I know I’ve been saying this for a long time, but finishing the update is really around the corner.

Just before the holiday season began I was able to dedicate all my waking hours to developing the update – this includes Christmas day as well. I couldn’t be happier and my family is supportive of this as well. It has been more than a year since I’ve last updated Colibri. Since the beginning of November, I’ve started a Numbers spreadsheet (very professional) as an improptu ticketing system – I’ve just ‘closed’ the 100th bugfix/feature request/thing-that-needs-to-be-done item which leaves only a handful remaining before the development phase concludes. After that’s done I’ll do regression testing and prepare the new version for the AppStore submission.

There will be a very lengthy changelog for this update, but I’d really like to highlight a few changes that I’ve added during this holiday season, in no particular order:

• the menu bar info will clear itself if playback is stopped
• clicking/dragging-and-letting-go-of the seek bar now repositions the playhead instantly – so for the musicians who have been contacting me in regards to learning guitar licks and drum parts can now rest assured, it is fixed
• pressing the previous/next button also instantly moves the playhead as expected
• CPU usage has been lowered – a Dual Core MacBook Pro 13″ sees anywhere from 3-5% CPU usage with the ‘smooth’ seek bar animation mode selected and 0,5-1% with the ‘regular’ option
• colibriPlaylist files now properly show the times’ of the containing songs
• Cue Sheet and colibriPlaylist file loading issues have been rectified
• multi-column sorting is now available with proper up/down arrows the signal sorting
• it is now possible to reset the playlist sorting to the original queue order
• AirPods and AirPods Pro should no longer lock themselves to 8 kHz frequency – apart from the case where the microphone is actively recording, but aside from that, frequency switching should work as expected – let me know if it doesn’t!
• fixed a bug where folders with a ‘%’ sign would not load
• added http/https link support for M3U/M3U8 files
• it is now possible to right-click on a network stream and copy the stream URL to the clipboard
• playlist show/hide can now be toggled with a keyboard shortcut

…and with that I’m back to working on the update, stay tuned and thank you so much for your understanding, support and patience!