Software update: foobar2000 0.9.5.3 beta 1

The developers behind the foobar2000 media player have released the first beta release of version 0.9.5.3. This media player can handle mp1, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, aac, ogg vorbis, flac and ogg flac, wavpack, wav, aiff, au, snd, cdda and wma and also has support for Replay Gain, converting to and from different formats and extensive possibilities to customize the tags. In addition, it is possible to further expand the functionality using plugins. The changelog for this release shows the following changes:

Changes in version 0.9.5.3:

• New: Startup notification when some of loaded components are known not to cooperate correctly with this version of foobar2000.
• New: “Library Viewer Selection” playlist, compatible with Album List and Media Library Search.
• New title formatting functions: $stripprefix(), $swapprefix(), $year(), $month(), $day_of_month(), $date(), $time().
• New extensions to the search query syntax.
• Album List: faster refresh when using the built-in search box.
• ReplayGain scanner: applying ReplayGain to MP3 data no longer chokes on noncompliant ID3v2 tags with false MPEG sync words.
• ReplayGain scanner: new services allowing third-party components to perform ReplayGain analysis.
• No longer compatible with components using metadb_display_hook API.
• Changed component DLL loading logic – only “components” subdirectory along with its subdirectories is processed if it exists.

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