Product history

Version 5.0.0.0

New features

•

Possibility, through custom stream mixers, to mix songs at application level, allowing to save mixing results through the integration with our Active Sound Recorder control or to send mixing results to a streaming server; the output of each stream mixer allows applying special effects like visual feedbacks, output change, volume change, preamplifier, equalizer, DMO, etc.

•	Support for ASIO drivers with the possibility to directly playback the sound stream coming from ASIO input channels of the sound card

•	Support for acting as a source for ShoutCAST, IceCast and Windows Media Services streaming servers

•	Support for sending sound in WMA format to a specific network port

•	Reduced latency when playing the sound coming from a an input channel opened by Active Sound Recorder

•	Support for configurable normalization of sound level

•	Equalizer bands can now be set for frequencies under 80 Hz

•	Support for video mixing/blending

•	Audio management for playback of video clips totally rewritten, allowing to play the audio track through ASIO drivers

•	Mixing/blending of video clips inside a video mixer output window, with support for separate preview windows

•	Support for customizable On-Screen-Display (OSD) on the video mixer window

•	Video clips can be rendered on more than one output window in perfect sync

•	Latency between audio and video tracks of video clips can be now configured

•	Support for loading a video clip from a memory buffer

•	If allowed by the DirectShow codec, possibility to proceed by steps inside a video clip

•	Possibility to obtain further information about loaded video clips, like codecs used for audio and video streams and number of "frames per second"

•	Support for volume automation with possibility to design volume curves

•	Support for new proprietary playlist format (PDJ), allowing to predispose mixing automation and volume automation on each single song and to play encrypted sounds

•	Support for video files inside playlists

•	Support for ALAC, Speex, Musepack e Monkey's Audio (APE) audio formats

•	Support for reading BEXT and CART chunks in WAV files

•	Most common tags (author, title, album, year and genre) can be retrieved for ID3V1, ID3V2, WMA, Ogg, APE and MP4 tags

•	Knowing artist and album title, possibility to retrieve the purchase page for the related CD from the Amazon store

•	Knowing artist and track title, possibility to online retrieve lyrics content

•	VU-Meter can now reflect volume changes

•	Support for stream queuing, allowing to play sound streams coming from an external source

•	Support for common filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and stop-band)

•	The number of spectrum bands can be now defined in the range 8-64

•	Support for extraction of the audio track available inside a video clip, allowing to perform silence detection, BPM detection and waveform analysis

New properties

ASIO (COM Object)

VideoMixer (COM Object)

VolumeAutomation (COM Object)

