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- __ Apollo 37zf _________________________________________________ 2004/03/31 __
-
- - Working 24-bit and 32-bit playback for Wave Out and DirectSound
- - Output to WAV-files with 24-bit and 32-bit output generates RIFF WAVE files
- with WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE header
- - Support for multimedia keys can be disabled (go to Options->General)
- - Fixed a bug in HTML Playlist generator, which caused wrong columns to be
- written in the HTML table
- - Some minor changes and fixes
- - MPEG: Support for decoding into 8-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit sound data in
- addition of 16-bit data (go to Plug-ins->Input and select MPEG Apollo
- Decoder and click configure)
- - WAV: Support for RIFF WAVE files with WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE header
-
- __ Apollo 37ze _________________________________________________ 2004/03/02 __
-
- - Added Generate HTML Playlist feature (Ctrl + G)
- - Better sound buffer underrun monitoring
- - Fixed crash when trying to play a track that was deleted or temporarily
- unavailable
- - Minor changes and fixes
-
- __ Apollo 37zd _________________________________________________ 2004/02/16 __
-
- - Open/Add directory dialogs are now resizable
- - M3U files with empty lines now work correctly
-
- __ Apollo 37zc _________________________________________________ 2003/10/30 __
-
- - Fixed a weird lock-up occuring on some systems
-
- __ Apollo 37zb _________________________________________________ 2003/10/29 __
-
- - Notify icon menu now contains the playlist in the top level
- - Switched back to old common controls in Windows XP
-
- __ Apollo 37za _________________________________________________ 2003/10/24 __
-
- - Minimizing to tray is again possible (see Options->Appearance)
- - Improved performance on sorting
- - The sort by ID3 frame menu is visible again
- - Longer ID3 frame contents are shown in the properties dialog
-
- __ Apollo 37z __________________________________________________ 2003/10/22 __
-
- - Added "Randomize Playlist Order" feature (check out the Playlist menu)
- - Playlist sort functions now sort subplaylists recursively
- - Performance improvements for big playlists
- - Fixes and changes in the playback system
- - Fixes in Winamp general purpose plug-in compatiblity
- - Fixes in mini window multiple monitor support
- - Fixes in command line processing
-
- __ Apollo 37y __________________________________________________ 2003/10/01 __
-
- - Double clicking the mini window title will switch to the normal window
- - Mini window should now work better on dual monitor systems
- - Fixes in the Winamp general purpose plug-in compatiblity
-
- __ Apollo 37x __________________________________________________ 2003/09/19 __
-
- - Fixed a GDI resource leak in mini window
-
- __ Apollo 37w __________________________________________________ 2003/09/09 __
-
- - Album/Movie/Show title is visible again in ID3 frame menus
- - MPEG: Better click and jump avoidance after corrupt frames
-
- __ Apollo 37va _________________________________________________ 2003/08/06 __
-
- - Fixed file size of tracks for which the information is not yet retrieved
-
- __ Apollo 37v __________________________________________________ 2003/06/19 __
-
- - Decoding into WAV-files does not slow down annoyingly in the end of tracks
- - Directories can now be created for playlists when decoding into WAV-files
-
- __ Apollo 37ug _________________________________________________ 2003/05/28 __
-
- - Bitrates are now shown also for playlists
- - Playlist window column auto resize can now be turned off
- - String variable %num% is now replaced with the track number only omitting
- the trailing dot
- - File sizes over 4 GB are now shown correctly in the playlist window
- - Playlist window scrolling to the currently played item doesn't screw
- playlist editing anymore
- - Crossfades shorter than one second should work now
- - Sorting the main playlist by ID3 frame works again
-
- __ Apollo 37uf _________________________________________________ 2003/05/15 __
-
- - If none of the ID3 frames used in the track title string have content
- the title suggested by the input plug-in is used instead
