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Syncplay 1.6.7 Beta

Posted by Etoh on December 06, 2020
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Syncplay Download links (hosted by GitHub):

Note: Those experiencing problems running Syncplay on Fedora should refer to the advice in #355.

Note: If you are using macOS via Apple Silicon / ARM then you will need to use Syncplay via Rosetta 2. See #368 for details.

Other relevant links:

Headline changes:

  • Fix Syncplay v1.6.6 VLC connection issue (#365 raised by smiba  and JacopoMolteni, resolved by Et0h)
  • Add support for IINA player (#360 by albertosottile) – Note: IINA does not support the in-player chat input feature, so you must use the Syncplay chat box.
  • Add Turkish translation (#364 by muaz742)
  • Update Russian translation (#363 by OlegSmelov)

Tweaks and minor fixes:

  • Update version of py2exe used (albertosottile)
  • Move python_mpv_jsonipc to the vendor folder (#369 by albertosottile)
  • Actually save/load autoplayRequireSameFilenames (Et0h)
  • Make language list alphabetical for consistency (Et0h)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, including those credited above.

Virus scans for Windows executables

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti and VirusTotal. Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is niche software downloaded from the Internet but as we are open source anyone can audit our code if they wish to do so.

Syncplay-1.6.7-Beta1-Setup.exe

Syncplay_1.6.7-Beta1-Portable.zip:

Syncplay 1.6.6

Posted by Etoh on October 21, 2020
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Syncplay Download links (hosted by GitHub):

Note: Those experiencing problems running Syncplay on Fedora should refer to the advice in #355.

Other relevant links:

New features:

  • Room history feature (#336 & #337 by Gbd199, with additional coding by Et0h)
  • Ability to control playlist from console, chat and mpv chat (#327, #316 and #319 – initial code by csandras05 with additional code by odrling and et0h
  • mpv: Add possibility to control which socket to use (#320 by TaPO4eg3D and young-shounen)

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Move to Twisted for VLC communication (#353 by albertosottile)
  • Add warning about erroneous VLC seeks and incompatibility with VLC 4 and always update VLC syncplay.lua (#354 raised by AustinSumigray, code by et0h)
  • Allow = sign in value of command line options again (#333 raised by alexbobp and Spincervino, resolved by et0h)
  • Fix “Unhandled Error” issue (#352 raised by gnull, resolved by et0h)
  • Allow PySide2 5.15.1 (#321 raised by odrling, resolved by daniel-123)
  • Changed mpvnet icon from .ico to .png for consistency (#348 by mentofa123)
  • Fixed MPC crashes when trying to open YouTube videos with emojis (#328 by borislav-draganov)
  • Fix error with double quotes in mpv chat messages (#329 raised by KanChiMoe, resolved by et0h)
  • Disable native Wayland for snap (issue resolved by daniel-123)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, including those credited above and jimmydorry who helped us find a bug in Beta 1 in #357!

Virus scans for Windows executables

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti and VirusTotal. Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is niche software downloaded from the Internet but as we are open source anyone can audit our code if they wish to do so.

Syncplay-1.6.6-Setup.exe

Syncplay_1.6.6-Portable.zip:

Syncplay 1.6.6 Beta 2

Posted by Etoh on October 10, 2020
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Same as Beta 1, but fixes issue launching Syncplay with a managed room (#357 reported by jimmydorry, resolved by et0h).

Syncplay Download links (hosted by GitHub):

Note: Those experiencing problems running Syncplay on Fedora should refer to the advice in #355.

