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win7shell 2.0

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Win7shell is a simple plugin for Winamp, that integrates it with the new taskbar of Windows 7. As you may know the taskbar offers lots of new features, which you can read about everywhere, including here. Why would you need this? The new taskbar features were designed to improve the convenience of the user, adding visible information and shortcuts where you need it, but Winamp doesn`t take advantage of these. Until now.

Features


The Plugin`s Features, Briefly:


* shows playback status and progress in the icon background of the taskbar icon
* shows playback status using icon overlays on the taskbar icon

* Customizes The Aero Peek Thumbnail With:

o Winamp logo
o album art
o customized information about the current media playing
o custom image file
* adds player control buttons on the aero peek thumbnail
* adds the playing media to the `Recent` category of the jump list
* Winamp is now easier to find in 3DFlip

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Compatibility And Convenience:


* Translation support
* fully compatible with Winamp and Windows 7
* all features can be turned on and off
* thumbnail information is selected and customized by user
* full UNICODE support

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History updates (Complete changelogs since the listing on this site)

2.0 [01-13-12]

  • New: Added option to activate (somewhat) smoother text scrolling, and drawing in general > more CPU usage
  • Improvement: Rating drawing on the aero peek is similar to what you see on the Bento skin, the missing stars till 5 are "padded" with bulbs
    • ex: ★ ★ ★ ● ●
  • Improvement: Album art is not forced to square anymore, it keeps aspect ratio
  • Fix: Some of the Winamp exit crashes / hangs, and some other minor ones... please report if you notice any more
  • (Some other changes I might forgot)

Other versions : 1.13 1.12 1.11 1.10 1.09 1.08b 1.07 1.04 1.01_-_1.03 1.00 0.92 0.91 0.90 0.84 0.83 0.82

v1.13 [02-24-10]

  • New: Added option to activate (somewhat) smoother text scrolling, and drawing in general > more CPU usage
  • Improvement: Rating drawing on the aero peek is similar to what you see on the Bento skin, the missing stars till 5 are "padded" with bulbs
    • ex: ★ ★ ★ ● ●

v1.12 [11-14-09]

  • New: Added option to disable mouse wheel volume control. It caused performance drop on certain systems and incompatibilities with ObjectDock.
  • Fix: A bug with mouse wheel volume control, when the volume jumped back to 100 after scrolling below 0.
  • Fix: A text centering bug when iconic background was enabled, and no album art was found
  • Improvement: Re-added MusePack file format support for album art, using TagLib
  • Fix: Some title and artist formatting bugs; Missing last character from artist and first character from title
  • Improvement: Some changes to recent and frequent jump list categories. The plug-in doesn't add the played song to the recent docs if it's already there by some other application.
  • Translations: Added 1 line, change 'favorite' line

v1.11 [11-13-09]

  • New: Volume can be controlled using mouse wheel scroll when hovering over the Winamp icon on the taskbar.
  • Improvement: Album art is taken directly from Winamp, so everything that is supported there, is used as aero peek background.
  • Improvement: Longer text lines will scroll on the aero peek window.
  • New: Added text formatting flag: %d% to prevent that specific line from scrolling, even if it's longer than the width of the thumbnail window.
  • New: Added "Apply" button to immediately see the effects of the settings.
  • New: "Favorite" button now opens a little window where you can rate the current song from 0 to 5
  • Fix: Some albums that had characters that are not allowed to be in a file name weren't loaded. It's fixed now.
  • Translations: 2 new lines in the translation file

v1.10 [11-05-09]

  • Fix: got rid of an important and old memory leak (it caused several other bugs, especially if you didn't restart Winamp for a long time)
  • Fix: Corrected icon order in the jump list
  • Fix: Corrected several text formatting bugs, such as the shadow being sometimes one character short
  • New: Added two more text formatting flags:
    • %s% - Draws text shadow for containing line using selected shadow color
    • %b% - The line containing this will have a darker background for the text, using the selected shadow color

v1.09 [11-01-09]

  • New: Added media library playlists to the jump list
  • New: Thumbnail button: "Stop after current song"
  • Fix: Small bugfixes
  • Translations: Added 2 lines to the translation file

v1.08b [10-29-09]

  • Fix: Taskbar icon progressbar always showed 0 or 100 for some users.

v1.07 [10-19-09]

  • New: APE (Musepack format) tag support. Album art is extracted from APEv2 tagged music files.
  • Improvement: Another fix on the settings path finding... (sigh)
  • Translations: Updated translations (template not changed)

v1.04 [10-08-09]

  • New: Added Media Library bookmarks to the jump list
  • New: Added "Mute" button on the aero peek thumbnail
  • Fix: A bug that prevented empty lines on the thumbnail text
  • Improvement: Added vertical scrollbar to the text editor
  • Fixed some more bugs with the settings file
  • Fix: Several other bugfixes
  • Translation: Updated some translations and template file

v1.01_-_1.03 [10-05-09]

  • New: Added "Resume Playback" task to the jump list. It starts Winamp playing the last song before it was shut down, from the same position.
  • Fix: Settings are saved correctly for users who have Unicode characters in their Windows user name
  • Fix: Media info wasn't updated when stream was playing
  • Fix: Jump list tasks do not open other players settings when Winamp is closed
  • Fix: Some other minor reported bugs

v1.00 [10-03-09]

  • Improvement: Album art is read from embedded picture from ID3v2 tag
  • Improvement: Album art is drawn with higher quality
  • New: You can select what to use as background, if selected is not available
  • New: Jump list is configurable by categories
  • Fix: Previous version didn't update title and artist while stream was playing
  • Translation: 6 new lines in translations, 1 removed

v0.92 [10-01-09]

  • Fix: Several huge bugs from 0.91

v0.91 [09-30-09]

  • Fix: LOTS of important fixes, reported bugs
  • Fix: Fixed and improved jump list, added Recent, Frequent and Tasks category.
  • Improvement: Re-designed thumbnail progressbar.
  • Improvement: Added notice about the thumbnail buttons taking effect only after restart.
  • New: Added application ID 'Winamp', for the taskbar control. It "should" fix lots of related issues, including the dual monitor one.
  • Translation: 3 new lines in translation.

v0.90 [09-28-09]

  • Improvement: Re-wrote a large part of the code; significantly reduced CPU usage (If you had performance drops while using some features of this plug-in, they should be gone now)
  • Improvement: You can now customize thumbnail buttons, enable and disable them one by one
  • Improvement: Any ID3 tag (text only) can be used as metaword, just surround the tag with '%' (percent) characters. e.g. %comment%
  • New: Added 3 new thumbnail buttons: Volume Up, Volume Down and Open File
  • New: Added feature to show playback progress on thumbnail
  • New: Installer now contains all language files, and will copy the selected one into the destination folder.
  • Translation: Added 4 lines, removed 'addfav'

v0.84 [09-24-09]

  • Fix: a bug that crashed Winamp on saving settings
  • Improvement: Lots of code optimization, hopefully fixing some of the reported bugs (file size under 200kb!!!)
  • Remake: Removed Winamp logo, if no album art is found, transparent background is used
  • Translation: "Author" is translatable

v0.83 [09-23-09]

  • New: The plug-in is now compiled as pure native code. File size is half of the previous size, and it should be more robust.
  • Improvement: 'Favorite' button is now optional, and it's semi-last button on the thumbnail.
  • Improvement: Some minor GUI adjustments

v0.82 [09-22-09]

  • Improvement: Re-sized config window
  • Fix: Some texts weren't translated

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