May 3rd, 2011· Minor cosmetic upgrades to new TouchPad Faceplate Display
April 8th, 2011· New TouchPad Faceplate Display
· All display options combined into one command center style screen
· Option to select full or small display sizes
· New CD Ripper default digital rip mode, updated to be compatible with most hardware and drivers
· Complete redesign of Cover Art setup options & use throughout, now easier, faster, more features
· New display support for Cyrillic character set used in >25 Slavic & non-Slavic languages (e.g. Bulgarian, Russian, Abkhaz, Romani, etc.)
· New & faster program loader with built-in autosensing of audio CDs
· and media files (eliminates older CDLauncher utility used in previous versions)
· Updated setup options & defaults
· New program installer
January 20th, 2011· CD Ripper update for SATA CD drives (use Alternate Digital Rip Mode)
· Spectrum Analyzer display update
· WMA (Windows Media Audio) update
· Bug fix for adding audio CD cover art when manually entering CD
· Updated installer
September 1st, 2010· Faster online CD detection, updated support for 64-bit OS's+
May 27th, 2010· New automated re-sizing of Artist - Album & Song displays when displaying cover art thumbnail in players
· New Default Cover Art % Zoom option added in CD-Runner Setup
· CD Ripper - update to Digital 2 (optional) rip mode
· Updated playback code for: ALAC (Apple Lossless)
· APE (Monkey's Audio)
· FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
· MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
· WMA (Windows Media Audio)
· WV (WavPack)
· Updated system information utility
January 26th, 2010· New Cover Art Thumbnail display for all faceplate modes
· New setup option to display or hide Cover Art Thumbnails
· CD Ripper improvements: Normal & Advanced digital extraction methods modified to be far more compatible with different hardware without sacrificing speed
· Small cosmetic improvements to CD Ripper faceplate (GUI)
· Turbo rip mode (rip & encode multiple songs at the same time) enhanced
· Small enhancements for Windows 7
· Media Server grid display fixes for minor cosmetic glitches
· Internet radio stations updated
· Updated installer
January 26th, 2010· New Portable player, made to resemble generic MP3 players. Includes: Size up/down (bigger/smaller)
· Thumbnail of cover art displayed if available
· New sizable cover art viewer for all audio CD & media playback
· Media Server new and improved: New slider to change image size in grid view
· Multi-select added to grid view; use Ctrl and/or Shift keys when selecting tracks
· Grid view text display modified to make easier to read
· Grid view track display changed to show Artist - Album / Track Name
· Improved display of media file info
· Media Player 1X (actual or "native" size) playback improved for movie media files (AVI, MPG, etc.)
· New 4X (Quadruple actual size) option for movie file playback
· Movie Display new and improved: If movie display zoomed in or out (+ or -) during playback of multiple files, window size retained until reset or new zoom
· New display of actual or "native" movie size (W x H, pixels) when moving mouse over "Set to Actual Size" icon
· Code updates result in faster load times and better video performance (less dropped frames on slower systems)
· Updated playback code for: AAC (includes AAC+ & Shoutcast)
· AC3 (Dolby Digital)
· ALAC (Apple Lossless)
· APE (Monkey's Audio)
· FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
· OFR (OptimFROG)
· SPX (Speex)
· WMA (Windows Media Audio)
· WV (WavPack)
· Updated & improved reading of file tags for ID3v1, ID3v2, OGG, FLAC, WMA, APEv2, MP4
· Disc Library New slider to change image size in grid view
· Grid view text display modified to make easier to read
· Research online links & sites updated
· CD Ripper Updates: New Auto Select All Tracks option
· New Auto Close after rip / encode complete option
· Display of tracks in main window improved
· After all selected tracks ripped and encoded, display reset
· Updated MP3 Tag Utility
· All setup, data & information screens modified to use new, more easily readable fonts
June 1st, 2009· Comprehensive code optimization to improve loading times & screen refresh speed, fix rare OS-specific bugs and improve overall reliability
· New 'No Drive Available' Setup option, for systems without CD or DVD drives (Netbook mode)
· Faster loading using automatic drive detection
· New List & Grid View preferences saved (sizes, last used, etc.) for Disc Library and Media Server
· New Media Server - double-click to play track option in all sub listings (e.g. Artists, Albums, Genre, etc.)
