Gatefold 1.4.0

[1.4.0] — your covers, editions, several artists, your colours, sound

Covers your way. «Cover…» on an album page (and in an album's menu, and on Now Playing) opens one sheet for the picture and where it goes.

• The picture: a file from your computer, one dropped on the sheet or pasted (Ctrl+V), the images in the album's folder and in its tags (front, back, disc), or the web (iTunes, Deezer, MusicBrainz) — each with its real size.
• Where it goes, asked every time (your last answer comes first): only in Gatefold — kept in Gatefold's own database, music files and folders untouched; into the tracks' tags; or a file next to the tracks under the name you give it.
• A cover you chose is yours: Gatefold never searches for it or replaces it again, the quality check leaves it alone, and «Remove my cover» forgets it without touching any file.
• Covers kept elsewhere by a rule: Settings → Covers → «Your covers» takes a path in title formatting (D:\Covers\%album artist% - %album%, the extension is found by itself), previews it on the playing album and applies it to the whole library.
• Covers found online for an album without one go where Settings → Covers says — now also «only in Gatefold»; an album that has a cover gets another one only when you pick it.
• Not every cover is square: an LP sleeve or a CD booklet is shown whole — on square tiles over a blurred copy of itself, on the album page and Now Playing in its own proportions — and no longer counts as a defect.

Editions are albums of their own. foobar2000 groups an album by title and album artist, so a 2014 album and its 2016 reissue with remixes played as one album with every song twice. Now an album whose tracks lie in different release folders (CD1/CD2 sub-folders still belong together), or carry different years in one folder, is split into editions — unless the parts are only the discs of one release or share a MusicBrainz release id. Each edition has its own tile, tracks, cover and colours, is named by its edition tag (%edition%, %version%, %releasecomment%), what its folder name adds, or its year («2016 · Deluxe»), and its page links the «Other editions». A track opens the edition it is on. Settings → Library can turn it off.

Several artists in one name. «Alpha; Beta» — or a multi-value «album artist» tag — is two artists: the album is listed under each in Artists, its page links each name, and playlist rows and the player bar link every artist to its own page. «;» and multi-value tags are split by default; «/», «,», «&» and «feat.» can be added in Settings → Library, with a preview of every name in your library they would split and a tick to keep a name whole (AC/DC, Simon & Garfunkel).

Your colours. «Colours…» on an album page: pick the accent from the cover's own colours or any colour, and the background tint if you like; the album shows them on its page and the whole interface takes them while it plays. «Custom» joins the fixed themes in Settings → Look: your background and two accents, with export and import as a small file. Whatever you pick, text keeps its contrast, and an accent that would vanish on the background is moved just enough to be seen — the sheet says when.

Sound. A new button in the player bar opens your DSP presets (Headphones, Speakers, Night…) for one-click switching, shows the chain playing now (lit while one is active), and opens foobar2000's own equalizer and DSP Manager. An equalizer drawn in the theme needs foo_ui_webview2 to expose DSP settings; the request is written up in docs/upstream/dsp-config-request.md.

The radio keeps to the seed's music. Real radios still let in about one stranger in five (anime and K-pop songs, prog bands, the same famous names on every radio), and played the seed's artist and single albums too often. Now:

• Your playlists count only a little, and only when an artist sits next to the seed in two playlists or more; playlists of favourites from everywhere (over 120 artists) do not count at all. One mixed playlist used to make everything in it «related».
• The genres have the last word: an artist the services relate but whose MusicBrainz genres contradict the seed's comes on only when Deezer and ListenBrainz both point to it, and then rarely. The genres of the leading candidates are fetched first, and the radio is scored again as they arrive.
• Artists that turn up on every radio whatever the seed (remembered over your last radios) are held back unless the genres agree.
• The famous count less as evidence: related-of-related lists and co-listening favour the big names (Iron Maiden turns up next to almost anybody), so their weight shrinks with how much more famous an artist is than the seed (Deezer's fan counts), and they no longer count as a second, independent source that could override the genres. Only Deezer's own related list and ListenBrainz do.
• An artist Deezer names directly as related is never held back as a «hub» (Bumblefoot on a Freak Kitchen radio).
• More variety: one song per album (the seed's own album included), at most two songs of an artist in 25 (three in a small library), the seed's artist about every eighth track. Release years count only while the genres are unknown (a retro band of the 2010s is an 80s band).

