foobar2000 2.24
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. It features the simplest, most minimalistic interface you'll ever see in this kind of program. Other features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
foobar2000 features:
- Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
- Gapless playback.
- Full unicode support.
- Easily customizable user interface layout.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
- Full ReplayGain support.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
foobar2000 2.24 changelog:
New version numbering scheme: 2.24 for planned stable release year of 2024.Internet radio bug fixes & reliability improvements.Codec & audio format fixes, most notably:
- Implemented Ogg chapter support.
- MP4/M4A/M4B tagging & chapter manipulation fixes.
- WAV compatibility fixes; made zero-length WAV files reported as broken.
- Cuesheet compatibility improvements - allowed absolute path, allowed playback over network.
Usability improvements, most notably:
- Fixed inconsistent drag&drop behavior when dragging items between playlists.
- Made current console backlog saved when toggling logging on.
- Prevented Media Library search from clearing other playlists with enter key if library selection playlist feature is active.
General improvements, most notably:
- New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance of 64-bit build.
- Improved stability of hardware-accelerated visualizations.
- Improved recovery of corrupted configuration data.
Converter
- Mitigation for Converter failures when writing to a Google Drive volume.
- More detailed error messages for specific file creation errors.
- Can write multichapter Ogg files after disabling Ogg chaining support.
File Operations
- Suppressed useless secondary progress bar if renaming files.
- Defer info reload to prevent bugged display of cuesheets after moving whole folder.
- Added an option to overwrite existing files.
- Updated recycle bin detection logic, mitigating lag/lockup occurring for some users.
- Third party code libraries updated.
- Various other tweaks & fixes, see release notes for full list of changes.