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A2 Media Player Pro

A2 Media Player Pro V2.51 is a fast response to the requests from users for adding a few handy features to the previous version V2.50:

 Due to the many requests from users for real-time pitch-shifting without change in tempo (key transpose), A2 decided to implement this special DSP audio effect for our users. Pitch (key) can be changed from 1 octave down (0.5 times) to 1 octave up (2 times) using the "Pitch" trackbar in the Mixer (See Readme file for details).

 Allow user to set lyrics to be displayed at the center of "A2 Theatre (Karaoke Emulator)" through the "Layout" page of "Lyrics Options".

 Allow user to change the default image through the "Image" page of "Preferences". The default image is used to display as background image in "A2 Theatre (Karaoke Emulator)" for audio files with no image/video attached. This feature can also be considered as a simpler way to change the background image for audio files in real-time without going through the image-attaching process in the "Playlist".

 A bug in lyrics outline is fixed for more accurate lyrics word display.

A2 Media Player Pro V2.50 is a version with new features built for professional users especially for musicians performing on stage. To satisfy the request from many commercial customers for dual-monitor support, a few functions were added for displaying "A2 Theatre" on the secondary monitor/TV after a thorough test on different display cards (please be aware that this new dual-monitor support feature is unnecessary for those who are already satisfied with the dual-monitor configuration of moving the "control interface" of A2 Media Player to the secondary monitor in previous/current versions).

 A "Lyrics Remarks" line is added on top of each of the 2 lyrics lines for displaying other synchronized text information such as guitar chords, guitar tabs, musical notes, lyrics notes, lyrics translation, ... etc. together with lyrics (See Readme file for details). For those who want to see how "Lyrics Remarks" are displayed, please try our new sample LRC lyrics (with guitar chords) for our demo media file.

 Allow user to control the height of the lyrics display area through the "Layout" page of "Lyrics Options", so that lyrics with large font size will not be blocked by color bars due to limitation set for saving memory space.

 Allow "A2 Theatre (Karaoke Emulator)" to be displayed in full-screen mode on the secondary monitor/TV, so that user (especially commercial user) can control A2 Media Player without disturbing the display of "A2 Theatre". We suggest user to setup the secondary monitor/TV as the extension of the Desktop with the same resolution and color-mode as the primary monitor (See Readme file for details).

 Allow playlists to be joined together through the function "Add Playlist" from the popup menu of the "Playlist module". Loading a playlist with this function, or dropping a playlist file to the "Playlist module" will NOT clear the current playlist. The current playlist will only be cleared when loading a playlist with the function "Load Playlist", or dropping a playlist file to the "Main module".

 Allow user to define step size for the "Fast Forward" and the "Rewind" operations. User can also set "lyrics line" as the step size from "Preferences -> System -> General -> Forward / Backward". That means user can move the media file forward or backward N lyrics lines by pressing the "Fast Forward" or "Rewind" buttons N times when "A2 Theatre" is activated.

 Allow lyrics text file to be converted directly to "Enhanced LRC" lyrics format through the function "Import text" under the "File" option of the main menu in "Lyrics Editor".

 Allow all the time tags of lyrics to be scaled from one duration to another through the function "Adjust all time tags" under the "Edit" option of the main menu or from the popup menu of the "Lyrics Editor". This feature is very userful for lyrics synchronization of the same music file with different durations without having to re-synchronize the music file again.

 Allow 3 levels of "Undo" operation for functions: "Beautify lyrics display", "Adjust all tme tags" and "Delete [line]" in the "Lyrics Editor".

 Support multi-language key search in the "Playlist module".

 Support multi-language in the "ID3 module" by selecting the appropriate charset from the "Media Tag Editor".

 Allow "Auto Play" on/off setting to be saved for A2 Media Player.

 A few bugs including those found in lyrics overlay on video, lyrics outline display, "Lyrics Editor" display in Windows XP, button display in the "Playlist module" are fixed.

A2 Media Player Pro is going to be more and more professional as the number of our commercial customers grows. This time we concentrated on the enhancement of the "Lyrics Sync Editor" so that professional lyrics (Enhanced LRC) is much easier to produce. A few more options are also added for better and smoother lyrics display in A2 Theatre (Karaoke Emulator).

