De eerste bètarelease van versie 4.00 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-kanaalsequalizer aan boord en ondersteunt plug-ins. Verder kan het programma cd's rippen, muziekbestanden converteren en tags bewerken. In versie 4.0 is onder meer het uiterlijk van het programma op de helling gegaan. De complete lijst met veranderingen ziet er als volgt uit:
Common:UI:
- 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 - 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
- The "copy to" / "move to" functionality - an ability to save folder structure
Player:
- New design of application
- Windows animation no longer inhibits UI
- Scrollbar thumb jumps to previous position when mouse cursor leaves scrollbar zone
Playlist:
- An ability to limit number of attempts to reconnect to internet-radio station when connection is lost
Playlists Manager:
- Quick Search - algorithm has been changed: the content that isn't satisfying to a search string hides now
- The "move to..." functionality has been introduced
- The "Find in Music Library" command has been added
- 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".
Skin Engine:
- An ability to view size and duration summaries of selected playlists
- Drag-n-drop support for the preview window has been added
Tags:
- potential abilities have been expanded (refer to the help for Skin Editor for more information)
Audio Converter:
- Added support for multiple values for APEv2, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments and M4A tags formats
Music Library:
- Support for aften.exe command-line encoder for AC3 format has been added (thanks to Soolo)
Plugins:
- 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 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
- 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)
- Support of network files has been improved
- 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
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