Foobar2000:Components
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This page contains most foobar2000 components available at time of history last update.
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[edit] Official Components
The following components are created and maintained by the foobar2000 development team. Support for them should be asked for in the Support forum
[edit] Included in Installer
In addition to foobar2000's core functionality, the following components can be installed as needed, in the Optional Features section of the installer.
- Audio CD Support (foo_cdda) Adds Support for Audio CD Playback
- Album List (foo_albumlist) Gives quick access to Media Library Content with customizable tree view
- Archive Reader (foo_unpack) Adds support for playing files directly from ZIP RAR and GZIP archives
- Converter (foo_converter) Converts files to WAV or any other formats using command line encoders
- File Operations (foo_fileops) Renames, moves, or copies files according to specified patterns
- freedb Tagger (foo_freedb2) Tag retrieving support from freedb service for any set of files (mp3,mpc,flac,...-not only CDDA tracks)
- ReplayGain Scanner (foo_rgscan) advanced solution for volume matching
- Standard DSPs (foo_dsp_std) Equalizer, resampler, advanced limiter, hard limiter, stereo to 4 channel upmixer and a couple other effects
[edit] Additional Components
These components are provided as separate downloads, found on the Additional Components page.
- ABX comparator (foo_abx) component for double blind listening tests
- ALAC Decoder (foo_input_alac) Apple Lossless (ALAC) decoder
- ASIO output support (foo_out_asio) Adds ASIO output support.
- Audio CD Writer (foo_burninate) CD burning support
- Binary Comparator (foo_bitcompare) Performs binary comparison between two or more tracks and reports differences.
- Decoding Speed Test (foo_benchmark) Measures decoding speed of audio files.
- File Integrity Verifier (foo_verifier) Checks specified media files for decoding errors.
- Impulse response convolver (foo_convolve) Allows arbitrary effects to be captured and used inside foobar2000. (More Info)
- Kernel Streaming support (foo_out_ks) Allows bit-exact playback bypassing Windows kernel mixer.
- Masstagger (foo_masstag) Automates various tag editing operations.
- Monkey's Audio Decoder (foo_input_monkey) Adds decoding support for Monkey's Audio files (.APE) as well as APE Link files (.APL).
- Playback Statistics (foo playcount) Collects playback statistics for your Media Library content.
- Quick Tagger (foo_quicktag) Adds customizable context menu commands for quickly setting tag fields to preconfigured values
- Text Tools (foo_texttools) Adds customizable context menu commands for copying information about the selected tracks to Windows Clipboard.
- WASAPI output support (foo_out_wasapi) Adds Windows Audio Session API exclusive mode output support, allowing bit-exact output and muting all other sounds on Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems.
[edit] 3rd Party Components
The following components are created and maintained by 3rd-party authors, using foobar2000's SDK. Support for these components should be asked for in the 3rd Party Plugins forum Asking for help directly in the component's thread is usually preferred.
[edit] User Interfaces
[edit] Columns UI
Columns UI (foo_ui_columns) Very popular alternate interface for foobar2000 based on a columns and panel layout.
Columns UI introduced components with panel capability which extend the user interface.
[edit] User Interface Addons
[edit] UI Elements
The default user interface (foo_ui_std), included in the standard installation package, can be extended with the following component(s):
- Facets (foo_facets) Flexible media library viewer based on linked lists.
- Playlist Organizer (foo_plorg) Advanced playlist manager to organize playlists in a treeview.
- Queue Contents Editor (foo_queuecontents) Edit and view queue contents using an UI Element.
- Quicksearch UI Element (foo_quicksearch) Search toolbar that sends results to a playlist.
- SimPlaylist (foo_simplaylist) Playlist view with album art.
- SimPlaylist Manager (foo_simplaylist_manager) Playlist manager replacement with additional columns.
- Text Display (foo_textdisplay) Displays information about the playing or selected track.
- Waveform Seekbar (foo_wave_seekbar) Element for DUI with seekbar functionality on top of the waveform of the playing song.
[edit] Panels
Panels extend the functionality of Columns UI components.
- Album Art Panel (foo_uie_albumart) Panel to display album art.
- Album List Panel (foo_uie_albumlist) Displays the database in a treeview using customizable sorting methods (by genre, artist, directory, etc.)
