Soundpad Update v3.0.0

The changes include:

• New feature Categories
• New feature Hotbar
• New feature Hotkey overview
• New feature Exports
• Fixes & improvements

Details

Categories

• Organize your sound collection by using categories.
• Set icons for categories by dropping images on them.
• Play a random file from a certain category by setting a hotkey for that category.
• Added new hotkey preferences at File ▷ Preferences ▷ Hotkeys ▷ Numpad Hotkeys, that allow you to set an index to a category, e.g. 5, so index hotkeys beginning with 5 will play sound files from that category.

Hotbar

• Drop sound files on the hotbar for quick access. Try it out at Window ▷ Hotbar.
• Play a sound file by left click or by assigning a hotkey to the hotbar entry.

Hotkeys

• Added an overview of all configured hotkeys. Access the overview from the menu at Window ▷ Hotkeys ▷ Hotkey overview.
• Added option to enable or disable all hotkeys (the H-icon in the status bar). This option always resets when you start Soundpad.
• Made hotkeys work on key down, which makes it much easier to trigger hotkeys like Shift+1. Exceptions to this rule are numpad hotkeys like the Alt+Numcode or Ctrl+Alt+Index hotkeys.

Export

• Export compact sound lists, sound files or preferences at File ▷ Export.
• The sound list format changed with the introduction of categories. If you want to save sound lists the old way, e.g. to make playlists of albums, then you can export a compact list. This list contains only the files of the selected category and no additional information.
• Backup all your sound files and the sound list to a directory of your choice. It will physically copy over all the files.
• Backup preferences into a REG-file. Restore your preferences by closing Soundpad and executing the REG-file.

Others

• Added option to the recorder preferences to specify in which category recordings should land. The same option also applies to sounds, that you download from Meowpad.
• The volume measurement changes the configured value only if the measured value was above the minimum of 59 dB.
• For users of index hotkeys: the index is now defined by the order in the All sounds category. This category is hidden by default and can be shown from the menu at File ▷ Window ▷ Categories ▷ All sounds.
• The command line argument -rc DoPlaySound(index) now plays the sound file at position "index" from the All sounds category.
• Added special handling when microphone access is denied, because of the microphone privacy settings on Windows 10 with April 2018 update.
• Added auto scrolling to the sound list when dragging a sound file to the first or last visible entries in the list.
• Added automatic safe start if the application was not closed properly.
• Revised random play back logic to not repeat the last 10 sounds (per category).
• Changed file hashing on non NTFS file systems to prevent hash collisions. In collision cases different files shared the same stats (play count, last played on).
• Fixed application freeze when starting the sound recorder after a driver or system update has changed sound device identifiers.
• Fixed: when Soundpad was closed to tray, then it didn't come back to front when run again from superbar or by clicking the executable.
• Fixed: Saving the sound list while a sound is being played, removed the currently played sound name from the main window title.