CL-Amp's history 

History

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Read the Download section at the CL-Amp homepage

• A serious bug which caused cross fade to crash (very seldom, but anyway) has been corrected!
• Support for Effect/DSP plugins and General Purpose plugins
• Ir remote control support via my new program: BeInControl
• 5 small effect plugins added to show how it works... (source code in the DevKit)
• (Echo, Extra Stereo, Mono, Left Right Swap and Voice Remover)
• Scripting support has been added, allowing frontends to browse the playlist
• Yet 2 more small skin glitches have been corrected
• Selecting files in the playlist is slightly improved again
• Pausing a song made nearly a second of audio disappear. Fixed now...
• Better plugin shutdown sequence so open plugin windows doesn't crash CL-Amp when CL-Amp is being closed!
• Saving all settings files in its own folder in the settings folder! End of that mess! :-)
• The plugin hook functions now get a pointer to a struct instead of one lonely int value. CL-Amp's settings path can be found in that struct!
• Old already compiled plugins will anyhow work. The solution is back compatible!
• Scot Hacker, Marco Nelissen and I have agreed to change the play list mime type to text/x-playlist instead of the old text/x-cl-amp-playlist and text/x-soundplay-playlist. It makes RipEnc, CL-Amp and SoundPlay work better together! Therefor there is also some changes made regarding the mime handling and I hope that will not cause any problems!
• A new option is added under sub menu Application: Convert bad mime types to correct ones.
• New for BeOS R5 users: Mouse wheel will in main window control the volume and in the playlist scroll the text!
• Registering file type icons correctly under BeOS 5 now... (When you select: Make CL-Amp your preferred application)
• Redrawing the playlist is perhaps somewhat faster now? (I had forgot to change DrawBitmap to DrawBitmapAsync in there)
• The function GetSongInfo() should be useable in Visual plugins now
• The Amp plugin is removed to decrease the size of the archive. It has to be downloaded separetly from the the utility page if anyone whish to use it!

• The graph is back again thanks to info from Jonathan Belson and Paul Bourke.
• Both the old code and WinAmp itself makes one mistake. How to see it?: Everything should be zeroed and then adjust the 1k slider (as an example) to the top level. Of some strange reason some part of the curve now goes BELOW zero and that can't be right! Increasing one band should not cause others to be lowered! The new code make no such mistake... ;-)

The peak for some bands were some pixels wrong sideway before

The graph is removed from the Eq but otherwise it works as before...

A bug which made it impossible to turn of cross fading is corrected

Midi plugin bug "Starting at last JumpTo pos" is fixed!

URL input box is not resizeble any more...

Marking songs in playlist works as in WinAmp now (Control and Shift)

After sorting, the list will center around the last marked song

Eq shade bug fixed (it was 0-100% instead of 50-200%)

PS: Test the new screen saver which can be found at the bottom of the utility page

Equalizer window is added. Note however: it will only work with the Mpg123 plugin!, so move that one to the top and/or deactivate the Amp plugin!

The windows should snap better to the screen and to each other now (it was not snaping to the bottom of the screen before and more such small things...)

A new option added: Send shaded window to behind when right clicking the title bar (it's ON default but it can be nice to turn it off...)

The menu is poping up whatever window is right clicked in (main, eq or playlist).

A Reset button is added to the Fade preferences.

The delete and insert key is now working in the Playlist window...

The Tracker Add-ons has been renamed, so they shall appear near each other in the menu

CL-Amp now handles incomplete skins... When something is missed it will be replaced with parts from the WinAmp skin in the same way WinAmp does.

Zipped skins are now supported. Just put a zipped skin archive in your Skins folder and CL-Amp should be able to use that skin!

WinAmp's own skin installation files (ext: .wsz and mime type: interface/x-winamp-skin) is now supported. Unlike WinAmp its okay for CL-Amp if they are put directly into the Skins folder... In there they will work as a normal skin. If they are somewhere else and dropped on CL-Amp they will be installed in the Skins folder and automatically become the currently used skin.

