Download foobar2000 1.1.16

The final release of foobar2000 version 1.1.16 has been released. This popular, lightweight music player can handle MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, WAV and WMA, among others, and has support for Replay Gain. Furthermore, the player can convert different formats and the program has extensive options to adjust the tags. In addition, it is possible to change the functionality using plugins expand. The changelog for version 1.1.16 of this release looks like this:

Changes in foobar2000 1.1.16:

• Worked around playback/output preferences crash on Windows 2003.
• ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements:
  • Non-compliant ID3v2.3 TYER allowed by default since various other popular software does it.
  • Option to write “rating” as TXXX for the few people who want it.
• Fixed properties dialog field copy/paste inconsistency when copying specific fields from single to multiple files.
• ReplayGain scanner: added additional warnings when trying to scan a very large group of tracks as a single album.
• ReplayGain scanner: addressed extreme memory usage when scanning a large group of tracks as a single album.
• Cleaned up embedded cue sheet handling code.
• Faster FLAC tag updates when full file rewrite is necessary.
• Sanitized FLAC tag updating behaviors in low-memory conditions.
• The File Operations component now be used to create links to files, in addition to copying/renaming/moving.
• Improved album art loading performance with huge libraries and complicated lookup patterns.