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ShufflePlay
2.50 Release Candidate 3
June 22,
1999
New features
- autocompleting
tag entry fields (optional)
- much
faster virtual drives operations
- support
for relative paths in playlists
(optional)
- replaced
multi-pass shuffle with new enhanced
shuffle which reduces chance
that the same artists are back-to-back in
a playlist
- autocompleting
search-term and search-path fields
- defaults
to current playlist file in "Save As"
box
- ignores
double-click if it's the middle button (handy
for those that have wheel mice)
- increased
player history to 8 items
- increased
search term history to 15 items
- increased
search path history to 15 items
- doesn't
save virtual drives if it doesn't have to,
speeding up the shutdown
- functions
involving recursion now ignore Windows
"temporary internet files" and
Recycle Bin
- rename
wizard now hides the playlist as it
renames the files .. it's faster
that way
Bugs fixed
since Release Candidate 2.1
- bugfix:
didn't scan the first song (alphabetically
by filename) when making a virtual drive
(yes, this was supposed to be fixed in a
previous version, but apparently it wasn't
fixed completely :þ)
- bugfix:
sorting bug when opening virtual folders
- bugfix:
didn't always show all folders/files in a
virtual drive
- bugfix:
didn't add new virtual drives in their
correct alphabetical position
- bugfix:
renaming a virtual drive places it in
correct alphabetical position
- bugfix:
didn't display all files in the root of a
virtual drive
- bugfix:
setting cache expiration to "never"
caused cache to be emptied out at next
session
- bugfix:
toolbar vanished after selecting a player
in the setup browser
- bugfix:
columns didn't auto-size correctly
- bugfix:
Jump/Go features didn't work when a
virtual drive was selected in the Files
pane
- bugfix:
Up One Level done from the root of a
drive crashed program
ShufflePlay 2.50 Release Candidate 2
May 16, 1999
New features
- improved the cache code again... was really slow and
unoptimized under Win9x. In NT, cached folders often load up almost as fast as virtual
drives! :)
- gradient progress bars use system's progress bar color
instead of proprietary blue
- cache loading at startup is noticeably
faster (especially in
Win9x)
- sped up span-tagging a little
- jump to playlist files quickly by typing the title out
- playlist sorting sped up
- checks for new subfolders when opening a folder
- shutdown is faster after removing some unnecessary steps
- startup sequence is better organized
- option to disable caching of tags when creating a virtual
drive
- brand new rock-solid database storage system for virtual
drives, cache, and exported drives... also even more compact than before :)
- right-clicking an item now also highlights it just like
Explorer
- added a button to pull virtual drive volume names from the
volume name of the disc to be scanned
- you can right-click to select an item in most popup menus
- option to auto-eject CDs after creating a virtual drive
- added "Copy/Move to..." in right-click context
menus
- if necessary, shows the Windows progress dialog when
copying, moving, or deleting files
- if the master.dat fails to load completely, it offers to
fall back to the master.da2, then if necessary to the master.da3 before continuing on
- in-program link to online ShufflePlay tour of feature
- in-program link to music databases--cdnow, blockbuster,
allmusic, ultimate band list, etc
Bugs fixed since Release Candidate 1
- bugfix: crashed on NT4 systems when scanning removable media
- bugfix: Cutting from Files list set off the unsaved-playlist
condition
- bugfix: crashed when closing Search window in certain cases
- bugfix: considered *.mp3.lnk or *.mp3.txt as mp3 files
- bugfix: pressing F2 did not bring an existing Search window
to the top
- bugfix: asked if you want to save playlist even if it's
untitled and empty
- bugfix: autoloaded an mp3 player even when it was already
open
- bugfix: didn't carry over the sort scheme of playlist into
TXT/HTML output
ShufflePlay 2.50 Release Candidate 1
March 22, 1999
New features
- partial Lyrics3 2.0 tag support. Wider is
better :). no more 30-character title/artist/album fields! actual lyrics viewing/editing
to come in a future release
- HTML Publisher: left/center/right alignment preferences
- HTML Publisher: capable of creating multiple-pages with
a certain amount of songs per page
- HTML Publisher: optionally divide list by
volume or folder!
