KinskyDesktop Beta has been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X
- Mono bundling has been reintroduced (Mono 2.10.4 is included in the installer)
KinskyDesktop Beta has been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X
- Temporary removal of mono bundling for OS X Lion compatibility
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed current source not being selected when the current source was set to non visible
- Fixed release year being returned as YYYY-MM-DD rather than YYYY
- Fixed composer being returned rather than artist when parsing DidlLite XML
- Fixed elapsed/remaining time widget showed old values when user selects a premap's external source
Windows
- Applied minimum size to room/source selection buttons
- Prevented artwork in browser resizing to very small size
- Allow window move on full size artwork
- Removed inconsistent mouse cursor on room/source selection dialogs
- Prevent user resize on crash log dialog, update dialog and save playlist dialog
- Cosmetic fix to update dialog
Mac OS X
- Fixed incorrect grouping of playlist tracks that have no album
- Changed appearance of radio and songcast source views to be consistent with the playlist source
- Fixed bug where clicking back button immediately after exiting "Now Playing" mode moved the main window
- Disabled browser style and size buttons when in browser album view
- Changed image displayed in current track info when no artwork is present or an error downloading occurred
- Added minimum and maximum constraints on the position of the spliiter bar
- Fixed problem with overlapping room and source selection buttons on resize of the view
- Fixed renaming of local playlists feature
Folder Plugin
- Fixed bug where artwork was not displayed on Unix systems
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fix not being able to change rooms
Windows
- Fixed displaying remaining time when track duration is zero
- Fixed grouping of items which are not part of an album
- Fixed transport controls not showing paused when playing a pausable track
- Fixed font weights on various bits of text
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fix crash on deleting multiple local playlists
- Fix crash on stack start
- Enhanced protection of volume increase from network latency issues
- Fixed plugins options reverting to defaults
- Fixed problems putting current room into standby
Windows
- Improved fonts and standardised album view between playlist and browser
- Resize on all areas of window chrome not just bottom right corner
- Technical track info in full screen mode
- Close room selection dialog on standby click
- Increased popup menu size for touchscreen support
- Start multiple instances of KD non-overlapping
- Fixed mouse wheel scroll bug in list views
- Added delayed repeat on rocker controls initial click
- Fixed installer trashing existing KD when .NET framework fails to install
- Fixed quick search on Twonky artist view
- Fixed permissions issues with auto updates
- Grouping by album artist as well as album title in playlist
- Double click header bar to toggle Kompact mode
Mac OS X
- More efficient scrolling in browse mode
- Option to group tracks by album in playlist
- Added artist information to albums listed in the browser where metadata allows it
- Added background to back button
- Improved rendering of currently playing item info
- Added tech info to "Now Playing" screen
- Fixed glitch in volume rotary control
- Fixed hovering bug with rocker controls
- Fixed assert when selecting UPnP media renderers
- Improved album view of the browser to be consistent with playlist view
iTunes Plugin
- Removed internet connection dependency
KinskyDesktop Beta has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed migration issue with the new 'Last Selected' room option
Windows
- PC media keys can now be used to control volume and transport features
- Improved handling of metadata in quick search
Mac OS X
- Fixed permissions problem with installer
- Fixed about box image
KinskyDesktop Beta has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Improved graphics
- Removed grouping on sources
- Fixed various crashes on startup
- Numerous stability fixes
Windows
- Better handling of "Hide cursor" option
- Fixed bug where UI would become unresponsive when downloading remote images with no internet connection
- Added support for mouse back button
- Added check for updates feature
- Removed colour options
- Option to group tracks by album in playlist
- Added rocker controls
Mac OS X
- Separate install of Mono is no longer required (Mono 2.8.1 is part of bundle)
- Artwork cache now operates based on memory usage rather than number of images
- Added rocker controls
KinskyDesktop Beta has been released.
