Introducing Alpha Preview 1! (v.0.0.160.0)

This preview includes a taste of some of the features we are going to be including in the full fat Alpha of Rise Media Player! We're so excited to show you them, and we hope you are excited too!

SIDE NOTE: We are looking for contributors to help maintain and work on Rise Media Player! Let us know on Discord if you're interested, or just submit a pull request.

What’s new? (Big features)

• Major work on indexing. This took a long time and required a lot of strength from our developers. Hope the work was worth it!🤞
• Playlists are finally here in some form. Add songs from right click context menus to a playlist and create playlists from the playlists page. You can also import playlists from M3U files. Video support and exporting playlists, as well as more in depth properties are coming in full fat Alpha.
• LastFM & Deezer Integrations are here too! You can now view information about your favourite artists from their pages, and we will automatically grab artist images from the internet to make things look really fresh.
• LastFM Accounts. Login with your last.fm account through the settings page or the accounts button in the title bar. Adding these accounts will enable auto scrobbling. When you play a song, it will be added to your recently played list in last.fm with way more features coming soon
• Our refreshed feedback page includes fluent design, and more simple looking controls to select what you'd like to report on. Image support is also coming soon, so you can add screenshots with ease. This feedback still stores on GitHub Issues, so you will need a GitHub account. However, the feedback page itself is server side, meaning we can update it without the need of a RiseMP or RiseEQ update.
• Media scanning options are here now too. You can entirely disable automatic scanning, or choose a time frame. We have also improved the way we scan so it should be faster and smoother.
• Discography now works correctly on Artists.
• WinUI 2.8 Preview. We are now working with WinUI version 2.8 so watch out for extra bugs. If you believe these may be WinUI related rather than RiseMP related, please let Microsoft know.
• What's new. We are currently working on a page to replace the old 'What's new' interface in old RiseMP versions. Currently, this isn't live, but will be in the next few days. You won't need to update to get this working, don't worry.

Extra QoL changes

• We now take you to the Albums page by default, as most users want to get straight to their music.
• We've disabled the out of box experience for now, as it had issues. We are working on some improvements behind the scenes.
• There is a connected devices page. It is not functional. Please don't take any notice of it.
• We've fixed a song clipping issue on the now playing page.
• Many context menus have been updated to allow you to play and shuffle from more places.
• Video thumbnails now show on the now playing bar and on the titlebar of the playback page.
• The default sidebar icon choice is now colourful.