OpenLegacy Player 0.3.0: audio-reactive visualizers, internet radio, auto-updater

This release makes the visualizations genuinely react to your music, adds
internet radio, and introduces an in-app updater.

Download

• OpenLegacyPlayer-Setup-0.3.0.exe - installer with Start menu entry and
  clean uninstall.
• OpenLegacyPlayer-Portable-0.3.0.zip - portable build, unzip and run.

Both are self-contained for 64-bit Windows 10/11. No .NET install needed.

What's new

Audio-reactive visualizations

• Every visualization now responds to the real audio spectrum.
• Six scenes on a black stage, switchable with a right-click in Now Playing:
  • Bars and Waves: Bars, Ocean Mist, Scope
  • Alchemy: Random
  • Battery: sepiaswirl, purple haze

Internet radio

• Paste any MP3 stream URL into the Stream button. It plays instantly, and the
  visualizers react to it just like a local file.

Automatic updater

• The app checks for new releases and shows a changelog with Update now or
  Ask later. The installed build can download and update itself in place.

Opens your files

• Double-click a song and it plays in OpenLegacy Player once you set it as
  default (Settings has a shortcut to Windows Default apps). A second launch
  hands the file to the running window instead of opening a new one.

Polish

• Glassier seek and volume sliders, and a fixed play/pause orb.

Good to know

• Windows requires you to confirm the default app choice in its own Settings.
• Video files currently play their audio track only.
• The visualizations are decorative scenes driven by the live audio spectrum.

This is a fan recreation made for the love of an era and is not affiliated with
Microsoft.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

OpenLegacy Player v0.2.0 - First Release

The first public release of OpenLegacy Player, a recreation of Windows Media Player Legacy built in WPF with the full Frutiger Aero look: glass chrome, glossy blue orbs, floating bubbles, and liquid sliders.

Highlights

• Music library with automatic tag reading (title, artist, album, art)
• Drive browsing: select any drive and every audio file is found and grouped by folder, smooth even with huge collections
• Playlists saved as standard .m3u files
• Now Playing scene with cover art, mirrored reflection, and a WMP-style bars visualizer
• Settings, persistent volume/shuffle/repeat/window state, and a built-in update checker

Downloads

• Setup exe: installer with Start menu entry and clean uninstall
• Portable zip: unzip and run, nothing to install

Both are self-contained for 64-bit Windows 10/11. No .NET install needed.

This is a fan recreation made for the love of an era and is not affiliated with Microsoft.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NokaAngel/OpenLegacyPlayer/commits/v0.2.0