- HTML/Text Publisher: display full paths or
just filenames
- HTML/Text Publisher: hide songs from Text
and HTML output, but keep the folder/volume header information
- Duplicate Finder new and totally improved.
find duplicates by title, artist, album, filename, and now filesize! compare local files
against virtual drives, virtual drives against a playlist, or all three against each
other. you can even delete/move files from within the applet :)
- Duplicate Finder: Copy, Move, and Delete capabilities
- Search Wizard: Copy, Move, and Delete capabilities
- Xing VariableBitRate (VBR) support! Joy!
- K-jofol support (basic) more support
if/when i find the hooks to the internal playlist, etc
- Sonique support (basic) more support
if/when i find the hooks to the internal playlist, etc
- 2nd-generation cache system - cached songs
and virtual drives are fetched upwards of 50% faster than the previous system
- option: display grid inside listviews makes
it a little easier to read stuff, i guess
- improved gradient progress bars. whoopee.
- open/save playlist now defaults to folder of
currently loaded playlist or of the last saved playlist
- "move/copy to..." remembers the last
folder you used
- expanded search and playlist history to 8
items
- replaced initial Yikes dialog with more
friendly Welcome message
- "Select all" and "Select none" functions
in the Search-fields menu so you don't have to click on 7 items to search for one/all of
them.
- actually deletes tags instead of just
'erasing' them by filling the original tag space with null data
- now defaults search time/date to "all times and
dates"
- Text publisher no longer affects contents of
playlist when generating a list divided by folder or volume
- keeps 2 backups of the virtual drives collection:
master.da2 and master.da3. one in case the main one breaks somehow. another one in case
the backup breaks too (hopefully, that won't happen)
- import/export virtual-drive box now defaults to the
last folder
Bugs fixed since Alpha 3
- bugfix: Opening or Open&Play'ing a list
then canceling it still resets the program to Untitled
- bugfix: Search Wizard opening glitches have
been fixed
- bugfix: Fatal Exceptions at shutdown have
been fixed, I think
- bugfix: Sort by Date now works
a lot better
- bugfix: Sort by Size now works
a lot better
- bugfix: "sharing violation"
occurred when moving a folder in Explorer when it's open in shuffleplay
- bugfix: if you didn't configure shuffleplay
with a mp3 player, and it tried to auto-load it, it crashed
- bugfix: search-results window didn't use
Explorer's font
- bugfix: closing the Search window while
searching did not abort the search
- bugfix: snap-playing a song opened the
winamp Open box under win9x
ShufflePlay 2.50 Alpha 3
January 31, 1999
- New features
- divide list by volume in Text Publisher
- divide list by folder in Text Publisher
- Add files to playlist by dragging them from
the Files pane
- Move files to a new folder by dragging from
playlist to Files pane
- Moving a file with ShufflePlay via drag&drop now
updates the playlist entry instead of deleting it
- Search by Size!
- Search by Date!
