Software update: foobar2000 1.4 beta 2

A new beta version of foobar2000 has been released. This popular, lightweight music player supports 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 for now looks like this:

Changes in version 1.4

• Added preferences page to adjust priority order of 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’re deleted by default.

  • New and improved overwrite prompt dialog.

  • FDK AAC is now among the default presets (beta 2).

• ReplayGain scanner improvements:

  • Apply gain to file content feature now runs in multiple threads and supports MP2 content.

  • Added command to manually manipulate Opus header gain field for both .opus and Matroska.

• Playlist & Media Library search use 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.

• Made Album List remember expanded nodes (beta 2).

• Raised track count limit for cue sheets from 99 to 999 (beta 2).