoder is disabled in Preferences.
- Fixed Direct2D visualization race condition bug resulting in random instability.
2026-02-06:
- Windows: Removed Direct2D album art toggle - new default Direct2D code should work correctly everywhere, including Wine.
- Mac: Fixed Properties dialog bottom controls not being disabled during ReplayGain scan.
- Mac: Fixed Properties dialog ReplayGain scan not being cancellable.
- Mac: Attempted workaround for window order bugs if opened Properties dialog via context menu without activating foobar2000 application.
- ReplayGain scanner internal fixes, added new interface for components to access ReplayGain scanning options.
2026-02-04:
- Windows: Fixed album art drawing regressions in non-Direct2D mode.
- Fixed default AccurateRip log save location not being reliably set to scanned album folder.
2026-02-03:
- Mac: Fixed loss of Audio Unit settings when Audio Unit panel replaces whole parameter tree.
- Windows: Fixed unintended reliance on undocumented Gdiplus behavior, resulting in issues when running on Wine (mainly Properties dialog crashing).
2026-01-29:
- ReplayGain scanner: Added option to write REPLAYGAIN_ALGORITHM tag.
- ReplayGain scanner: Default mode is now more accurately named "ITU-R BS.1770".
- Speex resampler code updated.
- Windows: Fixed portable relative path handling bug affecting having portable foobar2000 itself as indexed music folder.
- Windows: Converter: Fixed regression with high Unicode characters in output path.
- Windows: Restored Gdiplus rendering of album art viewers by default to workaround problems on Wine.
- It's recommended to enable all "Direct2D" options in Advanced if running on modern Windows, for better performance. - Windows: Added check for known Wine C++ exception handling problem causing stability issues, a notice is shown in Console on each startup if bad behavior is detected.
- Affected systems will not auto submit crash reports, as they're of very little help now.
- See Console output for further details.
2026-01-18:
- Fixed holiday-coding bug in LargeFieldsConfig handling which resulted in Properties dialog not loading complete info in some cases (partial info not flagged as partial).
- Mac: Disabled out-of-process loading of Audio Units which caused display glitches.
- Mac: Fixed various issues with Audio Unit panel resizing.
- Windows: Made recover better from fooHelper.exe crash/termination (system file dialogs).
- Windows: Mitigation for "error 380" bug in latest Windows update, which caused specific file manipulations to fail in cloud-synced folders such as OneDrive folder.
2026-01-18:
- Fixed MP4/M4A files not being played completely if their tags contain malformed Apple Gapless information.
- File Operations: Fixed erratic behavior if empty folders can't be removed.
- Mac: Built in Playback Statistics internal fixes.
- Workaround for Media Library crash when filesystem returns nonsensical folder contents (sighted with Wine).
2026-01-15:
- Major Converter update:
- New preset format, presets stored as .ini files in profile subfolder. Old presets imported on first run.
- Backing up of profile before upgrading is recommended because of the above.
- Added extensible post-conversion actions which can be used for ReplayGain scanning, integrity testing, etc.
- On conversion error, encoder's stderr output is forwarded to foobar2000 console.
- Fixed a bug causing int32 stream to be sent to encoders that don't recognize it if source is float64.
- Ogg chaining is now off by default, Ogg chapters written by default instead. - Fixed logic error in replaygain_scanner API implementation, use of replaygain_scanner object after finalize() wasn't working as documented.
- ARDFTSRC prevent implicit resampling using "max bandwidth" mode when told to use max quality.
- Speex resampler code update.
2026-01-07:
- Made always write hours and minutes to Ogg chapter mark fields.
- Fixed Properties 'reload info' evading LargeFieldsConfig settings.
- Replaced libretro resampler with Speex resampler, providing better quality at comparable speeds / better speeds at comparable quality.
- Windows: Fixed ARDFTSRC resampler settings dialog being inaccessible from certain pages.
2025-12-29:
- Fixed recent regression that caused crashes on a fresh profile.