- Bookmarks (foo_uie_bookmarks) Help you remember positions in songs.
- Console (foo_uie_console) Panel version of console. Displays diagnostic messages. Requires Columns UI 0.1.3 beta 1 or newer.
- Cover Flow (foo_bubble_coverflow) The plugin can work either as a UI panel or a standalone window (found in the view menu), and a fullscreen mode for both.
- Dockable Panels (foo_dockable_panels) It allows you to create windows that host columns ui panels as floating windows that can be attached to the side of the main foobar2000 window or each other.
- Egoh Spectrum Analyser (foo_uie_vis_egoh) Similar to the default spectrum analyser.
- ELplaylist panel (foo uie elplaylist) Playlist panel replacement with extensive customization options.
- Explorer Panel (foo_uie_explorer) Displays a treeview of selected disks/folders.
- Graphical Browser (foo uie graphical browser) A panel that allows to browse media library by graphical or text tiles
- Lyrics Panel (foo_uie_lyrics_panel) Display lyrics stored in file tags.
- Music Browser (foo_browser) Panels for Browsing Library, Similar to iTunes. No longer updated. Most have better success CUI's in-built filters.
- Panel Stack Splitter (foo_uie_panel_splitter) Allows you to place objects freely within the foobar2000 window, including panels, text, and images
- Playlist Dropdown (foo_uie_playlists_dropdown) Displays the playlist in a dropdown menu.
- Playlist Tree (foo_playlist_tree) Tree based media library with many available customizations.
- Power Panels (foo_uie_powerpanels) Seekbar and volume transparent version panels. Useful for theming.
- ProjectM Visualisation Panel (foo_uie_vis_projectM) Based on the ProjectM project, which is a reimplementation of Milkdrop under OpenGL.
- Queue Contents Editor (foo_queuecontents) Edit and view queue contents using an UI Element.
- Queue Manager (foo_uie_queuemanager) It provides a window that shows the queue's contents and allows you to delete parts of them or clear the whole queue.
- Shpeck (foo_vis_shpeck) Winamp visualisation plugins wrapper.
- Tabs (foo_uie_tabs) Tabs allows you to break Pauli's Exclusion principle by placing multiple panels in the same position at the same time.
- Typefind (foo_typefind) Provides some in-line search facilities.
- Waveform Seekbar (foo_wave_seekbar) Panel for CUI with seekbar functionality on top of the waveform of the playing song.
- WmpVis (foo_uie_wmpvis) Uses the visualizations from WMP.
- WSH panel (foo_uie_wsh_panel) Windows script host panel.
[edit] DSP
[edit] Multichannel audio
- ATSurround Processor (foo_dsp_atsurround) Reproduces surround sound information present in many stereo audio material and more.
- Channel Mixer (foo_channel_mixer) Up/down mix to/from 1-6 channels.
- Dolby Pro Logic II wrapper (foo_dsp_pl2) Dolby Pro Logic II engine DLL (dll not included).
- Downmix (foo_dsp_downmix) Downmix AC3, DTS, etc. to stereo.
- FreeSurround (foo_dsp_fsurround) It takes Dolby Surround / Pro Logic I/II encoded stereo music and decodes it into 5.1 sound.
- Surround Pan (foo_dsp_span) WYSIWYG Surround panning.
[edit] Headphones
- 4Front Headphones (foo_dsp_headphones9) Effects for headphone users.
- BS2D (foo_dsp_bs2p) Improves headphone listening of regular hi-fi stereo records.
- Crossfeed (foo_dsp_crossfeed) Filters the music to help reduce fatigue caused by listening to music with headphones.
- Dolby Headphone Wrapper (foo_dsp_dolbyhp) Dolby Headphone engine DLL.
[edit] Utilities
- Post-track Silence (foo_dsp_silence) Inserts a configurable amount of silence after each track to help external devices like MiniDisc players to sync track changes.
- Voice Cut Filter (foo_dsp_centercut) Voice cut filter.
- Equalizer split (foo_dsp_eqsplit) A meta-DSP that feeds each channel into a separate equalizer instance.
- XOver (foo_dsp_xover) Implements this digital crossover to achieve active multi-amplification.
[edit] Effects
- Soundtouch (foo_dsp_soundtouch) Adjust pitch, tempo and rate.
