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@cufadev cufadev released this 23 Oct 01:00
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v1.6
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simpleplay 1.6: the graphic equalizer, better sound, and a cleaner window.

Added

  • Controls that hide by themselves. While a track plays and the mouse stays still for 4 seconds, the time, the progress bar and the buttons fade out and only the cover (and the top pill) is left. Move the mouse and they come back. They stay visible when paused, with the list open, in compact mode and over a control. Right click > Hide controls automatically turns it off.
  • Graphic equalizer (ten bands, ±12 dB) and Tune by ear are now on by default, as side panels next to the player.
  • Accent color. Right click > Accent color: orange or five more solid colors.

Better sound

  • Files that are not 44.1 kHz (48, 88.2, 96, 192 kHz: very common in FLAC) now go through a proper linear-phase resampler. Before, a 10 kHz tone came out 1.3 dB low, 18 kHz 4.2 dB low, and an alias sat only 13 dB under the tone. Now the response is flat to 20 kHz and the alias is rejected by more than 90 dB. Files at 44.1 kHz are untouched.
  • Equalizer bass accuracy. Asking +6 dB at 31 Hz gave +4.8 dB, and the boost leaked into the neighbouring bands. The filter is now minimum-phase: +5.8 dB in the worst case, presets within 0.05 dB of the requested curve, and headphone profiles within 0.15 dB. It also removes the 23 ms delay of the old filter.
  • Look-ahead limiter. Normalization can raise a quiet track by up to 9 dB, and the old limiter distorted any loud peak and treated each channel on its own. The new one looks 5 ms ahead, lowers the gain smoothly before each peak (the same on both channels) and never passes -0.9 dBFS.

Run it (Linux)

chmod +x simpleplay-1.6-x86_64.AppImage
./simpleplay-1.6-x86_64.AppImage

Windows

simpleplay-1.6-windows-x64.zip is attached automatically a few minutes after this release is published. Unzip and run simpleplay.exe (SmartScreen: More info > Run anyway). It has not been tried on many machines yet: if something fails, please open an issue.

macOS

The Mac version is built and being tested, so it is not part of this release yet. Follow the repository to know when it is out.

Full list in the changelog.

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