BillyPro v0.9.1

Changelog

• Shazam: Identify the currently playing song, view its artist, title and cover artwork, and save previous recognition results.
• Sets.LIVE: Browse app.sets.live, queue or download tracks and monitor download progress directly from Billy.
• Playlist Manager: Create, rename, delete, reorder, import and export playlists, with support for custom artwork.
• Loud Button: Replaces Normalize with four loudness modes: Soft, Normal, Modern and Loud.
• Play History: Automatically records played local tracks, stream links and Internet radio stations.
• Resume Local Tracks: Continue local tracks from their previously saved playback position.
• 4K Monitor DPI Fix: Improved interface scaling and layout on 4K and other high-DPI monitors.
• Improved Internet Radio, Recording and Gapless Playback: More reliable connections, improved recording options and smoother track transitions.

Playlist and Library Improvements

• Added a configurable playlist column view.
• Added columns for artist, title, album, track number, year, genre, duration, file information, bitrate, sample rate and channels.
• Columns can be resized, reordered, hidden and automatically fitted.
• Column settings and order are remembered.
• Clicking a column cycles between ascending, descending and original playlist order.
• Added relative-path display support.
• Added recursive folder loading.
• Added configurable automatic playlist scrolling.
• Added Refresh Playlist with Shift+R.
• Refreshing detects added and removed files without interrupting playback unless the current file no longer exists.
• Search results can now be saved as BPP playlists.
• Added batch operations for Favorites and playlists.
• Playlist ordering is now saved between sessions.
• Added friendly display names for saved stream links.
• Added Open File Location in Billy.
• Added quick actions when right-clicking an empty playlist area.

Playlist Manager

• Create, rename, delete, load and reorder playlists.
• Reorder playlists using drag-and-drop or the up/down controls.
• Displays playlist artwork, track counts and artwork mosaics.
• Supports custom playlist artwork.
• Import BPP and M3U playlists.
• Export playlists as M3U.
• Added support for a custom playlist storage folder.

Shazam Song Recognition

• Added recognition using a short audio sample from the currently playing track or station.
• Displays the recognized artist, title and cover artwork.
• Added copy, retry and Google search actions.
• Added persistent recognition history.
• Recognition history can optionally include locally played tracks.

Sets.LIVE Integration

• Configurable Sets.LIVE server and access token.
• Added token validation, registration and expiry handling.
• Browse remote folders and queue tracks for streaming.
• Added back navigation for remote folders.
• Download tracks in the background with visible progress.
• Configurable download folder.
• Automatically handles duplicate filenames.

Internet Radio and Stream Links

• Added Open Stream Link with Ctrl+N.
• Supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP links.
• Finite remote media can now display duration and use seeking.
• Added cache information and seek-bar buffering indicators.
• Stream links can be saved to Favorites and playlists.
• Added audio information for remote streams.
• Remote artwork loads asynchronously.
• Radio connections now run in the background.
• Added connection timeouts and improved reconnection handling.
• Added reconnect countdown and backoff behaviour.
• Prevented outdated connections from replacing the active station.
• Next and Previous can navigate saved radio Favorites.
• Improved station editing and removal from Favorites.
• Previously received ICY titles are now timestamped.
• Improved parsing of station metadata containing apostrophes.
• Radio metadata is shown consistently in the window title, status bar, recording log and Windows media controls.
• Improved handling of long stream URLs.
• URL scheme detection is now case-insensitive.
• Prevented finite stream links from incorrectly appearing as LIVE streams.

Loud Button and Audio

• Replaced Normalize with the new Loud control.
• Added Soft, Normal, Modern and Loud modes.
• Uses peak and RMS analysis for more consistent volume.
• Added five stream loudness intensity levels.
• Added a first-use explanation for the Loud feature.
• Added a master limiter to reduce clipping.
• Loudness gain is now applied at the master output stage.
• Added Play Once repeat mode.
• Added sub-second playback time display.

Recording

• Improved WAV recording.
• Added FLAC recording support.
• The selected recording format is remembered.
• Internet radio recordings can include a sidecar track-history log.

Gapless Playback and Playback Fixes

• Improved transitions between tracks.
• Fixed resource leaks affecting short tracks.
• Fixed preloaded-track memory and synchronization problems.
• Fixed premature track changes.
• Fixed stale end-of-track callbacks advancing twice.
• Fixed seeking near the end of a track incorrectly stopping playback.
• Fixed playback failures at the exact final byte of a file.
• Improved direct-stream buffer handling.
• Fixed timing issues when seeking DTS audio.
• Fixed scrambled stereo output from some multichannel FLAC files.
• Improved FLAC seek synchronization.

Interface and Controls

• Fixed scaling and layout on 4K and high-DPI monitors.
• Added customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Shortcuts can be reset or removed.
• Added tooltips for important controls.
• Improved highlighting for the current track, Favorites and search results.
• Improved connection and reconnection information in the window title.
• Added elapsed-time display for Internet radio.
• Improved technical playback information in the status bar.
• Improved compatibility between Column View, Modern View and dark mode.
• Prevented global shortcuts from interfering with text fields and dialogs.
• Improved editing behaviour throughout the interface.

Conversion Improvements

• Added native WAV sample-rate conversion when FFmpeg is unavailable.
• Added anti-alias filtering when downsampling WAV files.
• Converted files are no longer silently overwritten.
• Duplicate filenames receive a numbered suffix.
• Added Ctrl+A support in conversion lists.
• Improved conversion progress resetting and reporting.

Additional Fixes

• Fixed crashes caused by very long URLs and text strings.
• Fixed a folder-picker deadlock.
• Fixed playlist corruption caused by browser drag operations.
• Fixed stale library state after switching views.
• Improved restoration of the previous library and playlist state.
• The currently playing track remains visible when appropriate.
• Fixed stale menu selection indicators.
• Prevented streams from incorrectly appearing in the local library.
• Improved folder picker safety.
• Improved browser Back navigation.
• Fixed menu labels containing ampersands.
• Deleting a Favorite now also removes its original entry correctly.
• Added safer text formatting throughout the application.