1.1.11 Improved built-in crossfading functionality, new fading configuration in Preferences / Output. Fading functionality available with built-in DirectSound mode only. New .fb2k-component file type extension for foobar2000 component packages. Fixed some potential security issues. Added type-find in the default playlist view. Added support for album art in APEv2 tags on MP3 files. Fixed more WAV handling bugs. Converter update - now you can restrict specific encoder to run in one thread only. Experimental deadlock detection (beta 2) After long periods of apparent UI unresponsiveness, the application will automatically terminate and produce a crash report. Cleaned up advanced preferences for MP3 tagging (beta 2) “Force preferred tagging scheme” option gone - use the “MP3 tag types” dialog to convert between different tag types. 1.1.10 Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoding support is now included out-of-the-box, using the newly published Apple library. Fixed WAV handling bugs introduced in 1.1.9. Worked around buggy Asus Xonar drivers, volume control no longer requires toggling specific options in the driver control panel. Various stability fixes. New “about” dialog. 1.1.9 Added WAV file format tagging support. Implemented experimental support for 16-bit floating-point WAV files. Fixed ID3v2 handling bugs from 1.1.8. 1.1.8 Worked-around a reported security problem with certain WAV files and buggy system codecs. Skip silence DSP improvements. Improved MP3 tag handling (ID3v2) compliance: More compliant WXXX parsing. More compliant ID3v2.4 date handling. Compressed 2.3 tags are now readable. Due to heavy structural changes in relevant code, please watch out for MP3 tagging regressions. Musepack decoding bug fixes. (beta 3) Fixed a converter bug with writing multichapter files. (beta 3) Improved FLAC/Vorbis metadata compatibility with other software. (beta 4, beta 5) Affected fields: “album artist”, “totaltracks”, “totaldiscs”. The old behavior can be restored with an Advanced Preferences switch. Support for playing WebM audio (beta 5) Support for iTunes gapless information in MP3 files (beta 5) 1.1.7 Ability to add/remove embedded pictures in media files - currently supports: MP3, MP4, FLAC, WMA, WavPack, Musepack, Vorbis and APE. Improved bitrate reporting accuracy for various audio formats. Updated ReplayGain scanning code to the latest version of libebur128. 1.1.6 Improved performance when playing very short tracks. Improved tag compatibility with other software. “Album artist” is mapped to ID3v2 TPE2 like in WMP/iTunes. Support for iTunes “itunescompilation” tags, in MP3/ID3v2 and MP4. ID3v2.3 tags are now written by default since version 2.4 seems to be widely ignored by software vendors. Added support for multi-value WMA tags. Read more about tagging changes Improved reading of MP3 encoding information headers written by alpha versions of LAME. ReplayGain scanner now uses libebur128 for improved accuracy. 1.1.5 Fixed various 1.1.3 / 1.1.4 regressions. Added a menu item to check for new foobar2000 versions. Added a menu item to more easily check for updated components. 1.1.4 Fixed regression: incorrect AAC decoder behaviors introduced in version 1.1.3. 1.1.3 Fixed crashing on newest AMD processors. 1.1.2 New foobar2000 application icon. foobar2000's volume slider is now synchronized with Windows Mixer application volume slider on Windows Vista and newer. Progress of various operations is now displayed on Windows 7 taskbar. Fixed various freedb related bugs; freedb support works again. Fixed 1.1.1 regression with Media Library configuration reset when upgrading from versions older than 1.1. Fixed 1.1.1 regression with Media Library being stuck in “initializing” state if foobar2000's portable installation files are inside one of the watched folders. Improved startup time and memory usage with very large media libraries. [beta 4] 1.1.1 Improved first run experience With standard (non-portable) installs, foobar2000 Media Library defaults to indexing your music folders indexed by Windows itself. HTTPS support in networking services This is mainly relevant to component developers. You can now access HTTPS URLs through filesystem and http_client services. Fixed a rare crash when closing the Preferences dialog in specific conditions. Improved compatibility with broken MP4 files. 1.1 New component installation and automatic updating functionality. Optional components are now installed into user's profile folder, allowing different components installed for different users on one system. Entirely new Converter user interface. Reworked appearance of various Preferences pages and other utility dialogs. Improved ID3v2 tag writing standard compliance. Improved Matroska compliance. 1.0.3 Fixed incorrect behaviors with both “cursor follows playback” and “playback follows cursor” enabled. Improved compatibility with dodgy ASX files written by Windows Media Player. Fixed notification area icon minimize bugs (again). Fixed problems with encoding very long audio streams to Vorbis. Fixed a very rare crash when using the Media Library preferences page. Various other maintenance updates and bug fixes. 1.0.2.1 Worked-around a bug in Windows XP causing incorrect rendering of the Properties dialog in 1.0.2. 1.0.2 Portable install: playlists now reference files by paths relative to the parent folder of the foobar2000 installation folder. Various bug fixes. Made Nero AAC encoder setup tag visible as “encoder”. Third party library updates (zlib and libvorbis). 1.0.1 Undecodable tracks now get substituted with 1s of silence to prevent deadlocks with dodgy third-party components. Worked-around bug in Windows 7 with status bar repaint glitches. Windows Media streaming compatibility improvements. Fixed notification area icon being incorrectly shown in certain conditions. Audio format support updates: added support for decoding Wave64 and RF64 formats, added built-in support for writing Wave64 format. Added folder name wildcard matching for album art search. Added a workaround for horribly broken Asus Xonar drivers. Converter: worked-around misbehaviors of command-line encoders when the output file name begins with - or @. Converter: refreshed MP3 encoding configuration dialog. 1.0 New context menu structure - better out-of-the-box layout but less customizable. Built-in support for Windows Media and RTSP streaming. “Edit” menu operates on the currently selected object rather than always on the active playlist. Improved compatibility with multimedia keyboards. Improved, more customizable album art support. Portable installs now remember Media Library paths relatively to the install folder. Reworked Preferences: OK/Cancel/Apply buttons, new layout of standard pages. New options regarding selection viewer behavior. Default User Interface: new pseudo color code system for status bar and playlist view. CD ripping improvements: Results can be now checked against the AccurateRip database on-the-fly. CD-TEXT reading support. Ability to choose individual tracks to rip in the “Rip Audio CD” dialog.