Software update: AIMP 5.00 build 2313 beta

The first beta release of version 5.0 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

General:

• New design
• Performance has been increased
• Album arts – added the “find in file tags” option
• Lyrics – added the “find in file tags” option

bookmarks:

• Has been moved to music library
• An ability to filter / group bookmarks by name, creation date, source, duration, file size
• An ability to ignore bookmark position on start the playback
• Support for custom labels and comments
• Support for multiple bookmark editing
• The “Find in source” command has been added

sound engine:

• Equalizer now contains 19 bands – the 20 kHz band has been added

playlist:

• Added an ability to sort the playlist automatically after adding new files / updating metadata
• Added the “Each playlist has its own playback mode (normal / shuffle)” option
• The “find missed files” function has been added

Smart playlists:

• General – additional conditions for date-time fields
• Music library – an ability to pre-sort content using few columns

skin engine:

• Potential abilities has been extended
• Improved performance

Audio converter:

• New design
• Sound notification on end of conversion has been added (optional)
• The “target file name” column has been added
• The “file folder” command has been added
• Added support for WMA Pro codec
• An ability to normalize volume level during conversion process

tag editor:

• New design
• New tool – chapters creator
• Added an ability to view values ​​from unsupported tag fields / remove it
• UI – tag fields now are auto-adjusts their width according to available space automatically

music library:

• The “Find in music library” command now supports plugin-based data sources

Plugins:

• Scheduler – support for unlimited number of tasks
• Scheduler – an ability to repeat task every day / week / month / year
• Scheduler – an ability to repeat task throughout day
• Scheduler – new action: jump to next track
• Scheduler – new action: start / stop radio recording
• Scheduler – new action: suspend the playback
• Scheduler – new action: resume the playback
• Scheduler – new action: return to previous state after playing specified number of tracks / playlist
• Scheduler – an ability to wait to playing file to finish
• Last.fm – has been replaced by the Scrobbler plugin
• MyClouds – support for changes in API or pClouds.com service
• Scrobbler – an ability to display information about artist
• Scrobbler – integration to default skin
• Scrobbler – support for libre.fm and listenbrainz.org services