Known issues in 1.0 beta 1 and feature proposals Options

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Open issues

• Various Windows Media streams not working - problem being investigated.
• Incompatibility: "Open Containing Folder" context menu command crashes on Wine - this is a bug in Wine and will not be fixed on our end; please complain at Wine developers instead.
• Glitch: The playlist switcher toolbar dropdown list shows a vertical scrollbar regardless of being scrollable

Issues fixed for 1.0 beta 2

• Bug: cannot bind context menu commands to toolbar buttons.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.8

• Fixed WavPack playback over HTTP.
• Fixed weird shell extension behaviors with the “folder context menus” option active.
• Fixed weird behaviors of the “stop after current” option.
• Worked-around problems with dodgy Ogg streams produced by speexenc.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.7

• Random crash crash when seeking in files that can't be decoded completely, introduced in 0.9.6.6.
• Weird behaviors after restart with playback paused and “resume playback after restart” active.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.6

• Incompatibility: drag&drop randomly does not work on Windows 7.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.5 beta 2

• Bug: Rare crash when clicking notification area icon - apparently only triggerable with certain third party components running.
• Bug [libflac 1.2.1]: FLAC decoding may crash on CPUs without SSE.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.5 beta 1

• Bug: Crash when trying to decode lossy WavPack3 files.
• Bug: Possible crash when decoding specific corrupted AAC files.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.4 final

• Glitch: Title formatting pattern for columns and grouping modes limited to 4096 characters in Default User Interface preferences.
• Bug: Possible crash when closing the startup "foobar2000 is now importing your Media Library" dialog.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.4 beta 2

• Bug: Crash when opening Musepack files with large (>64KB) ID3v2 tags.
• Bug: Crash when calling some library_manager methods without a completion callback.
• Bug: Nonsense in crash log when code bytes or stack dump cannot be retrieved.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.3 beta 2

• Bug: Incorrect handling of RAR archives larger than 4GB.
• Bug: Possible crashes when opening corrupted RAR archives.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.3 beta 1

• Bug: Renaming a file inside a Media Library folder flagged as invisible makes the file temporarily visible.
• Bug: Possible crashes when playing corrupted AAC streams.
• Bug: Possible crashes and deadlocks when trying to open corrupted or truncated Musepack files.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.2 final

• Various bugs preventing IPv6 network streams from working.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.2 beta 3

• Bug: Updating tags sometimes resets file creation date.
• Bug: Properties dialog crash.
• Bug: Random Converter failures when the destination folder is watched by the Media Library.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.2 beta 2

• Bug: Indexing UNC (network) paths sometimes doesn't detect any files.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.2 beta 1

• Bug: $time() sometimes doesn't return any value.
• Bug: IME for e.g. east-asian languages doesn't work in autocomplete fields.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.1 final

• Bug: With resume-after-restart enabled and foobar2000 closed while playing, playing another track from Windows Explorer causes the track that was playing before to be heard for a brief moment before the sent track is played.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6.1 beta 1

• Bug: Playback statistics data gets lost when upgrading from an older foobar2000 version.
• Bug: Possible crashes with certain visualisations when the visualisation window has null width.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6 beta 5

• Bug: Glitches in MP3 decoder output.
• Bug: Converter: Conversion to a network path fails with "access denied".
• Bug: Album List: "Natural sorting" not applied correctly when sending tracks to a playlist etc.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6 beta 4

• Bug: Middleclicking in various controls may result in a deadlock - introduced in beta 3.
• Annoyance: User interface becomes unresponsive for several second when adding or removing multiple files to/from the Media Library, especially while using the Facets component.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6 beta 3

• Bug: Files with hidden attribute set reappear in the Media Library after a restart.
• Bug: Media Library ignores folders with names starting with a dot character.
• Bug: Certain folders can't be added to the Media Library when folders with a similar name are already added.
• Multiple bugs: Various accessibility issues.
• Bug: Seekbar is accessible while playing online streams; seeking results in weird behaviors.
• Bug: When playing a track from explorer while there are still items in the playback queue, the next track from the queue is played instead.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6 beta 2

• Bug: Can't access audio CDs with only one track from the "Open Audio CD" dialog.
• Bug: Changes to your Media Library folders made soon after starting foobar2000 may not get noticed.
• Limitation: New 0.9.6 Media Library isn't compatible with certain network share configurations.

