AIMP celebrates his 10th birthday

Artem | 2016-08-08 10:09:07 | Views: 8388607

Today, our project celebrates its first anniversary - 10 years ago we have published first version of AIMP Classic! During this long period of a lot of work has been done! And in future, we will introduce new interesting features and innovations.

I want to say thanks to all, who participated in life of community of the project, to all, who reports about bugs and posts suggestions.

Special for the birthday we have prepared new version of AIMP - v4.10.

Whats new?

In this version we have focused on tag editor, music library and plugins API. Full list of changes can be found here.

We glad to present to you new plugin: Podcasts Support plugin, thanks to new version of plugins API!

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AIMP4 has been released!

Artem | 2015-12-15 23:05:59 | Views: 8388607

What's new in AIMP v4.00 in comparison with v3.60?

Common

Hints are now displayed when changing the slider in the DSP-Manager dialog via mouse wheel or keyboard
Formatting templates - list of available functions moved to sub-menu
Version number of application has been removed from names of binaries
Macros - one-letter / two-letter names of macros are replaced with friendly names
Macros - names in menu with macro list are highlighted now via bold font
Macros - list of macros for playable file has been expanded, following macros have been added: %AlbumGain, %TrackGain and %Lyrics
Macros - list of functions for text manipulation has been expanded

Interface

New design of application
Windows animation no longer inhibits UI
Scrollbar thumb jumps to previous position when mouse cursor leaves scrollbar zone

Sound Engine

Added an ability to specify the 352.8 KHz sample rate (for devices that support this sample rate)

Player

An ability to limit number of attempts to reconnect to internet-radio station when connection is lost

Playlist

Performance of builder for shuffle queue has been increased at 3 times
Quick Search - algorithm has been changed: the content that isn't satisfying to a search string hides now
Added an ability to rescan tags for selected files only
The "move to..." functionality has been introduced
The "Find in Music Library" command has been added
The "copy to" / "move to" functionality - an ability to save folder structure
Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on data from Music Library with an ability to filter and group data
Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on one or few directories
Smart playlists - synchronization with pre-image is now works in separate thread
Playlist files are now imports each into separate tab if the "open files from external applications" option set to "create new playlist".

Playlists Manager

An ability to view size and duration summaries of selected playlists
Drag-n-drop support for the preview window has been added

Audio Converter

An ability to switch off grouping
Support for aften.exe command-line encoder for AC3 format has been added (thanks to Soolo)
MP3 Encoder - added an ability to select target sample rate

Tag Editor

An ability to select all types of tags by one click
Added an ability to copy / paste album art images to / from the system clipboard
Added support for multiple values for APEv2, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments and M4A tags formats
Added an ability to store custom values to list of the "Genre" edit field

Music Library

Integrated into the main application
"The" article isn't cut out when adding files in a DB any more
An ability to save user mark to tags of file automatically (optional)
An ability to combine an empty levels in grouping tree in the "no grouping" mode
An ability to find misplaced files automatically
An ability to delete automatically non-existed files from data base
An ability to specify different columns set for table and card views
An ability to adjust height of the alphabetic index control
An ability to set user-defined filter for grouping preset
Added an ability to send selected files from grouping tree to selected playlist
An ability to drag album by its album art
An ability to scroll song list via mouse wheel without focusing of it
An ability to fast scroll via mouse wheel if Ctrl key is pressed
Report generator - support of fields with multiple values has been added
The "move to..." functionality has been added
File name column displays a name of file without path now
Alphabetic index is now supported for all fields
Skin support has been added
The "no grouping" mode - an ability to fill song list from current folder only (without sub-folders)
Now the data are loaded for visible columns only
Support of network files has been improved

Skin Engine

Potential abilities have been expanded (refer to the help for Skin Editor for more information)

Plugins

API for plugins has been updated to v4
Scheduler - sleep timer - an ability to fade out volume
Scheduler - the "OK" button has been added
SACD - ISO - now the plugin displays both stereo and 5.1 tracks

AIMP for Android v2 has been released!

Artem | 2015-12-15 22:43:58 | Views: 8388607

What's new in AIMP for Android v2.00 in comparison with v1.02?

Common

New design of application
Added support of hardware search button

Widget

Widget with size 4x2 has been added
Widget with size 4x4 has been added (with sizing abilities)

File Adding Dialog

An ability to jump to parent folder via swipe-to-right gesture

Player

An ability to down mix the audio file to mono
An ability to set track as ringtone (following formats are supported: MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV, OPUS, OGG, M4A, MP4)
An ability to switch off integration with system lock screen
Player now checks the album art image in the "Covers" sub folder
Down mix to stereo is now supported for multi-channel audio files
Menu of playable file with recently used commands has been added
Support of internet-radio has been added
Balance slider has been added
Player will suspend the playback if "audio focus" is lost
Long click at "pause" or "start playback" buttons now stops playback

Playlist

An ability to sort list when grouping (optionally)
Application switches from deletion mode to normal after deleting the last track from playlist
Grouping by folder - only parent folder name is displaying now in group header
An ability to reverse order of the items
Export - an ability to choose target folder
The "send to other playlist" command has been added to context menu of selected file
Tags for all tracks are read now in background thread
Multiple playlists support has been added
Current grouping mode is now highlighted in the context menu
Search now takes file name into account
Long click at "search" button is now focus current track in playlist

Scheduler