Spider Player 2.3.10 (June 3, 2009)

New:

• Preset Manager for Advanced Title Formatting Rules

  (with some built-in presets)

• the following new functions can now be used in title formatting rules:

  $upper(X), $lower(X), $iflonger(A,B,C,D), $substr(A,B,C),

  $repeat(X,N), $replace(A,B,C), $char(X)

Fixed:

• "Now playing" hint included album information twice

Notes:

• advanced title formatting feature is no longer experimental

• advanced title formatting applies only to file types supported

  by tag editor: MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV, FLAC

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Spider Player 2.3.9.9 (May 3, 2009)

New:

• "Save stream as a single file" radio recording option (PRO feature)

• Radio directory: better handling of busy Shoutcast/Icecast servers

• advanced title formatting similar to Winamp and Foobar2000

  (highly experimental, only a subset of features is implemented)

Fixed:

• crashes and memory leaks caused by the Favorites editor

Other:

• new and updated translations

• latest versions of input plugins

• installer no longer has the option to download a MIDI SoundFont

  (required for MIDI playback), due to high bandwidth it generates;

  please read our wiki tutorials on SoundFonts:

  http://spider-player.com/wiki/

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Spider Player 2.3.9.5 (December 8, 2008)

Improved:

• better support for malformed PLS playlists

• skinning: playlist window can now have rounded corners

Fixed:

• couldn't read tags from FLAC files

• couldn't remove global hotkey (visibility toggle) for Spider SFX

• skin bug (presumably fixed):

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1248

• BassEnc produced FLAC files with invalid duraton information

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Spider Player 2.3.9.1 (November 7, 2008)

Improved:

• new behaviour of the "Skinned windows opacity" option

• new option "Clear playlist before adding files from Explorer"

• improved hotkey support (if you don't use custom config,

  you may want to hit the "Restore defaults" button in the Options)

Fixed:

• "Add to Favorites" window showed hidden beneath the Playlist window,

  when "Always on top" option was enabled

• http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1295

• http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1134

• http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1303

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Spider Player 2.3.9 (November 4, 2008)

Improved:

• Web Search button can now be turned off in the Options

• some translations were updated

Changes:

• crossfading is now off by default

Fixed:

• http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1263

• http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1285

• crash when backward search button was pressed with no

  search text entered and no playlist items selected

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Spider Player 2.3.8 (October 25, 2008)

New:

• Backward search in the playlist

Improved:

• Radio directory:

  • hints for truncated lines

  • user is now notified, when Shoutcast service is temporarily

  unavailable

Fixed:

• Metadata editor didn't recognize UTF8 text in ID3v2 tags correctly

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Spider Player 2.3.7 (October 24, 2008)

Fixed:

• Could not read metadata from some MP3 files

• Player froze when "Enter registration key" button was pressed,

  if "Always on top" option was enabled

• Crash when the player is closed while a MIDI file is playing:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1199

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Spider Player 2.3.6 (October 22, 2008)

New:

• Web search menu added (right-click track info scrolling label

  to show the menu). Available options are:

  • find track/album on Amazon.com

  • find in Google, Yahoo! or Wikipedia

  • find music video on YouTube

  • find artist pictures on Flickr

  • find track's page on Last.fm

  • look for concert listings on Gruvr

  • find lyrics on LyricWiki

  • find track using Skreemr

  • copy track information to Clipboard

• "Sort by type" action added (Internet sources go first)

• Actions added:

  • Rewind 30 sec.

  • Forward 30 sec.

  • Volume up 20%

  • Volume down 20%

Improved:

• Shoutcast radio directory: "Top500" item added to the "Quick Genre"

  drop-down list (loaded by default)

• BASS audio library and plugins updated to the latest versions

• Lame encoder updated to v3.98.2

• OggEnc encoder updated to v2.85

• "Show untranslated lines only" option in the Translation editor

• Faster search/filtering in the Radio Directory, Translation Editor

  and Favorites Manager

• Some Windows Vista related tweaks

• to stop adding files to the playlist one can now hit the Escape key:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1204

• "Copy to folder" dialog redesigned, confirmation dialog is shown

  if a file already exists:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1213

Fixed:

