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Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r7 (04.03.2010)
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New: (General)     Experimental karaoke function (tries to hide the singing voice, please don't take it too seriously): enable/disable with "K"
New: (General)     MP3 volume adjustment during playback use "PAGE UP/DOWN"
New: (General)     "CTRL" + "PRINT" saves screenshots directly as *.jpg
New: (General)     It's now possible to combine the high scores. Additionally there is a new dynamic mode in advanced options.
New: (General)     Set "SavePlayback = On" in the config.ini to record the vocals of every player and every song as WAVE files in the "Recordings" folder (includes each individual medley song). Scorescreen and topscreen will also play all the pre-recorded voices instead of the MP3. Note: This feature is experimental! The wave files are uncompressed (88.2 kb/s) per player and song (= two players ca. 635MB/h)! Don't forget this folder and delete the files if necessary!
New: (Editor)      Editor now features a timebar, which displays the rows and the current note. When playing with "P" or "V" it also displays a progress bar to give you an insight, where you are currently in the song.
New: (Editor)      It's now possible to change the BPM directly into the editor (with "F5") (thx to blindguard for providing his code)
New: (Editor)      It's now possible to change the VideoGap directly into the editor (with "7" (-0.01) and "8" (+0.01), additional you can press "SHIFT" + "7" or "8" to de-/increase in 0.1 steps and "CTRL" + "7" or "8" for 1 steps
New: (Editor)      New video preview (with "V") - "SHIFT" + "V" = with additional clicks
New: (Medley)      You can start 10 up to 90 random medley-songs at once with "CTRL" +"1" up to "9" and "CTRL" + "SHIFT" + "1" up to "9" for songs with already calculated medley parts. It's also possible to save ALL Medley songs into a playlist (with "0" or "CTRL" + "0"). 
New: (Party)       No song will be selected twice anymore (unless there aren't enough songs).
New: (Party)       No medley song will be selected twice in party, classic and challenge mode (unless there aren't enough songs).
New: (Song-menu)   Shows Top 3 High Scores
New: (Video)       new option: only show video in preview
Upd: (Editor)      "M" and "D" are replaced by "SHIFT" + "M" and "D". "S" and "SPACE" were too close together (to D and M).
Upd: (Editor)      "CTRL"+"-" now will half the selected notes instead of a "-" a tilde "~" is (with space by default) appended. Part is a note of length 1 is taken in a space.
Upd: (Videos)      Acinerella.dll (video decoding) updated
Fix: (General)     At start all the songs will be scanned and possibly discarded if there are errors. An information will pop-up with the numbers of errors. Set "LoadFaultySongs = On" in config.ini to stop this behaviour (e.g. for song makers).
Fix: (General)     "relative" MP3s are (currently) not medley compatible. These songs are written into the error.log. The program won't crash with such songs anymore.
Fix: (General)     If you press "TAB" at the singscreen to trigger the help, quit it with "TAB" and then press "TAB" again, the song kept running despite the help screen
Fix: (Challenge)   Track errors doesn't quit the mode anymore.
Fix: (Editor)      When playing a single note ("SPACE") it only will playe this note, even if it overlaps with others.
Fix: (Editor)      If you play a line with "P" and hit "LEFT" or "RIGHT" the cursor will now move back to the note which has recently been highlighted.
Fix: (Medley)      For Medley Surprise the remaining 4 songs will not be used from the same folder only.
Fix: (Plugins)     Random plugin selection improved.
Info:(Help)        The English translation of the help sections is unfortunately not done yet.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r6b (17.02.2010)
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Fix: (Medley)      #Relative tag and medley does not work (for now). Added message and fixed crash.
Fix: (Videos)      Wrong video-aspect (crop) in singscreen.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r6a (16.02.2010)
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New: (General)     Medley Surprise and Medley Surprise Blind as "Plugin".
Upd: (Videos)      Newer FFmpeg-version.
Fix: (General)     Fixed crashes in song-menu.
Fix: (Challenge)   Deactivating the plugins in challenge-mode.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r6 (15.02.2010)
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New: (General)     Medley-mode as plugin: medley normal, medley blind and medley no score.
New: (General)     Plugins are choosable in the party-options (space or left/right).
New: (Medley)      You can build up the medley-playlist manually in the song-menu. Add up to 99 songs with F. Delete tehe last added song with Shift+F. You can deactivate the medley-mode if you delete the last song from the medley-playlist.
Upd: (Challenge)   Better choosing of players. No one should sing more then one time more than any other.
Upd: (Challenge)   The choosing of the players will only appear on the actual round.
Upd: (Help)        JumpTo- and Popup-Menu with their own help texts (the help system is still in german, a translation into english will follow soon).
Upd: (Party)       If you skip a song using a joker, the skipped song will not appear again in the same round.
Upd: (Song-menu)   If you use random, the skipped song is not suggested again in the same selection round.
Fix: (Videos)      Fixed video aspect when using two screens.


Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r5c (06.02.2010)
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Upd: (Videos)      The aspect-correction will be safed individually for each song in the database.
Upd: (Videos)      Ability to switch-off the videos (option).
Fix: (Challenge)   Medley-symbols are no longer shown in challenge-mode.
Fix: (Song-menu)   Enhanced performance when scrolling with video-preview on.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r5b (05.02.2010)
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Upd: (Party)       Plugin name is shown in the song selection
Upd: (Song-menu)   Video preview will be faded in

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r5a (05.02.2010)
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New: (Song-menu)   Video preview (max/min with V)
Upd: (General)     Italian translation (thx to Claudio)
Fix: (Videos)      Videos should be in sync now.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r5 (23.01.2010):
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New: (General)     First version of a help-system, but there is no english translation so far.
New: (Medley)      Countdown during fade-in in medley mode.
Upd: (Party)       You can play now up to 32 rounds instead of 7.
Fix: (Challenge)   Fix double scores und wrong winner when using plugins.
Fix: (Editor)      Correction of FixTimings: If the space between two sentences were 4 beats than the beginning of next sentence was on first note.
Fix: (Editor)      Deleting of Medley-tags is now possible.
Fix: (Editor)      If note-length was changed and you have tried to play that note, then the focus moved to next sentence.
Fix: (Medley)      Fix fadeIn if start was on first note of song.
Fix: (Medley)      Excluding freestyle-notes from calculation of chorus-tags.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4g (13.01.2010):
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Fix: (Videos)      Removed fast-forwarding effect at the beginning of some songs. Now more videos should run without problems. Problems with fast-forwarding and synchronicity remain for some videos. Those videos are mostly poorly coded or wrongly cut.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4f (13.01.2010):
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Fix: (Editor)      Removed line jump when notes where only touching.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4e (12.01.2010):
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Upd: (Editor)      Changed glary blue (eye cancer provoking) background color.
Fix: (Editor)      Midi notes were note played correctly and caused instability.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4d (12.01.2010):
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Fix: (Editor)      TXTs were sometimes destroyed when saving (stupid mistake...).

