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Spider Player Changelog

What's new in Spider Player 2.5.3

Dec 13, 2010
  • Fixed:
  • converting feature preview didn't work in the FREE version of
  • Spider Player, now it's possible to convert one track at a time again
  • Other:
  • "Spider Player Basic" renamed to "Spider Player FREE"

New in Spider Player 2.5.2 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • New:
  • Separate color selections for skin's Buttons & Sliders, Text and Background on the Interface tab of the Options window

New in Spider Player 2.5.1 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • New:
  • Lyrics Pane now works in the Basic version as well
  • for the first minute of each song for preview purposes
  • Fixed:
  • Lyrics Pane script error messages

New in Spider Player 2.5.0 (Nov 2, 2010)

  • New:
  • Lyrics Pane in the playlist with auto download of lyrics.
  • Get instant lyrics of the song you are listening to!
  • Spider Remote - remote control app for Android phones
  • new "Feeback" button in the About window
  • Improved:
  • Shoucast-Icecast toggle in the radio directory made more obvious,
  • tooltips added
  • Fixed:
  • DoS vulnerability when loading M3U playlists:
  • http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15302/
  • mouse wheel moved the pan slider without actually affecting the pan
  • and displaying the pan value in the main window

New in Spider Player 2.4.6 (Oct 9, 2010)

  • New:
  • follow us on Twitter @spidder_player by using the new Twitter button in the About window (opens with F1)
  • web interface to control the player from the web or third-party applications
  • you can now tag custom-made CDs in the converter window or amend downloaded FreeDB metadata
  • extra radio recording option (overwrite files with the same name)
  • the player's controls no longer have to be in focus in order for mouse wheel scroll to work
  • equalizer bands and pan can now be changed using the mouse wheel
  • the player will now show internet station name (if known)
  • after the name of the track in square brackets
  • Fixed:
  • changing sound font when the player was stopped crashed the player
  • some other bugs

New in Spider Player 2.4.5 (Jul 10, 2010)

  • Rename files feature improvements
  • location of last opened folder/files wasn't remembered

New in Spider Player 2.4.4 (Jul 6, 2010)

  • New:
  • Rename files feature (changes filenames to match the nicely formatted playlist entries)
  • New single 2-in-1 installer (regular and portable versions)
  • New equalizer presets: Full Bass, Pop
  • Default preset renamed to Flat (to see new presets, backup your customs presets by exporting them to a file, close Spider Player, then go to the Spider Player's installation directory and remove the EQPresets.xml file, launch Spider and import your custom presets from the backup)
  • New hotkeys:
  • HOME and END keys - go to the top and bottom of the list
  • SHIFT-HOME and SHIFT-END keys - select to the top and bottom of the list
  • If you are upgrading, please hit "Restore defaults" button on Hotkeys page of the options dialog for new settings to take effect.
  • Fixed:
  • soundfont name did not update in the corresponding label on change
  • Other:
  • U3 version discontinued

New in Spider Player 2.4.3 (Apr 22, 2010)

  • New:
  • Scroll "Now Playing" information automatically toggle added
  • Improved:
  • multimedia keyboards are now supported by default
  • NOTES:
  • Previously it was required to setup multimedia keys as global hotkeys in Spider Player's options in order for them to work.
  • Now non-system-wide multimedia keys (PLAY/PAUSE, NEXT/PREV TRACK, STOP) are used as secondary local hotkeys by default.
  • If you are upgrading, please hit "Restore defaults" button on Hotkeys page of the options dialog for new settings to take effect.
  • System-wide multimedia keys (MEDIA, VOLUME UP/DOWN, MUTE) are not
  • assigned by default. You still have to assign them manually to avoid any unexpected conflicts.
  • TIP #1: to override default OS behavior (e.g. MEDIA key launching Windows Media Player) use system-wide multimedia keys as global hotkeys in Spider Player.
  • TIP #2: using complex hotkeys like "Ctrl + Shift + Play/Pause Media" is also possible!
  • FoxyTunes integration instructions updated
  • Fixed:
  • a few bugs with assigning/removing hotkeys
  • access violation error on close
  • resizing playlist always changed
  • "Show window contents while dragging" option to true