- - Fixes in bringing up the main window after tray minimization
- - MPEG: Header is now seeked for 512 kilobytes before giving up
- - DSP: Better interpolation for speed effect
-
- __ Apollo 37ud _________________________________________________ 2003/03/18 __
-
- - Playlist window scrolling to the currently played item may be turned off
- - Grid lines and full row select may be enabled for playlist window
- - Fixes in directory sorting
- - Fixes in tray icon clicking
-
- __ Apollo 37uc _________________________________________________ 2003/03/07 __
-
- - Fixes in support for external programs accessing Apollo as Winamp 2.x
-
- __ Apollo 37ub _________________________________________________ 2003/03/05 __
-
- - Playlist window is now scrolled to the currently played item
- - Fixes in Winamp input plug-in system
- - Fixes in directory sorting by ID3 track number
- - MPEG: Header is seeked for 64 kilobytes before giving up
-
- __ Apollo 37u __________________________________________________ 2003/03/03 __
-
- - Directories can now be sorted by ID3 track number instead of filename
- - Volume setting with mouse wheel can now be turned off
- - Normal main window minization does not use the icon tray anymore
- - Compressed the binaries with UPX (http://upx.sourceforge.net)
- - Fixed a bug with playlists with unix style paths
- - Fixed a bug with some ID3v2 tag strings
- - Other minor fixes
-
- __ Apollo 37ta _________________________________________________ 2003/02/20 __
-
- - Fixed a bug causing the main window not be shown in some cases
-
- __ Apollo 37t __________________________________________________ 2003/02/18 __
-
- - Smoother position bar
- - Directory entries are now added in sorted order
- - Added Clear Main Playlist command (Ctrl + Delete)
- - Clicking play when paused will resume playback instead of restarting it
- - No need to restart Apollo after configuring Winamp input plug-ins
- (well, doesn't work with all plug-ins but with most anyway)
- - Fixes in "Delete tracks from playlist after playing"
- - MPEG: Fixed a deadlock which occured sometimes when stopping streaming
-
- __ Apollo 37sa _________________________________________________ 2003/02/07 __
-
- - Fixed a bug in streaming which caused redundant requests sent to server
- - Fixed ID3 track title creation bug which occured in version 37s
-
- __ Apollo 37s __________________________________________________ 2003/02/06 __
-
- - New installer
- - Requirement for tray icon double clicking can now be turned off
- - Added a separator to the mini window between restore and quit buttons
- - Added %avg% to variable references in Options->Strings
- - Fixes in playlist header resizing and track selection
- - Fixed a bug in crossfading with small buffer sizes
- - Other minor fixes and changes
- - MPEG: Support for streams (including SHOUTcast with metadata)
- - MPEG: Improved format detection
- - WAV: Improved HTTP access
-
- __ Apollo 37r __________________________________________________ 2003/01/10 __
-
- - Bitrates reported by Winamp input plug-ins are now shown correctly
- - Fixed problems with storing configuration of some Winamp input plug-ins
-
- __ Apollo 37q __________________________________________________ 2003/01/03 __
-
- - Fixes/changes in playlist column auto-resizing
- - Support for multimedia keyboards (play/pause, stop, next, previous)
- - Better support for external programs sending Winamp 2.x commands
-
- __ Apollo 37p __________________________________________________ 2002/12/19 __
-
- - Fixed a bug in loop mode toggling
- - Fixed a bug with long ID3v2 frame contents
- - Unknown file formats do not completely seize the playback anymore
- - Alt + 3 now opens the additional track info for current track
- - Added experimental support for Winamp 2.x input plug-ins
-
- Only Winamp 2.x input plug-ins that use the output plug-in for output are
- supported. Furthermore, only plug-ins that can have two identical versions
- of itself attached to one process can be used. This unfortunately rules out
- the MAD decoder plug-in, though I think that a simple rebuild of the plug-in
- with a different compiler and linker should make it work since the behaviour
- is obviously not intentional.
