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Update: foobar2000 0.9.6.6 – better drag& drop in Windows 7

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

foobar2000 audio playerfoobar2000 0.9.6.6 is out.

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.6 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6.6
EXE installer/portable, 2.93MB, MD5 sum: 87D73420A79B4466B3E3A228E6686CA4
WHAT’S NEW IN FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.6
Matroska files are now taggable even if they don’t contain decodable audio tracks.
Worked-around “Open Containing Folder” command opening two windows on certain machines.
Added support for Multimedia Class Scheduler Service on Windows Vista and newer.
Various changes to make specific obscure crashes easier to analyze.
Updated third-party component blacklist.
Improved drag&drop compatibility with Windows 7.

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6.5

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

foobar2000 audio playerfoobar2000 0.9.6.5 is out.

This seems to be a release intended to fix crash bugs by all means, including the very interesting approach of blocking third party components (plugins) with known bugs from being loaded at all in the application.

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.5 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6.5
EXE installer/portable, 2.93MB, MD5 sum: 3902ADCCF29CECBC5A831D5FD4ADEABC
WHAT’S NEW IN FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.5
- Online troubleshooter feature, accessible from the Help menu.
- Fixed: Album List was being compiled with all optimizations disabled until now, since at least 0.9.5, due to bugs in MSVC9.
- Various improvements to the crash report submission system.
- Fixed an obscure bug in the ABX component.
- Fixed a crash when trying to open a lossy WavPack3 file.
- Fixed a crash when decoding certain corrupted AAC files.
- Built-in album art viewer can now view artist pictures (embedded in tags and artist.jpg in the same folder).
- Specific third party components with known critical bugs are now blocked from loading.

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6.3

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

foobar2000 audio playerfoobar2000 0.9.6.3 is out and about!

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.3 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6.3
EXE installer, 2.85MB, MD5 sum: 7B9B1A560F750221D71E35FD65160BB2
WHAT’S NEW IN FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.3
- Fixed multiple security vulnerabilities in AAC and Musepack decoders.
- Improved compatibility of Media Library with certain dodgy NAS devices.
- Media Library no longer ignores files/folders flagged as system.
- Improved shell integration behaviors when foobar2000 is taking very long to start.

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6.2

Friday, January 30th, 2009

foobar2000 audio playerfoobar2000 0.9.6.2 is out and about!

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.2 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6.2
EXE installer, 2.85MB, MD5 sum: 40048A88F7C52A5B3FC3D04D93B2A2E9
WHAT’S NEW IN FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.2
- Media Library is now aware of newly installed decoder components and will re-check your folders for files that could not be indexed before.
- New options to control tag fields searched by simple search queries, in Advanced Preferences.
- Various bug fixes and cosmetic changes.

- Known Glitch: The playlist switcher toolbar dropdown list shows a vertical scrollbar regardless of being scrollable

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6.1

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

foobar2000 0.9.6.1 is out and about!

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.1 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6.1
EXE installer, 2.85MB, MD5 sum: 3DA21D4CE9729C7B1BD3BBD54351C9BC
WHAT’S NEW IN FOOBAR2000 0.9.6.1
- Autocompletion of values in the Properties dialog.
- Support for chapters in Musepack SV8 files.
- New “Split values” command in the Properties dialog.
- Simple search queries: any latin characters are now matched regardless of their accents.

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6 beta 5

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

foobar2000 0.9.6 beta 5 is out and about!

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6 BETA 5 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6 Beta 5
exe installer, 2.84MB, MD5 sum: 41238C451571C4992948CCB2A7B6223F
FOOBAR2000 0.9.6 BETA 5 SCREENS
Foobar2000 0.9.6 Beta 5

Update: foobar2000 0.9.6 beta 4

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

A new foobar2000 beta just got released: 0.9.6 beta 4.

Just as I was downloading the new beta, I decided to take advantage and test the portable install option. It seems to have worked perfectly, and it’s now playing happily my favorite 4hero album :)

The process is pretty straightforward (a few screens are included below).

FOOBAR2000 0.9.6 BETA 4 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download foobar2000 0.9.6 Beta 4
exe installer, 2.84MB, MD5 sum: 0068100FFB86D8F31891BDC9656579AC
FOOBAR2000 0.9.6 BETA 4 SCREENS
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