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XIX Music Player Changelog

What's new in XIX Music Player Revision 97

Nov 21, 2015
  • Small Fixes
  • Added COPYTO menu item
  • CD Covers / Artist Images can be loaded from LastFM
  • Artist Information & Track Overview from LastFM is working again
  • Added an option to disable VU-Meter
  • Possible to remove libraries
  • Updates Lyrics plugins
  • Since Rev 79, the played files were not closed. This could lead to a crash after a while.
  • Auto Reconnect for disconnected Radio-Stream
  • LINUX: More images are using BGRABitmaps. Better support for GTK2.

New in XIX Music Player Revision 79 (Nov 21, 2015)

  • Tempo (Speed) control
  • Removed all Facebook related items due to no more FBCMD support
  • Added an option to deleted a recording after copy to a folder
  • Added network control (more information will follow). You can now control XiX from another device on the same network using TCP commands
  • ID3 Tagger: Track Renumbering
  • Possible to download LAME & FLAC in Windows & MacOS when not found
  • Multisong deleting
  • Windows: Reverse playback releases song after playing (this fixes that a song being played reversed was not able to play it again)
  • Small bug fixes in: Tag Libraries, Lyrics Plugin
  • Stations in ListenLive.eu with highest bitrate (when different bitrates are available) are used
  • VirtualFS now follows the chosen library

New in XIX Music Player 0.39c (Apr 16, 2015)

  • Close to Tray/Minimize option. (suggested by Leledumbo)
  • Reshuffle Menuitem was not enabled when SHUFFLE was active at start.
  • TDRC and TDOR used for save v2.4 ID3 compliant dates. (Thanks to JesusR)
  • Mousewheel works again on Progressbar
  • Added "Modern - Rock/Metal" and "Live Performances" to Archive
  • Download the Song from Internet Archive
  • Added Checkboxes in RipCD

New in XIX Music Player 0.39b (Mar 25, 2015)

  • MacOS: Rip CD: ID3-Tags, CD-name and/or Track names with " (eg. 12" remix) did not get ripped/encoded. Solved.
  • Rip CD: Artist name did not show when reading CD information.

New in XIX Music Player 0.38c (Feb 3, 2015)

  • Better UNICODE support (Still work in progress)
  • Change font sizes

New in XIX Music Player 0.38b (Jan 7, 2015)

  • Plugin for loading lyrics
  • Sorting order for searching lyrics
  • New progress-bar

New in XIX Music Player 0.37e (Dec 30, 2014)

  • Read more OPUS Tags.
  • Read "UNSYNCED LYRICS" in OGG/OPUS.
  • Support for folders in Multi-Rename
  • Fixed an application freeze when an encoded picture frame was found in a flac file
  • Buffer length can be changed in the configuration dialog
  • Search now searches all added tags

New in XIX Music Player 0.37b (Nov 26, 2014)

  • Creating a new playlist created a wrong submenu (FIXED)
  • Remove selected songs from playlist is working again. Don't know what happened, but the procedure was left empty.

New in XIX Music Player 0.35a (Oct 6, 2014)

  • CD/DVD Rip: Updated the CD/DVD Rip Dialog
  • CD/DVD Rip: Choose and embed CD-Cover in file (MP3 and FLAC)
  • CD/DVD Rip: Edit and save all tags in ID3 (MP3 and FLAC)
  • CD/DVD Rip: Possible to set NO FADE option for live CD's
  • CD/DVD Rip: Only LAME can be used for DVD-Tracks (FLAC Support will come)
  • CD/DVD Rip: Possible to choose device to rip (Only LINUX)
  • OPUS BASS Lib support. Fixed freeze bug when OPUS files were found.
  • Post CD Cover to facebook (Needs FBCMD)
  • Probably a lot of small bug fixes that I forgot

New in XIX Music Player 0.34 (Jul 28, 2014)

  • Lyrics not found once will not be searched again, until the application is reloaded, or the lyrics are manually reloaded or 100 lyrics have not been found
  • Add a folder to the searchpath from within the filemanager tab
  • GTK version: Fullscreen should be more responsive. Graphic glitch on resoluion greater than 1920x1080 (Will be fixed in one of next release)
  • Fixed a problem when the lyrics thread was not yet finished and a new one got started. Even cached lyrics would be loaded online again.

New in XIX Music Player 0.33d (Jul 7, 2014)

  • When downloading a podcast when closing the app, the YES and NO for saving or closing were the other way around.

