What's new in CherryPlayer 3.3.2
Aug 24, 2021
- Fixed crash at start playback media without extension
- Improved perfomance of loading radio pages
- Fix correct parsing music tracks for artist & title
- Fixed broken Delete items from the playlist after selecting them with Ctrl+A
- Fixed broken order of adding urls from m3u8 fils
- Fixed sometimes broken hotkeys work that include “Enter” key
- Added support of the “user-agent” option for iptv playback
- Fixed an error at multiselection in the playlist
New in CherryPlayer 3.3.1 (Aug 14, 2021)
- Improved music search.
- Fixed incorrect size of the preview window over playback bar during video playback from local disk.
- Fixed broken aspect ratio work in menu.
New in CherryPlayer 3.3.0 (Jul 31, 2021)
- Ported CherryPlayer to Windows 64-bit.
- Added High DPI support.
- Fixed bugs in YouTube playback.
- Improved performance.
- Updated Italian, Korean, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian translations. Added Greek translation.
- Fixed different bugs.
New in CherryPlayer 3.2.4 (Jan 20, 2021)
- Added:
- Added reading metadata for YouTube’s channel added to playlist via OpenUrl or drag & drop.
- Show selected playlist content during internal drag & drop.
- Added Shift+F10 support:
- show main menu
- for playlist’s item show context menu
- for text field show context menu
- for left panel button show context menu
- Fixed:
- Fixed broken Drag & Drop working.
- Fixed: add only last opened page to the history during drag & drop
- Fixed broken working of “Open in the right pane” option in the playlist’s menu.
- Fixed incorrect shown long text in the title in the right-to-left view.
- Fixed lost multiply selection during moving multiply items in the playlist.
- Fixed: move to playable item in the right panel if select a playable playlist.
- Fixed order of copying media items from one to another playlist.
- Fixed broken seeking to 0 position
- Rebuilt support of “Tab” and “Shift+Tab” hot keys.
- Updated Korean and Slovenian translations.
New in CherryPlayer 3.2.3 (Jan 12, 2021)
- Added right panel with “Now playing radio”, “Playable playlist”, “Queue” and “Select playlist” options. It is now possible to open another playlist in the right panel and better manage files using the main playlist and playlist in the right panel (for example, drag & drop files from the main playlist to the playlist in the right panel).
- Fixed a lot of bugs in YouTube playlists.
- Fixed a lot of other bugs in the UI.
- Updated Slovenian and Spanish translations.
New in CherryPlayer 3.2.2 (Dec 11, 2020)
- Added:
- Added “Now playling” playlist for Radio
- Added settings to set/remove/change transparency:
- Transparency of window in the Normal mode
- Transparency of window in the Music mode
- Transparency of menu
- Transparency of menu over video
- Transparency of video bar over video
- Transparency of dialog window
- Transparency of tooltips
- Fixed:
- Fixed exit fullscreen & video mode at finish previous and before start new playback.
New in CherryPlayer 3.2.1 (Nov 30, 2020)
- Added:
- Added showing popup with colors to choose highlight color at the first start.
- Added showing context menu for the playlist if right click on the playlist title on the top playlists bar.
- Added option to copy url/path of the played file by pressing hotkey “F12”.
- Fixed:
- Fixed broken Twitch search & playback.
- Fixed broken opening Twitch channel if drag & drop Twitch channel url from browser on the playback bar.
- Fixed broken file metadata update if drag & drop Twitch channel & game url from browser on the playlist.
- Fixed broken Radio.Net working.
- Fixed missing video information panel in the fullscreen on the top mode.
- Fixed: show “color” button at the pressed state during changing the highlight color.
- Fixed: playlist’s video item is not selected, opened and draggable if click on views label.
- Fixed missing Microsoft Visual C++ dlls after installing playler on the Win64 computers.
- Changed: Hide video information bar at enter/exit fullscreen.
New in CherryPlayer 3.2.0 (Nov 18, 2020)
- Added:
- Added seek bar panel in MadVR exclusive fullscreen mode.
- Show ‘live’ text on playback slider for live streams.
- Added ‘Open Recent File’ option in main menu (“Ctrl+J” hot keys).
- Update title for YouTube and Twitch videos added as link from browser.
- Fixed:
- Fixed support of hot keys in MadVR exclusive fullscreen mode.
- Fixed errors during search on YouTube.
- Fixed sometimes errors during loading channel content.
- Fixed sometimes errors during subscribing to channel.
- Fixed broken changing ‘Seek by key frame’ values in playback settings.
- Fixed appearing video info panel over settings dialogs.
- Corrected some translations text phrases.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.9 (Nov 6, 2020)
- Added:
- Added MadVR support that is used by default if installed on the computer. You can enable & disable MadVR support in Playback->Renderers settings.
- Added pause video on minimize and play video on restore options in the Playback settings.
- Added auto hide cursor over video window in normal and video modes.
- Added settings to enable/disable always show scrollbar in the Window settings.
- Added feature to pause video when lock Windows session and play video when unlock session.
- Added smooth animation for sliders in settings.
- Added ability to change slider value in settings dialogs using keys “Left” & “Right” (if slider has focus).
- Fixed:
- Fixed broken playback of some YouTube videos.
- Fixed broken YouTube search work.
- Fixed sometimes empty YouTube pages.
- Fixed sometimes broken size of YouTube video preview window.
- Fixed broken youtube preview in the playlist.
- Fixed broken playback of some Twitch live streams.
- Fixed broken Soundcloud playback.
- Fixed application crash if shutdown computer during playback.
- Fixed broken “Find more” at “+” menu in the window title.
- Fixed broken selecting suggested search phrase by mouse.
- Fixed broken bookmarks work.
- Fixed: hide video bar if change video size.
- Fixed: hide video preview if lock computer.
- Fixed sync issues during playback of live streams with caching on disk.
- Changed: “+” menu in window title adds played track name during radio playback.
- Removed 2 seconds delay at application exit.
- Improved seeking.
- Fixed incorrect update of volume slider value with “Left” & “Right” keys pressed (if slider has focus)
- Fixed incorrect update of playback slider value with “Left” & “Right” keys pressed (if slider has focus)
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.8 (Oct 15, 2020)
- Added:
- Added to playlist settings option to enable/disable creating the preview for the video added from the computer.
- Added to playlist settings option to set length of the created video preview.
- Added seeking by keyframes support.
- Added video preview seeking on the playback slider by keyframes.
- Added mouse wheel support for every slider, including playback slider.
- Added to playback settings option to enable/disable seek to keyframe with mouse on playback slider.
- Added to playback settings option to enable/disable seek to keyframe with hotkey & mouse wheel.
- Added to playlist settings option to enable/disable read file name from tags for Music and/or Video.
- Fixed:
- Fixed broken restoring of the playback position.
- Fixed sometimes broken loading settings values in the dialog settings.
- Improved playback start of video with auto-loaded external subtitles in the same video folder.
- Fixed sometimes incorrect update of window geometry to video size at the next playback start.
- Fixed broken “Up” & “Down” keys working at the search suggestion popup.
- Changed: maximize minimized video in the playlist at the next start of video playback.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.7 (Oct 8, 2020)
- Release logs: Added: 1. Added in playback settings option to [...]
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.6 (Sep 30, 2020)
- Added:
- Added preview for local video over the playback slider.
- Added gif preview for local video in the playlist.
- Added auto-loading “srt” subtitles located with the same name in the video folder.
- Fixed:
- Fixed errors in the license dialog working and activating Pro featuresAll Pro features are available in the free version.
- Fixed broken playback & downloading YouTube age protected videos.
- During playback live streams with caching on disk temporary files were not removed completely.
- Fixed broken rtl support.
- Fixed lost window focus and broken hotkeys working after changing usual/video/music modes.
- Fixed broken hotkeys working to enter fullscreen.
- Fixed flickering a preview image in the playlist.
- Fixed empty images in the YouTube games tops.
- Fixed errors in the YouTube Music top playlist.
- Fixed errors in the YouTube playlists.
- Fixed very frequently tooltip update over the playback slider, fixed tooltip flickering.
- Fixed incorrect value of the tooltip text over the playback slider.
- Corrected tooltip title for tray icon.
- Update the volume slider position more smoothly.
- Updated italian translation.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.5 (Sep 15, 2020)
- Fixed Twitch playback.
- Fixed broken downloading of some YouTube videos, added reconnect feature during downloading videos.
- Fixed: YouTube downloading popup is not shown correctly.
- Fixed broken SoundCloud playback.
- Improved audio playback with changed playback rate.
