Zoom Player 16
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"-" = Fix
--- What's new in Zoom Player v16:
* Optimized drawing of media library category thumbnails, up-to 43% faster.
* Optimized drawing of media library media thumbnails, up-to 38% faster.
* Optimized the time it takes to open the media library, in some cases up-to 50% faster.
* Optimized loading of the playcache file by up-to 17%, which should help Zoom Player open faster when storing play history over a long duration.
* Rewrote scroll update polling to improve smoothness when scrolling within the media library's thumbnail view.
* Due to a bug fix (see below) and optimizations to the code, Zoom Player should close a little bit faster.
* Media library folder based categories are now sorted on a per-folder basis. When entering a folder for the first time, it will always start sorted by name, but any change to the sorting mode will now persist without affecting other folders in the category.
* The media library category editor has been restructured. New categories are no longer automatically sorted in alphabetical order and instead always added to the bottom of the category list. New "Move up" and "Move down" buttons now allow you to manually re-order categories.
* The media library category editor can now be set to show "All" categories to allow sorting across category types.
* You can now sort the media library in Random order.
* You can now sort the media library by "Remaining Play Time" based on a percentage of the media's remaining play remaining.
* New "Preferred audio device cycle list" (Adv. Options / Playback / Audio) that allows you to select your preferred audio renderers and quickly switch between them".
* New Shift+"A" keyboard macro that switches between audio rendering devices on the Preferred audio device cycle list".
* TheMovieDB.org's media scraper is now capable of scraping U.S. Movie (G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17) and TV (TV-Y/TV-Y7/TV-G/TV-PG/TV-14/TV-MA) content rating. The content rating appears as an icon next to the other codec/format icons appearing in jukebox mode.
You will need to re-scrape your media in order to see content rating on previously scraped media.
* TheMovieDB.org's media scraper's configuration can now be set to scrape for "no language" content.
* When going up to the base folder in the file browsing fullscreen navigation interface, there is now a "Return to path list" option to make navigation more intuitive.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) to hide the media library's ****-data and category filter sections, using the extra space to display more media.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Playback / History) that controls whether erasing files to the recycle bin also removes their record from the play history.
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface) that uses the fullscreen navigation UI to confirm when deleting the currently playing file.
* New (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Customization) "Show play position bar on list icons with the this color" setting (disabled by default)
* New (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) "Show Previously Played counter in path area" setting that displays the number of yet to be played media within the current media library folder next to the folder's path (disabled by default).
* New Setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings) to control whether opening the media library should always try to show the currently playing file. With this setting disabled, the currently playing file would only show once each time a file is played and the media library is opened.
* New YouTube Playlist media library plugin which allows you to easily import YouTube playlists as Zoom Player media library categories.
* New network keep-alive feature (Adv. Options / Playback Files & Paths) that instructs Zoom Player to access the specified paths to make sure a network share does not disconnect for inactivity.
* You can now refresh a media library category with a new ********* button to update the display if the folder content was changed in the background.
* The "Start player in" setting (Adv. Options / Interface / Position & Size) has been split to provide a more granular control of how the player should start. Please note that this change required resetting this setting to it's default value.
* When going up to the base folder in a media library file list view, there is now a "Return to categories" option to make navigation more intuitive.
* Zoom Player's Event Ghost plugin has been updated to support all the latest Zoom Player functions: http://www.eventghost.net/forum/view...p=55891#p55891
* The navigation skinning engine has been enhanced to add more granular support for the path area's icons.
* Pressing the media library's refresh button will also refresh the scraped images, reflecting any manual changes to poster images.
+ The "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on entering a folder" setting now works better when used in combination with the "Nav-Enter on media library category list opens the category at the root folder" setting.
+ When both "Auto-select last viewed file/folder on entering a folder" and "Nav-Enter on media library category list opens the category at the root folder" settings are enabled, entering a category will highlight the folder containing the last played file.
+ Erasing files/folders from the media library will now erase their scraped ****-data/thumbnail cache from the "MediaCache" folder.
+ Using the "/LASTNAV" and "/MAINNAV" command line parameters no longer switches the user interface to fullscreen automatically, you must now add the "/F" parameter to maintain the same functionality.
+ Clicking the media library's "<" button now respects the "Nav-Left goes up a folder before entering the Drive/Category list" setting.
+ The "Show system library folders in the Media Library Navigator" setting has been removed and replaced by a new button in the media library category editor that lets you add the windows library folders with a single click. With this change, you are now able to easily customize the windows library folders.
+ The play history's "Erase" entries has been renamed to "Remove from Play History" to make it clearer the files themselves are not touched.
+ Switching to the 'system' sub-menu in the main fullscreen navigation interface will now switch the title from 'main' to 'system'.
+ When completing playback of a media, the play history dialog and fullscreen navigation interfaces will no longer show a zero position or no position at all and will instead show the media's duration to signify the media has been played all the way through.
+ You can now use the Home/End keys within the media library fullscreen navigation interface's category filter section to access the top/bottom of the category list.
+ Removing the currently playing media from play history will now close the playing media.
+ The fullscreen information navigation interface now splits long information into multiple lines.
+ For clarity, the media library's "Select / Unselect" and multiple selection functions have been split into two separate entries.
+ Opus audio duration is now retrieved when used with an ".ogg" container.
+ Opus audio duration is now retrieved by default when adding ".opus" files to the playlist. For existing Zoom Player users, to enable this feature you must click the "default" button next to the "Auto-Get Duration" section of the Advanced Options' "File Extension" page.
+ APE audio duration is now retrieved by default when adding ".ape" files to the playlist. For existing Zoom Player users, to enable this feature you must click the "default" button next to the "Auto-Get Duration" section of the Advanced Options' "File Extension" page.
- The caching mechanism for media library category thumbnail caching was mostly broken, not actually caching most of the thumbnails. With this fix, subsequently browsing the category list should be much snappier.
- Scraping ****-data for TV series where the folder contained an ".nfo" file didn't support IMDB IDs longer than 7 digits.
- Scraping ****-data for TV series where the folder contained an ".nfo" file with an IMDB URL didn't write the IMDB id into the ****-data cache.
- The RSS feed media library plugin wont show duplicate entries if the server moves from http:// to https:// links. However, old entries that were already downloaded before this fix may remain as duplicates.
- Enabling 'Force the navigation list or thumb view display to full width' caused cosmetic issues in the equalizer fullscreen navigation interface.
- Restoring after minimizing the user interface from fullscreen mode, no longer restores the user interface to windowed mode instead of fullscreen.
- Fixed a freeze when playing JPEG files with malformed exif headers.
- Renaming files/folder in the media library no longer causes the play position to be forgotten and ...