KinskyDesktop Alpha has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed startup crash when local playlist folder cannot be found or created
- Fixed crash when there are 2 media servers on the network with the same name
- Fixed issue where AAC files could not be added to the DS playlist
- More robust handling of incorrectly formatted DIDL-Lite
- Improved UPnP event handling
- Improved handling of changes in network adapter
Windows
- Added missing radio metatext from fullscreen mode
Linux
- Added missing radio metatext from fullscreen mode
iTunes Plugin
- Fixed crash bug for some users when attempting to play or browse tracks (depending on users region settings)
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed multi-threaded issue when writing user options
Windows
- Fixed album artwork not showing in browser when viewing an album's tracks
Linux
- Fixed album artwork not showing in browser when viewing an album's tracks
BBC Plugin
- Changed "Listen Again (Only UK)" to "Listen Again (UK)"
iTunes Plugin
- Fixed bug where some albums were not correctly indexed into the browse tree
- Improvements to stop artwork errors from preventing browse tree being displayed
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed preamp coming out of standby when switching off a connected DS
- Plugins are now sorted based on predicted usage patterns
Windows
- Fixed plugins that cached web content writing to protected disk location
BBC Plugin
- Adorned "Listen Again" container with "(Only UK)" to highlight to end users that listen again is only available in the UK
- Fixed bug where "Podcast" container would show no episodes
iTunes Plugin
- Performance improvements when parsing iTunes library
- Fixed iTunes library failing to load when it contains playlists that have the same name
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- BBC, iTunes, Folder, Shoutcast, WFMU and MovieTrailers plugins now installed by default
- Product name and version now written to UserLog
- Improvements to artwork window
- Fixed crash bug when a rescan was started when no network interface was configured
- Improved logging of DIDL lite errors
- Fixed bug with creating DIDL lite for some extensions to the upnp:class types
Mac OS X
- Added display of track duration or radio stream bitrate to playlist view
- Display dialog when the application crashes prompting user to send debug report
- Fixed bug in options pages when cancelling file/folder path browsing
iTunes Plugin
- Added album art support for audio tracks containing embedded album art
- Sort tracks in albums by their track number
- Added top level container for all albums in the collection
- Added better handling of undefined music track properties
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X
- Fixed crash on startup when using Mono 2.6.7
- Fixed crash when detecting network adapters fails
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
Windows
- Fixed excessively slow browsing on some older PCs
Linux
- Fixed excessively slow browsing on some older PCs
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
Windows
- Removed Type information from being displayed when browser is in Tile mode
Linux
- Removed Type information from being displayed when browser is in Tile mode
BBC plugin
- Renamed 'Live Radio Streams' to 'Live Radio'
WFMU plugin
- Renamed 'Live Radio Streams' to 'Live Radio'
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X
- Fixed crash when rendering time and volume rocker control text
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X
- Fixed crash when room or source lists are visible and the list is changed
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed crash when a UPnP Device XML friendly name has no value
- Fixed crash when artwork was downloaded from an external HTTP server
- Fixed occasional unhandled exception on application shutdown from some plugins
- Fixed bug in iTunes plugin where purchased content was not being sent to the DS
- Fixed PS3 media server browsing
Windows
- Fixed the room list being unsorted on first opening
- Fixed libraries not being rescanned on hitting F5
Mac OS X
- Fixed potential crash in handling DIDL-lite without title
Linux
- Fixed the room list being unsorted on first opening
- Fixed libraries not being rescanned on hitting F5
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed bug in iTunes plugin where tracks containing URI escaped characters did not play
- Media Servers that disappear from the network are now also removed from display in the browse window
- Fixed application lock up when a Media Server has updated content
- Browser now correctly responds to updated content in plugins
- Real-time refreshing of iTunes plugin data when content is added or removed via the iTunes application
- Changed the iTunes logo to the current iTunes 10 logo
- Dragging an external folder into the playlist window now correctly expands the tracks into the playlist
- Dragging a folder from the folder plugin is now fixed
- Fixed deadlock where multiple tracks were deleted from a stored local playlist
- Fixed deadlock when dragging tracks into a stored local playlist
- Fixed bug where certain audio files dragged from the Folder plugin would not playback on the DS
- Moved application crash log files to be in application data folder rather than alongside exe
Windows
- The parent container is now selected when moving up in the browser
Mac OS X
- Fixed disappearing shuffle and repeat buttons when they are disabled and an item is dragged over them
- Fixed application lockup and general misbehaviour when the BBC plugin is installed
