Na zo'n vier maanden van ontwikkeling is nu de final release van versie 3.60 van de mediaspeler AIMP is verschenen. Deze gratis lichtgewichtmediaspeler van Russische makelij heeft ondersteuning voor de populairste muziekformaten. Het uiterlijk heeft wat weg van het bekende Winamp en is door middel van skins aan te passen. AIMP heeft een 18-kanaals equalizer aan boord en ondersteunt plug-ins. Verder kan het programma cd's rippen, muziekbestanden converteren en tags bewerken. De belangrijkste verbeteringen die sinds versie 3.55 zijn aangebracht zijn hieronder voor je op een rijtje gezet:
Common:Sound Engine:
- New API for plugins
- DEP and ASLR support have been added
Sound Effects:
- Replay Gain's "on-fly" calculation algorithm has been improved
Integration to OS:
- Normalization settings have been extended
- Normalization settings have been moved to separate tab
- Replay Gain - added an ability to set default value for normalization
- Replay Gain - added an ability to set preamp value for normalization factor
Album Arts:
- The "Add to Queue" command has been added to the context menu of Windows Explorer
Playlist:
- An ability to download album art from internet automatically (plugin for Last.fm service is used to do it for now)
- An ability to define album art for internet radio stations
- An ability to customize search options
Skin Engine:
- The "adding files" process is now working in separate thread
- Shuffle mode - all indexes are now stored in the playlist file
- Shuffle algorithm has been improved - uniform playback of files from different groups, avoiding sequential playback of two consecutive files
- The number of file access has been reduced during loading a playlist / add files process
Audio Converter:
- Memory consumption during skin loading has been reduced
- Memory consumption for skin has been reduced twice
Tag Editor:
- The "Jump to target folder" button has been added
Templates:
- An ability to switch off grouping in the file list
- Added an ability to drop files / images from internet browsers / URLs to the album art display
- AIFF file format support
- An ability to transliterate / change case for group of files
Controls:
- Macros for date modified / time modified of file were added
Plugins:
- Support of navigation via keyboard
- Common - added an ability to filter plugins by status
- Common - all plug-ins are now stored in a subfolders
- Common - support of Input plugins from Winamp has been removed because this type of plugins does not support multi threading
- Visualizations - limit on the screen resolution has been removed for new type plugins
- Infobar - the "show always" option has been added
- Infobar - added an ability to select target screen
- Last.fm - plugin now works with last.fm service directly - you no longer required installed last.fm client
- Last.fm - added an ability to love / unlove tracks
- Last.fm - added an ability to send the AlbumArtist field value instead of the Artist (optional)
- Last.fm - an ability to show window with information about playable file
- Last.fm - offline cache for100 records has been added
- SACD - plugin for an ability to decode hi-res audio in the DSDIFF / DSF formats
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