New in Spider Player 2.4.2 (Apr 18, 2010)

  • Fixed:
  • Memory leaks in Favorites Manager
  • checked "Save track position on close" option caused access violation
  • Improved:
  • Shoutcast's list of stations now reloads automatically
  • when switching back from Icecast
  • some translations have been updated

New in Spider Player 2.4.1 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • all components of the sound engine updated to their latest versions
  • LAME MP3 encoder updated to the latest stable version
  • support for little-endian AIFF files
  • support for 64-bit floating-point WAVE/AIFF files
  • updated to WavPack 4.60.1
  • MIDI: support for 28MBGM.SF2 and CT8MGM.SF2 as default soundfonts
  • updated AAC and AC3 input plugins will be downloaded automatically
  • during the installation;
  • Fixed:
  • "Clear playlist" menu item didn't work

New in Spider Player 2.4 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • New:
  • last.fm support (PRO feature)
  • SoundFont can now be changed by right-clicking its name in the main
  • window and choosing "Replace SoundFont..." from the context menu;
  • you can also assign a hotkey for this action in the options
  • "Clear playlist on exit" option
  • PRO version label is now displayed in the title of the main window (registered users, default skin only)
  • Fixed:
  • Unicode-related bugs in the Radio Directory and Web Search
  • skin engine bug: region wasn't calculated for the main window

New in Spider Player 2.3.11 (Aug 3, 2009)

  • WAV files conversion issue: http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1445
  • advanced title formatting function $iflonger misbehaved
  • Other:
  • updated translations

New in Spider Player 2.3.10 (Jun 3, 2009)

  • New:
  • Preset Manager for Advanced Title Formatting Rules
  • (with some built-in presets)
  • the following new functions can now be used in title formatting rules:
  • $upper(X), $lower(X), $iflonger(A,B,C,D), $substr(A,B,C),
  • $repeat(X,N), $replace(A,B,C), $char(X)
  • Fixed:
  • "Now playing" hint included album information twice
  • Notes:
  • advanced title formatting feature is no longer experimental
  • advanced title formatting applies only to file types supported
  • by tag editor: MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV, FLAC

New in Spider Player 2.3.9.5 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • Improved:
  • better support for malformed PLS playlists
  • skinning: playlist window can now have rounded corners
  • Fixed:
  • couldn't read tags from FLAC files
  • couldn't remove global hotkey (visibility toggle) for Spider SFX
  • skin bug (presumably fixed)
  • BassEnc produced FLAC files with invalid duraton information

New in Spider Player 2.3.9.1 (Nov 16, 2008)

  • Improved:
  • new behaviour of the "Skinned windows opacity" option
  • new option "Clear playlist before adding files from Explorer"
  • improved hotkey support (if you don't use custom config,
  • you may want to hit the "Restore defaults" button in the Options)
  • Fixed:
  • "Add to Favorites" window showed hidden beneath the Playlist window, when "Always on top" option was enabled

New in Spider Player 2.3.8 (Oct 27, 2008)

  • New:
  • Backward search in the playlist
  • Improved:
  • Radio directory:
  • hints for truncated lines
  • user is now notified, when Shoutcast service is temporarily unavailable
  • Fixed:
  • Metadata editor didn't recognize UTF8 text in ID3v2 tags correctly

New in Spider Player 2.3.7 (Oct 24, 2008)

  • Could not read metadata from some MP3 files
  • Player froze when "Enter registration key" button was pressed, if "Always on top" option was enabled
  • Crash when the player is closed while a MIDI file is playing

New in Spider Player 2.3.6 RC1 (Oct 13, 2008)

