Passion Audio Player v2.3 Released

[George Boudouris]

- The playback engine is upgraded to the new version of BASS v2.2.
- Added input plugins support.
The new version of BASS v2.2 introduces an Add-on plugin system.
So support for additional file formats is available via those addons,
just by putting the proper DLLs to the same path with passap2.exe and BASS.
- Developed and added a new DSP plugin system through external DLLs,
much promising .
- Changed Winamp DSP plugins support. Now they are supported through the
new DSP plugin system with a DLL wrapper that i wrote. The dll that does
the job is the ppdsp_winamp_wrapper.dll.
- Added an option for CD Analog playback. This option reduces the CPU
usage when playing CDs, but no Visuals are displayed and the
DSP effects DON'T work on this mode.
If you just want only to hear your CDs without stressing your CPU too
much you could use this mode.
- Improved the function of adding files from command line. In fact now
it works as it should, thanks to the new code that was added.
- Improved magnetic form behaviour. Now all attached forms move from the
start of the application as they should !!!!!
- Changed the Passion Audio Player playlist extension to .ppl and added
support for loadind/saving .PLS and .M3U Playlists.
- Added DVD Vob files (*.vob) support. Of course the proper codecs should
have been installed from a natural DVD player application.
- Added VideoCD (*.dat) files support.
- Removed Temporarily LA Files support because the plugin development stopped.
- Added Playlist Search Function !!!!!!
- Bug fix: If there was no printer installed on the system, the program
was halting. This has been fixed so that the program continues without
printing features enabled of course.
- Minor Bug fixes.

Enjoy it.

[raef]

In the 4 years I have had a PC, I've listened to a dozen or more players and I must say that for sound quality nothing approaches PassionPlayer.
One query I have is; can I record my vinyl records via "line in"? Would be great if this is possible. Many thanks for such a beautiful sound. Raef.

[George Boudouris]

Thanks for you good words.
The first versions supported recording from the line in, but v2.3 doesn't.
The problem is i wanted to record the data that are being played back by Passion Audio Player.
My personal opinion is to record your vinyls with a specific application for recording.
They have a lot of options. You could first record your vinyls at wav files and then do the encoding with the encoder you like.
Personally that's what i do, and i think it's better.

Maybe in the future i'll add this feature again, if i figure out how it will work as i want.

Thanks again for posting.

[raef]

Thanks George. Will do that as soon as I can find a really good free one. ( Not much left of my pension these days. > Cheers, Raef.

[George Boudouris]

Glad to talked with you Raef.