foobar2000 for Mac v2.7 preview change log

2024-04-26

ReFacets playlist interaction bug fixes.
ReFacets added "Last Modified" stats column.
Made disconnected internet radio streams resumed quietly, without showing error popups.
Added menu items to configure Equalizer & Audio Units. Audio Unit menu items will appear after adding Audio Unit adapter to the DSP chain.
Fixed some of playlist column widths not being correctly restored after app restart.

Made possible to keep running after closing main window.
Implemented Advanced Preferences search.
Added missing Decoding Speed Test warm-up toggle (the feature was actually always-on before).
Fixed ReFacets column widths not being remembered.
FFmpeg updated to 6.1.1.
File Operations: Suppressed useless secondary progress bar if renaming files.

Made stream selector show long codec names.
Media Library: made track add & remove events triggered in groups, resulting in much faster autoplaylist updates.

Fixed decoding speed test dialog being created invisible, regression since 03-15 build.
Fixed various minor UI glitches.
Add Location now strips extra non-text characters from the entered URL.

Fixed previous build regression causing some of utility windows to be created invisible.

Fixed main window size being possibly remembered incorrectly if closing app via cmd+q / "Quit" while some other window, such as Album List, is open.

Playback CPU usage reduced.
Made Ogg chapters beginning from CHAPTER001 recognized.
Allowed absolute paths in cue sheets.
Enabled chapter manipulation menu commands, same as on Windows. They were not available in previous versions.

Opus decoder updated to 1.5.1
WavPack decoder updated to 5.7.0; made WavPack library version shown in components list.
Monkey's Audio decoder updated to 10.52
Made FFmpeg version shown in components list.
Cleaned up and bugfixed detection of MP4 video codec names.
Prevented nonsense sample rate & channel count from being shown on MP4 files with no audio track.
File Operations: Defer info reload to prevent bugged display of cuesheets after moving whole folder.

Worked around audio glitches with very low output buffer size introduced in previous build.
Fixed glitchy seekbar movement in certain scenarios.
Prevented nonsensical video codec names from being reported for certain MP4 files.

Playback CPU usage optimizations.
Small chunks returned by decoder are merged into one to reduce amount of wakeup cycles during playback.
Made possible to store peak information in Opus files.
Added update checks - checks for last public beta/stable build, same as Windows version.

Improved ReFacets performance.
Fixed erratic behavior if ID3v2 tag contains multiple date fields.
Suppressed advancing to the next playlist item if internet radio playback stops due to a network error.
File Operations: Added an option to overwrite existing files.
Suppressed repeating console messages about decoder shims used.
More thorough error reporting for blank WAV files.
Added stream_count info for formats that support multiple streams.

Implemented meta autocomplete in Properties dialog.
Implemented Ogg chapter support.
New major revision of bitcompare code, improved performance.
Allow local M3U referencing remote M3U to be both read as playlists, prevent HLS reader being used on non-HLS content.
Updated File Operations recycle bin detection logic.
Stop decoding ADTS AAC when running into APE tags, instead of reporting errors.
Report zero-length WAV files as broken.
Reduced memory usage.