• Modified colours used in NetPLAYER for BBCi & NetPLAYER Religious Edition Beta error dialogues
• Adobe Flash Player 9 is now part of the melaS Prerequsites Pack.
• Windows Media Player 9 will not be installed (or even downloaded) on systems running Windows XP or higher, or below Windows 98SE as part of the Prerequisites Pack
• Windows Media Player 10 will not be installed (or even downloaded) on systems running Windows Me or below, as part of the Prerequisites Pack
   
• Audio Stream Modifications:
  • 3C: Continous Cool Country disabled - disabled due to being temporary unavailable
  • BBC Radio Five Live
  • BBC Five Live Sports Extra
  • BBC 1Xtra
  • 567 Cape Talk
  • 702 Talk Radio
  • 95.4 Kfm
  • 94.7 Highveld Stereo
• Audio Streams Added:
  • BBC Radio 1
  • BBC Radio 2

• Updated melaS Software logo
• Changed "Macromedia Shockwave Flash" under the melaS Recommends menu to "Adobe Shockwave Flash"
• All references to "Macromedia" have been changed to "Adobe" to reflect the fact that Adobe Systems Inc. acquired Macromedia.
   
• Audio Stream Modifications:
  • Renamed & moved Vibe 101 FM to Kiss 101 (Can now be found under Kiss, in the Audio>Entertainment Menu)
  • Renamed & moved Vibe 105-105 FM to Kiss 105-108 (Can now be found under Kiss, in the Audio>Entertainment Menu)
  • Moved Kiss 100 London (Can now be found under Kiss, in the Audio>Entertainment Menu)
  • Updated Kiss 100 London stream information (stream should now play correctly)
• Audio Streams Removed:
  • The Mix
• InfoWindow Modifications:
  • Kiss 100 London
  • Kiss 101 (previously known as Vibe 101 FM)
  • Kiss 105-108 (previously known as Vibe 105-108 FM)

• All Religious video streams removed - These streams will be available in NetPLAYER Religious Edition from now on.
• Added support for easy switching to NetPLAYER Religious Edition
• All references to "Macromedia" have been changed to "Adobe" to reflect the fact that Adobe Systems Inc. acquired Macromedia.
   
• Installer Modifications:
  • Installer size decreased by over 1 MB (compared to NetPLAYER 3.12.400)
  • Additional Required Files are no longer included in the main NetPLAYER 3 installer, but are now installed from the melaS Prerequisites Pack, which will be downloaded and installed if selected from with NetPLAYER
  • Updated locations from which to download and install NetPLAYER for BBCi installer.
  • Installer now also includes the installation of the open-source XviD MPEG-4 based video codec

• Bug Fix
  • Audio for Welcome Video continued playing in background, even when new stream is playing*
• Video Streams Removed:
  • BBC News Headlines
  • Sky News Headlines

*This change will also be reflected in previous NetPLAYER versions

• Bug Fix
  • Fixed bug where sometimes the Optimal Bitrate text would say "False"

• Bug Fix:
  • In NetPLAYER the signal meter did not display the green colour to indicate average signal reception quality
• Signal bar now shows green for signal reception quality of 25%-75% instead of 25%-50%
• Optimal bit rate indicator now turn bold for average quality reception (25-75%)

• Modifications made to all streams (including Specials & On Demand streams) - These changes were made to provide interim compatibility with the change over to a new NetPLAYER website.
• Modified "Green" colour of Signal Meter - We have made the green colour indicating average signal strength a darker green as the first shade of green used, was extremely bright and could not always be seen.

• Bug Fixes
  • Special Streams Titles where displayed incorrectly when viewing one of the NetPLAYER Specials
• Modified Status messages
• New Signal Meter - The new signal meter will change colour depending on the quality of the stream reception.
  This signal meter was originally set to be included in NetPLAYER 3.1 which was released back in August of 2005.
  The new signal meter will change to green in colour for average quality signal reception, and red for low quality. A red signal meter almost always means you will experience break-ups in the stream.

*This version of NetPLAYER was only available when downloaded from our ftp server

• Bug Fixes
  • Special Streams did not always retrieve available streams
  • Skip buttons sometimes did not allow you to click to go to the next or previous media file, as a result you had to use the skipping options in the Play menu.
• Internal Code Improvements
• Signal Bar is now a solid coloured bar, as opposed to the segmented one.

