Software update: foobar2000 1.4 beta 14

Changes in version 1.4

• Added preferences page to adjust priority order or installed decoders.
• Greatly improved DSP manager dialog.
• Added output mode switcher toolbar item to Default User Interface.
• Converter improvements:
  • Keeping incomplete / problematic output files is now optional; they are deleted by default
  • New and improved overwrite prompt dialog.
  • FDK AAC is now among the default presets (beta 2).
• ReplayGain scanner improvements:
  • Greatly improved “Apply Gain to File Content” feature, with multi threading and more supported formats.
  • Added command to manipulate Opus header gain field for both .opus and Matroska.
  • New Preferences pages (beta 4 ).
• Playlist & Media Library search using a new text-matching algorithm similar to Unicode Asymmetric Search.
• Reworked Default User Interface Preferences pages; improved options for minimize & close behaviors.
• Cosmetic tweaks; prettier buttons attached to editboxes in various dialogs
• Cleaned up Opus header gain manipulation, reported value no longer offset by 5 dB, made header gain respected when embedded in Matroska container
• Matroska support improvements, improved seeking performance on files without seektables.
• Made possible to choose between alternate audio streams in MP4 and Matroska files.
• Implemented WebM internet stream playback.
• Compiled using dynamic VC runtime, raising the limit of how many components DLLs can be loaded.
• Made Album List remember expanded nodes (beta 2).
• Raised track count limit for cue sheets from 99 to 999 (beta 2).
• Fixed a bug causing incorrect tags being read from certain multi-chapter MP4 files (beta 3).
• Integration with Windows 10 Universal Volume Control (beta 4).
• Playback controls in taskbar on Windows 7 and newer (beta 4).
• Configuration saving now uses transactions NTFS if a vailable (beta 7).
  • … but only in standard (not portable) installs by default. (changed to beta 12)
• New, different scheme of user’s playlists in app data (beta 7):
  • Playlists now reside under playlists-v1.4, you can delete the playlists-v1.3 folder if you no longer need it.
  • Unchanged playlists are no longer rewritten on each app shutdown.
• Merged networking features from foobar2000 mobile (beta 7):
  • FTP reader!
    • FTPES / FTPS now also supported (beta 12).
  • Refreshed HTTP / HTTPS reader; added the ability to read remote folder listings.
• Improved handling of various file formats on HTTP, AIFF and Musepack in particular (beta 7).
• New Default UI toolbar items for DSP presets and ReplayGain modes (beta 7).
• More robust M3U / M3U8 / PLS playlist handling (beta 7):
  • iTunes-created M3U8 playlists now load correctly.
  • Big fat warning when trying to save a M3U / PLS file that may not be readable correctly due to international characters
• New file format icons (beta 7, beta 9).
• Improved media library search performance (beta 9).
• Made various playlist and search result sorting operations use multiple CPU cores (beta 9)
• All communication with foobar2000 website (troubleshooter, crash reporting, update checks) is now encrypted (beta 11).
• Amended Matroska tagging, some rare files that would fail to update before are now taggable (beta 11).
• Improved recovery from removable audio output device unplug (beta 11).
  • Volume control now works if the device was not available during foobar2000 startup but got attached later.
• Media Library now handles very long filenames correctly (beta 11).
• Fixed a bug in CD drive configuration dialog – automatic drive offset lookup works again (beta 12).
• Refreshed File Operations preset management , now stored in a plain text files instead and possible to import / export / edit (beta 14).
• Relaxed beta version timeout, now possible to dismiss and update (beta 14).
• Updated FFmpeg to version 3.4.2 (beta 14).