New in XIX Music Player 0.33c (Jul 7, 2014)

  • Search for CD-Covers and/or Artist Picture on xixmusicplayer.org
  • Removed coding error in searching files. This could halt the application in searching new songs
  • Removed coding error: when a file gets deleted and song active is further in playlist, the next/previous song was not right
  • Removed coding error: when changing song information and track=0 -> no track nr shown (was 00)
  • Save Mono option for songs (Mono itself not yet active)
  • Save Trim at begin and end of song (Trim itself not yet used)
  • Post CD-Cover or Artist Picture of song playing to Facebook (Needs FBCMD)
  • When no changes in songs or songinformation, the database is not updated when the application quits. Saves time.
  • Updated Random routine (Does not start with the first song in the playlist anymore)
  • Filter out special MacOS files starting with '._'. These are files created on not HFS partitions to store extra file information for MacOS

New in XIX Music Player 0.32i (May 27, 2014)

  • Files with foreign characters in the filename should work on MacOS X (eg. Plc.4 Mie Hæd.opus)

New in XIX Music Player 0.32h (May 12, 2014)

  • Updated all songtext sources to work again
  • Adding a Radiostream does not stop the stream from playing (Thanks to Chris Clemson)
  • Cancelling Adding a radiostation does not stop the stream from playing (Thanks to Chris Clemson)

New in XIX Music Player 0.32g (May 5, 2014)

  • ! in artist name is saved (eg. Id!Ots does not become Idots) in searching songtext, biography, discography

New in XIX Music Player 0.32f (May 5, 2014)

  • Fullscreen Mediamode (ctrl-M or double click on CD Cover / icon)
  • Configure Update Timer (on ARM the update timer was set at lower speed, but with faster boards showing up each day, you can set the value yourself). Used for VU and time progress updates.
  • Cosmectic updates
  • Click on progressbar jumps to that place in the song
  • Click on ARTIST shows all songs found by that artist (Underline/green hoover)

New in XIX Music Player 0.32c (Apr 2, 2014)

  • Better Songtext search. '(demo)' and '(live)' are discarded.
  • Lyricsmedia works again
  • Changed certain font sizes to fixed sizes. Easier for different platforms and Linux Distro's. Will also make it easier to implement user font size.
  • Changes in Dialogs and Listboxes to make them less OS dependent
  • ARM: Fixed a bug on ODROID when reading the database
  • ARM: Fixed installbass.sh for libbassopus.so
  • Theming can hide image backgrounds on all OS's
  • External DB only gets loaded when it is specified in the config.
  • TO DO: Read and Save DB on all external Devices, not only the first in list
  • Lame Config show values for all platforms

New in XIX Music Player 0.32a (Mar 22, 2014)

  • Gui theme support
  • Added a third VU
  • Changes in rename or detailed info is reflected in grids
  • Save DB on external drive (optional) Saved time when a drive got disconnected.
  • Better Radio Information updates

New in XIX Music Player 0.31m (Feb 4, 2014)

  • Removed a coding error.
  • Adding Radiostation works again.

New in XIX Music Player 0.31l (Jan 28, 2014)

  • Removed a coding error. The file created for artistinfo was opened twice and never closed. (Error creating thread)

New in XIX Music Player 0.31k (Jan 28, 2014)

  • Spanish translation (Thanks to José Maschiovechio)
  • Read OPUS Tags (contains still errors due to hardcoded posistions, works on most files)
  • Correctly adjust some international chars (MP3)

New in XIX Music Player 0.31j (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Read M4A Tags
  • Notification showed previous album (FIXED)

New in XIX Music Player 0.31i (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Edit/Save APE tags

New in XIX Music Player 0.31h (Jan 13, 2014)

  • Edit/Save OGG and FLAC tags
  • Added Original Artist, Composer and Copyright to OGG/FLAC id3-tags

New in XIX Music Player 0.31g (Jan 13, 2014)

  • ALL: Added Original Artist, Composer and Copyright to MP3 id3-tags
  • ALL: Show Original Artist and Composer when playing
  • ALL: Show bitrate for OGG files
  • ALL: Start of Danish translation (Thanks to Karl Vaeversted)

New in XIX Music Player 0.31e (Dec 9, 2013)

  • Loading CD-Cover is threaded. (Can be more optimized by using streams instead of files)

New in XIX Music Player 0.31a (Nov 22, 2013)

