**** v4.30 for Testers only **** (02/01/12)
- Optimized photo loading process
- Internal structural code changes

**** v4.20 for Testers only **** (25/09/11)
- Displays image date in slideshow.
- Supports right-to-left lyrics, @LHEBR @LYIDD
- Automatic image rotation in slide show.
- Supports secondary monitor.
- Photos of selected album ordered by date.
- Improved lyric flow for large background image.
- Starts playing song whilst loading slide show.

Fixed:
- Incorrect Vietnamese unicode conversion u. <--> i'
- Unable to order songs by title length.
- Songs without artist are not accepted.
- [Enter] key in number pad not accepted.
- Number pad input on control panel not accepted.


**** v4.10 **** (13/02/11)
- On screen photo album menu (press k)
- Supports unicode KAR files created with Karakan, i.e. no viewer required for Chinese, Vietnamese etc. lyrics.
- Screen broadcast is optional.
- Supports unicode in song file name.
- Song DB can be viewed with SQLiteSpy.

Fixed:
- Some characters are displayed incorrectly on some platforms.
- Memory leak


**** v4 FREEWARE **** (27/08/10)
- folksSCREEN which allows transition effects in slideshow.
- folksSCREEN can be run on a different machine in the LAN. Diffrent slideshows can be run at the same time while all PC's displaying the same lyrics, I call this KaLANoke  :-)
- Requirement: Write access to registry, allowing access to port 2010 (this could be blocked by firewall or anti-virus software)

Fixed:
- Reset XG mode on song start.
- Optimized lyrics appearance
- "3rd Party DB" dialog cannot be opened if path doesn't exist.

Known issues:
- Some existing folksKJ features are not yet implemented:
  * Random pick of 5 songs
  * Display date of the images
  * Hide lyrics
- Memory leak in folksKJ



**** v3.10s **** (18/03/08)
- Supports 3rd party song database (California Electronics MIDI Karaoke DVD), see details on http://www.nabble.com/toc2db-for-California-electronics-tf4409303.html
- Resets key and tempo before a new song.
- Hide mouse pointer after idling for 3sec while playing song in full screen mode.

Fixed:
- Missing window caption in main screen, unable to be controlled by HIP remote software on startup.


**** v3.00s **** (01/09/07)
- Use song number input. Song database has to be update (Set Location).
- Supports Unicode lyrics if the song contains the text event @CODE=UNICODE
- Allow selecting output device
- Volume normalization
- New songlist outputs
- Allow seperator " - " in filename

Fixed:
- Timestamp is not displayed on some machine.
- MIDI-reset not functioning for some output devices.


**** v2.30s **** (24/02/07)
- Shortcut keys, better support for remote control
- Remote control setup file for iMON (Soundgraph).
  It has to be applied to two applications, folksKJ and SkinForm.

Fixed:
- Shift+Enter on on-screen search adds instead of inserts a song
- [Mute] status lost after new song loaded
- [Settings] can be toggled while playing song
- Error after file not found
- Incorrect Big5 conversion
- Bad restart of a song by using [Prev] button


**** v2.22s **** (28/03/06)
- Shipped with folksKJ skin
- Right mouse click to toggle between skin and standard GUI
- folksSC: Better error message
- Skin
    + Supports more buttons: Lyrics, settings, key and tempo control

Fixed:
- Skin
    + Action "trackinfo" case sensitive
    + Converted incorrect length= 30 for <Font>
    + Dupplicate buttons with action="TOGGLE"



**** v2.21s **** (08/12/05)
- 16:9 (full) mode for 4:3 resolution, e.g. 4:3 VGA connected to 16:9 TV
- Allows right mouse click to access control panel.
- Disables screen saver on full screen.
- Add photos recursively, i.e. subfolders inclusive.

Fixed:
- Error on full screen after opening random 5 list.



**** v2.20s **** (29/10/05)
- Support unicode.
- Display Chinese (BIG5) in unicode (on XP/W2k).

Fixed:
- Song list by artist does not compare length.



**** v2.11s **** (21/08/05)
Fixed:
- Mermory issue



**** v2.10s **** (15/07/05)
- Improved display of high resolution images.
- Supports widescreen 14:9 and 16:9.
- Supports dual screen.
- Uses dark fill color only.

Fixed:
- Delay in playing next song while no sound is playing.

Known Issues:
- Problem for displaying skin in secondary monitor.



**** v2.00s **** (25/02/05)
- folksSC introduced, skins for control board.
- Full screen with current resolution.
- Allows more time for the last image before loading next song.
- Improved lyrics detection (ignore blank events).
- Improved melody detection (ignore percussion channel 9).

Fixed:
- [Give 5] causes error if no songs available.
- Slide show on hold after rewinding a song.
- Song stops playing after setting a new position.
- Unable to play properly if the slider is set to exactly the same.
- Unable to access images/songs from root of other drives.
- Lyric lines appear too early in the beginning of a song.
- Unable to play next song on paused.

Known Issues:
- Occasional deadlock between two songs on some platforms.



**** v1.00s **** (24/10/03)
Initial release