Software update: AIMP 3.60 build 1465

After about four months of development, the final release of version 3.60 of the media player AIMP has now appeared. This free Russian-made lightweight media player has support for the most popular music formats. The appearance resembles the well-known Winamp and can be adjusted by means of skins. AIMP has an 18-channel equalizer on board and supports plug-ins. Furthermore, the program can rip CDs, convert music files and edit tags. The most important improvements that have been made since version 3.55 are listed below for you:

Common:

• New API for plugins
• DEP and ASLR support have been added

Sound Engine:

• Replay Gain’s “on-fly” calculation algorithm has been improved

Sound Effects:

• Normalization settings have been extended
• Normalization settings have been moved to separate tab
• Replay Gain – added an ability to set default value for normalization
• Replay Gain – added an ability to set preamp value for normalization factor

Integration to OS:

• The “Add to Queue” command has been added to the context menu of Windows Explorer

Album Arts:

• An ability to download album art from internet automatically (plugin for Last.fm service is used to do it for now)
• An ability to define album art for internet radio stations
• An ability to customize search options

playlist:

• The “adding files” process is now working in separate thread
• Shuffle mode – all indexes are now stored in the playlist file
• Shuffle algorithm has been improved – uniform playback of files from different groups, avoiding sequential playback of two consecutive files
• The number of file access has been reduced during loading a playlist / add files process

skin engine:

• Memory consumption during skin loading has been reduced
• Memory consumption for skin has been reduced twice

Audio Converter:

• The “Jump to target folder” button has been added

Tag Editor:

• An ability to switch off grouping in the file list
• Added an ability to drop files / images from internet browsers / URLs to the album art display
• AIFF file format support
• An ability to transliterate / change case for group of files

Templates:

• Macros for date modified / time modified or file were added

controls:

• Support or navigation via keyboard

Plugins:

• Common – added an ability to filter plugins by status
• Common – all plugins are now stored in a subfolders
• Common – support of Input plugins from Winamp has been removed because this type of plugins does not support multi threading
• Visualizations – limit on the screen resolution has been removed for new type plugins
• Infobar – the “show always” option has been added
• Infobar – added an ability to select target screen
• Last.fm – plugin now works with last.fm service directly – you no longer required installed last.fm client
• Last.fm – added an ability to love / unlove tracks
• Last.fm – added an ability to send the AlbumArtist field value instead of the Artist (optional)
• Last.fm – an ability to show window with information about playable file
• Last.fm – offline cache for100 records has been added
• SACD – plugin for an ability to decode hi-res audio in the DSDIFF / DSF formats