What changed with the keyboard mapping? In the previous version (2.41), I didn't have any conflicts between mapped alphanumeric keys and the special keys on my keyboard. In this release, my volume up button and my volume down button are mapped somehow to alphanumeric keys.... When I press the up volume or the down volume button, I get an alpha code now, where before I did not.
The old version only looked at the keys it needed to function. In the new version, since you can assign multiple keys to a function (explicitly to support cocktail cabinets), it now looks at all the keys. In the controls.ini file, try unmapping every key that you're not using by either mapping the key to DISABLED, commenting out the key definition by putting a # at the beginning of the line, or by deleting the definition altogether. I'm not sure this will help, but it's worth a try.
In radio mode (I set it to 10 second delay), I have problems with the program hanging occasionally. I thought it might be bad MP3 files, but I don't think it is a problem with the MP3 files now. I think it must be an error or a bug.
This is a WinCab bug, and I'm trying to track it down. It doesn't seem to happen in DOS. Unfortunately, it's likely to be a memory allocation bug deep in the MP3 library I'm using; I may try another library for testing purposes. Unfortunately, reproducing the bug is next to impossible... if anyone can find a definite sequence of events that leads to the crash, please let me know. Right now, the only way I can test it is to queue up a few hours of music and wait for it to crash; skipping through songs with the Skip key doesn't seem to cause the bug. According to the debug log, the crash happens after the song loads but before it starts playing.
I also can not seem to be able to get the alternate screen rotation feature to work. Can anyone get that to work???
That's cause I haven't written it yet.
It wasn't a priority because I didn't know anyone who was using a cocktail, so I'll go back and work on it if you don't mind being a guinea pig...
To rotate the display, I actually have to completely reload the skin, so I'll probably rename some things in this area to make this a general skin-changing feature. Thus, you'd be able to flip between album mode (once I make it work) and singles mode at any time. Actually, now that I'm writing it out, it sounds like a good feature.
--Chris