Linux
- The parent container is now selected when moving up in the browser
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Improvements in handling bad network adapters
- Internal HTTP server now shared between all locally running instances of KinskyDesktop
- Fixed potential lock up under network activity
Windows
- Fixed minimise/maximise buttons appearing in fullscreen mode
Mac OS X
- Fixed sample rate not being shown for lossy codecs
- Added Kompact mode
Linux
- Fixed minimise/maximise buttons appearing in fullscreen mode
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
All Platforms
- Fixed direct play of file with symbols such as # and , in their filenames
- Added support for radio metatext
- Plugin installation in done within the application rather than through an external browser
Windows
- Fixed bug where the selected track did not play when 'Play' was selected in the context menu
- Fixed crash when 'Delete' was selected in the context menu and no track was selected
- Fixed bug where option dialog button text was not legible when using Windows Classic theme
- Fixed release to include Folder plugin
Mac OS X
- Fixed play now/next/later icons not disappearing from transport control after drag 'n' drop
- Fixed crash when artwork fails to download
- Fixed application hanging when browsing media
- Fixed rendering of artwork that is not square
Linux
- Fixed bug where the selected track did not play when 'Play' was selected in the context menu
- Fixed crash when 'Delete' was selected in the context menu and no track was selected
- Fixed bug where option dialog button text was not legible when using Windows Classic theme
- Fixed release to include Folder plugin
KinskyDesktop Beta has been released. The specific changes include:
Windows
- Updated to use the same plugin architecture as the Mac OS X version
Mac OS X
- Added tabs to browser window
- Added icon view to browser window
- Added resize button to cycle through album art size in browser
- Added view button to toggle between icon and table views in browser
- Better handling of network interface card selection
- Auto selects network interface if there is only one present
- Informs user how to select a network interface when there are multiple present
- Added tooltips and ability to turn them on/off through Prefrences dialog
- Fixed bug in UPnP stack that stopped NaimUniti from operating correctly
- Fixed bug where browsing music could hang application
Linux
- Updated to use the same plugin architecture as the Mac OS X version
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed bug in UPnP stack that stopped NaimUniti from operating correctly
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X (Beta)
- Error dialog is now displayed when launching application if Mono is not installed
- Added support for remembering application dimensions between sessions
- Better handling of plugin installation where an application restart is required
- Fixed Auxiliary panel not resizing correctly on main window resize
- Fixed bug where Debug log window kept application open when main window closed
- Fixed bug where file selection option did not allow a user to select a file
Folder plugin
- Added support for adding and removing folders from 'Preferences' page
iTunes plugin
- Plugin now has a first guess at where user's iTunes library XML file resides
- Added support for configuring by dropping iTunes library XML file into plugin's root container
- Better reporting when plugin incorrectly configured
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X (Beta)
- Added Support for dragging tracks onto transport control to Play Now/Next/Later
- Added technical information to track information panel
- Information options can be found under 'General' in Preferences dialog
- Added buffering image to time widget
- Added playlist saving support
- Main window size is now save between sessions
- Artwork is now downloaded in a separate thread to improve list browsing performance
- Plugins are now loaded in a separate thread to improve application startup time
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X (Alpha)
- Added context menus to Playlist, Radio and Browser windows
- Added Folder plugin support
- Fixed drag 'n' drop into Playlist window
- Fixed downloading artwork with spaces in the URL
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X (Alpha)
- Support for deleting tracks from playlist by dragging to waste bin
- Added mouse hover and mouse down states to toolbar buttons
- Added external source view
- Added context menus to Playlist and Radio views
- Fixed crash when clicking in a blank area of the breadcrumb
- Fixed wrong network card being selected by library plugin
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X (Alpha)
- Added support for artwork in browser, playlist and preset panels
- Added playing indicator to playlist and preset panels
- Breadcrumb now uses native Cocoa widget
- Fixed crash when selected network interface is not enabled on application startup
- Fixed crash when updating items in media browser
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
Mac OS X (Alpha)
- Migrated from using WinForms to Cocoa
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed rendering bug when cycling views and window is maximised
- Fixed resolution issue on CD and Playlist source icons
- Changed icon used to represent a Room
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
- Updated to tablib 2.0.3.7, providing support for direct play of ALAC, AAC and AIFF tracks
- Improved artwork caching architecture