Other relevant links:

New features:

  • Room history feature (#336 & #337 by Gbd199, with additional coding by Et0h)
  • Ability to control playlist from console, chat and mpv chat (#327, #316 and #319 – initial code by csandras05 with additional code by odrling and et0h
  • MPV: Add possibility to control which socket to use (#320 by TaPO4eg3D and young-shounen)

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Move to Twisted for VLC communication (#353 by albertosottile)
  • Add warning about erroneous VLC seeks and incompatibility with VLC 4 and always update VLC syncplay.lua (#354 raised by AustinSumigray, code by et0h)
  • Allow = sign in value of command line options again (#333 raised by alexbobp and Spincervino, resolved by et0h)
  • Fix “Unhandled Error” issue (#352 raised by gnull, resolved by et0h)
  • Allow PySide2 5.15.1 (#321 raised by odrling, resolved by daniel-123)
  • Changed mpvnet icon from .ico to .png for consistency (#348 by mentofa123)
  • Fixed MPC crashes when trying to open YouTube videos with emojis (#328 by borislav-draganov)
  • Fix error with double quotes in mpv chat messages (#329 raised by KanChiMoe, resolved by et0h)
  • Disable native wayland for snap (issue resolved by daniel-123)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Virus scans for Windows executables

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti and VirusTotal. Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is niche software downloaded from the Internet but as we are open source anyone can audit our code if they wish to do so.

Syncplay-1.6.6-Beta2-Setup.exe

Syncplay_1.6.6-Beta2_Portable.zip:

Syncplay 1.6.6 Beta 1

Posted by Etoh on October 08, 2020
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Syncplay Download links (hosted by GitHub):

Note: Those experiencing problems running Syncplay on Fedora should refer to the advice in #355.

Other relevant links:

New features:

  • Room history feature (#336 & #337 by Gbd199, with additional coding by Et0h)
  • Ability to control playlist from console, chat and mpv chat (#327, #316 and #319 – initial code by csandras05 with additional code by odrling and et0h
  • MPV: Add possibility to control which socket to use (#320 by TaPO4eg3D and young-shounen)

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Move to Twisted for VLC communication (#353 by albertosottile)
  • Add warning about erroneous VLC seeks and incompatibility with VLC 4 and always update VLC syncplay.lua (#354 raised by AustinSumigray, code by et0h)
  • Allow = sign in value of command line options again (#333 raised by alexbobp and Spincervino, resolved by et0h)
  • Fix “Unhandled Error” issue (#352 raised by gnull, resolved by et0h)
  • Allow PySide2 5.15.1 (#327 raised by odrling, resolved by daniel-123)
  • Changed mpvnet icon from .ico to .png for consistency (#348 by mentofa123)
  • Fixed MPC crashes when trying to open YouTube videos with emojis (#328 by borislav-draganov)
  • Fix error with double quotes in mpv chat messages (#329 raised by KanChiMoe, resolved by et0h)
  • Disable native wayland for snap (issue resolved by daniel-123)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Virus scans for Windows executables

Syncplay-1.6.6-Beta1-Setup.exe

Syncplay_1.6.6-Beta1_Portable.zip:

Syncplay 1.6.5

Posted by Etoh on June 21, 2020
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Improved support for all of the players (including fixing issues which made newer versions of mpv not work), new support for mpv.net, various language tweaks and the addition of Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese translations? Check.

Various tweaks and enhancements, including simple wildcard matching for trusted domains, allowing for playlsits to be loaded from files, and allowing for room operator passwords to be specified when joining a room for auto-authentication, and various other improvements and buf fixes? Yes, it’s all in the changelog.

Syncplay Download links (hosted by GitHub):

Other relevant links:

Changelog for Syncplay 1.6.5:

