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2.25.8 released on 2026-03-26

Fixed lock up on specific playlist + album art + auto sizing column use pattern.
Fixed lock up on specific album art tag update operations.
More robust radio-browser server discovery.
Fixed slow loading of FPL playlists regression.
Fixed wrong height & wrong dark mode rendering of popup_message checkbox.
Fixed missing URL-decode of WebDAV file names being shown.
Album List: Worked around Wine bug #59448, fixed multi selection rendering.
Disabled crash report submissions on outdated versions of Wine.

foobar2000 v2.26 preview change log

2026-03-27
Added experimental float8 PCM support.

2026-03-23
Windows: Fixed lock up on specific playlist + album art + auto sizing column use pattern.
Refactored MP4/M4A tag update code, should not affect output.

2026-03-19
Fixed lock up on specific album art tag update operations.
Mac: Included Playback Statistics v3.1.9.

2026-03-18
Attempted fix for crashing in new radio-browser server finder.

2026-03-17
Windows: Implemented alternate, more resource-efficient method of finding radio-browser servers.
Improved recovery from momentarily unplugged audio device while paused.
Fixed missing URL-decode of WebDAV file names being shown.
Refactored filename sanitization code (Converter, File Operations), actual behavior should not change.
Fewer C++ exceptions thrown when reading file tags.

2026-03-04
Fixed multiple FPL load/save vs relative path handling issues.
Fixed a regression which caused FPL loading to be much slower than it should be.
Worked around recent change in radio-browser.info site configuration that broke foobar2000 client.
Converter: Made file name preview recognize newly added %source_list_index%.

2026-03-03
Made write more compatible genre tags to MP4/M4A files.
Made ignore duplicate genre tag values in MP4/M4A files.
Windows: Made show better error message for ERROR_LOGON_FAILURE.
Windows: Fixed incorrect dark mode checkbox rendering of "do not ask again" in various popups.
Windows: Album List worked around Wine bug #59448, made multi-selection visible on Wine.
Converter: Added %source_list_index% & %source_list_total%, only for multi track image naming pattern use, to allow use of list indexes in the pattern.
Converter: Restored remembering of last-used output folder per preset
Converter: Restored ability to use .bat/.cmd files as external encoders.
Converter: Restored console logging of external encoder parameters.

2026-02-25
Improved M4A Apple tag compatibility, made recover tags containing null bytes in UTF-8 content.
Smarter "remove duplicates" code, made aware of various scenarios where different perceived paths point to same file, made non case sensitive on Windows.
Windows: Album List fixed repaint glitches when using multi selection mode.
Windows: Upgraded toolchain from VS2019 to VS2022.
Mac: Cosmetic changes in Preferences.

2026-02-18
Fixed a regression causing crashes when trying to sort a large playlist that is currently playing.
Windows: Restored GDI rendering of album art & visualizations by default, Direct2D is opt-in, to prevent GPU driver bugs breaking default foobar2000 settings.
Fixed a bug in SMB code that prevented password-less user logins (other than guest user) from working.

2026-02-16
Fixed horrible regression in FPL serialization code that caused nonsensical output when copying or drag&dropping playlist contents between foobar2000 instances using relative paths.
Windows: Updated SQLite to the latest version.
Made report video codec for H.266 and VP9 in MP4.
Improved behavior of Advanced Limiter, made sure it resumes outputting bit identical signal after attenuation.
Internet Radio: Worked around radio-browser site not working as documented, all tags get fetched again.
Windows: Disabled delayload of ws2_32.dll, makes no sense on most configs.

2026-02-11
Updated FFmpeg to latest git.
Windows: Rebuilt FFmpeg without MSVC /fp:fast, which fixes a mis-compilation bug that resulted in crashing on Wine.
Mac: Fixed window focus tracking bug which made playlist "remove"/"crop" menu command block incorrectly grayed after cycling windows.
Mac: Mitigation for bugs in Apple's SMB support & folder watching. Moving folders with specific Unicode characters around no longer results in duplicate library items.
Fixed WMA album art reader being not disabled if WMA decoder is disabled in Preferences.
Fixed Direct2D visualization race condition bug resulting in random instability.

2026-02-06
Windows: Removed Direct2D album art toggle - new default Direct2D code should work correctly everywhere, including Wine.
Mac: Fixed Properties dialog bottom controls not being disabled during ReplayGain scan.
Mac: Fixed Properties dialog ReplayGain scan not being cancellable.
Mac: Attempted workaround for window order bugs if opened Properties dialog via context menu without activating foobar2000 application.
ReplayGain scanner internal fixes, added new interface for components to access ReplayGain scanning options.

2026-02-04
Windows: Fixed album art drawing regressions in non-Direct2D mode.
Fixed default AccurateRip log save location not being reliably set to scanned album folder.

2026-02-03
Mac: Fixed loss of Audio Unit settings when Audio Unit panel replaces whole parameter tree.
Windows: Fixed unintended reliance on undocumented Gdiplus behavior, resulting in issues when running on Wine (mainly Properties dialog crashing).

