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Releases of Waveform Seek Bar

0.5.3 current version, released on: 2026-09-19

  • Validate cached waveforms against source file size [change]
  • Replace PFC containers with standard types [developer]
  • Construct cache abort callback on first use [developer]
  • Adapt to updated foobar2000 SDK [developer]

0.5.2 released on: 2026-09-17

  • Add optional filtered waveform resampling [feature]
  • Forward ignored mouse buttons during fullscreen [change]
  • Preserve played waveform colors when shading is disabled [bug]
  • Update foobar2000 SDK to 2026-09-17 [developer]
    • Avoid `abort_callback_impl` service lookup during startup

0.5.0 released on: 2026-09-17

  • Simplify waveform and renderer internals [developer, breaking change]
  • Make alternate renderers an advanced option [breaking change]
  • Add option to ignore mouse thumb buttons [change]
  • Add Alt+double-click fullscreen shortcut [change]
  • Restore Direct2D selection brush after drawing seek marker [bug]
  • Limit Direct3D contour antialiasing at one pixel [bug]
  • Normalize configuration dialog control IDs [developer]

0.4.17 released on: 2026-09-14

  • Normalize fullscreen and popup handling [feature]
  • Update window icon [change]
  • Gate Default UI popup command on foobar2000 2.26 [change]

0.4.16 released on: 2026-09-12

  • Add cursor and gap scaling factors for fullscreen [feature]
  • Allow comments in preset JSON [change]
  • Disable opening Preferences page during fullscreen [change]
  • Regenerate window icon [change]
  • Improve configuration dialog display at various DPIs [bug]

0.4.15-beta0 released on: 2026-09-08

  • Stabilize fullscreen transitions and activation
    • Preserve pseudo-transparent backgrounds in fullscreen
    • Toggle fullscreen with mouse thumb buttons
  • Add a dedicated Columns UI toolbar extension
  • Make scrub seek marker coloring configurable
  • Restore GDI edge fade with contour rendering
  • Keep the cursor visible while fullscreen menus are open
  • Fix the window caption text

0.4.14-beta0 released on: 2026-09-04

  • Guard cache migration against null waveforms [bug]
  • Fix dangling captures in asynchronous waveform delivery [bug]
  • Restore GDI edge fade bloom in legacy full-wave rendering [bug]

0.4.13-beta0 released on: 2026-09-04

  • Resample short tracks before waveform analysis [feature]
    • Apply Mitchell-Netravali filtering to sampled traces and short tracks
  • Add waitable cursor repaint scheduling [feature]
  • Increase waveform resolution to 4096 buckets [change, breaking]
  • Move waveform cache reads off the UI thread [change]
  • Limit repaint rate choices to standard values [change]
  • Clarify waveform transform labels [change]
  • Reduce placeholder waveform update cost [change]
  • Ignore unrelated waveform preference updates [bug]
  • Preserve playback state for the selected playing track [bug]
  • Rescan unreadable cached waveforms [bug]
  • Use the linked Direct2D factory directly [developer]

0.4.12-beta10 released on: 2026-09-01

  • Diagnostic release

0.4.12-beta0 released on: 2026-08-28

  • Catch the first "halt processing" toggle
  • Read silent columns as background in GDI renderer
  • Add fractional cursor and gap widths
  • Add a soft cursor option
  • Show a lingering marker while scrubbing during playback
  • Confine Direct2D zero line to silent passages
  • Restore GDI edge fade bloom
  • Fix light mode static text repaint stacking
  • Refine the configuration dialog layout

0.4.11-beta0 released on: 2026-08-28

  • Compute only the mono envelope for "store in mono" scans
  • Elide cached scans before the library membership round trip
  • Boost worker thread priority for interactive waveform scans
  • Render the waveform progressively as it scans in
  • Scale Direct2D waveform bitmaps for the system DPI
  • Compose GDI frames off-screen to stop cursor flicker
  • Apply the edge fade in the GDI renderer
  • Preview seeks like a slider and play the previewed track on click
  • Repaint the render surface when the panel becomes visible
  • Flag a failed renderer load in the configuration dialog
  • Add advanced option to disable flip-model presentation
  • Resolve C++ Code Analysis warnings

