Download foobar2000 1.1.8

After six beta releases, the final of foobar2000 version 1.1.8 has now been released. This popular music player can handle MP3, aac, ogg vorbis, flac and ogg 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 to expand further. In version 1.1.8, the support for metadata in the various file formats has been improved, among other things. The complete list of changes made in version 1.1.8 is as follows:

Changes in version 1.1.8

• Worked-around a reported security problem with certain WAV files and buggy system codecs.
• Skip silence DSP improvements.
• Improved MP3 tag handling (ID3v2) compliance:
  • More compliant WXXX parsing.
  • More compliant ID3v2.4 data handling.
  • Compressed 2.3 tags are now readable.
  • Due to heavy structural changes in relevant code, please watch out for MP3 tagging regressions.
• Musepack decoding bug fixes. (beta 3)
• Fixed a converter bug with writing multichapter files. (beta 3)
• Improved FLAC/Vorbis metadata compatibility with other software. (beta 4, beta 5)
  • Affected fields: “album artist”, “totaltracks”, “totaldiscs”.
  • The old behavior can be restored with an Advanced Preferences switch.
• Support for playing WebM audio (beta 5)
• Support for iTunes gapless information in MP3 files (beta 5)