v1.5.0

Melody Mania v1.5.0 has been released! 🎉
This is a major update with improvements and fixes.

Highlights include

• ASIO compatible (experimental). Use professional grade audio hardware on Windows with low latency. ASIO is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
• Reorder song queue via drag and drop.
• Configure head start time for 'skip to next lyrics'.

Song Select

• Faster scrolling through song list when holding down button for long time.
• Press single letter on keyboard to jump to the corresponding artist / title (depending on selected song order). Pressing more letters will jump to the corresponding song that contains the text, like in previous versions.
• Press "Shift+Right Arrow" resp. "Shift+Left Arrow" to jump to the next resp. previous artist / title (depending on selected song order). Does also work with gamepad shoulder buttons.
• Moved icons out of cover image for better visibility (e.g. duet icon, favorite icon).
• Folder navigation: show preview image on top of folder icon.
• Folder navigation: Restore last selection when one level up.

Mods

• New mod to save mic recording of last song to file.
• Jukebox & sing: prefer songs from the queue, otherwise choose next song randomly.

Fixes

• Fix mp3 inaccuracy when using mp3 file for instrumental or vocals audio.
• Fix duet lyrics container was inverted (top vs. bottom) when StaticLyricsDisplayMode was set to Top.
• Major refactorings to fix various issues and improve stability.

Companion App v1.3.1 has been released for Android.
It includes the following improvements.

• Assign random color on first connect.
• Reorder song queue via drag and drop.
• Show message when no microphone could be found (e.g. because of missing Android permissions).
• Compatible with Google Play Games ( https://play.google.com/googleplaygames ). This allows to use the Companion App also on Desktop devices, e.g., to search and enqueue songs on a separate monitor.

For details, see the changelog on Discord.

Happy Singing! 🎤