Known Problems
No known problems in version 7.1
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Change History - FreyPlayer
Changes in Version 7.1
- Introduced Library Autosave
Changes in Version 7.0
- Update for Catalina, enable 3rd part plugins to be loaded, Library Validation Checks
- Requires High Sierra (10.13)
Changes in Version 6.0
- Update for Mojave
Changes in Version 5.4
- Minor Usability Changes
- Improved Window Title Content
- Put dBFS in the title bar
Changes in Version 5.3.1
- Limit message log entries to 30 days
- Enable global trim buttons when search bar has focus
- Updated titles in main UI
- Defer termination when DB Rebuild is in progress
Changes in Version 5.3
- Fixed crash resulting from large message log
- Limit message log entries to 30 days
Changes in Version 5.2
- Added option to allow duplicate track imports to the library
- Minor fixes to playlist sub menus
Changes in Version 5.1
- Grey out “Create Playlist From PlayQueue” when there is no play queue
- Introduced Hog Mode for the streaming browser
- Improved Lock hold timeouts
- More descriptive window titles
Changes in Version 5.0
- Sorted names of the AU Plugins
- Allow the import of mono core audio files
- Put stack trace in the message log
- Added trim and AU search actions to the View menu
- Save and Restore primary UI divider settings
- Prohibited Tool Tip on player controls while player is stopped or streaming
- Cleansed song title of invalid characters when creating a burn folder
- Added "Generate Track Numbers" method to all album objects in the UI
- Added the "No Fade" fade time preference
- Added User Notifications
- Fixed error in progress bar processing when bar is clicked without marker movement
- Added "Mixed" state to track auto-trim pull down menu
- Changed User Preferences hot key to cmd-,
- Changed hot keys for Show Next and Show Previous AUs to cmd-> and cmd-<
- Removed user preference for auto-trim
Changes in Version 4.5.4
- Corrected layout problem in the "Currently Playing" window
- Corrected bug in the handling of trim attenuation across multiple staged extents
Changes in Version 4.5.3
- Introduced the "Currently Playing" window
Changes in Version 4.5.2
- Minor UI Enhancements
Changes in Version 4.5.1
- Fixed a bug causing an endless loop (hang) when fading near the end of a track
- Added the "Truncate Play Queue" function
- Enabled continuous tracking for progress slider
- Triggered trim fading when moving the progress slider
Changes in Version 4.5
- Added ability to import media files from a CD volume
- Added preference for moving media files to a user selected directory prior to import
- Added fade time preference
- Fixed a bug resulting in a crash when attempting to import a media file with 0 samples
- Fixed a potential deadlock when playback of a track is initiated at the end of a track already playing
Changes in Version 4.4.6
- Made menu items inactive if they are out of context
- Made change to update progress bar values when player is paused
Changes in Version 4.4.5
- Improved processing for "Generate Track Numbers" function
Changes in Version 4.4.4
- Improved WAV file processing
- Added "Continuous Play" user preference
Changes in Version 4.4.3
- Better support for generating track numbers
Changes in Version 4.4.2
- Added support for migration from Sandboxed version of the application
- Minor bug fixes
Changes in Version 4.4.1
- Minor bug fixes
Changes in Version 4.4
- Added “Check For Updates” function
Changes in Version 4.3
- Added ability to replace album tracks from the album display list (and generate track numbers)
- Changed the player to prevent controls from being shown when the player is stopped
- Introduced the ability to prevent (override) the -18 dBFS trim for user selected tracks
- Added credits to the About panel
- Corrected window background color processing for Sierra
- Added number of Tidal Links to FreyPlayer Stats panel
Changes in Version 4.2
- Added UI display for albums with no cover art
- Added search string to display albums and songs with configured AU plugins
- Added cmd-/ hot key for search refresh function
- Improved locking performance on delete from play queue to avoid disruption of play for long queues.
Changes in Version 4.1.1
- Added capability to retrieve album cover art for all albums in the library
- Locking improvements (Contention Relief, Performance)
Changes in Version 4.1
- Added player control option to trim library tracks to -18 dBFS
- Removed cmd-P from pull down menus
- On import, used file path components to generate artist and album names when metadata does not exist
Changes in Version 4.0
- FreyPlayer v4.0 requires MacOS Sierra 10.12 or later
- Added Tidal Service Link to Album Info panel
- Made a change to display peak dbfs value for every track extent
- Introduced display of aggregate time duration in song detail window title
- Changed the hot key for shuffle play to *
- Added "option" modifier key to AU bypass and transient buttons to operate on multiple AUs
- Made change to ensure the Tidal service link is copied when creating a playlist from album
- Added support to initiate the player streaming engine when the user launches the Tidal service
- Added fast forward and fast reverse player controls
- Added support to create persistent AU settings for albums for streaming
- Made the album art image in the album getInfo panel and active launch key to the web
- Reduced the fade time for pause, resume, stop, etc.
- Fixed potential hang condition when deleting large number of songs from an album
- Added object targets to all menu item actions to ensure correct object is targeted
- Added track extent average dbfs (RMS) value to player status on primary UI
- Remote Control application must be upgraded to v2.0 with FreyPlayer 4.0
Changes in Version 3.2
- Fixed audio glitch when playback of a track is first initiated
- Re-established version number in the “About” panel
Changes in Version 3.1
- Added capability to launch Tidal streaming service from a URL link in an album
- Added "Artist on the Web" action to album image in album display area
- Cmd-4 now displays albums that contain Tidal service links
- Added capability to add empty albums to the search index
- Added preference for black background for library display area, and made black the default
- Added File and Edit menus... Enabled text copy, paste, dictation, etc
- Removed cmd-p from album pull down menu for CD print, to not confuse with standard print hot key
- Fixed a bug in import preference
Changes in Version 3.0
- Introduced media streaming from the MacOS Default Sound Input device !!!
