version 25.9

[hvianna]

What's new

Added:

• New Advanced panel to move less-used options out of the main Settings panel;
• New Band Count setting;
• New Radial Size setting;
• New compact analyzer layout for watching videos and/or subtitles;
• Support for 5.1 surround audio output can now be enabled if your system supports it –
  I have limited hardware to test this feature on, so I'd appreciate any feedback you can share in the project's Discussions on whether it works for you;
• Import and export Settings;
• Import and export Gradients;
• Option to resize videos to fill fullscreen (removes black bars), in Configuration > Subtitles & Video;
• Option to invert scroll direction for Volume control, in Configuration > General settings - suggested by @JesusGod-Pope666-Info;
• Additional values for Background Dim, Bar Spacing, FFT Smoothing, Fill Opacity, Radial Spin and Reflex;
• On Console, added buttons to Copy messages to the clipboard and to enable Debug mode.

Changed & improved:

• User interface overhaul with increased font sizes and more consistent look among panels, buttons and other controls;
• The Analyzer Mode selection has been streamlined into three options: Bars (formerly band modes), FFT (formerly Discrete Frequencies) and Graph (consolidates former Area and Line modes);
• PEAKS and FADE switches have been combined into the new Peaks setting;
• SCALEX and NOTES switches have been combined into the new X-Axis Labels setting;
• SCALEY switch is now Y-Axis Labels;
• LINEAR and ANSI switches have been moved to the Advanced panel, as Level Scale and Octave Bands settings, respectively;
• Added a button to expand/collapse the front panel (the panel no longer auto-expands when moving the mouse near the bottom of the screen);
• Improved hover detection and increased the delay for auto-collapsing the front panel on analyzer hover; this feature is now disabled by default;
• Improved detection and loading of subtitle files;
• Files that fail loading/playing are now flagged in red color in the play queue;
• Increased the default maximum number of media files listed in the Background setting from 20 to 100;
• FFT Size and FFT Smoothing have been moved from the general settings configuration to Advanced Panel settings;
• Gradients and saved playlists are now listed in alphabetical order in their selection boxes;
• New default settings:
  • Background: album cover;
  • Bar Spacing: 20%;
  • Background Dim: 0.3;
  • Level Scale: Linear;
  • Line Width: 1;
  • Radial Size: 0.5;
  • [Weighting Filter:]((advanced.md#weighting-filter) D;
• Server configuration file (config.json) converted to YAML format (config.yaml) - see Self-hosting > config.yaml file (props to @Borewit).

Fixed:

• Loading of folder cover images, broken in v24.6 (reported by @JesusGod-Pope666-Info);
• OSD font size not being saved;
• pixelRatio not correctly reported on console when toggling low-resolution mode;
• Spurious folder entries in the file explorer when accessing web server media (reported by @JesusGod-Pope666-Info).

Removed:

• Balance control;
• mediaPanel URL parameter has been deprecated - use frontPanel instead;
• Custom file server module (just use npm start);
• Code from the unfinished Electron version;
• Support for legacy playlists.cfg file.

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This discussion was created from the release version 25.9.

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

Nice, lets give it a try :)

[JesusGod-Pope666-Info]

did you set the default back to 20 backgrounds? :S
Anyway have some issues with it loading the new version, it still seems to take the older version. Had to get Firefox to see the new version and get it loaded. There was something about cleaning out all the stuff, but my brain can not remember and all that. The typical nonsense of our days.