[gui-talk] Fwd: MardySoftware: MaPlEr V1.16.0 released!

[Steve Pattison]

This is a shareware media player designed to work with screen readers.
It can be downloaded from
www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php

Regards Steve.

From:    Terje Strømberg te-stro2 at online.no
To:      gw-info at gwmicro.com

Resend this. Because it is a good player and maybe recorder and radio
and ripping software and playlist.

Take care
Terje Strømberg

Fra: mardysoftware-bounces at as-2.de [mailto:mardysoftware-bounces at as-2.de] På

Hello together,
Here we come with a new release of our mediaplayer and play list
creator MaPlEr.
We have included many new features in this version.
We think it's worth to read the "what's new"-section, because there
are some exciting ones. Now MaPlEr is able to record through your
sound card, for digitalizing tapes, making direct speech recordings,
etc. and it's possible to follow the peak of the recording.
Now informations about album, artist and title can even be
stored in wave files,
And much more!

MaPlEr is now available in portuguese too. A special thanks to
Carolina herdy & Mauricio almeida - Blind games Brazil
who did the translation!

We would appreciate your commends, bug reports and suggestions for
further versions!

You'll find the "what's new" as always at the end of the mail.

Just go to "help" and click "search for updates" to download the
newest update.

Have much fun with the new version!
With best regards from germany
your Mardy-Team
Andy and Marco

What's new in version 1.16.0:
new features
- Now MaPlEr is available in portuguese too.
  A special thanks to
  Carolina herdy & Mauricio almeida - Blind games Brazil
  who did this great job!
- New path for all MaPlEr files:
  Microsoft would like it very much, if you, the programmer,
  store all files, needed by an application, under a special folder.
  With version 1.16 MaPlEr copies all those files to a path, of your
  choice. If you are not sure how to handle this,
  just press "enter" on the first startup of V1.16,
  and MaPlEr will copy all the files to your personal folder.
  This dialog will show up only once.
  The advantage of this is, that you know where all
  these files are, and if you restore your hard disc with
  an image program, all your settings won't be lost!
- Added a brand new dialog "recording", shift+c.
  Here you can record what ever you want. You can choose
  the output format, as known from the convert-tracks-screen, the
  input (e.g. line-in, midi), and, of course, the path and filename
  where the recording should be stored.
  The checkbox "monitor output" lets you hear exactly what
  you are recording, it's like the monitor of a good
  old tape deck.
  There's an edit box where you can read the current peak, ranging
  from 0 (silent) to 100 (full). If these values go over 100
  your recording will be distorted.
  With the left and right arrow keys, you can adjust the
  level of the input in the list of the inputs and in
  the field with the peak meter.
  with the spin edit "update peakmeter" you can tell MaPlEr
  how often the peak meter should be updated.
  A word about the "new" command in the record menu:
  if you press the letter "n" for "new" while recording a
  new file is created and the recording will go on in this
  new file - that you can seperate the tracks of a tape,
  for instance, while the recording is done.
- Added a dialog Settings | Playback settings, where you can
  adjust frequency, pitch, tempo, volume, channel mode,
  the equalizer bands and the sound font for all situations,
  where no play list specific settings can be found.
- All information like artist, album, title, etc. are now available
  in wave files too. They can be entered via the properties dialog
  (alt+enter).
- new setting under optical settings:
  hide unchanged status infos.
  This will hide all infos in the status list, that are on their
  normal value.
  This means: if, for example, the pitch is unchanged,
  (pitch 0 %), the whole line with the pitch won't appear
  in the status list.
- New setting under the player menu
  Cursor follows player
  If this entry is deactivated, MaPlEr will move on to the next
  track, without moving the list. This is useful, because your screen
  reader will not tell you every new track.
  When you move the cursor by hand or stop playback, the cursor in the 
  list will be repositioned automatically.
- added "only stop playing" to the sleep timer. This gives you all
  the choices of the sleep timer like 5, 15, 30 minutes etc.
  but after the time the computer won't shutdown, only playing
  will cease.
- Help | FAQ on the web
  will bring you to the page where all our articles regarding
  MaPlEr are stored.
Changes
- added
  - File name without extension
  - extension
  - bitrate
  - track elapsed time
  - track remaining time
  - sound font
  as new columns.
- Often the screen reader has not the focus on MaPlEr when it is
  starting. This should belong to the past! ;-)
- Convert tracks...
  - added %r for "track of CD" and
    %u for "unique number"
    as new values for the file mask.
    You can use %u to be sure, that every filename
    in the resulting folder is different from the other.
  - added a Text field, where all resulting file names are
    listed. At the bottom all possible values for the file
    mask are listed too.
  - Added a "next CD" button. This means: you're ripping a
    CD and want to ripp another. Just click on "next CD"
    MaPlEr will open the drive door, insert the next one,
    close the drive door by hand, and after a few seconds
    you are back in the "save tracks" dialog and can
    start ripping of the next CD.
  - added selection of 8, 16, 24 or 32 bit output for wave files.
- moved "Save playlists in extended format?" to advanced settings.
- moved "select sound font" to a separate dialog under the 
  settings menu.
- all keystrokes for "full volume", "normal speed", etc. will now set 
  the values to the value from playback settings. e.g., you enter 50 
  for volume in playbacksettings. Pressing ctrl+v will set the volume to
  50.
bug fixes
- if MaPlEr converts files, no track information was saved in
  the resulting files - fixed.
- When moving tracks in a play list, the information in the .MEI file
  wasn't updated correctly - fixed!
- corrected some bugs in the .mei feature!
- the volume when recording a radio station was'nt saved correctly - fixed!

Regards Steve
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
Skype:  steve1963
Twitter:  steve9782