Download foobar2000 1.1.8 beta 4

The fourth beta release of foobar2000 version 1.1.8 has 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.

foobar2000 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 “album artist” metadata compatibility with other software. (beta 4)
  • Both “album artist” and “albumartist” are read as fb2k “album artist”.
  • Fb2k “album artist” is written as “albumartist” by default, the writing it as “album artist” as before is opt-in.