Download foobar2000 1.0 beta 1

The first beta release of foobar2000 version 1.0 was released on Friday. This popular music player can handle MP3, aac, ogg vorbis, flac and ogg flac, wav and wma, among others, as well as support for Replay Gain. The player can also convert different formats and the program has extensive options to adjust the tags. In addition, it is possible to change the functionality using plugins to expand further. Below is an overview of the most important changes made in version 1.0:

Menu layout changes
A new Context Menu structure has been introduced along with a reworked context menu preferences page.

Holding down shift while opening a menu – with both context and main menu – will bring up menu commands that are normally hidden, so you no longer need to go through the preferences page to access obscure commands that are hidden by default.

Reworked Preferences
Various standard Preferences pages have been reworked. The Preferences dialog now has OK, Apply and Cancel buttons. Existing components need to be updated to utilize the new Preferences functionality.

New Edit Menu behavior
With Default User Interface, the Edit Menu commands operate on currently selected items, not just on the currently active playlist. This allows – for an example – to use the Copy command on Album List selection.

This feature currently does not work with third party user interfaces – Edit Menu commands operate on the active playlist just like in old foobar2000 versions; relevant components will need to be updated to comply.

Custom cover art filename patterns
You can now set custom filename patterns and paths for front cover, back cover, artist and disc artwork. You also have the ability to set a stub image for each of these.

New configuration file format
Configuration of individual components is now stored in separate files. Reading of old configuration files is still supported so your settings will be preserved while upgrading from older versions; however you will not be able to downgrade back to older 0.9.x releases without losing your settings.

Built-in support for Windows Media streaming
Buggy third party components are no longer required to play ASX/MMS/RTSP streams. It’s recommended to uninstall relevant components.

Time limit in beta versions
To prevent people from running outdated beta versions, every beta version now expires after four weeks from the original release.