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@codekunde codekunde released this 04 Nov 00:55
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v0.6.0
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Fernplay 0.6.0 can check for updates, resets sliders with a double-click and tells you why a radio station won't play. It also fixes two window problems.

New

  • Check for update. About Fernplay has a CHECK FOR UPDATE button: it asks GitHub for the newest release and says whether there is one, and DOWNLOAD opens its page. Nothing is checked unless you press it.
  • Double-click to reset. A double-click on an equalizer slider (a band or the preamp) sets it back to 0 dB; a double-click on the balance centres it. This works with classic skins too.
  • Clearer radio errors. A station that can't be reached used to say "the station is offline" whatever went wrong. Now it says why: no answer, connection refused or blocked, secure (https) connection failed, address not found, a proxy, or the station's own answer (for example 404 when its address has changed). If a station plays in your browser but not in Fernplay, a firewall or security program is usually blocking Fernplay.exe: allow it there.
  • Diagnostics log. diagnostics.log next to the settings (%APPDATA%\CodeKunde\Fernplay, at most about 512 KB, never sent anywhere) notes play and pause and what asked for them, media buttons, stations that could not be opened, and lock, unlock and display changes. It helps trace faults that happen only now and then.

Fixed

  • On Windows 11, clicking Fernplay's taskbar button did not minimise it.
  • After Windows was locked, or a screen slept or was unplugged, the player, equalizer and playlist could come back apart. Fernplay now puts them back where they were.
  • A station whose https address hands on to a plain http server now plays, as it does in a browser.

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

  • Fernplay-0.6.0-win-x64.zip (about 1 MB) needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime (x64).
  • Fernplay-0.6.0-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.

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