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4c (11.01.2010):
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Fix: (Editor)      Playing a single note in the editor caused the current selection to jump away.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4b (10.01.2010):
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Upd: (General)     Duplicate line breaks in TXT files are now detected and are logged in the error.log.
Upd: (Editor)      The currently selected note moves along when an entire lyrics line is played with P. It jumps back to the last selected note afterwards.
Upd: (Editor)      The current note is now highlighted in red.
Upd: (Editor)      ESC in text edit mode (F4) now longer exits the editor completely. Instead, it is used to undo the changes made to the currently edited syllable.
Upd: (Editor)      Medley tags are now in plain language instead of "MS" and "ME"
Upd: (Editor)      The medley section can be played in one piece with ALT+J.
Upd: (Editor)      If medley tags are set/reset or if you jump to the medley tags, the current length of the medley in seconeds is displayed at the bottom.
Upd: (Editor)      In addition to the exisiting P+(Shift / Strg), the ALT key can be pressed. The function of the existing modifiers remains unchanged, however the song is played from the current line until the very end.
Upd: (Medley)      Song artist and title are only visible during fade-in.
Upd: (Videos)      Updated FFmpeg version.
Fix: (General)     The time did not count backwards in party and challenge mode.
Fix: (General)     Pop-ups (line bonuses) flew out diagonally.
Fix: (Challenge)   Sometimes the wrong player was incorrectly declared the winner, when plugins were used.
Fix: (Editor)      When changing lyrics, the entire lyrics line instead of only the currently edited syllable is updated.
Fix: (Editor)      Fixed bug then saving: errors occured during song selection afterwards.
Fix: (Editor)      Now all keyboard characters can be used. Before the fix, "�", "�", "." and "'" (apostrophe), amongst others, did not work.
Fix: (Medley)      Fade out was not always optimal.
Fix: (Videos)      Aspect ratio is now successfully loaded from the INI.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4a (08.01.2010):
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Fix: (Fading)      Music will be faded out after quitting the top screen in challenge mode.
Fix: (Fading)      In the song selection, the music sometimes clanked.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r4 (07.01.2010):
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New: (Editor)      Support of the PREVIEW tag. Set tag with K, jump to preview with SHIFT+K. If this tag is set, the song preview in the song selection starts with this time stamp. Tag is compatible with the PREVIEW tag from Ultrastar version 0.7.
New: (Editor)      Support of medley tags. Set/reset medley start tag with A, set/reset medley end tag with SHIFT+A. Jump to medley start with J, jump to medley end with SHIFT+J. Medley tags refer to beats. The medley start tag always coincides with the beginning of a note. The medley end tag always coincides with the end of a note (note start beat + note length). The default fade in and fade out times are 8 and 4 seconds, respectively.
New: (Medley)      Medley mode: Sing chorus of up to five different songs subsequently. As long as no medley tags are set, the program will try to calculate medley sections automatically (works particularly well with pop songs). These sections can then be corrected in the song editor. Start of a single tagged chorus with S, of a calculated chorus with SHIFT+S. Up to five songs of one folder/category with D and SHIFT+D, respectively. Applying this to a category/folder, the playlist will be a mix of all folders.
New: (Videos)      Aspect ratio of video switchable while singing with the A key (Stretch, Crop, LetterBox). Current selection will be displayed at the top of the singscreen for 3 seconds when switched.
Upd: (General)     During the diplay of the scorescreen and the highscore screen, the current song is played. Switchable in medley mode.
Upd: (Editor)      Exiting the editor is only possible using the ESC key.
Upd: (Editor)      Visual/cosmetic enhancements.
Upd: (Editor)      Reload song with R.
Upd: (Medley)      FadeIn and FadeOut will always be placed on the beginning and the end of a complete lyric line respectively.
Upd: (Stats)       "Highscores" include dates. "Beste singers" includes the informatin, how many times one has sung the song.
Fix: (General)     Time progress bar now starts at the very left. Time counts down towards zero.
Fix: (Videos)      Some videos (divx, mp4) started with a freeze image.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r3b (06.01.2010):
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Fix: (Videos)      With a negative GAP and if a song has played entirely before, the following video was not displayed.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r3a (05.01.2010):
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Fix: (Videos)      Corrected the processing of the START-tag. Videos are now synchronous again.

