Major time warp, folks! Sakya's back with a biiiiig bulky update for his ever-popular LightMP3 homebrew application! It's been almost half a year since the previous update, but now he's making up for lost time.

For those who need a recap (or an introduction), LightMP3 is a power-saving music player that supports MP3, OOGG Vorbis, ATRAC3, and FLAC. How much battery life does it save? Well, as Sakya's supposedly tested it:

• With the display set to minimum brightness the battery should last at least 9 hours.
• With the display off the battery should last at least 11 hours.

LightMP3 Version 2.0.0 RC1 changelog:

• Added: You can sort records in the Media Library (press TRIANGLE)
• Added: support for filename with foreign characters (àèìòù...) - Many thanks to cooleyes for the FAT driver
• Added: cpu clock set to minimum value when music is paused
• Added: French, German, Polish, Spanish language
• Added: Smoother progress bar
• Added: Icons for folder/music in file browser and media library
• Added: New ICON0.PNG and PIC1.PNG (many thanks to dario1crisafulli)
• Added: Display will turn off when HOLD is set to ON, and will turn on when HOLD is set to off
• Added: In Media Library when you select an artist you see an album's list (not a song list)
• Added: You can add a playlist to the current one by pressing start in the file browser (or square on the directory containing the playlist)
• Added: Option to change the media library root dir (look at the file "settings", this option doesen't appear in the settings tab)
• Fixed: Crash with some album art (switched to libjpeg, thanks to Kevin Kim)
• Fixed: Better Korean support (thanks to Kevin Kim)
• Fixed: Strings are limited inside the menu area.
• Fixed: Sleep bug for MP3 and ATRAC3+ files (doesen't work with OGG)
• Fixed: Some crash in the Media Library.
• Fixed: Bug in audioscrobbler log (wrong UTC time)

Unfortunately, this release may be the last in a long time once again since Sakya says he's busy. In fact, he notes that there a lot more stuff he wanted to implement, but he doesn't have enough time.

There are tons more of info included in the readme so make sure you take a look at it; drop by the forums as well to give a shout out to Sakya!

Download: LightMP3 Version 2.0.0 RC1
Visit: QJ.NET PSP development forums

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