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AIMP6 for Windows 11 on ARM

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Windows on ARM (formerly Windows RT) is a version of Microsoft’s operating system that is optimized for devices with ARM-based processors. Devices based on this architecture have gained attention due to their energy efficiency. The ARM architecture offers long battery life while providing good performance.

Since Windows 11, the OS can run both native ARM-apps and classic x64-apps through a special emulation layer, similar to the one used to run 32-bit apps in a 64-bit Windows environment.

Despite the fairly advanced emulation layer, the performance of some x64 apps, including AIMP, leaves much to be desired. In 2021, Windows 11 introduced a new binary application interface (ABI) – ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), it allows developers to create “mixed” applications: applications that combine native code for ARM64 and emulated x64 code within a single process.

In AIMP6 beta 3, we have made a separate build of the application for ARM64EC. According to our measurements, the performance has increased by an average of 20%. This build is fully compatible with plugins for the 64-bit version of the player for regular Windows. You can download it here.

AIMP6

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AIMP6 will be the first truly cross-platform release. In fact, the development (porting) has started 1.5 years ago, in January 2024.

By the time v5.40 was released, the general-purpose runtime libraries such as AIMP.Runtime and AIMP.Shared had been ported, on which this version was based. In terms of v6, we’ve ported all left app code and all standard plugins.

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Recap 2024

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The year 2024 is now over, and it’s time to summarize its results.

AIMP for Android

In this year, we released three minor versions of the mobile player for Android OS.

v4.10
Focused on improvements of music library (aka “My Music”) that has been introduced in AIMP4: we’ve improved performance, extended number of sorting templates, made possible to remove files physically, and also — we’ve added integration to Android Auto.

v4.11
Focused on tags editor: the JAudioTagger library that was used before, has been replaced by ATL ported from AIMP for ПК. This had a positive effect on the stability and performance of the editor, as well as significantly reduced size of executable file.

v4.12
Focused on Android 15. Despite the fact that there are almost no visible changes compared to the previous release, quite a lot has changed inside the app in order to support the new requirements that Google introduced in Android 15.

AIMP for PC

v5.40:
Key features of this version:

  • Sound engine: silence removing on track edges algorithm has been improved
  • Sound engine: support for 64-bit samples
  • Sound engine: Reverb, Echo, Flanger and Chorus effects now supports for multi-channel audio
  • Playlist: undo feature (must be enabled in app settings)
  • Playlist: ability to group playlists
  • Playlist: ability to create auto-bookmarks for the files
  • Playlist: playback progress calculation
  • Audio Converter: encoders became a plug-ins
  • Tag Editor: ability to select alternate tag field value in batch editing mode
  • Tag Editor: alternate album art search with an ability to choose the result

Full review of new features.

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Recap 2023

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2023 is coming to its end, so let’s summarize its results.

Roadmap for 2023?

AIMP for PC

In this year, we made following major features in AIMP for PC:

  • Support for VST2
    Additionally, you can use several DSP and VST effects at same time
  • Playback via DLNA
    Implemented as separate plugin
  • Made possible to undo last few changes in tag editor
  • Increased performance of music library and playlists operations
  • Improved an abilities of the “information bar” plugin
  • and more small improvements

Refer to detailed overview of changes we made.

The “Internet Radio Catalog” and “Sound Recorder” planned features are postponed again.

AIMP for Android

  • Music Library!
    Now, app will search and index your music automatically by itself!
  • New welcome wizard, detailed guides and new hints
    We hope that now it will be much easier to get started
  • Tag Editor
    Support for ID3, MP4 and Vorbis Comments (OGG and FLAC) tags
  • Playlists Manager
    that make easier to operate with playlists and allows you to perform actions with several playlists simultaneously
  • Playlists grouping
    will be so useful if your playlist list is too huge

Refer to detailed overview of changes we made.

Roadmap 2024

Roadmap 2024 is not yet ready. Please take a few minutes to answer a few questions in roadmap survey. We would like to hear your opinion about features that you would like to see in next AIMP versions.

Merry Christmas and happy new year!