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ShufflePlay 2.70
March 27, 2001

Bugs fixed since 2.63:

• bugfix: stayed in memory after closing

New features:

• Sequential tag capability! Tag your files one by one without pressing F2 incessantly.
• OutroPlay mode: helps you check for completed downloads quickly
• VBR indication in bitrate field. Will not work on virtual drives or caches created under versions prior to 2.70.
• Progress indicator while scanning open folder for songs
• Status bar now uses your Explorer font, too.
• Saves search results to drive tree (session only). From there, you can cut, copy, move, tag, or drag/drop them as you please.
• Optionally stores song data inside playlist. Saving is a little slower, but loading is noticably faster (especially for large lists). And it's Winamp friendly, too! (Default mode for new installations.)
• Minor visual improvements (like a # caption for the Track column in the Playlist view)
• Displays disk free space in Files summary
• Remembering last playlist also remembers filename and saved status.
• Expanded drag&drop capability with automatic scrolling and expanding.
• Drag & drop folders from inside ShufflePlay to add songs into playlist.
• Improved overall interface performance using various code tweaks.
• Remembers previous min/norm/max/tray status.
• Move/Copy files from files listing to another folder using drag & drop.
• Rearrange files within playlist using drag & drop.
• Move/Copy files from playlist to another folder using drag & drop.
• When idle, automatically saves cache and v-drives if necessary. This makes shutdown even faster in some instances.
• Sped up ID3v1 genre-related code.

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ShufflePlay 2.63
May 21, 2000

Bugs fixed since 2.62:

• bugfix: tray-icon persisted even when it wasn't wanted
• bugfix: rename wizard didn't work properly when using filename-only
• bugfix: refreshing a virtual drive made contents vanish visually
• bugfix: autocomplete slowed input down if cache was large and the text to be autocompleted was not found
• bugfix: annoying all-lowercased filenames after tagging/renaming
• bugfix: track numbers persisted in the album field when they shouldn't have
• bugfix: crashed when trying to show files in recently Imported virtual drives

New features:

• improved tree behavior
• more accurate bitrate detection
• option to automatically close the Add Virtual Drive wizard upon completion of the task
• you can now set the root path of all virtual drives to any drive you choose (useful for accessing virtual cd-roms on other drives like a DVD-ROM or 2nd cd-rom)
• ability to recurse a folder into the files listing instead of the playlist (Folder > Recurse into files list)
• visually converts %20 in filenames to spaces

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ShufflePlay 2.62
February 27, 2000

Bugs fixed since 2.61:

• bugfix: tooltip in the system tray doesn't display the correct loaded/playing playlist
• bugfix: crashed when adding songs to Winamp 2.60 playlist

New features:

• queuing files directly to Winamp is faster and much more reliable now
• displays new wave-volume in status bar when adjusting Winamp's volume
• shortcuts remapped to be more consistent with Windows Explorer: Search mapped to F3. Properties mapped to F2. 
• drive tree has a folder-load delay like Windows Explorer to make keyboard-based navigation faster since you don't actually open every folder that you scroll past
• shortcut to Tag+Rename Wizard: Ctrl-T
• Tag & Rename wiz: on Close, remembers your settings

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ShufflePlay 2.61
January 28, 2000

Bugs fixed since 2.60:

• bugfix: displayed error message when connecting to Winamp on some systems
• bugfix: T&R Wiz: tagging didn't work if path to the file had underscores
• bugfix: classic-mode layout bugs

New features:

• Tag & Rename wiz: option: make renaming optional
• Tag & Rename wiz: capability to swap the position of templates by the touch of a button

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ShufflePlay 2.60
January 13, 2000

Bugs fixed since 2.50-SR1

• bugfix: Invalid Property error when starting anew (no INI) and trying to use the HTML Publisher
• bugfix: bitrates of VBR MP3s tagged with an ID3v2 were incorrect
• bugfix: Append failed to show playlist entries that weren't physically on drive
• bugfix: could not create virtual drives containing more than 1000 folders
• bugfix: restoring from tray defaulted to "restore" and not whatever the window was before being minimized
• bugfix: removed unintentional black background from Bookmarks and Search toolbar buttons (finally)

New features:

• Renamed the Rename Wizard to Tag & Rename Wizard. Got it? :)
• Rename Wizard: option to convert "A/An/The Field" to "Field, A/An/The" when possible
• Rename Wizard: option: auto-comment files with whatever you want
• Rename Wizard: multiple rename-output templates (e.g. first try "(Artist) Title" then try "Track Artist - Title")
• Rename Wizard: get tag information from a filename using multiple tag-import templates (e.g. first try "(Artist) Title" then try "Artist - Title")
• Rename Wizard: total control of which information to use when a filename being processed already has tag information
• Rename Wizard: option: auto-caps titles, artists and albums when possible
• "play from here" plays list beginning with selected song and wrapping back to the beginning of the list so you can essentially skip around your playlist from entirely within ShufflePlay
• ID3v1.1 support (finally) uses last 2 bytes of comment field to store track# data
• reads "Album Title - ##" in the album field when determining track number
• option: show currently playing song (in Winamp) in status bar
• option: show track field in HTML/Text output
• TXT Publisher: options to toggle double-space and summary-info display
• reorganized Tools menu
• enabled user-controlled removal of old and double entries from internal cache. Accessible from the Cache Performance dialogue.
• Virtual-drive Add Wizard now doesn't close dialogue box after adding a disc making it easier to catalog large quantities of CDs.
• improved layout options: choose between original and a new layout that favors a taller tree window
  renamed Select menu to Folder and added Play/Shuffleplay functions to it
• added more genres: Anime, J-Pop, Synthpop
• added toolbar buttons for "Play folder" and "Add Virtual Drives"
• added a lot more Tips of the Day for your reading pleasure

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ShufflePlay 2.50 Service Release 1
October 26, 1999

Bugs fixed since 2.50 Final

• bugfix: crashed on new installation (no INI present)
• bugfix: consistency issues with Gridlines settings
• bugfix: crashed if it couldn't find the default font for HTML
• bugfix: crashed when sliding non-existent entries 
• removed: 45-day new-version checker... causes crashes in some locales where date info is stored differently

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ShufflePlay 2.50 Final
October 17, 1999

New features

• HTML Publisher: hyperlinkable titles in the preliminary stages
• HTML Publisher: stylesheet-based hot-spots instead of regular underlined hyperlinks
• HTML Publisher: universal page font selection
• Text Publisher: toggle off the (virtual/path/to/folder) display
• Shuffle-Selected function. shuffle part of your list and leave the rest intact!
• skips over ID3v2 tag when determining bitrate
  ignores lines that start with #EXT in winamp playlists
• creation of a virtual drive can be aborted
• View grids menu item under View menu per request of my brother Glenn
• virtual-drive summary information display improved
• virtual-drive loading/search sped up slightly on NT-based systems
• cleaner recursion dialogue
  auto-hides Paste and Optimize functions when they're not applicable
• compiled with speed optimizations for Pentium Pro/II/III
• version checker: offers to check homepage for newer version automatically after the release is 45 days old

Bugs fixed since Release Candidate 2.1

• bugfix: if no files were selected, and a playlist addition/removal is made, the list refreshed itself anyway
• bugfix: v-drive rename didn't remember last 4 entries
• bugfix: pressing ESC in the middle of a Search now aborts the scan instead of closing the window
• bugfix: deleting an item in the Files pane would trigger the "playlist unsaved" flag even if the file wasn't in the playlist

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