2026-01-29
ReplayGain scanner: Added option to write REPLAYGAIN_ALGORITHM tag.
ReplayGain scanner: Default mode is now more accurately named "ITU-R BS.1770".
Speex resampler code updated.
Windows: Fixed portable relative path handling bug affecting having portable foobar2000 itself as indexed music folder.
Windows: Converter: Fixed regression with high Unicode characters in output path.
Windows: Restored Gdiplus rendering of album art viewers by default to workaround problems on Wine.
It's recommended to enable all "Direct2D" options in Advanced if running on modern Windows, for better performance.
Windows: Added check for known Wine C++ exception handling problem causing stability issues, a notice is shown in Console on each startup if bad behavior is detected.
Affected systems will not auto submit crash reports, as they're of very little help now.
See Console output for further details.

2026-01-21
Fixed holiday-coding bug in LargeFieldsConfig handling which resulted in Properties dialog not loading complete info in some cases (partial info not flagged as partial).
Mac: Disabled out-of-process loading of Audio Units which caused display glitches.
Mac: Fixed various issues with Audio Unit panel resizing.
Windows: Made recover better from fooHelper.exe crash/termination (system file dialogs).
Windows: Mitigation for "error 380" bug in latest Windows update, which caused specific file manipulations to fail in cloud-synced folders such as OneDrive folder.

2026-01-18
Fixed MP4/M4A files not being played completely if their tags contain malformed Apple Gapless information.
File Operations: Fixed erratic behavior if empty folders can't be removed.
Mac: Built in Playback Statistics internal fixes.
Workaround for Media Library crash when filesystem returns nonsensical folder contents (sighted with Wine).

2026-01-15
Major Converter update:
New preset format, presets stored as .ini files in profile subfolder. Old presets imported on first run.
Backing up of profile before upgrading is recommended because of the above.
Added extensible post-conversion actions which can be used for ReplayGain scanning, integrity testing, etc.
On conversion error, encoder's stderr output is forwarded to foobar2000 console.
Fixed a bug causing int32 stream to be sent to encoders that don't recognize it if source is float64.
Ogg chaining is now off by default, Ogg chapters written by default instead.
Fixed logic error in replaygain_scanner API implementation, use of replaygain_scanner object after finalize() wasn't working as documented.
ARDFTSRC prevent implicit resampling using "max bandwidth" mode when told to use max quality.
Speex resampler code update.

2026-01-07
Made always write hours and minutes to Ogg chapter mark fields.
Fixed Properties 'reload info' evading LargeFieldsConfig settings.
Replaced libretro resampler with Speex resampler, providing better quality at comparable speeds / better speeds at comparable quality.
Windows: Fixed ARDFTSRC resampler settings dialog being inaccessible from certain pages.

2026-01-02
Windows: Worked around Wine crash in IWICBitmapScaler::CopyPixels(), breaking album art view in Properties dialog.

2025-12-29
Fixed recent regression that caused crashes on a fresh profile.
Properly fixed tag writing issues on fragmented/streaming MP4 files.

2025-12-28
LargeFieldsConfig technology is back - https://www.foobar2000.org/LargeFieldsConfig-v2
Enabled WavPack asm optimizations on Windows for slight decoding speedup.
Windows: fixed bugs related to copy-paste of file-relative locations in portable installs.
Fixed MP4 tag writer corrupting specific kinds of fragmented/streaming MP4 files. Some of these are currently untaggable (fails cleanly). This will be properly fixed soon

2025-12-17
Mac: Because of erratic behavior of tableview controls on latest macOS, new macOS 26 appearance has been DISABLED. This will be looked into again later.
File Operations: Fixed error with renaming files on redirected portable music folders & macOS volumes.
Fixed various regressions with network shares in Media Library preferences page.
Made new "Play On" accessible in Internet Radio panel context menus.
Updated Opus decoder to v1.6.

2025-12-12
Ported "Play on" feature from foobar2000 mobile - currently accessible from playlist context menu - internet radio stations and other http links can be sent directly to any UPnP renderer device.
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Plays all mainstream audio formats out of the box.
Additional decoder components enable even more formats.
Gapless playback.
Stream music on your local network; foobar2000 can be used to control network audio players or foobar2000 running on another device.
Easily customizable user interface layout on Windows and Mac OS.
Advanced tagging capabilities.
Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats.
Full ReplayGain support.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Many built-in DSP effects, additional available through DSP components; can load VST effects via VST adapter on Windows, Audio Units on Mac OS.
Internet radio support, including integration with Radio Browser.
Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player - browse add-on components
Available on: Windows, Mac OS, Android and iOS. Windows version works on Linux via Wine.
No strings attached, no telemetry, no data collection.

Audio file formats supported natively
MP3
M4A, including AAC and Apple Lossless
AAC
Ogg Vorbis
Opus
Musepack
Speex
AC3
DTS
WMA
FLAC & Ogg FLAC
WavPack
Monkey's Audio
TAK
WAV
Wave64
RF64
AIFF
AU/SND
Matroska/WebM
MPEG Transport Stream (.ts)
MP2
Internet radio formats supported natively
MP3
AAC
Ogg Vorbis
Ogg FLAC
Opus
HLS