foobar2000 is a classic music player that focuses on sound quality, has released version 2.0, the latest on the site for foobar2000 v2.0 Beta 24. this update brings a lot of new features, ARM 64-bit version will be launched soon, adapted to support Windows 11 and Windows 10’s Dark Mode. It brings a new media library engine, faster startup and shutdown, significantly reduced memory footprint, etc.
Foobar2000 audio player can seamlessly play MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND and other audio formats.
The following updates are available:
- Now available in x86 32-bit (legacy), and x86 64-bit versions. ARM 64-bit version coming soon. The 64-bit version requires an updated version of add-ons.
- Dark Mode is supported on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Add-ons need to be updated to use.
- New media library engine, supported by SQLite. Much faster startup and shutdown in case of large libraries and much-reduced memory usage.
- Significantly improved performance for media library search queries that do not use %patterns%.
- Added album art to the default UI playlist view.
- Added clickable rating stars to the default UI playlist view.
- New default UI element: ReFacets, which reimplements most of the Facets functionality. The old Facets component does not work with the new 64-bit foobar2000.
- Improved Default UI UI splitter, now allows any number of panes.
- Added “Remember the layout of each playlist” to the playlist view of the default UI.
- Added “stream selector selector” element to the default UI toolbar.
- New audio output device management features – unwanted devices can be disabled, and bit depth and DSP can be configured on a per-device basis.
- New internal playlist format, changes are saved instantly and the latest changes are no longer lost in case of a crash.
- New configuration data format, changes are saved instantly and the latest changes are no longer lost in case of a crash.
- File creation time (%file_created%) and attributes (%file_attributes%) can be displayed.
- For non-portable installations, the configuration file folder is now %appdata%\foobar2000-v2. There is no need to back up the old configuration file before upgrading, and the user’s foobar2000 v1.x configuration file will remain unchanged.
- The first run will import the old configuration data (playlists, libraries).
- More audio formats are supported: tak, ape, ac3, dts.
- Updated to FFmpeg version 5.1.
- Improved attribute behavior if “reload info” detects changes in a number of chapters, etc.
- Rewrote built-in visualizations (VU/Peak Table, Spectrum, Oscilloscope), now using hardware-accelerated rendering.
- Some default UI elements (ReFacets, Equalizer, visualizations) are now also accessible as columnar UI panels.
- Webcast dialog (File menu) that remembers previously played webcast streams.
- Modernized Explorer integration, no longer requires separate 32-bit / 64-bit shell extension DLLs.
- The properties dialog now follows the theme color of the active UI.
- Image parsing with Windows Imaging Component, removing libwebp dependency. Album covers such as HEIF, AVIF, etc. can now be viewed if system codecs exist.
- Added %year% mapping to get the year portion of %date%, dropping anything beyond the first four digits.
- Changed the default album list mode to use %year%.
- Added sample rate exclusion for SSRC resampler.
- Added cross-feed DSP from foobar2000 mobile.
- New console logging system that writes log files for each instance to a specified folder.
- New full configuration reset semantics – now clear folders for configuration files (with the option to keep user components) instead of requiring all components to reset themselves.
- These additional components are deprecated and features are pre-installed for use: foo_benchmark, foo_bitcompare, foo_verifier, foo_input_monkey, foo_ac3, foo_sanitizer, foo_input_dts.
- These previously included components are no longer optional (functionality will always be enabled): foo_rgscan, foo_cdda, foo_albumlist.
- libFLAC 1.4.2, which allows decoding of 32-bit FLAC files per sample.
- Solved the problem that FLAC files with ID3 tags were reported as corrupted by the new libFLAC.
- zlib 1.2.13.
- Fixed incorrect handling of M4A itunescompilation=0.
- WavPack 5.5.0.
- Compile with Visual Studio 2022.
- Allows DSP configuration changes to be applied without reinitializing the affected DSP.
- Allows DSPs to process their displayed names based on preset data.
- Added mitigation for apparently random crashes on Wine (fewer C++ exceptions thrown when handling media index errors).