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r3 (04.01.2010):
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Upd: (Challenge)   With less than 9 players, unused table elements are hidden.
Upd: (Challenge)   Handicap Modus defused. Now only the last 10 highscores of a player will be taken into account at maximum.
Upd: (Party)       Plugin selection less "random", none will appear more than three times in a row.
Upd: (Videos)      Updated FFmpeg version (through acinerella). Performance and compatibility for video files increased, MKV container format now supported.
Fix: (Challenge)   PARTY_END now also has an entry in the language.txt

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r2 (02.01.2010):
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New: (Challenge)   Handicap-Mode: if more than 3 highscore entries exist for both players, the player with the lower score will be punished by reducing his score by a certain percentage (makes hardly any sense with the "Hold The Line" mode).
Fix: (General)     Screenshots are working again.
Fix: (General)     Player names are stored in templates in party and challenge mode (ALT+F1..F12).
Fix: (Challenge)   If plugins are disabled, at least the duel plugin has to exist.
Fix: (ScreenScore) With activated fade and 4 or 6 players, the game crashed after the second song. Even if it didn't crash, there were display problems and highscores were recorded twice.
Fix: (ScreenScore) Numbers of players 4 to 6 were displayed as P1 to P3

Ultrastar Deluxe v1.0.1a Challenge MOD r1 (31.12.2009):
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New: (Challenge)   An algorithm assures that a certain player does not sing too many times in a row and is not too often P1 (= can decide on the song)
New: (Challenge)   After each round, a table of rankings is displayed (using the two point soccer system: 2 points (win), 0 points (lose), 1 point (tie))
New: (Challenge)   In a challenge, no song is played twice, unless you're running out of songs!
New: (Challenge)   Each player sings against everybody, if possible. First round, P1 gets to decide on the song, secound round the choice is up to the opponent
New: (Challenge)   Song "selection" with R (random) or J (Joker)
New: (Challenge)   Choose, if plugins should be enabled or disabled (duel plugin is standard)
New: (Challenge)   As long as the random search has not been used, switching between folders (change of category) is possible, unless a playlist is in use or a category is set
New: (Challenge)   Improved "randomness" in the selection of plugins: plugins are chosen less randomly, resulting in a greater diversity of plugins
New: (Challenge)   Player P1, who choses the next song, can use 5 jokers in each round (plus 1 additionally)
New: (Challenge)   No duplicate songs on subsequent random song searches.
Upd: (Highscores)  Top-5 list changed to a Top-8 list.
Upd: (Highscores)  A song has to be sung completely to the last note that it counts as being sung and that it is stored into the database.
Upd: (Highscores)  Scores below 100 will not be stored into the database and the song is not counted as sung.
Upd: (Highscores)  No entries will deleted from the database (only 5 entries per player and song were stored..)
Upd: (Highscores)  Best scores are combined for each player (Top-8 list).
Upd: (Highscores)  Every highscore is stored with corresponding date. Date is displayed in highscore list (display in stats coming soon).
Upd: (Party)       "Cheating" in classic mode using ALT+1, +2, +3


UltraStar Deluxe 1.01a
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Fix: VideoGap works now again with mpeg videos 
Fix: Video start is calculated correctly now if start tag is used

UltraStar Deluxe 1.01
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Upd: SDL-Lib update
Upd: Bass update
Upd: New video support (FFMpeg instead of SMPeg) 
     ->nearly all video formats are supported. Better synchronisation of most vids.
Upd: On demand theme, skin and color changing
Upd: Some speed improvements
Upd: Backspace works now like ESC on most screens
Upd: Editor: Singlenote-playback (SHIFT + Space / CTRL + SHIFT + Space)
Upd: Editor: More characters work in text-edit-mode e.g. '~'
Upd: Beautified Deluxe theme. 
       - New textures for the bar
       - New backgrounds for the Deluxe skins
       - Color is changeable in Deluxe theme now \o/
Upd: Executable name changed to USdx.exe
Upd: New menusounds
Upd: Added 3 new skins by Skar/Alajasam
Upd: Added TeamDuell modi-plugin

Add: Installer available

Fix: 4/6 Players: Scores are shown correctly on the scorescreen
Fix: Double adding of Highscores if screens=2
Fix: Overlapping of some artists names with songs should be fixed in most cases
Fix: License and Readme files caused error messages in error.log
Fix: Some sounds, (mainly the editors 'click' sound) were to quiet
Fix: Should now work with Girder

