WaveFlow QuickPlay v1.1.0

WaveFlow QuickPlay 1.1.0

A macOS app, repeat and shuffle in the playlist, a hand-over to WaveFlow, cleaner DSD, and the player now decodes through exactly the same code as WaveFlow Desktop.

New

• macOS app: a disk image with one app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs, macOS 11 or later. Finder offers it under Open With for its supported audio extensions, DSF and DFF included, and it can be made the default player from Get Info. Until now macOS meant building from source.
• Repeat and shuffle in the playlist toolbar. One press on repeat loops the playlist, a second loops the current track, a third turns it off. Shuffle plays every track once before any comes round again, and Previous walks back through what played. Both are remembered, and R and H toggle them from the keyboard.
• Continue in WaveFlow: a button with the WaveFlow logo hands the queue, the current track, the position and the play or pause state over to WaveFlow Desktop, then QuickPlay closes. WaveFlow picks up at the same spot. The button appears only when WaveFlow Desktop 2.0.0-beta.1 or later is installed, so it stays hidden until that version is out.
• Long lyric lines keep up with the song: a line wider than its column holds for a moment, then scrolls so that its end is on screen before the next line starts.
• A shorter title bar that reads QuickPlay beside the WaveFlow logo, which leaves more room for the track's title. The file-manager entries are shortened the same way, to Play with QuickPlay and Add to QuickPlay playlist, in all eight languages.

Fixed

• DSD conversion no longer adds a steady hiss. DSF and DFF files are converted with WaveFlow Desktop's 256-tap filter instead of 64 taps, which let the DSD shaping noise through as a steady hiss in the background.
• Explorer menu order: Play with QuickPlay now comes above Add to QuickPlay playlist. The installer removes the old entry.
• A brief audio stall no longer stops the track. A buffer underrun, such as the one macOS causes while it checks a new app on its first launch, was taken for a lost output device: the engine was released and the track stopped with an error. Playback now carries on.
• A slow file no longer freezes the controls. A track on a network share or a disk that is spinning up opens in the background, and Stop, another track or closing the window answer at once. Files on a network share are read ahead, so a seek there does not wait for the whole transfer.

Under the hood

QuickPlay now plays through waveflow-core's playback module, the decoding WaveFlow Desktop itself uses, instead of a copy of it. Decoding fixes can now be shared between WaveFlow Desktop and QuickPlay instead of being implemented twice. What QuickPlay keeps of its own is the small transport around it: the decoder thread, the lock-free ring and the audio callback.

Install

• Windows: download waveflow-quickplay_1.1.0_x64-setup.exe. It installs for the current user without administrator rights and registers the context-menu entries. Run it over 1.0.0 to upgrade; your settings live in their own file and are kept.
• Linux: the .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, the .rpm for Fedora, RHEL and openSUSE, or the .AppImage for any distribution (make it executable and run it). All three carry the desktop entry, so QuickPlay appears in "Open with" for audio files.
• macOS: download waveflow-quickplay_1.1.0_macos-universal.dmg, open it and drag WaveFlow QuickPlay to Applications. The app is signed ad hoc, not by an Apple Developer ID, so macOS blocks the first launch: open System Settings › Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway (on macOS 14 and earlier, right-click the app and choose Open). This is asked again for each new version you download, since every release is signed anew.

SHA-256 checksums are in SHA256SUMS-windows.txt, SHA256SUMS-linux.txt and SHA256SUMS-macos.txt.

Note

The Windows installer is signed with WaveFlow's self-signed certificate, so Windows may still show a SmartScreen warning on first launch.

Known limitations

• On macOS, Finder has no per-app menu entries, so there is no Add to QuickPlay playlist there; Open With replaces the queue, as Play with does on Windows.
• Continue in WaveFlow needs WaveFlow Desktop 2.0.0-beta.1 or later, read from the install's metadata. The button stays hidden for an older WaveFlow, for one whose version cannot be read (such as an AppImage put on PATH by hand), and for the Flatpak build, whose sandbox cannot see the hand-over file.
• On Wayland the playlist window opens where the compositor places it and does not follow the player; the protocol does not let an application position its windows.
• The output device is the system default, opened in shared mode.

Full changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0