Free Audio Reader Changelog
What's new in Free Audio Reader 1.78
Nov 8, 2012- Added: View->Show Menu (CtrlAltM) (popup/context menu always remains)
- Added: View->Cover Art Slideshow (= Change Art option (Alt+BkSp) every 6 seconds)
- Added: Spacebar plays/pauses (Ctrl+P)
- Added: Slideshows, Soundbites, TextReader
- Added: Show/hide menubars for all tabs
- Added: Dbl-click folder/filename topbars for Tags/Cover Art/TextReader = launch folder in Explorer
- Added: Column-click sorting for all listviews
- Added: File->Publish option for any loaded playlist, slideshow, textfile or combination thereof
- Added: Ctrl+A (Select All) support for multi-select-enabled listviews (playlist, slideshow, soundbites)
- Changed: View->Minimal retains splitter, file position
- Changed: Build->One Playlist Per Folder also prompts to create portable playlists in media folders
- Changed: Alt+Del confirms file deletion of highlighted track
- Changed: Ctrl+S = Stop (stops everything)
- Changed: pbonceonly replaced with file-based queue (*.que in app dir; contents = any legal param per line)
- Changed: bookmark file format (.fbm); old format still readable
- Changed: FixPlaylist() rejects entirely missing playlists (use New to recreate); eliminates unfound tracks within m3u if found (again, use New if tracks weren't deliberately removed).
- Fixed: File->Sample menu item gets checked or unchecked
- Fixed: status bar panels 0 and 1 get correct length
- Fixed: Win7 user path restored to \users\curruser\My Documents\ (pass /approot to use FAR's run-folder instead)
New in Free Audio Reader 1.77 (Sep 16, 2011)
- Added: View->NormalRelocate (Ctrl+Alt+N)
- Added: add'l formats for external FIV viewer (FAR itself remains jpg-only) - jpg,gif,wmf,bmp,ico
- Fixed: Tags->Rename option zero-pads Track# for accurate sorting
- Fixed: bookmarking
New in Free Audio Reader 1.4 (Apr 15, 2011)
- Added popup menu
- Added splash screen for extra long load times (eq, when passing parameter of a large playlist or base folder of complex directory structure)
- Added current-track Cover Art option (requires Artist/Album tags for highlighted listview entry)
- Added Get Cover Art build option (operates on playlists)
- Added thumb image (click to zoom and click zoomed image to change; Del will confirm .jpg delete if zoomed image is visible); jpg's expected in playing file's folder (with *.mp3 files)
- Added spin buttons to Track edit
- Added Esc to leave tag editing or image viewing and redisplay tracks
- Added Copy option: copy playlist files and pathless playlist to folder or drive-mapped player
- Added: .rtf manual / documentation
- Changed: Shuffle also resets PlayIndex and restarts playlist
- Fixed: startup volume correctly set
- Fixed: Accept multiple files with Playlist->Load option
- Fixed: Build option distinguishes between audiobooks and music; jukebox only uses music
- Fixed: Allow user to locate missing track files in a playlist
- Fixed: Browsed-for missing playlist in bookmark files didn't display after user repointed to new location
- Fixed: Open button had incorrect tab order
- Fixed: tag editing works better with concurrent operations (track changes, SavePlus highlight preserving, etc)
- Pending: WinExp-opening multiple files breaks due to PBOnceOnly param-passing error [junk at trunced end of WM_CopyMessage string)