Bundled: foobar2000 2.26.1 (official unmodified installer) · foo_ui_webview2 v2.0.0 · WebView2 bootstrapper

SHA-256 — see SHA256SUMS.txt. Bundled third-party checksums:

5272e5755b8e65bf389d46e5c37f60db188706e6570ef4da14f4367e3e6d6092  foo_ui_webview2-2.0.0.fb2k-component
72fe15a88b085ee4e49d68114e2bb9655000c2e0fdf40dcc128bbef8bcaf3600  foobar2000-x64_v2.26.1.exe
f414de01c4680f0bb0694d1ea7803c6968f3a81bf6bad01b89bfc65dce14c2a2  MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe

Gatefold 1.3.0

[1.3.0] — your own columns, a much more accurate radio, YouTube subtitles

YouTube subtitles: a button to switch them. YouTube turned captions on by itself for many videos (an owner's default, a language other than yours), and there was no way to hide them. Now the CC button in the player switches them on and off (or the C key), and the choice is kept for every following video — off by default.

• The arrow next to it lists the video's tracks, YouTube's generated ones marked as such, the current one ticked. The language you pick is remembered and chosen first on later videos; otherwise the interface language, then YouTube's own pick.
• Auto-translate into the interface language (YouTube's translation) when a video has no track in it, and four subtitle sizes.
• The button shows the language on a small tag, says when a video has no subtitles at all, and is part of the fullscreen controls. The player itself now speaks the interface language (track names, YouTube's own labels).

Every tooltip in the interface language. Since 1.1.0 the language file loads in the background, and the module that turns title into the theme's own tooltips could run first and keep the Russian text: the play button said «Воспроизведение / пауза (Пробел)» in an English interface, and so did many other buttons, in the main window and in the mini player. The tooltips now wait for the language, and the tests read every tooltip on every screen, with the language file arriving late on purpose.

Your own columns. Any tag or title formatting pattern becomes a column of the playlist view, of the album page, or both — like Default UI's custom columns: %performer%, %genre%, $if2(%label%,%publisher%), your own fields. Settings → Playlists → Columns: fifteen ready-made ones (year, composer, rating as stars, plays, last played, date added, BPM, label…) or your own pattern, with a live preview on the playing track and a clear message when foobar2000 cannot read a pattern (the other columns keep working). Each column has its width and alignment (numbers go to the right by themselves). A right click on a list's header (or its ⋯ button) switches columns on and off for that list. Values come from foobar2000 a page at a time, so a huge playlist costs nothing until it is scrolled; in a narrow window the columns step aside.

Playlists link to the music. The artist and the album of every row are links, in every view, and so are the album headers. The song's title opens its album with the song marked (a double click still plays it).

A much more accurate radio. «Radio» on Now Playing could start from the wrong song: the button kept the track that was playing when the cover last changed, so within one album it was always the first song played. And the radio let the neural sound analysis bring in artists on its own — a K-pop or J-rock song mixed like a Finnish rock song came on — and filled 25 tracks at any cost. Now:

• The radio is the track's: it starts from the song playing when you press the button, is named after it («Radio: Still Standing — The Rasmus») and is steered by its sound.
• Who comes on is decided by people first: Deezer's related artists (and the ones several of them agree on), ListenBrainz (artists listened to in the same sessions), and your own playlists — each can only add, and sources that agree count more. Then by the content: MusicBrainz genres of every artist (rare shared genres weigh most), the sound as a percentile of your library, and the Discogs styles the network hears, compared as distributions. An artist only the sound points to must match on everything, and never against the genre.
• What is played of an artist: the song closest in sound to the seed, weighed with how well known it is (the artist's top tracks on Deezer) and how often you play it. A track is only chosen once it has been listened to. Remixes, live versions, demos, karaoke, intros and interludes stay out (unless the seed is one), and the same song on another album does not come twice.
• Order: the first tracks come from the closest artists, then the circle widens; the seed's artist returns about every sixth track; at most three tracks of an artist in 25; artists whose songs keep sounding off, or that you skip, fade out — and so does music that sounds like what you skipped. When nothing fitting is left, the radio says so and stops instead of playing anything.
• «Why is this track on the radio?» in a radio track's menu names the reasons.
• Answers from the services are kept for two weeks, so a radio of the same artist starts at once.

