What's new in Drumstick MIDI File Player Multiplatform 1.7.2

Jul 8, 2023
  • Fixed SF ticket #17: splash screen removed.
  • Fixed GH ticket #9: retain Locked Patches when replaying Midi File.
  • Fixed GH ticket #8: crash when loading a song from File->Open Recent Files.
  • Fixed GH ticket #7: detect default language setting.
  • Upgraded: uchardet v0.0.8.
  • Upgraded: drumstick-2.8.

New in Drumstick MIDI File Player Multiplatform 1.7.1 (Dec 6, 2022)

  • Splash screen excluded in Wayland and fixed in other systems
  • Italian translation updated. Thanks to Giovanni Mariani

New in Drumstick MIDI File Player Multiplatform 1.7.0 (Aug 8, 2022)

  • Changes:
  • Persistent song configuration. Stored song settings like volume, pitch, tempo, text encoding and channel settings into song configuration files, either automatically or when requested explicitly.
  • MIDI Mixer: channel volumes can be adjusted individually.
  • New MIDI file online search link in the Help menu.
  • Other minor features: octave subscript designation, new in Drumstick v2.7.0.
  • Requires: drumstick-2.7.

New in Drumstick MIDI File Player Multiplatform 1.5.0 (Aug 22, 2021)

  • Ticket #3: Song loop between bars
  • Ticket #7: Help window and user documentation
  • Ticket #10: Splash screen
  • Ticket #11: Fixed Winsnap enable/disable
  • Allow more than one file from the command line, or dragged from a file manager
  • Some rough edges softened
  • Czech translation updated, thanks to Pavel Fric
  • Italian help page translated, thanks to Giovanni Mariani

New in Drumstick MIDI File Player Multiplatform 1.4.0 (Jun 29, 2021)

  • Ticket #1: Playback positioning
  • Replaced the progress bar by a slider, so the user can change the play position
  • Added forward/backward actions to advance or go back one bar
  • Added a Jump action to move the play position to some arbitrary bar
  • Ticket #2: Playlist repetition options: Nothing, Last Song, Whole Playlist
  • Ticket #8: (Lyrics text) Copy to clipboard, Save to File, Print
  • Ticket #9: (after Drumstick ticket #31) Fallback output drivers
  • Playlist function shuffle
  • Toolbar buttons customizing dialog
  • Preliminary support for building with Qt6 (experimental)
  • Czech translation updated, thanks to Pavel Fric

New in Drumstick MIDI File Player Multiplatform 1.3.0 (May 13, 2021)

  • Spanish translation updates, thanks to Darío Hereñú
  • Full screen option for Lyrics and Piano Player windows
  • MIDI texts/lyrics decoding defaults to Latin1
  • New Preferences dialog, with many options...
  • Forced internal icons (based on 'breeze') instead of the Unix Desktop theme
  • Forced dark mode (useful for Windows)
  • Qt widgets style (defaults to Fusion in Windows)
  • Auto-Play after loading
  • New Playlist editor
  • Previous/Next song navigation buttons
  • Auto advance to the next song only when auto-play is enabled
  • Autogenerated initial playlist
  • Better support for WRK files with lyrics and other metadata
  • MIDI and Karaoke examples
  • Support for KeySignature meta-event
  • Desktop and AppStream metadata updated
  • Updated CMake buildsystem
  • minimum required cmake version 3.14
  • macOS target Sierra (10.12)
  • uninstall target