Software update: foobar2000 1.4 beta 17

A new beta version of foobar2000 has been released. This popular, lightweight music player can handle MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, WAV and WMA, among others, and has support for Replay Gain. Furthermore, the player can convert different formats, the program has extensive options to adjust the tags and the interface can be completely customized. In addition, it is possible to change the functionality using plugins expand. The changelog for version 1.4 currently looks like this:

Changes in version 1.4

• Added preferences page to adjust priority order of installed decoders.
• Greatly improved DSP manager dialog.
• Default User Interface improvements:
  • New toolbar items for switching output modes, ReplayGain modes and DSP presets.
  • Improved status bar: added optional display of selected track count.
  • Reworked Preferences pages; improved options for minimize & close behaviors.
• Converter improvements:
  • Keeping incomplete/problematic output files is now optional; they’re deleted by default.
  • New and improved overwrite prompt dialog.
  • FDK AAC is now among the default presets.
• ReplayGain scanner improvements:
  • Greatly improved “Apply Gain to File Content” feature, with multi threading and more supported formats.
  • Added command to manually manipulate Opus header gain field for both .opus and Matroska.
  • New Preferences pages.
• Playlist & Media Library search use a new text-matching algorithm similar to Unicode Asymmetric Search.
• 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 component DLLs can be loaded.
• Made Album List remember expanded nodes.
• Raised track count limit for cue sheets from 99 to 999.
• Fixed a bug causing incorrect tags being read from certain multi-chapter MP4 files.
• Integration with Windows 10 Universal Volume Control.
• Playback controls in taskbar on Windows 7 and newer.
• Configuration saving now uses transacted NTFS if available.
• Changed the way playlists and media library data are stored to minimize the amount of rewriting on each app shutdown.
• Merged networking features from foobar2000 mobile:
  • FTP/FTPES/FTPS reader!
  • Refreshed HTTP/HTTPS reader; added the ability to read remote folder listings.
  • Fixed a bug in HTTPS reader causing incompatibility with Google websites.
• Improved handling of various file formats over HTTP, AIFF and Musepack in particular.
• More robust M3U/M3U8/PLS playlist handling:
  • 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.
• Improved media library search performance.
• Made various playlist and search result sorting operations use multiple CPU cores.
• All communication with foobar2000 website (troubleshooter, crash reporting, update checks) is now encrypted.
• Amended Matroska tagging, certain rare files that would fail to update before are now taggable.
• Improved recovery from removable audio output device unplug.
  • Volume control now works if the device wasn’t available during foobar2000 startup but got attached later.
• Media Library now handles very long filenames correctly.
• Fixed a bug in CD drive configuration dialog – automatic drive offset lookup works again.
• Refreshed File Operations preset management, now stored in a plain text files instead and possible to import/export/edit.
• Relaxed beta version timeout, now possible to dismiss the message and launch without updating.
• Fixed inconsistent mapping of “Content Group” metadata field for: WMA, MP4/M4A, Vorbis Comments.
• Fixed Skip Silence DSP bugs.