1.0.4.10 - 23/07/22 - Fixed: Startup issue with HQPlayer 4.19.2 1.0.4.9 - 2/01/22 - Fixed: Track length for dff files may show incorrect length. - Fixed: Window layout sized incorrectly when display configured in landscape mode. 1.0.4.8 - 2/01/20 - Changed: Improved readability of current track information panel. Added DR information for playing track. - Changed: Current filter information display improved. - Changed: Search in Album view improved. Type first few letters to jump directly to that artist. - Changed: Removed default filter option. Specify defaults for each source type separately with pcm,* & dsd,* - New: Allows for [Source] mode option. Adjusts filter display for each track. - New: Filter selection drop-down has button to load Filter Maps settings directly from main screen. - New: Filter Maps setting window has new 'Show Album Filters' button to display all album or playlist specific defined filters. Filters can be modified or deleted from the list. - New: Double-click on existing filter entry to modify output settings. (Click + to update). - New: Right click on Library tab label directly loads Library settings screen. - New: Phase invert button state is now remembered for the current zone after re-running Alchemy. - New: Auto-discovery of new HQPlayer filter types in Filter Maps settings. - New: Additional Filter Map types for source content matching: pcm,1x;pcm,2x;pcm,4x;pcm,44.1k+;pcm,48k+;dsd,1x;dsd,2x;dsd,4x;dsd,44.1k+;dsd,48k+ - Fixed: Adding tracks to existing playlist would cause the cover art image of playing track to be cleared. - Fixed: Album tracks display state was not restored when re-running Alchemy. 1.0.4.7 -20/07/19 - Changed: Added support for EC Modulators in filter maps for HQPlayer 4.1.0 1.0.4.6 - 27/04/19 - Fixed: Compatibility issues with HQPlayer 4.0 installation 1.0.4.5 - 12/09/18 - Changed: Added ASRC, poly-sinc-ext2 and sinc-M filter maps 1.0.4.4 - 1/09/18 - Changed: Cover-art images preloaded in library and folder views for smoother scrolling. - Changed: Added closed-form-M and closed-form-16M filter maps - Fixed: Play button was "unpressed" when adding additional tracks to playlist during playback 1.0.4.3 - 14/03/18 - Fixed: Playlists with tracks on a local drive erroneously shows message "Playlist contains tracks on a local drive..." - Fixed: DAC Modes would not allow saving of DSD modes 1.0.4.2 - 12/03/18 - Fixed: Connection issues with remote HQPlayer - Fixed: Verify function in remote setup not functioning correctly - Changed: Now shows HQPlayer version and platform when connected 1.0.4.1 - 03/01/18 - Fixed: Track next/previous would not function with HQPlayer 3.20.0 - Fixed: Appcrash when last track finishes for dynamic replay gain mode - Fixed: CD button not updated when switching to a zone with different cd configuration - Fixed: Adding a second zone not updating the link button to show zone list dropdown 1.0.4.0 - 02/12/17 - Fixed: Playlist Album text is truncated in some cases - Fixed: Custom Filter details not showing on album popup from right click - Fixed: Cover art does not show when tracks or playlist first loaded - Fixed: Track status display corrupted after playback completes with recent HQPlayer versions - Changed: When filter map sample rate exceeds available dac mode sample rate, now defaults to Max available rate - Changed: Updated to cater for new HQPlayer 3.19.0 library format - New: Custom filter can now specify a specific sample rate - New: Add option for auto playback as default and right click on Play button to toggle auto playback start as soon as tracks are loaded - New: Add option to enable CD mode and show CD mode button when feature is available in HQPlayer version >=3.15.1 - New: Zone function to allow up to 8 independent playback zones. Select alternate HQPlayer config xml to load for zone - New: Specify config to load for Zone when connected to remote HQPlayer over the network. Requires HQPlayer version >= 3.19.0 - New: Separate library and filter maps can be specified for a zone. Load specific default view for zone - New: Dynamic replay gain stores per track gain adjustments when clipping occurs, which is loaded on next play to prevent any further clipping for that track - New: Specify a replay gain offset for Fixed or Dynamic replay gain, which applies an additional 1-6db reduction for the whole album or playlist over the tag values. This is stored for the album or playlist where clipping is an issue with upsapmpling. - New: Additional album & playlist context menu items to reset playback history 1.0.3.4 - 24/02/17 - Changed: Modified track name display for non-tagged wav and dff files to full filename without the leading track number - Fixed: Adding a track to an existing playlist when currently playing would clear the cover art image - Fixed: Play status timer would flicker on some displays - New: Filter map entries can be re-ordered - New: Filter map entry output can be set to a specific rate - New: Filter map genre list is scanned from the loaded library (if present). When no library is loaded, a default genre list is presented - New: Playlists can be shared between users or PCs on the network 1.0.3.3 - 05/02/17 - Changed: Moved mixed Cyrillic to end of sort order - Changed: Improved handling of Album & Artist for non-tagged wav and dff files during library scan 1.0.3.2 - 26/01/17 - Fixed: Intermittant display corruption when swipe scrolling lists - Fixed: Display issue or appcrash when loading library using Cyrillic alphabet - Changed: Sorts mixed Cyrillic and English album names in correct sequence - Changed: 'Initialising...' status message now caters for longer initialisation time for new filters - Changed: Status message shows 'Connection to HQPlayer lost' when HQPlayer connection unexpectedly drops - New: Added poly-sinc-xtr-* options to Filter Maps 1.0.3.1 - 8/01/17 - Fixed: All setup tabs locked when direct library mode selected. Changed to lock only the library setup tab - Fixed: Default filter entry not showing in filter map list. Unable to delete or change default filter entry - Fixed: Folders view with muliple paths under same folder tree - back button was not handled correctly - Changed: Improved Browse folder window behaviour when browsing typed UNC paths - Changed: When no filter maps are defined, defaults to current HQPlayer filter selection - Changed: Moved filter dropdown to top of main window. Aligned filter selection panel closer to dropdown - Changed: Moved drive cache and volume/replay gain status to right of track status section - Changed: Compacted transport control area and cover art image to allow for larger playlist display - Changed: Album summary info has been moved to a tooltip display near the selected album icon - Changed: Reduced space taken below the album display and expanded the album list - Changed: Filter selection now shows invalid combinations with a --- - Changed: Install no longer requires a local HQPlayer instance to run. Can run as remote HQPlayer connect only. - Changed: Scrollbars and track list updated to match theme colors. - New: Control volume up, down and toggle mute with keyboard multimedia keys - New: Additional 'Not Played Since' Album view filter - New: Additional color scheme: 'Charcoal' 1.0.3.0 - 3/12/16 - Fixed: Load on startup not saving correctly - Fixed: Button hover showing incorrecly on touch screen - Fixed: Shared Library not syncing on startup - Fixed: Track properties window filling entire screen when long tag values are present - Changed: Albums within artist group view are sorted alphabetically. - New: Displays date imported, last played, year and number of plays in album summary - New: Filter album view by date imported, last played, year, format, sample rate, genre, number channels - New: Library, folders and playlists view now selectable from main window - New: Select startup view as library, folders or playlists in settings - New: Theme editor tab in settings to edit existing themes or create new theme - New: Ramdomly play all currently displayed albums with Shuffle Play. Stop to skip to next album, Clear playlist to cancel Shuffle Play - New: Right click Pause to pause after current track completes - New: Right click Stop to stop after current track completes - New: Option to launch Alchemy Desktop on boot - New: Sleep timer option to stop playback after a delay or at a specific time. Option to shutdown, hibernate or sleep PC 1.0.2.3 - 22/10/16 - Fixed: Library scan may create duplicate albums on rescan in rare cases - Fixed: Album info panel showing file type field incorrectly - Changed: Library scan report shows missing sample rate and channel information warning - Changed: Library scan shows total folders scanned as well as albums added in summary report - Fixed: Remove button in library setup would delete incorrect entries - Fixed: TagLib would reject flac file if metadata not to strict specifications 1.0.2.2 - 21/10/16 - Fixed: Cover Art with capital filename extension not displaying - Fixed: Accents in album view not sorting correctly - Fixed: Replay gain was showing 0db 1.0.2.1 - 15/10/16 - Fixed: Filter maps clear button would leave previous Genre selection. Now clears all previous list selections - Fixed: Initial startup on a clean install may result in main window too large for screen. Now starts at smallest size - Fixed: Library scan cancel does not clear previous partial scan results causing duplicates when scan is re-run - Fixed: Direct mode in setup was not disabling remote connect, library, dac modes & filters tab - Fixed: Missing or blank track title tag would