- Added input and output device names to the primary UI
- Improved log messages when AU plugin chain fails to initialize because an AU plug-in does not support floating point format
- Improved error messages on invalid hot keys
- Enabled space bar hot key for play/pause
- Introduced colors for severity text field in log message
- Added the number of media buffer extents to player status
- Introduced the FreyPlayer Stats panel
- Increased lock timeout values to prevent deadlock error detection on staging big files with large buffer sizes
- Introduced checking for compatible versions of the remote control application (Note: Upgrade of the Remote Control application to v1.2 is required for use with FreyPlayer v3.0)
- Added audio unit quick-look buttons to preferences window
- Added audio unit bypass buttons to the preferences window
- Introduced cmd-return hot key to display preference settings
- Eliminated the mute delay at the end of song (when song is over and player being stopped)
- Eliminated the "d" hot key from song view and detail view
- Added proper delete key (hot key) to album displays and cleaned up hot keys on list views
- Added hot keys for Mute/Unmute and Repeat on/off
- Added web lookup for artist (album pull down)
- Added action button to display the play queue in the UI header
- Fixed a bug that causes a hang condition when a FLAC file is not found
- Made changes to allow media files with sparse ID3 metadata to be imported to the library
- Made change to record a new album import date for any new song added to an album via import
Changes in Version 2.1 - MacOS Sierra Update
- Compatibility with MacOS Sierra
- Fixes for Primary UI scrolling on Sierra
- Optimizations for Sierra
- Removed open source frameworks that were incompatible with Sierra
- Added purchase key for validation of purchase from app store
- Better alert messages for edit song properties
Changes in Version 2.0
- Added FreyPlayer iPad Remote Control support
- Changed behavior of search to not be scoped by current content in the display
- Fixed memory overlay bug in staging FLAC media files
- Changed the staging and decode of FLAC files so that only relevant file extents are decoded - performance and scale improvements
- Corrected error in burn folder processing to ensure track edits and re-ordering are burned correctly
- Fixed bug in burn folder processing for tracks with multiple extents
- Improved buffer space limit calculation
- Introduced export and import of user preferences file
- Added 4 additional AU Plug-in slots
- Introduced the “transient” AU Plug-in attribute for plug-ins that should not be persisted with the player preferences or track metadata
Changes in Version 1.3
- Added tool tips for most action buttons
- Fixed bug where album art was not committed properly on a paste
- Library locking improvements - Performance
- Fixed primary window width error when track titles are long
- Fixed out of range condition for message log display
- Corrected count of message log entries when filters are on
- Fixed potential deadlock in track staging operation
- Fixed bug in list view drag and drop after a delayed mouse event
- Fixed version number in feedback email subject
Changes in Version 1.2
- Introduced support for 30 day trial version
- Added multi selection for import of media files to library
- Added option to import media files when application is launched and library is empty
- Corrected album mouse-over behavior to ensure action buttons are displayed and enabled only when an album is displayed
- Added new playlist album mouse over button
Changes in Version 1.1
- Implemented List View and Album Display Area as a proper table views, with variable width columns, reordered columns, proper drag and drop, and multiple row selection
- Added drag and drop support for creating and adding to playlists
- Added WAV file support
- Added ability to edit song properties, to compensate for missing or errant ID3 tags
- Cleaned up web url construction, accounting for potential bad characters in titles and artist strings
- Provided option to commit reordering changes to playlist albums
- Added control for displaying playlist albums in the side bar view
- Added “mouse-over” convenience buttons on album images in the Library Display Area
- Font changes in list view and album display views
- Added “repeat” play queue mode for the player
- Added “repeat” and “mute” indicators in the player status area of the primary UI
- Bit length added to track get info panel
- Scroll to playing track (List view) when view is first displayed
- Play the imported song on file open, even when only song file location is updated
- Registered music file types so that finder will list the the FreyPlayer app as an option for music file open
- Fixed bug in display album processing
- Provided Hot keys for creating new playlists
- Multiple row selection for list view hot keys
- Better alert messaging when a plug in fails to load
- Better overall alert messages
- Added album art to track detail list view rows
- Removed the separate search results window, consolidated into detail table view
- Changed cmd-4 hot key in menu to display the message log
- Highlighted search string words in search list view
- Added a Suppress Confirmation Alerts user preference
- Added Delete hot key for song delete in album display view
- Changed message log status indicator, and integrated on message log window
- Added FreyPlayer hash tags to Mac console log messages
- Added ability to launch Mac system console log from message log
- Added state indicators to color choice menu items
- Added FreyPlayer version number to the entries written to console log
- Made sure track numbers were adjusted for album conversion to a playlist
- Removed distinct edit track tag data function, since we now have edit properties
- Fixed problem where reordered playlists were not being displayed properly in list view after drag and drop
- Made sure to update playlist cache on convert to and from playlist/album
- Fixed bug causing search results to go away when list view window is closed
Version 1.0
- First Release
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Change History - FreyPlayer Remote Control
Changes in Version 2.1
- Minor stability and performance improvements
Changes in Version 2.0
- Updated to generation 3 for changes in SE related to average dbfs
Changes in Version 1.2
- Added Media Source control for the FreyPlayer streaming support
- Added version compatibility checking to ensure the level of remote control function is compatible with the version of the target FreyPlayer application
- FreyPlayer Remote Control version 1.2 is a required upgrade for use with FreyPlayer v3.0 and later
Changes in Version 1.1
- Activated return key on last segment of IP address on connection panel
- Closed connection window before during establishing connection, to avoid sending alert to a window that is closing
- Forced table view reloadData to complete before scrolling to ensure scrolling to current content
Version 1.0
- First Release
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Report a problem
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