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Magic Player - Version 1.5 24-01-2001
Multimedia Player
FREEWARE VERSION
Copyright(c) 2000 Alexander Firstov and Eugeny Makarov
WWW:	http://mplayer.lgg.ru/
Email:	mplayer@nm.ru
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  Magic Player is a skinnable multimedia player for Windows operating system. It plays audio and video files in common
formats: MP3, MID, CDA, AVI and others. Magic Players has a small size and high perfomance. On the other
hand it supports many multimedia formats. The program has an easy  interface (similar to such as many Windows
applications have). The appearance can be changed with the help of skins and different language packs (Magic Player
can be  translated into any language).

  Here is the history of changes:

Version 1.5 (24-01-2001)
  New Year theme has been replaced with new default buttons view (thanks to Laurent Goussard again)
  Skins are sorted alphabetically in the list now
  Added new feature: click the position trackbar to go to the selected point immediately
  Improved position tracking when dragging the thumb (current time is shown now)
  Fixed wrong homepage and email opening
  Some code optimization performed

Version 1.4n (New Year Edition) (29/12/2000)


  The appearance of Magic Player was totally redrawn in New Year style. Great thanks to Laurent Goussard!
  Added new keyboard controls:
	Left/Right arrows change current position. Use with Ctrl for better effect
	Up/Down arrows change volume. Use with Ctrl for better effect
	Space - play/pause commands
  Fixed some CD Audio bugs:
	played from the 2nd track in some cases after CD insertion
	stopped playing CD after the last track completition with replay function toggled on
  Fixed a video playback bug
  Empty strings are allowed in STR files now (previous versions didn't load such files correctly)

Version 1.4 (18/11/2000)

  New logo and program icon 
  Program internals were modified very hard. As a result Magic Player became even smaller (170 kb) and faster 
  Playlist was completely rebuilt :
	compositions names in the list 
	now you can change the order of playlist entries (Alt+arrows) 
	playlist window is now resizeable 
	color highlighting for files being played or selected 
	new playlist toolbar button - playlist window now can be linked to the main Magic Player window so they move together
	the Replay command logic of the program has been changed (now it's more convenient) 
	M3U files are now fully supported 
  Improved CD Audio playback:
	the presence of the CD in drive is now controlled. In order to change CD in drive press Alt+L after you have inserted your CD 
	corrected the problem with tracks changing 
	now you can change current position on the CD with the trackbar 
	association with CDA files was added 
  Video playback was improved: 
	fullscreen mode is now really full screen (just press F key to toggle it on/off) 
	fixed a bug which caused strange effects on the screen when closed the playback window
  Replaced main control buttons images with new ones 
  Magic Player controls in the main window became more transparent so skins can be used more efficiently 
  The main window position and playlist size are saved on exit 
  Restore command was added to the popup menu of the tray icon. Information command was also placed in the playlist popup
  New shortcut: Alt+F executes Find file command in the playlist 
  Fixed a bug in the options dialog. This bug caused some incorrect file types associations 

Version 1.3 (2-08-2000)
  Added CD Audio support. Use toolbar button (Alt + L) or add to list .CDA files from your disk (by dropping them with mouse
  or via Add dialog box)
  Improved video output. New feature 'Full screen mode' (F key)
  New options dialog
  New option: restore from system tray on double click
  New option: you can select what to display in window caption (file name playing or song name)
  New option: Magic Player can save your playlist on exit and restore it on start automatically
  New feature: middle mouse button click on tray icon works as Next command
  Windows can 'stick' to screen edges now
  Improved work with playlists
  M3U format is legal now
  Dynamic skins detecting. Now you don't need to restart Magic Player if you add new skins in the folder
  New popup menu command in playlist
  Added 'special credits to' section in 'About' window
  Toolbar has been changed: no more 'Exit' button (use system button in winow caption), 'Close playlist and play selected' was
  deleted too because of its useless
  No more 'Minimize' button in toolbar (use window caption)
  Fixed: if user selected 'Information' command from menu while empty playlist an error occured
  Fixed Magic Player homepage opening method in 'About' window
  The same about 'Find file' command
  Changed keyboard events reaction in playlist window
  Fixed: if user opened the playlist and tried to open a new file then dialog box settings were damaged
  New popup menu commands added in system tray menu
  Program executable is packed with UPX exe-packer now (http://upx.tsx.org), therefore the program size decreased in
  almost three times

Version 1.2 (16-07-2000)
 Added skin support. The appearance of Magic Player can be changed in one mouse click now!
 Improved playlist navigation. Now you can select several files to operate them
 Added new popup menu in playlist window
 Added new feature in playlist window. Now you can jump to any file from the list in Windows Explorer
 Improved volume control. Now you can use your mouse wheel to regulate volume
 Fixed: in "Add folder" dialog box this message was printed in russian regardless language installed
 The same error in "Save playlist" dialog box
 Fixed a mistake in russian.str

Version 1.1 (9/07/2000)
  Fixed some problems with volume bar
  Improved drag and drop support. Now you can drop whole folders in Magic Player
  Added auto association with multimedia file types
  Added new shortcut: Ctrl+P opens options window
  'About' window was rebuilt from zero.
  Added list of shortcuts in 'About' window

Version 1.0 (3/07/2000) - base version, key features below:
  Plays MP3, MID, WAV, AVI, MPEG and other files if necessary codecs are installed.
  Has all charecteristics of usual player (play, stop, rewind, repeat, random track, etc.)
  Small size (can be placed at 1 floppy. Consitsts of 1 .exe file and several string resources if needed), no installation required
  Does not require much resources
  Non-standard view
  Easy to use
  Graphic picture-based interface
  Compact size, hides in system tray
  Powerfull playlist editor
  Uses recursive folder scan. You can add several hundreds files in playlist by only one cilck
  Uses drag and drop technology. Just drag one or several files from Explorer window to Magic Player
  ID3-tag editor for MP3 files
  WinAmp style hot keys
  Interface language can be change very easy. Language amount is not limited
  You can translate Magic Player into your own language. Just do it, it's easy!
 ...many other small features I forgot about

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