  • Added initial support for mpv.net (issue #246 raised by Z3ROGRAV1TYx  and resolved by Et0h with support from stax76)
  • mpv: Moved from STDN/STDOUT to using iwaltons3’s library JSON-IPC library to support mpv > 0.32.0 (#261 raised by wiiaboo and again in #286 by da-moo, resolved by Et0h in #310)
  • Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (#291 by AtilioA, with tweaks in #317 by artur309)
  • Added European Portuguese translation (#317 by artur309)
  • Added Debian packages (#318 by daniel-123)
  • Allow loading of playlists from a file (Et0h)
  • Allow managed room password to be specified in room name for auto authentication, e.g. by joining +RoomName:E974AACDBEC6:MA-746-375 (Inspired by #216 raised by jimmydorry , added by Et0h)
  • Add simple wildcard matching mechanism for trusted domains (#306 by seitokaichouseitokaichou)
  • VLC: Resolve issues with some Snap configurations (#301 raised by nlieb and partially resold by bobismijnnaam and Et0h)
  • macOS: Improve language detection/choice, e.g incorrectly showing German menus (#268 raised by Duamer and #288 raised by v-ji and others , both resolved by albertosottile)
  • Allow seamless advancement of music files in the playlist (by Et0h, see #302 for discussion)
  • Change of behaviour and fixes to how pause and seek work on joining a room to reduce playback disruption (#315 by Et0h)
  • Workaround performance regression in mpv’s osd code (#295 & #296 by FichteFoll)
  • Fixed issue with TLS on some systems, e.g. Fedora 31 (#292 raised by Phidica, resolved by daniel-123)
  • Fixed trailing newlines break message (#300 raised by lc-guy, resolved by Etoh)
  • mpv: Improve error handling and display meaningful advice if load fails (#270 raised by Gnuxie, resolved by Et0h)
  • mpv: Add Turkish characters to chat input (#314 by lilcsz, resolved by Et0h)
  • Fixed chat font change not being stored (#281 raised by SingerCo, resolved in #311 by NoahSaso)
  • Improved/updated German translation (#287 by v-ji/Viktor)
  • Misspell: change “inteface” to “interface” (PR #247 by Lqlsoftware)
  • Remove ruby reinstall workaround for openssl, as not needed (#279 by palfrey)
  • TLS: Add error message if SAN doesn’t match hostname (#253 by kidburglar)
  • Various fixes and tweaks, including avoiding a “You are all alone” messages on connect (Et0h)
  • Add Python 3.8 to list of supported versions (#304 raised by ElDavoo, resolved by daniel-123)
  • Makefile: Create pixmaps folder if it doesn’t exist (daniel-123)
  • Fixed setClient typo (#282 raised by Siky, resolved by Et0h)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Syncplay 1.6.5!

File hashes and links to virus scans:

Syncplay-1.6.5-Setup.exe:

Syncplay_1.6.5_Portable.zip:

syncplay_1.6.5_amd64.snap:

  • SHA1: 8e8298546c8d17703182948b0e81e6ba2a90109f

Syncplay_1.6.5.dmg:

  • SHA1: f4e6960f9373e410454eab1e1d726de5ef24440e

Syncplay-1.6.5-x86_64.AppImage:

  • SHA1: 518dc0a16dc29f74871a0760063f854818208280

Syncplay_1.6.5.deb:

  • MD5: 1713bac7b38dff0f3bde29b392b22d44

Syncplay 1.6.5 Beta 1

Posted by Etoh on May 30, 2020
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Improved support for all of the players (including fixing issues which made newer versions of mpv not work), new support for mpv.net, various language tweaks and the addition of Brazilian Portuguese translation? Check.

Various tweaks and enhancements, including simple wildcard matching for trusted domains, allowing for playlsits to be loaded from files, and allowing for room operator passwords to be specified when joining a room for auto-authentication, and various other improvements and buf fixes? Yes, it’s all in the changelog.

Syncplay Download links (hosted by GitHub):

Other relevant links:

Changelog for Syncplay 1.6.5:

