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CoolPlayer 1.0beta by Niek Albers
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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...
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Why another MP3 Player?
Because there are not enough....
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Visit CoolPlayer's website at:
http://coolplayer.8m.com
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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!
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Legal stuff
CoolPlayer is freeware,
copy it as much as possible.
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⌐1999 Niek Albers
Comments/bugs/donations: nieka@dsv.nl
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