Colibri 1.8.8 Changelog

Posted on by Gábor Hargitai

BS2B

  • Colibri now has BS2B support (SourceForge) with per song and per audio device automatic profile switching
  • Added options in Menu -> Colibri for resetting BS2B device and profile data

EQUALIZER

  • Added 10-band Peaking Equalizer support with per song automatic profiles switching

REPLAYGAIN

  • Added support for ReplayGain either from audio file metadata or Cue Sheet

ENHANCEMENTS

  • Album Art in Colibri’s main window is now clickable, double click on it to see the cover image in a popover window!
  • Album Art loading has been extended: the first readable jpg / jpeg / png is loaded if no suitable files is found
  • Reorganized the Playlist, Display and Behavior sections in Settings
  • Added option to load all files of a folder when opening one of them in Finder
  • Added option of selecting the default behavior for adding songs from Finder: play at once or enqueue silently
  • Added option of clearing the playlist on exit
  • Status bar now has a ‘Stat’ section which shows the total number and total time of the tracks in the playlist
  • Moved the time elapsed/remaining from the Status bar to the main window title as a selectable option
  • Added option of setting the main window title: switch between time combinations and branding
  • Added option of setting Pre-cache kickoff time (5/10/15 seconds before current song ends)
  • Added option of setting the amount of RAM used for audio cache/buffering
  • Added option of setting the DSD data sending method (Auto/DoP/RAW)
  • Playlist now closes ‘upwards’ instead of moving the player window downwards
  • The folder crawling algorithm has been given an extensive makeover
  • Cue Sheet processing has been rewritten to have better error correction
  • Added menu entries for seeking forward and backward within Menu -> Controls
  • Added hotkeys for increasing and decresing volume by 10%: Control + Up/Down
  • Added menu entries for increasing and decreasing volume by 10%
  • Improved memory management of Adaptive Read-ahead
  • Colibri 1.8.8 has gone through a core rewrite for better multi-thread support
  • Added ‘Play song now’ option to Right-click/Control-click menu of Playlist
  • Improved metadata support for APE and ALAC files when loaded from Cue Sheets

BUGS FIXED IN COLIBRI 1.8.8

  • ‘Play currently selected’ would remain unclickable in Menu -> Controls
  • Malformed file name within a Cue Sheet could cause Colibri to crash on song change
  • Malformed Cue Sheets would cause Colibri to miscalculate the song lengths
  • Cue Sheets with additional comments would confuse Colibri
  • Looping WAVE files forever with a certain header type could cause a memory leak
  • Unreadable files ended up in playlist by loading them via the ‘Plus sign’ icon or File -> Open
  • Numerous Sandbox handling errors
  • .log files would end up in the playlist
  • Pressing ‘Stop’ wouldn’t always show the correct placeholder album art image
  • Clear playlist on loading from Finder would only work once per session
  • Adding multiple songs from Finder wouldn’t always start the playback from the first new song
  • Playlist loading would sometimes fail to load files properly
  • Playlist would have a dark background in Light mode if started with an empty playlist