Bugs fixed in this release:

• Colibri would bounce indefinitely during startup
• Invalid Sandbox bookmarks would cause Colibri to hang
• CMD + Up keyboard shortcut didn’t always work
• MIDI SoundFont would fail to load

A bit of fun: try double clicking on the album art and then click on the album art image that pops up!

• Reduced device capability enumeration time
• Gapless playback would not work with some external DACs
• Dropping songs on to the Playlist could become interleaved
• Pre-cache would not work with songs shorter than 5 seconds

• Output selection wouldn’t properly reflect what device is selected
• Playlist show/hide state wouldn’t properly restore on next startup

• Album art popover could cause a crash if the embedded album art was somehow irregular
• Colibri would crash on startup if the supported frequencies reported by the DAC through CoreAudio would contain invalid data
• DSD DoP playback would switch to PCM mode on playing the next DSD track
• Adding songs from Finder and/or M3U/M3U8 playlists could cause the Playlist to not redraw itself
• DSD DoP songs would not always restart themselves when ‘Loop current’ mode was selected
• Dropping files/folders on Colibri’s Dock icon wouldn’t always save the Sandbox bookmarks on quitting

This quick update fixes two bugs: output settings wouldn’t properly load when not using the Default output and Hog Mode could become selectable while the Default output is selected and Colibri is in a stopped state.

The rewrite is finally here! Big Sur and Apple Silicon support (ZXTune is only available under Intel CPUs), bug fixes and new features: multiple loop options, RAM Disk, always on top, cue sheet encoding selection, per-device settings, system sleep and default sound output support, switchable album art scanning and more – Happy listening!

ENHANCEMENTS

• Updated codebase to Swift 5
• Settings -> Output now better fits all kHz entries
• Volume is now automatically raised to 100% for DSD files when DoP/DoPA mode is selected and restored to previous volume level for non-DSD files (and PCM mode)
• Unsupported DST encoded DSD and DTS encoded WAV files will now show proper Unsupported Codec error messages
• added an alternate fallback method for Automatic Sample Rate Switching for stubborn DACs (Colibri uses it automatically when needed)
• Finder sorting order is used to enqueueing files to the Playlist
• Playlist will be rendered with system default monospace font when available (macOS 10.11 and up)
• added a ‘Use Default SoundFont’ option for MIDI files to the right-click context menu of the Playlist
• removing the default SoundFont will automatically set the next available SoundFont as the default
• if the SoundFont list is empty, then the first SoundFont will automatically be marked as the default
• removing a SoundFont only causes playback restart if the currently played song is affected by the removal
• importing a new SoundFont will automatically set it as the default
• new switchable option in Settings -> Playlist: “Dragging to the Playlist via Mouse / Trackpad”:
  • songs will be added at pointer position (insert)
  • songs will be added at the end of the list (append, like before)
• added ‘Permanent Pause’ to Settings -> Behavior (Off, by default):
  • pause will ‘hold’ until the Play button is pressed again
  • switching to a different song will ‘arm’/prepare the song for playback
  • seeking repositions the playhead and it will play audio from the selected spot once unpaused
  • removing songs from the playlist does not affect the paused state
• added ‘Auto-Play’ to Settings -> Behavior (On, by default):
  • On: Colibri automatically plays the next song
  • Off: Colibri stops when the current song ends
• Playlist Columns have been rewritten from scratch for improved stability: see Settings -> Columns
• Columns are now sortable:
  • click on the header once to sort playlist by that column
  • clicking once again switches between Ascending/Descending sorting
  • sorting is supported across all columns
• added new Columns:
  • Length, kHz, Codec, Year, Track Number, Disc Number, Composer and Bit Depth
• Playlist Columns can now have vertical and horizontal Grids:
  • they help in finding the columns boundaries during reordering and resizing
  • Grids can be toggled on/off in Settings -> Themes
  • a color picker has been added to Settings -> Themes for the Grid
• new Loop option ‘Random Round Robin’ in Settings -> Playlist:
  • each song in the Playlist will be played once per “round”
  • when all songs were played once, a new “round” begins
  • removing a song causes the “round”
  • double-clicking on a song does not reset the “round”
  • a great way to have a balanced, random playback order
• monospace system fonts are now used in both the Title bar and Status bar (10.11 and up)