-
- Please note that the Winamp input plug-in support is experimental and you
- should use it on your own risk. There are inherent differences between the
- input system of Apollo and Winamp so the support is really quite a tweak.
- One of the consequences of the differences is that retrieving information
- for tracks will take quite a long with Winamp input plug-ins since they are
- not able to provide sufficient data without starting the playback. Thus
- a mock playback must be started for each track which is added to the
- playlist. Also the bitrate information shown on the playlist may not be
- correct with all plug-ins. Streaming with the Winamp's default decoder
- doesn't seem to work either.
-
- __ Apollo 37o __________________________________________________ 2002/12/16 __
-
- - Better support for external programs sending Winamp 2.x commands
- - The current playing time can now be shown in the window title
- and thus in the mini window
- - Fixes in thread synchronization
- - Fixes in playing multiple tracks through DDE
- - Added Keyboard shortcuts to the documentation
-
- __ Apollo 37n __________________________________________________ 2002/12/04 __
-
- - Directories with dots in their name show up correctly in the playlist
- - Faster response for visualization effects
- - Pause between tracks can now be longer than ten seconds
- - The active directory also follows the files added from Windows Explorer
- - Fixed displaying of tracks with % in their name
- - Added Explorer (Alt + F3) and Explorer From Current Track (Ctrl + F3)
-
- __ Apollo 37m __________________________________________________ 2002/11/26 __
-
- - Fixed crossfading with DirectSound output
- - The case insensitive playlist find now works with different character sets
- - MPEG: Made the decoder a bit more error tolerant
-
- __ Apollo 37l __________________________________________________ 2002/08/15 __
-
- - Default playlists and equalizer settings are now user specific
- - %% works now correctly in strings
-
- __ Apollo 37k __________________________________________________ 2002/06/12 __
-
- - MPEG: Fixed a bug with VBR MP3s containing ID3v2 tags
-
- __ Apollo 37j __________________________________________________ 2002/06/07 __
-
- - ID3Lib errors are no longer reported to user
- - Logarithmic frequency analyzer
- - Fixed a bug in visualization plug-in timer
- - Open/Add directory starts browsing from the directory last opened or added
-
- __ Apollo 37i __________________________________________________ 2002/02/12 __
-
- - Fixed a bug in WAV decoder which caused errors in 24 and 32 bit playback
-
- __ Apollo 37h __________________________________________________ 2002/01/03 __
-
- - Fixed a bug that caused Apollo to crash under Windows XP
- - Correct homepage address (http://www.iki.fi/hy/apollo)
-
- __ Apollo 37g __________________________________________________ 2001/02/20 __
-
- - No more crashes when minimizing to taskbar icon
- - Fixed some stability problems
- - Fixed decoding to WAV-file of songs which had illegal filename
- characters in their title
- - Fixed problems that occured sometimes when trying to save relative
- pathnames into a playlist
- - Added a couple of more variable references to Options->Strings
-
- __ Apollo 37 ___________________________________________________ 2000/02/20 __
-
- - Correct homepage address (http://apollo.audiogalaxy.com)
- - One bug fix concerning play button with random entries
-
- __ Apollo 37 - Anti-millennium release _________________________ 1999/11/21 __
-
- - Stable support for non-thread-safe sound card drivers
- - Slight improvement on DirectSound support
- - Support for Unix-style paths in playlists
-
- This is the last release of Apollo as we know it. If there shall ever be
- another major Apollo release, it will be totally redesigned and perhaps
- released under different title.
