For those on versions prior to 12.0….

Version 12.0 contains a critical update for Sonoma!

Apple has done it again, introducing downward incompatible changes to the Sonoma operating system. The user interface of FreyPlayer prior to version 12.0 is broken on Sonoma. Please download and install this critical 12.0 (or Later) update.

 

Versions prior to 11.1 – Apologies for introducing a bug that causes all album and song specific Audio Unit settings to be discarded. This is fixed in version 11.1.

I sincerely hope those needing to reestablish album and song specific Audio Unit settings will not face a significant burden.

Jeff

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Change History – FreyPlayer

Changes in Version 14.4

  • Introduced ability to Uninstall FreyPlayer

Changes in Version 14.3

  • Minor Bug Fixes

Changes in Version 14.2

  • Enhanced Support for Library Validation Functions

Changes in Version 14.1

  • Introduced the Tidal Artist Controller
  • Added ability to install FreyPlayer without going to the web

Changes in Version 13.0

  • Introduced the ability to install the HOFA Fader Plug-In
  • Upgraded the FLAC processor to current levels

Changes in Version 12.3

  • More Integration with the FreyPlayer Remote Control app

Changes in Version 12.3

  • Duration Times in UI Headers

Changes in Version 12.2

  • Service Rollup

Changes in Version 12.0

  • Update to keep current with UI changes in Sonoma

Changes in Version 11.1

  • Introduced function to reorder Audio Units and preserve player, album, and song settings
  • Fixed a bug causing AU settings to be lost for albums and songs

Changes in Version 11.0

  • Re-Introduced support for the FreyPlayer Remote Control application
  • Introduced support for e-mailing log files
  • Improvements in error logging and alert messages
  • Introduced email for Feedback

Changes in Version 10.1

  • Introduced the “Next Up” notification
  • Introduced number of plays for each song in the library
  • Fixed a bug preventing the right colors to be displayed in OSX Dark Mode
  • Changed URL session processing to ignore caches
  • Rollup of all previous fixes

Changes in Version 9.5

  • Small bug fixes

Changes in Version 9.4

  • Replaced deprecated APIs

Changes in Version 9.2

  • Fixed bug related to caching album art

Changes in Version 9.2

  • Fixed bug related to terminating streaming browser

Changes in Version 9.1

  • Fixed bug in LUFS calculation for audio files larger than 2GB
  • Removed buffer size option of 8GB

Changes in Version 9.0

  • Updated deprecated APIs and made both Intel and M1 version require Monterey
  • Removed dependency on Google browser

Changes in Version 8.1

  • Introduced Minor bug fixes and performance Enhancements

Changes in Version 7.6

  • Added scrubber function to automatically create normalization values

Changes in Version 7.5

  • Introduced option to Mute and Unmute tracks

Changes in Version 7.4

  • Added Dither option to the Create Burn Folder function
  • Fixed folding mono stream to stereo stream
  • Changed the Trim Function (normalization) to calculate on entire song rather than SE
  • Changed “trim” to “Normalize” in menus

Changes in Version 7.3

  • Added Validate Library function
  • Added validate media files function
  • Fixed bug related to clearing the display header for Stop operation

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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