0.4.10-beta0 released on: 2026-08-26

  • Prepend the shared HLSL header to custom shaders automatically
  • Theme the seek, configuration and preference tooltips for dark mode
  • Keep the display awake and auto-hide the idle cursor during fullscreen while also limiting it to one panel
  • Freeze the play cursor immediately when playback is paused
  • Fix Direct2D render DPI scaling

0.4.9-beta0 released on: 2026-08-25

  • Add borderless fullscreen
  • Separate played and unplayed waveform opacity
  • Add option to darken channel gap
  • Add option to flip alternating channels in half-wave mode
  • Improve cursor look and behavior
    • Size cursor width as logical pixels (DPI-scaled)
    • Render the play/seek cursor with sub-pixel anti-aliasing
    • Smooth the played/unplayed boundary at sub-pixel positions
    • Separate playback active state from the cursor line marker
  • Skip redundant redelivery on play/stop of the shown track
  • Refresh on-screen waveform on regeneration or removal (context menu)
  • Improve scan performance
    • Run scan worker threads at `BELOW_NORMAL` instead of `IDLE` priority
    • Skip library synchronization scans for tracks that already have a waveform
    • Cache the compiled Title Format script per scan worker thread
    • Resolve identity on the scan worker thread
    • Fix scan worker crash due to calling `is_item_in_library()` off the main thread
    • Fix shutdown crash from dangling promise in waveform scan
    • Add cache operation progress information and controls
  • Support custom Direct3D 11 shaders via drag-and-drop and preset
    • Precompile the built-in Direct3D 11 shaders
  • Handle tracks without ReplayGain in those scale modes
  • Recover from graphics device removal or reset
  • Update configuration dialog and add button to open Preferences page
    • Centralize the flip alternate enable state
    • Add a component icon and show the version in the configuration dialog
  • Avoid front end rebuild flash for non-structural settings changes
  • Type seek bar as both panel and toolbar in Columns UI
  • Remove obsolete waveform pull path
  • Adopt latest versioned foobar2000 interfaces
  • Consolidate SDK headers into precompiled header and normalize include order
  • Normalize message handler and foobar2000 SDK signatures
  • Build at Warning Level 4 (`/W4`) with warnings as errors (`/WX`)
  • Remove the unused DirectXTK project
  • Update README

0.4.8-beta0 released on: 2026-08-23

  • Add "reveal played" waveform render mode
  • Scale transparent played shade by panel opacity
  • Deselect disabled channel list and center dialog on main window
  • Embed persistent settings snapshot in front end callback
  • Remove unused `visual_frontend_config` and generic strings
  • Generate JSON via `reflect()` archive
  • Collapse tuning setters via `set_setting()` template
  • Reorder MSBuild project files
  • Extract configuration dialog into "ConfigDialog.h"
  • Modernize class design, encapsulation and handler conventions
  • Rename GDI render class to `gdi_frontend`
  • Reorganize the source code files into a "source\" tree
  • Wire up the reorganized "source\" tree
  • Fix GitHub Actions workflow

0.4.7-beta0 released on: 2026-08-23

  • Precompute accurate mono downmix during scan and store it in the cache
  • Apply mono/stereo downmix independent of channel selection
  • Abort waveform scan on EOF at first chunk instead of faking silence
  • Add vertical flip (mirror amplitude) display option
  • Add configurable dB floor for logarithmic amplitude scaling
  • Make pseudo-transparent background a per-panel setting
  • Move concurrent scanning thread count from Advanced Preferences to Preferences page
  • Rework context menu and expose it during Default UI layout editing mode
  • Reuse in-progress waveform scan when a previewed track starts playing
  • Shade played region when background is transparent
  • Reorganize dialog layouts
  • Rewrite tooltips and context menu descriptions
  • Disable channel selection controls while downmixing
  • Add `%wavebar_channels%` field via cache channel count lookup
  • Open cache store before `start()` returns and defer job replay past worker startup
  • Repaint Direct2D panel when the asynchronous waveform bitmap is ready
  • Enable renderer dropdown when default initialization is disabled
  • Release the GPU front end for hidden panels
  • Add configurable gap between channel bands
  • Add per-panel waveform opacity
  • Add named panel presets
  • Scale cursor width and color swatches with display DPI
  • Refine dark mode and high-DPI configuration dialog rendering
  • Simplify downmix labels
  • Space channels with an even gap in Direct3D 11

