v4.0.3

• Added option to select background color, lyric color and highlight color when using Karaoke Mode
• Added option to Rebuild Playlist (metadata + audio) which will not only scan and update the playlist metadata but will also scan the .mogg files and use the actual audio length for the duration - thereby fixing songs that do not have duration in their DTA files - this is a slow process but it seems to be accurate

v4.0.2

• Changed video player from WMP to VLC, more modern and should work on Linux via WINE
• Fixed issue where the player would hang at the end of the song if there was only one song in your playlist and you had Shuffle Songs enabled
• Added support for custom author name colors (mainly a Clone Hero thing)
• Fixed reading of crazy track number values from bad Clone Hero .ini files
• Fixed playback of songs with exactly eight channels where channels would be mixed up and you would not be able to isolate them correctly with multitrack songs
• [BRIGHT EDITION ONLY] HOPOs are here! - when playing in Game Style mode, HOPOs will be displayed for BASS and GUITAR charts where appropriate
• [BRIGHT EDITION ONLY] Fixed behavior where Game Mode instrument charts would leave empty vertical space to allow for non existing vocal tracks in instrumentals

v4.0.1

• Fixed broken compatibility with songs that use .ini metadata files introduced in the big v4.0.0 update
• [BRIGHT EDITION ONLY] Fixed bug where on Game Style mode orange and green notes were flipped
• [BRIGHT EDITION ONLY] Changed behavior of how play/pause/stop buttons work to eliminate bug where you would have to click on pause twice before it would pause

v4.0.0

BRIGHT EDITION IS HERE!
I was told cPlayer could use a more modern UI and more recognizable buttons rather than rectangles that told you what they did. So I took this to heart and went to work. This is the outcome. I really like it and I hope you do too.
For now Bright Edition and Dark Edition have feature parity with the exception of the one feature mentioned below, but I believe in the not-too-distant future I might just drop the Dark Edition and work exclusively on Bright Edition.
Both editions have their own Github repositories, so anyone can clone the Dark Edition repo and keep working on it when I stop.

(BRIGHT EDITION EXCLUSIVE) Added Game Style mode that displays the song's MIDI contents in a form inspired by Rock Band 3 - I do not have a 3D engine and this is not a YARG/Clone Hero competitor, this is simply a visualization tool, but I think this one is a major improvement over the 10-year old MIDI display mode (still there) - both modes are bottlenecked by WinForms limitations but i'm too far in to change platforms. I'll continue to work on streamlining and improving performance in the future.

NEW FEATURES, BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO BOTH EDITIONS

• Added limited Stage Kit support during playback of songs with MIDI files - enable Stage Kit on the Instruments menu, select the controller slot that your Stage Kit is occupying, click on the instrument name of the instrument that you want cPlayer to use to control the LEDs (all) and the strobe (drums only) - fogger is not currently integrated because I couldn't think of a use case for it, i'm open to ideas
• Added microphone passthrough feature for a more genuine karaoke experience - your microphone must be recognized by Windows as a universal audio device - click on "My microphone isn't listed!" on the Microphone Control form for instructions on how to make your USB microphone work if it's not working right off the bat
• Added support for Fortnite Festival files using the custom .fnf metadata format and the original .m4a audio - a little wonky for now but it "works"
• Added support for YARG .yargsong format
• Added support for playing back videos when using YARG's exCON format (video must be where the .mid and .mogg files are - see previous release notes for supported video file name and formats, also supported in the more command Clone Hero/YARG folder structure)
• Changed Karaoke Mode behavior so when it shows you one whole word at a time, it colors it progressively as the word is being sung, similarly to how it also colors the current phrase being sung
• Added support for playing Karaoke Mode lyrics over video if the song has both a video file present and Vocals charted
• Added ability to display unpitched vocals properly
• Fixed compatibility issue with RB4-to-RB2 special DTAs files that would lead to the songs not loading or loading with wrong data
• Fixed behavior when scanning for CON files it would encounter a file with permission restrictions and it would fail the entire scan instead of skipping the problem file
• Fixed behavior when scanning a folder and there are no target files found, cPlayer would get stuck on loading and you couldn't do anything or exit the program
• Many other bug fixes and significant code improvements as I was going through integrating the above

v3.0.0

NOTE: CPLAYER HAS MIGRATED FROM NET FRAMEWORK 4.0 TO 4.8.1. ALSO ALL AUDIO PROCESSING DEPENDENCIES WERE UPDATED TO MOST RECENT (BASS, BASS.NET, BASS ADD-ONS)
NOTHING SHOULD CHANGE FOR YOU BUT IF YOU NOTICE ANYTHING WEIRD OR BROKEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP

• Added support for YARG songs (songs.dta format with .mogg or .yarg_mogg audio files, as well as song.ini format)
• Added support for new Clone Hero SNG file format
• Added support for .opus audio files when using a Clone Hero playlist
• Improved support for YARG and Clone Hero background videos when using song.ini format (now supports background.avi, video.mp4, video.webm, bg.mp4 and bg.webm)
• Added support for Fornite Festival songs using the custom .fnf file format and .opus audio - either one single song.opus multitrack file or individual drums/bass/guitar/vocals/song .opus tracks - original .m4a format is currently not supported so make sure the audio files are in .opus format
• Added support for PlayStation 3 PKG file format (still supports PlayStation 3 songs.dta format)
• Added limited support (audio, limited metadata, audio spectrum) for GHWT:DE song.ini file format with FSB.XEN audio
• Added limited support (album art, multitrack audio, very limited metadata, audio spectrum) for BandFuse LIVE file format with CLT audio
• Added limited support (multitrack audio, limited metadata, audio spectrum) for Power Gig file format
• Added limited support (album art, audio, limited metadata, audio spectrum) for Rocksmith 2014 PSARC file format
• Fixed bug where uploading screenshot to Imgur would not work because of the changeover to https
• Fixed small bug where sometimes there would be an error processing the keys audio tracks
• Several changes throughout the code to improve performance