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@BlindTango BlindTango released this 25 Oct 22:28
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RadioMaster+ 1.3.0

A large feature release: real crossfade, much better DAISY audiobooks, and the interface in nine languages.

Playback

  • Crossfade now overlaps local playlist tracks: the outgoing track fades out while the next fades in for the duration set in Settings > Playback. Radio, podcasts, video and online streams still change over directly.
  • Normalize audio (EBU R128) measures local files in the background on first play and adjusts their volume.
  • Dynamic Range now converts its dB threshold correctly; the equalizer uses one filter per band (the 32 and 64 Hz sliders share an 80 Hz filter).
  • End of Track and End of Playlist sleep timer modes now work. Live radio stops when the countdown ends.

Audiobooks

  • DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3 books are read through their navigation and SMIL files: every chapter and page has its own audio file, start point, text and duration.
  • New Go to Page, Previous Page and Next Page (with assignable shortcuts), a Bookmarks list with Go To, chapter text with sentence highlighting during Read with TTS, and automatic advance to the next chapter.
  • A second speech engine: Windows OneCore voices.

Interface

  • Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified). The translations are unreviewed drafts; run-time status text and the manual stay in English.

Everything else

  • Save Playlist (M3U8) and opening M3U/M3U8/PLS playlists; playing media from inside ZIP archives.
  • First/Previous/Next/Last now work on Media Player, Audiobooks and YouTube. Global search covers podcasts, YouTube, media and audiobooks.
  • Upload your subscriptions to gpodder.net; optional Genius and Musixmatch lyrics keys.
  • Equalizer window presets persist; cancelling a preset edit restores the sound; the Download History limit skips zero.
  • Fixed the minimize-to-tray default and the BASS "already initialized" error code.

Known limits

  • Echo In Gain and Gargle Depth have no equivalent on the BASS engine and remain unapplied.
  • The new engine and language features are covered by tests, but the translations and DAISY handling have not been checked by native speakers or against a wide range of real books.