Software update: foobar2000 1.6.1

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Version 1.6.1 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 this release looks like this:

Changes in version 1.6.1:

  • Added support for HLS: HTTP Live Streaming. To use, add internet M3U8 file through Add Location dialog.
  • Enabled icy metadata support for Ogg FLAC internet radio streams.
  • Updated Properties / ReplayGain page layout if editing a single file.
  • Improved Properties dialog performance, list of autocomplete entries is populated asynchronously.
  • Enabled embedded album art loading from raw .AAC files with ID3 tags.
  • Updated FFmpeg to 4.3.1.
  • Added support for playing Matroska A_MS/ACM content.
  • Fixes for rare AAC codec configurations that FFmpeg doesn’t fully support – an add-on decoder can override the built-in one for such special cases.
  • Decoders are now made aware of output sample rate (from Windows Mixer settings) and can decode certain formats directly to the intended sample rate, skipping potential resampling steps.
  • Fixed “fade on manual track change” setting not being used since version 1.6. (beta 6)
  • Changing volume no longer affects Windows Mixer sliders; restarting foobar2000 no longer resets Windows Mixer slider to 100%. (beta 7)
  • Mitigated crash when initiating drag&drop of a very large number of songs (such as Album List “all music”). (beta 8)
  • Enabled support for 7-zip archives using PPMd compression. (beta 8)

Version number 1.6.1
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Website foobar2000
Download https://www.foobar2000.org/?page=Download
File size 4.47MB
License type GPL
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