Issues fixed in 0.9.6 beta 1

• Bug: WMA lossless files can't be decoded losslessly, they get resampled to 48000Hz.
• Bug: Can't open more than 15 tracks at once from Windows Explorer on Windows Vista.

Issues fixed in 0.9.5.6

• Speex decoding doesn't work, produces silence.
• Incorrect handling of 99-track audio CDs.

Issues fixed in 0.9.5.5

• Display bugs when context menu command names include the & character.
• Incorrect handling of the @ character in HTTP login username.
• Crashes when using the Crossfader DSP.
• Autoplaylist status not preserved when copying/pasting playlists in Playlist Manager.

This post has been edited by Peter: Yesterday, 20:57

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Discussion and feature proposals

This list contains features that have been requested so far. It is not a to-do list; features that are going to be implemented are explicitly marked as such.

• Core
  • Feature: Music folder monitoring / automatic updates of Media Library instead of rescan on demand. implemented in 0.9.6
  • Feature: Simplified user interface for creating autoplaylists.
  • Feature: User-definable album art naming patterns.
  • Feature: Advanced matching of umlauts and accented characters in search queries implemented in 0.9.6.1
  • Feature: Ignore character accents in simple search queries only for basic latin characters typed by user
  • Feature: Ability to restrict fields that are searched by simple search queries. implemented in 0.9.6.2
  • Feature: Access to file creation time through title formatting.
  • Feature: Additional interface for enabling/disabling components and managing per-component configuration in Preferences
• Default User Interface
  • Feature: Visibile indication of whether the option controlled by a toolbar button is enabled or not.
  • Feature: Visible indication of stop-after-current being enabled or not, without having to access the menus.
  • Feature: Disabling menu toolbar won't implement
• Playlist view
  • Feature: Per playlist group mode settings in playlist view
  • Feature: Color and tab rendering in custom columns
  • Feature: Different colour for now playing song in the playlist view
  • Feature: Disable sorting when clicking on columns headers won't implement
• Album art viewer (Discussion)
  • Feature: Set stub image to display instead of "[multiple items]"
  • Feature: Only display art for playing track (don't follow selection)
• Album List
  • Feature: Option to hide the root node (labeled "All Music") won't implement
  • Feature: Option to hide subitem count
• File Operations (Discussion)
  • Feature: Use source directory as destination directory (Partially possible using "Rename".) won't implement
  • Feature: Display directory chooser dialog when using a preset without destination directory from the context menu
  • Feature: Configurable entries in the file name pattern selector
  • Feature: Option to display list of newly created files after an operation, similar to the Converter Output dialog.
  • Feature: "Delete folder" command.
• Properties dialog
  • Feature: Codepage conversion for fixing incorrectly encoded tags won't implement
  • Feature: Dropdown lists with known possible values for certain fields. implemented in 0.9.6.1
  • Feature: Split a single value into multiple values according to a user-specified separator pattern. implemented in 0.9.6.1
  • When updating tags, only modify files where the metadata has changed.
• Spectrogram visualisation (Discussion)
  • Feature: Configurable frequency range
  • Feature: Configurable update speed
  • Feature: Display difference between left and right channel(s)
  • Feature: Display guide lines for specific frequencies
• WavPack support
  • Feature: Improved handling of correction files
• Software Development Kit
  • Feature: Associating protocols with foobar2000 implemented in v0.9.6.4.
• Converter
  • Feature: Option to delete source files upon successful conversion.

This post has been edited by Yirkha: Jun 8 2009, 11:38