BUGS FIXED IN THIS UPDATE

• Colibri would not display its’ name in the Force Quit and Activity Monitor windows
• Colibri would prevent the system from entering sleep state
• Colibri would fail to play the upcoming song under very high system load
• Playhead wouldn’t always continue from the same spot on output device change
• Playlist would have a weird glitch on startup
• Force Sample Rate would cause crash on startup
• Online Streams wouldn’t always start playback
• Random playback order would sometime cause Colibri to crash
• BS2B and EQ profiles wouldn’t property restore on next startup
• After starting Colibri, the playlist would become disorganized/chaotic if files had gone missing since last start
• Automatic Sample Rate Switching wouldn’t always switch properly after the end of the playlist had been reached
• Menubar Controller didn’t always refresh the data on song change
• some built-in Audio DSP hardware wouldn’t switch sample rate properly (mainly newer MacBook Pros)
• SoundFonts won’t always properly reload on next launch
• SoundFonts won’t properly switch on a per-song basis
• custom SoundFonts could disappear from the SoundFont list
• setting a custom SoundFont as default wouldn’t always save properly
• network streams won’t trigger a ‘Problem calculating song length’ error
• Menubar Controller properly shows Light/Dark control buttons as per system theme
• Colibri could crash by clicking on the EQ button while the Playlist is empty
• moving multiple songs in the Playlist at once could cause titles to be become disorganized
• dragging files / folder to the dock would not be added to the Playlist properly
• Colibri could crash on El Capitan 10.11.6 when switching between Dock and Menu modes
• added missing keyboard shortcut to DSD output mode menu
• About Colibri window didn’t properly switch the Light logo in Dark Mode
• Theme import / export buttons wouldn’t properly spawn the browser windows
• Pressing Return on an empty playlist could sometimes cause crash
• Pressing Return while nothing is selected in the playlist could cause crash
• Color Pickers in Settings -> Themes should now behave as expected of them

Thank you Henning Gärtner for all-around essential feedback and testing, Rick Ernsting for feedback on the SoundFont issues!

ENHANCEMENTS

• BASS has been updated to 2.4.14
• DSD playback has been completely rewritten from scratch
• DSD PCM mode will automatically use highest supported sample rate
• Settings -> Output has revamped DSD and Sample Rate Switching sections
• Audio core has been further optimized for multi-threaded playback
• improved gapless playback compatibility with BASSZXTUNE
• further decreased memory usage when preloading next song
• device disconnect handling has been enhanced: reconnect your device and hit play! The default output is used as fallback should the device still be missing.

BUGS FIXED IN THIS UPDATE

• selected audio output should now properly be retained on restart
• Menu Bar Controller would not properly update song info on track changes
• pre-amp would not restore properly when switching profiles
• empty playlist when adding from Finder wouldn’t work
• Automatic Sample Rate Switching wouldn’t work properly with USB DACs
• DSD DoP / DoP AA modes would not work
• DSD sample rate would stay fixed at 88.2 kHz in PCM mode
• Pause wouldn’t work during DSD playback
• Automatic Sample Rate Switching wouldn’t work properly with Exclusive / Hog mode
• pressing Previous during DSD playback wouldn’t work as expected
• playing a non-DSD file after a DSD file could cause Colibri to crash
• playing a non-DSD file after a DSD file with 0 dB enabled wouldn’t restore the system volume
• attempting to play DST encoded DSD files would cause Colibri to crash (DST encoding is still unsupported!)
• preloaded DSD files would not properly raise the volume if requested
• DSD playback with pre-cache would always properly show the total time of the song
• preloaded channel wouldn’t always properly set the internal mixer’s sample rate
• DSD playback would sometimes disable the volume slider even without 0dB option being enabled
• pre-cache wouldn’t work while Force Sample Rate is enabled
• pre-cache trigger wouldn’t properly fire with very high resolution DSD files
• Colibri would sometimes crash on quitting
• importing SF2/SFZ MIDI SoundFont would cause a crash
• colibriTheme file association would not properly register with Finder
• fixed a crash regarding file loading and removal
• removing multiple files one by one could cause a crash

Special thanks to Henning Gärtner, Ian Chen, Sempov, John Mastwijk, Hiroki Okudera, Kai-Hsiang Chuang, Minh Ho, Lenny Park and Katherine Noell for providing essential feedback.

ENHANCEMENTS

• Added file size limit for ZXTune processing (Settings -> Behavior)
• Previous button now acts more like the one on CD players: if pressed less than 4 seconds into the song it goes back one track. However, after 4 seconds have passed it first skips to the beginning of the current song
• Remove song got an extended behavior as well: If a song is playing then selecting all song and pressing remove would protect the currently played song. However, if only the currently played song is selected then playback will be stopped and the song will be removed. This is to eliminate the need of pressing stop then remove.
• Added Factory Reset button to Help
• Added Window -> Show Colibri Main Window

