foobar2000 v2.26 preview

[VEG]

Вышел foobar2000 v2.26! Предыдущая версия: foobar2000 v2.25.

• Improved recovery of malformed UTF-8 text in various tag formats.
• Made malformed UTF-8 tags text reported in integrity verifier.
• MP4 tagging improvements:
  
  • Tagtype info (Apple, Nero)
  • No longer writes Nero tags by default for single chapter files, only for multi chapter where other tagging formats can't store per track tags.
  • Added support for more rarely used Apple tag elements.
  • No longer alters binary structure of Apple tag elements which are not affected by edits.
• Monkey's Audio decoding moved to FFmpeg, no longer including Monkey's Audio library with foobar2000 setup.
  
  • You can once again install Monkey's Audio decoder component to replace built-in FFmpeg decoder.
• New info field: container (MP4, Matroska, Ogg, etc)
• New title formatting field: %_cpu_arch%
• Mac: made playlist view receive copy/paste from Finder
• Mac: New icon from Apple Icon Composer
• Mac: Built with Xcode 26, enabled macOS Tahoe looks.
• Mac: Install components by drag&drop from Finder to components list.
• Mac: Playlist Manager columns can be toggled.
• Added drag&drop from Internet Radio pages to playlist.
• Attempt to play a password-protected resource such as radio stream now shows a password prompt.
• Converter: Better error messages when receiving unexpected data format change in mid-conversion; made discard blank chunks before checking for format match.
• Equalizer now accepts presets via drag&drop from Explorer/Finder.
• Workaround for foo_tags issue [being backported to 2.25.x]
• Workaround for WAV headers claiming zero length [being backported to 2.25.x]
• Fixed File Operations link vs portable relative paths [being backported to 2.25.x]

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[LUR]

2025-12-17

• Mac: Because of erratic behavior of tableview controls on latest macOS, new macOS 26 appearance has been DISABLED. This will be looked into again later.
• File Operations: Fixed error with renaming files on redirected portable music folders & macOS volumes.
• Fixed various regressions with network shares in Media Library preferences page.
• Made new "Play On" accessible in Internet Radio panel context menus.
• Updated Opus decoder to v1.6.

[LUR]

2025-12-28

• LargeFieldsConfig technology is back - https://www.foobar2000.org/LargeFieldsConfig-v2
• Enabled WavPack asm optimizations on Windows for slight decoding speedup.
• Windows: fixed bugs related to copy-paste of file-relative locations in portable installs.
• Fixed MP4 tag writer corrupting specific kinds of fragmented/streaming MP4 files. Some of these are currently untaggable (fails cleanly). This will be properly fixed soon.

[LUR]

2025-12-29

• Fixed recent regression that caused crashes on a fresh profile.
• Properly fixed tag writing issues on fragmented/streaming MP4 files.

[VEG]

2025-12-31

• Mac: Made pass correct realtime/offline flag to Audio Units, fixed specific Audio Unit visualizations not working.

2026-01-02

• Windows: Worked around Wine crash in IWICBitmapScaler::CopyPixels(), breaking album art view in Properties dialog.

[VEG]

2026-01-07

• Made always write hours and minutes to Ogg chapter mark fields.
• Fixed Properties 'reload info' evading LargeFieldsConfig settings.
• Replaced libretro resampler with Speex resampler, providing better quality at comparable speeds / better speeds at comparable quality.
• Windows: Fixed ARDFTSRC resampler settings dialog being inaccessible from certain pages.

[VEG]

2026-01-15

• Major Converter update:
  
  • New preset format, presets stored as .ini files in profile subfolder. Old presets imported on first run.
  • Backing up of profile before upgrading is recommended because of the above.
  • Added extensible post-conversion actions which can be used for ReplayGain scanning, integrity testing, etc.
  • On conversion error, encoder's stderr output is forwarded to foobar2000 console.
  • Fixed a bug causing int32 stream to be sent to encoders that don't recognize it if source is float64.
  • Ogg chaining is now off by default, Ogg chapters written by default instead.
• Fixed logic error in replaygain_scanner API implementation, use of replaygain_scanner object after finalize() wasn't working as documented.
• ARDFTSRC prevent implicit resampling using "max bandwidth" mode when told to use max quality.
• Speex resampler code update.

[MOSSHIFI]

The 32-bit plugin is not compatible. Is there a way to convert it to 64-bit.

[VEG]

2026-01-18

• Fixed MP4/M4A files not being played completely if their tags contain malformed Apple Gapless information.
• File Operations: Fixed erratic behavior if empty folders can't be removed.
• Mac: Built in Playback Statistics internal fixes.
• Workaround for Media Library crash when filesystem returns nonsensical folder contents (sighted with Wine).

[VEG]

The 32-bit plugin is not compatible. Is there a way to convert it to 64-bit.

No, the plugin needs to be recompiled for 64-bit foobar2000.

[VEG]

2026-01-21

• Fixed holiday-coding bug in LargeFieldsConfig handling which resulted in Properties dialog not loading complete info in some cases (partial info not flagged as partial).
• Mac: Disabled out-of-process loading of Audio Units which caused display glitches.
• Mac: Fixed various issues with Audio Unit panel resizing.
• Windows: Made recover better from fooHelper.exe crash/termination (system file dialogs).
• Windows: Mitigation for "error 380" bug in latest Windows update, which caused specific file manipulations to fail in cloud-synced folders such as OneDrive folder.