• Spider SFX plugin is now fully Unicode enabled and doesn't cause

  troubles if Spider's installation path contains non-ANSI characters

• Skinning: the value of the "MenuButAnchors" attribute

  in the "[PLPositions]" section was ignored:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1223

• Invadid drawing of search boxes:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1225

• Issue with the tray icon's context menu:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1197

• Problems playing some Internet streams:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1226

• One couldn't assign a Tab key to an action:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1254

• Internet radio playlist not advancing

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1256

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Spider Player 2.3.5 (June 13, 2008)

New:

• Spider SFX DSP plugin

• favorites submenu in the tray menu

• color of the odd lines of the lists is now adjustable

• tooltips for various controls have been added

• minor interface changes

Fixed:

• freezes at the end of a song when playing APE files with

  corrupted tags

• proxy settings didn't work since v2.3 beta 1

• invalid "About Spider Player" window position on dual monitor

  configurations

• "last opened folder" bug:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1181 (5'th message)

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Spider Player 2.3.1.3 (May 26, 2008)

Fixed:

• http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1175

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Spider Player 2.3.1.2 (May 25, 2008)

New:

• Shift-click on a CD menu item (Main menu -> Play -> CD -> Drive name)

  reverses the current tracks addition mode

Improved:

• improvements to the DSP effects manager:

  • add or remove DSPs by pressing the SPACE or ENTER keys

  • buttons are now enabled only when they can perform an action

  • current DSP doesn't lose focus when being moved up or down the DSP chain

Fixed:

• main inteface windows placement issue on systems with multiple monitors

• balloon hint didn't show up when Internet radio was playing

• some minor fixes

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Spider Player 2.3.1.1 (May 22, 2008)

New:

• "Add to Favorites..." menu items added to the main menu

  and playlist's favorites menu

• Shift-click on a favorites menu item adds it to the playlist

  without clearing the latter

• blinking pause indicator

Fixed:

• some skins could crash the program

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Spider Player 2.3.1 (May 19, 2008)

New:

• secondary hotkeys for actions

• "Restore default settings" start menu item added

• "Wiki" button added to the About window

• new drag & drop behaviour:

  http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1161

Improved:

• hotkeys can be assigned much easier now

• Converter now handles CD arrival/removal events automatically

• support for saving lyrics to MP3 and OGG files

• U3 version of Spider Player now supports Winamp DSP plugins as well

• range selection in the playlist is now possible by holding the

  Shift key while using the Up/Down arrows

  Note: if upgrading to a new version, one must hit the

  "Restore defaults" button on the "Hotkeys" page of the Options window

  or assign the corresponding hotkeys to "Select range" actions manually

• when playing MIDI files, soundfont name is now displayed

  in the information box

• the player now remembers active DSPs from the previous session

• translations updated

• some other usability improvements

Fixed:

• balloon hint sound issue

• U3 version: incorrect handling of physical U3 Drive eject

• could not play, rip and get FreeDB information for some CDs

• broken playlist saving to PLS format

• file properties: "Remove tag" button didn't work

• one could not run multiple instances of the player

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Spider Player 2.3.0.2 (April 18, 2008)

Improved:

• album name information is now added to the application's title

  for better integration with AutoLyrix (http://www.autolyrix.com/)

  Note #1: AutoLyrix v0.4.3 beta 4 or higher is required

  Note #2: if you are upgrading to a new version of AutoLyrix,

  hit the "Default" button in the Preferences -> Players -> Titles

• improvements in the reference English translation

• Translation editor:

  • the Enter key can now be used to enter the editing mode

  • search menu added

• AAC input plugin updated

Changed:

• new icons for favorites and radio

Fixed:

• language drop-down list always had the "English" language selected

• tray icon tooltip didn't update when a song title changed

  (only occured when listening to radio)

• Windows Vista: crash on close when playing a MIDI file

• improved support for Right-to-Left languages

• some tray menu items and translation editor buttons

  didn't support Unicode captions

• next to the last line of the "DeviceInfoMemoLines" attribute

  (driver's filename) has been removed from all translations, as

  this information is no longer available

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Spider Player 2.3.0.1 (April 9, 2008)

Fixed:

• crash on closing under Windows Vista

  and XP (non-administrative accounts)

• issue with the iZotope Ozone Winamp DSP plugin (and, probably,

  other Winamp DSPs)

