Today, our project celebrates its first anniversary - 10 years ago we have published first version of AIMP Classic! During this long period of a lot of work has been done! And in future, we will introduce new interesting features and innovations.



I want to say thanks to all, who participated in life of community of the project, to all, who reports about bugs and posts suggestions.

Special for the birthday we have prepared new version of AIMP - v4.10.

Whats new?

In this version we have focused on tag editor, music library and plugins API. Full list of changes can be found here.

We glad to present to you new plugin: Podcasts Support plugin, thanks to new version of plugins API!

What's new in AIMP v4.00 in comparison with v3.60?

Common

• Hints are now displayed when changing the slider in the DSP-Manager dialog via mouse wheel or keyboard
• Formatting templates - list of available functions moved to sub-menu
• Version number of application has been removed from names of binaries
• Macros - one-letter / two-letter names of macros are replaced with friendly names
• Macros - names in menu with macro list are highlighted now via bold font
• Macros - list of macros for playable file has been expanded, following macros have been added: %AlbumGain, %TrackGain and %Lyrics
• Macros - list of functions for text manipulation has been expanded

Interface

• New design of application
• Windows animation no longer inhibits UI
• Scrollbar thumb jumps to previous position when mouse cursor leaves scrollbar zone

Sound Engine

• Added an ability to specify the 352.8 KHz sample rate (for devices that support this sample rate)

Player

• An ability to limit number of attempts to reconnect to internet-radio station when connection is lost

Playlist

• Performance of builder for shuffle queue has been increased at 3 times
• Quick Search - algorithm has been changed: the content that isn't satisfying to a search string hides now
• Added an ability to rescan tags for selected files only
• The "move to..." functionality has been introduced
• The "Find in Music Library" command has been added
• The "copy to" / "move to" functionality - an ability to save folder structure
• Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on data from Music Library with an ability to filter and group data
• Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on one or few directories
• Smart playlists - synchronization with pre-image is now works in separate thread
• Playlist files are now imports each into separate tab if the "open files from external applications" option set to "create new playlist".

Playlists Manager

• An ability to view size and duration summaries of selected playlists
• Drag-n-drop support for the preview window has been added

Audio Converter

• An ability to switch off grouping
• Support for aften.exe command-line encoder for AC3 format has been added (thanks to Soolo)
• MP3 Encoder - added an ability to select target sample rate

Tag Editor

• An ability to select all types of tags by one click
• Added an ability to copy / paste album art images to / from the system clipboard
• Added support for multiple values for APEv2, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments and M4A tags formats
• Added an ability to store custom values to list of the "Genre" edit field

Music Library

• Integrated into the main application
• "The" article isn't cut out when adding files in a DB any more
• An ability to save user mark to tags of file automatically (optional)
• An ability to combine an empty levels in grouping tree in the "no grouping" mode
• An ability to find misplaced files automatically
• An ability to delete automatically non-existed files from data base
• An ability to specify different columns set for table and card views
• An ability to adjust height of the alphabetic index control
• An ability to set user-defined filter for grouping preset
• Added an ability to send selected files from grouping tree to selected playlist
• An ability to drag album by its album art
• An ability to scroll song list via mouse wheel without focusing of it
• An ability to fast scroll via mouse wheel if Ctrl key is pressed
• Report generator - support of fields with multiple values has been added
• The "move to..." functionality has been added
• File name column displays a name of file without path now
• Alphabetic index is now supported for all fields
• Skin support has been added
• The "no grouping" mode - an ability to fill song list from current folder only (without sub-folders)
• Now the data are loaded for visible columns only
• Support of network files has been improved

Skin Engine

• Potential abilities have been expanded (refer to the help for Skin Editor for more information)

Plugins

• API for plugins has been updated to v4
• Scheduler - sleep timer - an ability to fade out volume
• Scheduler - the "OK" button has been added
• SACD - ISO - now the plugin displays both stereo and 5.1 tracks

What's new in AIMP for Android v2.00 in comparison with v1.02?

Common

• New design of application
• Added support of hardware search button

Widget

• Widget with size 4x2 has been added
• Widget with size 4x4 has been added (with sizing abilities)

File Adding Dialog

• An ability to jump to parent folder via swipe-to-right gesture

Player

• An ability to down mix the audio file to mono
• An ability to set track as ringtone (following formats are supported: MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV, OPUS, OGG, M4A, MP4)
• An ability to switch off integration with system lock screen
• Player now checks the album art image in the "Covers" sub folder
• Down mix to stereo is now supported for multi-channel audio files
• Menu of playable file with recently used commands has been added
• Support of internet-radio has been added
• Balance slider has been added
• Player will suspend the playback if "audio focus" is lost
• Long click at "pause" or "start playback" buttons now stops playback

Playlist

• An ability to sort list when grouping (optionally)
• Application switches from deletion mode to normal after deleting the last track from playlist
• Grouping by folder - only parent folder name is displaying now in group header
• An ability to reverse order of the items
• Export - an ability to choose target folder
• The "send to other playlist" command has been added to context menu of selected file
• Tags for all tracks are read now in background thread
• Multiple playlists support has been added
• Current grouping mode is now highlighted in the context menu
• Search now takes file name into account
• Long click at "search" button is now focus current track in playlist

Scheduler

• Sleep timer and alarm clock have been introduced
• An ability to cancel sleep timer action from notification area

Equalizer

• All functionality have been moved to separate window
• Current value of the adjustable slider is now displayed

Last.fm

• Compatibility with official Last.fm client has been improved

AIMP for Windows

• AIMP v3.60 build 1503 (whats New?)
• AIMP v4.00 build 1658 Beta 3 (whats New?)
• AIMP Skin Editor v4.00 build 858 Beta 3

AIMP for Android

• AIMP v2.00 build 235 Beta 3 (whats New?)

AIMP for Windows

• AIMP v3.60 build 1502 (whats New?)
• AIMP v4.00 build 1655 Beta 3 (whats New?)
• AIMP Skin Editor v4.00 build 855 Beta 3