  • Added initial support for mpv.net (issue #246 raised by Z3ROGRAV1TYx  and resolved by Et0h with support from stax76)
  • mpv: Moved from STDN/STDOUT to using iwaltons3’s library JSON-IPC library to support mpv > 0.32.0 (#261 raised by wiiaboo and again in #286 by da-moo, resolved by Et0h in #310)
  • Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (#291 by AtilioA)
  • Allow loading of playlists from a file (Et0h)
  • Allow managed room password to be specified in room name for auto authentication, e.g. by joining +RoomName:E974AACDBEC6:MA-746-375 (Inspired by #216 raised by jimmydorry , added by Et0h)
  • Add simple wildcard matching mechanism for trusted domains (#306 by seitokaichouseitokaichou)
  • VLC: Resolve issues with some Snap configurations (#301 raised by nlieb and partially resold by bobismijnnaam and Et0h)
  • macOS: Improve language detection/choice, e.g incorrectly showing German menus (#268 raised by Duamer and #288 raised by v-ji and others , both resolved by albertosottile)
  • Allow seamless advancement of music files in the playlist (by Et0h, see #302 for discussion)
  • Change of behaviour and fixes to how pause and seek work on joining a room to reduce playback disruption (#315 by Et0h)
  • Workaround performance regression in mpv’s osd code (#295 & #296 by FichteFoll)
  • Fixed issue with TLS on some systems, e.g. Fedora 31 (#292 raised by Phidica, resolved by daniel-123)
  • Fixed trailing newlines break message (#300 raised by lc-guy, resolved by Etoh)
  • mpv: Improve error handling and display meaningful advice if load fails (#270 raised by Gnuxie, resolved by Et0h)
  • mpv: Add Turkish characters to chat input (#314 by lilcsz, resolved by Et0h)
  • Fixed chat font change not being stored (#281 raised by SingerCo, resolved in #311 by NoahSaso)
  • Improved/updated German translation (#287 by v-ji/Viktor)
  • Misspell: change “inteface” to “interface” (PR #247 by Lqlsoftware)
  • Remove ruby reinstall workaround for openssl, as not needed (#279 by palfrey)
  • TLS: Add error message if SAN doesn’t match hostname (#253 by kidburglar)
  • Various fixes and tweaks, including avoiding a “You are all alone” messages on connect (Et0h)
  • Add Python 3.8 to list of supported versions (#304 raised by ElDavoo, resolved by daniel-123)
  • Makefile: Create pixmaps folder if it doesn’t exist (daniel-123)
  • Fixed setClient typo (#282 raised by Siky, resolved by Et0h)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Syncplay 1.6.5!

File hashes and links to virus scans:

Syncplay-1.6.5-Beta1-Setup.exe:

Syncplay_1.6.5-Beta1-Portable.zip:

Syncplay_1.6.5-Beta1-amd64.snap:

Syncplay_1.6.5-Beta1.dmg:

Syncplay-1.6.5-Beta1-x86-64.AppImage:

Syncplay_1.6.5-Beta1.deb:

Syncplay 1.6.4a

Posted by Etoh on June 23, 2019
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Lots of changes in Syncplay 1.6.4! TLS support for everyone, the official release of Syncplay on the Snap store and on AppImageHub, support for Dark Mode and Emoji picker in macOS, and many more things. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

Note: Due to issue #22456 VLC 4 is not currently compatible with Syncplay.

Syncplay Download links (hosted by Github):

Other relevant links:

Other relevant links:

Syncplay 1.6.4/1.6.4a Changelog:

