Foobar2000 1.2.6 brings improved Windows 8 compatibility

Foobar2000 1.2.6 is now available for download. This release brings improved Windows 8 compatibility and includes some minor bug fixes.

Overview
Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Main features:
Here are main features of Foobar2000:

• Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
• Gapless playback.
• Full unicode support.
• Easily customizable user interface layout.
• Advanced tagging capabilities.
• Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
• Full ReplayGain support.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Download Foobar2000 1.2.6
Foobar2000 is available for download here.

Foobar2000 1.2 new features
Foobar2000 1.2 contains the following new features:

• Support for streaming to arbitrary UPnP MediaRenderer devices through the new UPnP output component.
• FFmpeg is now used for MP3, AAC and Vorbis decoding
• Extended playback thread priority options in Advanced Preferences.
• New: Converter “Quick Convert” dialog, for simplified casual conversions without advanced features.
• New: Menu commands to switch between playback output devices.
• New: Component installer now shows component licenses when available.
  
  • Package license.txt or license.rtf with the component to get it shown on install.
  • License not shown when autoupdating components.
• Equalizer is now an open-source component, separate from the standard DSP array.

What's new in Foobar2000 1.2.6?
This release contains the following:

• Windows 8 "connected standby" countermeasures:
  
  • Option to keep display up while playing - seems to be the only way to prevent Windows desktop apps from being shutdown while the machine turns idle.
• Fixed misbehavior when updating attached pictures in files with ID3v2.2 tags.
• ReplayGain tagging now works with AIFF.
• Fixed crashing when embedding specific picture files into Ogg Vorbis files.
• Attached picture manager dialog tweaks.

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Release notes