- Can now keep filenames of mp3s that aren't there when
loading playlists -- as is the case when mp3s are stored on removable media or have been
renamed
- playlist accepts drag&drops from Explorer
- mapped playback shortcuts to Winamp's scheme instead
of Winplay
- informative dialog box to prevent
unknowing users from trying to use certain Tools with no files in the playlist
- Ctrl-A is now bound to Select All
- Search Wizard always-on-top option
- Enqueue files with a double-click (if you
set the appropriate preference in the Setup Browser, of course)
- hyperlink to online ShufflePlay Tour from
Tip of the Day window
- Setup Browser bound to F12
- can auto-load mp3 player at ShufflePlay
startup
- improved operation of the statusbar 'buttons'
- Reset buttons to reset order of columns in
HTML/TXT publisher wizards
- HTML background graphic four-item history
- Export filename four-item history
- Bugs fixed since 2.41
- bugfix: rename wizard did not update cache
accordingly
- bugfix: premature cache expiration as early
by one day. it's now no earlier than by one hour
- bugfix: no fast-snapping in NT4/Win2K
- bugfix: "when loading more than XX
song(s)" reset to "Conventional - slowest" each time Shuffleplay starts
- Bugs fixed since Alpha 1214
- bugfix: registration didn't allow
organization field to be left blank
- bugfix: "recurse virtual drive"
routine fetched one mp3 from the adjacent virtual volume
- bugfix: crashed if cache file wasn't saved
correctly in its entirety
- bugfix: virtual drive creation wizard
didn't remember last 4 paths or volume names
- bugfix: Bookmarks slide-down code didn't
work properly
- bugfix: broken "Browse" button in
the Update Virtual Drive window
- bugfix: keyboard shortcuts to remote
functions didn't work too well in NT
- bugfix: Search results columns weren't
saved
ShufflePlay 2.50 Alpha 1214
December 14, 1998
- New features
- "Recurse all virtual drives"
function
- name/organization/password engine for user
registration
- bind F2 to Search function
- Rearrangable toolbar! (finally!)
- Text Wiz: include total filesize in header
- Text Wiz: rearrangable order of columns
- Text Wiz: preview mode
- Text Wiz: expanded available columns to 12
- HTML Wiz: updated look
- HTML Wiz: rearrangable order of columns
- HTML Wiz: background graphic selection
- HTML Wiz: color selection
- HTML Wiz: preview feature
- HTML Wiz: expanded available columns to 12
- Virtual Drives > Summary function (total
songs, total size, total time, total volumes)
- Bugs fixed since 2.41
- bugfix: ShufflePlay'ing Playlist/Folder did
not always produce a unique playlist
- Bugs fixed since Alpha 1127
- bugfix: resize problem with Tree-only view
- bugfix: "Import Virtual Drive"
dialog used Save window template instead of Open window template
- bugfix: Add Image crashed if volume name is
totally numeric. The only do-able fix for the meantime is to not allow all-numeric volume
names in the first place. Sorry!
- bugfix: hide menus of Search applet
- bugfix: added history code to various
comboboxes that were missing them before
ShufflePlay 2.50 Alpha 1127
November 27, 1998
- New features
- filesize, last-written date, and volume fields
- VIRTUAL DRIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (could
you sense my enthusiasm?)
- rearrangable columns!!! Don't care for Comments?
Slide it all the way to the right!
- default font is system's Explorer font
- double click the Files/Playlist panel in
the statusbar to restore the panes if they're already maximized
- new cache architecture with dynamic
unbounded field count. Paves the way for ID3-X and the new Virtual Drives. Also more
efficient data storage.
- sped up cache retrieval a little
- option: Never ask me to save list at shutdown;
instead auto-save, never-save
- tooltips in statusbar
- "Open and Play" function which
loads playlists and immediately plays them
- moved location of easter egg input sequence
to make access easier
- more year 2000-ready. further testing
needed... i've got... oh.. another year to worry about it :)
- Collapse drives function cleans up the
tree. Useful if you've got a bunch of Virtual Drives.
- Search no longer tries for Time criteria. Who would
search for a time length???
- basic Bookmarks system. good enough.
- smarter column autosizing occurs faster and
only when really necessary
- Search and Bookmarks buttons! Yeah!
- rewritten window resize-compensation routine
- total filesize of folders and lists is
finally visible in the status bar
- Filesize summary in Properties window
- Problems corrected from 2.41
- bugfix: if the previous session path is
nonexistent, the Go menu was not filled with the previous session's path history
- bugfix: crashed when re-accessing drives
that are no longer there
- bugfix: off-color filename textbox in
Properties
- bugfix: put a blank in front of text and it
would show up "indented" in the listing
- bugfix: from the inception of the HTML
wizard, I included my e-mail link at the bottom of HTML files. This was a bad idea as I
continue to dozens of emails a week from ppl wanting MP3s I have never heard of, because
they saw my e-mail at the bottom of someone's MP3 list page, and assumed I was the
one who made the list.
