What's new in PlayerPal 4.2 Service Release 7
Oct 7, 2008
- Vista support.
- Change: Beta - Altered indexing to try and resolve the lumping together of tracks on albums with same name.
- Fix: Fixed search bug where hitting enter in the search box did not do a search.
- Change: Removed need for runtime admin privileges (still requires admin privs to install)
- Change: Prohibited install on 64 bit OS' (due to interop with WMP on 64 bit being unstable, see this ).
- Change: Requires that you have the .NET framework 2.0 installed on your PlayerPal PC.
- New: You can now tell PlayerPal to look for album art via a custom name format setting. This defaults to "{0} - {1}" which translates to "artist name - album name".
- Removed support for WMP 10 & earlier.
- Removed support for iTunes 7 and earlier.
- Updated installer to install WMP 11 Interop Assembly.
- Updated installer to iTunes 1.11 Interop Assemly.
- Update installer program to work with WinZip extractor on VS.NET 2008.
New in PlayerPal 4.2 Service Release 2 (Aug 20, 2007)
- Added playlist support to SonyPSP skin & BigBrowser!
- Fixed crash caused when launching Firefox from PlayerPal menu.
New in PlayerPal 4.2 (Apr 22, 2006)
- Added random album search link to BigBrowser skin (press the ? character)
- Added new volume slider to PSP skin
- Album art image quality improved on BigBrowser and PSP large views
- Put autostart check box in right click menu
- Changed menu options to make even easier to understand
- Album art now cached by browser (DaysToCache=5) so faster loads on second time
- Change sorted PDAClassic browse album list alphabetically
- Change: Add/play selections added to iTunes faster (may occasionally see iTunes add files dialogue)
- Improved random album search algorithm
- On single album auto select no longer show "Back to album results" when there are none.
- Changed some text in the BigBrowser selected album skin to make it more usable
- Updated log off event handling
- Added error message if no music indexed or in the player library
- Fixed: BigBrowser and PDAClassic search fails on some installations when hitting enter
- Fixed: Artwork for albums with same name no longer shown incorrectly
- Fixed: render & correctly in generated blank album graphic
- Fixed some misc CSS errors
- Fixed: On some PCs PlayerPal folder opens on start up rather than application.
- Fixed: ThumbnailXY property does not use supplied value
- Fixed: Exception if iTunes or WMP was closed and then PlayerPal was closed
- Fixed: Tracks ordered as they are on album in widget:LibraryItemsList
- Fixed: Artwork for albums with similar name no longer shown incorrectly
- License manager shows red for bad and green for good.
- Fixed: PDAClassic bug where selected browse item Add and Play did not work
- Tested against all Windows updates as of 03/04/2006
- Tested against new version of iTunes (Version 6.04).
New in PlayerPal 4.1 (Mar 25, 2006)
- New menu option "Refresh the album art that PlayerPal shows"
- PlayerPal hover shows multiple ip addresses if you have multiple network cards
- Added BigBrowser help page
- Added artist name to default artwork (ie less confusing when there is no album art)
- Back button link in BigBrowser playlist view and SonyPSP playlist view to simulate Back button (for full screen users)
- Fixed: Pause pauses rather than stops the current song.
- If you exit PlayerPal while syncing with library you get a warning.
- Make first start of PlayerPal be localhost.
- Fixed: Failure to index track may have prevented full library index
- Add PlayerPal version to tray icon hover popup
- Remove trial license link from license manager
- Remove trial license warning message
- Changed license manager form title.
- Make each version install into version specific folder
- Detect and stop running ppserver.exe on uninstall/install
- Make license manager display nice message rather than boring license params
- Stop and disable PlayerPal services from 3.5 if present