Escape closes an open menu in the YouTube view instead of also leaving the view.

Bundled: foobar2000 2.26.1 (official unmodified installer) · foo_ui_webview2 v2.0.0 · WebView2 bootstrapper

SHA-256 — see SHA256SUMS.txt. Bundled third-party checksums:

5272e5755b8e65bf389d46e5c37f60db188706e6570ef4da14f4367e3e6d6092  foo_ui_webview2-2.0.0.fb2k-component
72fe15a88b085ee4e49d68114e2bb9655000c2e0fdf40dcc128bbef8bcaf3600  foobar2000-x64_v2.26.1.exe
f414de01c4680f0bb0694d1ea7803c6968f3a81bf6bad01b89bfc65dce14c2a2  MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe

Gatefold 1.2.0

[1.2.0] — volume levelling, album details

Volume levelling — Settings → Volume levelling: one switch, and every album plays as loud as the next while keeping its own quiet and loud moments. A quiet interlude stays quiet: by default the gain is the album's, measured over the whole album at once, never the track's own.

• How it levels: by album (default), «smart» (by album when an album plays in order, by track in shuffle) or each track.
• Target loudness: −18 LUFS (ReplayGain 2.0 standard), −16 (like Apple Music), −14 (like Spotify and YouTube) or −23 (like radio and TV). Above −18 the preamp adds gain, and clipping prevention keeps very dynamic albums below the target rather than distorting them.
• The levelling is foobar2000's own ReplayGain: sample-exact, gapless, with clipping prevention by the stored peaks. Gatefold sets it up, and puts foobar2000's previous ReplayGain settings back when levelling is turned off.
• Tracks without ReplayGain values are measured in the background, the way the ReplayGain 2.0 scanner measures them: EBU R128 / ITU-R BS.1770-4 loudness with both gates, true peak by 4× oversampling, mono as dual mono, LFE left out. It runs in a worker, gives way to what you are doing and pauses on battery. The standard REPLAYGAIN_* tags are written and read back to check them; the audio is never touched.
• Albums are found the careful way: album tag + album folder (CD1 / Disc 2 sub-folders belong to one album), one title by two album artists in one folder stays two albums, and a compilation stays one.
• An album missing an album gain on any of its tracks is measured again as a whole. Otherwise foobar2000 would fall back to that track's own gain, and the interlude would jump up.
• The album you are listening to comes first: its playing track is measured before anything else and its tags are written at once, so the following tracks play levelled; when playback moves to another album that is still waiting, that album jumps to the front of the queue. Nothing is written in the last seconds before a track change.
• Opus files get R128_TRACK_GAIN / R128_ALBUM_GAIN (their own standard, RFC 7845) next to the REPLAYGAIN_* fields. The status line counts only the albums that still lack values and names any format whose files do not keep them.
• Fast: several tracks are measured side by side in workers while foobar2000's decoder is kept busy without a break (about as fast as foobar2000 can decode). Only while you are using the computer does it slow down to one track at a time.

Album details, on request. An album page stays as it was until you ask for more: the «Details» button, a click on the track count, or the I key (remembered). Then:

• A card fills the empty right side of the header with what the album actually has: format (FLAC 24/96), bitrate, size, loudness (LUFS, from ReplayGain), dynamic range (foo_dr_meter), plays and the last one, date added (foo_playcount), release date, label and catalogue number, genres, discs, and the folder (a click opens it).
• The track list gains columns: format, bitrate, loudness, DR and plays — only the ones this album has values for, and without the artist column when every track is by the album artist.
• It fits any window: the card narrows to two columns, then becomes one line under a smaller cover, so the track list always keeps its room.

VU meters read what you hear. The live stream comes before ReplayGain, so the meters now apply the gain foobar2000 applies to the playing track (the same rules: source, preamp, clipping prevention). A new default for 0 VU, «Auto», measures the level of the album that is playing from the very signal the meter shows (a gated running mean: quick to follow a louder stretch, slow to follow a quieter one), so the needle swings around −6 VU and reaches the red only on the loudest moments — on a loud modern master and a quiet old record alike, with or without tags. Hover the meter to see what 0 VU stands for right now. The fixed −18 / −14 / −10 dBFS references are still there.

