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dBpoweramp Audio Player (dAP) Version Changes

 
Release 2

Version Highlights Gapless playback. improved EQ. Compatible with keyboard Play, Stop, etc buttons. Fully customizable keyboard control, both locally and globally (from other programs). Plays Audio CDs. My Music Collection automatically links into the MusicMoz database! Export MMC.

Fully customizable keyboard control (including control from other applications) of dAP - Start >> Programs >> dBpoweramp >> Configuration >> Keyboard Control

Ogg Vorbis included as standard

Fully Audio CD Compatible - dAP can be configured through 'dAP Install Options' to automatically play an audio CD and fetch the details of said CD from freedb.

Amp - Gapless playback, a surprise last minute addition, switch on dAP Menu >> Multiplayer >> Gapless
Amp - New graphic equalizer - using Naoki Shibatas SuperEQ code
Amp - Increased Popup info time for Amp Playing labels to 2 seconds
Amp - Open button sorts the list of files adding so they are played in order
Amp - can now pass filenames on command line to amp.exe and they will play
Amp - Default Skin - Artist, Track and Album are now Bold
Amp - Displays real-time bitrate for VBR mp3s and OGG
Amp - Custom font handling updated (credit to Bengt Strom)
Amp - made the random selector, more random (Thanks dsieber)

Waveout - now possible to set output device

New Options after install to Create 'Play Audio CD' icon and dAP icon in Quick launch

dAP Config - when associating dAP with cda files dAP is audio set to active CD Playing program.

Added WM_APPCOMMAND which means those Play, Stop Pause buttons on your keyboard should work (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
MMC - Added a 'Selected Tracks' button at the top
MMC - New option (on track right click >> advanced) to 'Rewrite ID Tag, writes information held in dAP over the ID tag in files)
MMC - New option (on track right click >> advanced) to open explorer at the track location
MMC - Remembers column sizes
MMC - When creating a playlist for selected tracks - mouse is changed to hour glass
MMC - New 'Music Collection >> Preferences'
MMC - Preferences - Option to switch off popup info tips
MMC - When add new music, the music is included/excluded to active play control
MMC - Column sorts like Windows Explorer
MMC - added smart 2nd sorting (click on Album to see in action) also an option to sort 2ndary on your choice 
MMC - Column order can be set and columns switched off in Collection >> Preferences
MMC - if right click on track and has an album name - gives the option to PLAY ALBUM
MMC - When selective play is active, shows how many tracks are included in selective play
MMC - If right click on a single track then shows 'View MusicMoz web page' 
MMC - 'Refresh from Tag' also refreshes file info such as bitrate, size
MMC - if is already shown and click mmc on amp then switches to existing
MMC - when is clicked on AMP or Menu then does not remember the minimize setting
MMC - Displays selective play name at the top
MMC - If cannot save music collection - shows a message and asks to retry
MMC - Added a 'Default Columns' button to set the shown MMC columns back to factory setting
MMC - Remembers Artist in find box when drop down is selected
MMC - Search has a 'Search Selection Menu' so it is possible to exclude each field individually. Example: search just under albums, or artists.
MMC - right click 'Select Album'
MMC - right click track >> Advanced - always display playing track (until click on another track)
MMC - Export Music Collection to text or Web file

Right Click on Folder >> Play/Enque - will now recurse and search sub-folders too if option on MMC Pref page is set

Playlist Editor - if drop a playlist on to the editor it is now edited
Playlist Editor - Displays artist in bold
Playlist Editor - Shows Hourglass when adding lots of tracks
Playlist Editor - Auto track number position routine improved
Playlist Editor - On Shutdown if it is shown then its position is remembered for next start of dAP

Previously Played - Artist now shown in bold
Previously Played - On Shutdown if it is shown then its position is remembered for next start of dAP

Menu - Skins - Alphabetically sorts skin list
DirectX Output - volume adjustment so scale works better

Bug Fixes

If a skin is set to Top most and a sub skin wasn't, dAP will now display them
If slide out the 'Mini On Screen Control' then close it, the slide out bit used to stay on the screen
For MMC - right click 'Edit Tag' >> Details, now has a vertical scrollbar
MMC - will now load after amp has exited (previously it would flicker on the screen and unload)
MMC - Speeded up track list drawing, also fixed a drawing bug
Stopped the 'New Track Lookup' whilst editing tags
Popup InfoTip - for large playlists, only first 50 entries are looked at
Playlist & Previously played, switched font to a multilingual one - also changed icons
m3u Playlists in Unix style can now be edited
Hidden skin objects (Font, Image and Eq Positions) stopped the main window from dragging if clicked in them
Tooltips no longer get in the way when a button is right at the top of the screen
ZOrder works again (should)
If had a small sub window on a main window and dragged main window small sub window would snap to edges of main window
When saving tags, read only files are set to writable
Unknown file types and bwf wave files are sent through mp3 decoder
Recycle bins are not searched when adding drives
Fixed a lockup that could occur on certain skins (thanks Narler for tracking it down)
Previously Played displayed Foreign characters
When restarting dAP the track is not added to previous list
Better saving of resume play on close down
Playlist+prev played no longer stay on top!!
Enqued items are now sorted
MMC when combine two music collections, genres from 2nd are copied across