v0.9.0

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions can be found in the wiki.

Google Play Store

UltraStar Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlay
Companion App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlayCompanion

Note that the apps can not yet be found by searching the Google Play store because it is a test release. Thus, you need to directly open the link to the app.

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Changes

• support for custom player profile images
• use webcam to create custom player profile image
• better detection of non-Unicode encodings using UTF-Unkown respectively Universal Charset Detector
• play song audio in singing results
• new help dialogs for configuration of player profiles and custom themes
• button to copy log to make it easier for users to provide debugging information, especially on mobile devices
• in game debug console
• support static background image in themes
• count and show FPS across scene changes
• Upgrade to Unity 2022.2.4f1

Fixes

• fix scene change animation and sound
• fix resolution chooser in graphics options
• fix fold/unfold animation of sections in help dialogs
• fix applying theme styles for focused and hovered buttons
• fix width of side bar in song select when scroll bar is visible
• Enabled "Auto Graphics API" for Android
  • This may fix issues where users reported only a black screen on some devices

v0.8.2

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions can be found in the wiki.

Google Play Store

UltraStar Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlay
Companion App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlayCompanion

Note that the apps can not yet be found by searching the Google Play store because it is a test release. Thus, you need to directly open the link to the app.

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Changes

• New themes with dynamic background. Users can add custom themes. Thanks to @jean-moreno
• Webcam can be used as background when singing. Thanks to @supernevi
• Android song folder configuration shows "internal storage" and "sd card storage" instead of the full path to hide its complexity and easily switch between these options.
• Help dialogs show button to open wiki pages with further information in a web browser.
• Song editor
  • Edit lyrics of whole phrase.
  • Improved editing of lyrics of single note.
  • Lock layer to prevent editing notes of the layer
  • Synchronize playback position with position in lyrics area is now optional
  • Button to open song folder
• App bundle id was changed to com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlay and com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlayCompanion.
  • This affects the location where data is stored, e.g., settings and highscores.
• Upgrade to Unity 2022.2.2f1

Fixes

• Fix input issue on some Android devices (notably VR devices and Samsung DeX).
  • The improved keyboard / gamepad navigation is now an opt-in on Android. It caused issues on some Android devices due to a Unity bug.
• Load audio and image files from path that contain space and plus characters
• Show tooltip on pointer down for touch devices
• Handle song without any notes
• Fix song editor
  • Fix mic recording
  • Fix split / merge notes
  • Fix scroll direction
  • Fix copy & paste notes
• Fix link to website in "new version available dialog"
• Handle errors when loading settings

v0.8.0

Google Play Store

UltraStar Play and the Companion App can now be found as an open test release on the Google Play store for easier installation.

UltraStar Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlay
Companion App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlayCompanion

Note that the apps can not yet be found by searching the Google Play store because it is a test release. Thus, you need to directly open the link to the app.
Further, the app bundle id was changed to com.ultrastar.UltraStarPlay

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Changes

• Dialog to view issues in song files
• Show warnings for duplicate or invalid song folders
• Help dialog for song library and recording options
• Options to use the lyrics box at top/bottom together with the scrolling note stream
• Option to hide notes
• Settings problem hints on buttons to guide users
• Advanced search expressions with C# syntax
• Show message and buttons in song select to guide users when no songs have been found
• Do not show lyrics on notes by default
• Integrated poeditor.com for community contributed translations
• Better UI to select song archive urls
• More dynamic font size in song select
• Do not show "bad" sentence rating, only give explicit positive feedback
• Dialog to inform about crowdfunding campaign
• Added spanish translation, thanks to @BanCrash
• New logo for UltraStar Play
• Upgrade to latest Unity version (2023.1.0a18)

Fixes

• Keyboard / gamepad navigation
• Consider START and END tags
• Save PREVIEWSTART and PREVIEWEND tags
• Backlash can be used in text fields
• Ellipsis work on multiline labels
• Show up to 3 players in time bar
• Do not cut off text when showing lyrics on notes
• More lenient song file parsing

v0.7.0

Changes

• New main scene layout
• Credits scene with mini game
• Scene change animation and sound
• Options to change host and ports for Companion App connection and HTTP server
• Round corners for buttons and bold font

