Software update: foobar2000 1.5

The final release of foobar2000 version 1.5.0 has been released. This popular, light music player can handle mp3, aac, ogg vorbis, flac, wav and wma, and has support for Replay Gain. Furthermore, the player can convert different formats, the program has extensive possibilities 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 1.5.0 looks like this:

Changes in version 1.5.0:

• New and improved Properties dialog, with the ability to manipulate attached pictures as well as scan and modify ReplayGain values.
• Greatly improved Selection Properties performance for large track lists.
• Various prompts (such as delete / recycle) now come with a “do not show this again” checkbox.
• Restored pre-1.4 behavior of main-window-hidden / notification-icon-only status being remembered after foobar2000 restart.
• Added logging of Media Library scanning errors – “show errors” button in Media Library Preferences.
• Added Advanced Preferences option for flushing playback queue on manual track change (default: on).
• Made “Open containing folder” command work with tracks in archives – opens folder containing the archive.
• Added an option to preserve last-modified timestamps of tracks when updating tags.
• Additional safeguards against corrupted configuration in case of a system crash while saving (FlushFileBuffers).
• File Operations: delete / recycle prompt always says “Delete” rather than “Recycle”, since not every volume supports recycle action.
• FFmpeg 3.4.6, now compiled with MS compiler, binary size reduced due to DLL runtime.
• FLAC 1.3.3
• Implemented reading of cue + bin audio CD images.
• Implemented asynchronous drag & drop, for less stalls when dragging tracks from foobar2000 to another program.
• Removed transacted filesystem support. There are no known benefits to it and even Microsoft documentation says not to use it.
• Improved programming interfaces for External Tags and Skip Track components.
• Made album art loading / resizing operations in Default User Interface asynchronous. Large pictures no longer make the app momentarily unresponsive.
• Converter: Added Opus encoder selection for –music / –speech modes.
• Converter: New list control in various dialogs. Column sizes are remembered.
• Improved playback position reporting with Skip Silence and similar DSP effects.
• Made possible to check for updates of components listed but not hosted on foobar2000.org.
• Enabled embedded cuesheet support for MP3 files.
• Made WavPack / DSD MD5 visible – using another field so Verifier doesn’t try to verify it.