Foobar2000 1.4.5 Beta 2 Advanced Audio Player for PC Windows

Fixed Default UI toolbar DSP switcher regressions from beta 3.
Added missing status bar "show selected track count" menu item description in Default UI.

Better error message when trying to open M4A file renamed to .aac.
Added %video_codec% info for Matroska and MP4 files.
Added support for PCM audio in MP4 container.
Made mouse wheel work in playlist view during a drag&drop operation.
Improved handling of classical music metadata for iTunes M4A files.
Added %bitspersample_extra% info to tell between int32/float32 PCM files.
Added support for ID3v2 iTunes Grouping field.
Converter: advanced-preferences option to encode to temp folder and move encoded-and-tagged files to the intended destination.
Made tag update operations not fail when another application has the file open for reading.
Corrected wrong bitrate shown for FLAC in Matroska container.
Corrected labels for F13-F24 keyboard shortcuts.
Fixed bugs with ReplayGain Scanner's automatic resampling of high sample rate content.
Bumped maximum allowed sample rate to deal with DSD1024 content.
Made Media Library respect 'include hidden files & folders' setting in Advanced Preferences.
Converter with “don't reset DSP between tracks” now respects DSP-reported latency for proper handling of gapless albums.
PPHS resampler bug fixes (inaccurate reported latency, crashing with extreme sample rates).
Fixed ReplayGain scan results showing zero peaks on near-silent 24-bit files.
New and improved buffering scheme for improved network streaming performance (ported from foobar2000 mobile).
Internet radio handling regressions from 1.4 fixed; added an Advanced Preferences setting for ShoutCast metadata codepage.
Fixed component auto update on Windows XP (1.4 regression).
Added an Advanced Preferences option to toggle asymmetric search, reverting search behaviors to 1.3 style.
Added title formatting fields for showing track/album peaks as decibel values.
Improved status feedback from batch attach album art tool.
Pressing “next” past the end of playlist now restarts the playlist even without “repeat” mode.
Made Converter “copy other files” feature respect parent folder (..pattern) references.
Added EXTM3U info writing (enabled via advanced preferences).
Added 5.1 and 7.1 upmix DSPs.

Added preferences page to adjust priority order of installed decoders.
Greatly improved DSP manager dialog.
Default User Interface improvements:
New toolbar items for switching output modes, ReplayGain modes and DSP presets.
Improved status bar: added optional display of selected track count.
Reworked Preferences pages; improved options for minimize & close behaviors.
Converter improvements:
Keeping incomplete/problematic output files is now optional; they're deleted by default.
New and improved overwrite prompt dialog.
FDK AAC is now among the default presets.
ReplayGain scanner improvements:
Greatly improved “Apply Gain to File Content” feature, with multi threading and more supported formats.
Added command to manually manipulate Opus header gain field for both .opus and Matroska.
New Preferences pages.
Playlist & Media Library search use a new text-matching algorithm similar to Unicode Asymmetric Search.
Cosmetic tweaks; prettier buttons attached to editboxes in various dialogs.
Cleaned up Opus header gain manipulation, reported value no longer offseted by 5 dB, made header gain respected when embedded in Matroska container.
Amended Matroska tagging, certain rare files that would fail to update before are now taggable.
Matroska support improvements, improved seeking performance on files without seektables.
Made possible to choose between alternate audio streams in MP4 and Matroska files.
Implemented WebM internet stream playback.
Compiled using dynamic VC runtime, raising the limit of how many component DLLs can be loaded.
Made Album List remember expanded nodes.
Raised track count limit for cue sheets from 99 to 999.
Integration with Windows 10 Universal Volume Control.
Playback controls in taskbar on Windows 7 and newer.
Configuration saving now uses transacted NTFS if available.
Changed the way playlists and media library data are stored to minimize the amount of rewriting on each app shutdown.
Merged networking features from foobar2000 mobile:
FTP/FTPES/FTPS reader!
Refreshed HTTP/HTTPS reader; added the ability to read remote folder listings.
Improved handling of various file formats over HTTP, AIFF and Musepack in particular.
More robust M3U/M3U8/PLS playlist handling; shows a warning when trying to save a M3U/PLS file that may not be readable correctly due to international characters.
New file format icons.
Improved media library search performance.
Made various playlist and search result sorting operations use multiple CPU cores.
All communication with foobar2000 website (troubleshooter, crash reporting, update checks) is now encrypted.
Refreshed File Operations preset management, now stored in a plain text files instead and possible to import/export/edit.
Work around for DirectSound audio stutters with Windows 10 1803.
Fix implemented for splitter lock bug.
Workaround implemented for HTTPS issues on Windows XP.

Changes:
Worked around inability to check for fb2k & components updates on Windows XP systems over HTTPS.
Fixed a bug causing splitter UI element to change sizes of locked panes.
Amended workaround for audio stutters on Windows 10 1803.
Made changing ReplayGain mode through menu commands / keyboard shortcuts restart playback.
Fixed FTP reader bug causing certain files to fail to play.
Restored borders of Default UI toolbar visualizations.

Changes:
Attempted fix for audio stutters on Windows 10 1803.
Fixed %directoryname% crash with certain URLs.

Changes:
Attempted fix for audio stutters on Windows 10 1803.
Fixed %directoryname% crash with certain URLs.

Bug fixes.

Bug fixes.

Changes:
Removed ReplaceFile() API use (introduced in earlier 1.4 series) due to error codes that do not let us retry-loop on file-in-use.
Improved visual feedback of button-in-editbox control, used in various parts of the app.
Default UI status bar segment width tweaks.
Worked around Preferences / DSP page crashes due to certain DSP component using broken modal dialogs - allowing the Preferences dialog to be closed while a DSP configuration dialog is still active.
Added probing of apparent MP3 streams in Matroska files to detect MP2 disguised as MP3. Note that we already do this for MP4, where many other apps incorrectly report audio codec as MP3 when the actual data is MP2.
Content Group metadata mapping fixes.
In Default UI playlist, cursor-follows-playback now results in view centering on the newly focused track, if it's not visible before.
Skip Silence DSP bug fixes.
Made possible to reorder decoder priority list via context menu.

Cleaned up Default User Interface status bar, added a new field for count of selected tracks.

Refreshed File Operations preset management, now stored in a plain text files instead and possible to import/export/edit.
Relaxed beta version timeout, now possible to dismiss the message and launch without updating.
Updated FFmpeg to version 3.4.2.

Various minor bugs and regressions reported have been corrected.

Support for reading music files from FTP servers has been greatly improved and now covers FTPES/FTPS.
Fixed a bug in CD drive configuration dialog - automatic drive offset lookup works again.
Various reported bugs have been addressed.

All communication with foobar2000 website (troubleshooter, crash reporting, update checks) is now encrypted.
Amended Matroska tagging, certain rare files that would fail to update before are now taggable.
Improved recovery from removable audio output device unplug:
Volume control now works if the device wasn't available during foobar2000 startup but got attached later.
Media Library now handles very long filenames correctly.