  • ALL: Better ID3-TAG APIC support
  • ALL: Progressbar while loading files
  • ALL: Option to ReRead ID3-Tags

New in XIX Music Player 0.30nt Test 4 (Nov 6, 2013)

  • New Source code, so new bugs and previous fixes can be available
  • NEW: More than 40000 songs can be loaded
  • NEW: Fade between manual selection is working
  • NEW: Info about artist using info found on xixmusicplayer and/or Last.fm
  • NEW: Discography found on xixmusicplayer
  • NEW: Better thread support (Songtext, artist info, M3U playlists)
  • NEW: Add to begin of PLAYING QUEUE
  • NEW: Play Same Genre or Year
  • NEW: Better CD Ripping support
  • NEW: LAME Configuration is being used and saved
  • NEW: Test Radiostation before adding
  • NEW: New songs always get scanned for id3-tags (Slower, but more acurate)
  • NEW: Added COMPOSER and COPYRIGHT tafs for MP3 files
  • NEW: Rip DVD Tracks only needs MPLAYER
  • REMOVED: Theme support (Temp)
  • NEEDS WORK: When new files are added/deleted, sometimes all files get scanned for id3-tags (slow and not needed)
  • Test 2: FX are back
  • Test 2: Language change on the fly. Bug in Language choice removed.
  • Test 2: NO DEBUGGING INFO: Smaller Size
  • Test 3: Playing a file from File Manager is back
  • Test 3: Changing folders in configuration loads these new selected folders (needs some more work)
  • Test 4: MacOS compilation
  • Test 4: MacOS: Made the Internet Archive Logo better blend in
  • Test 4: ALL: Removed a small LAME CONFIG error
  • Test 4: ALL: Listen to a radio recording
  • Test 4: ALL: Adding/changing PLAYLISTS updates the PLAYING QUEUE PopUp Menu too
  • Test 4: ALL: You are reminded that a shedule is planned when Quiting the application
  • Test 4: ALL: Removed a small PODCAST error
  • NEEDS TESTING: Ripping DVD in MacOS X with mplayer

New in XIX Music Player 0.23a Alpha (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Updated Wizard GUI to follow OS Theme more strictly.
  • Keep track of the number of times a song has been played
  • M3U File list should not create an error when changing and saving order of the songs
  • Next & Previous, EQ & FXs work for podcasts
  • Added "Internet Archive" as a source of music. 78RPM, Cylinder & Tape recordings. (SCREENSHOT)
  • Mute works for Podcasts too

New in XIX Music Player 0.22b (May 27, 2013)

  • Mac OS X updates
  • Download Podcasts
  • CD Cover lock-up removed
  • Started basic keyboard control

New in XIX Music Player 0.21a Alpha (May 10, 2013)

  • Bringing MacOS version up-to-date
  • Some GUI updates to follow the OS theme

New in XIX Music Player 0.20b Test (May 1, 2013)

  • Changing id3-tags also possible in id3-tag info dialog
  • Internal order of song now keeps track of manual drag&drop of songs. Order should now always be OK.

New in XIX Music Player 0.15a (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Added an Equalizer & Pre-Amp
  • Better songtext parsing
  • Added www.lyricsmode.com to lyrics search
  • Rename file
  • Show source and link to lyrics source
  • Balance control

New in XIX Music Player 0.14f (Oct 25, 2012)

  • This release adds French and updated the Dutch language translation.
  • Mute button
  • Another error removed in CDDB parsing
  • Automatically recognizes compilation CDs in CD-ripping mode
  • Mac OS X support again (with fullscreen option)

New in XIX Music Player 0.13 Alpha (Aug 20, 2012)

  • Added Analog VU Meters, choice is written in config file
  • Added a visual to the main window that shows the progress of the songs being checked
  • Seperated CD-Text extraction. CDDB is used instead. If CD-Text is found you can choose to use CD-Text.
  • Removed an error in deleting a song in Browser
  • Basic M3U Support
  • Sorting in filebrowser works
  • Play a song without adding it to the Playing Queue
  • Show the songs of 'same artist' or 'same album'

New in XIX Music Player 0.11 Beta (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Possible to add songs after the current track playing
  • Removed some more errors on an empty Playing Queue :)
  • Reverse playback of MP3 & FLAC (NEEDS BASSFX LIBRARY)
  • Replacing songs after updates should work better
  • Double click on the browser, brings you to the Playing Queue
  • Simple Search: Search in artist, album, title, genre and year