 Please read the Readme file V2.40 for the details of the enhancements of the "Lyrics Editor" including Non-English character support, automation of lyrics line breaking and lyrics display beautification.

 A new tutorial is written to teach user how to produce professional Enhanced LRC lyrics file.

 Fully support professional MP3 Karaoke files produced by Great-Art.

 Allow user to control how the media title is displayed in A2 Theatre (Karaoke Emulator) with settings such as color, outline and display style (hidden, single line, multi-line with tag information). All settings can be changed through the "Title" page of "Lyrics Options", and can be saved for each media file in the playlist.

 Allow user to control the "Leading width" of Focused-word display in the "General" page of "Lyrics Options" when "Progress rate" is applied. "Leading width" of Focused-word display is the width of Focused-word to be filled immediately with the "Focused Word" color when the time to display the Focused-word is reached (See Readme file for details).

 Allow user to select a "charset" from the "Charset" list in the "Media Tag Editor", so that Non-English characters can be entered and displayed in the editing area.

 A few minor bugs in lyrics display, media title display and CD-Ripper are fixed.

After the release of A2 Media Player Pro, we received quite a number of requests to support movie subtitle formats. A2 Media Player Pro V2.31 is a response to these requests.

 Support movie subtitle format (*.srt). SRT file can be manipulated as LRC file in A2 Media Player and will be translated to LRC format when it is "played" by attaching it to a video media file as Lyrics, or when it is loaded into the Lyrics Editor.

 Support real-time auto-search of LRC lyrics file from the Internet for CD/MP3/OGG/WMA/Wave audio files in the playlist.

 Support double outline lyrics display.

 Audio Effect - Vocal Removal - Band Filter bug in V2.30 fixed.

Hi to all users of A2 media player:

It's been a long time since we left our last message here. But we weren't sitting at the beach and enjoying the sunshine during this period. Instead, we locked ourselves in the room and tried our best to offer more stunning features for our users. And now, we are proud to announce the release A2 Media Player Pro V2.30.

 Support lyrics and graphics overlay on video (DVD, VCD, MPG, AVI) in real time without using any other hardware equipments except your computer and A2 Media Player Pro. This means that you can create your own karaoke video in real time by attaching video and lyrics files to an audio file or by attaching audio and lyrics files to a video file.

 Support video screen controls for aspect ratio, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness and zooming.

 Support DVD (Digital Video Disc) as video media file. DVD tracks (*.vob) can be manipulated as other video media files in the playlist.

 Support Shockwave Flash (*.swf) as video media file. SWF files can be manipulated as other video media files in the playlist.

 Support Ogg Vorbis (*.ogg) as audio media file. OGG files can be manipulated as other audio media files in the playlist.

 Support Ogg and ID3v2 tag reading and editing. An advanced "Media Tag Editor" is included. Fields in the old ID3 tag editor will be allowed to have length more than 30 chars and can also be used for Ogg tag editing.

 Allow lyrics to be embedded into Ogg and ID3v2 tag. Old lyrics embedding formats will be converted automatically when lyrics or media tag info is updated.

 A new, accurate and fine-tune 18-bands equalizer is implemented. The new equalizer can be applied to all audio media files including Audio CD, MP3, Ogg, WMA and Wave.

 Support Audio CD digital (software) playback (requires fast data-extraction CD-Rom). Equalizer, Mixer, sound and visual effects can now be applied to Audio CD tracks.

 Support both CDMI and Freedb Audio CD playlist.

 A powerful "CDMI CD-Ripper & Karaoke File Converter" is included. It provides fast conversion from CD tracks to MP3/Ogg/Wave, MP3/Ogg to Wave or Wave to MP3/Ogg. Partial conversion is also allowed. Lyrics can be embedded automatically if available.

 Timing in lyrics synchronisation is standardized, so that, without any modification, the same lyrics file can now be used for audio CD tracks (under digital playback mode) and other audio media files such as MP3, Ogg and Wave if they are created using "CDMI CD-Ripper".

 Resized Visual Effects are allowed to be displayed in A2 Theatre (Karaoke Emulator), so that lyrics can now be displayed under it.

 Sound cards bugs, playlist drag & drop bugs, Windows XP display bugs and some other bugs fixed.

Download A2 Media Player Pro V2.40 and try it. Register if you like the new features.