New methods

AudioExtensionAdd

CastingIsActive

CastingCreateFromStreamMixer

CastingCreateFromPlayer

CastingStart

CastingStop

CastingSetTitle

CastingGetXmlStatistics

CastingWmaPubPointOpenForStreamMixer

CastingWmaPubPointOpenForPlayer

CastingWmaNetworkOpenForStreamMixer

CastingWmaNetworkOpenForPlayer

CastingWmaSetTag

CastingWmaGetInfo

CastingWmaConnectedIPGetCount

CastingWmaConnectedIPGetDesc

CdNavigateToPurchasePage

CuePointsGetName

DetectSoundSilence

GetFileTagField

GetOutputDeviceDriverType

GetSampleRate

SetSampleRate

GetWavChunkBinaryInfo

GetWavChunkNumericInfo

GetWavChunkStringInfo

HwMixingEnable

HwMixingIsSupported

FilterApply

FilterReset

InitDriversType

IsWavChunkAvailable

LoadSoundFastFromMemory

LoadSoundFromMemorySync

NormalizationEnable

PlayListAddItemWithTag

PlayListCreateAutomation

PlayListSaveAutomation

PlayListStop

PlayListItemVolAutomSetMixPos

PlayListItemVolAutomPointAdd

PlayListItemVolAutomPointRemove

PlayListItemCuePointAdd

PlayListItemCuePointRemove

PlaySoundFromRecorderEx

SoundLyricsRequest

SoundLyricsGet

Spectrum.SetNumberOfBands

StreamMixerCreate

StreamMixerPlayerAdd

StreamMixerPlayerRemove

StreamVolumeGet

StreamVolumeSet

StreamBalanceGet

StreamBalanceSet

StreamOutputDeviceGet

StreamOutputDeviceSet

StreamOutputSpeakerGet

StreamOutputSpeakerSet

StreamOutputSpeakerSwap

StreamOutputSpeakersRearAndCenterSwap

StreamMixerGetIdFromOutput

StreamQueueCreate

StreamQueuePushData

VideoPlayer.AudioDelaySet

VideoPlayer.AudioDelayGet

VideoPlayer.IsVideoStreamAvailable

VideoPlayer.IsAudioStreamAvailable

VideoPlayer.Forward

VideoPlayer.Rewind

VideoPlayer.VideoWindowAdd

VideoPlayer.VideoWindowMove

VideoPlayer.VideoWindowShow

VideoPlayer.AudioTrackExtract

VideoPlayer.AudioTrackExtractAbort

VideoPlayer.AudioTrackGetMemoryPtr

VideoPlayer.AudioTrackGetMemorySize

VideoPlayer.AudioTrackGetTempFilePathname

VideoPlayer.AudioTrackGetTempFileSize

VideoPlayer.AudioTrackFree

VideoPlayer.AudioRendererModeSet

VideoPlayer.AudioRendererModeGet

VideoPlayer.AudioRendererDsDeviceGetCount

VideoPlayer.AudioRendererDsDeviceGetDesc

VideoPlayer.AudioRendererDsDeviceSet

VideoPlayer.AudioRendererDsDeviceGet

VideoPlayer.IsDirectShowAvail

VideoPlayer.VideoStreamSendToActiveMovieWin

VideoPlayer.AttachToVideoMixer

VideoPlayer.DetachFromVideoMixer

VideoPlayer.VideoStreamKeepAspectRatio

VideoPlayer.SeekToNextFrame

VideoPlayer.SeekToPreviousFrame

VideoPlayer.FramesNumberGet

VideoPlayer.FramesAverageRateGet

VideoPlayer.CodecVideoDescGet

VideoPlayer.CodecAudioDescGet

VideoPlayer.FiltersInGraphGetCount

VideoPlayer.FiltersInGraphGetName

VideoPlayer.LoadFromMemory

VideoPlayer.LoadFromMemoryForEAX

VideoPlayer.LoadFromMemoryForTempoChange

VideoPlayer.LoadFromMemorySync

VideoPlayer.LoadFromMemorySyncForEAX

VideoPlayer.LoadFromMemorySyncForTempoChange

VuMeter.KeepCountOfVolume

WmaBitrateCount

WmaBitrateGet

New events

AudioExtractFromVideoStart

AudioExtractFromVideoPerc

AudioExtractFromVideoDone

CastingPlayerDone

CastingPlayerPerc

CastingPlayerStart

CastingStreamMixerStart

CastingStreamMixerStop

PlaylistSoundLoaded

SoundLyricsAvailable

StreamQueueStalled

VolumeAutomationLoaded

VolumeAutomationPointReached

VolumeCurveDesignerChanged

WaveAnalysisDone

WmaNetworkClientConnect

New COM objects

•	VolumeAutomation

Properties

CurveDesigner

PositionUnit

ScaleType

Methods

Load

IsSliding

PointAdd

PointEnable

PointGetCount

PointGetName

PointGetNext

PointGetParams

PointIsEnabled

PointRemove

PointSetParams

Reset

Save

•	CurveDesigner

Methods

Create

Destroy

DisplayCurveType

GetGraphicalSettings

GetPoints

Move

Refresh

SetBackPictureFromFile

SetBackPictureFromHandle

