This page contains the release notes of current and past versions.
For a more complete help, please visit the FAQ section of the website: PlayerPro FAQ.
Release v2.72 - 20 May 2013
This release brings a couple new features and some bug fixes:
- Album/artist artwork enhancements:
- Album/artist artwork is now displayed in its original scale in all browser views (grid and list).
- Increased the quality of the artwork downloaded on high resolution devices.
- Improved accuracy of album artwork auto search function.
- Album/artist artwork search functions now return more results.
- Notification enhancements:
- Option to select the layout for expanded notifications (Jelly Bean only): Settings > Look and feel > Expanded notifications layout.
- Option to enable ticker text when changing songs: Settings > Look and feel > Enable ticker.
- Ability to manually edit song lyrics (long press on a song and select the edit option).
- Updated translations.
- A few bug fixes.
Release v2.7 - 16 March 2013
This release brings a couple new features and some bug fixes:
- New status bar icon (compliant with Android design guidelines).
- Option to auto-start playback when a wired headset is plugged in (requires PlayerPro micro service).
- Option to auto-start playback when a bluetooth headset/A2DP device is connected (requires PlayerPro micro service).
- musiXmatch support/integration:
- musicXmatch is now the default lyrics search engine. The previous search engine (internet) is deprecated.
- Ability to switch between the old search engine (internet) and musiXmatch via Settings > Music library > Lyrics > Source.
- Option to display embedded lyrics when available (instead of using the lyrics search engine): Settings > Music library > Lyrics > Prefer ID3 lyrics (enabled by default).
- Option to ask for a confirmation before using the lyrics search engine (musiXmatch/internet): Settings > Music library > Lyrics > Ask confirmation (enabled by default).
- Option to pause between songs (useful for professionals like musicians and teachers): Settings > Audio > Pause between songs.
- Fixed a bug that was causing PlayerPro to continue playback after all songs have been played (repeat option off).
- Increased the sharpness of the launcher icon on high resolution screens.
- Updated translations.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.62 - 10 February 2013
This release is a patch update following v2.6 release:
- "Pause upside down feature" can now be activated independently of the Shake it feature.
- "Prefer ID3 artwork" option now applies to status bar notifications.
- Added "Notification text style" option for status bar notifications (Settings > Look and feel). Should be used in rare cases where the notification text color is hardly visible (android versions prior to GingerBread).
- Fixed a bug causing the player to stop randomly.
- Fixed a crash impacting smart playlists using Genre as criteria.
- Fixed a crash impacting the creation of a new playlist (Galaxy Tab specific).
- Fixed a display issue for iTunes embedded lyrics.
- Layout optimizations for small (QVGA 240x320) and large (tablets) screens.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.6 - 3 February 2013
This release brings a couple new features and some bug fixes:
- New website with FAQ section: please visit www.aplayerpro.com.
- Home screen widgets enhancements:
- All home screen widgets are resizable (requires Honeycomb). To resize a widget: long press on it and drag its corners. Some of the widgets resize only horizontally.
- Classic (4x1), Small (2x2) and Medium (3x3) widgets can be added to the device default lockscreen (requires Jelly Bean).
- Added option to adjust the transparency of the widgets (availbale from the widget configuration screen). Please make sure all your skins are up-to-date with the latest versions available on the Google store.
- Added previews for all widgets (requires Honeycomb).
- UI improvements. Please make sure all your skins are up-to-date with the latest versions available on the Google store.
- Better support for tablets.
- Widget Pack update: v2.7.
- Bug fixes.
- Added option to display prev control in the notification status (enabled by default): Settings > Look and feel > Status bar > Enable prev control.
- New shuffle algorithm:
- Songs are not repeated until all songs are played once.
- Positions in the shuffle list are remembered: going backward in the shuffle list and then forward will playback the same songs.
- Harmonization of options menus:
- Added Settings option to the player screen options menu.
- Added "Save now playing" and "Clear now playing" options to all browser options menus: allows to save/clear the now playing list from anywhere and not only the player screen.
