CoolPlayer 1.0beta by Niek Albers ------------ Features: - Skins - Simple userinterface - Advanced Playlist editor - Internet streaming - ID3 Multitagger - File Renamer - Xaudio mpeg engine - Smallest executable programmed in blazing fast 'C' - Continuous play - 8 band equalizer - Lot's more... ------------ Why another MP3 Player? Because there are not enough.... ------------ Visit CoolPlayer's website at: http://coolplayer.8m.com ------------- Revision history: - 20.November.1999 CoolPlayer build 5014 bugfixes: + Rename selection didn't work correct. - 14.November.1999 CoolPlayer build 5012 improvements: + Clicking on the time to change between remaining/elapsed time will change the value immediately now. It works in pause mode too. + forgot to add the new feature from the last build in the commandline options. + Switching 'allow file once in playlist' to on will remove all duplicates after clicking ok. + CoolPlayer's main window doesn't show up on the taskbar anymore. bugfixes: + in the ID3 tag editor, trailing and leading whitespaces are removed from the values. + Renaming a selection to the ID3 tag works more appropriate. + A filename with -h in it showed the commandline options when doubleclicking it in explorer. + A dockable skin didn't load correctly restarting coolplayer. + Overlapping of controls is handled better. + Using the left and right arrow keys in the playlist cause a track to seek. + Removing duplicates didn't work correctly. - 8.November.1999 CoolPlayer build 4908 improvements: + There is a new option that makes it possible to add the same file multiple times. bugfixes: + The skinswitch looked for a skin.ini file in the CoolPlayer homedir first, then in the dir of the last skin.ini file. I have turned it around. + A minimized playlist caused trouble when restarting CoolPlayer. + A remembered playlist started playing when running (this bug was introduced in build 4881). + When not allowing all extensions, extensions like '.mpg' or '.mpeg' were still allowed. + The last used directory should be really remembered correctly now... - 3.November.1999 CoolPlayer build 4881 improvements: + Added advanced commandline options! enter coolplayer.exe -help to see all the options. + Position of the Id3tag editor is remembered now. bugfixes: + When a track is in pause mode doubleclicking or opening a new file from the player with eject didn't play the file. + A backslash too many appeared in a multiple selection when adding files from the root of a drive. + A maximized playlist wasn't displayed at the correct position after restarting. + Empty playlist caused CoolPlayer to play nothing in a loop. + Last used directory is remembered correctly now. + The starting of a track was delayed when selecting it with enter. + Add directory from the playlist should work correct now. - 22.October.1999 CoolPlayer build 4579 improvements: + Add Directory button in the playlist! + A new option to remember the last played track is added. + The Playlist show or hide state is remembered now. + You can click on the songtitle in the player and open the Id3 tag editor bugfixes: + Dropping a new file in the player when in pause mode, plays the song now correctly. + The scrolling songtitle did some funny things when switching skin. + The playlist window position wasn't remembered correctly. (geez, that I haven't seen this earlier!) - 16.October.1999 CoolPlayer build 4491 improvements: + Now you van easily switch between the last 4 skins from the rightclick menu! I invite people to make more skins. bugfixes: + priority wasn't set correctly after restarting CoolPlayer. + changing options doesn't affect playing anymore. - 8.October.1999 CoolPlayer build 4283 improvements: + Added player priority, you can set it in the options. CoolPlayer will work on slower systems now I hope. bugfixes: + on non-standard desktop configurations the rotating systemtray icon didn't show up. - 6.October.1999 CoolPlayer build 4258 improvements: + added Skin switch button! Now you can switch to the next skin with a button. The new collapsed skin shows how this works, download it on the skins page! There are two new parameters: NextSkin with a filename to the next skinfile and NextSkinButton with the coords. + made the icon in the systemtray nicer (and even a bit faster) bugfixes: + Dropping a file longer than 100 characters crash bug fixed. + Remaining time 28:15 bug fixed - 18.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 4073 improvements: + Added various speed improvements, loading a large playlist with ID3 Tags, should go about 20% faster now! + CoolPlayer reads .m3u playlists now with full pathnames in the list. But it won't save them with pathnames. Use .pls if you want paths. + You can play a song in the playlist editor by pressing enter. bugfixes: + Bitrate & frequency drawing problem + Last 1 or 2 seconds cut-off at end of playlist problem fixed + .mp2 extensions didn't show up in the open dialog + some minor stuff. + using the up & down arrow keys to walk through the playlist, caused the volume to go up & down. - 14.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3929 + Added frequency and bitrate to the player window There are two new values for the skin: BitrateText and FreqText which take the x and y coordinates of the two values + CoolPlayer should now even work with Win95 OSR 1 (with comctl32.dll prior to 4.71) bugfixes: + adding a file using 'add' in the playlist editor restarted playing song + When downloading a song and playing it, the positionslider went out of the player + When deselecting 'Scroll Songtitle' in options, this only worked when restarting the player. - 11.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3869 + Added scrolling songtitle! + fixed another bug switching skin. - 8.