If CL-Amp is made prefered app and the mime type is correct on the .wsz file, it should be possible to double click the .wsz file where after CL-Amp should then be launched (if not already running), the skin copied to the Skins folder and then selected as the current skin!
Even better is perhaps clicking on a .wsz link in N+ which should start up CL-Amp with that new skin (and install the skin in your Skin folder)...

The terrible main menu has been cleaned up now! It should been done ages ago but I have been to lazy... I hope this new menu makes better sense!

Thanks to Jens Johansson several skin bugs have been corrected in the playlist.

A new option has been added: Allow launching multiple CL-Amps

Another new option is: Always just add files to the playlist

And btw... 2 new subpages are added to this page: CL-Amp plugins and CL-Amp skins

• Visual plugin support (I have no dev docs ready, but perhaps I can do that in Australia (I will have my Laptop with me = Windows, uhh))
• A simple VU-Meter plugin is included to serve as an example.
• Trent Trautman has also made a simple but anyway nice VU-Meter plugin.
• 2 Tracker AddOns are included which simply can be installed. READ the document in the CL-Amp folder!! They will make it possible to left click on a file or folder and select "Add-Ons -> Play this with CL-Amp" or "Add-Ons -> Add this to CL-Amp's playlist"
• Trent Trautman sent me this! Thanks for this and much more, Trent!
• A nasty bug which created new threads every time the Add new file option was used...
• A resizing problem with the Plugin window is fixed
• Have you terminal guys tested Mikael Jansson's 2 fine front-ends? (Get them here: clr and CLStat)
• Hint: Use Spicy keys to assign clr commands to certain keys. E.g. "ALT-n" could be assigned to "clr next fade" which make CL-Amp fading to the next song... Even volume can be controlled this way!

• Fixed the main window refresh bug when switching Workspaces
• Fixed a bug which made Mpg123 not starting from position 0% when such a repositioning was requested
• Left and right arrow buttons in play list are now fast forwards and backwards as in the main window

• Wave output plugin! It's quite flexible and recording the fading is possible: I think it's very cool to burn a CD with 0 time (CD Manager) between the tracks and having the cross fading on that CD! Read more about it in the Plugin section!
• CL-Amp remembers the playlist when it's started. (The time and other info is also remembered and don't has to be reread again!! Plus in shuffle mode it also remembers which songs has been played and in which order! :-) Perfect for a large playlist and Shuffle and Repeat mode activated!
• The Plugin and Skin window is not Modal any more! (you can work with CL-Amp while they are open). Fade window will follow soon...
• The "bug" with the Skin selector and Focus Follows Mouse should be gone now
• A minor error in the skin handling has been corrected. I streched the titlebar 1 pixel... oops... (Thanks Jens Johansson)
• Input plugins can be deactivated. Could be good for some testing...
• When CL-Amp is minimized or on another workspace the analyzer is stopped which will save some CPU time... (Thanks Wade Majors)
• John Robinson has exterminated a memory leak bug in his fine MikMod Input Plugin! (Thanks John!)

New DevKit available. Output plugin and FrontEnd headers added. Input Plugin headers improved a little.
Look at the download section!

• CL-Amp can read ShoutCast playlists now (they are called PLS playlists in WinAmp)
• The memset crash that occoured sometimes in the Mpg123 plugin is found (Thanks to Thomas Neumann). I have written a letter to Michael Hipp (creator of Mpg123) about it so hopefully it will be fixed in the new version of Mpg123! I have made a work around that hopefully will make not crash at least!
• A new plugin is added. It's a sinus wave tone generator... It's used by adding URL's like tone://440 to get a 440Hz tone or like guitar://2 to get the tone for the second string on a guitar. (One of my beta testers is now using CL-Amp to tune his guitar. :-)
• CTRL-COMMAND-L is now causing the AddURL requester to pop up!
• That requester is, by the way, now also remembering the last URL that has been written!
• MiniDisc users has asked for an option to get a 3 seconds delay in between songs. It can be found in the menu now....
• Visualization on, is now in the menu also. It's easier to see if it's on or off now... :-)

