Software Update: AIMP 4.50 Build 2023 Beta 2

The second beta release of AIMP version 4.50 has been released. This free, lightweight Russian-made media player supports 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 plugins. Furthermore, the program can rip CDs, convert music files and edit tags. The complete list of changes and improvements made so far in version 4.59 is as follows:

AIMP v4.50 Beta 2, Build 2023

New:

• Support for ATRAC3 file format
• Skin Engine: the “gray scale” blending mode has been added
• Skin Engine: an ability to specify custom scale factor for skinned windows
• Default Skin: support for 125% scale factor

Fixed:

• Common – some UI elements displays incompletely on systems with non-standard scale factor
• player – values ​​of new tag fields does not stored to CUE
• Player – the MKA files cannot be played if it contains audio stream in FLAC format
• Player – playback position calculates incorrectly for some files in the MKA file format
• Player – some files in AAC file format cannot be played now (regression)
• Skin-Engine – an error occurs when applying custom skin if scale factor is differs from 100%
• Skin Engine – wave for the waveform-navigator calculates incorrectly (regression)
• Skin Engine – window loses focus after restoring from minimized state
• Skin Engine – Blending Modes that differs from Normal works incorrectly with semi-transparent textures
• Lyrics – an error occurs on trying to open lyrics in LRC file format if it contains only one time stamp.
• Lyrics – the SRT file format parser does not take empty lines into account that defined as text
• Installer – the “no profiles” exception occurred when trying to install update If installed version has never been started before
• Small bugs and defects were fixed

AIMP v4.50 Beta, build 2020

Common:

• Support for 4K monitors
• Support for monitors with different DPI

player:

• Decoders for the WebM and Matroska Audio formats have been added
• The “jump 5 sec back on start if playback is paused for more than 15 seconds” option has been added
• The “restore playback position for each playlist” option has been added
• The “jump to next track on deleting playing file from playlist” option has been added
• Support for lyrics in the .LRC and .SRT file formats (skin must support lyrics too)

playlist:

• Smart-playlists based on playlists – support for “monitor for changes while running”
• Advanced Search – an ability to show the File Information dialog from search window
• Advanced Search – the “Find in Music Library” command has been added to dialog’s context menu

skin engine:

• Support for scaling
• Potential abilities have been extended

Audio Converter:

• An ability to close the app automatically after conversion
• The statistics are now shown after conversion (optional)

Tag Editor:

• The Lyricist, Mood, Conductor, Catalog, Compilation, ISRC, Rating and Encoder tag fields have been added
• An ability to download lyrics from the Internet (additional plugins are required)

Music Library:

• New DB engine that improved performance by 10 times
• The Lyricist, Mood, Conductor and Comment columns have been added
• An ability to quick access to the “reset column filter” commands via context menu or filter button
• An ability to reset stats for selected files only
• An ability to size group details area in default skin
• Column customization menu no longer closes after the click

Plugins:

• API – Lyrics API have been added
• Information Bar – support for the “quiet hours” mode that has been introduced in Windows 10