BUGS FIXED IN THIS UPDATE

• Colibri would not be the focused app when launched
• the Album column wouldn’t always auto-resize with the window
• Open All Files From Folder would not work
• multiple crashes and inconsistencies related to Sandbox / User Defaults
• redone main window scaling to fix display problems on macOS versions 10.10 and 10.11
• fixed label positioning errors visible on macOS 10.10 / 10.11 / 10.12
• recompiled BS2B from scratch to fix macOS 10.10 Yosemite support problems
• recompiled BASSZXTUNE from scratch to fix macOS 10.11 El Capitan support problems
• parallelized theme color fill drawing to avoid flicker under high CPU load
• changing Menu bar options would cause Colibri to crash
• loading multiple files at once could cause crashing

Thank you for using Colibri! This update brings Theme support and fixes Automatic Sample Rate Switching. Happy listening!

ENHANCEMENTS

• Having problems with your DAC? Colibri now has an Engine Debug window available from Help -> Show Debug Log, where you can see what happens under the hood as Colibri tries to communicate with your DAC, specifically the
• equency rate setting attempts. With a click of a button the log output can be inserted to a blank email and sent to me if you’ve got a question
• Colibri now supports Themes / custom color tinting (Settings -> Themes) with import/export
• Colibri Themes can be imported and opened system-wide by using colibritheme:///Users/username/theme.colibriTheme
• Switching between Audio Devices during playback continues playback on the selected device
• Audio Output falls back to System Default if saved device is not found
• Added ZXTune support as a switchable option (Settings -> Behavior)
• Added SeekBar animation smoothness switchable option
• Song Preload now sends an extra wake-up signal to external drives
• Added MP3/MP2 support to Cue Sheet index processing
• Better support for files with broken headers
• When Colibri’s window loses focus the playlist cursor no longer turns to gray
• Added Menu Bar Song information display with truncate options (Settings -> Display)
• Added “play the first new song if nothing is playing” to Settings -> Playlist
• Added ‘Set volume to 0 dB for DSD’ with automatic volume level restoral for non-DSD files
• Added ‘DAC and CoreAudio bridging mode’ for DSD – should raise compatiblity with DACs
• Added option to select frequency for cases when a higher frequency file is played than what is supported by the output device
• Added ‘Force Sample Rate’ option for Sound Output Device
• All supported sample rates of the audio output device reported by CoreAudio are now visible within Settings -> Output
• If the user-defined audio output has disappeared then Colibri uses the system default
• Minor UI positioning fixes (mostly equal button lengths and alignments)
• Better handling of adding multiple files at once
• Colibri’s main window title now properly centers itself
• Status Bar update redraw cycles have been reduced, which means even less CPU usage than before
• Status Bar now serves as a messaging pipeline as well: messages from Colibri’s background processes can briefly be seen there, such as the state of scanning files, analyzing song lengths for total time statistics and file loading
• mp; enqueuing progression
• Added licensing info of ColorPickerPopover

BUGS FIXED IN THIS UPDATE

• Automatic Sample Rate Switching has been completely rewritten and is now fixed
• Automatic Sample Rate Switching now properly happens with preloaded files
• Dropping files on top of Colibri’s main window now properly adds them
• Fixed a typo in BS2B settings
• ‘Open Network Stream’ now accepts CMD + V for pasting the network address
• Updated support email in About window
• Default EQ is now properly restored when Colibri is opened
• Total time in the main window title bar wouldn’t always be accurate while seeking
• Song info wouldn’t update when Right/Ctrl-clicking on Colibri in the Dock
• MIDI bank switching wouldn’t always be seamless
• BS2B Settings page could cause a crash by simultaneously clearing and assigning a profile
• Dark / Light theme did not properly update the default album art cover
• Deleting multiple songs did not always properly recalculate the statistics
• Moving horizontally with the keyboard left and right keys was disabled while an Open/Save dialog was open – instead, Colibri would seek forward/backward
• Loading a playlist file would cause the Sandbox window to constantly pop up
• Saving a playlist with at least one network stream in it would cause it not be restored properly on loading
• resetting BS2B data didn’t always update the text within Settings -> BS2B
• song statistic calculations could go haywire when a song with corrupt header was present
• loading folders with multiple folders wouldn’t always start the playback even though autostart was enabled
• Volume wouldn’t always properly restore itself between sessions
• Playlist background color could cause some clipping issues
• FLAC files wouldn’t always reload their album arts if Album Art was disabled then re-enabled during playback
• Network streams would cause preload to stop playback instead of continuing
• ‘silently add them to the list’ wouldn’t always work with a folders mixed with files
• Deleting thousands of files from the playlist at once is way faster than before (although the Sandbox entitlements still have to be revoked one by one)

Also I’ve hit the 4000 character limit of the changelog when submitting this new update