- Tube Sound (foo_dsp_tube) Emulate tube sound.
- VLevel (foo_dsp_vlevel) Dynamic compressor which amplifies the quiet parts of music.
[edit] Converters
- HDCD Decoder (foo_dsp_hdcd) This DSP component will decode HDCD data in any 16-bit PCM stream passed through it, resulting in 20-bit PCM.
- LPCM - Delta-PCM Converter (foo_dsp_delta) Noise sharpening filter.
- SSRC (foo_dsp_ssrc) Sample rate converter.
[edit] Multi-purpose
- OSS/3D (foo_dsp_oss3ddsp) Audio enhancement. SHAREWARE.
- Stereo Convolver (foo_dsp_stereoconv) Take stereo audio and convolve each channel with two impulse responses.
- Winamp DSP Bridge (foo_dsp_winamp) Allows the use of Winamp DSPs.
- VST 2.4 adapter (foo_vst) Allows Foobar2000 users to use VST 2.4 plug-ins equally with “native” ones.
- George Yohng's VST Wrapper (foo_dsp_vstwrapper) Enables VST plug-ins.
- VST Host (foo_dsp_vst) Adds support to Virtual Studio Technology audio interface.
[edit] Input
[edit] Music Decoders
- AC3 Decoder (foo_ac3) Decodes Dolby Digital lossy audio compression technologies format (AC3).
- DTS Decoder (foo_dts) Decodes Digital Theater Systems (DTS) audio format.
- MIDI Synthesizer Host (foo_midi) Adds decoding support for General MIDI files (.MID) and RIFF MIDI files (.RMI) as well as several proprietary MIDI formats (.MIDS, .GMF, .HMI, .HMP, .MUS, .XMI).
- OptimFROG Lossless Audio Decoder (foo_input_ofr) Decodes both the Lossless (OFR) and DualStream (OFS) audio format.
- Shorten Decoder (foo_input_shorten) Decodes Shorten (SHN) audio format.
- SPDIF Passthrough (foo_spdif) SPDIF passthrough for AC3 and DTS files.
- TAK Decoder (foo_input_tak) Adds support for decoding and tagging TAK files as well as reading embedded album art.
- TTA Audio Decoder (foo_input_tta) Decodes True Audio (TTA) audio format.
- DVD Audio Decoder (foo_input_dvda) Decodes DVD Audio (DVD Audio) Disks.
[edit] Other Decoders
- ADPCM Decoder (foo_adpcm) Plays GameCube ADPCM audio data and some. (DSP, ADP, GCM, HPS, STM, AST, etc.)
- AdPlug decoder (foo_input_adplug) Adds decoding support for all Adlib FM chip formats supported by the AdPlug library.
- Another Slight Atari Player (foo_asap) ASAP is a player/converter of Atari 8-bit music for modern computers. It provides high-quality, identical to the popular Atari800 emulator, emulation of the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.
- AviSynth decoder (foo_input_avs) Adds decoding support for AviSynth scripts (.AVS), audio only.
- DSDIFF Decoder (foo_input_dsdiff) Adds decoding support for DSDIFF files (.DFF).
- DUMB Module Decoder (foo_dumb) Plays your favorite module files, and then some. (MOD, S3M, XM, IT, 669, PTM, PSM, MTM, UMX)
- Game Emu Player (foo_gep) Plays several emulation formats. (GBS, NSF, SPC, GYM, HES, VGM)
- Ganbatte! (foo_ganbatte) Plays compressed Edlib (.d00, .d01) files.
- Hively Tracker Decoder (foo_input_hvl) Adds decoding support for Hively Tracker files (.HVL) as well as Abyss' Highest eXperience files (.AHX).
- Lunar 2 PCM Decoder (foo_lunar2) Plays audio files found on the original Lunar: Eternal Blue CD (RP*.PCM).
- M1 Decoder (foo_m1) Plays arcade/pinball game sound.
- MDX Decoder (foo_input_mdx) MDX is a MIDI-like format that is designed to be played using the X68000's FM synthesizer.
- NSF Decoder (foo_input_nsf) NSF file is a sound data file containing instructions for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sound hardware.
- PSF Decoder (foo_psf) Plays PlayStation Sound Format (PSF) files.
