Vrijdag is de eerste bètarelease van foobar2000 versie 1.0 verschenen. Deze populaire muziekspeler kan onder andere overweg met mp3, aac, ogg vorbis, flac en ogg flac, wav en wma, en beschikt verder over ondersteuning voor Replay Gain. Ook kan de speler verschillende formaten converteren en heeft het programma uitgebreide mogelijkheden om de tags aan te passen. Daarnaast is het mogelijk de functionaliteit met behulp van plugins verder uit te breiden. Hieronder is een overzicht te vinden van de belangrijkste veranderingen die in versie 1.0 aangebracht zijn:
Menu layout changes
A new Context Menu structure has been introduced along with a reworked context menu preferences page.
Holding down shift while opening a menu - with both context and main menu - will bring up menu commands that are normally hidden, so you no longer need to go through the preferences page to access obscure commands that are hidden by default.
Reworked Preferences
Various standard Preferences pages have been reworked. The Preferences dialog now has OK, Apply and Cancel buttons. Existing components need to be updated to utilize the new Preferences functionality.
New Edit Menu behavior
With Default User Interface, the Edit Menu commands operate on currently selected items, not just on the currently active playlist. This allows - for an example - to use the Copy command on Album List selection.
This feature currently does not work with third party user interfaces - Edit Menu commands operate on the active playlist just like in old foobar2000 versions; relevant components will need to be updated to comply.
Custom cover art filename patterns
You can now set custom filename patterns and paths for front cover, back cover, artist and disc artwork. You also have the ability to set a stub image for each of these.
New configuration file format
Configuration of individual components is now stored in separate files. Reading of old configuration files is still supported so your settings will be preserved while upgrading from older versions; however you will not be able to downgrade back to older 0.9.x releases without losing your settings.
Built-in support for Windows Media streaming
Buggy third party components are no longer required to play ASX/MMS/RTSP streams. It's recommended to uninstall relevant components.
Time limit in beta versions
To prevent people from running outdated beta versions, every beta version now expires after four weeks from the original release.
