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SOFTWARE: PM123 1.01 Released (MPEG 3)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Samuel Audet)
Sun Jul 26 02:49:08 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 13 Jul 1998 23:07:00 -0400
From: guardia@nospam-cam.org (Samuel Audet)
Reply-To: guardia@nospam-cam.org
Reply-to: guardia@nospam-cam.org
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PM123 1.01 is now available!
Be sure to try it out if you had serious problems with PM123 1.0.
What's new:
- Stream Buffer support
- Fixed bug in WinAmp skin loading that caused PM123 to crash
- Fixed a WinAmp skin seek slider glitch - please reconvert
your seek slider problematic skins
- You don't have to add ".lst" when saving a playlist anymore
- Spectrum analyzer plugin revised:
- Added falloff
- Made analyzer area droppable
- Frequency chop allows you to drop unused frequencies
- More efficient spectral leakage reduce method
- Added a warning if some bitmaps of a skin were not found
- Added read ahead buffering in streaming audio
- HTTP.DLL renamed to HTTP123.DLL
- Fixed Warp 3 glitches in fonts
- Fixed a crash in playlist sort
- Added a new settings (and a new settings page):
- Play 48 kHz as 44 kHz
- Streaming audio settings
- Default display mode (filename, ID3 tag, information)
- Fixed font bug in older skins
- Fixed a bug in the Unregistered window which caused it to hover
above all windows
- Fixed bug when pressing Alt-F4 in the main window
- Fixed Recall-menu behaviour
- Added a new "smooth scroller" with DBCS and national character support,
which can be activated by starting PM123 with the "-smooth" switch
- Improved 256-color support
- Shift-click Play/Stop button while playing to fade out and stop playing
PM123 is an audio MPEG player for OS/2 Warp, here is a complete feature
list:
Player:
Play, stop, pause, fast forward, rewind, seek to position
State-of-the-art dynamic priority system
Uses OS/2's DART
Supports 8-bit sound cards and sound device sharing.
Supports mixing both channels together and downmixing 2:1
HTTP Streaming Support
Stream Buffer Support
Graphical Sound Equalizer
Support for Filter Plugins
Included filters: an attempt at a real Graphic Equalizer
Playlist:
Supports drag'n'drop of files and directories (non-recursive and recursive)
Loads PM123 playlists (LST), WarpAMP playlists (MPL) and Internet playlists
(M3U)
URL (streaming HTTP) support
Sorting: size, playing time, filename, songname and random
Recall 10 last playlists
Playlist Manager for easy playlist browsing and managing
User interface:
ID3 tag support, including an editor for tags
Recall 10 last songs
2 fonts, plus a smooth scroller using system fonts
3 sizes: regular, small and tiny
Float on top
Skin support, supports PM123 and WinAmp skins
"Remote Control" support through pipes
Supports Visual Plugins
Included Visual Plugins: Spectrum Analyzer and Oscilloscope
Plugin Developer's Kit Available
Throughout User's Guide
ftp://www.teamos2.sci.fi/pm123/pm123101.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123101.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123101.zip
More information at: http://www.teamos2.sci.fi/pm123/
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