0.4.5-beta0 released on: 2026-08-21

  • Preserve waveform envelope when downsampling
  • Fix cursor width calculation
  • Move visual tuning to per-panel settings
  • Reorganize preferences and analysis options
  • Add a default settings template
  • Load front ends via static entry points
  • Share device resources and frame helpers
  • Add JSON at 3.12.0
  • Remove the DirectXTK dependency
  • Update formatting configuration and metadata

0.4.4-beta0 released on: 2026-08-19

  • Release completed waveform requests
  • Harden playback callback initialization
  • Clarify waveform context menu commands
  • Fall back to the selected waveform on startup
  • Derive palette colors from the active UI
  • Modify seek bar host registrations
  • Forward modeless configuration dialog messages
  • Uncheck unavailable color overrides
  • Abide by cursor visibility preference in Direct2D
  • Separate Direct3D waveform channels visually
  • Fix seek bar Columns UI type
  • Synchronize waveform cache with the Media Library

0.4.3-beta0 released on: 2026-08-18

  • Start stopped playback at the clicked position
  • Refresh the selected waveform after playlist activation
  • Replace double-click playback toggling with middle click
  • Use active UI colors for the palette template
  • Add configurable ReplayGain waveform boost
  • Implement per-instance four-color rendering mode
  • Refresh GDI pseudo-transparent backgrounds
  • Modernize types and tighten const-correctness

0.4.2-beta0 released on: 2026-08-18

  • Vendor third-party dependencies
  • Port CMake/vcpkg build scripts to MSBuild
    • Organize Visual Studio project filters
  • Rename component to foo_wavebar
  • Replace Boost serialization with foobar2000 SDK stream formatters
  • Replace Effects11 and Scintilla with a built-in Direct3D HLSL shader
  • Remove unused ASIO header and XP ATL thunk
  • Fix minimum and maximum function references
  • Complete the standard library coverage in the pre-compiled header
  • Update license headers
  • Format repository using Clang-Format
  • Modernize for Windows 10 and C++20
  • Modernize foobar2000 SDK service accessors
  • Delay-load "sqlite3.dll" from foobar2000's bundled copy
  • Add Minibar configuration options
  • Add packaging scripts and external dependency projects
  • Add GitHub Actions build workflow
  • Derive component information from "Version.h"
  • Centralize ordering of Advanced Preferences
  • Route console output through `SEEKBAR_CONSOLE_*`
  • Rename "Seekbar" to "Seek Bar"
  • Correct downmix coefficients
  • Add screenshot capture via WIC
    • Store waveform screenshots in the "wavebar" folder
    • Include pseudo-transparent background in D3D11 screenshots
  • Clear stale waveform when the cached one is missing
  • Gate debug-only cache diagnostics under `_DEBUG`
  • Update and consolidate service GUIDs
  • Honor waveform cache storage modes
  • Fix `CF_WAVE` clipboard copy
  • Use the full panel height for waveform rendering
  • Add ReplayGain waveform scaling
  • Skip disabled channels in the Direct3D 11 renderer
  • Add configurable Direct3D 11 waveform edge fading ("lerp" factor)
  • Add click and double-click playback controls
  • Add per instance waveform color overrides
  • Add dark mode support to settings dialogs
  • Add pseudo-transparency capabilities for all renderers
  • Disable context menu commands while dialogs are open
  • Add zero line rendering
  • Fix Direct3D UTF-8 string conversion
  • Improve the system color palette template
  • Synchronize newly-registered waveform listeners
  • Restore per-instance renderer selection
    • Render front ends in a dedicated child window
  • Refresh renderers after global settings changes
  • Align Direct3D waveform channels to pixel boundaries
  • Upgrade the Direct3D renderer to 11.1
  • Move Direct2D rendering to a DXGI swap chain

0.4.1-alpha0 released on: 2026-08-16

  • Update service GUIDs [bug, breaking change]

0.4.0-alpha0 released on: 2026-08-16

  • Initial release