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:

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