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Passion Audio Player Changelog

What's new in Passion Audio Player 5.0

Apr 9, 2019
  • New default skin, i hope you like it more.
  • Added artwork display in deck
  • Fixed a major bug with zip plugins and also solved a confusion with kjofol plugin.
  • Updated tags.dll to v18
  • Improved skin engine to be more flexible.
  • Various bug fixes.
  • Known Bugs:
  • Some zip files containing audio cant be read.
  • So when you have mp3 files in a zip its better to extract them with a zip program and then add them to playlist.
  • Subtitles have a border around and for now i can't fix it.

New in Passion Audio Player 4.0 (Apr 23, 2015)

  • Moved 100% of Delphi code to Lazarus and Free Pascal Compiler so that i will able to produce
  • From now on all versions will be produced with Lazarus and Free Pascal Compiler.
  • Added Ctrl+A shortcut to select all songs in Play list
  • Esc exits from fullscreen on visuals only.
  • Added True Audio files Support (TTA)
  • Removed Color Enhancement (It was delaying the program and it was not very useful i think)
  • Improved skin system so that it is possible to support more skin formats via input plugins
  • Faster skin loading
  • Removed print preview to make the program lighter
  • Removed system info
  • Removed file associations preferences tab in order to associate audio files with
  • Passion Audio Player use the OS functions instead to make it
  • Made some fixes to avoid visuals flickering
  • Rewrote some parts of the code

New in Passion Audio Player 3.0 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Changed the playlist format (.PPL) again because i wanted to add support for .CUE files.
  • Also now it supports Unicode and produces smaller file size.
  • Redesigned plugin system.
  • Added an input plugin plugin system and added input plugins for PLS, M3U, ASX, CUE, ZIP files
  • Made several internal improvements to the program.
  • Artworks are supported for video files too and they are shown at DB window
  • Replaced the ICS Components with Synapse Internet components to have multi platform code.
  • Added some more default encoding presets.(You still need to download encoder's exe alone).
  • Bugfix at drag and drop directories. Sometimes it was adding more files
  • than it should.
  • Added minimize to tray option and function after a user asked me to add this feature.
  • Moved some image handling functions to an input plugin dll.

New in Passion Audio Player 2.7 (May 14, 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

New in Passion Audio Player 2.6 (May 13, 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.

New in Passion Audio Player 2.5 (May 13, 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

New in Passion Audio Player 2.4 (Mar 2, 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.