CoolPlayer - Features

sort out & delete bad tracks while playing (no replies)

soundfreak — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:40:28 +0000

i´ve came across the coolplayer 1 year ago... and find it very good because it is pretty small, portable and good looking too...

i ve got a large mp3 collection and often load mp3 from radio streams...due to that, there is sometimes speaking at the end of the tracks or even tracks i dont like... or other worse tracks with sudden ending or something else....

because of the mass of tracks it is absolutely impossible to check track by track for quality !!! the only option i ve got is to listen to the tracks randomized day by day while im doing other things and pick out the bad ones... for deletion, for cutting or working on the tracks, to get the data consistenz better and better...

i guess that a lot of people that have a large mp3 collection gathered from internet radios, may have the same problems with teir data !

i want to apollogise or request you to programm an extension using shortcuts (F9/F10/F11/F12 ( for example)) and/or buttons to the player....

F9 = put track that was played bevore to a predefined working direktory
F10 = physikally delete track from disk that was played before
F11 = jump to next track and put currently playing track to a predefind working directory
F12 = jump to next track and physikally delete track from disk that is currently playing

(all tracks that were moved or deleted => should disappear from playlist simultaniusly)

this way it would be possible to get the data masses sorted with very less work and it would be possible to do this while you dont have to pay too much attention to it !!!!!
users could concentrate on their workin direktory jobs if they think its full enough to make some work of it....

please tell me what you think about these funktions

thnx

WASAPI output (no replies)

talos_2002 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:10:12 +0000

DirectSound is emulated in modern Windows OS's.
The replacement, WASAPI, has better sound and is available on all respectful audio players.

Please consider implementing it on the future.
XMPlay has a great implementation of it, but still it does not feel like CoolPlayer.

system-level hotkeys (no replies)

zanlok — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:46:02 +0000

Amarok has this feature where you can bind a custom system hot key to pause, resume play, advance the track, etc.

I like to use something like:
"WinKey + /" to play / pause
"WinKey + <" for back one track
"WinKey + >" to advance one track

CoolPlayer is a really nice, lightweight replacement for WinAmp. (I use the portable apps edition.)

This feature would make it better for us keyboard users that don't want to use the mouse to quickly play/pause -- just to bring the player out of the system tray just to hit pause and re-minimize the window. (ie: to take a call on Skype, or talk with the wife who just walked in)

Audio CD support (no replies)

Darkbee — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:30:48 +0000

Any chance of CoolPlayer having native standard CDDA audio CD support? I've tried using the CD Reader plugin as suggested in the Plug-Ins section, but had no success. (actually, I had to find the file elsewhere because the link is dead)

That is about the only thing that makes me reluctant to switch from XMPlay to CoolPlayer (actually CoolPlayer+ Portable)

msn messenger current playing song (1 reply)

Luis Garcia — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:42:00 +0000

I want to show current playing song on msn messenger :) thx!!!

Auto volume leveling (1 reply)

Thevan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:19:06 +0000

Hi Cool Player Team,

Good job guys ...............the player is great!!!
Can i suggest to add some kind of volume leveling for songs so that we don't have to keep changing the volume.

Windows Mobile? (no replies)

atjong — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:12:40 +0000

Are there plans to make a CoolPlayer release for Windows Mobile? I would welcome this very much. Having such minimal demands CoolPlayer would be a great tool for listening to music on WM devices.

Player & Playlist Skins (no replies)

AEN007 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:56:14 +0000

19March2009
Greetings.
I would like to "second" the motion made below -

MitchellWMA Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> But alternatively, since 219 _does_ handle both
> shuffle and non-shuffle modes, it would be a
> perfectly fine versions to use, if I could:
> 1) get it to remember more than one skin; and
> 2) get it to actually load the different SKINS'
> playlists according to each main INI rather than
> the ugly default playlist skin.

