2.24.5 released on 2025-05-09$$$Changed mapping of channels when playing 7.1 material on 5.1-rear setup; side channels no longer play on front+rear in such scenario.$$$Fixed incorrect handling of quotation marks in certain search queries.$$$Cleaned up error handling of Album List & ReFacets autoplaylist creation; no autoplaylist is created if entered search pattern isnt valid.

2.24.4 released on 2025-05-01$$$Fixed multiple configuration file handling bugs.$$$Fixed setlocale() misuse breaking specific components after using Converter.$$$Additional safeguards against mixing program files from different incompatible foobar2000 versions.$$$Fixed foobar2000 v2.0 regression mangling multi line Album List patterns.

2.24.3 released on 2025-03-07$$$Fixed a bug that caused HLS radio streams to start playing past segments instead of current live segment.$$$Dark mode: fixed checkboxes not being drawn correctly with specific custom themes.$$$Dark mode: fixed specific icons being drawn in wrong size.$$$Fixed incorrect seeking in chained Ogg streams.$$$Fixed specific instances of crashing with malformed configuration data.

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foobar2000 v2.24 for Windows release notes$$$Overview$$$This is a maintenance update; with various incremental improvements and fixes.$$$Full list of changes$$$New version numbering scheme: 2.24 for planned stable release year of 2024.$$$Internet radio improvements:$$$Fixed Internet radio search not working through a proxy server.$$$Internet Radio search & list: clicking a stream that is already playing no longer restarts playback.$$$Made disconnected internet radio streams resumed quietly; without showing error popups.$$$Suppressed advancing to the next playlist item if internet radio playback stops due to a network error.$$$Codec & audio format fixes$$$Implemented Ogg chapter support.$$$Fixes for plain WAV files near & over 4GB in size. Note that WAV file format does not actually support content longer than 4GB.$$$Refactored Matroska chapter handling. If a multichapter Matroska file is played as a whole (from remote URL etc); chapter names will be shown as dynamic track titles.$$$Made refuse to retag MP4/M4A/M4B files with QT chapters if chapter count exceeds 255; to prevent erratic behavior. Please remux such files to another container to allow tagging.$$$Made WMA tag writing behave less erratically if fed tags read by FFmpeg decoder wrapper.$$$MP4/M4A/M4B: Prefer QT chapters over chpl if more than 255 chapters found.$$$MP4/M4A/M4B: Fixed very rare tag update failures if exceeding 4GB boundary. Note that previous versions would just leave the file untouched and report an error if running into this scenario; never corrupt files.$$$Updated MP4 tmpo tag manipulation; restored ability to write which was lost a few years ago.$$$Improved compatibility with multi-value MP4/M4A tags.$$$Fixed JXL/AVIF/HEIC external album covers not being recognized; even if relevant system image codecs are present.$$$Made fact chunk in PCM WAV files ignored.$$$Removed arbitrary denial of reading of cuesheets over FTP/HTTP/etc.$$$Allowed absolute paths in cue sheets.$$$Extended MP4 chapter manipulation commands to work with other formats that support chapterizer interface; such as Ogg or Musepack.$$$Prevented nonsense sample rate & channel count from being shown on MP4 files with no audio track.$$$Made possible to store peak information in Opus files.$$$Fixed erratic behavior if ID3v2 tag contains multiple date fields.$$$Added video_codec info for Windows Media Video.$$$Added stream_count info for formats that support multiple streams.$$$Allow local M3U referencing remote M3U to be both read as playlists; prevent HLS reader being used on non-HLS content.$$$Report zero-length WAV files as broken.$$$Fixed more odd behaviors of tag editing on MP4/M4A with QT chapters.$$$Made stream selector show long codec names.$$$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.$$$Usability improvements$$$Fixed inconsistent drag&drop behavior when dragging items between playlists.$$$Mitigation for extreme column width causing CListControl (Playlist; Verifier; possibly others) to go off the rails.$$$Amended AccurateRip log formatting; added track number info to lines where it was missing before.$$$Made current console backlog saved when toggling logging on.$$$Added %channel_mask% title formatting field; on top of on $info(WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK).$$$ReFacets & Album List: Improved processing of %<field>% expressions; artist and artist sort should be split together properly.$$$Added tweak options for ReplayGain thread counts.$$$Removed arbitrary limit of items per apply gain to file content pass.$$$Added toggle to disable tooltips in Album

2.1.6 released on 2024-09-19$$$Prevented all MP4 tag fields prefixed with replaygain_ from being treated as technical information; only actual ReplayGain fields are now such.$$$Fixed ReplayGain scanner attempting to scan Audio CD in multiple threads.$$$Fixed webm audio renamed to .opus being very slow to open.$$$Fixed FLAC files with exotic bit depths incorrectly failing audio MD5 verification.$$$24-bit rounding issues fixed; performance improved.$$$Fixed nonsensical messages in Converter log when copying non audio files over.$$$No longer drops DLLs for other CPU architectures than the running one when installing components.$$$Mitigated very long tag fields causing playlist view to behave erratically.