- Properly fixed tag writing issues on fragmented/streaming MP4 files.
2025-12-28:
- LargeFieldsConfig technology is back - https://www.foobar2000.org/LargeFieldsConfig-v2
- Enabled WavPack asm optimizations on Windows for slight decoding speedup.
- Windows: fixed bugs related to copy-paste of file-relative locations in portable installs.
- Fixed MP4 tag writer corrupting specific kinds of fragmented/streaming MP4 files. Some of these are currently untaggable (fails cleanly). This will be properly fixed soon.
2025-12-17:
- Mac: Because of erratic behavior of tableview controls on latest macOS, new macOS 26 appearance has been DISABLED. This will be looked into again later.
- File Operations: Fixed error with renaming files on redirected portable music folders & macOS volumes.
- Fixed various regressions with network shares in Media Library preferences page.
- Made new "Play On" accessible in Internet Radio panel context menus.
- Updated Opus decoder to v1.6.
2025-12-12:
- Ported "Play on" feature from foobar2000 mobile - currently accessible from playlist context menu - internet radio stations and other http links can be sent directly to any UPnP renderer device.
- Default User Interface: made cycling tabs by keyboard shortcuts cancel tab rename in progress.
- Default User Interface: made playlist sort operations recognize %queue_index% and other playlist specific fields.
- This change is experimental and not currently available to add-on components. SDK update documenting how to do this will be made available shortly. - Fixed Skip Track vs Playback Statistics interaction regression, skipped tracks are no longer marked as played.
2025-12-09:
- ARDFTSRC resampler fixed incorrect flush behavior on seek.
- Retroarch resampler reduced sample offset.
2025-12-03:
- Quality/bugfix updates to both resamplers.
- Converter: Made "no DSP reset" explicitly shown in overview, as it's dangerous if enabled unintentionally.
2025-12-02:
- Fixed an issue with yesterday's changes in retroarch resampler that could cause glitches near the end of processed stream.
2025-12-01:
- Restored out-of-the-box APL link support.
- Improved subsample offset behavior with retroarch resampler.
2025-11-25:
- Fixed lockup regression with default-sorted autoplaylists when no default sort pattern is specified.
2025-11-24:
- Refined workaround for foo_tags (M-Tags) component bugs. No longer hammers all subsongs when starting playback.
- Addressed properties dialog info reload glitch inflicted by disabling multi-subsong support.
- Made M3U playlists referencing multi subsong files show all subsongs, restoring behavior of past foobar2000 versions.
- Made entering blank incoming item sort pattern preserve original track order handed by app interacting with foobar2000, restoring behavior of old foobar2000 versions.
2025-11-21:
- Added advanced preferences toggle to turn off all subsong support.
- Use carefully, might have unwanted side effects or work partially.
2025-11-18:
- Windows: Fixed crashing when a picture cannot be decoded for whatever reason.
- Windows: Added Gdiplus fallback when Windows Imaging can't decode some image, so systems without Windows Imaging codecs can again show album art.
- Mac: Implemented album art downscale-on-load, lowering memory usage of album art viewers etc (full size image is not loaded in contexts that will never show it).
2025-11-15:
- Various fixes in new album art rendering routines.
2025-11-14:
- Experimental Windows Imaging Component / Direct2D album art rendering in Default User Interface.
2025-11-07:
- Windows: Enabled reading of EXIF orientation info from album cover pictures.
- Fixed a regression that prevented shortwindow AAC from being bounced to add-on decoder if available.
- Fixed more accidentally insane resampler behaviors.
2025-11-05:
- Fixed accidentally insane default resampler settings.
- Windows: Added console output to troubleshoot specific portable mode bug.
2025-11-04:
- Resampler settings update.
- Removed decades old hack for MP3 radio without content-type - should work as before and get recognized by content checks.
- Title formatting help updated again.
2025-11-01:
- Updated title formatting help with some recent and some not-really-recent additions.
