v1.6.0 - Upcoming Kickstarter, plus new features and stability improvements

🚀 Kickstarter Incoming: Let’s Take Melody Mania Everywhere!

Melody Mania is already rocking on Windows — now let’s make it truly cross-platform! 🎤✨

We’re launching a crowdfunding campaign to release Melody Mania also for macOS, Linux, Steam Deck, Android, and iOS — so you can sing anytime, anywhere, on any device.

• 🍎 macOS (first goal)
• 🐧 Linux & Steam Deck (stretch goal)
• 📱 Android (stretch goal)
• 📱 iOS (stretch goal)

👉 Check it out and follow the campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anst/melody-mania

If you love Melody Mania, this is your chance to help shape its future.
Back it, share it, and let’s bring karaoke to the world! 🌍🎶

Release notes of this version

Melody Mania v1.6.0 has been released! 🎉
This is a major update with improvements and fixes.

Highlights include

• Click timebar to jump forward and backward in song. The timebar shows lyrics on hover, so you know where you jump to.
• AVPro Video for Media Playback. This improves stability with a broad file format support. LibVLC and Unity playback engines are still available and are used as fallback.
• Improved integration of third-party websites. For example, YouTube is now integrated in a fullscreen iframe. As a side effect, this seems to show less ads. Note however that it depends on YouTube policy and may change in the future.
• Enable 'low-latency and multi-channel' mode by default.
• Separate tabs in RecordingOptions for 'microphone settings' and 'global settings', to avoid confusion.
• Darker background in settings, for better constrast.
• Song editor: Use button tapping to move existing notes. Therefore, select a single note and perform button tapping while playing the song.
• Update Spanish translations. Special thanks to @wgj on Discord.

Fixes

• Reworked video sync, notably when using AVPro and LibVLC.
• Fix audio glitch when changing from song select to singing scene.
• Upgrade LibVLC. Its changelog mentions a fix of an 'initialization crash'. This might fix a long standing bug in Melody Mania.
• Save settings when leaving options. This ensures that settings are persisted even in case of a crash.

For details, see the changelog on Discord.
Happy Singing! 🎤