- Changed algorithm of playback windows media files.
- Broken focus at OpenUrl dialog.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.4 (Sep 4, 2020)
- Fixed broken start of playback in the “Fullscreen mode”.
- Fixed error during restoring settings/playlists after installing a new portable version.
- Fixed broken login to Twitch.
- Fixed error at changing YouTube downloading folder.
- Fixed sometimes broken YouTube downloading after changing downloading folder path.
- Fixed error at copying online video url to the clipboard.
- Fixed error at opening online url in the default browser.
- Fixed: opened files are added to the current active sub-playlist and not to the first sub-playlist.
- Fixed error during showing video information panel in the “Video mode”.
- Fixed error in restoring window position.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.3 (Aug 24, 2020)
- Fixed broken “Open Url” dialog working.
- Fixed broken youtube preview.
- Fixed missing video info panel during Twitch and YouTube playback.
- Fixed errors in Drag&Drop of YouTube links to the playlist.
- Fixed broken navigation in the left panel with “Up” & “Down” key press.
- Fixed incorrect position of the minimized video when scroll is shown/hidden in the playlist.
- Fixed changing volume during mouse-wheel scrolling playlist.
- Fixed errors in showing the video info panel.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.2 (Aug 18, 2020)
- Fixed errors in restoring the position of CherryPlayer’s window in Normal, Music and Video modes.
- Fixed broken in hotkeys work.
- Fixed errors in YouTube video preview work.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.1 (Aug 4, 2020)
- Added additionally 14 colors to the skin and added ability to change highlighting color.
New in CherryPlayer 3.1.0 (Jul 9, 2020)
- Added additionally 14 colors to the skin and added ability to change highlighting color.
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.9 (Jun 25, 2020)
- Added "Playback Queue" playlist 2) Added "Play later" playlist [...]
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.8 (Jun 5, 2020)
- Added ability to add new sub-playlists as tabs in [...]
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.7 (May 8, 2020)
- Added YouTube video info panel during video playback.
- Added ability to subscribe locally to YouTube channels. Added “Subscriptions” playlist in the YouTube section in the left panel with subscribed “Channels” and “Videos”.
- Fixed bugs during navigation in the playlists.
- Improved performance.
- Fixed bug in restoring maximized CherryPlayer‘s window at next start.
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.6 (Apr 21, 2020)
- Improved performance
- Added support for YouTube “Trending” and “News” top playlists
- SoundCloud search/playback fixed
- General bug fixes
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.5 (Mar 4, 2020)
- Added DASH mpd support 2. Improved IPTV playback 3. [...]
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.4 (Feb 5, 2020)
- Fixed playback & downloading some YouTube videos
- Fixed broken playlists sorting
- Improved IPTV playback, fixed stopping of playback after a few seconds after start.
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.3 (Jan 22, 2020)
- CherryPlayer has been updated with fixes and improvements of the playback engine.
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.2 (Dec 27, 2019)
- The license option for CherryPlayer Pro has been disabled for the time being and we moved to a donation model instead. From version 3.0.2 all features are once again open to everyone.
New in CherryPlayer 3.0.1 (Dec 17, 2019)
- New features:
- Added “Right-To-left” view for Arabic, Aramaic, Azeri, Dhivehi/Maldivian, Hebrew, Kurdish (Sorani), Persian/Farsi and Urdu languages. For now CherryPLayer supports translation to Arabic and Persian/Farsi.
- Added better support of “Right-To-Left” text in “Left-to-Right” view.
- Added preview for YouTube and Twitch videos in playlists with ability to enable/disable this feature in settings. Also added option in settings to enable/disable caching of preview images on disk.
- Added Windows “Aero Snap” feature support.
- Added restart playback by “Ctrl+Backspace” hotkey and as option in menu.
- Fixed:
- Fixed 2 important errors during downloading some YouTube videos.
- Fixed login to Twitch.
- Use now Chromium web engine for login to Twitch and YouTube.
- Fixed empty Twitch “Follow” playlists.
- Updated Twitch chat. Added support of more badges and notifications in Twitch chat.
- Fixed broken playback & downloading of some YouTube videos.
- Fixed empty some Billboard playlists.
- Fixed error in renaming videos in playlists.
- Changes:
- CherryPlayer 3.0.0 does NOT support Windows XP now.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.9 (Jul 12, 2019)
- a few bug fixes
- crash if select Radio.net playlist in left panel
- empty Radio.net playlist
- removed WebKit support => Qt webkit.dll with 12Mb size has been removed from installer.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.8 (Jun 26, 2019)
- Fixed errors during playback & downloading some YouTube videos.
- Updated installer:
- installer user interface has more modern looking.
- installer translated to more languages.
- installer will install Visual C++ 2013 redistributable package only if it is not installed in system.
- Changed playback of Twitch live streams that can fix sometimes freezing during playback video of very good quality or when internet connection is slow. Now Twitch live stream will be cached on disk during playback, this should give you ability to stop video to cache it and resume playback.
- Save playlist position:
- if change playlist view
- if move between playlists with “Previous Playlist”/”Next Playlist” functionality.
- Changed hotkeys:
- “Previous Playlist” – “F7”
- “Next Playlist” – “F8”
- “Copy title” of played media – “F2”
- “Copy title” of selected media in playlist – “Ctrl+F2”.
- Show “Settings” button by default on front panel.
- At start downloading “downloading” playlist is not shown by default because exist downloading button on front panel.
- Updated icons “Like” and “Dislike”.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.7 (Jun 26, 2019)
- Added support of playback YouTube live streams:
- 144p, 240p, 360p,480p, 720p, 1080p
- 720p 60fps, 1080p 60fps.
- Fixed errors with audio during playback of some YouTube videos.
- Fixed errors during playback some YouTube videos that were played before as livestream.
- Added in “Window settings” options to show/hide “Settings” button on front panel.
- All dialogs are not modal now so it is possible now to open some settings dialog and add changes to main window when dialog is shown.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.6 (Jun 26, 2019)
- Fixed 3 important errors during playback & downloading some YouTube videos.
- Changed view of topbar panel:
- Removed search types icons, moved search types settings to search filters panel.
- Thanks to above updates added “Radio” type for searching and later other types will be added like “Anime”, “Movies” etc.
- Changed design of search filters panel.
- Added “Downloading” button that shows downloading progress. Added tooltip dialog with downloads progress.
- Removed “Settings” icon. All settings are available via menu.
- Added “Radio” search on OnlineRadioBox.com, Radio.net and SHOUTcast.
- Added sorting videos by “Date” by default for YouTube channel videos to show new videos all time on the top.
- Fixed incorrect view of text filed during renaming music tracks if title has “Artist” name.
- Fixed incorrect work of next item selection if move in playlist of “Grid” type by pressing keys “Up”/”Down”.
- Changed: show “Artist” name and then “Track” name in music playlists.
- Fixed bad quality view of YouTube images in user’s Video playlists.
- Fixed: show items in search results in “source-one-by-one” order if search for media with different sources.
- Added Dutch translation. Updated Polish and Korean translations.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.5 (Jun 26, 2019)
- Changed YouTube, Twitch and video playlists design. Video thumbnail is much larger now. Grid view is supported for video playlists now.
- Fixed: failed playback/downloading of some low quality YouTube video formats.
- Fixed: incorrect shown available video formats for YouTube videos after changing formats settings.
- Fixed: OnlineRadioBox has empty playlists.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.4 (Apr 27, 2019)
- New features:
- Added Radio.net support with “Hot 100”, “Genres”, “Topics” and “Countries”.
- Added Billboard charts.
- Support next translations: Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brasil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
- Fixed:
- Shoutcast search & playback.
- Broken work of “Find text in playlist” panel.
- Visible one pixel line of desktop background in right side when player window is maximized.
- Errors in loading content of Twitch top video playlists sorted by Date.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.3 (Apr 3, 2019)
- Fixed YouTube login error.
- Added RadioOnlineBox service instead of "Country".
- Fixed empty Billboard top 100 playlist.
- Minimize player if press "Esc".
- Added Polish and Portuguese translation support.
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.2 (Apr 3, 2019)
- Fixed broken YouTube playback & downloading for some videos.
- Fixed empty YouTube "Subscriptions" playlist.
- To login into YouTube use now installed in system Internet Explorer browser engine instead of old WebKit browser engine that is not supported properly by YouTube.
- Fixed login to Twitch. To login into Twitch use now installed in system Internet Explorer browser engine instead of old WebKit browser engine that is not supported properly by Twitch. ...
