What's new

Added:

• New Advanced panel to move less-used options out of the main Settings panel;
• New Band Count setting;
• New Radial Size setting;
• New compact analyzer layout for watching videos and/or subtitles;
• Support for 5.1 surround audio output can now be enabled if your system supports it –
  I have limited hardware to test this feature on, so I'd appreciate any feedback you can share in the project's Discussions on whether it works for you;
• Import and export Settings;
• Import and export Gradients;
• Option to resize videos to fill fullscreen (removes black bars), in Configuration > Subtitles & Video;
• Option to invert scroll direction for Volume control, in Configuration > General settings - suggested by @JesusGod-Pope666-Info;
• Additional values for Background Dim, Bar Spacing, FFT Smoothing, Fill Opacity, Radial Spin and Reflex;
• On Console, added buttons to Copy messages to the clipboard and to enable Debug mode.

Changed & improved:

• User interface overhaul with increased font sizes and more consistent look among panels, buttons and other controls;
• The Analyzer Mode selection has been streamlined into three options: Bars (formerly band modes), FFT (formerly Discrete Frequencies) and Graph (consolidates former Area and Line modes);
• PEAKS and FADE switches have been combined into the new Peaks setting;
• SCALEX and NOTES switches have been combined into the new X-Axis Labels setting;
• SCALEY switch is now Y-Axis Labels;
• LINEAR and ANSI switches have been moved to the Advanced panel, as Level Scale and Octave Bands settings, respectively;
• Added a button to expand/collapse the front panel (the panel no longer auto-expands when moving the mouse near the bottom of the screen);
• Improved hover detection and increased the delay for auto-collapsing the front panel on analyzer hover; this feature is now disabled by default;
• Improved detection and loading of subtitle files;
• Files that fail loading/playing are now flagged in red color in the play queue;
• Increased the default maximum number of media files listed in the Background setting from 20 to 100;
• FFT Size and FFT Smoothing have been moved from the general settings configuration to Advanced Panel settings;
• Gradients and saved playlists are now listed in alphabetical order in their selection boxes;
• New default settings:
  • Background: album cover;
  • Bar Spacing: 20%;
  • Background Dim: 0.3;
  • Level Scale: Linear;
  • Line Width: 1;
  • Radial Size: 0.5;
  • [Weighting Filter:]((advanced.md#weighting-filter) D;
• Server configuration file (config.json) converted to YAML format (config.yaml) - see Self-hosting > config.yaml file (props to @Borewit).

Fixed:

• Loading of folder cover images, broken in v24.6 (reported by @JesusGod-Pope666-Info);
• OSD font size not being saved;
• pixelRatio not correctly reported on console when toggling low-resolution mode;
• Spurious folder entries in the file explorer when accessing web server media (reported by @JesusGod-Pope666-Info).

Removed:

• Balance control;
• mediaPanel URL parameter has been deprecated - use frontPanel instead;
• Custom file server module (just use npm start);
• Code from the unfinished Electron version;
• Support for legacy playlists.cfg file.