Bundled: foobar2000 2.26.1 (official unmodified installer) · foo_ui_webview2 v2.0.0 · WebView2 bootstrapper

SHA-256 — see SHA256SUMS.txt. Bundled third-party checksums:

5272e5755b8e65bf389d46e5c37f60db188706e6570ef4da14f4367e3e6d6092  foo_ui_webview2-2.0.0.fb2k-component
72fe15a88b085ee4e49d68114e2bb9655000c2e0fdf40dcc128bbef8bcaf3600  foobar2000-x64_v2.26.1.exe
f414de01c4680f0bb0694d1ea7803c6968f3a81bf6bad01b89bfc65dce14c2a2  MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe

Gatefold 1.1.1

[1.1.1] — hotfix

Synced lyrics no longer run ahead of the song. The position came from foo_ui_webview2's once-a-second time event, which is meant for a clock display: whole seconds, no timestamp, and it can run ahead of what you hear. Lyrics, the seek bar, the Canvas, the mini player and the seekbar panel now follow the ~10 Hz latency-compensated position (playback:timeHighRes, with its timestamp), ignore the stale sample that can follow a seek, and catch up at once when the window is shown again.

Genre names keep their abbreviations — AOR, EDM, IDM, R&B, UK Garage, NWOBHM instead of «Aor», «Edm», «R&b».

YouTube search in Chinese asks for results in Simplified Chinese (the API wants zh-Hans).

Bundled: foobar2000 2.26.1 (official unmodified installer) · foo_ui_webview2 v2.0.0 · WebView2 bootstrapper

SHA-256 — see SHA256SUMS.txt. Bundled third-party checksums:

5272e5755b8e65bf389d46e5c37f60db188706e6570ef4da14f4367e3e6d6092  foo_ui_webview2-2.0.0.fb2k-component
72fe15a88b085ee4e49d68114e2bb9655000c2e0fdf40dcc128bbef8bcaf3600  foobar2000-x64_v2.26.1.exe
f414de01c4680f0bb0694d1ea7803c6968f3a81bf6bad01b89bfc65dce14c2a2  MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe

Gatefold 1.1.0

[1.1.0] — VU meters, similar albums, three more languages

VU meters — two needle meters (left and right channel) instead of the spectrum on Now playing, and in the Canvas. Off by default: Settings → Appearance → VU meters. They measure the RMS of each channel of what foobar2000 plays and move like real VU meters (IEC 60268-17: 300 ms, a little overshoot); classic ivory dials or the album's colours; 0 VU at −18, −14 or −10 dBFS. Two meters side by side, or one dial with both needles.

Similar albums — with sound analysis on, an album page ends with albums by other artists in your library that sound alike.

Sound analysis offer — once the library has ten albums or more, Gatefold offers once, quietly, to turn sound analysis on; «Not now» means it doesn't ask again.

German, Spanish and Chinese (Simplified) — the interface (picked from Windows or in Settings) and, for German and Spanish, the installer.

Bundled: foobar2000 2.26.1 (official unmodified installer) · foo_ui_webview2 v2.0.0 · WebView2 bootstrapper

SHA-256 — see SHA256SUMS.txt. Bundled third-party checksums:

5272e5755b8e65bf389d46e5c37f60db188706e6570ef4da14f4367e3e6d6092  foo_ui_webview2-2.0.0.fb2k-component
72fe15a88b085ee4e49d68114e2bb9655000c2e0fdf40dcc128bbef8bcaf3600  foobar2000-x64_v2.26.1.exe
f414de01c4680f0bb0694d1ea7803c6968f3a81bf6bad01b89bfc65dce14c2a2  MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe

Gatefold 1.0.0

[1.0.0] — first public release

Gatefold turns foobar2000 (2.x, 64-bit) into a full-window player on foo_ui_webview2 whose colours come from the cover of the playing album.

Install — one installer sets up foobar2000, foo_ui_webview2, the WebView2 Runtime and the theme, adds Gatefold shortcuts and makes Webview2 UI foobar2000's interface: foobar2000 opens straight in Gatefold (the previous configuration is backed up). Updates come later in one click, checksum-verified, with «Restore previous version».