Options hotkey (no replies)

AEN007 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:31:47 +0000

19March2009
Greetings.
1) Is there a hotkey or commandline command
to bring up CoolPlayer (CP) Options?
When CP is activated, various "hotkeys" exist: A, L, P, X etc ...
I would like to open CP Options with a hotkey.
Could it be done?
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
AE

KARAOKE add-on (no replies)

arod — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:42:46 +0000

I'd love to see coolplayer play karaoke files (mp3+g). I'm tired of using winamp and think coolplayer is tons better.

Late

Speed Control (1 reply)

Bangk — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:54:25 +0000

Hi,

I'd like to have the ability to control the playback speed of soundfiles, specially to make them play faster.
Optimum range of speed would be gradually until double speed. I listen to lots of audiobooks and like to listen at about 1.7 times the normal speed.

Hope to see this feature one day, love that coolplayer is so "lightweight".
Thanks,
Bangk

Next + Remove (1 reply)

Mark Reid — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:29:26 +0000

I'd like a button (or key combo) to be able to remove the current track from playlist and skip to the next track. Maybe shift+?

What do you think? Is this of interest to anyone else?

Remember Last Played and Last Position (1 reply)

Jeffery Estes — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:33:30 +0000

I'm using Cool Player for Portable Apps and I LOVE IT!

I've enabled the "remember last played" from the Options menu and it works but not like I'd like it to.

It would be very, very cool if cool player would remember the last position inside the track I was playing instead of just remembering which file I was playing.

Example: I listen to long format audio "Podcasts" and its not uncommon for a file to be longer than my commute and I'd like to be able to jump back inot my car and have the player remember that I was X minutes into a given track and resume playing from that position.

Love the product. Keep up the hard work.

A U3 version would be uber cool also.

Jeff

listen to Shoutcast (no replies)

ashiq — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:08:20 +0000

I have, I also listen to Shoutcast streams alot so I can discover songs new to me. But I can't really achieve that with coolplayer because

1) Rename to Artist - Title.. & 2) Delete actual File (1 reply)

RD — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:12:29 +0000

I've two suggestions....

First, Coolplayer has several rename options EXCEPT renaming the file to...
"Artist - Title"
...(I -don't- want to rename to Artist-Track#-Title, thank you).

Second, it would be really handy if we could right click on an entry, somewhere, (or a button) in the playlist and 'Delete the -actual- file from drive'... so we can clean up folders, duplicates, etc. (I know you can set a playlist to not show more than one instance of a file.)

Are either of these possible already in Coolplayer? I haven't found them.
-RD

Play/Pause by clicking on Favicon (1 reply)

Lukas Kuhr — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:20:53 +0000

I love how the little favicon in the taskbar rolls when a song is playing, and I would like to be able to click on that rolling icon to either pause or resume play, depending on whether it is currently paused or playing.
Thank you.

asio plugin (1 reply)

anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:43:13 +0000

Hi,
Does an asio plugin already exits for coolplayer? I ran search but didnt find anything.

Opacity (no replies)

Bazooty — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:49:14 +0000

I 'd like to fade my CoolPlayer with a opaque on hover feature. The code required to do that shouldn't be too wasteful on resources. It follows the lean, practical methods of Coolplayer.

I love Coolplayer and props to the team.

Start on last position (2 replies)

S.Mayl. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:07:26 +0000

It would be nice if coolplayer could start at the last position when it was closed. Greetings!

can add a spectrum for collplayer like winamp or foobar2000 (no replies)

jackyxin li — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:50:55 +0000

i think add a spectrum for coolplayer like winamp or foobar200o is nesserary necessary. and spectrum style like: [lixin.aicoding.cn]
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Lyrics support (no replies)

Zickar — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:49:59 +0000

I Don't know how more or less it makes it portable freindly but all the coolplayer is missing is some ID3 tagging and lyrics support and it can be one kick ass application

I have been using iTunes for three years now and I can't help but complare any software to it, Graphically Cool Player is on another level and it has a very easy and simple interface ... But something is missing

Some of the feature of iTunes like Lyrics support and ID3 tagging and maybe even a playlist selector and music organizer would be nice additions but like I said, I'm not the programmer here, you fellas are so I don't know how much of that is doable or not

Either way this player is pretty awesome and the whole portable apps suite that I'm using it on is pretty awesome too ... You've done a great job, Good work and keep it up

Global hotkeys and portability (5 replies)

dmandn — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:30:29 +0000

Hi, just wondering if this little app will get global hotkey support, so that when minimised or out of focus it can still be controlled.