SetGraphicalSettings

Show

SetPoints

•

ASIO

Methods

AttachInputChannelToPlayer

ControlPanelDisplay

DeviceChannelVolumeGet

DeviceChannelVolumeSet

DeviceGetChannelsCount

DeviceGetChannelDesc

DeviceGetCount

DeviceGetDesc

DeviceGetDriverPathname

DeviceGetIndexFromOutput

DeviceGetOutputIndex

DeviceIsStarted

DeviceLatencyGet

DeviceMasterVolumeGet

DeviceMasterVolumeSet

DeviceStart

DeviceStop

PlayerOutputChannelSet

PlayerOutputChannelGet

•	VideoMixer

Methods

BackgroundColorSet

Create

Destroy

Move

PlayerAlphaGet

PlayerAlphaSet

PlayerNormalizedRectGet

PlayerNormalizedRectSet

PlayerNormalizedRectSetIdeal

PlayerZOrderGet

PlayerZOrderSet

OSDBackgroundBitmapSet

OSDBackgroundPictureFileSet

OSDEnable

OSDIsEnabled

OSDItemAlphaGet

OSDItemAlphaSet

OSDItemBitmapAdd

OSDItemBitmapChange

OSDItemChangeAlignment

OSDItemIsOnVisibleArea

OSDItemMove

OSDItemNormalizedRectGet

OSDItemPictureFileAdd

OSDItemPictureFileChange

OSDItemRemove

OSDItemRectangleAdd

OSDItemRectangleChange

OSDItemScrollByPixels

OSDItemShow

OSDItemTextAdd

OSDItemTextChange

OSDItemZOrderGet

OSDItemZOrderSet

OSDKeyColorGet

OSDKeyCOlorSet

OSDNormalizedRectGet

OSDNormalizedRectSet

Reset

Show

Version 4.3.0.0

New methods

SetNetAgent

VideoPlayer.LoadSync

VideoPlayer.LoadSyncForEAX

VideoPlayer.LoadSyncForTempoChange

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 4.2.0.0

New methods

GetPitchFloat

SetPitchFloat

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 4.1.0.0

New methods

GetPlaybackTime

GetPlaybackTimeString

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 4.0.0.0

New features

•	Reverse playback

•	Support for Karaoke MPX files

•	Availability of spectrum bands values for custom graphics

•	Pre-amplification (as seen in WinAmp)

•	Improved support for creating custom equalizers with more than 50 bands

•	Automatic equalization for each file loaded through custom XML equalization files

•	Equalizer bands can now be set for frequencies lower than 80 Hz

•	Horizontal and vertical graphic bars for custom rendering of VU-Meter, spectrum and progress bars

•	Video playback through DirectShow with support for audio effects on the audio track of video clips

•	Custom DSP (Digital Signal Processing) management

•	Support for VST effects

•	Sound card availability is no more required for performing waveform analysis

•	Various settings (volume, pitch, tempo, etc.) can now be set without the need to load a sound

•	Added support for background pictures on visual feedbacks

•	Beats detection

•	Support for WPL playlists

•	Support for Internet streams in M3U, PLS and ASX formats

•	More control on the loading of long playlists through dedicated events for start, percentage and stop detection

•	Possibility to load a single playlist into a fader object (previous versions required that each involved player had an already loaded playlist)

•	Possibility to load a playlist file or the whole content of a directory into a loaded playlist

•	Improved triggers management

•	Cue points management, also through external XML files which can be loaded automatically for each loaded song

•	Support for delayed playback: a song is loaded and scheduled for playback after a defined time-slice

•	Support for lyrics synchronization through LRC files

•	Support for new sound formats: W64, AU, PAF, SVX, NIST, VOC, IRCAM, PVF and CAF

•	Support for RAW formats (PCM and Dialogic VOX)

•	Support for saving into a file peaks obtained from an analysis of the sound’s waveform

New properties

CustomDSP (COM object)

DelayedPlayback (COM object)

EnableAutoEqualiz

EnableMixingFeatures

GraphicBarsManager (COM object)

VideoPlayer (COM object)

VST (COM object)

