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• New Features:

  • ANNOUNCING WHAT'S NOW PLAYING CHARTS!

    • Now you can help the community figure out what DJs are ACTUALLY PLAYING on their streams!
    • After installing, copy your anonymous key from your client into the website to unlock a ton of features!

  • Everything renamed to WhatsNowPlaying

    • Quite a few things had already been renamed to use the new name. It was time to finish the job.
    • The rename includes the Documents directory. As part of the upgrade, the new Documents/WhatsNowPlaying directory will have your previous content also copied into it.

  • Many UI element upgrades

    • Major overhaul of the UI with many pages getting some clean up
    • On launch, an arrow will show you where the minimized icon is (relatively) supposed to be
    • Tree-structure to help organize various categories
    • Many preferences are now in tabs to make them less crowded
    • New startup window system shows progress tracking
    • AcoustID and MusicBrainz setup split apart

  • New Output System

    • Remote server support to send results to a central computer to consolidate one or more DJs into one set of outputs
    • Text Output was moved here
    • Set lists are now built in real-time and can be customized

  • Twitch

    • Switched from deprecated PubSub to WS-EventSub
    • Twitch Redemptions and Requests are back
    • Authentication system now simplified and self-contained
    • Added contextual help system for chat commands (e.g., !track help)

  • Requests Overhaul

    • Fuzzy matching with customizable threshold for track requests now handles some typos and natural language input
    • !hasartist chat command to search either entire DB or specific crates/playlists
    • Support for animated gifs/memes based upon text from Tenor

  • Title Filtering Overhaul

    • A new, simplified filter system for removing text from titles has been implemented. The newer one is much easier to use without having to do a lot of extra work.
    • The complex regex-based filter is still present and available, but upgrading to this version will remove existing filters and use a default set of useful filters.

  • Web Server changes

    • Removed bundled templates that did not use websockets
    • Revamped old templates to remove some sizing and background issues with OBS
    • New templates that mirror the boring templates everyone else uses
    • New templates with new special effects
    • All templates may now be referenced by name (e.g, /template.htm -> /templates/template.htm)
    • ws-gifwords-fade.htm to show GifWords requests
    • ws-justthecover.htm to cycle through all of the front covers
    • Bundled copies of some common libraries available via the /vendor endpoint
    • New remote control APIs

  • Several new template variables

    • discordguild
    • has_video
    • kickchannel
    • lyricist
    • now
    • timestamp
    • today
    • track_received
    • twitchchannel

  • Completely revamped documentation website to make it easy to pick your version

  • Upgrade downloads are now sent through whatsnowplaying.com/download so that users can be pointed to the correct one, see release notes, etc.

  • Distribution files now use user-friendly naming (e.g., WhatsNowPlaying-5.0.0-macOS12-AppleSilicon.zip, WhatsNowPlaying-5.0.0-Windows.zip) making it easier to identify the correct download for your platform

• Windows Binary Overhaul

  • The binaries for Windows now come as a directory rather than a single executable. This was done to speed up launch time by removing the need to extract the content.

• Bug fixes

  • M3U-based systems (Virtual DJ) file watching fixes
  • Wikimedia links did not correctly redirect
  • MP4 files with XMP data should get some info now
  • Fixed an issue with MP4 reader getting confused if tags are after the media data
  • TheAudioDB and ImageCache downloader handle rate limiting and other such problems better.
  • Kick would invalidate keys if their OAuth server was down... which happens a lot. Now if WNP can't connect, it won't invalidate.
  • The ability to set the poll watcher time somehow got dropped from the Quirks UI along the way

• Removed

  • The non-websocket templates have been removed. The code to support your old templates is still there, but you should really update.

• Denon

  • Many Denon devices using Stagelinq should now be supported

• DJUCED

  • Revamped database support
  • hasartist support
  • Smart playlists should now be supported

• Icecast (butt, Traktor, MIXX, others)

  • Icecast protocol fixes to make it more reliable
  • Fixed an issue where files without metadata were not properly doing "dash" separations. For example, a title of "The Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven" will now get split into artist: "The Pixies" title: "Monkey Gone to Heaven" so that proper metadata handling from there on out will work. Of course, properly tagged files are way better.

• Serato

  • New Dual Serato Support
    • Very basic and experimental support for Serato 4. Since that is the future of Serato, a few renames in the UI have happened to show Serato vs Serato Legacy or Serato3. The system will copy over settings from Serato 3 to Serato on upgrade if your current input source is Serato.
    • Future releases will attempt to bring it to parity.
  • Before the beta drop, some changes to Serato Legacy had already happened:
    • Support for more than one _Serato_ library path
    • Smart crates now have limited support
    • hasartist support for crates, smart crates, or the full database

• Traktor

  • Revamped database support, including automatic database refresh running in the background
  • hasartist support

• Virtual DJ

  • Revamped database support, including automatic database refresh running in the background
  • hasartist support

MANY THANKS to the people who tested out the preview versions and reported bugs. You helped make this possible in ways you cannot imagine.

This release fixes a critical bug in 5.0.0 that causes it to lock up if the Charts submission fails.