Short:    Powerful multiformat audio player (V2.10)
Author:   Thorsten Hansen <t.hansen@katodev.de>
Uploader: Thorsten Hansen <t.hansen@katodev.de>
Version:  2.10
Type:     mus/play


                          AMPlifier
                          =========

                   AMPlifier is Shareware!


   Powerful MPEG audio player

   supports hardware decoder:

      Melody Z2, Melody 1200 plus/pro, Peggy+, CD32 FMV


   software decoding using mpega.library and AHI or X-Audio.


   Info: User without a Melody or any other MPEG HW decoder must switch
         to AHI in the prefs.




Features:
---------
  * Supports musicam up to Layer III and even AIFF, MAUD, WAVE and RAW.

  * Basic functionality known from CD-Players
    (play, pause, stop, forward, backward, skip back, skipforward)

  * Powerful plugin system - for external visualization plugins

  * Resizeable and configureable user interface - easy to use

  * WinAMP skins (different gfx designs)

  * Opens and moves to any public screen on your choice

  * Comfortable and fast move to any position in a song by using
    a pos-slider

  * Powerful Playlist (sortable, loop support).

  * Load, Save and Edit of playlists.

  * Random play

  * Simple drag&drop of files and drawers. (drop it over the
    playlist window to add it)

  * Recursive scan through directorys with pattern matching (d&d).
    with possibility to abort!
    (drop a drawer or volume on the player or playlist window)

  * ID3-Tag support to get closer and better infos from the songs played
    (artist, title, album, year,...)

  * Time remain/elapse display

  * ARexx port

  * Commodity

  ...



Short history:

2.10
   - added multiselection (shift) and drag&move on playlist
   - added mousewheel support
   - fixed volume bug with AHI output
   - fixed saving solid moving option

2.01
   - fixed strange bug when changing the GUI

2.0
   - new plugin module architecture supporting input and output plugins
       input modules:
       --------------
       MPEG audio player
       AIFF/MAUD player
       WAV player

       output modules:
       ---------------
       X-Audio/AHI output

   - support skins for playlist
   - graphical equalizer
   - realtime window moving + automatic window docking
   - new configfile format
   - much more internal changes...

1.55
   - ID3 genre was not updated after it is changed
   - fixed strange hanging/freeze bug when quit while playing
   - fixed buffer problem with raw audio files

1.54
   - new context specific popup menus - depending on the mouse position
     the right mouse button opens a context menu under the mouse.
   - more built-in visualization modes (context menu)
   - faster move to any position by clicking beside the pos-slider
   - fixed enforcer hit when pressing on the next/previos buttons and
     no song is loaded

1.53
   - fixed bug in player code
   - doubleclick on song title opens the Tag-info window

1.52
   - support for volumes/dirs on CLI startfile argument
   - selecting no title on song-req scans the whole directory
   - fixed Tag-info editor comment bug
   - fixed a timer-io bug

1.51
   - advanced intelligent decoder routine
   - added ID3-Tag info editor
   - added CLI popup option
   - added AHI volume boost option

1.50
   - new powerfull plugin system - support for external visualization
     plugins
   - true-color visualization plugin
   - optimized audio output (avoids skipping)
   - fixed MPEG loading bug on few MPEGs with an odd aligned header
     (much more faster now)
   - fixed ARexx wait command

1.48
   - increased filecheck buffer
   - highlight the active title in the playlist
   - added default playlist directory

1.47
   - added title scrolling
   - fixed pattern config bug
   - fixed bug when moving the slider in pause mode

1.46
   - improved MPEG filetype identification
   - added doubleclick select option
   - added playlist move up/down functions
   - more improved ARexx commands

1.45
   - new advanced buffering routines, avoids interrupts on software decoding
   - fixed problem identify few MP3 files
   - added extendend WinAMP2 skin features (balance)
   - added default song directory and start file
   - optimized visualization (vu-meter and scope is much faster now)
   - click on the right bottom edge from skin opens the settings window.

1.42
   - skinlist is now sorted
   - added skin visualization (vu-meter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer)
   - few bug fixes

1.41
   - changed playlist display
   - added file name and path to ID3 title format

1.4
   - added Skin support (different gfx designs)
     Hi/True-color screen recommended for most designs.
   - more options saved in config file (random, loop, time mode...)


1.35
   - new and extended ARexx commands


1.3  *** major update since MPEGPlay

   - new name :)
   - support musicam up to layer III
   - ID3 TAG info support
   - software MPEG decoding
   - AHI support
   - X-Audio support
   - improved buffering for software decoding
   - asynchrone playlist
   - diplays time, total time and number of titles
   - easy configuration
   ...


Thorsten Hansen

Kato Development
WWW:http://www.katodev.de