  • New:
  • Web search menu added (right-click track info scrolling label to show the menu). Available options are: find track/album on Amazon; find in Google, Yahoo! or Wikipedia; find music video on YouTube; find artist pictures on Flickr; find track's page on Last.fm; look for concert listings on Gruvr; find lyrics on LyricWiki; find track using Skreemr
  • "Sort by type" action added (Internet sources go first)
  • Improved:
  • Shoutcast radio directory: "Top500" item added to the "Quick Genre" drop-down list (loaded by default)
  • BASS audio library and plugins updated to the latest versions
  • Lame encoder updated to v3.98.2
  • OggEnc encoder updated to v2.85
  • "Show untranslated lines only" option in the Translation editor
  • Faster search/filtering in the Radio Directory, Translation Editor and Favorites Manager
  • Some Windows Vista related tweaks to stop adding files to the playlist one can now hit the Escape key
  • "Copy to folder" dialog redesigned, confirmation dialog is shown if a file already exists
  • Fixed:
  • Spider SFX plugin is now fully Unicode enabled and doesn't cause troubles if Spider's installation path contains non-ANSI characters
  • Skinning: the value of the "MenuButAnchors" attribute in the "[PLPositions]" section was ignored
  • Invalid drawing of search boxes:
  • Crash when the player is closed while a MIDI file is playing
  • Issue with the tray icon's context menu
  • Problems playing some Internet streams

New in Spider Player 2.3 (Apr 7, 2008)

  • "Aqua" skin
  • Dutch and Russian translations

New in Spider Player 2.203 (Mar 3, 2008)

  • "Aqua" skin
  • Dutch and Russian translations

New in Spider Player 2.202 (Feb 28, 2008)

  • Shoutcast directory: "Top 500" stations list now loads by default
  • incremental search
  • updated translations: Czech, Romanian
  • "Find next" action added (F3)

New in Spider Player 2.201 (Feb 28, 2008)

  • New translation: Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Updated translations: Romanian, Vietnamese

New in Spider Player 2.104 (Dec 2, 2007)

  • "Open URL" window now accepts links to M3U and PLS playlists; "Load list..." action now starts playback automatically; fixed: playlist hotkeys could work incorrectly under certain conditions; fixed: file association conflicts

New in Spider Player 2.103 (Nov 19, 2007)

  • New: "Add to playlist" button in the Favorites editor
  • Fixed: Proxy server settings didn't work (caused FreeDB and update check problems for users under proxy)

New in Spider Player 2.101 Final (Nov 6, 2007)

  • VBR encoding to MP3 didn't work if "Min Bitrate" slider was set to a value lower than 32Kbps

New in Spider Player 2.03 (Oct 9, 2007)

  • "Open" submenu in the tray icon popup menu
  • ability to edit playlist entry title
  • the player now comes on top (if not in the tray area) when a user double-clicks a file in the Explorer
  • "File Properties" window is now modeless
  • "Always on top" now works correctly
  • Note: changes apply after the Options window is closed
  • when a user selects two or more songs in a folder and presses the Enter key, only one file from the selection is played

New in Spider Player 2.02 (Sep 24, 2007)

  • This version brings support for the Real Time Streaming Protocol ("rtsp://" URLs) and has some translation improvements.
  • The following new/updated translations are included: Arabic, Italian, French, Russian and South American Spanish.
  • This release also includes preliminary support for bidirectional languages (change "BiDiMode=0" line of the "Arabic.ini" file to "BiDiMode=1", "BiDiMode=2" or "BiDiMode=3" to enable Right-To-Left text display).

