Folder Player v2.2.0

About box, and updating from inside the app

The i button in the title bar used to show a plain message box. It now opens an About panel over the window carrying the author, a link to this repository, the running version, and a Check for updates button.

Pressing it asks GitHub for the latest release. If there is a newer one it shows the version and the download size; pressing Update downloads the zip with a progress bar you can cancel, verifies that what arrived really is this app at the version the tag claimed, replaces the installed files and restarts.

Nothing checks on launch and nothing nags - the update only ever happens when you press the button. Every failure along the way leaves the existing install exactly as it was, and a folder the app cannot write to is refused before anything is downloaded rather than after.

Installing

Unzip anywhere and run AudioPlayer.exe. Nothing is installed and nothing is written outside the folder you unzip into. If you already have 2.1.0, you can let it update itself instead.

Folder Player v2.1.0

Folder-based audio player for Windows. The folder is the playlist.

Install

1. Download FolderPlayer-v2.1.0.zip below and unzip it anywhere.
2. Run AudioPlayer.exe.
3. Optional: run Register-FileAssociations.bat to make Folder Player available as a handler for audio files. It writes only under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, so no administrator rights are needed. Run it with /remove to undo.

Requires .NET Framework 4.5 or later, which ships with Windows 10 (1903+) and Windows 11.

Supported formats: .mp3 .wma .m4a .aac .wav .flac

What's new

Fixes

• Shuffle can now reach the last track in a folder; it previously never picked it, and consecutive shuffles could repeat the same track.
• The previous button now restarts the current track once more than 5 seconds have played, instead of only between 3 and 5 seconds.
• Scanning a folder no longer crashes the app on an unreadable subfolder, a broken junction or an over-long path, and no longer recurses forever through a directory symlink loop.
• Fixed a crash when scrolling to the playing track after switching playlists.
• Fixed a crash when pressing next or play with no playlist selected.
• Deleting a playlist no longer removes the wrong row.
• Media keys no longer risk silently un-hooking the app during a slow track change.
• .wav and .flac files are now listed, matching what the file-association script registers.
• The About box and the file version in Explorer now agree.

Housekeeping

• Added an MIT licence, and build/run instructions in the README.
• Build output is no longer committed to the repository; releases carry the download.