2.1.5$$$Removed gnudb from default online tagger settings; as gnudb now demands users to input their actual email addresses.$$$If you wish to use gnudb; you can configure it manually; but we strongly recommend against it.$$$Online tagger now defaults to freedb.dbpoweramp.com which works once again.$$$Changed storage of freedb-compatible server list settings; to a text file in profile folder.$$$Reverted compiler to Visual Studio 2019; as current version of Visual Studio 2022 outputs AVX opcodes when explicitly configured not to; making foobar2000 crash on old PCs.$$$ReFacets added last modified column; fixed playlist interaction bugs.$$$Converter: Fail harder if dont reset DSP between tracks is on and one of files cant be converted - output past the point of failure wasnt valid anymore anyway.$$$Fixed WASAPI Exclusive timing glitches with exotic settings.

2.1.4$$$Fixed crash if freedb/gnudb server returns more tracks than asked for (regression since 2.0).$$$Fixed very old and very rare lockup when opening Album List.$$$Some CPU usage optimizations backported from 2.2 series.

2.1.3$$$Fixed foobar2000 v2.0 regression causing folder watch events to be dropped without triggering full rescan if theres too many of them pending.$$$Stop decoding ADTS AAC when running into APE tags; instead of reporting errors.$$$ReFacets performance improved.$$$Fixed bugs in MP4 video codec name reporting.$$$Fixed regressions in ASX playlist loader.$$$Some of CPU usage tweaks backported from 2.2 series.

2.0$$$Support for modern processor architectures. Now available as:$$$x86 32-bit (legacy) - requires Windows 7 or newer.$$$x86 64-bit - requires Windows 7 64-bit or newer.$$$64-bit foobar2000 requires 64-bit builds of components; it can not load legacy 32-bit components. However; at this time; most components have 64-bit builds available already.$$$ARM - requires Windows 11 ARM device.$$$foobar2000 for ARM has been compiled in Emulation Compatible (ARM64EC) mode and can load components built for x86 64-bit. Theres no need for component developers to specifically build ARM components.$$$User interface updates:$$$Dark mode support on Windows 10 and 11. Add-on components need to be updated to utilize it.$$$Added album art in Default User Interface playlist view.$$$Clickable rating stars in Default User Interface playlist view (with new Playback Statistics component only).$$$New Default UI element: ReFacets; reimplementing most of Facets functionality. Old Facets component doesnt work with new 64-bit foobar2000.$$$Improved Default UI splitter; now allows any number of panes.$$$Added remember per playlist layout to Default User Interface playlist view.$$$Added stream selector element to Default User Interface toolbar.$$$Some Default UI Elements (ReFacets; Equalizer; visualisations) now also accessible as Columns UI panels.$$$Made more edit boxes recognize ctrl+backspace.$$$Fixed remembered main window position/size not respecting system DPI settings.$$$Configuration management changes:$$$New internal playlist format; changes instantly saved to disk; no more recent changes lost on crash.$$$New configuration data format; changes instantly saved to disk; no more recent changes lost on crash.$$$For non-portable installs; profile folder is now %appdata%\foobar2000-v2. There is no need to back up old profile before upgrading; your foobar2000 v1.x profile will be left untouched.$$$First run performs import of old configuration data (playlists; library).$$$New full config reset semantics - now clears profile folder (optionally leaving user-components intact) instead of asking all components to reset themselves.$$$DSP technology updates:$$$Made possible to apply DSP config changes without reinitializing affected DSPs.$$$Allowed DSPs to manipulate their shown name depending on preset data.$$$Added crossfeed DSP from foobar2000 mobile.$$$Added sample rate exclusions to SSRC resampler.$$$Audio codec technology updates:$$$More audio formats supported out of the box: TAK; APE; AC3; DTS.$$$Latest revision of APE format is supported (Monkeys Audio 10.09).$$$Updated WavPack to version 5.6.0.$$$Updated FFmpeg to version 6.0.$$$libvorbis is now used for decoding Vorbis format instead of FFmpeg; as some rare files continue to cause compatibility issues.$$$Cleaned up Ogg reader; made possible to seek in remote (HTTP etc) Ogg files.$$$Made FLAC tag updater remove ID3v2 garbage prefixing FLAC stream.$$$Made MP3 reader report MP3 frame count not matching Xing/LAME header info when verifying integrity.$$$Fixed bad MD5 verification of AIFF sourced WavPacks.$$$Added extra sanity checks to tag update operations in built-in codecs: made sure that attempts to remove covers from files that didnt have them in first place dont alter files at all.$$$Properties dialog updates:$$$Properties dialog now follows theme colors of the active UI.$$$Improved behavior if reload info detects a change in number of chapters etc.$$$Updated Automatically Fill Values logic; better results if searched pattern appears more than once.$$$Logs tag update errors to console.$$$These add-on components are now obsolete as their functionality is available out of the box:$$$foo_benchmark$$$foo_bitcompare$$$foo_verifier$$$foo_input_monkey$$$foo_ac3$$$foo_sanitizer$$$foo_input_dts$$$These components previously included with the installer are no longer optional (features always enabled):$$$foo_rgscan$$$foo_cdda$$$foo_albumlist$$$Other:$$$Media Library efficiency improvements for very large music libraries.$$$New audio output device manageme