New in Spider Player 2.001 (Sep 12, 2007)

  • Fixes a bug with hotkeys not saving when running under a non-English version of Windows

New in Spider Player 2.0 (Sep 10, 2007)

  • Fixed a bug with missing hotkeys

New in Spider Player 2.0 Beta 2 (Aug 24, 2007)

  • small main menu changes
  • Options button in the converter window now calls encoding options directly
  • now when "Play" is pressed, current item starts playing instead of first selected
  • playlist up/down arrows didn't work by default
  • URL history didn't work
  • "Choose an action" -> "Rip" now always selects a correct drive
  • some buttons' hints were updated
  • a few new actions were added
  • when a song was paused and a user double-clicked a file in the Explorer
  • that file was added, but the old track resumed
  • the ability to edit track names manually in the Converter
  • "Restore defaults" button on the Hotkeys page of the Options dialog
  • fixed "Cannot make a visible window modal." error when open Options while adding a folder
  • playing CDs and converting them at the same time is no longer possible
  • closing the Convertor or the program while converting caused a critical error
  • language file structure changed (now ready for translation)
  • smooth scrolling of track info
  • "List index out of bounds" playlist errors
  • fixed "Access violation at address..." error while listening to Internet radio
  • sample rate detection didn't work for WMA files and Internet streams
  • Enter key didn't work correctly in the playlist and the search box

New in Spider Player 2.0 Beta 1 (Aug 13, 2007)

  • Crossfading support
  • Improved tag editing/information viewing
  • -new unified interface for all supported file types,
  • with navigation through playlist entries
  • Tag editing plugins
  • -language independent API for retrieving/editing
  • file information/tags in UTF-8
  • FLAC tagging support
  • New equalizer:
  • -better sound
  • -wider range (31Hz-16KHz)
  • -improved preset editor (hotkey navigation, multiselect
  • option)
  • Improved CD ripping & converting
  • -new easy-to-use unified interface for both ripping and converting
  • Improved FreeDB support
  • -all data is now retrieved in UTF-8
  • Skinning improvements
  • -PNG support enables you to create better looking skins with nice transparency and soft shadow effects for graphic controls
  • Customizable local and global hotkeys
  • -assign any hotkey to any program's action
  • -use global hotkeys to control Spider Player while working or gaming in another application
  • Multimedia keyboards support
  • New icon set format
  • -creating icon sets is now faster and easier: no need for special software, all that's required are your favourite icons and any text editor
  • -new default icon set with a unique icon for each supported file type
  • Reduced memory usage
  • Full Windows Vista support
  • HTML playlist generation
  • Tray icon "Now playing" balloon hint on track change
  • Always on top option
  • Show selection stats playlist option
  • Auto check for updates option
  • Countless improvemens, bugfixes, major code rewrite/cleanup

New in Spider Player 1.90 (Apr 28, 2007)

  • New:
  • sticky windows
  • PLS playlists support
  • default skin
  • Improved:
  • FLAC decoding speed
  • default font is now Tahoma
  • installer includes more localizations
  • encoder "input != output" check
  • Fixed:
  • better handling of invalid ID3v1 tags (thanks to CLRS530)

New in Spider Player 1.6 (Sep 1, 2006)

  • BASS Plugins support
  • (plugins for the following file types are now included: FLAC, AAC, M4A, MP4, AC3, APE, MPC, MAC, MP , MPP, TTA, OFR, OFS, SPX, WV)
  • CDDB support
  • Zipped skins support (double-click skin installation)
  • Simple M3U playlists support
  • Playlists are now saved with relative paths if possible
  • "Check for Updates" button and link to Spider player official site in the About window
  • CD insertion detection
  • Open URL History
  • "Copy to folder..." option (enables to copy files from playlist to a specified location)
  • Warning on physical removal of a file
  • Popup menu for "Installed Skins" window in the Options (enables you to switch to another skin or to delete a skin without switching to it first)
  • Tray icon popup menu
  • "Reverse list" Playlist option
  • Custom Proxy settings
  • Custom command lines for Lame and OggEnc encoders
  • Translator information box

New in Spider Player 1.58.3 (May 17, 2006)

  • critical error when trying to play some URLs
  • jump to an arbitrary song after physical removal of a song instead of jumping to the next song
  • shuffle with only one item in playlist bug
  • Song label scroll state didn't update on skin change