• Video Stream Modifications:
  • JCTV
  • Smile Of a Child TV*

*This change will also be reflected in NetPLAYER 3.9.368 as well

• Audio Stream Modifications:
  • Smooth Jazz* - Smooth Jazz music
  • Kerrang! Radio
  • Kiss 100 London
  • Magic Radio
  • Heat Radio
  • Smash! Hits Radio
  • Q
  • Mojo
• Video Stream Modifications:
  • E-Music Television*
  • RTL 102.5 TV
  • ITV Play*
• Video Streams Added:
  • Smile Of A Child TV
  • JCTV
  • The Church Channel
• Video Streams Removed:
  • SafeTV
• Menu Item's Removed:
  • What's New
  • NetPLAYER LE
  • BetaPlanet Forums
  • G-Force Soundpectrum
• Increased screen size - Video screen size increased to accomodate Banners, which some streams include. As a result, streams without banners will have black bars at the tope and bottom.

*This change will also be reflected in previous NetPLAYER versions

• Audio Streams Added:
  • 94.5 Kfm -  Radio station playing music that brings back "The Best Hits & Memories". Primarily broadcast in English & Afrikaans
  • Heart 104.9 (formerly known throughout Cape Town, South Africa as P4) - Classic Soul for Cape Town
  • 567 CapeTalk - Cape Town, South Africa's #1 News & Information Station.
  • Adventist World Radio Europe - Live coverage of Adventist World Radio (commonly abbreviated to AWR) Europe).
  • Nuevo Tiempo - Portuguese & Spanish Religious Television
  • Novo Tempo - Portuguese & Spanish Religious Television
  • AWRádio
  • TopRadio**
• Audio Stream Modifications:
  • 702 Talk Radio - Johannesburg, South Africa's #1 News & Information Station
  • KSGN: Good News Radio - moved into the Audio > Religious section, thus deleting the Audio > Religious > Music section
• Video Stream Modifications:
  • Classic FM TV* ** - Classic FM TV is now only available in the United Kingdom
  • ManiaTV* **
  • MTV Live**
  • BBC World** - This stream is temporarily un-selectable while we try and fix it, in the mean time, we recommend using NetPLAYER for BBCi for News coverage from the BBC.
  • 3ABN English Multicast - In versions of NetPLAYER that only had one 3ABN English option, this was a multicast (multiple bitrate steam) which was previously modified to a ISDN compatible stream for NetPLAYER versions which didn't yet have the Dial-Up, ISDN & Broadband options due to the fact the there was no longer a Multicast version available. The Multicast stream has now returned and has been modified for old NetPLAYER Versions.
    A New Auto option has been added in this release of NetPLAYER. Selecting this option will open the Multicast stream.
  • E-Music TV** - E-Music TV renamed to E-Music Television
  • TVU
  • QuizNation - QuizNation has been moved to the new Gaming & Competitions category in Video (Video > Gaming & Competitions > QuizNation)
• Video Streams Removed:
  • Canweb Music
  • Hit Channel TV - This stream has been replaced by RTL 102.5 TV
  • KPRC
  • NBC 6
  • WDSU-TV
  • WJTV
  • WKRG-TV
  • WLOX-TV
  • WPMI-TV
  • WTOK-TV
  • WWL-TV
• Video Streams Added:
  • Nuevo Tiempo** - Portuguese & Spanish Religious Television
  • Novo Tempo** - Portuguese & Spanish Religious Television
  • ITV Play - New "Participation TV" channel from ITV in the UK offering exciting games & big prizes. (You must be a UK Resident & Over the age of 18 to enter competitions)
  • RTL 102.5 TV** - Music from Italian TV Channel, RTL 102.5 (previously known as Hit Channel TV)
  • The Worship Network - Soothing television channel with hymns, choruses & bible scripture to help promote worship in the home
• On Demand Video Stream Modifications:
  • Sky News* - On Demand News Headlines, Sports Headlines, & Weather Reports
  • Sabbath School U (Dial-Up) - A Weekly Bible study Guide program. This stream is compatible with Dial-Up Internet Connections
• On Demand Audio Streams Added:
  • Sabbath School U - A Weekly Bible study Guide program. This is an audio only stream.
• On Demand Video Streams Added:
  • Sabbath School U (ISDN) - A Weekly Bible study Guide program. This stream requires a MPEG-4 codec to be installed on your computer
  • Sabbath School U (Broadband) - A Weekly Bible study Guide program.
• On Demand Audio Streams Removed:
  • Adventist World Radio: English Language Service - This stream has been replaced by Adventist World Radio Europe which can be found in Audio > Religious
• InfoWindow Modifications:
  • Sabbath School U
  • God TV
  • & many more

