What's new in Meson Player 0.6 Beta
Nov 17, 2014
- added: application manual (can be accessed via manual/index.html or via tray context menu Help > Manual)
- added: support for various ZX Spectrum AY/YM modules, Amiga/Atari/PC tracker modules, SID modules and some other chiptune/tracker formats
- added: OptimFROG support (Windows i686 only)
- added: options "playback-mode", "load-only" (see "Setup parameters" in the manual)
- added: --cmd-get-* command line commands (see "Control commands" in the manual)
- changed: "Shuffle" tray menu option is replaced with "Mode" submenu which lets you choose playback mode
- changed: tray icon now represents application state (playing, paused, stopped)
- changed: the app doesn't need Growl anymore to show baloon tooltips on OSX
- changed: "auto-resume" option is now false by default
- changed: system playlists 8 and 88 are replaced with 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 (see "System playlists" in the manual)
- changed: the sound volume level is now tied to a grid based on volume step
- changed: option "app-commands" was renamed to "system-playlists"
- changed: non-boolean options with wrong values are now ignored
- fixed: when "auto-resume" option is set to true, music will autoplay after system restart even if the player was paused
- fixed: can't open a current file location if the player is stopped
- fixed: can't parse *.cue file if it doesn't end with newline character
- fixed: app may crash if a file read/write error occurs
- fixed: the tray hint sometimes breaks fullscreen apps when a cursor is hovered above tray icon
- fixed: multiple issues with Internet-radio playback
- fixed: "minFolderLength" option affects "frequency" option
- removed: Windows XP, Windows Vista, OSX 10.8 support
- removed: support for multimedia keys for OSX
- removed: options "index", "volume", "shuffle", "keys-mm", "keys-num"
- removed: settings.ini.template (see "Setup parameters" in the manual)
New in Meson Player 0.5 Alpha (Feb 11, 2014)
- added: Last.fm scrobbling
- added: SOCKS5 and HTTP proxy support (settings option name: proxy)
- added: playlists can now be opened via file context menu just as folders
- added: new commands: --cmd-pause, --cmd-toggle-pause
- added: new option "OFF" for mods-* parameters (to completely disable a certain set of hotkeys)
- changed: the app now uses system proxy settings by default (use settings option "proxy" to configure a proxy)
- changed: a balloon tooltip is now not displayed after the app starts unless the track is played
- changed: when the app starts and the current track is not playing, this track will be closed
- changed: hotkeys initialization errors no longer cause the app to fail to start
- fixed: M3U playlists in local 8-bit encoding are not properly parsed
- fixed: new playlist is not saved as a current playlist right after opening
- fixed: track title in tooltips is lost after changing a volume when the player is stopped
- fixed: autoload-playlists option ignored, playlists are always loaded when opening a folder
- fixed: tracker-emulation & tray-icon command line options are broken
- removed: Icecast radio streams support
- note for devs: building the app is now only possible with C++11 compliant compiler
New in Meson Player 0.4 Alpha (Apr 9, 2013)
- added: use "NumPad 1" and "NumPad 3" to control the system volume (there's also a corresponding parameter mvol-step)
- added: app commands (see "App commands" section in README)
- added: new option tray-icon (to hide a tray icon)
- added: you now can customize key modifiers (see "Customizing keyboard modifiers" section in README)
- added: new popup menu item "Close the File" to stop and close a current file (only visible if close-on-stop=false)
- added: russian localization
- added: x64 version for Windows
- removed: shift-mm-keys and shift-num-keys
- removed: [*] from all tips (random playback indicator)
- removed: auto-numlock option for Linux
- changed: the file is now closed if you stop a playback (also, there's a new option: close-on-stop)
- fixed: the app crashes when an initialization fails
- fixed: tooltip text is truncated on Windows
- fixed: "&" symbols are truncated from a tooltip text on Windows
- note: the app has moved to Qt5
- note for devs: building the app with MinGW32 is not possible now, use MinGW64 to build Meson Player on Windows
New in Meson Player 0.3 Alpha (Apr 9, 2013)
- added: press "NumPad 0" to pause/resume current track
- added: installer for OSX
- change: if a current track is not the first one in its folder, then "NumPad 7" will select the first playable file in a current folder
- changed: shift-num-keys is disabled on Windows
- changed: windows installer won't create applications icons
- changed: "playlists" folder is created when context menu item "Playlists" clicked
- fixed: unable to open a whole local disk on Windows
- fixed: invalid urls cause track skipping
- fixed: shift-mm-keys param doesn't affect multimedia keys
New in Meson Player 0.2 Alpha (Apr 9, 2013)
- added: support of CUE sheets
- added: sound samples are now 32-bit float by default (parameter: sample-type)
- added: if folder name is shorter than X symbols, then prepend subfolder name to it (parameter: min-folder-length)
- added: in command line parameters, "true" and "false" are now translated into "1" and "0" respectively
- added: new parameters: index, shuffle, volume
- added: new commands: --cmd-stop, --cmd-play, --cmd-toggle-play, --cmd-next, --cmd-prev, --cmd-next-dir, --cmd-prev-dir, --cmd-quit, --cmd-vol-up, --cmd-vol-down
- changed: new shuffling algorithm
- changed: playback will not be resumed, if a user exits the app manually
- removed: command --quit
- fixed: cannot change a volume if music isn't playing
- fixed: random track order is always the same
- fixed: "--quit" parameter is not working
- fixed: folder name is truncated by last dot
- fixed: on Linux, the output device frequency is not changing when specifying "frequency" parameter
- fixed: natural sorting algorithm is not working properly when filenames start from digit
- fixed: wrong command line parameters are interpreted as input filenames
- fixed: sometimes, after the app starts, playback is resumed not from a last played file
- fixed: sometimes, after the app starts, playback resumes when it shouldn't
- fixed: the entry in "Programs and Features" on Windows has no application icon