- bugfix: crashed if a folder is deleted but
an access is attempted
- bugfix: had to enable IntroPlay to adjust
the timing settings
- bugfix: playlist showed after doing a
recursion with playlist hidden
- bugfix: ESC key wasn't recognized if focus
was on Comments field in Properties sheet
- bugfix: some riff/wave files could not be
scanned properly
- bugfix: Error 6: Overflow
occurred during
Drive initialization routines
- bugfix: horizontal spliter overlaps
vertical splitter (instead of the other way around)
ShufflePlay 2.41
August 28, 1998
- New features
- Enabled word-wrapping on filename field in
Properties sheet
- Sped up Rename Wizard ever so slightly
- Problems corrected from 2.40
- Runtime error 91 during startup
- Bad file number errors upon fresh installation
- Files that don’t carry the “Archive”
attribute are not shown in Shuffle Play.
- “Minimize on Play/Shuffle Play” settings
aren’t being saved.
- If “Minimize on Play/Shuffle Play” is set, and
then you play an .mp3 file from the Properties (F3) Play option, you can’t restore
Shuffle Play from the system tray. (ie. Run-time Error 401: Can’t show non-modal form
when modal form is displayed)
- File > Copy to... or File > Move to... will not
work if the target is a root directory
ShufflePlay 2.40
August 19, 1998
- New features
- Maximized usable area by removing the surrounding
frames that were dividing program in half
- Movable horizontal divider bar between Files and
Playlist panes
- Explorer-style treeview for viewing drives and
folders
- Shuffle Only function in files listing
- Automatic Optimize! Complete with a programmable
"do not optimize if more than X songs" rule
- IntroPlay: let ShufflePlay quickly browse MP3s for
you with the help of Winamp. Includes dedicated IntroPlay toggle in toolbar.
- More versatile Duplicate Wizard: determine by Title,
Artist, Album, Time, or Filename
- Hold Shift while minimizing to reduce window to system
tray in case the boss is coming.
- Faster file/directory access system thanks to
rewritten routines based on the Win32 API and not inferior VB5 controls
- Faster rewritten Search/Recurse routines
- Configurable playlist loading modes: fast-snap, snap,
conventional. No more Winamp/NAD crashes. Or at least, less of them...
- Setup browser puts all the program settings in one
place.
- Automatically decides front-end settings to use between
Winamp, NAD, and Winplay3. If it can't tell, it defaults to Winplay3.
- Reset View function, bound with Shift-F5
- Speeds up some shutdown times by not asking to save
when a list is empty
- Double-clicking Files or Playlist panels to maximize
corresponding panes
- Player EXE "history" of four items
- "Shuffleplay playlist" now shuffles list only
in memory
- Improved Tip of the Day layout
- removed Slide to Top/Bottom buttons.
- more-foolproof [though slower] MP3 bitrate detector (it's
about time, no pun intended!)
- bind F5 to a Files listing refresh
- bind F3 for MP3 properties
- Improved gradient-bars. yay.
- updated Tips of the Day (26 total)
- fresh new professional splash screen
- Problems corrected from ShufflePlay 2.30
- If a span-tag is attempted and the genres
are different but they aren't touched, they're set to Blues
- Little white square in the corner (trayicon
bug)
- Incorrect bitrates should be solved with
the new bitrate-finding algorithm. Don't forget to flush.
- typo: all documentation should say 14-day limit
ShufflePlay 2.30
June 1, 1998
- New features since ShufflePlay 2.21
- Media Wizard. arranges playlist to fit time-limited
media (cassette, cd-r)
- Basic NAD Support. more advanced support to come
later
- Faster direct file loading for
Winamp/NAD replaces
templist.m3u method -- this is still sort of buggy
- User-selected delay between songs when loaded via
ShufflePlay
- Improved automatic optimization for better cache
performance than previous releases
- Can enqueue files and directories to
Winamp and NAD
- Winamp 1.91 genres (145 total)
- Redefinable splitter bar between Folder list and
Songs list
- "Jump to..." folder function in Go menu
- Gradient progress meters everywhere!