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.1 (Apr 3, 2019)
- Fixed error during playback & downloading of some YouTube videos.
- Updated Shoutcast support of top stations, genres and subgenres.
- Added Audio settings to normalize Video volume and boost volume for Music and Video.
- Added new feature: left panel is automatically hidden/shown when start/stop video playback with ability to enable/disable this option in settings.
- Added new feature: paste url & title from clipboard to "Open Url/Live/Radio" ...
New in CherryPlayer 2.5.0 (Oct 23, 2018)
- Fixed YouTube playback errors.
- Improved YouTube downloading.
- Added ability to download YouTube 480p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p and 4320p.
- Added ability to download YouTube 60fps video (if available).
- Added ability to download YouTube 3D video (if available).
- Added ability to download YouTube video with custom settings - select Video and Audio streams that will be muxed in final downloaded file.
- Added "My downloads" section in left panel with ability to hide this section via menu.
- Improved Music search engine.
- Fixed incorrect titles of pages in context menu of "Previous Playlist"/"Next playlist".
- Added support of Slovak and Japanese translations.
New in CherryPlayer 2.4.7 (Jul 27, 2018)
- Playlist:
- New features:
- Save now history of browsing between playlists. Added two buttons "Previous" and "Next" to return to previously opened playlists. Added support hot keys 'Shift+Tab' to return to previous playlist(s) and 'Ctrl+Tab' to forward to next playlist(s).
- Show context menu if left click and hold or right click on "Previous"/"Next" buttons. Show name of page on top bar after moving to previous/next page and hide this name after 10 seconds.
- Added ability to sort playlist by name and duration, save and cancel changes.
- Added "Find more" command in "+" menu for item in playlists.
- Added "Copy title" option in "+" menu and in item's context menu.
- Added ability to rename audio/video name in user playlists via menu or press F2.
- Added ability to shuffle playlist.
- Added ability to add File, Url or Folder to active playlist using menu.
- Press F5 will reload playlist.
- Press Tab in playlist will forward focus to "Find" panel if it is visible.
- Added to player "Recent media" feature with settings.
- F6 will show more results on page.
- Added ability to select if add playlist items to either top or bottom of User's playlist.
- Changed:
- Drag & Drop folder and files on playlist will add all files only to this playlist without sorting files by type Music or Video.
- Replaced playlist view 3 buttons to one button with context menu.
- Fixed:
- Fixed shown text "Create new playlist" outside of input form to enter new playlist name when left panel is short in width.
- "Show more" button is shown now when move to the end of playlist using 'PageDown', 'Down' or 'End' keys.
- Playback:
- New features:
- Added ability to start music playback in "Music mode" and start video playback in "Video mode" or "Fullscreen". These settings can be changed via menu or in playback settings dialog.
- At next player start select now the best video quality equal to last selected played video quality if it is missed.
- Added "Play in a new window" option to playlist item context menu to start playback music/video in new player window.
- Added "Copy title" option in "+" menu in caption.
- Added "Find more" option in "+" menu in caption. For example, when radio is played and track name is shown in title you can click on "Find more" or Alt+F to search for tracks with the same name.
- Added feature to play playlist in the opposite direction with ability to change these settings.
- Changed:
- Player window is not updated now to default video size if player window view is in video mode or fullscreen.
- Player window is not updated now to default video size if playback is restarted or reconnected to server when lost connection.
- Playback music files without video from video playlists will not show black screen now.
- Duration and position text on timeline has a link view and supports countdown playback status tooltip. Pressing on it will turn on/off countdown playback time.
- Rebuilt maximize & minimize video logic. It is sometimes annoying that minimized video is maximized at start next video playback when you are looking on playlist:
- Now next video is not maximized at start playback if it was minimized before
- Minimized video can be maximized or not depends from settings if you started playback from playlist
- If video is minimized then next video can be played or not depends from settings.
- Fixed:
- Fixed crash player if video was being played and computer is returned back to work from sleep mode.
- Returned back ability to show video settings dialog over fullscreen even if fullscreen is on top.
- Reset playback rate to normal if start new file playback.
- Sometimes cursor is hidden in fullscreen mode over chat/comments bars.
- Fixed error in loading last saved player settings if start playback file from windows explorer in portable version.
- Twitch:
- New features:
- Support now playback 160p video quality.
- Changed:
- Changes in showing Twitch video quality text:
- Do not show 30fps in text and show only 60fps in text
- Show "mobile", "low", "high", "medium" video quality text if video has
- Show "source" quality text instead of "1080p" text.
- YouTube:
- Fixed:
- Fixed missing video and channel info if play YouTube video at start player.
- Fixed broken playback/downloading of some videos.
- Fixed missing 'channel' name in search results.
- 4shared:
- Fixed:
- Fixed search and playback.
- Changed:
- Updated search filters.
- SoundCloud:
- Fixed:
- Fixed playback.
- Window settings dialog:
- New features:
- Added ability to start now a few CherryPlayer instances that works by default.
- Also added ability to change these settings to start only one CherryPlayer instance always or start only one CherryPlayer instance only if open file from Windows Explorer.
- Added ability to show/hide 'CherryPlayer' in caption.
- Added ability to turn on/off snap player window to desktop edges.
- Added ability to show/hide tooltips.
- Added On top settings. Added ability to setup custom On top settings to get player on top in normal, music and/or video modes, always or only while playing music and/or video.
- Added ability to turn on/off keep player on top in fullscreen.
- Playback settings dialog:
- New features:
- Added ability to turn of/off pause playback when click on video.
- Added ability to turn on/off countdown playback time.
- Added ability to turn on/off showing tooltips over timeline.
- Added ability to setup if need to resize player window to video size when played video from computer, Twitch, YouTube and/or played another video.
- Added ability to setup start music playback in "Normal mode" or "Music mode" and start video playback in "Normal mode", "Video mode" or "Fullscreen".
- Added ability to setup back/forward jump intervals on timeline, by default 5 seconds(Left/Right), 30 seconds (Ctrl+Left/Right), 1 minute(Shift + Left/Right), 5 minutes (Alt + Ctrl + Left/Right).
- Video settings dialog:
- New features:
- Added ability to rotate video.
- Added ability to show minimized video with different size:
- Default size
- Constant size: proportionally to half of display resolution
- Dynamic size: proportionally to the video area size.
- Keys settings dialog:
- New features:
- Added ability to turn on/off support multimedia keyboard with options:
- Enable/disable global hot keys for multimedia keyboard
- Turn on/off volume control at multimedia keyboard
- Turn on/off search control at multimedia keyboard; press on Global search control will move player to foreground and will search for currently played music/video.
- For example, you can now use multimedia keyboard to play previous/next music/video, change volume up/down or mute when player window is minimized or inactive.
- Window:
- New features:
- Added in menu option "Open a New Window" (Ctrl+N) to start new CherryPlayer instance.
- Press F10 will show main menu and it is possible to navigate over menu items using keyboard.
- Tooltips includes now also shortcuts if exist.
- Press 'F1' will show "About" dialog.
- Changes:
- Completely rebuilt full menu structure.
- Move cursor to begin when text field lost focus.
- Show pointing hand cursor if mouse is over any button. Show usual arrow cursor if button is disabled. Pointing cursor means that action will be executed when you click on button.
- Rebuilt "close" functionality for dialogs.
- Fixed:
- Now click on button around a logo to show main menu will hide menu if it is visible.
- Now next visible window on Windows desktop will receive focus if minimize player to taskbar.
- Show now login and settings dialogs in fullscreen even if fullscreen is on Top.
- Show tooltips for disabled buttons too.
- After closing dialog with Alt+F4 dialog is not shown at next start.
- Translation:
- Changed:
- Completely changed structure of translation files.
- Updated English, Russian and Ukrainian translation files to follow new structure.
- All other supported languages can be found in folder "languages/need_to_update_in_2_4_7", so you can review old translation files and update them to new structure.
- Optimized translation functionality.
- You can add new language to player. Click on menu "Language"->"Add new language" will show notepad with default template where you need to update right part of text in every line with your translation. Also you can mail this updated file to [email protected].
- Settings:
- New features:
- Added ability to store settings either in registry or in the settings.ini file.
- Changed:
- Rebuilt settings structure.
- Other:
- Changed:
- Improved perfomance of player's UI.
- Changed color of url links in youtube comments and twitch chat from dark blue to light gray.
- Improved behavior of search field.
- Show radio button in menu instead of check box where necessary.