  • Add TLS (SSL) support in the Windows binaries. Opportunistic TLS is now supported on all platforms (included in PR #231 by albertosottile, requested in #217 by alxpettit)
  • Add support for releasing via Snap and AppImage. Travis CI now automatically builds releases for macOS, Snap, and AppImage after every commit. This version of Syncplay is also published in the Snap store and on AppImageHub (Snap: PR #231 by albertosottile, requested in #199 by Mikaela; AppImage: coded by albertosottile)
  • Add support for installing Syncplay using setuptools via a setup.py script. This required a change in our folder structure, though this change should not affect end-users. (PR #231 by albertosottile, contributions by Et0h and ObserverOfTime via PR #230, suggested in #207 by alxpettit)
  • Remove the “Update list” button for public servers from the configuration dialog (PR #233 by Et0h)
  • [macOS] Add support for Dark Mode in macOS 10.14 Mojave (bc242c2 by albertosottile)
  • [macOS] Add an Edit menu in the OS menubar to enable Dictation support and native Emoji picker in the chat input field (albertosottile)
  • Fix an issue that prevented to use SMPlayer (issue #234 raised by elvissteinjr and resolved by Et0h)
  • Some images in the GUI now scale their pixel density for Hi-DPI/Retina displays (819e6b6 and 8f5b77c by albertosottile)
  • [macOS and Linux] Fix selection highlight in the user list of the main dialog (albertosottile)
  • [macOS] Fix a bug that loaded a random string in the password field of the config UI (b3545a3 by albertosottile)
  • [Linux] Support the VLC Snap as player (issue #222 raised by RogueScholar and resolved by albertosottile)
  • [macOS] Several tweaks to the position of elements in the main and config dialogs (albertosottile)
  • Add getValueForOS function in constants to store and extract different values for different operating systems (ff6bb74 by albertosottile)
  • [Windows] All the png files in resources are now automatically included in the distribution bundles (3a4cf41 by albertosottile)
  • Do not ask anymore to “Press enter to exit” after closing mpv when Syncplay is used from its CLI (issue #238 raised by alxpettit and resolved by albertosottile)
  • Embed darkdetect (GitHub, BSD-3-Clause) version 0.1.1 in the project vendor folder
  • Some files in the repository are now released under the MIT license, while the repository stays on Apache 2.0. This is explicitly stated in the header of those files. At this moment, this exception applies to README.md and travis/appimage-script.sh.
  • [macOS] Upgrade PySide2 to 5.12.3, using a bottle created in our custom tap.
  • Upgrade qt5reactor to version 0.5
  • [Windows] Upgrade py2exe to version 0.9.3.0
  • [Windows] Upgrade PySide2 to version 5.12.3
  • 1.6.4a: Fixed bug in 1.6.4 whereby prompts for further information in the configuration window sometimes resulted in the window closing rather than displaying the error (issue #240 was in initial release of 1.6.4, raised by TETYYS, resolved by Et0h)
  • 1.6.4a: [macOS] Fixed issue with information prompts resulting in incorrect configuration window height (763406b by albertosottile)
  • 1.6.4a: Fixed issue which prevented TLS from working when using Windows installer (#241 rasied by Tremolo4, resolved by albertosottile)

File hashes:

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti (.exe, .zip, .dmg, .AppImage, .snap, legacy .dmg) and VirusTotal (.exe, .zip, .AppImage, .Snap .dmg, legacy .dmg). Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is niche software downloaded from the Internet but as we are open source anyone can audit our code if they wish to do so.

Syncplay 1.6.3

Posted by Etoh on March 16, 2019
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This update features some long-awaited features, including the new logo by Catlinman, IPv6 support and TLS/SSL support by albertosottile (not yet available for Windows), improved VLC support and better handling of high-DPI displays by et0h. There were also some nice bonuses such as the last-minute addition of Spanish language support by bcattaneo and various tweaks and bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who contributed this release!

Change log for Syncplay 1.6.3:

  • New Syncplay logo by catlinman as per his announcement (PR #219 by catlinman)
  • IPv6 support (PR #215 by albertosottile ,requested in Issue #107 by dawnMachine)
  • Initial TLS (SSL) support (PR  #233 by albertosottile, and requested in #217 by alxpettit)
  • Spanish Language support (PR #227 by bcattaneo)
  • Automatically copy offer VLC interface script when it is needed (PR #220 by Et0h fixed Issue #193)
  • Fix a VLC bug (Issue #213 raised by mechchicken resolved by albertosottile)
  • Handle non-UTF8 messages to server (fixes Issue #210, based on PR #214 by xNinjaKittyx)
  • Use high-DPI scaling where available (Etoh)
  • Print error message if Twisted fails (Etoh)
  • Fix bug which meant that –max-chat-message-length can’t be used to raise the maximum length (Issue #224 resolved by Etoh, raised by csritu)
  • Fixed bug which meant that youtube-dl did not work on macOS (Issue #228 raised by brenolf, resolved by albertosottile)

