Lyrics can now follow the music line by line when they're timed, and the waveform is available as a toolbar item. This update also adds support for more game audio formats.

New

• Synced lyrics: when lyrics are timed (from the file's tags, a .lrc file next to the track, or LRCLIB), the Lyrics window highlights the line being sung and keeps it in view. Click a line to jump to that point, or use the Synced Lyrics toggle to go back to plain text.
• Waveform toolbar item: add a small live waveform to the main or mini player toolbar from the toolbar customization palette. It's drawn while playing, and clicking it opens the waveform window.
• New "Show info about" setting in General Preferences. It chooses whether the Info Inspector, Lyrics and the mini player show the playing track or the selected track.

Improved

• The Info Inspector, Lyrics and the mini player now follow the playing track by default. They used to prefer the selected track.
• Support for more game audio formats, including new KA Sound, .hvg and .xsnd files and additional older sound banks.
• ATRAC9 and G.719 audio now use built-in decoders, which fixes some crashes and broken .xvag files.

Fixed

• Fixed playback or duration problems with some files, including .mp4 with xHE-AAC, high-sample-rate .ueba, .brwav, and some .aud, .gcm, .bao, .awb, .szd and .ckd files.
• .usm files now read their .hcakey keys.

Adds a Waveform visualizer pane, gathers the visualizers in a View submenu, and fixes seek bar waveforms for archived and truncated files.

New

• Waveform pane: a dockable visualizer that shows what you're hearing as an oscilloscope or a scrolling envelope of the last few seconds. Open it from the Window menu, click it to switch modes, and choose its style and color in Appearance preferences.

Improved

• The visualizers (Spectrum, VU Meter, Waveform and Nuked SC-55) now live in View > Visualizers, with their shortcuts unchanged.

Fixed

• The seek bar waveform now appears for tracks inside zip and other archives.
• If a waveform scan came up empty, the track is scanned again the next time it plays instead of staying blank.
• Files that are shorter than their header claims no longer show a noisy waveform at the end of the seek bar.

• view commit • MIDI: Last minute SpessaSynth bug fix for drums

• view commit • MIDI: Updated SpessaSynth with major changes
• view commit • Normalize file reference URLs before opening or storing them
• view commit • MIDI: Filter all SpessaSynth banks through player
• view commit • MIDI: Use SpessaSynth for files with external bank
• view commit • Preferences: Move Resampling to Synthesis
• view commit • MIDI: Fix a serious looping bug with Sinc mode
• view commit • MIDI: Fixed SpessaSynth handling weird DLS banks

• view commit • MIDI: Release the audio unit when the player that made it goes

• view commit • TagLib: Updated TagLib to version 2.2.1

• view commit • Debugging: Add more verbose bad URL logging
• view commit • Highly Complete: Update lazyusf2
• view commit • Audio Playback: One more safety check
• view commit • VGMStream: Updated libvgmstream code base

• view commit • Output: Attempt to fix possible race condition
• view commit • DSP Chain: Implement Signalsmith Stretch as option
• view commit • Touched by Xcode
• view commit • VGMStream: Updated libvgmstream code base
• view commit • DSP Chain: Last remaining fixes for Signalsmith
• view commit • App Delegate: Silence warning on macOS 12+
• view commit • DSP Chain: Correct Signalsmith Stretch engine name

• view commit • Highly Complete: Move silence seconds declaration
• view commit • Highly Complete: Move GSF sample rate reporting
• view commit • TagLib: Don't collide with inputs' own chapters
• view commit • FFmpeg: Signal tag updates for normal files

• view commit • FFmpeg: Fix unmapped tags' name case matching
• view commit • Audio Player: Work around some potential crashes

• view commit • Bug Fix: Resize album art for info button

• view commit • [Playlist Info Loader] Do not clear if loading
• view commit • Serialize persistent store update to main thread
• view commit • Updated VGMStream to r1745-37-g776c4d8c

• view commit • Changed updater script to handle new version strings
• view commit • AboutWindow adjustments
• view commit • Merge pull request #280 from losnoco/nevack/about-window
• view commit • Fix runtime warnings in Window/AboutWindowController.xib
• view commit • [About Window] Reorganized credits and added @nevack and myself in them
• view commit • [About Window] Fix
• view commit • Sync version number with main branch

• view commit • Add Sandbox notice to README
• view commit • Removed Sparkle
• view commit • Change version numbering system
• view commit • Change the product install path to /Applications
• view commit • [Sandbox] Update Info.plist generator
• view commit • Update Info.plist
• view commit • Remove stray entitlement from Sparkle
• view commit • Update Patreon credits
• view commit • [Core Audio Output] Guard against nil pointer
• view commit • [Sandbox Configuration] Fix nil pointer issues
• view commit • [Sandbox Configuration] Do not delete path on fail
• view commit • [Sandbox Configuration] Delete from storage later
• view commit • [Sandbox Configuration] Do more checks on test
• view commit • Revert "Remove stray entitlement from Sparkle"
• view commit • Revert "Removed Sparkle"
• view commit • [Info Plist] Auto format XML escapes
• view commit • [Crashlytics] Require asking user consent
• view commit • [About Dialog] Switched to WebView for credits
• view commit • [Main Menu] Added Privacy Policy link in App Menu
• view commit • Remove deep forced code signing option
• view commit • Completely overhaul code signing practices
• view commit • [Volume Control] Only initialize view once
• view commit • Remove developer supplied configuration file
• view commit • Assign blank development team in project files
• view commit • One last attempt to fix CI