New in CherryPlayer 2.4.6 (Apr 11, 2017)
- ADDED NEW FEATURES:
- Compact Music mode:
- switch between "Normal mode"(Ctrl+Shift+Enter), "Music mode"(Shift+Enter) and "Video mode"(Ctrl + Enter) using submenu "View" or hotkeys
- Local search in active playlist:
- find bar is located in bottom part of playlist, it has buttons "Find previous", "Find next" and "Select all"
- click on "Select all" button to select all found items, then you can click "+" on any selected item and copy all selected items to any another playlist in one click
- find bar is shown by default, you can close find bar and show it
- added submenu "Find in Playlist" to show find bar ("Ctrl+F"), find next("F3") and find previous("Shift + F3").
- Left panel settings:
- show/hide any category in left panel using submenu "View"->"Panel" or right lick on left panel. For example, you can change default settings and show only Twitch or YouTube category in left panel.
- create user's playlists in Radio, Twitch and YouTube categories
- active playlist is saved at player exit and shown next player start.
- CherryPlayer window icon color and "CherryPlayer" text color is changed to gray if player window is not active.
- FIXED:
- Broken switching YouTube, Twitch and VK video quality
- Broken SoundCloud playback
- Twitch video url added to player is not played
- Player window freezes if click on download icon to download YouTube video
- UPDATES:
- Hot keys:
- "Play"/"Pause" Alt+X
- "Stop" Alt+S
- "Previous" Alt+A
- "Next" Alt+D
- Right click on video will show context menu
- Click on "+" to add item to another playlist will show context menu with all user's playlists
- Updated Slovenian translation.
New in CherryPlayer 2.4.4 (Jan 26, 2017)
- fixed crash player
- video list in YouTube subsscriptions looks the same to video list on official website, video list sorted by date
- improved online music playback
- fixed errors in reading some m3u playlists
- fixed shown incorrect Arabic text in window title.
New in CherryPlayer 2.4.3 (Dec 29, 2016)
- NEW ENGINE RELEASED:
- better YouTube playback; playback 480p, 1080p and 1440p starts now in a moment, before sometimes playback youtube 480p, 1080p and 1440p did not work
- supports hardware acceleration for VP9 youtube codec
- more codecs supported for audio and video
- reconnect online playback if lost internet connection or lost connection with server
- Added ability to play Twitch 60fps video if video supports like feature
- Show artist and song name during radio playback.
- Added in Menu "After playback" submenu with options
- Once: "Log off", "Lock", "Sleep", "Hibernate" or "Shutdown" computer, "Exit" player
- Music, YouTube, Twitch or another video: "Do nothing" or "Play next"
- Support now global hot keys that will work when player window has not focus, minimized to taskbar or system tray
- "Ctrl+P" play/pause playback
- "Ctrl+K" stop playback
- "Ctrl+B" play previous media in playlist
- "Ctrl+F" play next media in playlist
- "Ctrl+M" volume mute
- Show buffering progress during playback from internet
- Show tooltip with playback time if mouse over playback timeline.
New in CherryPlayer 2.4.2 (Jun 22, 2016)
New in CherryPlayer 2.4.1 (Jun 6, 2016)
- NEW FEATURES:
- YouTube
- Added settings dialog
- Added ability to setup show/hide video information panel in normal and fullscreen nodes.
- Added ability to setup show/hide comments in normal and fullscreen modes.
- Click on button over video to hide comments in normal or fullscreen mode will save settings for current mode.
- TWITCH:
- Added settings dialog
- Added ability to setup show/hide chat in normal and fullscreen mode.
- Click on button over video to hide chat in normal or fullscreen mode will save settings for current mode.
- Chat:
- Added ability to select and copy messages in chat including emoticons text; copy message using keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert, or via context menu.
- Click on user's nickname in chat message adds user's nickname in send message text field.
- Click on link in chat message will open this link in default browser.
- Added disable auto-scrolling chat messages if scroll list or click on message and enable auto-scrolling if scroll list to latest message or click on lable "Show more..."
- Show latest 180 messages in chat if auto-scrolling is active and show latest 700 messages in chat if auto-scrolling is inactive.
- Emoticons and badges are saved now on hard disk; so emoticon/badge in chat message is quickly loaded from hard disk instead of downloading from internet; that's minimize CPU usage in a case of quickly coming messages in chat.
- FIXED:
- Sometimes incorrect tooltips work.
- Sometimes after login to Twitch sending messages in chat did not work.
- Updated translation player to English, Estonian, Korean, Russian and Slovenian.
New in CherryPlayer 2.4.0 (May 16, 2016)
- This release has 3 main updates:
- First is much better YouTube support in player. We added ability to subscribe to channels, like and dislike video, load video description and YouTube comments, give you ability to comment video etc. Also every YouTube category has now 200 "trending" videos, "live" videos and ability to select region. In YouTube "Subscriptions" you can find new videos related to subscribed channels.
- Second is completely re-built communication player UI with playback engine, fixed possible crashes and memory leaks, added ability for you to use system codecs for reading files, decode audio and video instead of built-in player codecs. For example if you think that some external codecs installed in your system will play Twitch or YouTube streams better then you can say player to use these system codecs to play streams. Also you can disable hardware acceleration for some videos if you want.
- Third is adding new features like setup video aspect ratio and geometry (size and position), setup playback rate. A lot of efforts we spent on optimizing UI perfomance, fixing different bugs in UI, improving hot keys work. Probably you will value also new player feature - support panel with YouTube comments and Twitch chat in fullscreen.
New in CherryPlayer 2.3.0 (Nov 25, 2015)
- Added Twitch chat support. During playback twitch stream at right side you will find twitch chat panel.
- You will be able ONLY to see messages in chat if you are note logged in to Twitch.
- You will be able to see and send messages if you are logged in to Twitch.
- Channel smiles are supported.
- Twitch chat panel can be hidden/shown and resized.
- Fixed playback YouTube, SoundCloud and Zaycev.net.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.12 (Oct 2, 2015)
- Fixed neproigryvaemye ~ 30-40% of the video VKontakte.
- Added support for playback of video rutube returned in the search results VKontakte.
- Now 99% of the video must be played directly VKontakte.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.11 (Sep 16, 2015)
- Changes:
- Fixed long delay before playing YouTube videos with resolution 480p and 1080p.
- Added support of playback 1440p and 2160p YouTube videos.
- For YouTube videos resolution 360p added support of playing audio with bitrate 128 kbps (previously bitrate was 92 kbps).
- Music from YouTube is played with bitrate 160 kbps or 128 kbps (if available, before audio bitrate was 92 kbps).
- 720p is set to be used as default video quality for Twitch and YouTube. Selected resolution is saved as default for the next playbacks.
- Twitch was included as source in default video search sources.
- While watching YouTube playlist it was set to show at once 50 videos and 50 ones more after every pressing on "Show more" button (previous value was 20).
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.10 (Sep 11, 2015)
- In 2.2.10 release we added to CherryPlayer support of login to YouTube. So you can get now access to your YouTube channel, subscriptions and liked videos in CherryPlayer. Also one important change is that we replaced playlist "Most popular" in YouTube section to playlist "Popular on YouTube" that has now much more videos popular in your country.
- Improvements:
- Added login to YouTube with ability to get access to "My Channel", "Subscriptions" and "Liked Videos".
- In YouTube section replaced playlist "Most Popular" to playlist "Popular on YouTube" in your country.
- New playlist has much more videos popular in your country.
- New playlist has playlists with latest most popular videos in your country sorted by different categories like "Sport", "Tech", "News", "Politics" etc.
- New playlist has playlist "Popular now" with the most popular 200 videos in your country.
- In next releases we consider to add next features:
- feature to like/dislike video and subscribe to YouTube channel. Also probably show more detailed info about played video.
- show more nice YouTube and Twitch channel info
- during radio playback show played "artist name"-"track name".
- proxy support
- support new game and music service(s)
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.9 (Aug 26, 2015)
- Added in YouTube section "Browse Channels" playlist with sorted by categories top YouTube channels, like on site.
- Added support searching YouTube channels, playlists, movies and show.
- Show for every youtube item its channel name. Channel name is located in rectangle, click on it will open channel page with a few options:
- List of videos belongs to this channel.
- List of playlists belongs to this channel. Double click on playlist will open page with playlist content.
- List of channel subscriptions.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.8 (Aug 9, 2015)
- CherryPlayer 2.2.8 is now out with several important Twitch updates:
- Fixed not worked Twitch on some PCs that was the main reason of this release.
- Fixed empty Twitch top playlists on some PCs.
- Fixed empty Twitch search results on some PCs.
