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Preview Version: 1.99.34.22022 (x64)
Released: 29 June 2025

Everything done as part of preview build v1.99.32.21640

Added handling to the 'About | Updates' preference page so it will now indicate if post release updated plug-ins are available for the build to help resolve obvious crashing issues with the build along with the support needed to restart WACUP to be in a better state to then allow them to be applied (this is helpful for those who are luckily not having those issues or skipped the prompt after a crash)
Added support to the in_wave input plug-in (e.g. used for the likes of WAV & MP3 playback) so it can now follow the forced mono playback option on the Playback preferences page
Added an option to the internet radio navigation tree node to be able to trigger a refresh of the cached db incase of there being any prior issues with the copy that it's using
Added an additional source for more internet radio listings along with updating the checks made to try to generate valid genres from the mess that stations are still providing
Added a /OHLOOKATYOU command-line option to complement the existing /HUNGUPONYOU action which tries to generate a crash report from the running process but unlike /HUNGUPONYOU it won't try to force close the process which might be helpful when trying to figure out weird running process state issues & wanting to test it further
Added another attempt at trying to help avoid the skinned windows for both classic & modern skins getting lost off screen without having to make use of the command-line options
Added to the General preference page options equivalent to those offered by the 3rd party gen_lock plug-in so the behaviour for file & streams can be controlled when reacting to the OS being locked / unlocked with respect to the current WACUP playback state (this will not unpause or start playback if that's the state of WACUP at the time which hopefully isn't what's also being expected with this)

Changed how trying to open some opus files is done to make things more forgiving so they're more likely to play even if there's problems with the header information of the file (e.g. duplicated headers)
Changed the way metadata is obtained for some internal call to reduce code duplication for ~2KB saving on the core dll size
Changed the scrobbler handling to go back to not force specifying it use an HTTPS url
Changed the way the local library filters keep hold of their items which may use a bit more memory whilst reducing time to process the filter results though it should also help to avoid some allocation issues which have been happening & seem to have been behind some of the stability issues
Changed the root Skins preference page to load the list off-thread to avoid blocking the main ui thread which for some setups was causing a crash to occur
Changed some of the local library view handling so it should be less likely to show blank items whilst there's scanning / selection changes happening
Changed some of the internal handling to check for & wait on threads to simplify the in plug-in code to help avoid it working on the wrong thread handle
Changed some of the handling around xml file saving which from one test with the podcast feeds file saw around a 40% reduction in time to save the file along with some other actions during setup & when creating html playlists by making better use of buffering during file writing
Changed the playlist loading so entries found not to be referencing files on the same drive as WACUP won't have some processing done on them that isn't needed (for one test playlist of ~251K items this shaved ~100ms off the loading time with it taking ~600ms before the change which is nice saving though the impact of this is heavily dependent on how many playlist entries are on another drive & shouldn't make things slower compared to the existing handling)
Changed some of the local library database handling to reduce the scope of the locks which is an attempt to reduce some of the potential ui related hangs that can occur from (e.g. playback vs view loads)
Changed the local library results pane / single list to now try to indicate if sorting of the column results might be taking a while to complete along with trying to avoid a ui related deadlock in that mode & to prevent trying to trigger a columning sorting action when the local library view is already in a scanning / querying / sorting mode to help avoid some potential user confusion vs it being slow
Changed how the handling when minimising WACUP & it's been configured to be hidden from the taskbar (default enabled) works so it should now work consistently under both Windows & WINE setups (under WINE it could briefly minimise but then be restored due to what seems to be an issue when doing things within the WM_SIZE message related to trying to hide the main window)
Changed the History view so there's now a shortcut to open the edit playcount dialog
Changed when some of the initialisation is done along with trying to get some slower aspects triggered a bit sooner to help reduce the overall loading time by a litle bit (e.g. getting the main playlist thread running sooner)
Changed the internet radio view so it won't show provider icons if the view is configured to only show a specific provider (along with working around an OS listview quirk when removing imagelists)
Changed how the taskbar text updates are triggered to now attempt to do it in the background instead of hard-blocking with pausing / unpausing & when playback is known to be continuing onto another item so it should be less likely to cause some of the deadlock related crashes that have been happening due to slow to respond metadata / atf based actions whilst a main thread playback action is triggered
Changed some other aspects related to file saving from playlists to the html report which for the size of data being used was roughly halving the time for the action to complete which for the playlist can make actions triggering main playlist changes feel quicker as the backup playlist action is able to complete sooner
Changed the /HUNGUPONYOU action to now attempt to find an appropriate WACUP instance if a specific isn't provided
Changed some more of the implementation with how the taskbar text is internally done to better avoid deadlocking issues
Changed some of the error handling with PNG files to make it less likely that libpng will cause WACUP to crash when given incomplete / corrupted files
Changed more of the db related handling for the WACUP provided plug-ins using NDE to better deal with invalid / corrupted db files to avoid crashing
Changed the post release patch handling to be able to support updating support dlls instead of just the plug-in & component dlls
Changed the ordering of some memory releases when dealing with image resizing (e.g. lyrics & albumart window updates) to try to be better behaved in instances with low available memory
Changed the extended version of the IPC_STOPPLAYING message so the likes of ml_history should be less likely to not populate a length when playback of the current playing item completes
Changed the history view handling to try to fill in any missing length information for non-stream items in case it wasn't able to be obtained during the initial playback tracking event
Changed the streaming url plug-in (in_url) to now try to use in_vorbis for any streams that might be passed to it which appear to be ogg vorbis related to improve the chance of things playing if the url doesn't follow what is usually expected which can cause matching of the input plug-in to the stream to not work (in_url needs more re-working so it can skip the full plug-in offload but this'll help for now)
Changed the missing file checking when the jump to file dialog is trying to display results to now do the checking in a background thread to avoid the main ui thread blocking if an item being checked is taking too long to return an appropriate exists or missing response (e.g. slow network devices or with potentially failing hardware)
Changed the post release patch handling so it will attempt to reduce the number of copy prompts if multiple plug-ins &/or supporting files are attempting to be updated though it may require the user to check the option on the OS provided copy dialog to do it for all current items otherwise it'll require agreeing on a per-file basis
Changed the handling of the internet radio updating to reduce the impact on this build

Fixed a crash when trying to use the drag+drop handling from the local library plug-in
Fixed other crash issues found in relation to the problems with the local library issue
Fixed a validation check with the library plug-ins which caused invalid ones to be load
Fixed a string localisation issue which broke the display of some build update errors
Fixed a number of thread safety issues with some of the IPC api calls & plug-in specific overrides in place which with other changes from the recent builds have exposed as being more problematic in usage
Fixed a crash when trying to access some of the xsf based formats when the plug-in isn't properly loaded or it wasn't able to create a valid decoder instance which could cause a crash (e.g. GSF in a ZIP)
Fixed when some initialisation is done which have been causing some crashes when loading
Fixed a handling issue with the main playlist send-to menu which made it randomly crash
Fixed a performance issue with the main playlist send-to menu when its initially loading
Fixed the native output plug-in preference pages disappearing from the tree after being viewed & playback having then been triggered due to a loading optimisation which broke some of the checks to avoid reinitialising things when there's no need to do so (though it was needed in this state)
Fixed the probable cause of a crash seen when making multiple metadata requests to the vgmstream based input plug-in from different threads (e.g. local library import &...