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Spider Player 2.3 (April 7, 2008)

Improved:

• the player doesn't load alternate streams of an Internet

  radio station anymore

• final stable versions of BASS audio library and its add-ons

• plugins for playing and converting FLAC, ALAC, MPC, OFR

  and SPX files are now included

• better handling of problem PLS files (but slower loading)

• installer improvements

Changed:

• naming patterns for plugins:

  • dsp_*.dll -> *.dsp

  • tag_*.dll -> *.tag

• Winamp DSP plugins directory:

  "Spider Player/Plugins/dsp_winamp" -> "Spider Player/Plugins"

Fixed:

• "Add to Favorites" action caused a memory leak

Updated:

• new versions of the MP4/AAC and AC3 input plugins can be found at

  spider-player.com in the "Plugins" section

• Japanese and Swedish translations

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Spider Player 2.3 Beta 2 (March 30, 2008)

New:

• Favorites manager:

  • items and folders can be rearranged using Drag & Drop

  • animated folding/unfolding

  • Drag & Drop from the Explorer

Improved:

• Favorites manager: folders are now added to the beginning

  of a tree node

• some Winamp DSPs added to the distribution

• updated translation: South American Spanish

Fixed:

• Favorites manager: a folder could be added to an item

• Winamp DSP Wrapper's configuration dialog now shows up much faster

Note:

in order for Winamp DSP wrapper to work correctly, the following

changes to Spider Player's sound options have to be made:

1) crossfading length has to be set to zero;

2) 32-bit sound processing has to be turned on.

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Spider Player 2.3 Beta 1 (March 28, 2008)

New:

• high-quality 32-bit DSP effects support

  • DSP Manager: combine multiple DSPs in any order

  • Winamp DSP wrapper: use Winamp DSPs with Spider Player

• advanced Favorites Manager with improved user interface,

  support for custom categories and comments

• quick access to favorites from the playlist window

• new versions of sound engine and input plugins (BASS 2.4)

• search feature in the Translation Editor

• "Edit Favorites..." action added

Improved:

• the player now unmutes automatically if the volume has changed

• better handling of invalid MP3 files

• "Application font override" option now affects menus too

• some other minor improvements

Fixed:

• the 16kHz slider of the equalizer produced no audible effect

  on files/streams with sampling rate below 48kHz

  (now a slider produces an audible effect if sampling rate

  of a playing file/stream >= 2 * slider's frequency)

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Spider Player 2.203 (March 2, 2008)

Updated:

• "Aqua" skin

• Dutch and Russian translations

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Spider Player 2.202 (February 29, 2008)

New:

• Shoutcast directory: "Top 500" stations list now loads by default

• incremental search

• updated translations: Czech, Romanian

• "Find next" action added (F3)

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Spider Player 2.201 (February 27, 2008)

New:

• new translation: Portuguese (Brazil)

• updated translations: Romanian, Vietnamese

Improved:

• shuffle behaviour when open playlists from Explorer

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Spider Player 2.2 RC2 (February 15, 2008)

Fixed:

• Language file editor save confirmation bug

• access violation on system shutdown/restart

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Spider Player 2.2 RC1 (February 14, 2008)

New:

• Language file editor added for easier translation

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Spider Player 2.2 Beta 6 (February 9, 2008)

Fixed:

• player suddenly closes when adding files/folders to the playlist

  (U3 version)

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Spider Player 2.2 Beta 5 (February 7, 2008)

Fixed:

• access vialation when trying to play a file (U3 version)

• wrong version number information (U3 version)

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Spider Player 2.2 Beta 4 (February 4, 2008)

New:

• direct access to the Shoutcast and Icecast Stream Directories

  with thousands of Internet radio stations listed

• recording of Internet radio streams:

  • direct MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC, AAC+ audio stream saving,

  no loss of quality (PRO feature)

  • encoding to MP3 (lossy, but can be used on any kind of stream)

• ability to load custom SoundFonts for MIDI playback

  (this also means that owners of non-Creative sound cards

  can now play and convert MIDI files too)

• support for ASX (Advanced Stream Redirector) playlists

• "Load playlist", "Save playlist" and "Add to Favorites" actions

  can now be accessed via hotkeys

• Track Info scroll label can now be dragged with mouse

• Mute Toggle and corresponding action

• Help on command line options of custom encoders (the "?" button)