- QSF decoder (foo_input_qsf) Adds decoding support for Capcom QSound Sound Format files (.QSF/.MINIQSF).
- Reverse (foo_input_reverse) Play music in reverse.
- SID Player 2 (foo_sid) Sound chip of Commodore's CBM-II, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 home computers.
- S98 Decoder (foo_input_s98) Sound format for the NEC PC-98 microcomputer.
- USF Decoder (foo_input_usf) Decodes sound data ripped directly from a Nintendo 64 video game.
[edit] Visualisation
- Musical Spectrum (foo_musical_spectrum) Displays frequencies corresponding to musical notes. Compatible with default UI and Columns UI.
- Peakmeter for Columns UI (foo_uie_peakmeter) Displays the level for each channel in dB.
- Peakmeter and spectrum analyzer (foo_uie_vis_peakmeter_spectrum) Plugin that combines a peakmeter with a spectrum analyzer.
- ProjectM Visualisation (foo_vis_projectM) Based on the ProjectM project, which is a reimplementation of Milkdrop under OpenGL.
- Shpeck (foo_vis_shpeck) Winamp visualisation plugins wrapper.
- WmpVis (foo_uie_wmpvis) Uses the visualizations from WMP. Panel version only.
[edit] Other
[edit] General
- Alarm (foo_alarm) Starts playback at the specified period of time.
- Automatic BPM Analyser (foo_bpm) Automatically calculate the BPM of songs. Manual BPM calculation also available.
- Autosave & Autobackup (foo_jesus) Allows periodic automatic saving of configuration and other data in foobar2000 and keeping backup copies of such data.
- Channel Usage Visualisation (foo_vis_channelusage) Channel Usage Visualisation.
- EXTM3U Playlist Creator (foo_extm3u) Allow to save current playlist in the EXTM3U format.
- Feature Watcher (foo_whatsnew) Watches for added or removed features.
- File Date (foo_filedate) Add to file tag date added, accessed, created or modified from context menu entries.
- HyperIM (foo_2hyperim) Provides 19 media macros.
- Infospect (foo_infospect) Displays low level playback information.
- iPod Manager (foo_dop) Experimental iPod plugin for foobar2000 0.9.2+, currently in alpha version.
- Logitech G15 LCD Display (foo_g15lcd) Control the LCD panel on a Logitech G15 keyboard.
- Logitech LCD Display & Visualization (foo_logitech_lcd) Customizable visualizations and track info on the LCD panel on a Logitech G15/G19/Z-10.
- Menu Addons (foo_menu_addons) Adds a few shortcuts in menu.
- Open URL (foo_openurl) Adds a context menu item to open URLs from metadata fields in a web browser.
- Pause On Lock (foo_lock) Pauses/unpauses foobar2000 on workstation lock/unlock.
- Pause on Lock (extended) (foo_lock_ex) Pause playing on workstation lock. Optimized for use with Windows XP/2003.
- Preview (foo_preview) Play only part of each track in the playlist.
- Replaygain Override (foo_rg_trn) Allows you to automatically switch between replaygain modes based on specified criteria (e.g. use track based RG for shuffle mode, etc.)
- Run (foo_run) Able you to run a external program with the foobar syntax.
- Run Commands (foo_runcmd) Search and execute menu commands.
- Scheduler (foo_scheduler) Plugin for scheduling actions like play, stop, system shutdown/wake up and many more.
- Seek (foo_seek) offers different ways of seeking inside one or more tracks: preview, rewind/fast-forward, loop, and repeat A–B.
- Seekbox (foo_seek_box) Main menu item that pops up a box for seeking to a particular hh:mm:ss time in the current track.
- Send To Device (foo_sendtodevice) Add "Send to Device" feature.
- Shell Link Resolver (foo_lnk) Shell link resolver.
- Timebomb (foo_timebomb) Stop playback / exit program after a specified time.
- Unix archive support (foo_unpack_unix) Adds support for reading from Unix Tape Archives (.TAR), gzip files (.GZ), and bzip2 files (.BZ2).