New methods

BeatsDetectEnableRT

BeatsDetectGetBeatPos

BeatsDetectGetBeatsCount

BeatsDetectGetParams

BeatsDetectRequest

BeatsDetectSetParams

BeatsDetectSetRange

CdRequestAlbumInfo

CuePointsAdd

CuePointsEnable

CuePointsGetCount

CuePointsGetPos

CuePointsIsEnabled

CuePointsLoadFromFile

CuePointsRemove

CuePointsSaveToFile

CuePointsSetPos

EqualizerBandAdd

EqualizerBandGetFrequency

EqualizerBandGetParams

EqualizerBandRemove

EqualizerBandSetParams

EqualizerReset

EqualizerBandGetCount

EqualizerBandSetGain

EqualizerLoadFromFile

EqualizerLoadPresets

EnableCdTracksPrebuff

Fader.Display.SetBackPictureFromFile

Fader.Display.SetBackPictureFromHandle

Fader.PlayListUseSingle

GetBitsPerSample

GetCdTrackDurationMs

GetCurrentPercentageFloat

GetFormattedSoundFileDuration

GetLoadedSoundFile

GetPlayerSpeaker

GetSoundFileDuration

LoadSoundFromEditingSession

LoadSoundFromRawFile

LoadSoundFromRawMemory

LrcIdTagGet

LrcLoad

LrcNotifEnableGet

LrcNotifEnableSet

LrcNotifTimingsGet

LrcNotifTimingsSet

LrcTimeTagsSimpleGetAt

LrcTimeTagsSimpleGetCount

LrcTimeTagsEnhGetAt

LrcTimeTagsEnhGetCount

MixerGetCount

MixerGetDesc

MixerGetMasterMute

MixerGetMasterVolume

MixerGetMicrophoneMute

MixerGetMicrophoneVolume

MixerGetWaveMute

MixerGetWaveVolume

MixerSetMasterMute

MixerSetMasterVolume

MixerSetMicrophoneMute

MixerSetMicrophoneVolume

MixerSetWaveMute

MixerSetWaveVolume

MPXEnable

MPXSetVocalAttenuation

Oscilloscope.SetBackPictureFromFile

Oscilloscope.SetBackPictureFromHandle

PlayListAddItemEx

PlayListLoadSync

PreamplifierEnable

PreAmplifierGetSpeakerValue

PreamplifierGetValue

PreAmplifierSetSpeakerValue

PreamplifierSetValue

ResetControl

ResetEngine

SoundDirectionEnable

SoundDirectionGet

SoundDirectionSet

Spectrum.GetTable

Spectrum.SetBackPictureFromFile

Spectrum.SetBackPictureFromHandle

TriggersAdd

TriggersEnable

TriggersGetCount

TriggersGetPos

TriggersIsEnabled

TriggersRemove

TriggersSetPos

VUMeter.SetBackPictureFromFile

VUMeter.SetBackPictureFromHandle

Waveform.PeaksLoad

Waveform.PeaksSave

Waveform.SetBackPictureFromFile

Waveform.SetBackPictureFromHandle

New events

BeatsAvailableOffline

BeatDetectedRealTime

CuePointReached

CuePointsLoaded

EqualizerLoaded

LrcAdvanceTimeLineFull

LrcFileAvailable

LrcRealTimeLineFull

LrcRealTimeLinePortion

PlayListLoadDone

PlayListLoadPerc

PlayListLoadStart