• CL-Amp can read relative playlists now and can also read playlists from MS Windows, like WinAmp's m3u files (but they have to be relative, since C:, D: and so on... doesn't mean anything in BeOS ;-)
• Previous song button works in Shuffle mode now!
• Previous song can also be cross faded to now if you hold down the Shift key while you click on the Previous button! (Shift-Z on the keyboard)
• You can also hold down the Shift key when you turn off CL-Amp and when you drag a file (or folder) to the main window!
• The clutter bar (the menu thing to the left of the time display) is working now.
• The position bar in shade mode is working now!! Even here its possible to use the shift key to fine adjust the position!
• The about 'button' in the main window does work now.
• CL-Amp crashed when the id3 tag was changed on the currently playing song. This is fixed now.
• CL-Amp crashed some times when cross fading or when you jumped around in songs. It seems okay now.
• Be changed a priority which made CL-Amp much more sensitive under R4.5! This is fixed now...
• Shoutcast support for playing ordinary mp3 files on normal sites is better now.
• The title of a Shoutcast server is shown in the playlist when you successully played from the server once! It's much easier to find the favorite server in a list now!
• The font and background color in the playlist is taken from the skin now. However, the old font bitmaps is not used, yet...
• The plugin window now has a up and a down button. Plugins can be rearranged to get CL-Amp to use a specific plugin before another one.
• (The alternative mp3 player plugin based on the Amp decoder is now moved in to the 'Plugins' folder. Select which one to use by moving it to the top of the list!)
• Playing from NFS mounted partitions shall work now!
• Thomas Neumann has updated his .mod/.mtm plugin.
• Id3 tags couldn't be changed in files with a colon somewhere in the path. This is fixed now.

• A nasty bug making some mono songs loop forever in the last 2 seconds of the song is corrected!
• Spectrum analyzer should work a little better now.
• Id3 tag info can be requested from the main window now (press I or E)
• Some mp3 songs can't be played with the mpg123 plugin so I have made an alternative plugin of the old Amp engine! Please, read the readme file in the archive...
• A "divide with zero" bug when playing files less than 1 second long is fixed.
• The new menu choice "Always show filenames" makes it possible to get rid of the titles produces from id3tags.

• CL-Amp now supports fading! BUT, be aware that the MediaKit in BeOS R4 is quite sensitive so there can be a little hack when cross fading is started (depends on your computer, with 2 processors there is no problem...). Fat partitions seems worse to play from than BeOS partitions! Beta testers should be aware that there is a bug in Genki/6 that makes the MediaKit HYPER-sensitive but it will be fixed in Genki/7 in which CL-Amp shall sound perfectly! SO, bottom line is: Next BeOS release will take care of the hack problem!
• Its now possible to fade out the current song if you hold down the Shift key while you click on the Stop button! (Shift-V on the keyboard)
• Shift-Play makes the song fade in if no song is already being played. (Shift-X on the keyboard)
• Even cooler is the cross fading that occur when you  hold down the Shift key while you click on the Next button! (Shift-B on the keyboard)
• Its also possible to (cross)fade in a song by holding down Shift and double click on a song in the play list! (Shift-ENTER on the keyboard)
• Automatic cross fading can be turned on from the menu, of course... (It then fades between the songs by itself)
• A preference window letting you adjust the fade parameters has been added (look in the menu or press ALT-F)
• Thanks to John Robinson we now have a MikMod plugin which let us play almost ALL module files... Please read about it in the Plugins section!
• Pieter Panman has added a nice Id3 tag window to the mp3 plugin letting us edit the tag by simply selecting one in the playlist and press the I or E button!
• The playlist is now showing a title formed from the id3 tag instead of the filename if an id3 tag is available!
• Thomas Neumann has finished his .mod/.mtm plugin and its not needing any external library anymore!
• The BeAudio plugin (wav, aiff ...) should be okay now
• The small arrows under the position bar in the play list window is working now and they are added to the default skin as well.
• Auto scrolling title display can be turned of now and the text can be dragged manually.
• The skins path (the folder where you keep your skins) can now be set to whatever folder (= WinAmp and CL-Amp can use the same Skins folder!)
• The skins are always reread when the Skins selector is opened! You don't have to restart CL-Amp anymore when you add a new skin!
• When you drag around the position slider the time is also changing.
• Fine adjusting the sliders (hold down Shift) is bug fixed plus its now showing tens of percent (e.g. 10.3%)
• The ShoutCast buffer information bar is bug fixed and should work better now

