Spider Player 2.5.3 - Changelog

What's new in Spider Player 2.5.3:

December 13th, 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"

What's new in Spider Player 2.5.2:

November 16th, 2010

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

What's new in Spider Player 2.5.1:

November 9th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.5.0:

November 2nd, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.4.6:

October 9th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.4.5:

July 10th, 2010

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

What's new in Spider Player 2.4.4:

July 6th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.4.3:

April 22nd, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.4.2:

April 18th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.4.1:

April 16th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.4:

April 16th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3.11:

August 3rd, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3.10:

June 3rd, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3.9.5:

December 8th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3.9.1:

November 16th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3.8:

October 27th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3.7:

October 24th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3.6 RC1:

October 13th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.3:

April 7th, 2008

· "Aqua" skin
· Dutch and Russian translations

What's new in Spider Player 2.203:

March 3rd, 2008

· "Aqua" skin
· Dutch and Russian translations

What's new in Spider Player 2.202:

February 28th, 2008

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

What's new in Spider Player 2.201:

February 28th, 2008

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

What's new in Spider Player 2.104:

December 2nd, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.103:

November 19th, 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)

What's new in Spider Player 2.101 Final:

November 6th, 2007

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

What's new in Spider Player 2.03:

October 9th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.02:

September 24th, 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).

What's new in Spider Player 2.001:

September 12th, 2007

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

What's new in Spider Player 2.0:

September 10th, 2007

· Fixed a bug with missing hotkeys

What's new in Spider Player 2.0 Beta 2:

August 24th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 2.0 Beta 1:

August 13th, 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

What's new in Spider Player 1.90:

April 28th, 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)

What's new in Spider Player 1.6:

September 1st, 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

What's new in Spider Player 1.58.3:

May 17th, 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