- Unpacker for 7-Zip archive (foo_unpack_7z)
- Unpacker for JMA archive (foo_unpack_jma)
- Unpacker for LHA archive (foo_unpack_lha)
- UPnP/DLNA Renderer, Server, Control Point (foo_upnp)
- Winamp API Emulator (foo_winamp_spam) Designed to create a fake Winamp 1.x window which will act as a wrapper between applications written to use the Winamp API and foobar2000.
[edit] Lyrics
- Gasazip Lyrics (foo_gasazip) Search for lyrics and displays it in external window.
- Lyrics Show 2 (foo_uie_lyrics2) Downloads and displays lyrics, with LRC/timestamp support.
- Lyrics Show 3 (foo_uie_lyrics3) An update of foo_uie_lyrics2 (More Info)
- LyricsDB (foo_lyricsdb) Search lyrics basing on song's artist title and sometimes album.
- Lyrics Grabber 2 (foo_lyricsgrabber2) Downloads lyrics and stores them in tags.
- Mini Lyrics (foo_ui_minilyrics) Lyrics viewer for synchronizing and displaying lyrics of the currently playing song.
- Sakura Script Lyrics (foo_sstp_lyrics) Plays a SAKURA script lyrics to a SSP client.
[edit] Notifier
- AMIP Wrapper (foo_amipwrapper) Complete now-playing plug-in for mIRC, PIRCH, Klient, Bersirc, other IRC and Mail clients, supporting full player control from mIRC, playlist search, clipboard integration, HTTP, dynamic image signatures, etc.
- Listening To (foo_listeningto) Sends NowPlaying information to Miranda IM.
- Miranda IM Notifier (foo_mim_notify) Sends configurable information about the current playing song to Miranda-IM and shows popup windows with this info.
- MSN avatar changer (foo_uie_albumart_msn) Set currently playing song's album art as avatar.
- MSN Now Playing (alt) (foo_msnalt) Show the current song as "Now Playing" in MSN and Windows Live messenger.
- Windows Live Notifier (foo_wlm) Shows current song as "Now Playing" in in MSN Messenger and Windows Live messenger (WLM). Supports unicode.
- On-Screen Display (foo_osd) On screen display of track information and volume bar.
- On-Screen Display GDI (foo_osd_gdiplus) Same as foo_osd but uses GDI+ for osd drawing.
- Pretty Popup (foo_prettypop) Display a moderately sized popup of song information when a new song plays.
- Windows 7 Shell Integration (foo_w7shell) Integrates certain features into the Windows 7 Taskbar; seekbar, control buttons, etc.
[edit] Online database
- Audioscrobbler (foo_audioscrobbler) Audioscrobbler will send the name of every song you play on your computer to Last.fm. This effortlessly populates your profile to play radio you like and make personalized recommendations.
[edit] Online radio
- Podcatcher (foo_podcatcher) A podcatcher component for subscribing to, downloading, and playing RSS and Atom podcast feeds in foobar2000.
- Vorbis Streamer (foo_vorbisstream) Streams Vorbis and associated metadata to Icecast2 and Shoutcast servers.
- XM Radio Online Player (foo_xm) Allow you to listen to XM Radio channels over the Internet by using XM Radio Online.
[edit] Playlist tools
- Audioscrobble Charts (foo_scrobblecharts) Generate a playlist from an artist's Last.fm chart. It also allows you to sort a selection in the playlist by the artist's charts.
- Bin Pack (foo_binpack) Creates playlists from a list with a maximum length.
- Command Playlist (foo_cmd_playlist) Add /playlist-activate:"Name" to the foobar command line to activate the named playlist.
- Cuesheet Creator (foo_cuesheet_creator) Cuesheet creator.
- Database Search (foo_dbsearch) Database search.
- Default Video Player (foo_default_videoplayer) Allows you to play your video clips from foobar playlist with default external player.
- Delete Current (foo_deletecurrent) Adds a menu item giving the possibility to delete from computer the current playing track.
- Highlight Playing (foo_highlightplaying) Highlights actual now playing item even when the playlist has been broken.
- History (foo_history) Very basic song history.
- Inactive Tracks (foo_skip) Skips tracks that are marked via a tag as inactive.
- MeowDB (foo_meowdb) Takes the Media Library and outputs the results to a form and uploads it to your server using the cURL library.
- Navigator (foo_navigator) Advanced history component.
- Now Playing Simple (foo_np_simple) Simple now playing plugin to output formatted string to plain text file.
