ProfiPlayer

Last week I googled “PPlayer” to check where my site belongs.
Surprisingly I got a site called “profisoftware.com” on the higher hits.
He advertised his “PPlayer”, but on my last trip to google I haven’t saw his site, so I decided to ask him if he could rename his Player back to “ProfiPlayer” because it could come to confusion.
And he did!

So thanks Mr. Lanziner-Furtenbach for renaming your project to “ProfiPlayer”!

greetings,
Pascal

PPlayer’s sourcecode released on Sourceforge!

I released the source of PPlayer today!
Take a look on the sourceforge-page of PPlayer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pplayer

I’ll give you more information tomorrow!

greetings,
Pascal

PPlayer becomes Open-Source soon!

I made the decision.
Long time I was thinking about releasing the source of PPlayer.
And now I decided: YES!
The sourcecode will be commented within the next 1-2 weeks and then released with PPlayer 0.9.
This comes with a new developing site of PPlayer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pplayer
Any good programmer interested in developing PPlayer can join me!
More information to come soon.

I’m away til Tuesday – Have a nice week,
Pascal

Ready for Betatesting: 0.8.7

After releasing 0.8.6 containing a new database, I was now able to create a new nice feature.

PPlayer – Statistic:

This modul logs any song you here and creates a statistic of the collected information.
You can seperate that information in many ways.
First you can choose a kind of info. Most heard Artist/Album/Genre and Track.
Second you can choose a timespan. Lifetime/Month/Week/Day.

The screenshot shows my statistic (its not that big actually).

PPlayer – SongView also profitates of the collected information:

It shows the Top Artist/Album and Track on your updated SongView Profile.


(Image resized due to displaying problems.

Have fun,
Pascal

Milestonerelease: 0.8.6

The last updates brought some modifications on the database.

1. The creation of the database is alot faster. (0.8.4.6)
2. The database will automatically created the first time PPlayer starts (0.8.4.6)
3. Similar bands are now longer stored inside the database (0.8.4.7)
4. Databasesystem changed to SQL: (0.8.6)
• Queries are about 75 times faster (pre: 1.5 sec/now: 0,02sec)
• The information is faster and better stored (no doublings)
• A song is now instantly loaded
• Of course the database.exe now works with the new system and a convertation of the database will automatically started with PPlayer

Other changes are

1. Volume fades with ani (0.8.4.7)
2. Ratingalgorithm changed -> songs with higher rating will be chosen preferably (0.8.4.8)
3. Optimations on SetNext -> Songsearch works much smoother and faster (0.8.4.8)
4. Fixed some minor bugs in SetNext (0.8.4.9)

I also fixed many many bugs and changed some stuff for example a new statusbar and a changed positionlabel

Have fun,
Pascal