Fixes

• Fix support of vp8 and webm files on Android
• Do not play background music in RecordingOptionsScene because it was messing up the mic calibration
• Fix paths with backslash on Windows
• Muted audio was reset on scene change. Now it stays muted.
• Fixed song file parsing when there is a trailing space in a separator, e.g. - 23
• Better handling of failed song file parsing. This also fixes a memory leak.
• Ask for microphone permission in loading scene to fix issue on Android
• Fixed styles of in-game log view and respect character limit of UIToolkit

v0.6.0

Changes

• Added background music in menus
• Option for cooperative score (average of all players)
• Improved MP3 support
• Reduced number of sentence rating to 5 and more friendly wording
• Show log in-game in development options. And show path to log file.
• Upgrade to Unity 2021.3.4f1
• Fix song select drag action when using right click in song menu
• Fix leading player icon in sing scene switching too much
• Fix lyrics area height when only few lines of text

v0.5.0

Changes

• Improved Companion App
  • New UI with slide-in menu that can be opened via hamburger button
  • Better pitch detection on Companion App with a fraction of the data transfer
  • Moved Companion App project into repository of main game
    • The old Companion App repository is now obsolete
  • Common code base for main game and Companion App
    • This not only includes code but also assets like translations, graphics, and style sheets
• French translation, thanks to phenix117
• New style for notes in sing scene: target notes outlined, recorded notes filled
• More vivid colors for microphone configurations
• Fix note positioning in sing scene
• Fix wrong version number in built executables

UltraStar Play v0.4.0

Changes

• new UI and new UI technology
  • up to 16 players at the same time
  • select voice of players for duet songs
  • create, edit, and delete custom playlists to filter songs
  • control hints depending on input device (keyboard&mouse, gamepad, touch)
  • past and current lyrics are highlighted in different color
  • moving arrow indicates timing when lyrics start
  • search songs by configurable properties (title, artist, genre, year, lyrics, etc.)
• changed default encoding to UTF-8
  • users with ASCII encoding should convert their txt files to UTF-8
• song archive download supports ZIP files
• streaming of media files (audio, video, images)
  • a new default song archive uses this feature for smaller initial download size of some example songs
• improved keyboard and gamepad navigation
• option to disable scores and ratings while singing
• select sample rate for Companion App
• recording options remember last used device and shows the sample rate when "auto" is selected
• polish translation, thanks to @TheMatiaz0
• fix "new version availabel check"
• redesigned song editor
  • auto save
  • dedicated style sheet (dark theme)
  • control hints in status bar
  • more options, (grid size, jump back when music is paused, button for note recording, etc.)
  • text fields to change all common song properties (genre, language, year, etc.)
  • preview for video, cover image, background image
  • better performance for undo/redo and when analyzing issues
  • pitch analysis for mic recording is done per beat. This is more stable and more accurate than in previous versions.
  • dialog to create new song (available from main scene)
  • reload media files (audio, video, images) when they change

UltraStar Play v0.3.1-alpha

Fixes

• Crash with some duet songs
• Lyrics are behind background when using scrolling note stream
• Cannot select next/previous song when searching
• Wrong player profile image shown
• Various issues in the song-editor

UltraStar Play v0.3-alpha

New features and fixes

• Support for the UltraStar Play Companion App
  • Use your smartphone as mic
  • Browse the song list on your smartphone
• Show crown icon for leading player
• Exclude files starting with "." from song-search
  • These are hidden files on MacOS and Linux
• Use a path in Application.persistentDataPath as default song-folder location
  • This fixes issues on MacOS

UltraStar Play v0.2.1-alpha

New Features

• Android build
• Better touch support and improved controls
  • Drag to select songs
  • Song editor on mobile
  • Controller support for core game loop (main scene, song selection, singing, highscores)
• Notification for new releases