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@cufadev cufadev released this 19 Oct 16:16
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v1.4
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simpleplay 1.4: a new audio engine, instant seeking in long mixes, and a smoother window.

New

  • Its own audio engine (no more pygame or SDL): exact position, no clicks when you pause or seek, and the spectrum bars follow exactly what you hear because they read the same audio that goes to the speakers.
  • Instant seeking inside long files. Jumping into an hour-long mix used to take over a second; now it takes a fraction of a millisecond.
  • Animated transition between the card and the compact bar, and a soft shadow around the window (turn it off with SIMPLEPLAY_SOMBRA=0).
  • It recovers from a lost sound device: unplug a USB or Bluetooth speaker, or wake the computer from suspend, and the track goes on where it was.
  • Tracks that cannot be played (missing, empty, corrupted) are skipped with a notice instead of getting stuck.
  • Media widgets (KDE, GNOME) update right after a seek. --diagnose now also checks the sound device.
  • A support link, for anyone who wants to buy me a beer. Entirely optional.

Changed

  • Lighter download (75 MB, 6 MB less): SDL, pygame and ffmpeg are gone. Nothing else needs to be installed.
  • If there is no working sound system, it now says so instead of playing silently.

Run it (Linux)

chmod +x simpleplay-1.4-x86_64.AppImage
./simpleplay-1.4-x86_64.AppImage

Windows

simpleplay-1.4-windows-x64.zip is attached automatically a few minutes after this release is published. Unzip and run simpleplay.exe (SmartScreen: More info > Run anyway). Audio on Windows goes through WASAPI and has not been tried on a real machine yet: if something sounds wrong, please open an issue.

Full list in the changelog.

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