New Update foobar2000 - Audio Player

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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 isn't valid.

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foobar2000 v2.24.6​

2.24.6 released on 2025-07-06​

• Fixed excessive memory usage of visualizations in certain conditions.
• Restored old behavior of M3U loader, local playlists referencing internet radio can again specify station names.
• Improved compatibility with AAC radio streams that mix different metadata encoding types.
• Made HTTP folders possible to load again.
• Fixed erratic behavior when seeking back from near end of track.
• Fixed safe mode (triggered after app crash) failing to start up.
• Made respect embedded color profiles of JPEG & PNG album covers.
• Fixed WASAPI shared mode audio stream format negotation bug.

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foobar2000 version 2.25

2.25 released on 2025-09-01​

• Built-in UPnP media renderer, both client (play to another device) and server (be controlled by another device).
  • Other foobar2000 instances on your local network, with UPnP remote control feature active, will be listed as output devices.
  • foobar2000-to-foobar2000 playback shows tags with album covers on the other end, using Ogg FLAC as stream container.
• Media Library improvements, most notably:
  • Can natively index FTP/WebDAV/SMB network shares.
  • Improved response to enabling/disabling/installing/uninstalling decoders - only reloads info from affected music files.
• Codecs, most notably:
  • FFmpeg updated to 8.0, added native support for xHE-AAC decoding.
  • Rewritten Ogg FLAC tag handling, properly implemented embedded album art.
  • Fixed ReplayGain tags not being saved in multichapter Ogg/Opus files.
• Portable install improvements
  • Changed the way relative paths are handled, so cached tags are no longer forgotten after relaunching from a different path.
  • Made possible so specify no-cover pics as relative path to install location.
• Converter:
  • Enabled RF64 writing.
  • Fixed Converter failing to function until foobar2000 restart after removal of %TEMP%\foo_converter.
• Other
  • Added preferences page for network share credentials so you don't have to place them in URLs anymore.
  • Made editing DSP settings momentarily lower output latency to make DSPs appear more responsive.
  • Fixed Properties 'rewrite tags' not working if nothing has been edited.
  • Installer is now hi-DPI friendly.
  • Made system file dialogs invoked out-of-process, to avoid stability issues.
• See release notes for full list of changes.

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Version 2.25.1

2.25.1 released on 2025-09-11

• Fixed some list control styles not drawing background correctly.
• Fixed Monkey's Audio seeking bugs - reverted Monkey's Audio library to version 10.93, same as in foobar2000 v2.24 series.
• Fixed a rare bug causing unwanted changes in titles when editing attached pictures on M4A files containing valid chapter list but with just one chapter.
• Fixed Ogg FLAC tagging bug that caused metadata to disappear if writing pictures.
• Made Ogg FLAC tag writer refuse to write pictures too large to fit size permitted by the specification.
• Internet Radio dialog fixed missing tab texture in light mode.
• Suppressed UPnP initialization if foobar2000 is invoked by installer.

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Version 2.25.2

2.25.2 released on 2025-10-04

• Workaround for "database is readonly" crash.
• Fixed bad interaction of TAK album art reader with decoder merit management.
• Enabled album art reading & editing for: AC3/EAC3, DTS.
• RTSP appears no longer supported by Microsoft WMA runtime - made fail with correct message.
• Increased size limit for cover pictures embedded in MP4/M4A files or APE tags to 64MB; made refuse to write covers too large for foobar2000 to read back.
• Made MP4/M4A publisher field recognized.
• Fixed false errors when seeking in Matroska/FLAC with "verify integrity of played files".
• Made odd-sized covers rendered with correct aspect ratio in Properties dialog.
• Matroska seeking/chapters fixes:
  • Fixed seeking accuracy regression introduced in 2.24.
  • Verifier no longer complains about decoded vs reported duration mismatch on affected files (did in pre-2.24).
• Fixed a bug causing various window positions not to be restored if too close to screen edges.
• Suppressed flushing of pending visualization data when only running visualization momentarily disappears, fixes visualization going blank when resizing window with just one visualization running.
• Fixed issues with implicit resampling (WASAPI shared) vs low latency in smooth seeking mode.
• When doing both implicit resampling and channel remapping, do it in order that costs less CPU (resample then upmix, or downmix then resample).
• Console now sanitizes bad UTF-8 in received text instead of going off the rails.
• Fixed a bug that made files where tag reading fails impossible to add to playlist.
• Fixed glitches in playback error log on Wine.
• Fixed incorrect handling of non-alphanumeric characters in network passwords.

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Version 2.25.3

2.25.3 released on 2025-10-29

• Fixed very old race condition bugs in decoder merit management, potentially causing decoder to be listed twice.
• Fixed missing info reload when changing stream via toolbar dropdown.
• Workaround for stuck visualizations if playback ends while foobar2000 is invisible.
• Fixed LD & ELD AAC not being reliably sent to alternate packet decoders.
• Fixed Decoding Speed Test not remembering last used DSP chain.
• Fixed missing winsock init for SMB operations, causing all SMB access to fail if no other network features have been used first.
• Fixed bad interaction between WebDAV filesystem and media library.
• Workaround for foo_tags stuck info issue.
• Workaround for WAV headers claiming zero length.
• Fixed File Operations link vs portable relative paths.

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Version 2.25.4

2.25.4 released on 2025-12-30

• Refined workaround for foo_tags (M-Tags) component bugs. No longer hammers all subsongs when starting playback.
• Default User Interface: made cycling tabs by keyboard shortcuts cancel tab rename in progress.
• Converter: Made "no DSP reset" explicitly shown in overview, as it's dangerous if enabled unintentionally.
• Fixed various regressions with network shares in Media Library preferences page.
• File Operations: Fixed error with renaming files on redirected portable music folders.
• Fixed tag writing issues on fragmented/streaming M4A/MP4 files.
• Fixed bugs related to copy-paste of file-relative locations in portable installs.

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Version 2.25.5

2.25.5 released on 2026-01-02

• Corrected a regression in 2.25.4; incomplete removal of foobar2000 v2.0 beta code leftovers resulted in crashing on a fresh profile.

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Version 2.25.6

2.25.6 released on 2026-01-22

• Mitigation for "error 380" bug in latest Windows update, which caused specific file manipulations to fail in cloud-synced folders such as OneDrive folder.
• 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.
• Made recover better from fooHelper.exe crash/termination (system file dialogs).
• Converter: Fixed a bug causing int32 stream to be sent to encoders that don't recognize it if source is float64.
• Made always write hours and minutes to Ogg chapter mark fields.

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