· New Media Server automatic save column width preferences
· Media Server / iTunes import updated to work with latest iTunes
· Updated movie (MPG, AVI, etc.) playback
· New support for very long media filenames (e.g. 256 characters for NTFS)
March 5th, 2009· Patch for Windows 7 beta drivers
· New greatly expanded payment options
February 18th, 2009· New support for Windows 7
· New Audio CD Runner features: New option to automatically search all online databases if no match found, databases include: freedb (Germany)
· TrackType (Australia)
· MusicBrainz (US & UK locations)
· Online database being searched shown in main player display window
· New Media Server: Play audio and/or video from any networked device or drive
· Faster file scanning during Add/Update
· New option (checkbox) to eliminate duplicates during Add/Update
· New option to force retrieval of track times for legacy media files
· New alternate cover art thumbnail view of all entries with resize options
· New horizontal resize bar between cover art & details panes
· New shortcut icons to switch between thumbnail & list views
· New View menu (top menu bar)
· Improved selection of cover art
· New Windows shortcut icon added to CD-Runner Applications Folder (Windows Start Menu) to directly access Media Server
· New Disc Library features: New alternate cover art thumbnail view of all entries with resize options
· New horizontal resize bar between cover art & details panes
· New shortcut icons to switch between thumbnail & list views
· New View menu (top menu bar)
· Improved selection of cover art
· Improved auto drive detection for systems with multiple CD and DVD drives
· Many small graphical improvements to all player screens
October 10th, 2008· New CD Ripper features: New Turbo mode option to rip and encode at the same time, much faster to rip multiple tracks or entire audio CD
· Improved Setup screen, easier to select output (rip and encode to) directory, better display of current selections
· New Graphic / Parametric EQ screen shows levels in dB for each gain slider
· New Disc & Media Libraries, sort ascending or descending preference saved
June 11th, 2008· New Internet Radio upgrades, including: New M3U support for radio station URLs; New PLS support for radio station URLs;Updated support for entry of radio station IP address URLs
· Improved radio station connections; better connection speed, faster song title & message updates online
· New Default Internet Radio Stations
· New clone (create) SACD entry from audio CD entry or CD listed in local freedb database
· Minor cosmetic bug fixes for new 2008.00 version
April 29th, 2008· New Disc Library New album artwork viewer pane
· New CD details viewer pane
· New local freedb database viewer
· New advanced search options
· New online research options
· New GUI design, easier to use
· New Media Library New album artwork viewer pane
· New media file details viewer pane
· New advanced search options
· New online research options
· New GUI design, easier to use
· New online CD data lookup options; in addition to freedb (Germany) TrackType (Australia)
· MusicBrainz (Oregon, US)
· MusicBrainz (London, UK)
· Redesigned playlist editors
· Redesigned Alt. Digital Volume mode
· CD Ripper improvements faster rip speed (adv. digital mode) improved automatic drive(s) detection more accurate rip progress indicator
· MP3 tags modified to include commas as valid characters
· New progress indicators throughout for file scanning, database searching, etc.
· New hyperlinks throughout replace older Browse buttons
June 7th, 2007· New Vista shortcut icons (XL & Large, RGB/A 32-bit color )
· New Disc Library media types HD DVD
· Blu-ray
· New Disc & Media Library option to set custom font color
· Disc & Media Libraries updated with Vista style GUI if Vista OS detected
· Updated installer
· 15-band parametric and graphic EQs updated
· Fix for intermittent slow retrieval of audio CD data when multiple exact freedb matches found online
· Cdlaunch utility modified to prevent multiple instances of CD-Runner from being loaded
· Minor cosmetic improvements for screens when using Vista
January 30th, 2007· Microsoft Windows Vista compatible
· New 'digital' audio CD playback
· Allows spectrum analyzer to work with all audio CDs
· Allows 15-band parametric and graphic EQs to work with all audio CDs
· One of the only players available which can analyze and display audio CD frequencies and VU during playback
· Optional 'analog' audio CD playback supports all older legacy CD drives and sound boards
· New and Updated Analyzer modes
· Spectrum - Updated
· Bars - Updated
· Wave - Updated
· Sweep - Updated
· VU - New
· Stereo - New
· New Peak Hold option for analyzer Bars and VU modes
· New 3D LCD displays
· New Ribbon Bar
· Minimized to smallest possible height
· New scrolling Artist-Album/Song Title display
· Position automatically remembered
· Optional 'open mode' with full displays
· Improved skins, buttons, faceplates, icons
· New Transparency slider popup for all skins, allows you to vary how transparent the skin looks from ghost to glass to fully solid or any point between
· Support added for MusicBrainz (alternative online freedb-like service)
· Manual import from new freedb online search update
· Improved export to Excel - Disc Library
· Improved Internet Radio quality for marginal connections, less pops and clicks
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