0.8.7-2

A stopgap release between 0.8.7 and 0.8.8.

Since development of 0.8.8 is basically stalled for a really long time... let's just fix some random bugs. Also added a bunch of stuff nobody will ever use.

New features and changes:

• Visualization renderer. Basically a YouTube content generator.
• Configuration file revisioning. Old configuration files are not compatible. All options will be reverted to their defaults. Create a backup of the old configuration file if you need to.
• Changed how note velocity and measure indicator are presented in the MIDI visualization.
• Next / Previous track selected by actual track being player rather than the highlighted track in the playlist window.
• (new plugin by @BLumia) Show playback progress on taskbar icon.
• "Wait for remaining voices" now also checks for output level.
• A more sane way to control the 3D visualization viewport.

Bug fixes (the list is not necessarily complete):

• 3D Visualization should no longer randomly revert its viewport, or crash with certain configurations.
• Fixed desync between visualization and actual playback.
• GS files with two percussion channels should now play correctly.
• Long delays between events should no longer cause freezes if playback is interrupted during such delays.
• Certain crash caused by external synthesizers.

Behind the scene stuff:

• Settings infrastructure completely rewritten.
• API adjustments.
• Initial adaption to changes in Qt6. Don't even try to build it against Qt6 though.
• MSYS2 CI by @BLumia.
• Moving a few options around in the configuration file.
• General housekeeping tasks.

0.8.7-1

• Updated SMELT library, fixing visualization background image loading.
• Added a debug info OSD for the visualization. You can toggle it by pressing B.

The Windows binary is re-uploaded on 2020-02-21 to fix an issue with the bundled fluidsynth library.

0.8.7: late celebration for the 5th birthday of QMidiPlayer

This is a major release. It contains dozens of new features and lots of refactored code. A (probably incomplete) list of changes is attached below.

• New simple visualization plugin.
• Per-device initialization profile and instrument mappings.
• You can now select multiple MIDI devices and assign different priorities to them.

• Removed the now useless 'Default Output Device' option.

• Removed all uses of widgets inside QTableWidget.
• Now built with CMake.
• Now requires FluidSynth > 2.0.
• Windows builds are now built with mingw using mxe.
• MIDI mapper rewritten.

• Bank selection and preset selection panels can now be resized.

• Single fluidsynth instance is now always enabled, the option doesn't do anything now.

• Fixed seeking not restoring CC correctly
• Application should no longer freeze when playback ends.
• SMF reader: respect chunk length values
• Attempting to close the visualization window no longer causes crash the application
  or no response at all
• Windows for built-in functionalities don't close when escape is pressed
• Show message boxes at center of current monitor
• Lots of plugin API changes
• Performance improvements to the 3D visualization
• Playback timing corrections
• SysExc. with length >256 bytes are sent correctly
• Visualization should now sync better
• Dials are no longer blurred on a HiDPI display.

Initial port to fluidsynth 2.x

Also the first second mingw build.

Most Linux distros do not come with fluidsynth 2.x yet. Use 11bda15 instead.

0.8.3-2: Visualization Revolution

First public release with visualization support on all platforms.

Note: Visualization is unstable for Windows. Do not enable the visualization plugin if you decide to use QMidiPlayer in a daily manner.

0.7.2-5: First stable version!

Remove visualization stub.
Complain explicitly if an invalid file is loaded.
Remove fluidsynth warnings from stderr.