PPlayer development resumed

Pascal257 — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:30:54 -0000

Hello there,

I finally got the time to resume the development of PPlayer. I just got the code and the IDE and will now start bugfixing some problems which occured during my absence. I will also shutdown the php-Backend for a while and revipe it with an upcoming plugin.

PPlayer also got a new website:
http://kuehne-its.de/index.php/pplayer

greetings,
Pascal Kühne

PPlayer 0.9.5 released

Pascal257 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:00:31 -0000

1. PluginSystem introduced:
* The PluginSystem shares the plugins available for PPlayer
* It comes with a tab in the settings containing a list of Plugins available
* You can enable/disable plugins, get information on them at this place

2. New Plugin: MiniPPlayer written by Ivan (i542.net)
* Small plugin which shows name of song and play/pause controls

3. New Plugin: BugReport
* Plugin to report Bugs and/or request new features and plugins

4. Stream plugin reviped:
* New GUI with a list containing every stream
* Engine improved now playing many more streams (everyone you could play with WMP and some more)

5. Playlist improvements:
* Closing PPlayer will now save the current Playlist
* On Startup your old list will be restored and the play started on old position
* Note: This feature is disabled on default
* Its now possible to drag folders on the Playlist
* The songs on the playlist got some new items in the contextmenu

6. Settingsimprovement:
* There are more settings available for “PlayMode”
* More settings for “General” will follow in next releases
* One new setting: AutoSearch Excludement

-> The user can exclude tags from the AutoSearch (for example “live” - no song with “live” in it will be added)

7. Improved Rating:
* Clicking on the Star next to the playlist will open a window containing 20 stars
* To change the rating the user just clicks on one of the stars
* A small label informs the user which song he’s rating

8. Small changes:
* PPlayer will now start after creating the database on first run
* The songinfoload is now much faster due to a new system
* Covers will only be downloaded if they do not exist in the musicfolder
* Crashsystem: After a crash of PPlayer the user will be introduced what to do
* After one month of the release the user will get a message begging him to download the latest version

9. Bugfixes:
* The problem with the slider is finally fixed
* Many crashes on uncommon events were fixed
* Focusing on the playlist was fixed
* “Skindatabase not responding” while rating a skin fixed
* Deleting many items on PlayList causing PPlayer to crash fixed
* and many many more

More:
http://pplayer.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/095-gone-gold-stable/
Download:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=206085&package_id=246414&release_id=563871

greetings and merry christmas,
Pascal

PPlayer 0.9.5 RC3 released

Pascal257 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:43:15 -0000

This version might be the gold release.
Changes:

Folders can now be dragged on the playlist
The last playlist will now be saved and played when PPlayer starts (defautly disabled)
Coverload can be deactivated
The user can now specify tags that should be excluded from the AutoSearch (eg. “live” will exclude any “live”-song)
The user can now set the time when a song should be rated positivly
Maaany bugfixes

Have fun,
Pascal

PPlayer 0.9.5 beta released

Pascal257 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:44:50 -0000

Warning! Some mayor bugfixes incoming ;)
Due to the fact that soo many people helped me developing this version I was able to fix more bugs than in any other version. So thanks to everybody contributing PPlayer! Stay tuned ;)
For those who think “uhm yeah I want to help developing PPlayer too” the new version has a fitting plugin for you.
Its called BugReport and actually carries a list of links to the Tracker of PPlayer @ Sourceforge.

But the most important new feature is the PluginSystem. Its introduced in this version and ready for testing.

It comes with a list showing the plugins available and giving some information about them.
Doubleclicking a plugin will display more detailed information in the edit below.
Checking/Unchecking a plugin will enable or disable. Plugins will automatically be downloaded if they don’t exist.

I said that I fixed many bugs in this new version. Here’s a list of them:

1. Links writeable on SongView-Tab
The user was able to change the links. That wasn’t intended to be possible.
2. Chinese OS error
3. Playlist scrolling (not approved)
4. SongInfodisplay showing strange timeinfo
5. PPlayer playing next song but showing info of last song
6. Smoother startup due to saving some inputs from PHP-Backend
7. Readded “Offline”- Msg for SongView

At the end of the list of changes I want to announce the I modified the time requiered before a song rating is increased and its “heard” that means its counted in the statistic.
In earlier it needed 50% of the time played. Now its 83,33%.

