0.8.3 released & some changes on the blog

With 0.8.3 some cool features come to PPlayer:

1. URL Protocol functionality
   pplayer://domain.host.com/filepath.mp3 starts pplayer playing the requested sound.
   HGS Radio Episode 9 (hear directly with PPlayer
2. DefPushbuttons for every GUI:
• PPlayer — “Play”
• Podcast — “Load”
• Stream — “Play”
• Playmode — “Search”
• Settings — “Save”

There’s a wiki for PPlayer available replacing the online help.

Besides I wont post any small update on this blog anymore…
You can take a look on the wiki – changelog holding any information.

Every “great” update will get a blogentry with every changes.

I’m ~2 weeks away now…
Pascal

0.8.2.8 published

Long time ago I made the last update for PPlayer.
And I admit that I haven’t done much things for PPlayer last time.
But we actually have holiday here in Germany and I was more interested in doing useless things (hehe).
This changed today as I wrote some changes on PPlayer like:

1. Faster startup than ever.
   I changed the Podcast check which checked any Podcast loaded whether it was notified or not.
2. I removed the E-Mail-Registration that not everybody understood and made the startup through this much faster.
3. The PlayMode is now to recieve up to 3 separated (by “|”) keywords making the search easier.
   eg.: “Metallica|Live” will search any Song by Metallica played “Live”
   But this needs some improvement coming next updates.
4. Fixed a bug crashing the player on restart.
5. Added a check on SetNext if the file found in Database still exists

There are many things to be changed in the next weeks.
I focus on making PPlayer much faster, especially that there’s no longer a break between two songs cutting them.
I also want to optimize the loading time of the song information because you cant load another song while PPlayer is updating his information on the active song. Thats annoying.

I hope you guys still enjoy using PPlayer and send me some mails with feedback or make a post on AutoIt-Forums available here.
You can also use PPlayers inbuild “Report a Bug”-Feature available on the Settings-Module.

Have a nice week,
Pascal

Vacation

I was on vacation the last week and I am on vacation the next week…
This means no support and no updates for PPlayer.
But after it I have one complete week to work on it.

Have a nice week
Pascal