Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• Fixed repeating activation issue.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• Device Information folder now reports what drive letter the Xclef is mounted as.
• Fixed bug where transfer errors due to inability to read source file was being misreported as memory full error.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• Minor compatibility fixes.
• Fixed bug in Options dialog when device is not connected.

New Features:

• Revamped Player Management System
  We have completely redesigned and rewritten the internal system Cyclef uses to manage your Xclef player's contents. These changes improve Cyclef's performance, enable DMC HD800 support, and give us more flexibility to add support for new Xclef features in future releases. These optimizations have also made the Cyclef package smaller and more compact.
  
  
• HD800-Series Support
  Cyclef now supports the new Xclef HD800-Series of players, including all capacities. All the features available for the 500 series have been ported to the 800 series.
  
  
• Utilities Folder
  We've added a new Utilities folder to the top level of Cyclef Explorer. This folder contains various maintenance utilities that can be run on your player. Currently, this includes the "Import Existing Content" and "Reorganize Tracks" utilities that were available in previous releases under "Cyclef Manager Options" in the systray icon. They are now more conveniently located in the Cyclef Explorer interface, and feature improved user interfaces with detailed descriptions of what they do. We've also added a new utility to rebuild the Cyclef database from scratch if necessary.
  
  
• Folder Structure Options
  Cyclef has various options you can set to configure how it creates folders and names files when you transfer to the player. These options used to be accessible only under Cyclef Manager Options in the systray icon, but now they are also accessible in the main Cyclef Options dialog in the Cyclef Explorer interface.
  
  
• Configurable Root Music Folder
  In previous releases, music folders created by Cyclef (based on artist, album, genre, etc.) were created at the root of the Xclef's drive. In response to user requests, we have now added the option to place all music folders into a single subfolder on the Xclef drive. The name of the folder is user-configurable.
  
  

New Features:

• Enhanced Playback Performance
  When playing back Xclef tracks locally through the Cyclef Explorer interface, your playback application will now play directly from the files on your Xclef instead of through the Xtreamer server. This should eliminate inter-track playback gaps and improve compatibility with certain playback applications when playing locally. These changes should also reduce inter-track playback gaps when remote streaming through the Xtreamer server.
  
  
• Xtreamer Security Improvements
  For security reasons, usernames and passwords are now required when a remote computer accesses Xtreamer. Therefore, you must set up at least one remote access account before Xtreamer can be accessed from other computers. Local access does not require username and password. We have added a account management interface to make it simple and fast to create, edit, and delete accounts. Access this new account manager by by right-clicking the Cyclef icon in the systray and selecting "Cyclef Manager Options". In addition, we have disabled authentication on the audio streams themselves to improve streaming compatibility with playback applications that do not handle HTTP authentication well or at all. You now only need to authenticate once when accessing the initial Xtreamer homepage.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• Improved ID3 Tag Handling
  In the previous release, MP3 files with a complete ID3V1 tag but a blank ID3V2 tag would not be read properly. This release should properly handle such MP3's and read the information from the V1 tag and ignore the blank V2 tag.
  
  
• Fixed default Xtreamer skin for proper display alignment in Firefox/Mozilla browsers.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• Improved VBR MP3 Analysis
  We have improved our bitrate analysis code to properly calculate the play length of VBR MP3 files encoded by certain specific encoders. If you have VBR files that do not play for their full duration on your player, please re-transfer them using this release.
  
  
• Fixed bug where files would not transfer to PC properly if one or more of the file's tag fields ended in a period.
• Robustness improvements in transfer to PC functions.
• Xtreamer can now be configured to use port numbers up to 99999 instead of just 9999.
• Fixed Explorer problem where status bar file information would lag behind by one file when navigating up and down the file list using the keyboard.

New Features:

• Support for Ogg Vorbis and WAV
  Recent firmware upgrades for the Xclef players have added Ogg Vorbis and WAV capability. Cyclef now supports these two file formats for the Xclef player, allowing you to transfer and manipulate them as audio rather than just plain data files.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where files with artist or album names ending in periods (such as R.E.M.) would not be properly transferred and added to the Cyclef database.
• Fixed bug in 8.6.0 where Playlist Index did not display the correct playlist membership information.
• Fixed instability in playlist merging function.
• Fixed a tag reading bug causing accented UTF-8 characters in ID3V2 tags to be corrupted when an ID3V1 tag is also present in the MP3 file.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• Further stability improvements to the TrueStream and Xtreamer streaming mechanisms.
• Fixed .m3u playlist import function. Previous releases would not properly import playlists stored in the same folder as the tracks it refers to. This release properly handles such relative paths.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• Windows XP Service Pack 2 Compatibility
  Cyclef has been tested with the latest beta release of the upcoming Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Windows XP. If you encounter any problems after installing SP2, please contact technical support and let us know!
  
  
• Improved Xtreamer Performance
  In previous releases, streaming playback could hang at the end of a track on some systems, requiring the Manager or the computer to be restarted. This release features an improved streaming mechanism that should resolve this problem. Also fixed a bug where Xtreamer could use an unnecessary amount of temp space in certain circumstances.
  
  
• Fixed problem with Explorer running at High priority instead of Normal when launched from the systray icon.
  
  
• Increased streaming limit to five tracks in trial edition.
• Removed unnecessary warning message about Winamp integration when changing TrueStream options.
• Minor installer improvements.

Enhancements and Bug Fixes:

• New, Fully Integrated File Type Exclusion
  The file format exclusion options for transfers have been improved to allow the exclusion of all file formats supported by the player, not just the limited options available in previous releases. These are the options available in the Transfers section of the Options dialog. The new options are also properly integrated with AudioMorph and SpeedSync as well as normal transfers from the PC.
  
  
• Improved Tag Writeback Robustness
  In previous releases, tag writeback for transfers back to the PC could hang on some files with invalid or corrupt tags. The tag writeback facility has been improved to more gracefully handle such files and avoid hangs during transfers. If you still run into files with tags that cause problems, let us know, we may want to take a look at the file.

• First Full Release
  Cyclef Explorer is now officially out of beta testing. 8.5.6 is the first full release.