AMPlifier 2.21
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 © 2000 Thorsten Hansen
 Kato Development
 http://www.katodev.de

 Shareware version!


DESCRIPTION
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 Powerful multiformat audio player.
  MPEG, AIFF, MAUD, WAV,...

 supports hardware decoder:
  Melody Z2, Melody 1200 plus/pro, Peggy+, CD32 FMV

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

 Please read the manual for a detailed description.


REQUIREMENTS
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 AmigaOS 3.0+
 MPEG: If software decoding is used only <mpega.library> is required.
       For hardware decoder a proper mpeg.device is required.


FEATURES
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 * 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
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2.21
   - added EQUALIZER tooltype option to enable the eq
     (default the eq is disabled now)
   - faster anim framerate
   - changed skin browser menu entry
   - fixed standard GUI play bug when player is stopped
   - fixed wrong AIFF headersize calculation

2.20
   - added resample function in output modul (no samplerate problems
     on X-Audio drivers like paulaaudio.device)
   - added manual playlist advance option
   - cutting the fileextension on the title display
   - added showing numbers in playlist
   - redesigned playlist - the playtime is now at the end on each row
   - skin display fixes
   - added Xing variable bitrate support
   - added boingball animation
   - few more bug fixes and improvements

2.12
   - better module handling using a internal priority. This will fix the
     problem where in some case the AIFF/WAV files are not recognized.
   - added plugin title info function
   - fixed the fileinfo display on standard GUI

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
   ...