This page contains the release notes of current and past versions.
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Release v2.87 - 19 April 2014
This release brings some enhancements and some bug fixes:
- Ability to edit (resize, crop, rotate etc) album artwork, artist pictures and genre illustrations: long press on album/artist/genre artwork, select the "Manage artwork/picture/illustration" option then the "Edit" sub option.
- New xHD versions for the Cloudy Copper and Cloudy Pink skins have been released.
- New Social Network and Flatty skins released.
- Fixed a bug causing the wrong artwork dimensions to be displayed when searching for album/artist/genre artwork on internet.
- Fixed a bug causing the update of album/artist/genre artwork to fail when selected from the gallery.
- Updated translations.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.86 - 26 January 2014
This release brings some enhancements and some bug fixes:
- New xHD Cloudy skin released.
- Fixed a bug causing the wrong album artwork to be selected/downloaded for a song.
- Improved the accuracy of artist pictures downloads.
- Fixed a bug causing a failure to search for lyrics.
- New xxHD app icon.
- Performance improvements.
- Updated translations.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.85 - 22 December 2013
This release brings some bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug causing a failure to edit song tags.
- Fixed a bug preventing searching for album/artist artwork (0 results).
- Fixed a bug where the currently playing artist name would not be sent to bluetooth devices (Android 4.3+).
- Performance improvements.
- Updated translations.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.84 - 14 December 2013
This release brings a couple new features and some bug fixes:
- Ability to play/stream songs in the background, when started from an external file/web browser.
- Created a new "Advanced" section in settings:
- Added option to send a log report to the development team (Settings / Advanced / Send log report).
- Added version tracking (Settings / Advanced / Version).
- Fixed Android 4.3+ bluetooth bug.
- Performance improvements.
- Updated translations.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.83 - 30 November 2013
This release brings a couple new features and some bug fixes:
- Android 4.3+ bluetooth support:
- Allows to send track metadata to bluetooth devices (e.g. car audio devices).
- Requires android lock screen to be activated: Settings > Lock screen > Enable Android lock screen.
- Android lock screen enhancements:
- Added option to disable album artwork: Settings > Lock screen > Display album artwork (enabled by default).
- Added option to display artist artwork instead of album artwork: Settings > Lock screen > Prefer artist artwork.
- Added support for Google Now music voice commands (Listen to XXX, Listen to XXX by YYY, etc).
- Added support for Pebble: Settings > Music library > Music updates.
- Fixed Reverb effects on Gingerbread devices (Android 2.3.3+). Reverb effects are not supported on most ICS and Jelly Bean devices (Android 4.0+).
- Refresh mediastore option (Settings > Music library > Refresh mediastore) is no longer supported on Android 4.4+ devices (Android limitation). The mediastore is now automatically updated by the Android system upon media addition.
- Updated translations.
- A few bug fixes.
Release v2.8 - 26 October 2013
This release brings audio enhancements (DSPPack v4.0) and few other features or fixes:
- DSPPack v4.0:
Warning: please make sure to update PlayerPro, the WidgetPack and the DSPPack to the latest versions available on the market (respectively version >2.8, version >2.6 and version >4.0).
- Added gapless playback support for aac/mp4.
- Added replay gain support for mp3, flac, ogg, and aac/mp4. Ability to select the normalization method, the default gain for songs with no metadata, the default pre-amp level, and clipping prevention (see Audio settings > ReplayGain for all options).
- Fixed the equalizer high-pitched sound bug occurring with certain sampling rates. Fixed a few other bugs impacting the quality and stability of the equalizer.
- Added an audio limiter to prevent audio distortion when amplification is too high. Enabled by default (Audio settings > Volume > Limiter).
- Added support for sampling rates > 48000Hz.
- Added support for Virtualizer effect on all phones. Ability to select between native and PlayerPro implementation in Audio settings > Effects > Virtualizer.
- Improved PlayerPro Bass boost implementation. Added ability to select between native and PlayerPro implementation in Audio settings > Effects > Bass boost.
- Added better support for wav format files.
- Added support for the following formats (can be played from a file browser): aif, au, paf, iff, svx, sf, voc, w64, mat4, mat5, pvf, xi, htk, caf, sd2, sds, txw, gsm, nist, rx2, opus.
- Various performance improvements with NEON optimized routines to reduce battery consumption.
- Various other bug fixes.
- High resolution icon and new welcome screen design with left/right slide to view the different sections.
- Added ability to select left-right channel balance (Audio settings > Volume > Channel balance).
- Fixed the lyrics search bug.
- Fixed a bug where selected album artwork would apply to all songs of the same folder.
- Updated translations.
- A few other bug fixes.