SoundDurationChanged

SpectrumValueChange

VstParamChanged

VstEditorResized

WarnNoOutputDevice

New COM objects

•	CustomDSPs

Methods

Enable

ExternalEditorGetInfo

ExternalEditorShow

ExternalGetParameters

ExternalLoad

ExternalSendCommand

ExternalSetFunction

ExternalSetParameters

Free

InternalLoad

InternalSetFunction

UseFloatSamples

•	GraphicBarsManager

Methods

Create

Destroy

GetGraphicalSettings

GetGraphicalSettingsParam

GetRange

GetValue

Move

Refresh

SetGraphicalSettings

SetGraphicalSettingsParam

SetRange

SetValue

Show

•	DelayedPlayback

Properties

AllowOverlapping

Methods

ItemGetDuration

ItemGetFadeTime

ItemGetLoopCount

ItemGetRange

ItemPlayNow

ItemResetDelay

ItemSetFadeTime

ItemSetLoopCount

ItemSetRange

ListAddItem

ListAddItemEx

ListGetCount

ListRemoveItem

•	VideoPlayer

Methods

Create

IsSeekable

GetDuration

GetNativeSize

GetPosition

Load

LoadForEAX

Move

Pause

Play

PlayRange

Resume

Seek

Show

Stop

•

VST

Methods

EditorGetInfo

EditorMove

EditorShow

Enable

Flush

Free

GetInfo

GetInfoString

Load

ProgramGetCurrent

ProgramNameGet

ProgramNameSet

ProgramParamGetDefaultValue

ProgramParamGetInfo

ProgramParamGetValue

ProgramParamSetValue

ProgramSetCurrent

ProgramsGetCount

Version 3.5.0.0

New methods

GetOutputDeviceUniqueID

Version 3.4.0.0

New features

The waveform analysis can now be aborted

New methods

Waveform.AnalyzeAbort

Version 3.3.0.0

New methods

GetCdTrackDurationMs

EnableCdTracksPrebuff

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 3.2.0.0

New methods

GetTempoPerc

GetRatePerc

GetPitch

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 3.1.0.0

New properties

Oscilloscope.Type

Oscilloscope.ZoomPerc

Spectrum.ZoomPerc

VUMeter.ZoomPerc

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 3.0.0.0

New features

•	Support for looping a certain sound or portions of it.

•	Smoothing on PlaySound call

•	Detection of silent portions at the start and end of the sound

•	Support for the following formats: AIFF, FLAC, AAC, MP4 (sound only), AC3, Wavpack, ALAC

•	Support for multichannel songs in the following formats: WAV, AIFF, OGG e WMA

•	Possibility to load songs encrypted using the CryptSound™ application

•	Multi-speakers management (Stereo, Quadraphonic, 5.1 and 7.1)

•	Waveform analysis and generation of sized bitmap views of the whole waveform or portions of it

