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Preview Version: 1.99.47.23960 (x64)

Released: 1 March 2026

Everything done as part of preview build v1.99.45.23528

Added more to the "formatinformation" for opus based files & internet streams per a forum request vs the basic information previously being shown for them
Added a resize cursor when skinned cursors is off for the generic skinned window frames so it's hopefully a bit more obvious where the resize element is
Added remembering of the last path / filename for the main playlist saving mode
Added an option to the internet radio view filter button menu so it's possible to hide all of the extra genre columns in the view so it's just the primary column that's shown (irrespective of how valid that might actually be)
Added an option to the Advanced preference page so the default behaviour for checking if a network based path is still valid to avoid ui related hangs can be disabled if it's causing false failures
Added support to show the branding / visualisation area (not that WACUP implements a playlist window visualiser mode nor do I plan on implementing that feature) in the classic skin playlist window which is controlled via the classic skin preference page (this is off by default & optionally classic skins intentionally updated to support this can show the branding area irrespective of this preference)

Changed the local library results pane selection preservation handling to be more like the history view as part of trying to resolve some on-going deadlocks
Changed the FLAC input plug-in to show the vendor string as part of what's reported in the "formatinformation" response to match the other ogg based formats
Changed the skinned listview control handling to try to ensure both unicode & ansi equivalent messages for the header are checked for which might explain some installs not seeing column size changes being tracked as expected (am not sure if this will actually help or not as none of my testing has seen the ansi equivalent message appear in the window messages)
Changed /ENUMPLAYLISTS command-line mode to ensure the output is now CSV format compatible along with including the group along now supporting an optional parameter instead of sending it stdout
Changed some internal aspects as part of working towards adding in a native mode for being able to at least backup the relevant settings files for an install
Changed how some of the plug-ins are built to better share more from the core dll which saved around 0.2MB from the reported to be installed size as well as giving a small reduction on loading times
Changed how the skin provided cursors are loaded so the OS should now hopefully scale them up as needed to better match non-skinned cursors instead of being really small / hard to see based on feedback
Changed the drag+drop cursor to now use what can be provided by the OS instead of effectively providing a duplicate a copy
Changed how main playlist title updates are triggered after metadata has been changed if the local library is enabled to do a better job by triggering an async action along with better ensuring that the cached metadata is cleared before the action is sent which should avoid old metadata showing despite the local library view showing the updated metadata if the item was within the current view cache
Changed how lyrics requests are handled to remove anything pending if the caller is the same so lots of next calls should avoid the likes of gen_lyrics taking an age to respond along with it now trying to abort the active connection if things have changed so the new request can be attempted sooner especially when some of them are taking a comparative age to run
Changed the podcast downloads view loading to avoid some memory re-allocations which provides a small saving on load
Changed some more of the internal structures to re-pack them &/or defer when things are created to reduce memory use (e.g. this saves around 3MB with the internet radio view)
Changed the internal scaling handling for classic skins to avoid recalculating many of the values when it can be pulled from a pre-calculated cache whilst using a bit more of memory
Changed some of the classic skin window handling to reduce some of the painting overhead at the expense of a few more GDI objects along with trying to make better use of resource caching for many paint calls which appears to make things a bit smoother when moving all of the connected classic skin windows around
Changed the option to save the current shuffle table between instances to be on the Advanced preferences page & removed the remainder of the Shuffle preference page as the attempted shuffle morph rate option (a left over from when trying to replicate what winamp was doing with its shuffle handling) never made much of a difference nor is it really needed when a shuffle based on metadata & playback history is seemingly more of what's wanted (still considered for some point)
Changed the Channel Mixer preference page to better indicate if it's not the active output plug-in along with clearing out some of the cached output if it's changed to no longer be the active plug-in
Changed how shift + mousewheel up / down is handled in the skinned listviews so it should now attempt horizontal scrolling (or vertical scrolling if there's no horizontal scrollbar) instead of causing it to act like enter has been pressed which wasn't intended (something seen when doing shift + mousewheel up in the local library views causing it to try to process all of the files in the current view)
Changed to no longer show empty audio cds within the main right-click play sub-menu or in agent mode menu to avoid trying to interact with them (the media library views will still be shown if empty)
Changed some of the classic skin main window song-ticker handling to further reduce the work that it's doing when using non-skinned fonts (there are some possible options to improve this but how Windows can do font drawing is a mess of consistency where the modes able to do what I'm wanting with caching & alpha transparency either don't work with a lot of fonts used or essentially double the time it takes to get wacup loaded before it's ready to then be able to start drawing text & that still doesn't handle all of the fonts compared to the old GDI method being used)
Changed the way the checking of a network based path which is not being accessed via a mapped drive letter is done to try to avoid false failures (e.g. this showed up by not being able to read the length of files within the local library when using the raw network path but it worked fine when it was accessed via a mapped drive letter based path)
Changed how in_url handles MP3 stream playback as an attempt to reduce memory allocation churn which might be behind some of the random crashes
Changed the handling around extracting the skin archives to reduce the time taken to get everything extracted before trying to load those files
Changed when the skin cursors are loaded to avoid doing it all in one go (which especially with some of the recent loading changes for better dpi support) was causing skin loading to take longer than it should have along with it avoiding loading some cursors that may never be used during the running instance (under testing this almost halved the load time for some classic skins with all custom cursors)
Changed what the core & setup are doing in an attempt to improve how the OS will treat the running vs non-running instances when trying to pin WACUP to the taskbar (which has never behaved nicely before)
Changed the core to use the native minizip-ng api for skin extraction which further helps reduce the loading impact & difference in load times between a pre-extracted skin & one in an archive making that be almost no different now in testing (depending on the skin it seems to range from a 20-30ms reduction to a 50ms range depending on the complexity of the skin archive) along with the loading of the skin preference page & inspecting information of the skins which reduces the time to open the skins menus when archives are present
Changed the core to use the native minizip-ng api as part of creating the crash report archives which at the expense of a few KB increase on the core dll size is now able to create the archive quicker especially with avoiding the need to use temp files for any dmp files being collected as the older compatibility api had used
Changed the in_zip plug-in / archive as a playlist handling within the core to use the native minizip-ng api which reduces the time taken to find & extract compatible files within such archives along with helping to deduplicate some of the code stemming from the origins of the in_zip plug-in
Changed the internet radio view handling to make use of some db handling changes which allow it to do some of the filtering quicker compared to before along with avoiding allocating some string values
Changed some of the internal string handling to better ensure consistency between the x86 & x64 builds (mainly helping reduce memory usage for the x64 build with the x86 build handling working as was)
Changed the appropriate listview handling in the media library plug-ins to make use of the zero-copy option when the OS is requesting the string to be displayed which reduces some of the drawing overhead
Changed how the nde cache is implemented to use a different solution which is a bit faster & uses less memory compared to the prior implementation to help reduce the time it takes to load these files
Changed some of the internal handling for detecting & avoiding duplicate values (e.g. inspecting the local library or building up the internet radio list) to use a different solution which is faster & uses less code to achieve it (always a bonus)
Changed the format of the internet radio station cache which allows for more memory savings vs the changes already noted above with ~30MB saved in usage (removing duplicate data & making more use of the core ...