UltraStar Deluxe 1.00 (by Ultrastar Deluxe Team)
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Theme System
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Upd: New Ultrastar 0.5.1 Skin/Theme Sytem
Upd: Add ability to 0.5.1 System to load third party Themes to add usability
Upd: Add ability to change Positions and some other things relating to Covers within the Theme
Upd: Add ability to add reflections to the Covers
Upd: New Method for displaying Covers in a Circle. Looks better with many Songs. (Turn Off On within the Theme)
Upd: Add Equalizer Object to SongScreen
Upd: Add ability to add reflection to Buttons and Statics (Reflection = 1)
Upd: Add ability to Group Buttons to a Buttonmenu, see Deluxe Theme Main Menu Tools Collection
Upd: Add ability to Hide Buttons within Theme. Useful for example for Mainscreen Exit Button
Upd: Add ability to give Texts a Width, so the Text breaks at the given Position.
 
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Recording Options
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Upd: Ultrastar 0.5.2 Recording Options added
Fix: Write Soundcards more then one Time to Ini
Fix: Use of more then one SingStar Mic. adapter now Possible(2 Soundcards with same Name Patch)

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Song Screen
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Upd: Added Playlist Support

Upd: Song Search (with Screen interface)
Upd: Jump to Letter Hotkey
Upd: Menu in Songscreen similar to Singstars
Upd: Ability to change Playernames before singing
Upd: Ability to change Song Preview Volume
Upd: Song Preview Fade in

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Party Mode
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Upd: Added Party Mode:
       3 Teams possible with up to 4 Players
       => total of 12 Players
Upd: Modi SDK: Possibility to create nearly any Modi with some Programming Skill
Upd: 4 Custom Party Modi Plugins: Duell, Hold the Line, Until 5000, Blind Mode

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Effects
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Upd: New Perfect Note Effects
Upd: Add Perfect Sentence Effect
Upd: Golden Notes now with Singstar like Star Twinkle Effect, instead of just Yellow coloring
Upd: Add Effect: Golden notes "Glow" when they are hit
Upd: New Screen Fading Effect: Screen Blurs and "Flys" out of the Screen
     looks better with every Background. More possibility for Theme Creators

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Other
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Upd: Added Deluxe Theme: Theme that has a look similiar to PS3 Singstar.
Upd: New Score Saving System (SQLite Based)
Upd: Statistic Screen with general Statistics and some Tables: 
     Best Scores, Best Singers, Most Popular Songs, Most Popular Bands
Upd: Add some on Screen Error Messages helping new Peoples
Upd: Add Advanced Screen with some new Options.
Upd: Add a Question PopUp before exiting
Upd: Add ability to scale Background Images in Singscreen to Fullsize
Upd: Show real Note in Editor (C, F#, etc.)
Upd: New fonts added
Upd: Add better support for Command-Line Parameters
Fix: No crashes caused by corrupted Textfiles anymore.
     Added inGame Errormessage Popup and Jump Back to Songscreen. So even the Party Mode,
     isn't interuppted.
Fix: Workaround for Cover and BG JPG Errors
Fix: Videosize can now be changed again
Fix: Bug in LineBonus Popup that can end up in a Memory Overflow
Fix: Bug in SelectSlide with less then 3 Options, No Overlapping anymore. Automatic resizing
Fix: Backgrounds can be used now in option Screens, too
Fix: useless Memory usement when Song with Video is Played. When a Song with Video is played
     there was some Memory that was not freeed at the End of the Song. This could have caused
     too much Memory usement when many Songs with Video are Played.
Fix: Some Changes in Memory usement and better Loading speed.
Fix: Wrong Timings pressing T in Editor if 2 Notes from different Sentences overlap
Fix: Editor crashes when last note of a sentence is deleted
Fix: [Midi Converter]Notes are added more than once when a File is opened twice or the save                      button is pressed multiple times.
Fix: [Midi Converter]Sentence Timings are calculated automaticly when Midi File is converted

