Download foobar2000 0.9.5.1 beta 1

Yesterday the first beta release of version 0.9.5.1 of the media player foobar2000 was released. This program can handle mp1, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, aac, ogg vorbis, flac / ogg flac, wavpack, wav, aiff, au, snd, cdda and wma and also has support for Replay Gain, converting from and to different formats and extensive options to customize the tags. In addition, it is possible to further extend the functionality using plugins. Version 0.9.5.1 further perfects the ‘Default User Interface’ introduced in version 0.9.5, gives a warning when exiting when tasks are still running in the background, and improves compatibility with ID3v2 tags. The full list of changes for version 0.9.5.1 is as follows:

Changes in version 0.9.5.1:

• Improvements to new Default User Interface:
  • New built-in Media Library Search dialog, with advanced autoplaylist creation features.
  • Configurable left/center/right alignment or custom columns in Playlist View.
  • Usability: switching layouts now flashes labels to reduce user confusion.
  • Ability to customize toolbar buttons.
• New: Warning popup when trying to close foobar2000 while tasks such as conversion or ReplayGain scan are active.
• Various UI responsiveness improvements and speed optimizations; much faster Album List refresh with large libraries.
• Usability: positions of various dialogs are now remembered, relative to their parent windows.
• Properties dialog: “Tools” button, “Automatically Fill Values” can now use clipboard as source.
• Converter clean-ups, ability to manually edit commandline encoder executable paths through Advanced Preferences.
• WMA handling bug fixes, ability to store arbitrary metadata fields in WMA tags.
• ID3v2 tagging compatibility improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

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