Foobar2000 1.4.5 Beta 2 Advanced Audio Player for PC Windows

Improved compatibility with certain internet radio stations.
Tag manipulation improvements.
When editing tags of iTunes-encoded M4A files, excess padding (often as much as 32 kilobytes) will be removed.
Better handling of WMA “rating” field.
Default UI album art viewer now less likely to make app unresponsive when attempting to load pictures from a lagging network share.
Embedded album art loading performance tweaks.
Updated FLAC library (1.3.2).
Updated zlib (1.2.11).
Unicode filenames within ZIP files now work correctly.
Added “skip all” button to Converter overwrite prompt dialog.
Fixed resampler configuration sample rate pickers not allowing more than five digits.

- Fixed bugs with conversion to multitrack (chained streams) Opus.
- Fixed a glitch in plaintext library/playlist search query handling.
- Various cosmetic fixes for high DPI screens.
- File Operations component updated: smarter file delete feature, with options in advanced settings.
- Updated WavPack library (5.0 stable).
- Updated FFmpeg library (3.2.2).

- Fixed bugs with conversion to multitrack (chained streams) Opus.
- Fixed a glitch in plaintext library/playlist search query handling.
- Various cosmetic fixes for high DPI screens.
- File Operations component updated: smarter file delete feature, with options in advanced settings.

- Corrected 1.3.12 regression causing certain DSP configurations to crash.
- New utility commands to optimize file layout & minimize file size.
- Improved compatibility with certain internet radio stations.
- Updated FFmpeg to 3.1.4.
- M4A file format compatibility fixes.
- Enabled WavPack 5 DSD decoding.
- Fixed a bug in Converter causing conversion to a root folder of a drive to occasionally fail.

* Various regressions have been fixed.
* Newly added features include native playback of WavPack 5 DSD files.

- Corrected 1.3.12 regression causing certain DSP configurations to crash.
- New utility commands to optimize file layout & minimize file size.
- Improved compatibility with certain internet radio stations.

* Corrected various 1.3.11 pause regressions.
* Corrected “remove tags” on MP4/M4A files incorrectly showing that the file still has some metadata immediately after the removal.
* Flat equalizer now produces bit identical stream.
* Prevented clobbering of iTunes “Encoding Params” tag on MP4/M4A tag update.
* Now using WavPack5 decoder with support for files larger than 4 gigabytes.
* Updated ZIP archive reader now supports ZIP files larger than 4 gigabytes.
* Added support for Matroska/ALAC files.
* Fixed multichannel ALAC channel order bugs.
* Fixed multichannel WavPack in Matroska.
* Improved handling of various malformed files (Matroska, AAC).
* Made files with extreme sample rates (>200KHz) playable through standard DirectSound output, resampler activated automatically if needed.
* FLAC “Remove tags” no longer erases the “tool” field.
* Reverted 1.3.11 FLAC tag updater tweaks. Removal of padding will be added as a separate feature later.

* Updated ZIP archive reader now supports ZIP files larger than 4 gigabytes.

- Corrected various 1.3.11 pause regressions.
- Corrected “remove tags” on MP4/M4A files incorrectly showing that the file still has some metadata immediately after the removal.
- Flat equalizer now produces bit identical stream.
- Prevented clobbering of iTunes “Encoding Params” tag on MP4/M4A tag update.
- Now using WavPack5 decoder with support for files larger than 4 gigabytes.

- Fixed dBpoweramp/SSRC resampler glitching in extreme upsampling cases.
- Fixed misbehavior of FFmpeg -strict level override option.
- Writing of SoundCheck tags [experimental] as well as batch copying ReplayGain to SoundCheck.
- Fixed “Remove tags” not removing every possible tag type with FLAC and M4A formats.
- Fixed Properties dialog locking up on certain metadata.
- Made cuesheet & chapter edit operations automatically update affected playlists.
- Fixed Ctrl+A in various multiline editboxes, Properties dialog and its sub-dialogs in particular.
- Improved compatibility with certain malformed M4A files.
- Fixed Equalizer bug causing inconsistent file lengths when batch converting.
- Made internet radio streams disconnect/reconnect on pause/unpause.
- Implemented updated Opus ReplayGain specification.
- Improved properties dialog info display of Opus files.
- Fixed a random crash regression from 1.3.10.
- Fixed reading of Apple gapless information from specific old M4A files.
- Fixed a rare lockup when batch moving/renaming/copying a lot of files.
- Updated FFmpeg to 3.1.2.

- Bugs have been fixed.

- Fixing dither regression.

* fixes for issues reported on the forums.

* Two known regressions from the beta 1 have been corrected.