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3821 Fixed some buggers... + Equalizer and volume values are now stored in their real values instead of the pixelposition. This fixes the sliders when changing skin. The sliders need readjustment for this one. + Equalizer on/off only worked when moving the sliders. + Well known systemtray popup menu bug fixed. + fixed some small ones... + Got the filesize a bit smaller ;) - 5.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3703 Fixed a weird bug, when dragging the CoolPlayer window and Show window contents when dragging is on, coolplayer got stuck in the corners. - 4.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3673 Major new release, 1.0b stadium reached. A lot of code is redesigned. + Skin support, see my website for a tutorial + Completely redesigned skin and icons by Rutger-Jan Hoogerdijk + Easy move option + Rotate icon can be turned on/off + Playlist editor button added + Shuffle is working now + Added keyboard shortcuts explanation in About window + Support for uppercase and lowercase fonts in the songtitle text. + Bugs fixed, possibly some new ones introduced. + SHIFT+F11 and SHIFT+F12 for skindesigners. - 14.July.1999 Coolplayer build 2826 Fixed a bug when starting 'coolplayer playlist.pls' from the commandline. A warning is shown when you tag a multiple selection. - 19.June.1999 Coolplayer build 2806 Fixed a problem when writing to wav, the player stays in response now. - 18.June.1999 Coolplayer build 2803 Removed a messagebox that wasn't suppose to be there! - 18.June.1999 Coolplayer build 2802 Finally it is here! + Internet streaming support! : for a streaming mpeg audio file you enter in the open location box f.e.: http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3 or: ftp://me:mypass@www.myserver.com/music.mp3 For a shoutcast server you enter f.e.: tcp://www.myserver.com:8000 For an udp connection you enter f.e.: udp://www.myserver.com:8000 + Wav disk writing support In the options you can select to write the data to a file. NOTE: If you write songs, the program will ask you for a destination directory; to this directory all the songs in the playlist are written. 'Repeat' is turned off. If you write a stream to a file, the program will ask you to set a destination filename. + Switching songs goes even faster! + Several small bugfixes. - 7.June.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2630 Fixed a bug when renaming mp3's - 5.June.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2626 Lot's of new things!! + ID3 tag support + ID3 Multitagger : This is a tag editor that let's you edit the tags for multiple files at the same time! You can make a selection in the playlist, then open the Multitagger and you can set Artist, Album, year,genre and comment for each file at the same time!! + File Renamer : This features renames all selected files to the ID3 tag information. "Artist - Song". Only when the ID3 tag is valid. + Option to allow any extension in the playlist. When a file is not a recognizable format, it wil skip it. Some minor bugs fixed.... - 31.May.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2285 + Added show remaining time option! + Add shortcut to desktop Fixed bugs: Add shortcuts didn't work correctly in win98. Sometimes a double '\' was in a path. Shuffle in playlist is now more random. - 26.May.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2230 + No more need of shlwapi.dll - wrote my own stuff. Lot's of people don't have this dll or a working version. + The playing song will be kept visible in the playlist. + When repeat is on, pressing next at the end of the playlist will go to the first song. (previous just the other way) Fixed a bug: Remember last directory works now correctly. - 20.May.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2208 Fixed a bug: When you play a song, and doubleclick another song in explorer it will be played. + The tooltip of the coolsmile in the systemtray is now the title and the playing time. - 18.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2196 + Just in time small bugfix. - 18.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2194 New features! + Exit after playing: when the playlist ends, the player exits Automatically. + Remember Playlist: the last playlist is saved. + Keyboard Shortcuts: Winamp compatible. + Now you can drag files from the OpenFile dialog to the playlist + In the about box, a button to jump to the Coolplayer's website. - 16.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2125 Got that GDI-resource leak! - 7.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2051 Fixed more leaks, I really hope they are gone now... - 1.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2013 Fixed some memory leak, i hope.... - 19.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2007 Now you have a rotating icon in the systemtray! - 11.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 1804 Added the ability to change the slider color. For people how want to make a custom skin. - 11.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 1750 Fixed an output bug. - 11.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 1743 Added options, register filetypes, add startmenu icon, fixed resource leaks. - 5.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta Build 1486 CoolPlayer works now if you register the filetypes! Fixed a bug for the location of 'coolplayer.ini' - 30.March.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta Build 1423 solved ws2_32.dll problem - 30.March.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta Build 1422 released to the public! ------------- Legal stuff CoolPlayer is freeware, copy it as much as possible. ------------- ©1999 Niek Albers Comments/bugs/donations: nieka@dsv.nl -------------