*This change will also be reflected in previous NetPLAYER versions

• Bug Fixes:
  • Advanced Options window would not open
  • Other bug fixes in Advanced Options window

• Audio Streams Modified:
  • HitZone - Added "Strong Language" Warning, and modified stream location*
• Video Streams Modified:
  • Nation 217 renamed to QuizNation
  • Hope Channel North America modified to Hope Channel Broadband
• Video Streams Removed:
  • WBNS 10-TV
  • Hope Channel International
• Video Streams Added:
  • Hope Channel Dial-Up
  • InformationTV
• Audio Streams Removed:
  • HR:2*
• On Demand Video Streams Added:
  • Sabbath School U** (Brought To You By: CamSDA Online)
• On Demand Video Streams Removed:
  • ATN Playback
• General Performance Improvements
• Removed the obsolete "Schedules" feature
• Re-Added AutoFullscreen option

*Also included in NetPLAYER 3.6 (released 29 March 2006), however this release was only available via FTP Download.

• Added support for new melaS website
• New Optimised NetPLAYER Specials
• Audio Streams Added:
  • HR:2
• InfoWindow Content Added:
  • HR:2
• Installer updated to support new melaS website

• Removed support for IntelliUpdate® - IntelliUpdate® removed for re-development. The reason for re-development is so that we can fix bugs which some users where having where they were unable to obtain up-to-date software using IntelliUpdate®, also the re-development would help us improve the performance of IntelliUpdate®
• Temporarily disabled the Special Streams functionality - the reason for disabling Special Streams was because, when enabled, the Special Streams feature significantly increased NetPLAYER's load time.
• Disabled AutoFullscreen feature - temporarily removed as it was not working.
• Improved Stream Request
• Improved Stream Error Reporting
• Modifications made to Welcome Video

• Stream Modifications
  • 3ABN - 3ABN English stream was disabled in version 3.0.107, this stream is now working again
  • 94.7 Highveld Stereo
  • HitzRadio.com
  • Hope Channel
  • LLBN: Loma Linda Broadcasting Network**
  • Adventist World Radio: English Language Service
• InfoWindow Modification*****:
  • 3ABN
  • 3C
  • 702 Talk Radio
  • AKARadio
  • BBC World
  • Bloomberg
  • GWR FM Bristol
  • 2CRfm
  • Capital FM
  • Classic FM (UK & South Africa)
  • Capital Disney
  • Core Fresh Hits
  • CrossRythms

*****Some InfoWindow Improvements will be accessible from NetPLAYER 3.0.86 (as of 25 July 2005), others will only be accessible from this version. These InfoWindow improvements will not be accessible to NetPLAYER 1 or NetPLAYER 2 users.

• NetPLAYER will allow Windows "Longhorn" (now know as Windows Vista) and Windows Server 2003 to run NetPLAYER, however notifying the user that compatiblity is not guaranteed.
• All Instances of the term InformationWindow changed to InfoWindow
• Microsoft Media Flash Player logo added to Splash and About screens
• Video Streams Added:
  • i>TELE
• InfoWindow Improvements*****:
  • 94.7 Highveld Stereo
  • Price-Drop.TV

• Installer no longer has "Additional Welcome Video" under Components To Install
• 3ABN English Video disabled - Stream causing errors, will be enabled again once stream has been fixed.
• New melaS Software logo added to Splash and Welcome screens
• InfoWindow Improvements*****:
  • 94.7 Highveld Stereo
  • AKA Radio
  • DefJay
  • HitzRadio
  • BBC World
  • Fire 107.6 FM
  • Vibe 105 - 108 FM
  • Vibe 101 FM
  • Q103 Cambridge
  • GWR Bristol
  • Core
  • 2CRfm
  • Classic FM UK
  • Classic FM South Africa
  • Capital Disney
  • 95.8 Capital FM
  • 702 Talk Radio
  • 94.7 Highveld Stereo
  • 3ABN
  • Cross Rythms
  • Core
  • 3C
• Stream Modifcations:
  • 3ABN
  • Hope Channel
  • Cross Rythms
  • AKA Radio
• Video Streams Added:
  • MSNBC
  • The Weather Channel
  • CNBC
  • Hope Channel International
• Audio Streams Added:
  • A-Blazing Grace
  • AKA Radio
  • BBC 1Xtra
  • DefJay
  • Energy
  • Ministry Of Sound
  • Music One
  • BBC World Service
  • BBC Radio Five Live
  • BBC Five Live Sports Extra