Also does this install anything or is it completely portable?

Playlist Text Color (9 replies)

Paul Harder — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:29:18 +0000

I downloaded Coolplayer+Portable 2.17.1 from PortableApps.com. I love the player, with only one tiny exception. In the playlist editor, the text for the currently playing song is in white on a light gray background. On some monitors I can barely make out what song is playing. If there were a configuration setting in an INI file that I could use to set the text color of the currently playing song, that would be great. Better yet would be the option to not only choose the color but also to boldface the text or to be able to change the background color behind it. I've looked at the tutorial for creating skins for the playlist, but I don't see anything that touches on this.

Adding WMA support (1 reply)

Garthower — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:29:39 +0000

I want to write include in CoolPlayer support of WMA. Can someone developer told me about structure of build-in plugins for CoolPlayer? I tried to understand itself, but at me not so it has turned out.

How USB Friendly is CoolPlayer? (5 replies)

Javier — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:49:06 +0000

How portable (USB, to carry around pc to pc) friendly is CoolPlayer? Meaning does it write settings to the registry and %appdata% directory (It seems as if settings are stored to the .ini but I'm just making sure) if not and can this be changed? Also can relative paths be used optionally (as a feature, even for library)? when in portable mode? e.g. X:\Music\Foo becomes F:\Music\Foo <--- can this feature be implemented (relative paths in general be added as a feature? (mainly for skins and a music library when operating from a usb device))

Last.fm / Audioscrobbler Plugin (1 reply)

Yaara — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:07:01 +0000

Hello

Do you have a plugin for Last.fm? for submitting tracks to the site?
there are plenty of plugins already developed (http://build.last.fm/), maybe I can use one of them?

Thanks in advance!

Autoplay on Windows startup (3 replies)

jelomulawin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:11:55 +0000

Thanks for the latest version of coolplayer, I can finally save my favorite skin!
I know you just released a latest update, but I'm just wondering if you could add a feature that allows coolplayer to auto-play when Windows starts-up because I like listening to music whenever I open my computer. Of course, you don't have to rush on anything but maybe you could do it the next time you would release an update for coolplayer. Thanks!

Lyric support (1 reply)

mrfyx — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:27:28 +0000

Hi, thanks for this good software

I like it but I can't read lyric files (.lrc).

So, could we read lyric files ?

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Add redtube and megarotic to CoolPlayer? (1 reply)

jarvis — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:37:14 +0000

Hi, Sir
I want to add [www.redtube.com] and [www.megarotic.com] to CoolPlayer, could you please tell me how to do? I have searched CoolPlayer codes, there are several method in rpc.php file. like as :
function is_metacafe_video(&$url, &$info, &$previewimage) {
if ((strpos(strtolower($url), 'http://www.metacafe.com/watch/') === 0) ||
(strpos(strtolower($url), 'http://metacafe.com/watch/') === 0)) {
if (preg_match('/metacafe\.com\/watch\/([^\/]*)\/([^(\/|$)]*)/', $url, $match)) {
$video_id = $match[1];
$video_name = $match[2];
$url = "[www.metacafe.com]{$video_id}/{$video_name}.swf";
$content = fetchURL($url, true);
if (preg_match('/\&mediaURL=([^(\&|$)]*)/', $content, $match)) {
$url = $match[1];
$previewimage = "[images.metacafe.com]{$video_id}.jpg";
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}

I know I also need create similar method for redtube and megarotic , but I don't what's content need to be done? Could you please help me?

Thanks
Jarvis

random play (no replies)

Strange — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:29:53 +0000

could there be an option to play the playlist random?

it means the playlist will be played infinity and songs could be repeated