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foobar2000 2.25.2 download

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform.

Peter Pawlowski Music players #11 Music players
This is an older version. The current version is 2.26.2. foobar2000 2.26.2 · Released:

Installer files 2.25.2

ArchitectureTypeScopeFile sizeDownloadSHA256
64-bit EXE (NSIS) All users 7.6 MB foobar2000.org VirusTotal
ARM64 EXE (NSIS) All users 6.7 MB foobar2000.org VirusTotal
32-bit EXE (NSIS) All users 6.7 MB foobar2000.org VirusTotal

Link and SHA256 come from the Windows Package Manager community manifest. Compare the hash of the downloaded file before running it.

Release notes

- Workaround for "database is readonly" crash.
- Fixed bad interaction of TAK album art reader with decoder merit management.
- Enabled album art reading & editing for: AC3/EAC3, DTS.
- RTSP appears no longer supported by Microsoft WMA runtime - made fail with correct message.
- Increased size limit for cover pictures embedded in MP4/M4A files or APE tags to 64MB; made refuse to write covers too large for foobar2000 to read back.
- Made MP4/M4A publisher field recognized.
- Fixed false errors when seeking in Matroska/FLAC with "verify integrity of played files".
- Made odd-sized covers rendered with correct aspect ratio in Properties dialog.
- Matroska seeking/chapters fixes:
- Fixed seeking accuracy regression introduced in 2.24.
- Verifier no longer complains about decoded vs reported duration mismatch on affected files (did in pre-2.24).
- Fixed a bug causing various window positions not to be restored if too close to screen edges.
- Suppressed flushing of pending visualization data when only running visualization momentarily disappears, fixes visualization going blank when resizing window with just one visualization running.
- Fixed issues with implicit resampling (WASAPI shared) vs low latency in smooth seeking mode.
- When doing both implicit resampling and channel remapping, do it in order that costs less CPU (resample then upmix, or downmix then resample).
- Console now sanitizes bad UTF-8 in received text instead of going off the rails.
- Fixed a bug that made files where tag reading fails impossible to add to playlist.
- Fixed glitches in playback error log on Wine.
- Fixed incorrect handling of non-alphanumeric characters in network passwords.

https://www.foobar2000.org/changelog

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