The changes include:
- New feature
Categories- New feature
Hotbar- New feature
Hotkey overview- New feature
Exports- Fixes & improvements
Details
Categories- Organize your sound collection by using categories.
- Set icons for categories by dropping images on them.
- Play a random file from a certain category by setting a hotkey for that category.
- Added new hotkey preferences at File ▷ Preferences ▷ Hotkeys ▷ Numpad Hotkeys, that allow you to set an index to a category, e.g. 5, so index hotkeys beginning with 5 will play sound files from that category.
Hotbar- Drop sound files on the hotbar for quick access. Try it out at Window ▷ Hotbar.
- Play a sound file by left click or by assigning a hotkey to the hotbar entry.
Hotkeys- Added an overview of all configured hotkeys. Access the overview from the menu at Window ▷ Hotkeys ▷ Hotkey overview.
- Added option to enable or disable all hotkeys (the H-icon in the status bar). This option always resets when you start Soundpad.
- Made hotkeys work on key down, which makes it much easier to trigger hotkeys like Shift+1. Exceptions to this rule are numpad hotkeys like the Alt+Numcode or Ctrl+Alt+Index hotkeys.
Export- Export compact sound lists, sound files or preferences at File ▷ Export.
- The sound list format changed with the introduction of categories. If you want to save sound lists the old way, e.g. to make playlists of albums, then you can export a compact list. This list contains only the files of the selected category and no additional information.
- Backup all your sound files and the sound list to a directory of your choice. It will physically copy over all the files.
- Backup preferences into a REG-file. Restore your preferences by closing Soundpad and executing the REG-file.
Others- Added option to the recorder preferences to specify in which category recordings should land. The same option also applies to sounds, that you download from Meowpad.
- The volume measurement changes the configured value only if the measured value was above the minimum of 59 dB.
- For users of index hotkeys: the index is now defined by the order in the All sounds category. This category is hidden by default and can be shown from the menu at File ▷ Window ▷ Categories ▷ All sounds.
- The command line argument -rc DoPlaySound(index) now plays the sound file at position "index" from the All sounds category.
- Added special handling when microphone access is denied, because of the microphone privacy settings on Windows 10 with April 2018 update.
- Added auto scrolling to the sound list when dragging a sound file to the first or last visible entries in the list.
- Added automatic safe start if the application was not closed properly.
- Revised random play back logic to not repeat the last 10 sounds (per category).
- Changed file hashing on non NTFS file systems to prevent hash collisions. In collision cases different files shared the same stats (play count, last played on).
- Fixed application freeze when starting the sound recorder after a driver or system update has changed sound device identifiers.
- Fixed: when Soundpad was closed to tray, then it didn't come back to front when run again from superbar or by clicking the executable.
- Fixed: Saving the sound list while a sound is being played, removed the currently played sound name from the main window title.