Sid Player 1.2.49

written by Mickey on 2009-06-12

We have just submitted Sid Player 1.2.49 to Apple. Highlights of changes in this revision include:

• Author Tab: In offline mode, only show authors for which songs are available,
• Underrun Detection: Relax threshold a bit, add setting to turn it off completely (for you jailbreakers...),
• Settings Tab: Enable switching between multiple SID models,
• Files Database: Files are no longer stored on your filesystem, but in a database. This fixes the incredibly annoying iTunes synchronization times. NOTE that we had to wipe all your data during the upgrade to make this happen.

and finally the first step towards the #1 wanted feature...

• Added four playlists: "Favorites", "My Top 50 Played", "Random 100", "HVSC Top 100".
• Enable reordering all playlists and adding/removing songs from/to the "Favorites" list directly from the Player screen.

Although we wanted to ship more smaller updates, this one has become a major update and took us a while. I hope it gets past the review pretty fast, so you can enjoy our latest work!

NB: The newest iPhone 3G[S] excited us a lot, especially since we already max out CPU power on the current models. We're looking forward to enabling stereo and to add some nice post processing effects in a special Sid Player version once this model is out. Stay tuned!

NB2: Yes, we know that the HVSC team has released v50, however they have substituted a lot of PSID versions with RSID versions, which -- although they might sound better -- do no longer play given the limited CPU power of the iPhone and iPod Touch. I'm sorry, but until faster models appear, we can not ship the updated SIDs...