Beta-2.3.0

Fixes:

• Fixed issue with output device not changing when headphones are connected.
• Fixed NowPlayingList loses its ItemTemplate when window size is changed.
• Fixed crash after library load.
• Fixed playlist import.
• Fixed audio stutter when minimizing to background (only mobile).
• Fixed crash when deleting duplicates.

What's New:

• Added new Keyboard Shortcuts ('Keybindings' section in Settings).
• Added full translation support.
• Added ability to export playlist (only to .m3u & .pls for now).
• Added silent upcoming song notifications.
• Added translations for Czech and Sinhala languages.
• Added equalizer presets (experimental).
• Added real-time music library updates when filesystem changes (only works when app is running).
• Added 'Contribute' section in settings to help in contributing.
• Added auto playback stop in BreadPlayer when a song is played in Groove Player.
• Added navigate to now playing screen when song is played on mobile.
• Added auto removal of duplicates when importing songs.
• Added navigate to now playing screen when song's tags are clicked in mini player.

What's Improved:

• Improved hamburger menu list item response on tap/click.
• Improved all animations and transitions.
• Improved navigation performance.
• Improved library import.
• Improved overall UI and increased readability.
• Improved startup performance by 50% (only PC).

Read the full release notes here.

Beta-2.0.0

See full version release notes here: Release Notes

Alpha-1.3.0

A minor release with 2 critical bug fixes:

1. Background audio issue was fixed.
2. Issue where albums were not being loaded was fixed.

Known Issues:

1. Playing a song from Groove while a song is playing in Bread will NOT pause the playing song as it should. (There is currently no workaround other than manually pausing the song. A fix is intended though.)

Alpha-1.2.0

See the release notes for full summary of all the changes and improvements.

Alpha 1.1.0

First Stable Alpha

So many bug fixes, additions and improvements that you have to install it yourself to find all.

Enjoy!

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Alpha-0.1.7.1

We are approaching the final alpha release so that is why a second point alpha was released so early. We are in hurry, ya know ;)

What was fixed:

1. Fixed issue where the album arts weren't loading #56
2. Tries to fix audio cuts in mobile #39 Critical Bug
3. Fixed issue where song forward order in grouped/sorted list was unlogical.
4. Fixed sorting by Year.

What was improved:

1. Player startup was improved #61
2. AlbumView loading was improved with x:Bind and x:Phase
3. Jumplists were improved. #60
4. Settings UI was rewritten and redesigned.
5. UI and Icons were redesigned. (Hamburger Menu was tinkered with a lot).

What was added:

1. New sorting category (By Genre).
2. Ability to place PlayBar on top or bottom.
3. Auto-Loading of Music Library on first start.
4. A redesigned "About" tab was added in settings.

What wasn't fixed:

1. Issue where forwarding songs rapidly made the Next Function dysfunctional. #52

Alpha-0.1.7

What was fixed:

1. Fixed bug that stopped music when player was minimized #37
2. Fixed bug due to which album view wasn't loading. #38
3. Fixed issue which resulted in song not stopping when another sound in the system started playing. #40
4. Fixed bug with position slider in which clicking on the end did nothing. #44
5. Fixed bug with suffling songs. #46
6. Fixed SMTC on PC. #47
7. Fixed crash after drag/drop songs into library. #48
8. Fixed crash on navigating with empty library. #50
9. Fixed crash on clicking "next" buttong. #52 #51
10. Fixed search. #53
11. Fixed issue in which window turned black when minimized for long. #54
12. Fixed player hang on search. #55

What was improved:

1. Rewritten whole MVVM logic resulting in better memory and CPU management.
2. Improved search.
3. Improved mobile UI.
4. Improved playlist and library management.

Alpha-0.1.6.1

What was fixed:

• Fixed issue where the library wasn't loading at all. (wasn't fixed) #34
• Fixed issue with drag/drop. The app crashed whenever trying to drop songs into library.
• Fixed crash if the database got corrupted.
• Fixed crash when trying to load corrupted/incomplete songs. #32
• Fixed crash when creating playlists. #33
• Fixed bug with importing playlists.
• Fixed issue with Directory Watcher where it stopped watching directories on restart.
• Fixed other various crashes and bugs.

Update (v0.1.6.1):

• Fixed crash while attempting to create a playlist. #35
• Fixed crash while opening an imported playlist. #36
• Finally fixed loading of songs into library #34

What was improved:

• The whole playlist and album engine was rewritten to provide the best possible experience and performance. Now BreadPlayer takes less memory and does more work.
• Improved navigation and caching.
• Improved player resetting.
• Improved sorting and filtering.
• Improved player state saving/loading.
• Improved UI for both Mobile and PC. Mainly, playlist and album views.

Alpha-0.1.5

Issues fixed:

1. Fixed crash when trying to sort library songs.
2. Fixed crash when trying to load a corrupt/empty song into library. This resulted in half the library not loading. #32
3. Fixed crash when navigating around the players.
4. Fixed Mobile UI where song info wasn't displayed.
5. Fixed issue where the player stopped if a corrupt/empty song was played. #25
6. Fixed bug where multiple songs started playing. Apparently, it wasn't fixed. #16
7. Fixed minor UI bugs.

Improvements and Additions:

1. Improved library loading performance. Now, the player loads in 2 rounds. First one loads all the info and songs and the second one all the album arts.
2. Added extensive folder watching. The added folders are now watched for changes such as rename, delete, add etc.
3. Added support for SMTC. Now you can play, stop and jump songs from anywhere around the device by pressing volume buttons to show SMTC (SystemMediaTransportControls).
4. Added support for more settings being saved. Now almost all settings are saved such as sort settings, playbar visibility etc.
5. Improved UI for both Mobile and Desktop.
6. Added global hard reset for player. With this you will be able to reset the whole player to zero meter with all the playlist, songs, settings etc. removed.

Alpha-0.1.4

Issues fixed:

• Fixed issue where the first song of album did not appear #24
• Fixed albumview taking too much memory #23
• Fixed addition of song into multiple playlists #24
• Fixed Status Bar color #27
• Fixed issue where 2 songs started playing at once. #16
• Fixed bug where some songs did not load #28

Improvements & Additions

• Improved search in library
• Improved albumview
• Improved library loading
• Improved player initializing
• Improved sorting/filtering
• Added SortByGenre
• Improved Jumplists
• Added version info
• Improved overall performance
• Implemented full song sync across different views.
• Added tooltip for upcoming song.
• Added setting to reset everything
• Added context menu for NowPlaying song.
• Improved Phone UI

Known Bugs:

• Sort settings not saving.
• Repeat setting not loaded properly on player init.

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