UltraStar 0.5.0 ultra-star.dl.am Mod X-Mas Edition (by Mota und Whiteshark)
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Upd: New faster and Error resistant Header reader
Upd: Bewertungs Bar (Singstar Like)
Upd: LineBonus + Popups

Upd: Skin beautified

UltraStar 0.5.0 ultra-star.dl.am Mod r10 (by Mota und Whiteshark)
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Fix: Minor Bug in Pause Method fixed.
Fix: Fixed a Bug in Theme System
Fix: New Note Texture Reading

Upd: Numbers in SongSelection are now more meaningful
Upd: Show Count of Songs in Category in Category Overview
Upd: New Note Texture

Upd: LanguageTag + Sorting
Upd: Support for the Covers.ini from 0.5.1 - for all sorting options. The old behaviour without Covers.ini is also possible, just as well as a combination of both methods.

UltraStar 0.5.0 ultra-star.dl.am Mod r9 (Release by Whiteshark)
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Upd: BPM and VideoGap Can now be read, too. But there will be an Errormessage in Error.log

Upd, Beta: Pause. Press P and the Song will be paused, press P again and it will be continued. Pause Display and Menu missing.

UltraStar 0.5.0 ultra-star.dl.am Mod r8b (Release by Whiteshark)
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Fix: Random Methods now work without Errors
Fix: First Category is now shown at Startup.
Fix: Music is played correctly after categorychange
Fix: No wrong MP3 playing anymore
Fix: After exit Singing Mode the Song is chossen in Song Screen
Fix: Midi-konvertor Bug (Only Freestyle Notes instead of normal)

Thx to: dennisthemenace and mota for Bug-Reports :P

UltraStar 0.5.0 ultra-star.dl.am Mod r8a (Release by Whiteshark)
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Fix: Themes could not be Selected (workaround: Only 4 Themes possible)
Fix: Correct category is displayed after pressing Escape

Upd: new Random functions: R + [Strg]: Random in all Categorys;
                           R + [Shift]: Random Category
Upd: Chossen Category is displayed in the top left
   
UltraStar 0.5.0 ultra-star.dl.am Mod r8 (Release by Whiteshark)
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Fix: Creatorbug fixed
Fix: Tabs=on Preview Bug

Upd: Theme System ready
   -Look for Themes at Startup
   -ThemeOptions Screen working
Upd: New Theme Colors :)
Upd: Little changes at Editor
   -Spaces in Header are corrected automaticaly
   -Header is not Case Sensitive anymore

Upd: Skin Folder Cleaned up, There are 2 Skins now: Motas and the Original Skin
Upd: Categorys have their own noCover Image
Upd: Rating Text (Ultrastar, Singstar, etc.) can now be Translated

Upd: Inomplete Languages are corrected with Entrys from the English Language File

Upd: new Category System:
   -If a category is choosen only the Songs from this category are shown
   -Press Escape to leave a category
   -Press up or down to change the category.

UltraStar 0.5.0 mota patch r7 (Release by Mota)
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- New Note Texture.
- other new grafics.
- New rating "Ultrastar" with more than 9810 Points.
- Textsize-Bug in editor fixed.

UltraStar 0.5.0 mota patch r6 - 17.11.06 (Release by Mota)
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- Editiorfunctions for Golden/Freestyle-Notes. (Press [G] or [F])
- Saving Methods of Editor changed
- Changed Theme "SingStar".

UltraStar 0.5.0 mota patch r5 - 16.11.06 (Release by Mota)
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- Goldene Notes are displayed
- Randomizing improved

UltraStar 0.5.0 mota patch r4 (Release by Mota)
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- Perfect-Star animation

UltraStar 0.5.0 mota patch r3 (Release by Mota)
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- Sorting Title2 and Artist2 -> Numbers in Category "#"

UltraStar 0.5.0 mota patch r2 (Release by Mota)
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- Cover for all Categorys and Sortings can be choosen

UltraStar 0.5.0 mota patch (Release by Mota)
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- Cover for Edition sorting can be choosen

UltraStar 0.5.0 (by Corvus5)
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- Original Code