- Fixed not worked Twitch playback on some PCs.
- Added first version of login to Twitch. In left panel you can find "Login" button. After successfully login you will find in left panel playlist "Following" with your followed "Channels", "Games" and "Videos".
- Show "OFFLINE" text over video if start playback twitch channel that is offline.
- Fixed missing artists name in search results from Zaycev.net.
- Fixed not played some tracks from SoundCloud.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.7 (Aug 3, 2015)
- New features added:
- Added support drag&drop twitch urls (game, video, stream and channel profile) from browser to playlist, related metadata will be loaded for added twitch item.
- Added support "Open Url" twitch urls (game, video, stream and channel profile), related metadata will be loaded for added to playlist twitch item, and either stream/video playback will start or game/channel profile page will be opened.
- Added support command line in installer to use it in web installer. Web installer will install all time latest version of CherryPlayer. Web installer will be available for downloading on main website sooner.
- Fixed bugs:
- Fixed sometimes stopped video and music online playback. This issues was very visible during playback VK video, sometimes during radio playback.
- Fixed sometimes stopped video playback after Pause/Resume for YouTube videos.
- Fixed sometimes still continue buffering for a few seconds played online music/video after pressed stop.
- Fixed incorrect worked fullscreen controls if enter into fullscreen mode on NOT primary monitor (fullscreen controls were shown on Primary monitor when player/fullscreen window is on another NOT primary monitor).
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.6 (Jul 22, 2015)
- In 2.2.6 release we added to player support Twitch.tv service to watch live games competition between teams and gamers.
- Twitch.tv is enough popular service that becomes more and more popular in our days so we added this service support in CherryPlayer. Now you can find your favorite game and watch its live stream in CherryPlayer. We tried to add to player all main functionality that you can find on official Twitch.tv website. It is first version of integration Twitch.tv to player, and we plan to improve Twitch.tv support in next releases.
- You can ask what advantage from playback live game stream in player compare to browser? CherryPlayer uses hardware acceleration during playback live stream from Twitch.tv so in CherryPlayer CPU usage is ~1-5% when if you play the same stream in browser then CPU usage is much more. For example on tested PC playback live stream in browser takes 30-50% CPU depends from video quality and free resources. The same live stream is played in CherryPlayer with 1-5% CPU usage. Low CPU usage can be important for notebook to save charge. Additionally browser takes more RAM compare to CherryPlayer.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.5 (May 15, 2015)
- New features added:
- Added much more radio stations for different countries (in left panel select
- "Radio"->"Countries"), for Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria,
- Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
- Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
- Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
- Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain,
- Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, United States.
- Added hotkeys to seek playback position back/forward:
- Seek playback position back on 5 seconds, use "Left" key.
- Seek playback position forward on 5 seconds, use "Right" key.
- Show over video changed volume value in %.
- Show over video changed playback position value during seeking.
- Added option "Open with CherryPlayer" in Windows context menu.
- Added ability to associate with player playlists files "*.m3u", "*.m3u8" and
- "*.pls".
- Bugs fixed:
- Fixed not loaded YouTube tops.
- Fixed not played some tracks from music tops.
- Fixed missing images for some YouTube videos.
- Changed hotkeys behavior:
- "Volume Mute", use "Ctrl+M".
- "Volume Up", use "Up" key.
- "Volume Down", use "Down" key.
- Improved dragging thumb slider.
- Improved volume slider behavior.
- Improved checking for installed Adobe Flash Player in system that is required to play some VK online videos.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.4 (May 2, 2015)
- New features added:
- On topbar settings button was added. We will add different settings with every next release.
- Added ability to change Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Hue for played video:
- Right mouse click on video and select in context menu "Video Settings" option to open "Video Settings" dialog where you can setup Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Hue.
- Click on "Settings" icon at topbar and select in context menu "Video Settings" option to open "Video Settings" dialog where you can setup Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Hue.
- Press hot key "Alt+V" to open "Video Settings" dialog where you can setup Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Hue.
- Press hot key "Shift -" and "Shift +" to setup Brightness, hot key "Ctrl -" and "Ctrl +" to setup Contrast, hot key "Alt -" and "Alt +" to setup Saturation, hot key "Ctrl + Alt -" and "Ctrl + Alt +" to setup Hue.
- Fixed bugs:
- Fixed bad sound quality during audio/video playback. Extended audio settings will be added in next releases.
- Fixed not played some H264 video.
- Fixed not worked hot keys in fullscreen.
- Improved slider work if mouse press on thumb and drag it (for example, thumb of volume slider)
- Fixed shown incorrect in playlist not-english titles for tracks added from local disk.
- Fixed played with jerks some radio.
- Temporary disabled option to restore player window position/size at next start, every next start player window will have standart size. Option of saving/restoring player window position/size will be added to settings in coming releases.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.3 (Apr 8, 2015)
- Added support reading *.m3u, *.m3u8 and *.pls playlists from local disk and from internet.
- Implemented first version of smart algorithm of parsing playlists.
- Support recursive reading/downloading during loading playlist, so playlists inside playlist will be loaded too.
- Added "Open Url/Live/Radio" option to the main menu that will show dialog to open and play next supported URLs types:
- URLs to play http, rtmp etc audio/video files
- URLs to play IPTV/Live translations.
- URLs to play Radio streams.
- Improved adding files to playlist:
- Sort now folders and files before adding files to playlist - folders in the top, and files bellow, also files will be sorted like 'file1, ..., file10, file11, ..., file20..., file100, file101' etc.
- Changed order of adding files to playlist from 'z->a' to 'a-z'.
- Changed order of coping files from one playlist to another from 'z->a' to 'a-z'.
- Fixed not worked SoundCloud search.
- Fixed shown only a few first found youtube videos in search results.
- Fixed missed some videos in youtube search results.
- Fixed not played and not possible to download some youtube videos.
- Corrected context menu for rename playlist edit field.
- Fixed missing radio icon on minimized left panel.
- Fixed not played url that is percent encoded.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.1 (Jan 12, 2015)
- Fixed not played video on XP.
- Fixed missing dll after installing and run player.
- Added support to play and download some YouTube videos.
- Do not write any settings to registry for portable version.
- Improved radio playback after pause/resume. Fixed possible switching playback to next radio after pause/resume.
- Billboard top 100 fixed.
New in CherryPlayer 2.2.0 (Jan 3, 2015)
- New features:
- Added support internal subtitles for video. Support now adding external subtitles for video. Added ability to switch between subtitles during video playback.
- Support now adding external audio tracks for video. Added ability to switch between internal/external audio tracks during video playback.
- Added radio support with list of radio stations sorted by countries.
- Added Shoutcast radio service.
- Added playback online youtube videos.
- Added playback 480p and 1080p youtube videos.
- Added playback audio tracks from 'https' and 'rtmp'.
- Increased max volume level. For video we increased max volume level a bit more then for audio. Please give us to to know if these default settings should be changed.
- Important fixes:
- Fixed stopped playback work if play some VK tracks. Probably the same bug has been fixed for online video too.
- Fixed crash player during playing music tops.
- Fixed crash player during searching music if Zaycev.net source is included in search.
- Fixed not worked playback and downloading some youtube videos.
- Fixed not played some tracks in SoundCloud music search results.
- Fixed not worked playback from Zaycev.net.
- Fixed bug in finding source to play track from music tops.
- Fixed present two times every video in video search results got from VK due to changes in VK API.
- Fixed possible player crash during reading metadata for added files.
- Improved VK login logic.
- Other UI fixes and improvements:
- Added ability to resize left panel. Place mouse cursor between left panel and right playlist, you will see cursor changed to "resize" cursor type, press left mouse button and move mouse cursor to left/right and see left panel will be resized.
- Changed to transparent video bar panel shown over video.
- Show youtube video quality options also if video minimized to bottom-right corner.
- Fixed not worked sometimes "Show more" for search playlist.
- Fixed not worked sometimes replay playback online track/video after lost/restoring internet connection.
- Improved and optimized a lot working play/pause during loading online track/video.
- Removed loading indicator over loaded video if video is paused.
- Show now loading video indicator in fullscreen.
- Fixed shown only short time loading indicator during loading flash video.
- Fixed showing loading indicator a bit after stopping video.
- Fixed showing black window a bit over playlist if start to play music after previously played video that was minimized to bottom-right corner.
- Added ability to minimize/restore video black window inside playlist area during video loading.
- Do not hide video window if not found url to play video.
- Added ability to enter fullscreen during loading video.
- Exit nicer from fullscreen if press stop in fullscreen.