-
- __ Apollo 36 ___________________________________________________ 1999/11/02 __
-
- - Control + Stop performs a fade out
- - The whole system should be more stable now
- - Open/Add/Insert directory ignores directories not containing tracks
- - Shortcut keys for file, miscellaneous and playlist menus
- - Fixed a bug in the DirectSound output that caused weird jumps
- - Some other enhancements and fixes
- - Added a couple of new macros to the front end support (ApolloCommands.h)
- - New homesite address (again): http://apollo.mp3place.com
-
- __ Apollo 35 ___________________________________________________ 1999/09/29 __
-
- - More sorting options to the playlist editor
- - More thorough playlist information refresh (Control + F5)
- - Added some crossfade macros to the front end support (ApolloCommands.h)
- - Many bug fixes that I don't feel like listing here
- - MPEG: Bug fixes in layer 2 support
- - MPEG: Better corrupt frame handling
-
- __ Apollo 34 ___________________________________________________ 1999/09/03 __
-
- - Playlists can now be sorted by any ID3 frame
- - More sorting options in the right click menu of the playlist editor
- - Should handle MP3s inside WAVs correctly
- - Crossfading WAV output will now create a separate file for each track
- - Added volume control to the mini window
- - Fixed a bug that caused troubles opening large AAP and PLS playlists in
- Windows 95 and 98 (with NT it worked fine)
- - Other minor bug fixes
-
- __ Apollo 33 ___________________________________________________ 1999/08/30 __
-
- - Crossfade to any track is now possible, not just to the next track
- (just hold down the Control key while selecting a new track)
- - Open/Add/Insert Directory now preserves the directory structure
- - Playlists may contain directories now
- - Added an option to stop playback after each track
- - The player buffer size is now set in seconds instead of kilobytes
- - Changed the dareware policy a bit
- - Fixed a bug that caused crossfades to fail sometimes when decoding to WAV
- - Other minor bug fixes and enhancements
-
- __ Apollo 32 ___________________________________________________ 1999/08/08 __
-
- - Finally a documentation!!!
- - IntelliMouse wheel can be now used to adjust the volume
- - Continuous output to WAV files (including crossfades) is now possible
- - Launching multiple instances of Apollo may be disallowed again
- - Fixed a bug in ID3v2 support (crashed sometimes on unknown frames)
- - Fixed a bug that caused a deadlock on some (very rare) occasions when
- stopping playback or skipping to previous track
- - Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a snap in the end of the tracks
- - Should handle the situations OK when the startup playlist causes a crash
- - Other minor bug fixes
- - New homesite address: http://apollo.mp3-2000.com
-
- __ Apollo 31 ___________________________________________________ 1999/05/13 __
-
- - Silence level can be set now up to -10dB
- - The equalizer presets should be saved correctly on all systems now
- - "Even smaller mini window" is back (Options->Appearance->Show title in...)
- - Decode to file works for root directories now
- - New crossfade type (Options->Player->Crossfade without fade in)
- - For input plug-in developers:
- CInputPlugin::Open
- return value NULL means there was trouble initializing the decoder
- CInputDecoder::GetNextAudioChunk
- return value -1 means there was trouble reading data
-
- __ Apollo XXX __________________________________________________ 1999/03/12 __
-
- - Some final fixes and changes
- - This might be the last Apollo ever to be released
-
- __ Apollo 29 ___________________________________________________ 1999/02/26 __
-
- - Changed the calling convention of the input plug-ins (for Delphi coders),
- be sure to grab RawInput.zip from the homepage if you are a developer
- - Fixed a bug with "remove tracks from the playlist after playing" and
- shuffle mode
- - Which playlist window columns are visible may now be selected
-
- __ Apollo 28 ___________________________________________________ 1999/02/16 __
-
- - The AAP system now checks back a selectable number of tracks to prevent
- the same tracks from being played too frequently
- - Added an option to remove tracks from the playlist after playing
- - Fixed another memory leak in ID3 tag support
- - Setting the position in pause mode should work now
- - Couple of fixes and optimizations in the AAP system
- - MPEG: Some miscellaneous fixes