Syncplay Download links (hosted by Github):

Other relevant links:

(Note: If  you want to use Syncplay with Python 2 then you can use Syncplay 1.5.5)

Hashes for Syncplay-1.6.3-Setup.exe (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: 803e97ee79866ddd5fe9b6b4e5398278  / SHA-1: 0b084499150e24389f2e97923a11c8fb30af528f
SHA256: 7ba702103f8652aad7c4386bb4b4a0b527c8131cd998a319f91270c9a3880e4f

Hashes for Syncplay_1.6.3_Portable.zip (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: 424e59e6bda16f92f880c5e3b0776756  / SHA-1: 9c623910bb16b112163956fc656163344d6df596
SHA256: 5c3909ec82bc4151230cdca070fd3060b6544cf14e2b273966e57717f1285189

Hashes for Syncplay_1.6.3.dmg  (confirmable using QuickHash GUI)
MD5: 71aef9cbf862491d7e50003611d28157  / SHA-1: 25c9072732431559aec28ca4b782f8c15feacf1d
SHA256: 27cc76a66a2a1c79d2e46ad6568ed8678b83f00d80a3ec7db5527774f2223caf

Hashes for Syncplay_1.6.3_macOS_legacy.dmg (confirmable using QuickHash GUI)
MD5: 52b2bd516d92dc0f91eb8ad23f0d62b9 / SHA-1: d79348af6dbc825c75706a82887110dca6768a12
SHA256: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/e88eb2589471fc5d8cf2edbf304eac3e804a42332e2b7d241f0f7747f18b06aa/detection

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti (.exe, .zip, .dmg, legacy .dmg) and VirusTotal (.exe, .zip, .dmg, legacy .dmg). Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is niche software downloaded from the Internet but as we are open source anyone can audit our code if they wish to do so.

Advice: If you use public servers, avoid ports 8995 and 8999

You can use any public server so long as you are all on the same one. However, the majority of people currently use ports 8995 and 8999 which means that for a more stable connection you should probably go for ports 8996, 8997 or 8998. On the sidebar to the right you will see a highlighted server selected at random from the lesser-used servers.

Contact us

As usual, if you are having problems or want to give feedback then please e-mail us (dev@syncplay.pl) or chat with us on IRC (#syncplay on chat.freenode.net; account registration required). Issues can be raised and discussed at https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/issues

Thank you for flying with Syncplay!

-Etoh

Syncplay 1.6.3 (RC1)

Posted by Etoh on February 28, 2019
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This update features some long-awaited features, including the new logo by Catlinman, IPv6 support and TLS/SSL support by albertosottile (not yet available for Windows), improved VLC support and better handling of high-DPI displays by et0h. There were also some nice bonuses such as the last-minute addition of Spanish language support by bcattaneo and various tweaks and bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who contributed this release!

Change log for Syncplay 1.6.3 (Release Candidate #1):

  • New Syncplay logo by catlinman as per his announcement (PR #219 by catlinman)
  • IPv6 support (PR #215 by albertosottile ,requested in Issue #107 by dawnMachine)
  • Initial TLS (SSL) support (PR  #233 by albertosottile, and requested in #217 by alxpettit)
  • Spanish Language support (PR #227 by bcattaneo)
  • Automatically copy offer VLC interface script when it is needed (PR #220 by Et0h fixed Issue #193)
  • Fix a VLC bug (Issue #213 raised by mechchicken resolved by albertosottile)
  • Handle non-UTF8 messages to server (fixes Issue #210, based on PR #214 by xNinjaKittyx)
  • Use high-DPI scaling where available (Etoh)
  • Print error message if Twisted fails (Etoh)
  • Fix bug which meant that –max-chat-message-length can’t be used to raise the maximum length (Issue #224 resolved by Etoh, raised by csritu)

