YY/MM/DD 26/03/31 - 3.1.0 VIP OMNI EDITION RELEASED - Added track IDs for Mellow and Exiled playlists! Now you can add their tracks to your Chosen or Blocked lists, as well as share them! - New playlist! OMNI - Brings together every track from VIP, Source, Mellow, and Exiled into one mega playlist! Listen as the playlist goes from an epic orchestral track to a calm piano track to a nonsensical meme track for the ultimate ADHD experience. - Created a changelog for code updates, which can be viewed from the menu! 25/12/18 - 3.0.0 - Improved shuffling logic to avoid recently played tracks! No more will you hear the same track back-to-back unless you intentionally loop it. Up to 100 tracks can be stored in there, but it resets when you refresh. Clicking a track will also add it to your recently played tracks. - Improved the functionality of the Previous & Next buttons! They both will properly push tracks to your recently played tracks. Plus, the Previous button now rewinds the track if it played for at least 3 seconds, just like a real media player. - Throttled some button presses to prevent spamming! - Updated Service Worker and made update pop-ups more consistent! Code updates will make you refresh the page. The playlist will update automagically. (No need to refresh!) - Service Worker will now effectively cache each track that you play for at least 20% or 30 seconds, whichever's less! Up to 300 tracks may be cached depending on your storage space. After that, the oldest ones will be deleted from your cache. - Robust offline mode that plays cached tracks directly instead of skipping wildly! It will ignore whatever's in your Chosen or Blocked lists. The player changes color to indicate that you're offline. - New and improved network watchdog! This ensures the player will never stop playing and will always try to reconnect when in a poor network. No more random pauses and intervention from you. - Added a list of performers for each track, because I wanted to display singers and orchestra! It didn't make sense for them to be lumped in with the composers or arrangers, unless they are one of those. - Truncated the list of artists to two! It now displays a tooltip if there are more than two artists. Previously, I manually added "et al." if there were more than two artists. - New splash animations! - Fixed the bug where button symbols sometimes wouldn't load! - Streamlined the code to remove support for legacy browsers but still supports the latest non-IE browsers in Windows XP! - Other background improvements and optimizations! - Still no way to disable shuffle! Deal with it. 23/10/17 - 3.0.0-beta.8 - Fixed the character limit issue when importing/exporting Chosen/Sourced/Blocked tracks. 23/08/19 - 3.0.0-beta.7 - Added two apps in the menu. - Made the menu scrollable. - Fixed some UI issue in the menu when viewing on mobile devices. - Updated external scripts and icon library. - Found a way to load CSS asynchronously without using LoadCSS that was actually recommended by the LoadCSS devs. This improved the initial load performance by a smidge. 22/12/18 - 3.0.0-beta.6 - Separated the year and platform (if available) from the game titles in the json files. It's just cleaner code-wise - Removed unnecessary meta tags("google nositelinkssearchbox", "google notranslate", and "rating general"). Why even? - Changed heading tags on the index page, just to see if it affects SEO. 21/01/01 VIP VERSION 2 (vip.swf) EXPUNGED 20/12/19 - 3.0.0-beta.5 - The odds of playing Chosen tracks have been fixed so that setting it to 1% really means 1%. - In the Special Thanks section, I fixed SupraDarky's Best VGM link and added a couple more VIPlayers. 20/06/16 - 3.0.0-beta.4 - Added a button that instantly swaps an arranged track with the original track! You can even keep it on the "sourced" track if you prefer it to the arrangement. Needless to say, this feature is only available in VIP. - Improved configuration menu! It's a lot taller in order to accommodate all the features. With all that added space, I changed some of the formatting on the other menu pages. The "Other VIPlayers" page is now the "Special Thanks" page with extra links to some of my "competition". Every button is also slightly taller. - You can also now disable animations, just in case the scrolling somehow affects your computer's performance or distracts you. - Fixed the problem with the gray border gradients not showing up in IE. It's one of those simple fixes that makes me feel dumb for not knowing it. It even cleaned up some of the code. If you're one of the 99% who doesn't use IE, this fix is pretty useless. - The rain sound effect setting in Mellow is now saved. So if you have it disabled, it'll stay disabled when you revisit the site. 20/04/16 - 3.0.0-beta.3 - You can now tag tracks as your Chosen. Think of them as your favorites but with a tweest! They have added weight to them in the shuffle RNG. By default, they have a 25% chance to play after every track. This rate is customizable, as you'll see in a sec. - You can also now block your most-hated tracks. They won't play at all, unless you click on them or open their shared link. - There's a new configuration button in the menu that allows you to customize the chance of playing Chosen tracks. Setting it to 100% makes it so that only your Chosen tracks will play. If there's only 1 Chosen track, the playlist will force it down to 99%, because I added some code that prevents the playlist from playing the same track twice in a row. Really, that's what the repeat button is for! - Firefox now successfully caches the audio, due to the fact that all the music files were moved to the vipvgm.net domain and are therefore no longer considered "crossdomain". This was never a problem with Chrome for some reason. 20/02/05 - 3.0.0-beta.2 - Changed the description to be more descriptive - Removed the robots and googlebot tags so as to get the default values "index, follow" - Removed preconnecting link tag pointing to vip.aersia.net, because it's not used anymore - Added Twitter and Facebook metadata - Moved site-related icons to a folder - Added more icons for more device compatibility 19/12/18 - 3.0.0-beta.1 VIP VERSION 3 RELEASED - Playlist selection dropdown box! For selecting a specific playlist. - Repeat a track! Press the repeat button to play a track ad nauseam. - Playlist selection and volume are saved! No need to readjust. - Deeper, sexier color tones! Guaranteed to make even the colorblind wet. - Draggable controls! I couldn't decide where to put the controls, so I made you decide on your own. My indecision actually led to something cool! - Keyboard controls! "Space" to play/pause; "left/right" to seek backward/forward; "ctrl + left/right" to go to previous/next track; "ctrl + up/down" to increase/decrease volume. Each track can also be highlighted by pressing "tab" to go down or "shift + tab" to go up; then it's just a matter of pressing "enter" to play the highlighted track. If your mouse is busted, the playlist is fully navigable with just the keyboard! - Share a direct link to a track including fully-working social share buttons! Press the share button to show a link to share with your friends or significant others. Only VIP and Source are shareable for now. - Loading from a shared link magically removes the hashtag code in the URL! It's coding sorcery, I tell you. - Excellent portability! Listen to the VIP on every machine and in every browser, except Internet Explorer 9 and under. Try it out on your 16K screen. Try it out on your computer at work that's stuck with Internet Explorer 10/11. - Install as an app on your phone or PC! For those times when you want to listen to the VIP immediately. - Switching between VIP and Source while playing a track will play the same track! If you want to hear the original of an arrangement or an arrangement of the original, you can switch between playlists and hear them. - Update warning! With the magic of Workbox service worker technologies, the page will display a warning upon load if there's an update to the playlists or the code, prompting you to reload. I still don't fully understand it, but Google helped make it work. - You can add "/source", "/mellow", or "/exiled" to the URL to go directly to the specified playlist! - Useless feature: You can save the page and it will run when you open the file, just like the Flash version! 10/06/15 - 2.2.0 VIP MELLOW EDITION RELEASED 10/05/29 - 2.1.0 VIP EXILED EDITION RELEASED 09/06/20 - 2.0.0 VIP VERSION 2 RELEASED - Converted every track from MP3 to AAC. 09/05/08 - 1.1.0 VIP SOURCE EDITION RELEASED 08/12/18 - 1.0.0 VIP IS POSTED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE INTARWEBS