cause library scan to not fill in channel, file type and sample rate information - New: Show Summary report after library scan to show how many albums were added and any errors found during the scan. Scan results are stored under C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Alchemy\Logs - Fixed: Display scaling now handles up to 150% scale setting - Changed: Drastically improved Album view initialization time for large libraries 1.0.2.0 - 11/10/2016 - Changed: Upgraded PugiXML to v1.7 - Changed: Upgraded TagLib to v1.11 - New: Tabbed setup window - Changed: Re-enable settings button by Ctrl+Shift click on About Window - Changed: Rename Ramdisk to Drive Cache - New: Allow remote connection to HQPlayer running on Windows, Linux or Mac. Auto-detect remote platform when HQPlayer 3.14 or newer installed. - New: Connect to remote HQPlayer via IPv6. - Changed: Improve dropped network connection handling to HQPlayer - Fixed: Intermittent crash when reloading main window after settings change - Changed: Improve library load time - New: Album view allows artist search by typing part of artist name. Folder search in Folder view by typing part of a folder name - New: Themed windows with customizable color schemes - New: Artist, Album and Genre fields editable from library scan results - New: Folder view can display Cover art image in any folder - New: Right-click in Folder view folder to load all subfolders as active playlist (replace when stopped) - New: Right-click on Album to replace active playlist when stopped - Changed: Album view expanded to include drop-down Track view to select individual tracks (defaults to entire Album) - Changed: Filters are now a drop down selection window. Displays the currently selected filter on main window - Changed: Active playlist and Track list views are enhanced to display information in easier to read format - Changed: Improved UI rendering for buttons and views - New: Additional filter map selections: pcm,mixed, and *,mixed to set filters for mixed rate family playlists to one of the poly-* filters - New: Fully sizable main window. Auto-adjust button and font size depending on size of window. Window size and position is remembered on next startup - New: Tracks can be reordered in an existing playlist, then resaved in the new order - Changed: Filter map settings now has one + button to add both Input and Output filters together. The previous selection is kept, so that muliple Input selections can easily be mapped to the same Output setting - Changed: Filter map settings shows new Filters and Modulators for HQPlayer 3.14 - New: Skip forward/back transport buttons now have auto repeat when held down with mouse button - New: Manual volume function available to directly control HQPlayer volume when Replay Gain is disabled. Volume up/down are auto repeat when held down with mouse button - New: Multimedia keyboard keys will now control transport functions 1.0.1.1 - 30/08/2016 - Fixed: Library Scan could crash if closed during progress. Prevent closing during scan. - Fixed: Changing library mode will be reflected in the Setup Library window without having to exit Setup window. - Added: Cancel button on scan status window to cancel scan. - Changed: Filter map output section would allow adding the filter components in the wrong order. Fixed vaidation to force the correct order. - Changed: Filter map output additional button to clear entry that is in progress. - Added: Display application version information in About Alchemy window from System Menu. 1.0.1.0 - 28/08/2016 - Fixed: Library load failure in fields that contain &, <, > or " - Changed: Show library load failure dialog with reason error message - Fixed: Correctly escape any embedded &, <, > or " chars on library scan and unescape back to original chars after load - Changed: Correctly disable transport & active playlist buttons when no tracks or HQPlayer unloaded - Added: Show missing tags message during load of library window - Added: Option to auto fill missing Album and Artist fields from folder structure and filename - Added: Read into .dff and .wav files for sample rate, channels & duration info during library scan & track loads - Changed: Change settings windows behaviour so they dont appear on taskbar - Changed: Pressing tick on Library scan window after scan will force reload regardless of what method used to close main settings window - Changed: Library window will show (folder mode) when this is selected in main settings and disable all scan functions - Added: Library load will show main window and status of load for large libraries. Same with Library window. - Fixed: Renaming or deleting a playlist when tracks are playing will replace or clear the active playlist tracks unexpectedly. 1.0.0.0 - 20/08/2016 - Inital release