- Room and Source selection now uses a dialog box rather than combo boxes
- Added fullscreen view for Playlist and Radio source; access by cycling through views
- 'Now Playing' is no longer child of parent window allowing user to minimise windows independently
- Fixed not being able to seek on tracks less than 50s long
- Fixed Playlist widget not recalculating height when font size was changed
- Fixed Title bar on a themed form wrapping when it cannot fit in the space provided
- Fixed Playlist insert bar offset rendering issue
- Fixed bug where Upnp/Av's volume control was not correctly set on reconnection
- Allow displaying of track metadata even if UPnP/Av renderer does not event the current URI
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- Double-clicking systray icon now makes KinskyDesktop the top most window
- Fixed rendering issue when scrolling playlist view using cursor keys
- Removed startup source setting
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- Added menu item "Online Help" which links to online manual
- Improved playlist layout by adding more spacing at the top and bottom of collection headers
- Fixed bug where shuffle/repeat event would fire multiple times
- Fixed incorrect conversion of DidlLite's res element's bitrate attribute
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed bug when pre-caching metadata from user inserts
- Fixed KeyNotFoundException caused by network race condition
- WebRequest pool now restricts pool to a minimum, (rather than maximum), pool of 20 threads
- Optimised Playlist widgets rendering of collections with large number of tracks
- Support for dropping dpl files into playlist window
- Cursor changes to hour glass over playlist during insert to provide better user feedback
KinskyDesktop Beta has been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed current track not being displayed on UpnpAv source
- Fixed bug where technical track information would display information for the previous track
- Fixed bug where inserting tracks into the DS playlist could cause a deadlock
- Fixed crash caused by AndroMote not setting metadata for track on UpnpAv source
- Fixed crash when SSDP socket bind fails
- Technical information is not displayed on UpnpAv source
- Added Preset view for DS Radio source
- Transport control for CD sources now allows play/stop rather than play/pause
Folder plugin
- Fixed handling of files with corrupt tag information
- Log file reading errors to debug console
- Progress indicator shows percent complete to improve feedback
- Uses main artwork cache, improving memory consumption
Library plugin
- Progress indicator shows percent complete to improve feedback
- Double clicking on an item now performs 'Play Now' action
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed playlist not scrolling when moving highlight with cursor and page up/down keys
- Fixed bug on Windows where Library plugin does not to appear in browser due to bug in uninstaller
- Fixed bug where technical track information would display information for the previous track
- Fixed bug in Folder plugin where browse location was not reset to top level when moving to a new tab
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed crash on startup when PC has multiple network cards enabled
- Fixed crash when enabling and disabling network cards
- Reading playlist items from DS are now batched for better network efficiency
- Windows installer now downloads and installs .NET v3.5 if not already installed
- New DS Playlist widget
- Supports artwork
- Supports grouping of tracks
- Better handling of moving tracks in DS playlist
- Better support for artwork when browsing libraries
- Fixed status bar rendering bug on mono
- Fixed bug where media server would not appear in list
- Moved more standard WinForm forms to custom themed forms
- Added ability to customise colours and font size (Tools->Options...->Fonts & Colours)
- Fixed UI blocking on initial subscribe to source
- New Folder plugin
- Allows browsing of directories from inside browser window
- Drag 'n' drop folders into top level to add to browsable folders
- Drag 'n' drop folder from top level to waste bin to remove from browsable folders
- Added SysTray support
- Allows quick access to Play/Pause/Next/Previous/Mute
- Allows quick access to showing/hiding KinskyDesktop
- Fixed bug where gapless audio was not possible when serving files through KinskyDesktop's DirectPlay
KinskyDesktop has been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed browser bug which stopped plugins being installed
- Added Sonos support to Topology
- Fixed compliance bugs in http server used for serving local media files from KinskyDesktop
- Track seeking control, correctly, disables if seeking is not possible within a track
- Various Topology bug fixes
- Updated Radio, Video and Star icons to new style
- Fixed endless source cycling bug
KinskyDesktop RC4 has been released. The specific changes include:
- Fix bug in Windows installer where installer could leave installation in a broken state
- Fixed unhandled exception when scanning a dropped audio file with no title tag
- Fixed bug when re-subscribing to the Playlist source after a device reboot
- Fixed bug where Playlist cache was not being cleared between device reboots
- Various Topology bug fixes
- Fixed wrong track being selected in UpnpAv playlist when same track is in playlist multiple times
- Fixed UpnpAv preamp not being enabled
- Fixed bug where device discovery did not work after network adapter change
- Fixed code to handle suspend/resuming of PC