- More readable HTML from the HTML wizard with shaded
alternate lines
- Easter egg #2: Silent mp3 generator... details are
provided when you find it!
- Accelerated directory loading and recursion
- Add playlists, inventories, and HTML files to Start >
Documents on load/save
- Updated eMail author link points to a online contact
form
- Updated Web Help link points to centralized flipTech
Support page
- Display time remaining under WinAmp 1.9+
- Optimize view from right-click context menu
- Removes read-only attribute before tagging
- Remote WinAMP plugin-specific configuration
- Auto-save cache after recursions and searches
- Optimal initial default settings so you have the best
general interface without flipping on/off a dozen options.
- Improved INI existence checking
- "Up one level" function and toolbar button
- Double-click on a frame maximizes/collapses depending
on current frame set
- Forces Winamp/NAD to play playlists as soon as it
knows the first song
- Keyboard shortcuts for Slide Up/Down/Top/Bottom
(Ctrl+F1-F4)
- Drops .mp3 from title field when tagging untagged files
- Automatically scrolls listing to top on directory change
- Improved Properties applet filename field behaviour
- updated Tips of the Day
- Problems corrected from ShufflePlay 2.21
- Cut and pasting screws up bitrate alignment
- Span-tagging untagged files and leaving genre to
blank defaults genre to Blues
- Can't search C:\directory if current folder is D:
- Playlist stats don't refresh after duplicate wizard
sweep
- Rename wizard now uses DIR instead of playlist
filename when verifying to rename a file
- Tabstop-order is messed up in Interface applet
ShufflePlay 2.21
February
15, 1998
- New features since ShufflePlay 2.20
- Removed dependency on comdlg32 making distribution pack
lighter. What a waste of space that thing was.
- Increased path history to 15 entries. Can't ever have
too much history.
- Optimize views feature. Oh, you'll love
this one.
- Progress indicator in Rename Wizard. Just
to show you it's really doing something when you think it isn't.
- Expanded Dupe finder to either enable the
select state of possible dupefiles or throw out everything but possible dupefiles.
Maybe you just want to see what might be duplicates without destroying your playlist.
- AutoOptimize Clipboard viewer. If you
liked the Optimize feature, you'll like this too.
- Drops file extension when displaying
names of untagged files. It's pretty obvious that the extension is probably .mp3.
- WinAMP 1.74+ genres, 124 total. Yes,
1.74 isn't even out as of release time. This is just to show y'all that I've got
connections :)
- Faster Move-file routine. No
more move-file remnants hanging out in Recycle Bin.
- Automatically replace underscores with
spaces in Title field if file is untagged. I hate seeing
"This_Song_Title.mp3". Don't you?
- Added in-program link to Online
Registration page. Registration has never been this easy!
- Remote Plug-In Setup command [Ctrl-K] Another
thing you don't have to go back to WinAMP for each time you want to change it:)
- Remote Plug-In Load command [Ctrl-L] Ditto.
- Problems corrected from ShufflePlay
2.20
- Cascading flaw causing non/partially loading playlists.
- Couldn't tag files that weren't tagged already.
- Duplicate Wizard didn't renumber the
playlist.
- Open/Save/Append/EXE-Select crashes in
NT4.
- Drive and dir won't agree from a Go menu
command which causes a change in drive.
- When Dupe finder filters list, the
SavedStatus isn't set to False.
- Program resizes to 0x0 when closed as
minimized to tray.
ShufflePlay 2.20
January
12, 1998
- New features since ShufflePlay 2.10
- Play/ShufflePlay current folder command. Seemed
like a good idea at the time.
- Crop list command. Instead of wiping
out selected files, it wipes out everything else. Useful tool.
- Verification needed on Wipe Tag(s). This
feature has been coming.
- If bitrate can't be detected from first 3
bytes, skip 70 bytes then try again. For greater bitrate detection in MP3-encoded WAV
files.
- More genres (111 total). The more,
the merrier.
- Toggle view of Folders, Files, or
Playlist. Hide the windows you don't need. Max out the windows you do.