Looks — album-driven colour (or fixed Dark / Light / Grey), text size 13–20 px, animations at the monitor's refresh rate; Now playing with a breathing cover, spectrum, format badges and synced lyrics; full-screen Canvas, also on a second monitor; a mini player; taskbar buttons, progress and an optional tray icon.

Music — playlists in four views with real editing (multi-select, drag, Delete, undo); Liked; library, artists and album pages; the colour wall (the library by cover colour, twelve named colours); smart playlists without the query language, with a live count and example tracks; «More like this» radio from your own library; cover art search and quality checks.

Sound analysis (optional, on your computer) — a neural network listens to each track once; then radio and «Similar tracks» go by sound, smart playlists gain moods (calm, energetic, sad, happy, party, instrumental, acoustic) and genres by sound, and Now playing shows the track's genres (MusicBrainz, ordered by sound) and mood.

Also — YouTube (links, or search with your own API key), foobar2000's own menus and settings inside the theme, English and Russian. No telemetry; every network request belongs to a feature (see Privacy in the README). Unofficial lyrics sources and the key-less YouTube search are off by default.

Bundled: foobar2000 2.26.1 (official unmodified installer) · foo_ui_webview2 v2.0.0 · WebView2 bootstrapper

SHA-256 — see SHA256SUMS.txt. Bundled third-party checksums:

5272e5755b8e65bf389d46e5c37f60db188706e6570ef4da14f4367e3e6d6092  foo_ui_webview2-2.0.0.fb2k-component
72fe15a88b085ee4e49d68114e2bb9655000c2e0fdf40dcc128bbef8bcaf3600  foobar2000-x64_v2.26.1.exe
f414de01c4680f0bb0694d1ea7803c6968f3a81bf6bad01b89bfc65dce14c2a2  MicrosoftEdgeWebview2Setup.exe

Gatefold panels 1.0.1 — seekbar and covers for Default UI / Columns UI

1.0.1 — the seekbar follows foobar2000's precise position (~10 Hz, latency-compensated) instead of the once-a-second clock, so it no longer runs ahead or jumps; German, Spanish and Chinese (Simplified).

Two add-ons for Default UI and Columns UI layouts. You don't need the Gatefold interface for them, only the foo_ui_webview2 component.

• Gatefold Seekbar (gatefold-seekbar-*.zip): a waveform seekbar in the colours of the playing album. Bars, solid or line style. Album, dark, light or grey colours, on a coloured or transparent background. Click or drag to seek; the wheel steps 5 s.
• Gatefold Covers (gatefold-covers-*.zip): Gatefold's cover finder on its own. It finds missing covers, replaces low-resolution ones with a backup, and asks when unsure.

Install:

1. Unzip into <profile>\webview-ui\ (usually %APPDATA%\foobar2000-v2\webview-ui\).
2. Add a WebView2 Panel to your layout.
3. Right-click the panel → Configure → Template: gatefold-seekbar or gatefold-covers.

Details: panels/README.md

Gatefold panels 1.0.0 — seekbar and covers for Default UI / Columns UI

Two add-ons for Default UI and Columns UI layouts. You don't need the Gatefold interface for them, only the foo_ui_webview2 component.

• Gatefold Seekbar (gatefold-seekbar-*.zip): a waveform seekbar in the colours of the playing album. Bars, solid or line style. Album, dark, light or grey colours, on a coloured or transparent background. Click or drag to seek; the wheel steps 5 s.
• Gatefold Covers (gatefold-covers-*.zip): Gatefold's cover finder on its own. It finds missing covers, replaces low-resolution ones with a backup, and asks when unsure.

Install:

1. Unzip into <profile>\webview-ui\ (usually %APPDATA%\foobar2000-v2\webview-ui\).
2. Add a WebView2 Panel to your layout.
3. Right-click the panel → Configure → Template: gatefold-seekbar or gatefold-covers.

Details: panels/README.md

AI models (sound analysis)

Files for Gatefold's optional sound analysis. Downloaded by the theme only when the feature is turned on. Models: Discogs-EffNet and classification heads by the Music Technology Group, UPF — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, non-commercial use only. See LICENSE-MODELS.md.