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Audio Sliders Change Log

Version 4.2

Added: Ability for separate renaming controls for multiple sound cards.
Added: Increment volume by 1% when holding Ctrl key.
Added: 'Constant peaks' options to Peakmeter.
Added: Peak level display in dB in the status line.

Version 4.1

Added: Support for iTunes player.
Added: New skin "Tiger".

Version 4.0

Added: Multiple soundcard support

Version 3.2

Added: Support for Light Alloy and Windows Media Player 8.

Version 3.1

Added: Winamp 3 support.

Version 3.03

Few minor bugs fixed.

Version 3.0

Added: Window dialog to edit Audio CD track information.
Added: Software peakmeter.
Added: Support for Winamp Visual plug-ins.
Added: New bar with CD/Mp3 song title
Fixed: CPU usage now works in Windows 2000/XP.

Version 2.90

Added: New tray icon.
Added: New skin "Sinden".
Added: Autoplay feature for Audio CD.
Added: OSD mouse control enhanced.
Fixed: Some bugs in the sheduler setup.

Version 2.82

Added: Simple scheduler to apply presets at specified time.
Changed: True semi-transparent OSD under Windows 2000.

Version 2.80

Changed: Wheel mouse support greatly enhanced.
Fixed: OSD showed up even if it was turned off.


Version 2.77

Added: Phoenix skin by Jackie Ray
Changed: Configuration dialog enhanced.

Version 2.76

Added: Quick Tour in the HTML format.

Version 2.75

Added: Few small OSD improvements.
Added: System-wide shortcut to OSD (suggested by Lance).
Added: OSD activation when volume level changed by other program
(suggested by Sergey Kuzmin).


Version 2.72

Added: Clock - shows date and time in the different time zones.
Fixed: Audio Sliders crashed after suspend/hibernate.
Fixed: Presets works incorectly on some soundcards.

Version 2.60

Added: Now you can use "Win" key in the system-wide shortcuts.
Added: Ability to working without sound card - statistic only mode.
Fixed: Incorrect CPU utilization reporting after suspend/resume.


Version 2.51

Fixed: Audio Sliders now work under first releases of Windows 95.

Version 2.50

Added: Balance control.
- Hold Shift to enter balance mode.
- Press left and right arrow keys or use mouse to adjust balance.
- Press Enter key to set balance to center.

Added: Spanish help file by just4fun .
Added: Variable OSD size.
Parameter 'Size=n' in the volume.ini (OSD section).
n range from 30 to 100 (% of the screen size).

Added: Skin "Hi-Fi 2" - redesigned by Megre.

Version 2.41

Added: New hot-key: Ctrl+Tab will select next mixer.
Fixed: Some minor bugs.

New skins:
- "Hi-Fi" by Godders
- "Sonix 2" by Jazlan


Version 2.40

Added:
CD and Mp3 players information shown includes: track name (Winamp and
Apollo supported), track position and length, current track and number of
tracks, playback status (playing, stopped, paused). Track and current
track position are selectabled with a left click on the progress bars.
Right click on the position bar pauses the current song, right click on
the track"s bar stops playback.

New skins:
- "Alumin" by Lukas Grygera
- "CoolEdit Pro Sliders" by Wilderness
- "Mac" by Simon Coulton
- "Orangeade" by Jack Orman


Version 2.38

Added: Dial-Up connection statistic
Added: Delete skin from the browser


Version 2.35

Bugfix release

Fixed: Hard positioning slider near the bounds
Fixed: External CD player won't launch
Fixed: OSD not updated when preset applied by hotkeys
Changed: Current slider selection restored when window expanded
Changed: Skinned cursors and peak marks can be disabled in the ini-file

Version 2.32

~ Track bars now can be any form
~ Fixed error when adjusting faders (e.g. Front/Rear fader) in the OSD
~ Situation when networked drive is not ready now handled correctly

Version 2.30

+ Now it's possible to edit line captions
E.g. rename AUX to Radio Volume

+ Support system with more than one sound card
You can define separate layouts for each
mixer driver

+ Support for K-Jofol [© aEGiS cORP. - www.kjofol.org]

~ Design was slightly changed
~ Status line now can show current volume level
~ First button now will run advanced mixer
Clone function available by double clicking
on any layout button
+ Lot of small improvements and bug fixes

