Software Update: AIMP 4.60.2144

After a long development period, the final release of version 4.60 of AIMP 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. Since the third beta release, the following changes and improvements have been made:

AIMP v4.60, build 2144

• General: 3rd party libraries were updated
• minor issues were fixed

AIMP v4.60 RC 2, build 2142

• Album arts: cache manager now takes disk number into account
• Sound engine: the “pre-load next track” option has been added
• Fixed: general – few minor issues related to the “night mode” feature
• Fixed: skin engine – duplicates of the “playlist” and “music library” menu items are displayed in window’s context menu in certain skins
• Fixed: tag editor – unable to store values ​​longer than 260 characters to some tag fields
• Fixed: tag editor – non-square album arts displays cropped

AIMP v4.60 RC 1, build 2137

• General: glyphs for secondary windows has been updated
• General: an ability to switch on/off night mode manually
• Skin engine: an ability to specify custom hotkey to toggle visibility of secondary windows
• Playlist: support for IPTV extensions for M3U/M3U8 playlists formats
• Plugins: InputFFmpeg plugin has been replaced by BASSWebM
• Fixed: general – few minor issues related to the “night mode” feature
• Fixed: internet radio – tracks meta or HTTP Live streams updates incorrectly
• Fixed: plugins – last.fm – some links has not been localized in the “Information about the file” dialog

AIMP v4.60 Beta 6, build 2133

• General: support of dark mode introduced in Windows 10
• General: icons library for file types – special iconset for the M3U and CUE file formats has been added
• Plugins: AlbumArt Visualization – fill mode was changed to the “TV like” – album art is no longer cropped
• Fixed: skin engine – TASETextDisplay – text incorrectly center by vertically in some cases
• Fixed: skin engine – original sizes of hidden background elements sometimes restores incorrectly on applying the skin
• Fixed: lyrics – unsupported tags of Enhanced LRC file format are no longer shown
• Fixed: tags – MP3 – parameters of variable bitrate stream determines incorrectly in some cases (regression)
• minor issues were fixed

AIMP v4.60 Beta 5, build 2129

• Common: localizations have been updated
• Common: saving settings and playlists is now safe to unexpected OS shutdown
• Player: internet radio – support for JSON-based metadata
• Music Library: creating a smart-playlist via command in context menu of grouping tree now automatically creates a sorting template based on sorting that uses in music library
• Fixed: sound effects – an error occurs on attempt to show hint for volume slider
• Fixed: tag editor – Vorbis Comments – loses the information about library version that has been used to create a file
• Fixed: skin engine – font color changes during content scrolling in some cases
• Fixed: skin engine – TASELayoutItem – the AutoHide feature does not work for items whose property Align is set to alClient
• Fixed: skin engine – TASELayoutScrollView always handles the mouse wheel action even if nothing to scroll
• Fixed: skin engine – TASEScrollBarXXX – value of the AllowFading property does not take into account
• Fixed: skin engine – TASETextDisplayEx – auto size works incorrectly if the alignment property is set value different from taLeftJustify
• Fixed: skin engine – TASETextDisplayEx – HitTestByText property works incorrectly if the AlignmentVertical property is set value different from taAlignTop
• Fixed: music library – incorrect order of hieroglyphs in alphabetic index
• Fixed: music library – issues related to view settings restoring after switching between different data sources
• Fixed: plugins – last.fm – plugin leads to hang up the application in some cases when display information about the song
• minor issues were fixed

AIMP v4.60 Beta 4, build 2124

• Skin engine: TASESliderVertical / TASESliderHorizontal – support for custom localizations for the TextLabels
• Skin engine: TASETextDisplay / TASETextDisplayEx / TASEButton – text alignment and auto-size options have been added
• Plugins: the AlbumArt visualization now can be unloaded
• Plugins: API for audio decoders has been extended
• Fixed: general – the %FileCreatedDate / %FileCreatedTime / %FileModifiedDate / %FileModifiedTime macros does not work for virtual files
• Fixed: lyrics – the %FileName% macro does not work (regression)
• Fixed: plugins – FFmpeg based plugin crashes on attempt to play the file (regression)
• Fixed: plugins – Lastfm – an error occurs on track start if the track information dialog and similar artists panel are visible
• minor issues were fixed