- Transferred all contextual options from the player screen options menu to the player screen contextual menu. Long press on the album artwork to bring up the contextual menu for the player screen.
- Harmonization of contextual menus:
- Added Edit, Search, Share and Delete options to the player screen contextual menu (long press on the album artwork to bring up the contextual menu for the player screen).
- Added Share option to the song browser contextual menu: allows to share any song from your library and not only the currently playing one. Long press on a song to bring up the contextual menu for that song.
- Added "Use as ringtone" option to the song browser contextual menu: allows to set any song as phone ringtone and not only the currently playing one. Long press on a song to bring up the contextual menu for that song.
- Search result screen is now skinned.
- Added "Pause when upside down" option to Shake it options: Settings > Shake it > Pause upside down. Allows to pause playback when the phone is turned upside down.
- Added option to download missing artist pictures: Settings > Browsers > Download artist pictures now.
- Fixed smart playlists bugs when using Genre as criteria.
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Updated many skins with bug corrections and UI improvements. Please make sure all your skins are up-to-date with the latest versions available on the Google store.
- Updated translations from crowdin.net.
- Lots of other bug fixes.
Release v2.5 - 16 December 2012
This release brings a couple new features, new skins and some bug fixes:
- ICS/Jelly Bean support:
- Added ICS/JB customization: menus, dialogs, buttons, settings ... More to come in coming weeks/months.
- Fixed a few bugs impacting Jelly Bean.
- Notification enhancements:
- Added larger artwork.
- PlayerPro notifications are now compliant with system notifications (text color and size).
- Added support for expanded notifications (Jelly Bean only): Settings > Look and feel > Enable expanded notifications (enabled by default).
- Playlist enhancements:
- Added 'Genre' and 'File path' as possible criteria for smart playlists.
- Fixed the 'empty playlists' bug.
- Added option to remove duplicates: Option menu > Remove duplicates.
- Added option to sort playlists (excluding smart playlists): Option menu > Sort.
- All playlists (excluding smart playlists) are now automatically backed up on the external/internal sdcard, in PlayPro/Playlists folder (m3u format). You can copy the PlayerPro folder from one phone to another (when changing phones) or back it up before a firmware update.
- Added option to restore backed-up playlists: Settings > Music library > Restore playlists. Use this option to restore your playlists when changing phones or when your playlists are accidentally modified/deleted by another app/process.
- Added support for HTC sound enhancer (only available on some recent HTC phones). Provides audio effects like: Beats Audio, SRS, Dolby etc. You can access the HTC sound enhancer from Settings > Audio > HTC Sound enhancer.
- Increased the playlist history to 1000 to avoid repeating songs too often when shuffling.
- Improved scrolling performance on certain phones (ICS+ phones).
- Added a 'Search' option when long pressing on a song: brings up a list of all apps that can be used to search this song. Allows to search video clips for songs on Youtube.
- Declared PlayerPro as external video player. Allows to playback videos in streaming from internet or from any file explorer app.
- 'Go to artist' option (long press artwork on player screen) is now compliant with artist click action.
- Removed the 'Scan for installed skins' option. This option is no longer required as PlayerPro can now detect new installed skins automatically.
- New skins:
- Holo ICS skin. Thanks to Sebastian Porta.
- New color variations of the Cloudy skin: Cloudy Green, Cloudy Red, Cloudy Orange, Cloudy Magenta, Cloudy Copper. Thanks to Thomas Doussin.
- New translations.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.44 - 12 June 2012
This release brings a few bug fixes and two new skins:
- Added an option to adjust the transparency of the lockscreen widget background: PlayerPro settings > Lockscreen settings > Widget transparency.
- Fixed a bug impacting the display of lyrics in chinese, korean or japanese.
- Two new skins:
- Cloudy Pink skin: thanks to Thomas Doussin.
- Fluo Green: thanks to Sebastian Porta.
- A few other bug fixes.
Release v2.43 - 04 June 2012
This release brings a few new features and two new skins:
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: starting with this release and during four weeks, two new skins will be released per week. A total of 8 new skins will thus be released over the coming month. Keep tuned and check for the new skins every week!