- Fixed one more obscure resampler bug.
2025-10-31:
- Resampler fixes.
- Made resampler priority setting accept short names of resamplers, e.g. "retroarch;ardftsrc".
- Windows: Fixed certain DSP setting pages being impossible to navigate if DSP manager was created as a modal popup.
2025-10-30:
- Resampler fixes.
- Suppressed specific slow Matroska integrity checks when opening file for both playback and integrity verification.
2025-10-29:
- Replaced built-in SSRC resampler with ARDFTSRC.
- Cleaned up resampler settings, removed pointless "exclude rates" checkboxes, added explicit hints about formatting.
- Fixed TrueHD & MLP being shown as lossy.
2025-10-24:
- Mac only evening update, fixed lockup regression fix.
2025-10-24:
- Fixed very old race condition bugs in decoder merit management, potentially causing decoder to be listed twice.
- Fixed regression turning playback file open errors to "critical errors", incorrectly halting playback instead of playing next file.
- Added support for decoding TrueHD & MLP streams in Matroska.
- Removed both extremely inefficient and inaccurate probing of Matroska track bitrate. Only bitrates reported by decoders (that is all AC3 bitrates) are shown, as well as live bitrates while playing.
- Fixed missing info reload when changing stream via toolbar dropdown.
- Added support for M4A "long description" tag.
- Enabled experimental memory-mapped SQLite reading for configuration and metadb.
- Made manual metadb garbagecollect always perform sqlite vacuum.
- Mac: Fixed File Operations destination being editable in "rename" mode.
2025-10-17:
- Windows: Attempted workaround for repaint glitches in multiline editboxes introduced in latest Windows 11 update. Note that this is a bug in Windows not foobar2000.
- Windows: Workaround for stuck visualizations if playback ends while foobar2000 is invisible.
2025-10-16:
- Mac: Changed remove-item-from-playlist selection behavior, now selects next item so keyboard navigation doesn't move selection to top of the playlist.
- Fixed LD & ELD AAC not being reliably sent to alternate packet decoders.
- Fixed Decoding Speed Test not remembering last used DSP chain.
2025-10-12:
- Windows: Fixed missing winsock init for SMB operations, causing all SMB access to fail if no other network features have been used first.
- Fixed bad interaction between WebDAV filesystem and media library.
2025-10-10:
- Improved recovery of malformed UTF-8 text in various tag formats.
- Made malformed UTF-8 tags text reported in integrity verifier.
- MP4 tagging improvements:
- Tagtype info (Apple, Nero)
- No longer writes Nero tags by default for single chapter files, only for multi chapter where other tagging formats can't store per track tags.
- Added support for more rarely used Apple tag elements.
- No longer alters binary structure of Apple tag elements which are not affected by edits. - Monkey's Audio decoding moved to FFmpeg, no longer including Monkey's Audio library with foobar2000 setup.
- You can once again install Monkey's Audio decoder component to replace built-in FFmpeg decoder. - New info field: container (MP4, Matroska, Ogg, etc)
- New title formatting field: %_cpu_arch%
- Mac: made playlist view receive copy/paste from Finder
- Mac: New icon from Apple Icon Composer
- Mac: Built with Xcode 26, enabled macOS Tahoe looks.
- Mac: Install components by drag&drop from Finder to components list.
- Mac: Playlist Manager columns can be toggled.
- Added drag&drop from Internet Radio pages to playlist.
- Attempt to play a password-protected resource such as radio stream now shows a password prompt.
- Converter: Better error messages when receiving unexpected data format change in mid-conversion; made discard blank chunks before checking for format match.
- Equalizer now accepts presets via drag&drop from Explorer/Finder.
- Workaround for foo_tags issue [being backported to 2.25.x]
- Workaround for WAV headers claiming zero length [being backported to 2.25.x]
- Fixed File Operations link vs portable relative paths [being backported to 2.25.x]
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