Hey there,
I can finally announce that 0.9.5 finally gone gold.

1. PluginSystem introduced:
   • The PluginSystem shares the plugins available for PPlayer
   • It comes with a tab in the settings containing a list of Plugins available
   • You can enable/disable plugins, get information on them at this place
2. New Plugin: MiniPPlayer written by Ivan (i542.net)
   • Small plugin which shows name of song and play/pause controls
3. New Plugin: BugReport
   • Plugin to report Bugs and/or request new features and plugins
4. Stream plugin reviped:
   • New GUI with a list containing every stream
   • Engine improved now playing many more streams (everyone you could play with WMP and some more)
5. Playlist improvements:
   • Closing PPlayer will now save the current Playlist
   • On Startup your old list will be restored and the play started on old position
   • Note: This feature is disabled on default
   • Its now possible to drag folders on the Playlist
   • The songs on the playlist got some new items in the contextmenu
6. Settingsimprovement:
   • There are more settings available for “PlayMode”
   • More settings for “General” will follow in next releases
   • One new setting: AutoSearch Excludement

   -> The user can exclude tags from the AutoSearch (for example “live” – no song with “live” in it will be added)

7. Improved Rating:
   • Clicking on the Star next to the playlist will open a window containing 20 stars
   • To change the rating the user just clicks on one of the stars
   • A small label informs the user which song he’s rating
8. Small changes:
   • PPlayer will now start after creating the database on first run
   • The songinfoload is now much faster due to a new system
   • Covers will only be downloaded if they do not exist in the musicfolder
   • Crashsystem: After a crash of PPlayer the user will be introduced what to do
   • After one month of the release the user will get a message begging him to download the latest version
9. Bugfixes:
   • The problem with the slider is finally fixed
   • Many crashes on uncommon events were fixed
   • Focusing on the playlist was fixed
   • “Skindatabase not responding” while rating a skin fixed
   • Deleting many items on PlayList causing PPlayer to crash fixed
   • and many many more

Here are some screens from the new version:

The MainGUI (Skin: MsgPlus)

The new Plugin MiniPPlayer

The PlayModeTab with new settings

The PluginSystem

The reviped RateGUI (Cursor on 15th star)

The reviped StreamGUI

Download:
PPlayer 0.9.5 directly from SourceForge.net

greetings and merry christmas,
Pascal