Fernplay 0.5.0

Fernplay 0.5.0 adds file info: edit a track's tags right in the player. It also fixes two things in the playlist.

New: file info (Alt+3). As on the classic player, Alt+3 opens a track's tags: title, artist, album, album artist, track number, year, genre, composer and comment. In the playlist and the media library it is the selected track (also on the right-click menu, and on a classic skin's MISC button); on the player it is the track that is playing. SAVE writes only the fields you changed, and the playlist, the player and the library show the new tags at once. Several artists go in one field with a semicolon (A; B).

Tags are written by Windows itself, the same way Explorer's Details pane edits them: MP3, M4A and WMA, and other formats where Windows can write their tags. Editing the track that is playing is fine: Fernplay lets go of the file for a moment and plays on from the same place. WAV files, read-only files and files open in another program are left as they were, with the reason shown. Ratings are still kept in the library only and never written to files.

Fixed.

• Pressing Delete in the playlist no longer jumps the list to the top (or to the playing track). The list stays where it was, and the next track is selected, so Delete or the arrow keys carry on from there.
• The playing track's length in the playlist is white like its title; it stayed green in Fernplay's own look.

Download. Pick one zip, unzip it anywhere and run Fernplay.exe:

• Fernplay-0.5.0-win-x64.zip (about 1 MB) needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime (x64).
• Fernplay-0.5.0-win-x64-standalone.zip (about 60 MB) has .NET inside: nothing else to install.

Windows 10 (1607 or later) and 11, x64. Fernplay is not code-signed yet: if Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", choose More info, then Run anyway.

Full list of changes in CHANGELOG.md.