• A bug which made mono songs playing badly is corrected.
• ENTER start the currently selected song if pressed in the PlayList.

• Plugin support!! Look in the menu for the choice Plugins. A window will pop up showing you the loaded plugins!
• FASTER mp3 decoder! CL-Amp uses Mpg123 now, PLUS the fact that CL-Amp is much more optimized now!
• FASTER spectrum analyzer! Lots of optimizing has been done here also!!
• Thanks Trent Trautman, for your invaluable help in speeding things up...
• Plugins available for mp3, midi, mod, aiff and wav! Read about the plugins below!
• The Mod plugin and the Wav-AIff plugin must be moved from a folder to get to work!! Read the Plugins section below!
• Thanks goes to Thomas Neumann, Brendan Allen and Trent Trautman for their plugins!! And again: Read the Plugins section!! ;-)
• Playlists from APlayer, MidiWorld! and SoundPlay are supported...
• CL-Amp's own playlists now gets a proper mime type when they are saved...
• Proxy preferences are moved! Open the Plugins window, select the mp3 player and press the Prefs button.
• Shoutcast buffer size and prebuffering limit can be adjusted at the same place...
• The sliders (frequency, volume and position) can be fine adjusted by holding down the SHIFT key!!
• The sliders can now be adjusted by clicking somewhere in the area and the knob will jump to that position...
• The length information in the playlist window is now updated while CL-Amp is playing
• Its possible to drag files around in the play list! Shift-click to mark several files...
• The volume control is more linear now...
• Smooth falloff can be selected for the analyzer
• 'Visible on all workspaces' can be selected from the menu
• CL-Amp can registrate itself as the preferred application for its supported audio formats... (the menu again!)
• I have done an icon which is applied to the audio files when CL-Amp is registrating itself
• The thind gray line around the windows are gone...
• Lots of bugs that I don't remember right now have been corrected...

• Shoutcast support has been added! VERY basic, but it will become better... (I hope :-)
• Variable rate mp3 support is better now.
• The LIST button in the playlist did not function when the playlist window was wider than default. Has been corrected!
• I didn't know that bitmap views should be Sync'ed, so a bug showed up which made the spectrum analyzer flickering. Now corrected...

• Some minor bugs has been fixed.
•  Repeat didn't work in shuffle mode!
•  In double mode some strings were drawn in wrong places in the Playlist
• And some small things added
•  Key input is working now! (Thanks to a hint from Daniel Switkin!)
•   z - Prev song
•   x - Play
•   c - Pause
•   v - Stop
•   b - Next song
•   l - Load file(s)
•   Arrow up or down - Volume 5% up or down
•   Arrow left or right - Jump 2.5% forward or backward in the song
•  Menu button DEL MISC gives the choice to Physically remove files.
•  Menu botton MISC MISC gives some possibilities to change the Played status of files
•  The playlist scrolls automatically to a good position when a new file is started to play.

• I have remade the playlist totally.   It is now like WinAmp 2.x! I think this is a big step forward for CL-Amp and I call this version 1.0. However, it remains some doings before I'm satisfied. I have not been able to get the BViews to accept the keyboard! I never get any KeyDown() call... I will work on it!
• The play list can be docked to the main window. When the main window is moved around the playlist will move along! Shade-mode is working and also double mode! (Dont work with the original WinAmp's play list ;-)
• Finally I have done some good speed ups! The update of the graphic is much faster now!