• "Take no action on CD insertion" option

Improved:

• Options window is modeless again

• Play -> CD -> drive_letter command now works

  for Data CDs (e.g. MP3 CDs) as well

• faster start-up

• much faster loading of PLS playlists

• drag & drop to any window

• smarter sample rate info detection

• "Check for updates" now shows the list of changes if update was found

• when Drag & Drop a folder with lots of files, the source Explorer window

  no longer hangs until all files from that folder have been added

Fixed:

• incorrect bitrate detection of some Internet radio streams

• better handling of problem PLS playlists

• fixed saving of PLS playlists

• now paused playback won't resume if position slider was dragged

• click in the no column area of the Converter caused a fatal error

• access violation when trying to save tags to a FLAC file

• crashes, clicks, no sound when playing some URLs

  with the equalizer turned on

• "Edit Title..." command caused a "List index out of bounds (-1)" error

  if performed on empty playlist

• when was listening to an Internet radio station, application's title

  at taskbar didn't change when a new song began

• player couldn't get info from FreeDB for some CDs

• Failed to set data for '' error when assigning file associations

  if not logged in as administrator

• other minor fixes

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Spider Player 2.104 (December 1, 2007)

Improved:

• "Open URL" window now accepts links to M3U and PLS playlists

• "Load list..." action now starts playback automatically

Fixed:

• playlist hotkeys could work incorrectly under certain conditions

• file association conflicts

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Spider Player 2.103 (November 18, 2007)

New:

• "Add to playlist" button in the Favorites editor

Fixed:

• Proxy server settings didn't work (caused FreeDB and update check

  problems for users under proxy)

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Spider Player 2.102 (November 6, 2007)

Fixed:

• Converter's "Status" columm didn't update

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Spider Player 2.101 (November 5, 2007)

Fixed:

• VBR encoding to MP3 didn't work if "Min Bitrate" slider was set to

  a value lower than 32Kbps

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Spider Player 2.1 (November 1, 2007)

New:

• more converting options

• native support for FLAC and WavPack encoders

• support for custom encoders

• new interface for the Converter's settings

• equalizer presets import/export

• new action "Switch window", default hotkey is "Ctrl+Tab"

• ESC hotkey to close the Options window

• "Enter" hotkey to toggle equalizer on/off and "Space" hotkey

  to show the Preset Editor

Improved:

• encoding speed

• when "Allow Multiple Instances" is unchecked, trying to start

  the application again will bring up the current instance

• some minor UI tweaks

Fixed:

• acces violation when trying to view properties

  of a missing FLAC file

• Converter's "Status" columm no longer shows "95%" instead of

  "Done" after file has been encoded

• playlist contents now update after file's tag has been changed

• file's tag information can now be removed when the file is being played

• when playing long files the seek slider can't be moved past 159 min.

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Spider Player 2.03 (October 8, 2007)

New:

• "Open" submenu in the tray icon popup menu

• ability to edit playlist entry title

Improved:

• the player now comes on top (if not in the tray area)

  when a user double-clicks a file in the Explorer

• "File Properties" window is now modeless

Fixed:

• "Always on top" now works correctly

  Note: changes apply after the Options window is closed

• when a user selects two or more songs in a folder and presses

  the Enter key, only one file from the selection is played

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Spider Player 2.02 (September 22, 2007):

New:

• support for Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

• preliminary support for Right-To-Left languages

Improved:

• minor translation changes

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Spider Player 2.011 (September 18, 2007):

New:

• version for portable drives is now available

• updated OGG encoder with better support for multichannel files

Improved:

• hotkey removal confirmation box

Fixed:

• a comma as the version number delimiter instead of a dot

• some translation changes

• a critical error when showing properties of some remote files

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Spider Player 2.01 (September 15, 2007):

New:

• new buttons in the Converter and the Properties window

• every action of the Properties window now has its hotkey

• ability to install skins and icon sets in the Options

• ability to assign global hotkeys separately

• "Open URL" window now monitors the clipboard for valid URLs

• hotkeys to minimize/maximize the program

  and for the "Always on top" option

• Japanese and Netherlands translations added

Improved:

• minor UI changes to handle translations better

• some other minor improvements

• drag & drop operation now changes current directory

  (last added folder becomes current)