Download links (hosted by Github):

(Note: If  you want to use Syncplay with Python 2 then you can use Syncplay 1.5.5)

Hashes for Syncplay-1.6.3-RC1-Setup.exe (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: e95b68305a05589575a42974d3697578
SHA-1: 85b2e53973ee55a04754e12d6b5cbb767995d32c
SHA256: 39892363bdd59112dd622b031bf4678a9b5584a19942a5db6dec7122931eb406

Hashes for Syncplay_1.6.3_RC1_Portable.zip (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: 362e11f56ecf9ae6759c7c110665de13
SHA-1: cffbc7914b017383394557eeea862fc3c86f0bc3
SHA256: a640a4c2fc99fe9939e7e3b8cd49998ea00ec630f47ea99573546396ae791ff6

Hashes for Syncplay_1.6.3-RC1.dmg [re-release] (confirmable using QuickHash GUI)
MD5: 88f7050695293436e200d50816e418c1
SHA-1: abd136ec6a6c5bac3f354904865743c72be4f1ff
SHA256: 127a578a9f5f37e08e2d4323f6696d3535b9a73643dede5dcc16177f4bbafdde

Hashes for Syncplay_1.5.3a_macOS_legacy.dmg (confirmable using QuickHash GUI)
MD5: dae13b67f7329f079b1d4f892cbc736a
SHA-1: 8dbde989bb808ab6975617889a826ddde7ac2f59
SHA256: fa1a370aded3e7da3413a3f3a005165e420fcd2eb334ed23cfccedbfd45f8ec3

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti (.exe, .zip, .dmg, legacy .dmg) and VirusTotal (.exe, .zip, .dmg, legacy .dmg). Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is niche software downloaded from the Internet but as we are open source anyone can audit our code if they wish to do so.

Contact us

As usual, if you are having problems or want to give feedback then please e-mail us (dev@syncplay.pl) or chat with us on IRC (#syncplay on chat.freenode.net; account registration required). Issues can be raised and discussed at https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/issues

Thank you for flying with Syncplay!

-Etoh

New Syncplay logo

Posted by Etoh on February 27, 2019
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We are pleased to announce that Syncplay 1.6.3 will adopt our new logo for Syncplay!

The new Syncplay Logo by Catlinman The new Syncplay Logo by Catlinman
The old Syncplay logo (left) alongside its replacement (right)

According to the new logo’s author Catlinman:

“My goal in mind was to create a new version of the logo that embraces a more modern and clean design while retaining and accentuating the original wing design. Furthermore I wanted to include some sort of play symbol to give the whole design a much easier visual understanding. One of the challenges I faced was that the logo had to work at even tiny resolutions of 16×16 pixels while also looking good with large word mark. The final design incorporates all of this!”

As long-time followers of the #Syncplay IRC channel can attest, Catlinman put in a lot of work not just creating the initial logo but also working with Syncplay developers and users to respond to feedback by generating alternative designs and explaining his design decisions.

See Catlinman’s Imgur post for more about the evolution of the new logo which includes some of the alternative designs he produced as part of our discussions. You can also see some other mock-ups from the design process as part of our Facebook post from February 2018. A big thanks to him for all his work on this!

We did explore including additional elements in the logo, but in the end this hampered the ability of the logo to look the same at different sizes so in the end we decided to keep it simple. The addition of the play logo provides a clearer link to our core function, which is supporting people to play media. While the logo has been modernised we have retained the concept of the wing design from our original logo. Do the wings represent Hermes, known to the Greeks as a god of synchronicity and to the Romans as a god of communication and information, or is it simply an old-school anime reference? That one, dear users, we will leave open to interpretation…

The fact that the final design ended up looking a lot like the initial proposal is a testament to Catlinman’s good design instincts, and we hope that even if you find the change to be a shock that it will grow on you over time. We are also grateful to Devon who helped us explore some other logo options and to everyone who provided feedback on the logo as it was being developed.

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