Passion Audio Player 2.7 - Changelog

What's new in Passion Audio Player 2.7:

May 14th, 2011

· Program compiled now with Delphi XE compiler
· Added Artwork of songs column to CD Database handling.
· Added subtitles support (.srt file for now).
· Replaced tags support procedures with new one from BASS library add on.
· Added more drag and drop functions mainly to artwork images.
· Added a function to check if updates are available

What's new in Passion Audio Player 2.6:

May 13th, 2011

· The playback engine is upgraded to the latest version.
· Fixed a memory leak bug that had to do with releasing the memory of mod files.
· Improved skin format to be able to use system fonts instead of BMP files
· for fonts.
· Added support for displaying characters to Deck that don't exist in font bitmap
· files. This way files that use characters other that Wnglish will show these
· characters using system fonts.
· Fixed EQ Stereo visuals bug.
· Added shortcut keys for player windows too.
· Added URL Favorites support when you try to add a new URL to playlist.
· Changed the CD Database Grid to a Full Library system.(NOT yet fully finished).
· Fixed a bug that had to do with not getting correct the tags from audio files
· that were into zip files.
· Added the ability to change the directory of new recordings to user defined.
· Minor bug fixes.
Known Bugs:
· Some features at CDDB Library like rating and Artwork and some other are not yet supported,
· but reserved for future use.
· Support of displaying characters that don't exist in font bitmap files is limited in
· Winamp and kjofol skins.

What's new in Passion Audio Player 2.5:

May 13th, 2011

· The playback engine is upgraded to the new version of BASS v2.4.
· Fixed a bug that had to do with threads and program exiting.
· Reduced Sonique visuals CPU usage with a framerate about 66 frames/sec
· Reduced Sonique visuals CPU usage when application is minimized.
· Fixed a bug that made surround files not to work with program.
· Added to playlist to show file length and total playlist length.
· Fixed a major bug that affected kjofol skins and existed only on version 2.4
· Increased server timout requests for internet streams to 10 seconds because
· some internet streams needed several efforts to connect.
· Added support for unknown file types that they can still possibly be played
· via DirectShow Filters. This function makes possible to display some image
· formats that Directshow supports!!!!!!!!!!!
· Added DVD playback support. It requires proper Codecs to have been installed.
· Added a generic plugin to support for Album Artwork display.
· Added a vis plugin that is all in one. It has spectrum display, waveform display
· and album display.
· Added CD artwork display.
· Added option for Scrolling Song title and Artist at Taskbar.
Known Bugs:
· File associations can't be created with Passion Audio Player built in functions,
· when working with Windows Vista.
· Tempo, Pitch and Samplerate Effects don't work on files that use than 2 channels.
· Unknown file types playback via Directshow sometimes causes trouble to the player.
· Adding unknown file types doesn't work when using ADD DIR command.
· Some DVD Titles don't show the correct title length

What's new in Passion Audio Player 2.4:

March 2nd, 2007

· The playback engine is upgraded to the new version of BASS v2.3.
· Improved input plugins support so that the program can get the supported files of the plugin, from the plugin.
· Added a Generic Plugins support system.
· Added support of instrument information for the module files and other music files to the file info dialog.
· Added file freedbservers.ini so that you can manually add other freedb and cddb type servers of your preference.
· The Add URL function now supports .m3u and .pls and asx links e.g. http://www.passionplayer.com/test.m3u
· Add mms:// url support.
· Extended the URL streaming tags support. Now http and ogg tags are supported for displaying server and song info.
· Added Convert File operations. CD ripping is included here :).
· Added a function to change skin brightness.
· Added a new skin.
· Added support for some programmable keys of keyboards.
· The Drag and Drop function supports now, dropping Dirs as well as pls, m3u, asx and ppl playlist files.
· Fixed a bug with Shuffle and it's random selections.
· Fixed a bug with zip files, that had inside zip file, songs in subdirectories.
· dded a feature for advanced playlists(playlist with memory!!!).
· Minor bug fixes.