- Playback Queue Viewer (foo_pqview) Playback queue viewer.
- Playlist Bind (foo_playlist_bind) Synchronize playlist with contents of specific directory.
- Playlist Clear (foo_playlistclear) All playlists are cleared at startup.
- Playlist History (foo playlisthistory) Enables playlist history in foobar2000, similar to page history in browsers.
- Playlist Manager (foo_playlist_manager) Playlist manager.
- Playlist Name Enhenced (foo_playlist_name_enhanced) Appends automatically playlist info ("items / length") to all playlist names.
- Playlist Tools (foo_utils) Provides various general commands.
- Playlist Tools for Matroska (foo_utils_mka) Provides various general commands.
- Queue Manager (foo_queuemanager) It provides a window that shows the queue's contents and allows you to delete parts of them or clear the whole queue. Non-ColumnUI obsolete version, try panel version instead.
- Randomized Playlist Entry (foo_random) Randomized playlist entry.
- Rating (foo_rating) Display an icon in the systray with a tooltip popup from which you can choose a rating between 1 and 5 for the currently playing file.
- Remove Played (foo_removeplayed) It removes tracks from the playlist once they've been played.
- Soft Playlists (foo_softplaylists) Can create different Last.fm related playlists, love tracks on Last.fm and save and load XSPF playlists (make playlists without hard paths).
- Track Finder (foo_trackfinder) Displays a context menu that lets you quickly find songs based on their album title or artists name.
- Track Position (foo_trackpos) Provides a new context menu item "place after current playing", that allows you to place any tracks after the current playing one in the playing playlist.
- XSPF (foo_xspf) Adds XSPF support. XSPF is an open, XML based playlist format.
[edit] Playback Statistics
- Playback Statistics Custom (foo_playback_custom) Stores playback statistics in tags like foo_playcount_mod, with claimed faster response, and uses foo_custominfo db if file is unavailable for writing.
- Play Count Mod (foo_playcount_mod) Unofficial playcount modded to supress the update tag popups.
[edit] Remote control
- Advanced Controls (foo_advancedcontrols) Control all the playback functions from icons in the Taskbar Notification Area (play, pause, next, previous, open)
- Bluetooth Control (foo_bluetooth_ctrl) Control your favourite music player using your favourite Symbian-based bluetooth enabled phone.
- COM Automation Server (foo_comserver2) Allows controlling foobar2000 through COM Automation
- Control Server (foo_controlserver) Acts as a server to control Foobar2000. Connect with a telnet client and control it using ASCII commands.
- DDE Control (foo_ddecontrol) Control foobar remotelly with DDE interprocess communication (interface in japanese only).
- HTTP Writer (foo_write_http) It's TCP/IP server that listens on a specified port for incoming requests such as play, stop, etc.
- Joystick Control (foo_joystick_control) Control foobar2000 from a joystick/gamepad.
- Minibar2k (foo_Minibar2k) Control Foobar2k from your PDA (PocketPC based).
- Remote Control (foo_remotecontrol) Adds support to Melloware Intelliremote software which claims to work with Creative remote control (Soundblaster Live!, Audigy, Extigy, Audigy ZS and Soundblaster X-Fi.)
- RM-1800 (foo_mr1800) Adds support of Creative X-Fi's remote (RM-1800).
- RM-X Media Edition (foo_rmx) Yet another plugin for remote control. SHAREWARE.
- Titlebar (foo_managedWrapper) Create a personal title bar that shows the currently playing song on the top of the screen all the time. It supports custom-made skins.
- WinLIRC Client (foo_lirc) Control Foobar from a remote control.
[edit] Tagging
- Chacon (foo_chacon) Chacon is a simple tool for fixing tags by converting them between different character sets.
- Custom Info (foo_custominfo) Allows you to set info fields for files without modifying them.
- Discogs (foo_discogs) Retrieve info and album art from Discogs.com database.
- Freedb Tagger (foo_freedb2) Freedb.org tagger. Now included with official foobar2000 installers.
- Live Show Tagger (foo_tradersfriend) Live show tagger.
- m-TAGS component (foo_tags) Support for m-TAGS metadata separation
[edit] Links
- Official third-party components site
- List of components from earlier versions not yet ported to 0.9.x.