KinskyDesktop RC3 has been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed bug where playlist would not show when a user put a room into standby and then reselected the room
- Fixed 'Show Tooltips' option not being adhered to on startup
- Fixed bug where aborting Id array/content directory retrieval thread could cause mutex to be left held
- Handle ServiceException when initalising a media server's ContentDirectory service
KinskyDesktop RC2 has been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed bug where Playlist source appeared as an Auxiliary source and was not selectable
- Fixed bug where non compliant Upnp/Av devices would crash application
KinskyDesktop RC1 has been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed transport control position under Linux
- Fixed regression in Upnp/Av support
- Various Topology improvements to allow support for different system configurations
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- Improved Windows installation process
- Better handling of the case when a user downloads a plugin that overrides the standard plugin
- Fixed rendering bug where mouse over state stayed on when user moved dragged item out of transport control
- Updated various incorrect layout graphical errors
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed glow images appearing too dark due to mono resource generation bug
- Updated Windows, Linux and Mac Kinsky icons
- Improved drag 'n' drop of large numbers of items into playlist
- Added button control for volume and track seeking
- Original rotary volume and track seeking controls can be enabled through Options...->General Options
- Added tooltips to controls
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- New user interface aesthetic
- Added glow effects to interactive areas
- Fixed crash when handling artwork download error
- Fixed crash when changing network adapters
- Various other minor improvements and bug fixes
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- New Topology implementation which resolves preamp source switching bug
- Fixed bug where room and source could getting into an endless selection cycle
- Fixed DPL to remove ns from res element (DPL files written before this release will no longer work)
- New artwork cache implementation to reduce memory consumption
- Added delete playlist option to playlist context menu
- Fixed threading bug in service subscription code
- Handle case when playlist save location has become invalid
- Various Linux improvements
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed bug where plugins installed over the web would hang KinskyDesktop
Updates to KinskyDesktop Beta have been released. The specific changes include:
- Improved Kinsky plugin management
- Uninstall is done by dragging plugin into waste bin
- 'Plugin' plugin is now a link to plugin webpage
- Fixed plugins not installing due to Vista UAC
- Added ability to turn on window's border which improves Mac and Linux compatibility
- Improved look of browser tabs
- Fixed metadata update crash
- Full support for Upnp/AV media renderers
- Added better handling of Upnp/AV media renderers eventing bad XML
- Added better visual feedback when dragging items from browser
KinskyDesktop Beta has been released. The specific changes include:
- Added tabs feature to browser window
- Plugin section is now removed from settings file when plugin is uninstalled
- Fixed plugins not be able to be dragged from IE
- Fixed bug where switching network cards would make plugins appear more than once in plugin browser
- Fixed bug where debian package contained files that were not required
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed application becoming unresponsive when trying to use the BBC Podcast plugin directly after the plugin has been installed
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Fixed packages to include all the required assemblies
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- New plugin management system
- Various layout improvements and graphical updates
- Fixed rotary wheel rotation speed
- Library, playlist and plugin icons changed to be more intuitive
- Fix for bug where .NET web services would hang, which caused devices to be removed by watchdog
- Fix bug where tracks dragged to waste bin were not removed
- Added support for UPnP/AV devices
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Source type "Ds:Cara Media" changed to "Playlist"
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- New Kinsky plugin architecture
- Added UPnP Media Server brwoser plugin
- Added local playlist saving and browsing plugin
- Added various new options to options dialog
- Various improvements to interaction model
- Updated artwork to incorporate additions and enhancements
- Various small fixes to allow running on Linux and Mac
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Updated to use the MediaTime service for source elapsed time
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Stopped creating UpnpAv controller as its not fully implemented
- Updated shuffle/repeat/standby and info buttons with new mouse over/down images
- Modified the way the browser list view is populated to better support AssetUpnp
Updates to KinskyDesktop have been released. The specific changes include:
- Added ability to delete save playlists
- Added support for drag 'n' dropping external URIs
- Added user log system which provides the user with some helpful high level information
- Added the various graphics for the application's widgets
KinskyDesktop Alpha has been released.