- Move player on the topmost if drag&drop music/video on video window.
- Fixed sometimes shown playlist's items tooltips during loading video, over black window.
- Fixed shown tooltip if click on button with menu, move mouse cursor to any not-menu item position and close menu with "Escape" key pressed.
- Improved to a bit faster search for music source during playback music tops.
- If try to play video again, video window was not shown in a moment.
New in CherryPlayer 2.1.1 (Oct 2, 2014)
- New features:
- Extended YouTube download dialog with options to download:
- - only Video (without audio) 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p resolution;
- - only Audio (without video) 48kbit/s, 128 kbit/s, 192 kbit/s and 256 kbit/s bitrate.
- Show up to 200 videos in every youtube tops, every click on "Show more" button in the end of playlist loads 50 more videos in youtube top playlist.
- Added button "Show Played Audio/Video" on top panel, click on this button will show played playlist with played track in the center.
- Added scrolling left panel during drag&drop files if move dragged files over top/bottom part of left panel.
- Added support Korean and Slovenian translation.
- Fixed bugs:
- Fixed download did not work for some youtube videos.
- Fixed playback did not work for some youtube videos.
- Fixed incorrect shown not-english symbols at SoundCloud search results.
- Fixed incorrect worked "Enter" key in playlist. It was 2.1.0 downgrade after added multiselection support in playlist. For example, in some cases by pressed "Enter" on selected track/video playback of previously played track/video could start again, or playback of some another (not selected) track/video could start.
- Fixed incorrect worked renaming playlist. During renaming playlist its name was shown 2 times (one over another) and renaming did not work. That bug could also create other bugs.
- Fixed not worked adding by "+" track/video from search results to any user's playlist. It was 2.1.0 downgrade after added multiselection support in playlist.
- Fixed sometimes missing last video in youtube search results.
- Fixed separator was not shown sometimes between different available formats to download in "select download quality" menu of Download dialog.
- Corrected description of some avaialble formats to download in "select download quality" menu of Download dialog.
- Music search from all sources works faster now.
New in CherryPlayer 2.1.0 (Sep 19, 2014)
- Added multiselection support in playlist.
- Added multiselection drag&drop internally from playlist.
- Decreased up to 7 times time need for adding folders and files from local disk to playlist.
- Added increasing/decreasing volume by mouse wheel.
- Improved working of autocomplete menu for search field to more user friendly.
- Fixed sometimes playlist content is not updated if select playlist in left panel.
- Fixed a few bugs related to focus state.
- Fixed in installer: CherryPlayer icon can be placed now on the taskbar in Windows 7/8.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.91 (Aug 29, 2014)
- Added menu over video to select video quality during YouTube video playback. For now only DASH 480p and 1080p are not supported but we plan to add like support in next releases too.
- Added support drag&drop YouTube and HTTP urls from browser on player. Drag&drop on player adds url to playlist and starts playback. Drag&Drop on playlist only adds url to playlist. Additionally metadata is read for youtube url added via drag&drop from browser to playlist.
- Added about dialog.
- Fixed sometimes crash player during playback music from tops or from user's playlists if playback starts from Zaycev.net.
- Playback from Zaycev.net starts much faster now.
- Fixed not loaded translation if start player by double click to play associated with player file.
- Changed colors of 'minimize', 'maximize' and 'close' buttons of main window to more visible, where 'close' button has a red color now.
- Use now blue color to show all checked states in menu that looks more visible.
- Fixed for music/video added before from tops to users playlists shown all time loading icon over images if not internet connection or image can be not loaded. Show now "not image" in such cases.
- Fixed a lot bugs related to drag&drop (more details in below list).
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.9 (Aug 6, 2014)
- Optimized a lot perfomance in working left panel. It works more smoothly and faster now and uses less CPU resources.
- Playlist will be NOT renamed to empty if change playlist's name to empty and try to save (press 'enter' or move focus to another control).
- During playlist name edition replaced incorrect context menu to correct with 'Copy/Paste' options.
- During playlist name edition Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works now.
- Fixed incorrect shown selected playlist as active in left panel when move cursor to "Create a new playlist" field.
- Fixed absent white highlighting of playlist name during mouse hover over playlist name in left panel.
- Fixed absent updating edited playlist name after moving focus to another control.
- During expanding section in left panel removed selection first playlist in section.
- Show drag&drop forbidden mouse icon if drag&drop 'My Tracks' playlist to 'Videos' section in left panel.
- Show drag&drop forbidden mouse icon if drag&drop 'My Videos'/'My Downloads' playlists to 'Music' section in left panel.
- Added white highlighting of playlist name in left panel if drag&drop over it.
- Removed delay in expanding section in left panel with active playlist at player start.
- Added support drag&drop text to edit playlist name field.
- Fixed potential crash if remove last playlist in 'Music' or 'Videos' sections.
- Removed repeated loading BBC/Billboard/Last.fm/VK playlists data if select playlist second time and data loading is still in progress.
- Fixed incorrect shown tooltip value after changed button state and if mouse over button this time.
- Improved perfomance of using buttons with images.
- Improved perfomance of hidding/showing left panel. Less memory and CPU usage if left panel is hidden.
- Optimized SoundCloud work.
- Removed freezing UI a bit at player start (noteable if resize player).
- Optimized and improved a lot perfomance during adding items to playlist.
- Fixed huge increasing memory usage and then player crash if add a lot of files to playlist.
- Fixed UI locking during adding a lot of files from disk to playlist, show loading animation now this time.
- Added saving playlist content every 5 seconds during adding a lot of files from disk (if very long operation).
- Now user playlists are loaded only after selecting playlist.
- Removed saving playlists data on disk at player exit as all updates to playlist are saved now to disk immediately after changes.
- Now reading metadata will be processed only for visible playlist items to save CPU/disk usage after adding tracks/videos to playlist.
- Changed parsing metadata(duration, title) direction from bottom-to-top on top-to-bottom.
- Fixed long player exit after adding a lot of files from disk to playlist and close player when metadata is beeing parsed still.
- Reduced number of data updates for row in playlist UI after parsing item metadata to 1 update instead of 1-3 before.
- Improved navigation between playlists in left panel.
- In left panel show now section name if select playlist by mouse/keyboard and enough space to show section name.
- In left panel removed functionality to move scrolling to 'My Tracks' or 'My videos' section during adding file(s) if playback not started from playlist located in this section.
- Fixed incorrect shuffle work if clear playlist and then add new tracks/videos to playlist.
- Fixed incorrect blue highlighting playlist if clear all tracks/videos in playlist.
- Changed work of 'Previous'/'Next' buttons to play tracks/videos from visible playlist if before all tracks/videos were removed in playable playlist.
- Fixed not worked sometimes playback of any YouTube videos.
- Fixed not worked sometimes downloading of any YouTube videos.
- Fixed not worked playback of some YouTube videos.
- Fixed not worked downloading of some YouTube videos.
- Fixed not worked playback from Zaycev.net.
- Now starting downloading from 'My downloads' will not create new copy of this video for downloading.
- Now after removing download item from 'My downloads' downloading is cancelled too.
- Now drag&drop tracks/videos on playlist will add new tracks/videos all time in the begin of list.
- Fixed increasing a lot memory usage and long UI locking during moving item in the middle/end of playlist with ~2k+ items.
- Fixed UI locking if add 2k tracks to playlist that has 3k-5k+ tracks and before playlist has been scrolled to the middle.
- Reduced a lot memory usage during scrolling playlist.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.8 (Apr 15, 2014)
- Added autoupdate feature:
- From 2.0.8 autoupdate will work much more user friendly - you should not download new version from website, player will download new version itself.
- And if you installed CherryPlayer in folder with restricted permissions to write (for example "C:\Program Files\" on Win7 and Win8) then player will show you update dialog where you need to click simple "Update" button to run and complete autoupdate in a few clicks.
- And if you installed CherryPlayer in folder without restricted permissions to write (XP or not-system folder on Win7 and Win8) then player will be updated in silent mode at next player start.
- Improved a lot VK login work:
- Fixed not worked sometimes searching/playback after returning PC back from sleep mode.
- Fixed not worked in rare cases searching/playback in current session if search/play during login.
- Fixed missed second video in video search results if total 2 search results were returned.
- Fixed empty VK playlists sometimes after lost and restart internet connections.
- Fixed empty VK playlists sometimes after returning PC back from sleep mode.
- Fixed not worked SoundCloud searching/playback on some PCs.
- Improved SoundCloud searching to return more music search results during one search.
- Added immediately starting to search after changing any search filters parameter.
