Development blog

[spoon]

19th September

Browsing code completed, ready for implementation, first alpha on iOS is not a huge number of weeks away now.

[Peter]

Most of target codecs are running on actual iOS hardware now, I'm working to make the user interface alpha testing worthy now.

Benchmark scores from iPod Touch 4gen:
FLAC: 61x realtime
Vorbis: 25x realtime
Musepack: 55x realtime

More codecs (Opus, WavPack) pending also.

[Peter]

WavPack/normal: 29x realtime
Opus: 13x realtime

This is the slowest supported device, so Opus is confirmed usable on all iOS devices that we support.

[Peter]

iPad version is functional

Benchmark scores for iPad 2 / iOS 8.0.2 / 2 threads ( the CPU is dual-core ):
AAC 101x
ALAC 50x
FLAC 189x
MP3 79x
Musepack 173x
Opus 44x
PCM 1300x
Vorbis 93x
WavPack 88x

[Peter]

A bit late update but,

The first alpha of foobar2000 for iOS (build 1) is out - released on 28th October.
Readme & downloads

A new update with a large number of fixes is being prepared.

[Peter]

Build 6 out
Readme & downloads

[Peter]

Build 7 out
Readme & downloads

Only album artwork indexing fixes. All device IDs sent to us until today are now included.

[spoon]

Build 8 out, only changes are to add more UDIDs, so everyone upto today can test.

[Peter]

Build 9 out.

New UDIDs included.
Fixed browse tree randomly showing nonsense on the root level.

DSPs (skip silence, hard limiter): Sorry, didn't make it into this build, my fault - forgot that the whole relevant menu branch is debug build only. Monday build will include this.

[Peter]

Build 10 released.
An equivalent of Windows foobar2000 "Preferences" system is now included.
Right now there are only two preferences page: Media Library ( existed before ) and DSP Manager (new). A whole bunch of DSPs from Windows foobar2000 has been ported over; there's more to come. You can enable/disable DSPs as well as reorder them in the chain.
DSP capability has been added to the decoding speed tester also.