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3.4 beta 5 (12-Dec-2019)

• made Start column in Make Album feature to be configurable the same way as Length column. In order to support non-continuous tracks (in case Start column is edited not for the first track i.e. there appears a gap between tracks) generated CUE sheet got an extension: INDEX 02 there is treated as end time of the track and gets automatically added if end time is not equal to start time of the next track
• (beta 2) improved networking performance. This applies to analysis and foo_youtube audio decoder and video downloader. Most noticeable difference is with HLS playback. It starts much faster and chance of stuttering during playback is much lesser now
• (beta 2) criteria changes:
  • added Equality Threshold option for numeric criteria. Actually it was there from the beginning and few numeric properties use it by default. Now it was just exposed in UI abd became configurable for any numeric criteria. Read details in Numeric criteria conditions topic
  • separated new Enumerable criteria type from Numeric criteria. Few properties cover enumerations instead of plain numbers (e.g. subtitles.origin) so it was incorrect to provide numeric conditions for most of them (e.g. audio.decoder cannot have "maximum value") and internally a bit of a pain to handle both types within single implementation. Well, this is merely internal change however note that it breaks compatibility. Back compatibility was retained, but older component versions will fail to load config containing enumerable criteria
  • revised logging in Criteria testing so now it is more descriptive
• (beta 2) added DNS over HTTPS (DoH) support for those who would like to use this feature but does not want to or has no possibility to configure it system-wide. Corresponding option is Network HTTP DNS over HTTPS. It includes few predefined DoH servers as well as possibility to specify custom server. Wide list of publicly available servers can be found here
• (beta 2) added persistent cookie storage. Corresponding option is located in Network HTTP group. Currently storage is a plain text file (with specific formatting) that is passed to internal networking library (libcurl) and to youtube-dl (they both use the same format for cookie file). Storage split button in mentioned preferences group provides ways to locate this file, initiate editing or delete it. Persistent cookie storage is disabled by default and there are currently no particular recommendations to enable it (except that it can be used to overcome HTTP 429 error on Youtube and perhaps to access content requiring user authentication)
• (beta 2) added proxy type SOCKS5h. It is the same as SOCKS5 except that URL hostname is resolved by the proxy when in case of SOCKS5 it is resolved prior initiating proxy request
• (beta 2) added workaround for possible "User abort" error when trying to determine if youtube-dl is available in the system. Well, increased timeout for youtube-dl --version executed on the program start from 5 to 10 seconds. Note that it is executed only if youtube-dl executable does not have version info (e.g. it was installed via pip). Standalone youtube-dl executables do have version info
• (beta 2) fixed possible error checking for youtube-dl updates
• (beta 2) updated libcurl and underlying libraries to the latest versions (libcurl/7.67.0 Schannel zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 nghttp2/1.39.2). libcurl with alternative SSL backend (available on Download page) has also been updated (libcurl/7.67.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 nghttp2/1.39.2)
• (beta 3) added context menu items Add to playback queue and Play to search results list in Search on Site window. Like the other actions in this list they can be made default actions
• (beta 4) fixed incorrectly working video.resolution criterion
• (beta 5) added popup menu foobar2000 to search results list context menu of search popup window. This is standard foobar2000 context menu actions from which are applied to search results. Note that these actions cannot be set as default (i.e. performed on double click in search list control) but standard keyboard shortcuts (from preferences Keyboard Shortcuts, [context] type) do work when keyboard focus is in the list control

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