•	Export of a loaded sound in WAV format

•	Support for Internet streams loading and playback

•	EAX special effects

•	Better integration with the Active Sound Recorder ActiveX control

•	Support for retrieving CDDB information from FreeDb servers

•	Support for retrieving CD cover pictures from Amazon Web Services

New properties

EnableSpeakers

New methods

CddbGetAlbumInfo

CddbGetTrackTitle

CddbGetServerName

CddbRequestAlbumInfo

CddbRequestServersList

CddbSetProxyDetails

CopyExportedWavToMemory

ForceSpeakersAssignment

GetCdCoverPictureFile

GetCdCoverPictureURL

GetControlVersion

GetEAXEffect

GetEAXEffectWetDryMix

GetEngineVersion

GetForwardRewindGranularity

GetMaxAvailablePlayers

GetOutputSpeakersConfig

GetOutputSpeakersCount

GetPlayerOutputDevice

GetPlayerSpeakersCount

IsEaxAvailable

IsEaxAvailableOnOutputDevice

LoadEncryptedSound

LoadInternetStream

LoadSoundForEAX

LoadSoundFromRecordingSession

LoadSoundInMono

LoadSoundSync

PlaySoundFromRecorder

PlaySoundLoop

PlaySoundRange

PlaySoundRangeLoop

RequestSilenceDetection

RequestSoundExportToWav

SetAutomaticSilenceDetection

SetEAXEffect

SetEAXEffectPresets

SetEAXEffectWetDryMix

SetForwardRewindGranularity

SetOutputSpeakersConfig

SetPlayerSpeaker

SetSmoothingTimeLength

StopSoundFromRecorder

SwapPlayersSpeakers

SwapSpeakersRearAndCenter

Waveform.AnalyzeFullSound

Waveform.CreateFileBitmapView

Waveform.CreateMemoryBitmapView

Waveform.GetBitmapViewWidth

New events

CdCoverPictureFileAvailable

CdCoverURLsAvailable

CddbAlbumInfoAvailable

CddbServersListAvailable

CdReadTrackPercentage

CdReadTrackStart

CdReadTrackStop

DownloadBuffering

DownloadComplete

ExportToWavPerc

ExportToWavStart

ExportToWavStop

MetaTagChanged

PlayListSoundLoadFailure

PlayListStreamLoaded

RangeLoopDone

ServerClosed

SilencePosAvailable

SoundSyncLoaded

StreamLoaded

WaveAnalysisStart

WaveAnalysisPerc

WaveAnalysisStop

Version 2.5.0.0

New methods

PlayListCreateSpeed

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 2.4.0.0

New features

In order to avoid locking problems with old CD drivers, the CD monitoring is now disabled by default: use the EnableCdMonitor method to enable it back..

Version 2.3.0.1

New features

Reintroduced the LoadSoundFast method for MP3 files.

New methods

LoadSoundFast

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 2.3.0.0

New features

Added the possibility to disable the monitoring of the status of the available CD drives: this will enable other applications to access CD drives, with outdated device drivers, that don't allow multiple-access.

New methods

EnableCdMonitor

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 2.2.0.0

New features

Added support for DirectX Media Objects

New methods

GetDirectXEffect

GetDirectXEffectParams

SetDirectXEffect

SetDirectXEffectParams

SetRewindOnEOF

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 2.1.0.0

New features

•	Added compatibility with Borland Delphi and Borland C++ Builder

•	Added support for changing the DirectSound buffer length for a better control over output devices latency

New Properties

BufferLength

CheckOutputDevicesLatency

New methods

GetOutputDeviceLatency

GetOutputDeviceMinBufferLength

Fixed bugs

See the technical support page

Version 2.0.0.0 - Changed the product name from Active MP3 DJ Studio to Active DJ Studio

New features

•	Added the possibility of choosing and changing the output device during playback

•	Added support for the following sound formats: WAV, OGG Vorbis, WMA (requires Windows Media components installed), MOD, MTM, S3M, XM, IT and MO3

•	Added support for Audio CD operations and for Audio CD tracks playback

•	Added support for Audio CD identification retrieval

•	Added support for sound files stored in memory

•	Added support for changing Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch of the loaded sound

•	Added automatic BPM detection of the loaded sound

•	Improved support for visual feedbacks through an "object oriented" approach

•	Added Waveform visual feedback

•	Added support for creating an automatic Fader

•	Added support for triggers

New Properties

VUMeter

Spectrum

Oscilloscope

Waveform

Fader

LastError

New methods

SetTempoPerc

SetRatePerc

SetPitch

GetFormattedTime

GetUpdatedSoundDuration

GetUpdatedFormattedSoundDuration

IsDirectX8Avail

SetEqualizerBand

SetEqualizerBandGain

SetAutomaticBPM

RequestSoundBPM

SetPlayerVolumeEx

AddTrigger

RemoveTrigger

GetCdDrivesCount

GetCdDriveDesc

GetCdDriveLetter

PlayListLoadFromCd

LoadTrackFromCd

PerformActionOnCd

GetCdStatus

GetCdIdentification

GetCdNumTracks

GetCdTrackDuration

GetCdTrackPathname

CloseSound

ReadSoundInfo

IsTagAvailable

GetTagString

GetMp3Tag2Size

GetMp3Tag2Data

GetFileType

GetChannels

GetFrequency

LoadSoundFromMemory

GetPlayerVolume

GetPlayerVolumeEx

IsWmaAvailable

New events

SoundClosed

PlayListSoundLoaded

OutputDeviceChanged

DurationChanged

BPMAvailable

FadingVolumeChanged

FadingPointReached

FadeInStarted

FadeInCompleted

FadeOutStarted

FadeOutCompleted

TriggerReached

CdPlayerStatusChanged