Note: This version is not available through the Updater because its still flagged as beta. Its working but not stable. I recommend using this version due to the significant bugfixes.

Have fun,
Pascal

PPlayer 0.9.4 released

Pascal257 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:32:27 -0000

PPlayer is a media player offering many amazing features. It combines Podcasts,Streaming and an intuitive music search in a user designed interface. Just started its able to play nonstop music without any input from the user. It analyses the current song and searches in the database for a song matching the parameters of the user.

This search is highly optimizeable for the user from its own interface also holding a manual search input.

The new version fixes some minor bugs but also introduces some new features:

- PlayList enhancement: The playlist got a big enhancement. It's now possible to Drag'n'Drop songs. The playlist is now much faster, but has to be tested: Itself its in beta.

- New icons: The old iconset contains now every icon requiered (No buttons on GUI left) and a new iconset has been added and made default. Thanks i542 for the nice icons!

- Stream-Plugin: The new version introduces the Stream-Plugin making PPlayer able to listen to Net-Streams (Net-Radios).

- Bugfixes: Some minor bugs got fixed in this version. The most significant bugfix is the remove of the crash on exit. Wherefore the debugger was disabled and the updater now longer has the IE-Obj until the error isn't fixed.

I also try to fix the file association, but its actually not fully featured in the version. (But it should run).

- Other changes:
The status bar is now defaultly disabled but you can enable it in the settings.

PPlayer 0.9 released

Pascal257 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:31:49 -0000

PPlayer is a media player offering many amazing features. It combines Podcasts,Streaming and an intuitive musicsearch in a user designed interface.
Just started its able to play nonstop music without any input from the user. It analyses the current song and searches in the database for a song matching the parameters of the user.
This search is highly optimizeable for the user from its own interface also holding a manual search input.

The new major release version 0.9 introduces some interesting features:
The top position of the long list of changes got the revived design. In early days of PPlayer the interface looked really boring, but now the users get some utils to make their own interface:
0.9 goes along with 20 Skins which can be easily enhanced and be made available by and for the community. Furthermore the user is able to change the position of the controls on the interface.
For example some users could like a bigger cover display. They can easily change the size of the cover label and then also submit their change to the community.
If a skin or kxf (Interfacechange) is accepted by the community it may reach the top position of the list and thus default skin. An intelligent algorithm makes this possible.
Someone installing PPlayer will now download the best skin during the installation. If they dislike the skin they can just change the skin.

The next important features is the statistic in the 0.9 package. It creates tables using information logged by a database to inform the user of his music behavior.
The development of PPlayer is actually implementing a feature called "AutoMode" or "24/7-playing":
It uses the statistic to optimize the search automatically.

PPlayer - SongView takes the collected information and creates a profile for the user. This profile can be implemented into a blogpost or a forum-signature and will inform the reader of the current song played or the behavior of the user.
This is useful in little communities, where just everybody's friends or in topic related forums (Band forums, Music forums, Genre forums etc...)

Each change can be taken from the change log and each feature of PPlayer with a description can be found on the wiki.

Have fun testing and enjoying PPlayer,
Pascal

Working on 0.8.9 -> 0.9

Pascal257 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:45:31 -0000

I'm actually working on 0.8.9 but's its not going to be released to public.
The next release is 0.9 introducing many new features.

We're testing 0.8.9 with its features now and then i'll go on to 0.9.

Any feature coming with 0.9 is secret, but I can say that multilanguage support finally is one of them. So I'm looking for translators for 0.9 so please contact me! pascal.kuehne@gmail.com

greetings,
Pascal

Sourcecode released!

Pascal257 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:46:51 -0000

I just released the sourcecode.
Take a deeper look on the CVS ;)

greetings,
Pascal

Sourcecode coming soon

Pascal257 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:23:00 -0000

Hey there,
I'm actually getting my code commented so that its readable for everybody.
I think I'm able to release the code in 1 week.

Greetings,
Pascal

Recent posts to news