Fixed:

• Unicode characters as question marks in the Options pagelist

• a message showing a path when double-click on a skin file

  (if SSZ file type is associated with Spider Player)

• "mystery" error on WMA NetRadio Streams

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Spider Player 2.001 (September 11, 2007):

• fixed a bug with hotkeys not saving on some configurations

• Bulgarian, French and Spanish translations added

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Spider Player 2.0 RC 3 (September 4, 2007):

• fixed a bug with missing hotkeys

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Spider Player 2.0 RC 2 (September 3, 2007):

• BASS_FX plugin updated to the version 2.3.0.3 (some EQ bugs fixed)

• fixed a bug with lots of error messages when loading an invalid skin

• "Delete skin" button is now disabled for the Default skin

• wrong lines in the Translation information and Skin information boxes

• "Reload tag", "Remove Tag" and "Save" buttons in the "Properties" window

  are now disabled for unsupported formats

• file's tag can be saved while the file is being played

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Spider Player 2.0 RC 1 (August 29, 2007):

• when shuffle was on and a user physically deleted the last track

  in the playlist while it was playing, "List index out of bounds" error occured

• when converting started playback stopped

• WMA encoding was broken (files were always encoded as VBR Quality 50, 1-pass VBR)

• "Now playing" checkbox only available if "Minimize to tray" is checked

• "Check for updates at startup" no longer informs you

  that you have the latest version of Spider Player

• "Use skin font" option removed

• first installation default playback buffer length is now 1500ms and

  default Internet donwload buffer length is 5000ms

• global font didn't restore at startup

• global font didn't apply to the Converter's listview header

• in certain cases when the application received the WM_CLOSE message

  a critical error occured

• Favorites: Up/Down arrows didn't work as intended

• Favorites: "Clear all" button removed

• Favorites: confirmation dialog added for the "Delete selected" action

• "Next track" and "Previous track" actions didn't work when playback was paused

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Spider Player 2.0 Beta 2 (August 24, 2007):

• small main menu changes

• Options button in the converter window now calls encoding options directly

• now when "Play" is pressed, current item starts playing instead of first selected

• playlist up/down arrows didn't work by default

• URL history didn't work

• "Choose an action" -> "Rip" now always selects a correct drive

• some buttons' hints were updated

• a few new actions were added

• when a song was paused and a user double-clicked a file in the Explorer

  that file was added, but the old track resumed

• the ability to edit track names manually in the Converter

• "Restore defaults" button on the Hotkeys page of the Options dialog

• fixed "Cannot make a visible window modal." error

  when open Options while adding a folder

• playing CDs and converting them at the same time is no longer possible

• closing the Convertor or the program while converting caused a critical error

• language file structure changed (now ready for translation)

• smooth scrolling of track info

• "List index out of bounds" playlist errors

• fixed "Access violation at address..." error while listening to Internet radio

• sample rate detection didn't work for WMA files and Internet streams

• Enter key didn't work correctly in the playlist and the search box

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Spider Player 2.0 Beta 1 (August 13, 2007)

Crossfading support

Improved tag editing/information viewing

• new unified interface for all supported file types,

  with navigation through playlist entries

Tag editing plugins

• language independent API for retrieving/editing file information/tags in UTF-8

FLAC tagging support

New equalizer:

• better sound

• wider range (31Hz-16KHz)

• improved preset editor (hotkey navigation, multiselect option)

Improved CD ripping & converting

• new easy-to-use unified interface for both ripping and converting

Improved FreeDB support

• all data is now retrieved in UTF-8

Skinning improvements

• PNG support enables you to create better looking skins with nice transparency

  and soft shadow effects for graphic controls

Customizable local and global hotkeys

• assign any hotkey to any program's action

• use global hotkeys to control Spider Player while working

  or gaming in another application

Multimedia keyboards support

New icon set format

• creating icon sets is now faster and easier: no need for special software,

  all that's required are your favourite icons and any text editor

• new default icon set with a unique icon for each supported file type

Reduced memory usage

Full Windows Vista support

HTML playlist generation

Tray icon "Now playing" balloon hint on track change

Always on top option

Show selection stats playlist option

Auto check for updates option

Countless improvemens, bugfixes, major code rewrite/cleanup