Hello there,

I am resuming the development of PPlayer within the next weeks. Some bugfixes are planed to resolve some problems occured while my absence. I’m also shutting down the php-Backend to revive it within a new plugin coming soon. This will increase the performance of PPlayer and will asure that it will run with the website offline.

PPlayer also got a new home on Kühne IT-Solutions:
kuehne-its.de/pplayer

greetings,
Pascal Kühne

Hey there,

as somebody may have seen, the redirections now points to www.pplayer.org.
This page is the new home of PPlayer and any new news, updates etc will be released there.
The Wiki – now for the first time called “FAQs” is available here but soon on (faqs.pplayer.org).
PPlayer is now downloadable with the latest version here (later download.pplayer.org).
The board is open for everyone – the bug/feature-tracker will be found there – as some other discussion forums.
I’m focusing on putting every feature (wiki, bugtracker, featuretracker etc.., cvs, blog) on this one page.

So we’ll see us on www.pplayer.org

Good bye

Hello there,

I just released 0.9.5.5 some days ago. It implements some changes I did during new year. I also increased the time unitl the release is outdated. After 2 months a user gets a message telling him to update his copy of PPlayer.
The full changelog quoted:

BugFixes: Wrong URL on SongView Deleting many songs sometimes occured an error that is fixed
Loading last played songs fixed

Added: Lyrics – setting to autoload lyrics Databaseentry after adding a song to playlist
Beginning to support Linux – Wine

Changed: Lyrics GUI now with CheckBox for the setting Inputs are only readable (getting current songinfo) Skins can now be disabled (not yet in the settings)
Versions do now expire after 2 months Last songs are checked for existence (e.g. they were on external harddrive)

But the most important news of today will just come friday. This weekend some new portal will be opened, so stay tuned

greetings,
Pascal

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

Due to same last testing I releasing 0.9.5 RC4 – Its just the gold (stable) version but not called as one.
I want to make sure that the latest changes work perfectly.

0.9.5 RC4:

1. Sliderproblem fixed!!! (finally fixed!!)
2. MiniPPlayer changes
3. Other bugfixes
4. New RateGUI (clearly arranged with new GUI)

Have fun testing!

Download here

greetings,
Pascal

Hey there,
sorry I don’t have much time so I just post the changelog from Sourceforge:

Folders can now be dragged on the playlist
The last playlist will now be saved and played when PPlayer starts (defautly disabled)
Coverload can be deactivated
The user can now specify tags that should be excluded from the AutoSearch (eg. “live” will exclude any “live”-song)
The user can now set the time when a song should be rated positivly
Maaany bugfixes

You might test it:
Download here

greetings,
Pascal

The last days I released RC 1 and RC 2 of PPlayer 0.9.5.
They come with some changes for example a new plugin called MiniPPlayer (MiniMode-style)
A reviped stream-plugin with a new GUI and some improvements.
And maaany bugfixes.
You might test it:
Download here

greetings,
Pascal

Warning! Some mayor bugfixes incoming
Due to the fact that soo many people helped me developing this version I was able to fix more bugs than in any other version. So thanks to everybody contributing PPlayer! Stay tuned
For those who think “uhm yeah I want to help developing PPlayer too” the new version has a fitting plugin for you.
Its called BugReport and actually carries a list of links to the Tracker of PPlayer @ Sourceforge.

But the most important new feature is the PluginSystem. Its introduced in this version and ready for testing.
Screenshot:

As you can see it comes with a list showing the plugins available and giving some information about them.
Doubleclicking a plugin will display more detailed information in the edit below.
Checking/Unchecking a plugin will enable or disable. Plugins will automatically be downloaded if they don’t exist.

I said that I fixed many bugs in this new version. Here’s a list of them:

1. Links writeable on SongView-Tab
   The user was able to change the links. That wasn’t intended to be possible.
2. Chinese OS error
3. Playlist scrolling (not approved)
4. SongInfodisplay showing strange timeinfo
5. PPlayer playing next song but showing info of last song
6. Smoother startup due to saving some inputs from PHP-Backend
7. Readded “Offline”- Msg for SongView

The links will direct you to the bug-tracker of Sourceforge for detailed information.

At the end of the list of changes I want to announce the I modified the time requiered before a song rating is increased and its “heard” that means its counted in the statistic.
In earlier it needed 50% of the time played. Now its 83,33%.

Note: This version is not available through the Updater because its still flagged as beta. Its working but not stable. I recommend using this version due to the significant bugfixes.

Download here

Have fun,
Pascal

The new version fixes some minor bugs but also introduces some new features:
- PlayList enhancement:
The playlist got a big enhancement. It’s now possible to Drag’n'Drop songs. The playlist is now much faster, but has to be tested: Itself its in beta.
- New icons:
The old iconset contains now every icon requiered (No buttons on GUI left) and a new iconset has been added and made default. Thanks i542 for the nice icons!
- Stream-Plugin:
The new version introduces the Stream-Plugin making PPlayer able to listen to Net-Streams (Net-Radios).
- Bugfixes:
Some minor bugs got fixed in this version. The most significant bugfix is the remove of the crash on exit. Wherefore the debugger was disabled and the updater now longer has the IE-Obj until the error isn’t fixed.
I also try to fix the fileassociation, but its actually not fully featured in the version. (But it should run)
- Other changes:
The statusbar is now defaultly disabled but you can enable it in the settings.

Edit: Here’s a screenshot of the new GUI:

Loong time ago I posted on the blog.
Some things changed and PPlayer got a little boost:
I just released 0.9.3 beta:
The new version has an updater-plugin replacing the old autoupdater.
The plugin got his own GUI showing latest news and information regarding the update. Now its possible to start an update manually and activate/deactivate the autoupdate function.
There was a bug crashing PPlayer on Startup if PPlayer was installed in a directory with spaces eg. “c:/program files”. That bug got fixed beside some other bugfixes and small changes.
And as addition the updater-plugin is now able to update plugins opening some doors for 0.9.5 (plugin-patch)

Download the latest beta on Sourceforge

greetings,
Pascal