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XMPlay 2.0 - 1/11/2001

• New GUI
• Info Window
• MP1/2/3 playback
• Ogg Vorbis playback
• Updated MO3 support
• Per-track saved settings
• Clipboard monitoring for URLs
• Equalizer presets
• UMX playback
• Lots of other changes...

XMPlay 2.1 - 22/12/2001

• Winamp input plugin support
• Playlist panel duplicated in the info window
• HTML webpage scanning
• URL drag'n'dropping into XMPlay
• Drag'n'dropping files/URLs from XMPlay to other apps
• Write separate tracks to disk (shoutcast streams)
• "Dynamic" auto-amp mode
• "Auto loop" mode applies to all formats now (not only MODs)
• 96khz MOD playback rate
• BPM/speed display for MOD formats
• Stereo sample support in MO3/IT/XM/S3M formats
• Current track displayed in taskbar
• Open file/URL dialogs combined
• Desktop shortcut option
• "Remove duplicate titles" option
• "Remove dead" also removes non-existent local files not marked as "dead"
• Random track shortcut

XMPlay 2.2 - 13/1/2002

• Playlist searching & unmatched skipping
• OGG modules updated to RC3
• Detection of VBlank MODs
• EQ/reverb/restart shortcuts
• Current/total tracks display in playlist (info window)
• Plugin file info menu option in playlist
• Follow the current track marker in playlist panel
• Adlib S3M files are ignored (so plugins can play them)
• Error dialog explaining failed HTTP/FTP connections
• Warning dialog for unsupported Winamp plugins

XMPlay 2.3 - 28/2/2002

• MPEG & OGG pre-load/scanning removed
• Seeking in internet streamed files
• MOD pattern display visualisation
• CODEC WAV writer removed and...
• ...replaced by customisable external encoder settings
• Auto-filename option for WAV/encoder writing
• PLS/M3U playlist streaming
• Active MOD channel count
• "Random play order" option
• Minimize to tray
• Info window scroll shortcuts
• Auto-kill virtual channels if CPU load reaches 75%
• Comments in XM files supported
• Localised font support

XMPlay 2.4 - 14/7/2002

• Skins
• Built-in WAV support (including streaming)
• Built-in WMA support (including streaming)
• OGG support built-in (OGG/VORBIS DLLs not required)
• ASX "playlist" support
• Spectrum visualisations
• Amplification & auto-amp apply to plugins now too
• Calculation of missing track lengths
• Support for Modplug/ADPCM compressed files
• "Remove & delete file" option
• "Add directory" option
• Output directory selector (for auto-filename)
• Copy info window text to the clipboard option
• MO3 sample compression ratio in "General" info window
• Basic sample details in "Samples" info window
• Filename help bubbles in info window playlist
• Slider levels shown in help bubbles
• "Restart" option in tray menu
• "Random play order" indicator
• Track count display in playlist panel
• "Stop" when already stopped unloads current track
• "Unload final track" option
• Shortcut to find track starting with x
• Winamp plugin track info shortcut changed (due to above)
• Minimize shortcut
• Option to reset amplification on new tracks
• Option to remove tracks not matching search criteria
• Extension association removal
• Command-line support
• "Add to XMPlay-list" shell option
• Info window texts retrievable via DDE (topics=info0-2)
• Visual plugin button-click support

XMPlay 2.4a - 24/7/2002

• OGG support updated to 1.0
• Help bubbles for volume/amplification/EQ/reverb shortcut adjustments
• Vibrato effects shown in MOD pattern display
• Shortcut to stop
• Shortcut to "Get missing times"
• Shortcut to view skin "readme" text
• Shortcut to reload current skin

XMPlay 2.5 - 18/11/2002

• Multi-song MOD support
• Support for DMO effects in IT/XM/MO3 files
• Support for chained OGG streaming
• Support for extended filter range in IT files
• Support for "Invert Loop" (EFx) MOD effect
• Global hotkeys
• Open URLs from info window texts
• Centered MOD pattern scrolling mode
• Faster WAV writing
• Improved external encoder STDIN support
• Playlist moved from registry to XMPLAY.PLS file
• Per-track settings moved from registry to XMPLAY.SET file
• Icecast2 tags shown in info window
• Support for track titles in WMA streams
• ID3 tags shown in info window for plugin-played files too
• EQs bands changed (now evenly spaced 2 octaves apart)
• "Flat" EQ preset
• XMPlay Support site link in misc panel
• "Auto-advance" option (loop list switch sub-menu)
• "Play listed tracks" option (list button sub-menu)
• "Sort by extension" option (random switch sub-menu)
• "-tray" command-line option to launch in tray
• "-play" command-line option to start playback on launch
• Support for multiple files and/or directories in command-line
• Shortcut to "Add directory" (shift+Insert)
• MP3pro files are passed onto the MP3pro plugin (if installed)
• A few skin-related improvements (see skinning kit)

XMPlay 2.6 - 16/1/2003

• 32/24-bit OGG/MPEG/MOD playback
• Track queuing
• Multi-track selection (move/delete/queue/skip multiple tracks)
• Customisable track title format
• Help bubble for long track titles
• Title changes are displayed when minimized to tray
• Global hotkeys for stop/seeking/volume
• Support for "win" key in global hotkeys
• Multi-song MOD WAV writing support
• 24-bit WAV writing
• 32-bit WAV writing format changed to "type 3" standard
• Output format shown in "General" info window
• Partial unicode support in OGG tags
• Settings moved to HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry branch
• A couple more skin-related improvements (see skinning kit)

XMPlay 2.7 - 17/5/2003

• 8 point windowed sinc interpolation (3DNow! optimized)
• Non-interpolated mixing option
• Support for 32/24-bit WAV files
• Support for 32/24-bit Winamp input plugins
• More responsive auto-amp reduction
• Amp slider scale is now the same for all formats
• "Dither" and "Noise shaping" options
• MOD pattern display horizontal scrolling
• MOD channel muting
• Automatic scanning for track lengths
• Resume playback at startup from where it left off (right-click close)
• Checking for "dead" tracks at startup
• Visualisation resizing without stretching
• Logarithmic freq in spectrum displays (16khz range)
• Info window can be opened while minimized to tray...
• ..."Info window" global hotkey and tray menu option
• Open/add files from the tray menu
• Option to display filenames in info window playlist
• "Stop at end of queue" option
• Looped WAV writing (always "only once")
• Track number added to title formatting options
• Invert selection shortcut (I)
• Selection of multiple blocks of tracks (using ctrl+shift+click)
• Shortcut to rescan track titles (F9)
• Numerical sorting (eg. "2" comes before "10")
• "Sort by filename" now includes the path
• WinXP time display problem fixed
• A few more skin-related improvements (see skinning kit)

XMPlay 2.8 - 28/7/2003

• Device/Integration/Miscellaneous/Plugins panels removed, and...
• ...replaced by a single integrated "Options and stuff" window
• Enhanced search option (matches listed as you type)
• DSP volume & balance option
• Mono tracks are played in stereo if output is set to stereo
• Support for high-pass filter and forward/reverse (S9E/F) IT/MPT effects
• "Always in tray" option
• "Restrict rendering" vis option
• "Stop at dead track" option
• "Clear queue" option
• File selector "Folder history"
• External encoder "resolution" setting
• Amplification display unit changed to "dB"
• Maximum buffer length increased to 2.5 seconds
• Faster skin loading
• Skinning changes (see skinning kit)