*****Some InfoWindow Improvements will be accessible from NetPLAYER 3.0.86 (as of 15 July 2005), others will only be accessible from this version. These InfoWindow improvements will not be accessible to NetPLAYER 1 or NetPLAYER 2 users.
This is the first fully public (complete) release of NetPLAYER 3.0

• New Welcome Video
• NetPLAYER Welcome Video is now played directly from the internet, thus will not need to be installed.
• Required OCX files included in installer
• Modification made to melaS AdBar
• Stream Modifcations:
  • 3ABN
  • Hope Channel
• InfoWindow Modifications:
  • 94.7 Highveld Stereo

• Ability to report unavailable streams
• Modified HitzRadio Stream
• Installer also installs a Microsoft Access database file (dbSettings.mdb) into the NetPLAYER folder. This will be used for saving settings
• Installer creates shortcut on the desktop for those using Windows 2000/XP - this was always done for users of Windows 98SE/Me
• Quality/Region Drop Down Box removed. - Selecting stream Regions and quality can be done when choosing what stream to listen to
• When choosing a stream that may not be suitable for young users a warning will be displayed, detailing the reason and asking whether or not to continue
• New Player Controls
• Player Control to disable/enable InfoWindow added
• Player Controls now have tips when mouse is placed over them, tips also show keyboard shortcuts in brackets
• Check For Update... On Help menu now opens up IntelliUpdate® which will search for updates available.
• melaS AdBar added - AdBar can be turned off
• Automatically disable Windows Screensaver when content is being played
• Blue look when used on Microsoft Windows XP
• New Welcome Video***
• Web links now open in your default browser (except links in InfoWindow or AdBar, these always open in Microsoft Internet Explorer)
• Video Streams for Broadband begin playing in fullscreen (Windows XP only)
• If InfoWindow cannot be loaded (even if internet connection is unavailable), a message will still be displayed in InfoWindow
• IntelliUpdate® logo added to Splash and About screens
• Windows Media Player 9 & 10 images modified
• New NetPLAYER icon
• When running IntelliUpdate® (Ctrl+U) and you are using a newer version than what is available for download, NetPLAYER will notify you.
• Bug Fixes:
  • About screen (Help > About) doesn't display on Windows 98 SE/Me/2000
  • Get Windows Media Player 9 in the Help Menu (Help > One The Web) modified to Get Windows Media Player
  • Pressing F2 or F4 to alter volume level now always shows the volume level changes as it is being changed
  • Changing volume level no longer changes format of the date displayed on the bottom left of the window
• Video Streams Added:
  • Adventist Television Network Playback (On Demand > Video)
  • Other streams also added - full list of newly added streams coming soon
• Audio Streams Added:
  • Capital Disney
  • Other streams also added - full list of newly added streams coming soon
• Help menu now had On The Web sub-menu chich contains web links for:
  • melaS International Forums
  • melaS International
  • NetPLAYER
  • Get Windows Media Player
  • Check stream Status
  • BetaPlanet Forums - Disabled, will be enabled in future version
• InfoWindow content added for:
  • 3ABN Latino (Dial-Up)
  • The Hits
• InfoWindow Modifications:
  • 94.7 Highveld Stereo
  • Kiss 100
  • Smash! Hits Radio
  • HitzRadio.com
  • Fire
• melaS Recommends sub-menu added to Help > On TheWeb menu:
  • SoundSpectrum Ge-Force... added to melaS Recommends
  • Windows Media Player... moved to melaS Recommends
• Changes made to Installer:
  • When choosing Full Install installer will download and install recommended files (Microsoft MDAC & Microsoft DCOM) from Microsoft.com
• Remembers Settings for:
  • InfoWindow on/off
  • AdBar on/off
  • automatically Disable Windows Screensaver on/off
  • Last Volume Level