-
- __ Apollo 27 ___________________________________________________ 1999/02/02 __
-
- - Optimized the general purpose equalizer a bit
- - Fixed a bug that caused DSP modules to be applied in incorrect order
- - Playlist editor supports internal drag'n'drop of multiple entries
- - Writes relative paths in playlists correctly
- - Included a little visualization plug-in
- - Dropped the frequency analyzer accuracy back to the level it used to be
- - Fixed a memory leak which occured with ID3v2 tags
- - DSP: Speed doesn't scramble mono data
- - DSP: A minor bug fix in echo
- - MPEG: Fixes in the MP2 support
- - MPEG: Shows correct average bitrate on VBR files
-
- __ Apollo 26 ___________________________________________________ 1999/01/22 __
-
- - Realtime equalizer support for all(!) file types
- - Added sorting capabilities to the playlist editor
- - Control + Up/Down can be used to set the volume
- - Echo and speed DSP plug-in included
- - A bunch of bug fixes
- - MPEG: Bug fixes and better error tolerance
-
- __ Apollo 25 ___________________________________________________ 1999/01/15 __
-
- - Support for Winamp visualization plug-ins
- - Support for Winamp DSP plug-ins
- - Support for Winamp general purpose plug-ins
- - Support for Winamp front-end commands (for those that can be supported)
- - Input system changed to use plug-ins (incompatible with Winamp)
- - Crossfade between tracks
- - Shift + the next track button performs a crossfade whenever possible
- - Equalizer presets may be exported/imported
- - Control + Left/Right can be used to rewind/fast forward five seconds
- - Changed the mini window a bit
- - The normal window can be set to stay on top
- - Support for RIFF WAV files (PCM and Microsoft ADPCM)
- - MPEG: Support for layer 2 files
- - MPEG: Support for Xing VBR MP3s
- - MPEG: Fixed the bug that caused "Division by zero" on some MP3s
- - MPEG: Faster decoder
-
- __ Apollo 24 ___________________________________________________ 1998/12/09 __
-
- - Fixed a bug in continuous play with DirectSound
- - Minor bug fix in the playlist system
-
- __ Apollo 23 ___________________________________________________ 1998/12/06 __
-
- - Couple of bug fixes in the playlist system
-
- __ Apollo 22 ___________________________________________________ 1998/12/02 __
-
- - Added DirectSound output
- - Added an even smaller mini window
- - Pressing 'play' during playback causes the current entry to be replayed
- If the current entry is a random entry, a new track is picked
- - Recursive Open/Add/Insert Directory now possible
- - Directories may be dragged from Windows Explorer to Apollo
- - A couple of new macros in the front end support (ApolloCommands.h)
- - Fixed the problem with PLS playlists
- - Fixed the problem with !~ operator in AAP
- - Removed a few obsolete screen refreshments
-
- __ Apollo 21 ___________________________________________________ 1998/11/21 __
-
- - Added support for front end implementations, check out ApolloCommands.h
- - A bit better handling of corrupt MP3 data
- - Speeded up the playlist system
-
- __ Apollo 20 ___________________________________________________ 1998/11/12 __
-
- - Support for the new Apollo Advanced Playlist (AAP) format
- For further information, see the 'about'-section at Apollo homepage
- (http://apollo.grooveclub.com)
- - Added find feature to the playlist window
- - Reorganized the options dialog and added some new options
-
- __ Apollo 19 ___________________________________________________ 1998/11/04 __
-
- - The splash screen may now be disabled
- - The oscilloscope shouldn't cause crashes anymore
- Thanks to Thorsten Duhn for beta testing!
- - Should terminate the playback appropriately if the system is shutdown
- during playback
- - Apollo now behaves like every good Windows program should and uses DDE to
- exchange parameters. Thus the option "Allow multiple instances..." became
- obsolete and was removed.
- - Handles large (>50K) ID3v2 tags correctly
-
- __ Apollo 18 ___________________________________________________ 1998/10/28 __
-
- - Added a 16 band graphic equalizer
- - Won't cause "rain drop" noises after position change on sound cards based
- on the Vortex AU8820B2 chip (Turtle Beach Montego and Aztech 338-A3D PCI)
- - Also doesn't fall into an infinite loop after continous play of exactly
- 50 minutes and 43 seconds with the previously mentioned soundcards
- - ID3v2 tag support is now implemented with ID3Lib 3.04 (I hope it works...)
