
CoolPlayer 0.9beta by Niek Albers

Where Nad ends, CoolPlayer begins....

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Features:

- Simple userinterface
- Fully working playlist editor with 
  drag&drop directories and lots of stuff!
- ID3 Multitagger
- File Renamer
- Xaudio mp3 engine
- Small executable in blazing fast 'C'
- Continuous play
- 8 band equalizer
- Lot's more...

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Why another MP3 Player?
Because there are not enough....

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Visit CoolPlayer's website at:

http://coolplayer.8m.com

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Revision history:
- 14.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3929

  + Added frequency and bitrate to the player window 
    There are two new values for the skin: BitrateText and FreqText
    which take the x and y coordinates of the two values
  + CoolPlayer should now even work with Win95 OSR 1 (with comctl32.dll prior
    to 4.71)

  bugfixes:

  + adding a file using 'add' in the playlist editor restarted playing song
  + When downloading a song and playing it, the positionslider went out of the player
  + When deselecting 'Scroll Songtitle' in options, this only worked when restarting
    the player.

- 11.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3869

  + Added scrolling songtitle!
  + fixed another bug switching skin.

- 8.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3821

  Fixed some buggers...

  + Equalizer and volume values are now stored in their real values
    instead of the pixelposition. This fixes the sliders when changing
    skin. The sliders need readjustment for this one.
  + Equalizer on/off only worked when moving the sliders.
  + Well known systemtray popup menu bug fixed.
  + fixed some small ones...
  + Got the filesize a bit smaller ;)  

- 5.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3703
  
  Fixed a weird bug, when dragging the CoolPlayer window and
  Show window contents when dragging is on, coolplayer got stuck in the
  corners. 

- 4.September.1999 CoolPlayer build 3673

  Major new release, 1.0b stadium reached. A lot of code is redesigned.

  + Skin support, see my website for a tutorial
  + Completely redesigned skin and icons by Rutger-Jan Hoogerdijk
  + Easy move option
  + Rotate icon can be turned on/off
  + Playlist editor button added
  + Shuffle is working now
  + Added keyboard shortcuts explanation in About window
  + Support for uppercase and lowercase fonts in the songtitle text.
  + Bugs fixed, possibly some new ones introduced.
  + SHIFT+F11 and SHIFT+F12 for skindesigners.

- 14.July.1999 Coolplayer build 2826

  Fixed a bug when starting 'coolplayer playlist.pls' from the commandline.
  A warning is shown when you tag a multiple selection.

- 19.June.1999 Coolplayer build 2806

  Fixed a problem when writing to wav, the player stays in response now.

- 18.June.1999 Coolplayer build 2803

  Removed a messagebox that wasn't suppose to be there!

- 18.June.1999 Coolplayer build 2802

  Finally it is here!

  + Internet streaming support! :
	for a streaming mpeg audio file you enter in the open location box f.e.:

	http://www.myserver.com/music.mp3

	or:

	ftp://me:mypass@www.myserver.com/music.mp3

	For a shoutcast server you enter f.e.:

	tcp://www.myserver.com:8000

	For an udp connection you enter f.e.:

	udp://www.myserver.com:8000

  + Wav disk writing support
	In the options you can select to write the data to a file.

	NOTE: If you write songs, the program will ask you for a destination directory;
	      to this directory all the songs in the playlist are written.
	      'Repeat' is turned off.

	      If you write a stream to a file, the program will ask you to set a
	      destination filename.
		
  + Switching songs goes even faster!
  + Several small bugfixes.

- 7.June.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2630
  Fixed a bug when renaming mp3's

- 5.June.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2626

  Lot's of new things!!

  + ID3 tag support
  + ID3 Multitagger : This is a tag editor that let's you edit the tags
                      for multiple files at the same time!
		      You can make a selection in the playlist, then open
 		      the Multitagger and you can set Artist, Album, year,genre
 		      and comment for each file at the same time!!
  + File Renamer : This features renames all selected files to the ID3 tag 
		   information. "Artist - Song". Only when the ID3 tag is valid.
  + Option to allow any extension in the playlist. When a file is not a recognizable
    format, it wil skip it.
  Some minor bugs fixed....
 
- 31.May.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2285
  + Added show remaining time option!
  + Add shortcut to desktop
  Fixed bugs: Add shortcuts didn't work correctly in win98.
 	      Sometimes a double '\' was in a path.
	      Shuffle in playlist is now more random.

- 26.May.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2230
  + No more need of shlwapi.dll - wrote my own stuff. Lot's of people don't have
    this dll or a working version.
  + The playing song will be kept visible in the playlist.
  + When repeat is on, pressing next at the end of the playlist will go to the
    first song. (previous just the other way) 
  Fixed a bug: Remember last directory works now correctly.
  
- 20.May.1999 Coolplayer 0.9beta build 2208
  Fixed a bug: When you play a song, and doubleclick another song in 
  explorer it will be played.
  + The tooltip of the coolsmile in the systemtray is now the
    title and the playing time.

- 18.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2196
  + Just in time small bugfix.

- 18.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2194
  New features!
  + Exit after playing: when the playlist ends, the player exits
    Automatically.
  + Remember Playlist: the last playlist is saved.
  + Keyboard Shortcuts: Winamp compatible.
  + Now you can drag files from the OpenFile dialog to the playlist
  + In the about box, a button to jump to the Coolplayer's website.

- 16.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2125
  Got that GDI-resource leak!

- 7.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2051
  Fixed more leaks, I really hope they are gone now...

- 1.May.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2013
  Fixed some memory leak, i hope....

- 19.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 2007
  Now you have a rotating icon in the systemtray!

- 11.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 1804
  Added the ability to change the slider color. For people
  how want to make a custom skin.

- 11.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 1750
  Fixed an output bug.

- 11.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta build 1743
  Added options, register filetypes, add startmenu icon,
  fixed resource leaks.

- 5.April.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta Build 1486 
  CoolPlayer works now if you register the filetypes!
  Fixed a bug for the location of 'coolplayer.ini'

- 30.March.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta Build 1423 solved ws2_32.dll problem

- 30.March.1999 CoolPlayer 0.9beta Build 1422 released to the public!

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Legal stuff

CoolPlayer is freeware,
copy it as much as possible.

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1999 Niek Albers
Comments/bugs/donations: nieka@dsv.nl

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