Software update: AIMP 3.50 build 1270 rc 2

The second release candidate of version 3.50 of media player AIMP has appeared. This free Russian-made lightweight media player has support for the most popular music formats. The appearance is somewhat like Winamp and can be adjusted by means of skins. AIMP has an 18-channel equalizer on board and supports plugins. Furthermore, the program can rip CDs, convert music files and edit tags.

In version 3.50, performance has been improved, among other things. The control panel has also changed, which also means that version 2.x configuration files are no longer supported. Furthermore, the options for customizing the program’s appearance have changed. A separate skin editor can here are being found. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Changes:

• Player: Hot key for “Switch On/Off Equalizer” command
• Player: New mechanism of file association – now we use solution recommended by Microsoft
• Player: Position of the “Advanced Search” window now stored to config
• Audio Library: New algorithm of rating calculation – rating is now depends from time

Fixed:

• Sound Engine – Noise can be heard when playing file with high sampling rate
• Player – The “suspend global hot keys” option does not work
• Player – Bookmarks cannot be saved in some cases
• Player – Queue manager does not save file order after closing the player
• Tag Editor – Genre from list of predefined genres does not save correctly to M4A format
• Skin Engine – there is no check for corruption of skin package
• Skin Engine – An error occurs in some cases when trying to load skin that contains embedded fonts
• Skin Engine – Value of the ClipChildren property is ignores when calculating HitTest
• Skin Engine – position of equivalent containers with limited sizes calculates incorrectly
• Audio Library – Focused file disappears from visible area after sorting
• Small bugs and defects