- Cut & paste playlist editing and file
managment. Yet another way you won't need to bother with Windows Explorer for MP3
managment.
- Copy to / Move to / Paste to. Send
your MP3s everywhere.
- Search My Computer. An expansion of
the Search Wizard, check every logical drive on your system for specific MP3s.
- Duplicate Wizard. finds possible
dupes based on time and a user-defined margin of error
- recognizes 160kbps streams and better
recognizes 64kbps streams. always helps.
- Overwrite checking in Save As... so
you don't overwrite a favorite playlist on accident.
- 1 Easter egg. Seek and ye shall find.
- Improved interfaces. Tighter, faster.
- Minor speed up in cache loading
- raw tag reading efficiency improved 14%
- cached reading efficiency improved 44%
- improved shutdown sequence time
- increase Go history to 10 entries
- improved internal structure of program to
make synchronizing id3 capabilities of shuffleplay with vis.enc/dec much easier
- Problems corrected from ShufflePlay 2.10
- removed unnecessary path scanning in
startup sequence
- automatically turn off WinAMP time
tracking when ShufflePlay is minimized
- kill timers before cleaning cache on
shutdown
- Songs list deletion settings was associated with Files
list deletion settings
- Append doesn't set SavedStatus to false
- Delete key overrides No-Delete mode
- Look In form size wasn't fixed
- "..." shows up in entries after Search sweep
ShufflePlay 2.10
December
10, 1997
- New features since ShufflePlay 2.03
- Changed status from donationware to shareware.
This program's cutting into too much of my good time to develop and support for free;
however the distributed program is still fully functional and always will be. No silly nag
screens; no time-delays; no registration codes.
- Span-tagging ability. Tag your MP3 albums in one
sweep!
- Directory window menu / Go menu means
fast folder navigation
- Remembers working paths of different CDs that you
access regardless of which drive.
- WinAMP remote volume control, ff/rew
functions, fadeout, and G.Eq popup.
Extending the
frontend "wrap" over WinAMP. Extending the
frontend "wrap" over WinAMP.
- Cache expiration. This new feature will keep your
cache optimized for day to day use by purging "expired" entries every at startup
and every five minutes until program shutdown.
- Realtime WinAMP time-status tracking. Shows WinAMP
time-elapsed in the bottom right.
- HTML Wizard. Now allows user choose
which fields to show in the table. More customizability in the future.
- Inventory Wizard. Now lets you add
headers/footers (ala Netscape signature files), and you can choose which fields to show in
the table
- Improved Select Wizard. Added
"Search in..." options and history tracking.
- Improved Search Wizard. Made much
more like the Windows Find applet.
- Improved Rename Wizard with fully user-definable
templates w/ preview feature.
- Improved setup interface. Cleaned up
alot of stuff to tidy up the interface.
- Caption updates to reflect saved-status of playlist. Looks
more and more professional and stuff.
- Mapped Delete key to a definable action. Remove,
delete, or deselect-all via the Delete key.
- Iconify WinPlay3
by default.
Why would you want to see it, anyway?
Why would you want to see it, anyway?
- Combine 8.3 format preference with Remote Control
preference. Why would you need to use 8.3 format with WinAMP?
- Always On Top moved to menu bar. Much easier to get
to.
- Tighter winamp control. The remote success rate has
risen from 95% to around 99.9% :)
- Minor performance tweaks which you probably wouldn't
notice.
- Removed "Enter = Double Click." Why would
you not want Enter to bind to a mouse double-click?
- Improved shutdown sequence. Trust me, it's better.
- Problems corrected from ShufflePlay 2.03
- Didn't write songs in playlists as LFN's even when using
WinAMP.
- Cache error if playlist contains CD-Rom songs.
- Tag editing makes spaces in playlist fields which screws
up Rename Wizard.
- Open a list and it erases old list even if you cancel the
operation.
- If a CD was last directory on shutdown and that CD isn't
in during the next startup, an "INI error" occurs.
- Slide top/bottom doesn't work.
