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Foobar2000 0.9.5 Beta 2

Copernic   on 28 October 2007 - 12:31 · 21 comments & 13942 views

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Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Features:

* Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA.
* Full unicode support.
* Advanced tagging capabilities.
* Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external command line encoder executables for different output formats).
* ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Change Log:

* New Default User Interface
- Allows embedding of Album List and other components in the main window
- Quick setup dialog on first startup allowing easy UI customization
- Theme import/export support for transferring appearance-related settings easily

[extended]
- Built-in playlist view supports columns and grouping
- New Playlist Search dialog
- Embedded album art support
- New built-in spectrum visualisation

* New Album List component

- Updates automatically with Media Library content changes (“Refresh” command no longer needed)
- Embeddable in the main window
- Supports direct creation of autoplaylists from Album List tree branches

* Properties dialog improvements
- New commands: “Format from Other Fields”, “Capitalize”, “Clean Up”
- Improved “Automatically Fill Values” functionality
- Improved Windows Clipboard interaction - now you can use copy/paste to transfer values between fields or between different sets of tracks

* Converter component improvements
- Replaced “show output directory when done” functionality with a new dialog showing a list of created tracks
- Built-in support for writing AU/SND and AIFF files
- Updated FLAC support - FLAC encoding now requires FLAC encoder 1.2.0 or newer
- Improved handling of hung command-line encoder processes

* Audio format decoding updates
- Updated libFLAC to 1.2.0
- Rewritten support for AU/SND and AIFF audio formats

- New “File Operations” component, for moving, copying and deleting audio files
- Old Masstagger component no longer included with the installer (available for download separately)
- Windows XP or newer is now required

Download: Foobar2000 0.9.5 Beta 2
View: Release Notes
Link: Home Page

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(2 replies) #1 - Kaboose - on 28 Oct 2007 - 13:37
cheers for the update... btw they removed the F3 search button.. any idea what the new button for a search is?
#1.1 Elactos on 28 Oct 2007 - 13:45
I still have the search button on F3.
#1.2 carlskov on 28 Oct 2007 - 15:53
You can set the shortcut key to Search in Preferences under (you guessed it) Keyboard Shortcuts
#2 Elactos on 28 Oct 2007 - 13:43
Love is in the air. <3
#3 turke on 28 Oct 2007 - 13:46
The best got better. New interface options are great.
(7 replies) #4 th3rEsa on 28 Oct 2007 - 13:50
I still prefer Winamp. Foobar2000 may have many configuration options, but it looks horrible as long as you don't want to spend hours of designing your UI.
Hell, I want to listen to music, nothing else.

(IIRC there is some component available which enables a "mini mode". foo_panels or sth. Does anyone know if it's still developed?)
#4.1 .AlleymaN on 28 Oct 2007 - 14:18
The new default UI takes all of 5 minutes to customize to your liking. I use Foobar just to play music too and it does it right without consuming huge amounts of RAM.
#4.2 acedriver on 28 Oct 2007 - 16:15
designing UI is optional..
#4.3 Toology on 28 Oct 2007 - 16:20
Quote - (th3rEsa said @ #4)
I still prefer Winamp. Foobar2000 may have many configuration options, but it looks horrible as long as you don't want to spend hours of designing your UI.
Hell, I want to listen to music, nothing else.

(IIRC there is some component available which enables a "mini mode". foo_panels or sth. Does anyone know if it's still developed?)


Kind of contradictory to say you want to listen to your music and "nothing else" and complain about the UI, isn't it?
#4.4 ViperAFK on 28 Oct 2007 - 16:41
Quote - (Toology said @ #4.3)
Quote - (th3rEsa said @ #4)
I still prefer Winamp. Foobar2000 may have many configuration options, but it looks horrible as long as you don't want to spend hours of designing your UI.
Hell, I want to listen to music, nothing else.

(IIRC there is some component available which enables a "mini mode". foo_panels or sth. Does anyone know if it's still developed?)


Kind of contradictory to say you want to listen to your music and "nothing else" and complain about the UI, isn't it?


I think he means he wants to listen to music, not spend alot of time configuring the interface, which I agree with.
#4.5 th3rEsa on 28 Oct 2007 - 18:07
ViperAFK got it.
#4.6 HawkMan on 28 Oct 2007 - 18:29
Quote - (th3rEsa said @ #4.5)
ViperAFK got it.

but you don't have to do anything to the GUI.

a stadard it still has prettty much the bets GUI for organizing and playing music around, and afterall. it's not like you look at a music player after you hit play
#4.7 th3rEsa on 28 Oct 2007 - 18:36
When shuffling tracks, I usually do. Sometimes I want to skip some tracks.
#5 - Kaboose - on 28 Oct 2007 - 16:33
ok thx, i set up the F3 search button again, and Foobar FTW
#6 xan K on 28 Oct 2007 - 19:07
nice! yeah! foobar FTW!
#7 .benster on 28 Oct 2007 - 19:21
w00t!
(1 reply) #8 Acid rain on 28 Oct 2007 - 21:40
now that is a changelog!
#8.1 th3rEsa on 28 Oct 2007 - 23:26
It's not the changelog for this beta, though, but for the 0.9.5 major release. The b2 change log has only three lines (the last ones).
#9 Sir Phlegyas on 28 Oct 2007 - 21:44
I feel like they release a new version every hour.
Let's try this one...
#10 +Dakkaroth on 29 Oct 2007 - 08:37
Bah.. I'm loving beta 1. Guess I'll update it~ <3

edit - Well, that 2 seconds. Works fine. -shrug-
#11 turke on 31 Oct 2007 - 09:39
Winamp is for noobs. If you want a tool box "all in one", Foobar is the one to go.

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