- - Fixed a bug that caused high noises in some MP3s
- (it's the same bug that Winamp/Nitrane has always had and still has...)
- - A bunch of changes, fixes and optimizations
-
- __ Apollo 17 ___________________________________________________ 1998/10/05 __
-
- - Fixed the bug that caused Apollo to crash under some Windows 9x systems
- Thanks to Lars HΣrk÷nen for beta testing!
-
- __ Apollo 16 ___________________________________________________ 1998/10/03 __
-
- - Changes in the menus
- - Shortcuts may be dragged from Explorer to the playlist
- - More playlist editing features
- - It is now possible to reset all options
- - Minor changes and fixes
-
- __ Apollo 15 ___________________________________________________ 1998/09/25 __
-
- - Added an oscilloscope
- - Better frequency analyzer
- - The silence level is now set in decibels rather than in percents
- - Added more shortcut keys
-
- __ Apollo 14 ___________________________________________________ 1998/09/23 __
-
- - Apollo didn't retrieve strings stored in registry under Win95/98
- - Columns in the playlist window should always span the window now
-
- __ Apollo 12 ___________________________________________________ 1998/09/16 __
-
- - Accelerator keys now work in mini window too
- - Added a status bar to the playlist window
- - Few bug fixes and some changes
-
- __ Apollo 11 ___________________________________________________ 1998/09/12 __
-
- - Selectable output device
- - Multiple instances may be allowed to run simultaneously
- - Added volume control
- - Added Open/Add Directory command
- - Minor fixes
-
- __ Apollo 10 ___________________________________________________ 1998/09/04 __
-
- - Fixed a bug in merge mode (caused Apollo to crash sometimes)
- - Adjustable pause between tracks
- - Changable rebar background bitmap
-
- __ Apollo 9 ____________________________________________________ 1998/09/02 __
-
- - Fixed a bug in MPEG2 decoder
- - Added a popup menu to minimized mode
- - Adjustable buffer pre-fill
-
- __ Apollo 8 ____________________________________________________ 1998/09/01 __
-
- - Changed the startup screen (it shouldn't bother anyone anymore)
- - Minor fixes and changes
-
- __ Apollo 7 ____________________________________________________ 1998/08/27 __
-
- - Added mini window feature
- - Ability to skip the silence in the beginning and in the end of a track
- - Options dialog didn't always accept the changes
- - Playlist doesn't leave crap on the screen while dragging
- - Fixed a bug in the WAV writer
- - Fixed a bug in the decoder which crashed some systems
- - Many other fixes and changes
-
- __ Apollo 6 ____________________________________________________ 1998/08/22 __
-
- - Fixed a bug in the installer (didn't install COMCTL32.DLL)
-
- __ Apollo 5 ____________________________________________________ 1998/08/21 __
-
- - Optimizations in the decoder
- - Minor changes and fixes in the decoder
-
- __ Apollo 4 ____________________________________________________ 1998/08/19 __
-
- - Optimizations in the decoder routine
- - Does not show empty ID3v1.x fields anymore
- - Fixed a bug in drag & drop support
- - Other minor bug fixes and changes
-
- __ Apollo 3 ____________________________________________________ 1998/08/15 __
-
- - Internet streaming support
- - Uninstall support
- - Better header synchronization routine
- - Fixed a few bugs in ID3 tag support
-
- __ Apollo 2 ____________________________________________________ 1998/08/13 __
-
- - Added (limited) support for ID3 tags (v1, v1.1 and v2)
- - Added the track properties window
- - Added possibility to decode MP3s into WAVs
- - More robust and error tolerant decoder
- - Minor changes in the user interface
-
- __ Apollo 1 ____________________________________________________ 1998/07/26 __
-
- - Original version
-