Opus 16 Release Notes

Option to set the default bounds for theme images. This setting, on the Misc tab of the skin settings, is intended more as "future-proofing" than as a currently needed setting.
Revised links to help pages.

CSS improvements, particularly when using a logo, to address some inconsistencies.
Some internal code cleanup.

Option to place the title bar logo above the navigation icons and title, rather then embedded with them. It can be positioned left, center, or right.
Option to make the info page image a clickable link.

Option for an uncropped theme image. A normal background theme image is always shown at the same height, but the sides are cropped on smaller displays. With this choice, the entire width of the theme image is always visible on the web page, regardless of viewport size. To preserve the aspect ratio, of course, the image must get shorter as it gets narrower. The height of the navigation icons and page titles is checked upon page loading - if they "spill out" of the theme image on the device being used by the site visitor, they are moved below the theme image.
Minor bug fixes.

The skin now uses a newly-introduced jAlbum core method to exclude unsupported objects. This is much more efficient than having the skin take care of the problem itself.
Some internal code improvements.
Fix for a bug in the folder menu that sometimes produced a non-working link to an external homepage.

Option to have the title bar link to an external home page displayed only on the top level of the album.
Some UI changes.
Some default settings changes.
This is the last version that is compatible with jAlbum 29/33.2.

Restored the option to have the title bar link to the info page appear only on the top level of the album.
Minor UI changes.

Extensively revised handling of navigation to an external home page, to the home page of the album, and to the info page. Each can now be represented by an icon in the title bar, or by an entry in the folder menu (the folder menu always includes a link to the home page of the album, since it is the root of the folder tree), or both. Links to each of them, if present in the folder menu, show the appropriate navigation icon.
The depth of the folder menu is now limited. The user may choose the depth, up to a maximum of six levels.
Simplified use of the "external" and "home" icons.
Some reorganization of settings panels.

Option, when using the Custom style, to specify the colors of the folder menu - background, text, hover text.
Slight modification to the appearance of the audio control bar.
Cleaned up some kludges in the color properties coding.
jQuery update.

Option for a folder menu, accessible via a menu "hamburger" in the title bar.
Rather than warning about the need for HiDPI thumbnails, the skin now forces the correct setting, and the control is disabled.
Some thumbnail CSS tweaks.

Images without audio clips, if displayed in the album, now don't respond to mouse-hovering - no "hand" cursor, no inflation or grayscale.
UI changes to make better use of recent jAlbum core updates (custom skin icon, scrolling panels).
More efficient routine for excluding unsupported objects. Unsupported objects are not included in the album, but they're no longer excluded in the Explore view. To avoid seeing the warning message each time you make the album, either delete the unsupported objects, or mark them as "excluded" manually. A list of the unsupported objects appears in the system console when the album is built.
Fix for an out-of-sync animation bug when using record player mode and the automated playlist and/or shuffle play.

Option to render the theme image in grayscale (i.e., black and white).
Improved feedback on the Make New and Make Old buttons in the individual image settings.

Option to both inflate thumbnails when hovered, and also make them grayscale.
Thumbnail hover action options for audio thumbnails are ignored if "record player" option is chosen. These can't be combined in CSS. The hover actions remain active for folder thumbnails.
Correct link to the skin page on the About tab.

Improved behavior of the marker on the active track.
Removed the option for a parallax theme image. This proved to be incompatible with the skin's "scroll to current track" behavior, as it presented a moving target. A project that was saved with the parallax theme image chosen will, upon loading, be converted to one that uses a full page theme image.
Removed the audio preloading attribute. Browsers generally do the right thing automatically.
Scripting tightened and modularized.
Removed some unreachable and/or unneeded code.

Option for shuffle play of the audio tracks. If the visitor launches shuffle play, it immediately starts playing a randomly-selected track on the page, then plays the remaining tracks in a random order. Tracks are not repeated unless the loop mode is also chosen. Each time shuffle play is manually turned off and turned on again, a new random sequence is generated.
If the visitor launches the playlist, it immediately starts playing the first audio track on the page, then plays the remaining tracks, in order. If the loop mode is also chosen, it then repeats the sequence.
If the visitor enables loop mode, but not the playlist or shuffle play, the first track played by the visitor will repeat until the loop mode is disabled.
More intuitive playlist icons, to indicate active vs. inactive status.
Extensive internal code changes.

Option to provide site visitors with an automated playlist of the tracks on the page, with a further option to loop endlessly through the clips, or to stop at the last track. The page automatically scrolls to the currently-playing track. Tracks can be paused and re-started without interrupting the playlist. Modes (automated playlist or not, looping or not) can be changed by the visitor at any time.
Images that don't have audio clips now display no audio control bar, rather than a dimmed-out set of controls.
Option to ignore images that don't have audio clips. If this option is chosen, no rows will appear on the output page for these objects.
The file names of images that don't have audio clips are written out to the system console.
Additional color options when using the Custom style.
Some code refinements to accommodate thumbnails that don't have audio clips.
Some unreachable code removed.
Small bug fixes.

The audio thumbnails are now clickable, and mimic the actions of the audio control bar's own "play/pause" icons.