• Jake Latham wanted to enqueue files easier! You can always open the Play List and drop files there, but now there is an option 'Drag and drop -> Main Window -> '. There can be choosen either 'Files becomes the list' or 'Add files to playlist'. Default is 'Files becomes the list'! If 'Add files to playlist' is selected all files droped on the mainwindow will only be added, just like Play List window always is working. I hope this is a step in the right direction?
• I support two more bitmaps in the skins now. This is additions made in WinAmp 2.0 skins!
• One is 'num_ex.bmp' that makes it possible two have a fancier minus sign. Since it replaces 'number.bmp' and CL-Amp requires all komponents in a skin to be present, this should mean that more skins now are available for use with CL-Amp!
• And the second is balance.bmp that is an addition to normal skins which makes it possible to make more out of the volume and balance (speed in CL-Amp) bar. Check out the cool skin Nagasaki to see what I mean! Cool volume and speed bar, dont you think?
• I played around a little and made an addition that perhaps will be enjoyed by true BeOS geeks! :-) Since it has to be supported in the skin its only working with the default CL-Amp skin!! There is a new choice under 'Spectrum analyzer' in the menu! I dont truly understand the word Geek, but this is geeky or? (there will be a pumping image in the spectum analyzer area). Perhaps I take it away or change it somewhat, we see... I was bored! :-)

• Santiago Lema pointed out that this is working with other windows in BeOS: Its now possible to click in the title bar and with ALT-Fx jump to another screen which will cause CL-Amp to pop up at the new screen! I have also done some small speed ups.

• Tom Grandgent wanted to get rid of the speed bar's "automatik snap back to 100%". Its selectable from the menu now!

• I have been tracking down all(?) bugs that poped up when I went over to the new Media Kit! I think this release should be quite stable!!
• The Speed bar (Balance bar in WinAmp) is working now... Should I add an option so this can be used for the balance instead?

• Spectrum analyzer and Volume bars are back again! Now I think CL-Amp is totally converted to BeOS R4...
• Since v0.2c was given out, WAY to soon, it was full of so much bugs that I'm deeply ashamed!!
• This version is not perfekt, but MUCH MUCH better!!
• There are still some problems with the sound! Sometimes it sounds good and sometimes it sound a little crounchy... I think its the new media kit, but I will try to get a better grip around this problem!

• Fixed a terrible bug that made the Shuffle mode worthless
• Now using the NEW media kit!! CL-Amp gets an own controller in the program Audio (in Preferences) when CL-Amp is playing a song! Cool...
• BUT I had to disable the Spectrum analyzer and the Volume bars because that code is not yet compatible!! Will add them when I get some free time again... :-)
• Christophe Droulers didn't like that CL-Amp adjusted the main volume. This is now fixed so the volume bar is only controlling CL-Amp's own volume!

• The popup menu in the song selector was showing up at the wrong place when the view was scrolled down. This is now corrected!
• Links was not handled at all!! You couldn't drag a link to a mp3 song to CL-Amp! This is fixed now!
• I have taken away lots of the warnings the new Gnu Compiler complained about! (= better code!)

• Actual configuration is now saved when the program is closed, and is loaded the next time its started again!
• I played around a little and added a speed adjustment where WinAmp has the balance slider but I only succeded in making it slower so don't get used to that slider! It will somehow be changed in the future!!
• Spectrum analyzer is a little better now and I have also added some different view modes. Change it from the popup menu!
• The popup menu now shows the hotkeys for the different items.

• Scot Hacker pointed out that some skins were not possible to use... It was because I had been lazy and thought it would be enough if all files had to be in small letters. But I have now corrected this lazyness! :-)
• Tony Magnusson and Berant Lemmenes wanted the possibility to drag directories to the player and this is now added.
• Volume analyzer is added! Visible when the player is in shade mode.
• Spectrum analyzer is added. (Should be improved...)
• The play-pause-stop indicator to the left of the time display is added.

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