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Portable Spider Player Changelog

What's new in Portable Spider Player 2.5.3

Dec 13, 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".

New in Portable Spider Player 2.5.2 (Nov 16, 2010)

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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.5.1 (Nov 9, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.5.0 (Nov 2, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.4.6 (Oct 9, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.4.5 (Aug 11, 2010)

  • Fixed:
  • Rename files feature improvements location of last opened folder/files wasn't remembered

New in Portable Spider Player 2.4.4 (Aug 11, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.4.3 (Aug 11, 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:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2341#p2341
  • 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.4.2 (Aug 11, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.4.1 (Aug 11, 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; users of the portable version, please
  • download manually from here: http://spider-player.com/download/plugins
  • Fixed:
  • "Clear playlist" menu item didn't work

New in Portable Spider Player 2.4 (Aug 11, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.3.11 (Aug 3, 2009)

  • Fixed:
  • WAV files conversion issue: http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1445
  • advanced title formatting function $iflonger misbehaved
  • Other:
  • updated translations

New in Portable Spider Player 2.3.10 (Jun 3, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.3.9.5 (Dec 8, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.3.8 RC2 / 2.3.5 (Oct 27, 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

New in Portable Spider Player 2.3.6 RC1 / 2.3.5 (Oct 14, 2008)

  • New:
  • Web search menu added (right-click track info scrolling label
  • to show the menu). Available options are:
  • find track/album on Amazon.com
  • 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:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1204
  • "Copy to folder" dialog redesigned, confirmation dialog is shown
  • if a file already exists:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1213
  • 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:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1223
  • Invadid drawing of search boxes:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1225
  • Crash when the player is closed while a MIDI file is playing:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1199
  • Issue with the tray icon's context menu:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1197
  • Problems playing some Internet streams:
  • http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1226