- Undesired list clear on shutdown.
- "List needs saving" condition isn't set when
using Wizards.
- When re/loading playlists, sorting state isn't cleared.
ShufflePlay 2.03
October
18, 1997
- New features since ShufflePlay 2.02
- Search Wizard. Selectively sweep and select certain
songs and add them to your playlist. Weed out your 112 kbit/s songs or quickly find all
your eighties hits instantly.
- Show ShufflePlay in Start Bar, Tray, or Start Bar + Tray
- Enter in a ListView emulates double-click. If you
want it to, of course. But hey, who wouldn't?
- Inventory system template. It now defaults to
inventory_mm-dd_hh-mma.txt.
- Option to show full/basic filenames in properties entry
box. Helps those extra long filenames squeeze into the dialog box.
- Problems corrected from ShufflePlay 2.02
- fixed WinPlay3 support. Sorry.
- Append function doesn't work. A definite oversight on
my part. I guess I don't use that option much.
- AutoMin on Play/ShufflePlay causes program to minimize on
select-play from Files List. Oops.
- slightly improved WinAMP remote coherence. You may
notice it; you may not.
- Save Case Sensitive setting in Selection Wizard properly.
It was a tiny yet significant bug.
ShufflePlay 2.02
October 4, 1997
- New features since ShufflePlay 2.01
- Faster refreshing of files list upon deletion. Deleting
a file from a large directory no longer means unnecessary delay.
- Cache statistics. See what difference a cache makes
and when it's time to flush it.
- Improve efficiency. The cache and
record-retrieval systems were restructured for a minor performance improvement.
- New cache-size increment: 2000. When 1000 isn't
enough and infinity is one too many.
- Replaced "WinPlay3" with "Player" in
interface text. Phasing out the last traces of WinPlay3's glory.
- Confirmation dialog for flushing cache. Ever caught
yourself going "damn!" when you flushed the cache? I have.
- 36 new ID3/WinAMP genres. New genres ranging
from Christian Rap to Native American. Don't yell at me-- I'm not the one making
these damn things up.
- Decide what a double-click performs with menus. Choose
from add/remove, auto-play, or select-all. You'll find it one of the best features of the
new version.
- Play/Stop MP3 from Properties window. Well, it would
be nicer to control everything from there, but that would be pushing it.
- Rename Wizard. Go from a collection of
"abcde~1.mp3"s to "(Artist Name) Song Title.mp3"s. And you can do
gigabytes of songs all in one sweep.
- Slicker inventory system. A new tabular format for
your friends to feast their eyes on.
- Selection Wizard. Highlight songs in directories,
playlists, or both by keyword found in the ID3 tags.
- Various minor interface improvements. You may or may
not notice them. They're that subtle.
- Problems corrected from ShufflePlay 2.01
- Infinite-entry bug. A simple coding
error prevented people from taking advantage of this cache-size setting.
- Wipe-tag didn't work.
- Window control remote didn't work.
- Cache limited to 250 items at startup. Thanks to the
new Cache Stats, I could locate and correct this bug.
- On unsuccessful delete, removes the item. A
simple fix.
- Doesn't refresh status bar statistics after deletion. Again,
a simple fix.
- Mouse goes crazy after using right-click menus. Turns
out it took a internal fix from Microsoft to take care of this problem.
Early History
- Version 1.X - Fall 1996 - Very simple
file-loader frontend to WinPlay3. Handled large lists, wrote 8.3 format lists, and--most
importantly--shuffled the list for you (the original purpose).
- Version 2.00 - The bigger and badder series
geared toward the serious MP3 collectors.
- Beta 1-5 - December 1996 to April 1997 - A
series of interface redesigns, optimizations, and new features.
- Beta 6 PreRelease 1-3 - April 1997 to June
1997- As much as I allowed for bugs and holes in the first Betas, Beta 6 was full of so
many new things and new holes. It took a couple months to develop. You wouldn't be using
it today and probably think it was dead if I hadn't decided on distributing
PreReleases to show that this program was still in development.
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