- New sorting feature. From the options' menu, select the "Sort" option and pick a sort value:
- Song/folder browser: sort songs by track number, title, file name, album, artist, duration, year, date added or duration. Ability to reverse the order of the sorting or to select specific values for album songs sorting, artist songs sorting, folder songs sorting etc.
- Album browser: sort albums by title, artist, year, or number of songs. Ability to reverse the order of the sorting or to select specific values for artist albums sorting, genre albums sorting etc.
- Artist browser: sort artists by title, number of albums, or number of songs. Ability to reverse the order of the sorting or to select specific values for genre artists sorting.
- Lyrics management improvements:
- Added ability to zoom in/out when viewing lyrics.
- Player "Keep screen on" option now applies to the lyrics screen.
- Lyrics screen automatically updates to match currently playing song.
- Added an "Always use this action" checkbox in the search lyrics warning popup (allows to skip the popup when checked).
- Added a warning popup when trying to quit the lyrics screen whithout saving current lyrics. Added a "Don't ask again" checkbox in the latter popup to ignore the warning.
- Fixed the "Failed to save lyrics" error.
- Added option for bluetooth AVRCP support in Settings > Music library > Notifications. Android does not have any built-in support for AVRCP. This feature is thus EXPERIMENTAL. It has been tested successfully on a variety of phones that have integrated AVRCP natively.
- Two new skins:
- Cloudy skin: thanks to Thomas Doussin.
- ICS skin: thanks to Grégory Meyer.
- A few bug fixes.
Release v2.42 - 19 April 2012
This release brings audio enhancements (DSPPack v3.2) and few other features or fixes:
- DSPPack v3.2:
Warning: please make sure to update PlayerPro, the WidgetPack and the DSPPack to the latest versions available on the market (respectively version >2.42, version >2.6 and version >3.2).
Support for gapless playback and crossfade in PlayerPro is only be available through the DSPPack (v3.2 and above). This is because Android has no native support for these features. If you have not yet installed the DSPPack and would like to try it out, please follow this link and installation instructions: PlayerPro DSPPack.
- New icon and welcome screen.
- Gapless playback support (activated by default). Can be disabled using Audio Settings > Gapless option. When using gapless playback, it is recommended to set the Audio buffer size to "Medium" value or above ("Large" or "Very large").
- Auto crossfade support (activated by default): crossfade to the next track when currently playing track ends. Ability to adjust auto crossfade time and to enable/disable "auto crossfade when shuffling only" option (see Audio settings > Crossfade section).
- Manual crossfade support (activated by default): crossfade to the next track when currently playing track is skipped. Ability to adjust manual crossfade time (see Audio settings > Crossfade section).
- Added option to activate native effects with the DSPPack (see Audio settings > Native > Native effects). When this option is activated, PlayerPro uses native Bass Boost and Virtualizer effects (the volume control from the audio effects screen is replaced by a Virtualizer control). This option is available for Android > 2.3 phones only. Please use this option with caution as it produces unexpected behaviour on certain phones and/or ROMs.
- Added option to adjust playback priority (see Audio settings > Audio priority option): use this option only in case you are experiencing playback skipping and setting the audio buffer to the maximum value doesn't help.
- Improved smoothness of the seekbar.
- Various bug fixes.
- Audio settings menu update.
- Notification status enhancements (ICS phones only):
- New control button icons (play/pause and next).
- Aligned album artwork and text with other notifications.
- Added option to remove the stop control from the notification status. See Look and feel settings > Status bar > Stop control.
- Added option to remove the notification status when playback is paused (see Look and feel settings > Status bar > Remove on pause). By default, the notifiation status is removed when the player is shut down (either by using the option menu "Quit" option or after 60 seconds of inactivity).
- Added support for bluetooth AVRCP 1.3 for CyanogenMod Roms ONLY (EXPERIMENTAL). Note: Android does not have any built-in support for AVRCP so AVRCP support will tentatively be integrated on request and when possible for very specific Roms.
- New presentation for the "Help, release notes" section.
- Fixed a bug causing PlayerPro to skip and crash.
- Other bug fixes.