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2.1 (27-Nov-2017)

• new action Load feed... in menu File Youtube Source. Since v2.0, in case of feed URL, Add... actions add only one item representing that feed. They do not fetch content of the feed. Although there are reasons behind this change, possibility to just load playlist by URL is still something that would be nice to have. So now there is Load feed..., where you can specify feed URL and number of clips to fetch initially. Like Load playlist... action from File menu, it creates new playlist when adding tracks
• improvements for Make Album action:
  • well, first of all, it did not work since 2.0 release. So, fixed that
  • video description, shown in Make Album window, does not depend now on tech info size limit (infoMax from LargeFieldsConfig.txt). Description often contains list of tracks in the album (so it is easier to select appropriate release) and sometimes even contains time offsets (so they can be adjusted in Tracks of selected release list control). That is why having full description is quite important
  • due to details of previous implementation, this feature did not work if cuesheet meta field was listed as fieldSpam in LargeFieldsConfig.txt (and by default it is listed). Now this does not matter. On the whole, Make Album now does not require any manipulations with LargeFieldsConfig.txt file
  • when invoking Make Album for the track that has not yet been analyzed, analysis will be performed automatically right after the window pops up
  • added proper notifications when album cannot be made (if original track duration is unknown or start time of some tracks is beyond it)
  • added notification to Tracks of selected release list control when resulting cuesheet duration does not match original track duration
  All in all, multitrack clips were more like proof-of-concept in 1.x version, because they required origin track to exist somewhere in opened playlists. Now there are no such requirement since metadata is stored externally. Also, thanks to foobar2000, metadata of individual tracks is editable, and edits get stored in cuesheet metadata field of origin track. So multitrack clips became to be noticeable standalone feature. Example: Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica (download and add it to foobar2000)
• synced lyrics from foo_uie_lyrics3 now can be selected automatically at video playback start. To do that, specify lrc in Video Subtitles to show initially
• fixed incorrect video offset when playing videos with chapters, and these chapters are represented by separate tracks in playlist. Before the fix, video playback was starting from the beginning no matter what chapter was being played. Note, if component cannot get chapter offset using foobar2000 SDK, it falls back to internal ffmpeg. Built-in ffmpeg has tiny set of supported formats, minimum required to play common Internet media. So if this is not enough, you can configure external ffmpeg using component preferences Maintenance External Binaries. Also note, chapter offsets are retrieved only for local files (file://), at least for now
• actions Add multiple URLs... and Add titles... was adjusted to have consistent behavior with other Add... actions (like Add location...). They won't wipe content of active playlist. Instead that they will append videos to the end of active playlist

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