PPlayer Changelog

What's new in PPlayer 0.9.5

Dec 27, 2007
  • PluginSystem introduced: The PluginSystem shares the plugins available for PPlayer. It comes with a tab in the settings containing a list of Plugins available. You can enable/disable plugins, get information on them at this place
  • New Plugin: MiniPPlayer written by Ivan (i542.net). Small plugin which shows name of song and play/pause controls
  • New Plugin: BugReport. Plugin to report Bugs and/or request new features and plugins
  • Stream plugin reviped: New GUI with a list containing every stream. Engine improved now playing many more streams (everyone you could play with WMP and some more)
  • Playlist improvement: Closing PPlayer will now save the current Playlist
  • Playlist improvement: On Startup your old list will be restored and the play started on old position. Note: This feature is disabled on default
  • Playlist improvement: Its now possible to drag folders on the Playlist
  • Playlist improvement: The songs on the playlist got some new items in the contextmenu
  • Settingsimprovement: There are more settings available for �PlayMode�. More settings for �General� will follow in next releases
  • One new setting: AutoSearch Excludement -> The user can exclude tags from the AutoSearch (for example �live� - no song with �live� in it will be added)
  • Improved Rating: Clicking on the Star next to the playlist will open a window containing 20 stars. To change the rating the user just clicks on one of the stars. A small label informs the user which song he�s rating
  • PPlayer will now start after creating the database on first run
  • The songinfoload is now much faster due to a new system
  • Covers will only be downloaded if they do not exist in the musicfolder
  • Crashsystem: After a crash of PPlayer the user will be introduced what to do
  • After one month of the release the user will get a message begging him to download the latest version
  • Bugfix: The problem with the slider is finally fixed
  • Bugfix: Many crashes on uncommon events were fixed
  • Bugfix: Focusing on the playlist was fixed
  • Bugfix: �Skindatabase not responding� while rating a skin fixed
  • Bugfix: Deleting many items on PlayList causing PPlayer to crash fixed

New in PPlayer 0.9.5 RC3 (Dec 20, 2007)

  • Folders can now be dragged on the playlist
  • The last playlist will now be saved and played when PPlayer starts (defaultly disabled)
  • Coverload can be deactivated
  • The user can now specify tags that should be excluded from the AutoSearch (eg. live will exclude any “live”-song)
  • The user can now set the time when a song should be rated positivly
  • Many bugfixes

New in PPlayer 0.9.5 RC2 (Dec 18, 2007)

  • Many bugfixes
  • Reviped stream
  • New plugin: MiniPPlayer
  • Crashsystem: Checks for crashes and instructs user what to do

New in PPlayer 0.9.5 Beta (Dec 11, 2007)

  • Added: Pluginsystem with PHP-Backend for the plugins. Possibility to en/disable plugins and get some information about them. Autodownloads not existing plugins.
  • BugReport Plugin: The BugReport-Plugin opens the user the possibility to help developing PPlayer. Any bug found can be submitted easily through the plugin. Feature or Pluginrequests can easily done on this way too.
  • Fixed: Links writable on SongView-Tab
  • Fixed: Chinese Version error
  • Fixed: Playlist scrolling (not approved)
  • Fixed: SongInfodisplay showing crap

New in PPlayer 0.9.4 (Dec 6, 2007)

  • PlayList enhancement: The playlist got a big enhancement. It�s now possible to Drag�n'Drop songs. The playlist is now much faster, but has to be tested: Itself its in beta.
  • New icons: The old iconset contains now every icon requiered (No buttons on GUI left) and a new iconset has been added and made default. Thanks i542 for the nice icons!
  • Stream-Plugin: The new version introduces the Stream-Plugin making PPlayer able to listen to Net-Streams (Net-Radios).
  • Bugfixes: Some minor bugs got fixed in this version. The most significant bugfix is the remove of the crash on exit. Wherefore the debugger was disabled and the updater now longer has the IE-Obj until the error isn�t fixed.
  • I also try to fix the fileassociation, but its actually not fully featured in the version. (But it should run)
  • Other changes: The statusbar is now defaultly disabled but you can enable it in the settings.

New in PPlayer 0.9.3 (Dec 3, 2007)

  • The new version introduces a new plugin for autoupdating pplayer.