Version 2.25

+ Audio Sliders now support following players:
- Winamp [© Nullsoft, Inc. - www.winamp.com]
- Sonique [© Mediascience, Inc. - www.sonique.com]
- NAD [© The House Of Axe]
- Apollo [© Heikki Ylinen - apollo.mp3place.com]
- Quintessential CD [© Paul Quinn - www.quinnware.com/qcd]
- CD Wizard [© BFM Software - www.bfmsoft.com]
- Windows CD Player
- Windows Media Player 95/98
+ New menu lets you launch default Mp3 and CD players
~ Lines without controls now handled correctly


Version 2.16

~ Roll-in drawing routine improved
+ Added shortcut to show/hide Winamp window.
~ Docking to the top and the bottom of the virtual screen (e.g. to the taskbar)
~ Audio Sliders not showed in the task bar if 'Always on top' option enabled

Version 2.12

+ Double Size mode
~ Few small bugs fixed

Version 2.10

~ Reporting free space on the drives large 4 GB
+ Always on Litestep Virtual Desktops

Version 2.00

+ New interface design

Interface was slightly changed. Added mute buttons, which display the type of control
(triangle as on the 'play' button is a playback control, circle as on 'record' button is a
record control and square is a voice command control).

Also added status line which can be of help.

+ Auto-rollup

Now it's possible to select the normally visable sliders, and the other controls will roll-in
with animation when the window loses mouse focus.

+ Peak level marks

Peak level meter tick marks are useful when recording.

+ 'Ding' test

Double clicking on a fader or pressing Tab keys causes Audio Sliders to play a 'Default
sound'.

+ System Monitoring

Bonus feature. Useful when recording, e.g. to monitor drives' free space.

- Drive free space
- CPU Usage
- Local Read/write
- Network read/write
- Swap file
- Cache/Dirty data
- Physical memory
- Memory load

+ System Commands

These command accessible through system-wide shortcuts.

- Run advanced mixer (e.g. Surround Mixer on SBLive!)
- Launch screen saver
- Power saving mode

New interface languages:

- Czech by czBird
- German by Eso
- Indonesian by Digimorphs
- Lithuanian by Gintaras Vyshniauskas
- Magyar by Alex Flower
- Norwegian by Svein Tore Sølvik
- Romana by Robert Horvath


Version 1.75

+ Build-in CD Player
+ Semi-transparent background for On Screen Display
+ Switch on/off recording controls
+ Bass and Treble faders
+ Auto-hide window option (suggested by Jeff Fodor)
~ Now 6 layouts available
+ One layout assigned to the On Screen Display
This allows you to adjust volume levels for multiple lines/devices with hot keys.
Fill 'On Screen Display' layout in the configuration window. Then you can press
Ctrl+Alt+Numpad * to select lines in cycle.


Version 1.61

+ Winamp control with system-wide hot keys

+ Now mixer settings can be recorded and then restored:
- at Windows startup
- from tray menu
- by system-wide hot key

+ New language files:
- Danish by Af Lasse Taul Bjerre
- Dutch by Rick Timmers
- Italian by Fabrizio Pomioli
- Spanish by DaGor

~ Now used short controls names for best fit in window
~ Fixed another window update bug

Version 1.43

~ Fixed big memory leak (thanks to Josh Fredrickson)
~ Caption bar now can be removed (thanks to David Moeyersons)

Version 1.41

+ Multi-language support
- English and Russian by Megre
- French by Brume from PC Team

Version 1.40

+ Global hotkeys to control main volume
- Increase volume: Ctrl + Numpad +
- Decrease volume: Ctrl + Numpad -
- Mute volume: Ctrl + Numpad *
+ OSD (On Screen Display) for main volume control
- Press and hold left mouse button on the tray icon about 1 sec.
- Click or drag with left mouse button on the OSD to ajust volume
+ Separate configuration window

+ Skin browser

Version 1.22

~ Fixed window update bug
~ Added snapping to screen edge

Version 1.20

+ 3 user defined layout
+ New peakmeter indicator
~ Improved window drawing routines
~ Now you can also toggle Recording Input Monitor

Version 1.10

+ New On/Off and Fader sliders
+ You can toggle single-slider mode