- Removed repeat searching if click on music/video search icons on top panel.
- Improved a lot shuffle logic that did not work properly before. Now all tracks/videos will be played once during one round.
- Added showing title of played track/video if mouse move on CherryPlayer icon on Windows taskbar.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.73 (Mar 11, 2014)
- Improved a lot searching for videos on YouTube. Now YouTube search results in CherryPlayer and on official YouTube website are the similar.
- Improved a lot searching for videos on VK. Now VK videos search results in CherryPlayer and on official VK website are the same.
- Fixed not worked searching for tracks on SoundCloud.
- Fixed incorrect shown not-English text in 4shared search results titles.
- Added option to select sources (only one, a few or including all sources) where to search for tracks and videos.
- Music search supports searching on YouTube, VK, 4shared, SoundCloud, Zaycev.net and Baidu.com.
- Videos search supports searching on YouTube, VK and 4shared.
- Added option to search videos by "Duration" length (any duration, short or long).
- Added option to search videos only with "HD quality".
- Added option to search videos in "Safe search" mode.
- Added option to get more search results after pressing "Show More" in the end of search results list.
- Added support Russian and Ukrainian translation to installer.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.72 (Feb 11, 2014)
- Fixed not worked downloading YouTube movies in HD quality. This bug presents in all previous CherryPlayer 2.0.x releases. To have properly worked downloading YouTube movies in HD quality please update CherryPlayer to latest 2.0.72 release.
- Found bug in playback some YouTube clips that was added during fixing YouTube playback bug in 2.0.71. Fixed this bug. Now YouTube playback should work stable for all YouTube clips.
- Found bug in downloading some YouTube clips that was added during fixing YouTube downloading bug in 2.0.71. Fixed this bug. Now YouTube downloading should work stable for all YouTube clips.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.71 (Feb 6, 2014)
- Added 4shared.com support. Now search results will include 4shared search results too.
- Fixed not played some YouTube movies.
- Fixed incorrect text value of Drag&Droped url from browser to CherryPlayer's "Search" text field and "Create a New Playlist" text field.
- Added ability to Drag&Drop track/video's title outside CherryPlayer to some another app like browser search field etc.
- Partially fixed showing player window over flash in flash fullscreen if player stays on top of windows. During playback some flash movies this bug can be reproduced still, this bug will be fixed completely next release.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.6 (Jan 29, 2014)
- Flash video will be played now inside player and not in flash popup window. We tried to arrange flash playback inside CherryPlayer similar to usual video playback where is possible.
- Connected internal flash video playback with playlist's play/stop controls.
- Added special playbar panel instead of usual playbar panel for internal flash video playback.
- Connected on Windows 7 internal flash video playback with CherryPlayer taskbar's play/stop controls.
- Added video context menu for internal flash video if right mouse click on flash video.
- Added support drag-and-drop for internal flash video window.
- Added minimize video control for internal flash video window to minimize flash video to right bottom corner.
- Caramba.tv clips returned by VK in search results are played now as usual video and not like flash video.
- Fixed bug in playback RuTube clips returned by VK in search results, sometimes 50% of RuTube clips returned by VK during searching were not played that fixed now.
- Fixed not worked FullScreen during playback RuTube clips in flash.
- Removed horizontal and vertical scrollbars in flash video window.
- Fixed not worked hot-keys in fullscreen if use ALT+TAB in fullscren to switch between fullscreen and other apps.
- Fixed not visible mouse cursor after exit from fullscreen without moving mouse if before mouse cursor was hidden in fullscreen.
- Fixed not worked 'Ctrl+K'('Stop') hot key.
- Increased a bit width/height of minimized video.
- Show "loading" icon over video during loading video.
- Fixed not worked restart playback if double-click on music/video in all music playlists and in simple list view video playlist.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.5 (Jan 13, 2014)
- Added support music.Baidu.com.
- Translated player to Thai.
- Fixed sometimes shown black video window during playback online music.
- Removed validation of input text for search editbox.
- Added edit context menu for search editbox on right mouse click.
- Added edit context menu for 'add new music playlist' editbox on right mouse click.
- Added edit context menu for 'add new videos playlist' editbox on right mouse click.
- Added support hotkeys [Ctrl+X] to cut into clipboard selected text in search, 'add new music playlist' and 'add new videos playlist' editboxes.
- Added support hotkeys [Ctrl+C] and [Ctrl+Insert] to copy selected text in search, 'add new music playlist' and 'add new videos playlist' editboxes.
- Added support hotkeys [Ctrl+V] to paste text from clipboard in search, 'add new music playlist' and 'add new videos playlist' editboxes.
- Fixed incorrect selected search phrase to search after pressed Enter on search editbox if before select text in auto-complete popup and hide it.
- Added "select all" text in editbox if left mouse click on inactive editbox.
- Added "select all" text in editbox if right mouse click on inactive editboxIf right click edit context menu will be shown too.
- Jump to the begin text position in editbox if it lost focus.
- Hide cursor in editbox if text selected.
- Change cursor to IBeam type view if mouse over editbox.
- Do not show auto-complete popup again if search editbox lost focus and then got focus back.
- Added black borders for auto-complete popup rectangle.
- Show text more visible in auto-complete popup.
- Do not force focus to search editbox if drag&drop text on search editbox or select "Find More" in track/video context menu.
- Do not jump to the end text position in search editbox if drag&drop text on search editbox or select "Find More" in track/video context menu.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.4 (Dec 27, 2013)
- Localized YouTube tops for Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, YemenNow YouTube tops will be connected to country set in Windows settings and should be identical to tops listed at youtube.com main page in browser.
- Fixed incorrect YouTube tops shown for different categories.
- Added ability to logout from VK in left panel VK section.
- Corrected VK login caption height.
- Fixed not closed VK login and shown empty dialog if click "Cancel".
- Check failed VK login page loading.
- Show loading indicator in UI during loginning to VK.
- Improved loginning to VK logic.
- Fixed shown only first 200 tracks/videos in VK playlists "My Tracks"/"My videos"Now all tracks/videos will be shown correct.
- Fixed missing in VK playlist "My Tracks" tracks with 0 duration.
- Show now more tracks in VK playlists "Most Popular" and "Recommended tracks".
- Return up to 100 more tracks in music search results if logged to VK.
- Fixed not worked Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown to increase/decrease volume.
- Removed old skin images that reduced exe on ~25% in size.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.3 (Dec 19, 2013)
- Translated CherryPlayer to Assamese, Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Griya, Prsian(Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukraininan, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Use Windows system language as default player language at first start; and use English as player language if CherryPlayer was not translated to Windows system language
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.2 (Nov 28, 2013)
- Fixed important bug with stopped playback of YouTube clips after a few seconds of playback if YouTube file located in music playlists or during playback YouTube clip for music toplists.
- Restored playlists created at oldest CherryPlayer 1.2.9 version. If playlists with the same names have been created in 2.0.1 then tracks/videos will be added to the end of list of like playlists.
- Fixed Key_Up and Key_Down behavior for two columns playlists to move selection only up/down and not left/right.
- Added Monkey's audio "*.ape" extension as Audio extension.
New in CherryPlayer 2.0.0 Beta (Nov 9, 2013)
- It features a completely new graphical interface as well as the ability to play music and movies from multiple sources online.
- CherryPlayer 2.0.0 use a new structure to store playlists and is not backwards compatible with the version 1.2.9.
New in CherryPlayer 1.2.9 (Apr 16, 2013)
- Added support DXVA hardware acceleration.
- Improved player engine.
- Improved network playback.
- Fixed incorrect video title names that happened sometimes.
New in CherryPlayer 1.2.7 (Jan 28, 2013)
- Added VK Video support.
- Added clearing VK music titles from symbols like "&", ">" etc.
