foobar2000 v2.24 for Windows release notes

Overview

This is a maintenance update, with various incremental improvements and fixes.

Full list of changes

New version numbering scheme: 2.24 for planned stable release year of 2024.
Internet radio improvements:
- Fixed Internet radio search not working through a proxy server.
- Internet Radio search & list: clicking a stream that is already playing no longer restarts playback.
- Made disconnected internet radio streams resumed quietly, without showing error popups.
- Suppressed advancing to the next playlist item if internet radio playback stops due to a network error.
Codec & audio format fixes
- Implemented Ogg chapter support.
- Fixes for plain WAV files near & over 4GB in size. Note that WAV file format does not actually support content longer than 4GB.
- Refactored Matroska chapter handling. If a multichapter Matroska file is played as a whole (from remote URL etc), chapter names will be shown as dynamic track titles.
- Made refuse to retag MP4/M4A/M4B files with QT chapters if chapter count exceeds 255, to prevent erratic behavior. Please remux such files to another container to allow tagging.
- Made WMA tag writing behave less erratically if fed tags read by FFmpeg decoder wrapper.
- MP4/M4A/M4B: Prefer QT chapters over chpl if more than 255 chapters found.
- MP4/M4A/M4B: Fixed very rare tag update failures if exceeding 4GB boundary. Note that previous versions would just leave the file untouched and report an error if running into this scenario, never corrupt files.
- Updated MP4 tmpo tag manipulation, restored ability to write which was lost a few years ago.
- Improved compatibility with multi-value MP4/M4A tags.
- Fixed JXL/AVIF/HEIC external album covers not being recognized, even if relevant system image codecs are present.
- Made fact chunk in PCM WAV files ignored.
- Removed arbitrary denial of reading of cuesheets over FTP/HTTP/etc.
- Allowed absolute paths in cue sheets.
- Extended MP4 chapter manipulation commands to work with other formats that support chapterizer interface, such as Ogg or Musepack.
- Prevented nonsense sample rate & channel count from being shown on MP4 files with no audio track.
- Made possible to store peak information in Opus files.
- Fixed erratic behavior if ID3v2 tag contains multiple date fields.
- Added video_codec info for Windows Media Video.
- Added stream_count info for formats that support multiple streams.
- Allow local M3U referencing remote M3U to be both read as playlists, prevent HLS reader being used on non-HLS content.
- Report zero-length WAV files as broken.
- Fixed more odd behaviors of tag editing on MP4/M4A with QT chapters.
- Made stream selector show long codec names.
Converter
- Mitigation for Converter failures when writing to a Google Drive volume.
- More detailed error messages for specific file creation errors.
- Can write multichapter Ogg files after disabling Ogg chaining support.
File Operations
- Suppressed useless secondary progress bar if renaming files.
- Defer info reload to prevent bugged display of cuesheets after moving whole folder.
- Added an option to overwrite existing files.
- Updated recycle bin detection logic, mitigating lag/lockup occurring for some users.
Usability improvements
- Fixed inconsistent drag&drop behavior when dragging items between playlists.
- Mitigation for extreme column width causing CListControl (Playlist, Verifier, possibly others) to go off the rails.
- Amended AccurateRip log formatting, added track number info to lines where it was missing before.
- Made current console backlog saved when toggling logging on.
- Added %channel_mask% title formatting field, on top of on $info(WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK).
- ReFacets & Album List: Improved processing of %<field>% expressions, artist and artist sort should be split together properly.
- Added tweak options for ReplayGain thread counts.
- Removed arbitrary limit of items per "apply gain to file content" pass.
- Added toggle to disable tooltips in Album List.
- Prevented Media Library search from clearing other playlists with enter key if library selection playlist feature is active.
- Fixed stuck drag&drop scrolling mode in various list controls after receiving external drag&drop.
- Made list control obey system drag threshold values, making it easier to register clicks if mouse moves slightly between mouse down and mouse up events.
General improvements
- New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance of 64-bit build.
- Improved stability of hardware-accelerated visualizations.
- Improved recovery of corrupted configuration data.
- Fixed bugs with urlencoding in HTTP redirects.
- Made https:// used for help.foobar2000.org links.
- Refactored metadb_display_field_provider lookup, faster title formatting evaluation on heavy configs.
- 32-bit build: Removed tone generator assembly optimizations, tone:// should produce identical output in all versions now.
- Media Library: made track add & remove events triggered in groups, resulting in much faster autoplaylist updates.
- Playback CPU usage optimizations.
- Made network encryption error messages more useful.
- Wine compatibility fixes.
Third party code updates
- FFmpeg 6.1.1
- Opus 1.5.2
- WavPack 5.7.0
- Monkey's Audio 10.80
- zlib 1.3.1
- SQLite 3.46.1
- unRAR 7.0.9
- NSIS 3.10