Small Player Changelog

What's new in Small Player 0.8.0 RC2

Feb 23, 2012
  • fix: search function in Find window didn't return results if there were any upper case non ANSI characters
  • added: support for ALAC (.m4a) and MusePack (.mpc) formats
  • added: support for ID3 v2.4, Vorbis Comments (FLAC and Ogg formats) and Ape Tags (Ape and MusePack formats) for File Info window
  • improvement: changed the appearance of File Info window, this will also make it easier to add support for other types of TAGs and info
  • fix: File Info window - UTF16 strings from ID3v2 TAGs were not shown properly in previous versions
  • added: support for CUE sheet files (.cue); TEXT default format is assumed to be ANSI, while UTF8 and UTF16 are recognized only when there is a BOM mark at the beginning of a file
  • there are problems with correct positioning for multiple songs in one file if the file is VBR encoded

New in Small Player 0.8.0 RC1 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • added: button to hide notification window in top-right corner
  • added: you can now rearrange items in playlist by using drag & drop
  • added: option to associate files (except for windows XP)
  • added: option to remove icon from systray
  • added: enqueue functionality (limited to 1000 items for speed reasons)
  • Q = enqueue\dequeue
  • Shift+Q = enqueue to first position
  • Ctrl+Q = enqueue with repeat loop
  • fix: notify window position was covering taskbar when taskbar is on the right side of screen
  • some other minor fixes

New in Small Player 0.7.4 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • improvement: mouse scroll over the volume bar will change volume
  • fix: systray menu would not disappear after user clicks outside of the menu
  • improvement: two color text on progress bars
  • fix: space key on keyboard didn't pause correctly
  • added: option to not capture volume keys on keyboard
  • fix: tab order in options
  • other minor fixes

New in Small Player 0.7.3 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • fix: automatic song playback when double clicking an audio file in explorer
  • fix: updater would not close small player if option close to system tray was set

New in Small Player 0.7.2 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • added: support for ape format

New in Small Player 0.7.1 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • fix: updater will be able to update itself from now on (unfortunately everyone with versions prior to this will have to download Small Player manually)
  • fix: updater had a bug where it always showed "There is no new version" message box on startup

New in Small Player 0.7.0 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • fix: playlists relative path support
  • fix: m3u playlist without #EXTM3U format descriptor wasn't loaded
  • fix: click on tray icon would not return maximized window to maximized state
  • fix: volume slider wasn't drawn correctly in certain situations
  • fix: pressing play button when playlist is empty would crash player
  • fix: certain windows (settings, about, find) did not react properly in Windows 7 (possibly in other Windows versions as well)
  • improvement: if file/url in playlist does not exist anymore small player will paint it "red" and skip it (before it would just stop playing there) - actually skip doesn't work yet :D
  • added: new option show on top
  • added: preliminary support for online streams/net radio