New in CherryPlayer 1.2.6 (Jan 11, 2013)
- Improved VK Music search with auto-complete feature
- Added google auto-complete support to offer possible search options
- Added CherryPlayer quick toolbar for Win7 taskbar with "Play/Pause", "Previous" and "Next" buttons
- Added saving/restore volume value
- Added saving/restore volume mute
- Synced Music and Videos sound to be used as one. So changing sound in Music will update it in Videos and otherwise
- Increased a bit "x" to delete track/video from playlist and also increased area around "x" to catch better click on it
- Added changing by click timeline view "current played time / total duration" "left played time / total duration"
- Added "Open Directory" by hot key "Shift+O"
- Added main context menu with options:
- "Open File" and "Open Directory"
- Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next
- Change Repeat and Shuffle
- Change volume settings
- Help menu
- Home Page - opens http://cherryplayer.com
- Check for Updates - starts browser to CherryPlayer updates page
- Download CherryPlayer Toolbar - starts browser to CherryPlayer toolbar page
- View Video Tutorial - starts browser to CherryPlayer videos tutorial on YouTube
- Report Bug - starts browser to report bug in CherryPlayer
- Ask Question - starts browser to ask question
- Affiliate Program - starts browser to CherryPlayer affiliate program
- Donate - starts browser to make donation to CherryPlayer
- Added context menu for selected track with options:
- Play/Pause and Stop
- Change Repeat and Shuffle
- Change volume settings
- Buy track on Amazon
- Search track on Vk and YouTube
- Delete track from playlist
- Open track location on disk
- Added context menu for selected video with options:
- Play/Pause and Stop
- Change Repeat and Shuffle
- Change volume settings
- Download video
- Search video on Vk and YouTube
- Delete video from playlist
- Open video location on disk
- Video window context menu:
- Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next
- Change Repeat and Shuffle
- Change volume settings
- Enter/Exit FullScreen
- Open video location on disk
- Playlist context menu:
- Rename playlist
- Remove playlist
- Clear playlist
- Fixed:
- Did not work "Open File" by hot key "Ctrl+O"
- Missed download links for some YouTube movies.
- Missed highlighting of active playable playlist if add file via "Open File"
- Failed work "Previous" in Music/Videos if shuffle in Music/Videos was enabled.
- Failed work "Next" in Videos.
New in CherryPlayer 1.2.5 (Dec 27, 2012)
- Replaced OpenFile dialog to standard OpenFile dialogs on XP and Win7.
- Fixed YouTube playback and download issues.
- Improved installer. Now upgrade from previous to new version works faster and better then before.
New in CherryPlayer 1.2.4 (Nov 27, 2012)
- Signed CherryPlayer installer with "CherryPlayer" trusted sertificate!
- Added next internal Drag&Drop features:
- Added a feature to change position of tracks/videos in playlist using Drag&Drop.
- Drag&Drop track/video from right playlist into playlist name in left treeview will add track/video to this playlist.
- Drag&Drop track/video from right playlist into search field in Music/Video will begin searching for similar tracks/videos.
- Drag&Drop track/video from right playlist into "Enter New Playlist Name" field in Music/Video will add track's/video's name as a text.
- Drag&Drop track/video from right playlist into Music/Video tabs changes current view from Music to Video and otherwise. So like way possible now to find easy your music on YouTube and your video in Music if drop track/video on search field.
- Improved external Drag&Drop.
- Drag&Drop tracks/videos from Windows into left tree view playlist name will add tracks/videos to this playlist. Also content of playlist is reloaded in right playlist if drag external files over this playlist name in left tree view.
- Drag&Drop tracks/videos from Windows into right playlist will add tracks/videos to playlist in position where files were dropped.
- Drag&Drop track/video from Windows into search field in Music/Video will begin searching for similar tracks/videos.
- Drag&Drop track/video from Windows into "Enter New Playlist Name" field in Music/Video will add track's/video's name as a text.
- Drag&Drop track/video from Windows into Music/Video tabs changes current view from Music to Video and otherwise. So like way possible now to switch easy between Music and Video to drop files on need playlist or search for Music and Video.
- Added support Drag&Drop track(s)/video(s) from Windows to play panel that adds media files to "My Tracks" and/or "My Videos" playlist(s) and begins to play immediately first media file from list.
- Added ability to play http audio/video stream if Drag&Drop audio/video urls from browser to play panel or it will be added to playlist if urls were dropped to playlist.
- Added support Drag&Drop any text from browser or any Windows application to Audio/Video search field.
- Added support Drag&Drop any text from browser or any Windows application to "Enter New Playlist Name" field.
- Right playlist is scrolled up/down if you want to change position of track/video in playlist or drop external files to some specific position in playlist. For this need to move mouse on the first (to scroll Up) or last (to scroll Down) visible track/video in playlist.
- Mouse wheel scrolling works if Drag&Drop external files (but does not work for now if Drag&Drop internal files).
- Improved "+" menu work in Music playlists. Menu is hidden now if happened any actions outside menu.
- Improved selection of active track in Music playlists.
- Improved algorithm of selection of played track/video during adding/removing/drag&drop items in played playlist. Fixed a few bugs connected to this.
- Playpanel for video in fullscreen and normal mode is shown now over video so video is not limited in height now.
- In normal mode video playpanel is shown when new video is started to be played or move mouse over video and later it is hidden if no user activity.
- Improved functionality to not hide video playpanel until mouse over it.
- Improved functionality to minimize video if "Update" or "OpenFile" dialogs are shown and restore minimized video after closing dialogs.
- Removed effects and delays during minimizing/maximizing video in playlist (not minimize/maximize player!)
- Disabled support of keyboard media hotkeys "Media Volume Down" and "Media Volume Up" as they can control volume of system too.
- Disabled removing playlist by pressed "Delete" from keyboard.
- Removed from "Youtube Tops" playlist "Top Favorites" that repeats "Top Rated" playlist.
- Removed from "Youtube Tops" playlist "Most Shared" that repeats "Trending Videos" playlist.
- Fixed:
- "Alt+Enter" did not move playback in fullscreen if right playlist had focus.
- Double click on local media file in Windows added file to playlist but did not start to play it.
- Adding tracks/videos via OpenFile added then to playlists but did not start to play it.
- Last.fm tops were not updated up-to-date.
- Sometimes scroll jumped after adding/removing items in playlist and mouse over scroll.
- Adding track or video to empty playlist created 2 items where one is undefined item.
- Design updates:
- Updated CherryPlayer logo to new.
- Improved selection frame of tracks and videos.
- Removed "gray" highlighted background if double click on track/video to play.
- Moved a bit up video image and video thumb label.
New in CherryPlayer 1.2.3 (Nov 3, 2012)
- Added support for hot-keys:
- Ctrl+P - Play/Pause
- Ctrl+R - Repeat ON/OFF
- Ctrl+S - Shuffle ON/OFF
- Ctrl+L - volume ON/OFF
- Ctrl+PageDown - decrease volume
- Ctrl+PageUp - increase volume
- Ctrl+F - move cursor to search field
- Ctrl+N - move cursor to add new playlist field
- Ctrl+O - show open file dialog
- Alt+M - open Music tab
- Alt+V - open Video tab
- Alt+R - rename curent playlist
- Alt+Enter - enter/exit full screen
- F2 - rename current playlist if it has focus in tree view
- Delete - delete current playlist if it has focus in tree view
- Tab - change focus between left Playlists tree view and right content Playlist
- Added support for Keyboard Multimedia keys:
- Media Previous - play Previous file
- Media Play/Pause - Play/Pause
- Media Stop - stop playback
- Media Next - play Next file
- Media Volume Mute - volume ON/OFF
- Media Volume Down - decrease volume
- Media Volume Up - increase volume
- Added next features:
- Added selection in right playlist. It is possible to navigate now between tracks/videos using keyboard.
- Added start playback now by pressed Enter or mouse double-click.
- It is possible now to remove tracks/videos from your playlists by pressed Delete.
- Added selection in OpenFile dialog. It is possible to navigate now between files using keyboard.
- In OpenFile press Space - select file.
- In OpenFile press Enter on file - add ONLY this file to playlist and close OpenFile dialog.
- In OpenFile press Enter on folder - enter to folder.
- Added closing OpenFile by pressed Esc.
- Cancel editing playlist name by pressed Esc. Old playlist name is used then.
- Changed:
- Click on track/video in playlist selects it now and does not start playback.
- Close now "+" popup in Music playlists if select playlist where to add track.
- Enter new playlist and press Enter/"+" will create new playlist and select it, "Enter New playlist Name" will be cleared.
- Fixed:
- Fixed bad expanding of last section in left playlists tree view.
- Fixed incorrect playlist selection when add tracks/videos from OpenFile/Drag&Drop
- Improved focus work between playlists etc. Tags: release
New in CherryPlayer 1.2.2 (Oct 26, 2012)
- Added feature to add your Music and Videos playlists in "Cherry Playlists" section.
- Added feature to remove your added Music and Video playlists.
- Added feature to rename your added Music and Video playlists.
- Added feature to select at what playlist add ("+") tracks or videos.
- Show now a message with search field over playlist when no tracks or videos in playlist.
- Show now a message with search field over playlist if no tracks or videos found during search.
- Moved "Cherry Playlists" in the top of playlists.