Total Commander - file manager 2.80 (Android 1.5+)

What's new in Total Commander 2.80 final (May 9, 2017):

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- Unpack ZIP/RAR files larger than 4 Gigabytes
- Support for Android 7
- New buttons for audio/video player
- Choose m4a + wav files in ring tone picker
- Better handling of external USB and SD-Cards
- Move files from/to external SD-Cards/USB drives
- Show compatibility warning about Purify, Greenify...
- Bugfixes: Media scanner, remount drives on Android N

Media Player:

- Remember last playlist
- Sleep timer
- Notifications for each new track
- Load album images from cover.jpg/png/gif
- Show current track number+total in the notification

[Detailed log]

2017-05-09 Release v 2.80 final
2017-05-08 Fixed: Double tap on .apk file sometimes opened the dialog box twice
2017-05-08 Fixed: Bugs reported by Android Studio: Analyze - Inspect code

2017-05-03 Release v 2.80 beta 10
2017-05-02 Fixed: Various crashes reported by users
2017-05-01 Fixed: Request read-write permissions for read only partition also when setting timestamps
2017-05-01 Fixed: Reload file list after changing file permissions via Properties - RWX button
2017-04-27 Fixed: There was no round button to change folder sort order (command 152), causing a crash when using that command with round buttons
2017-04-21 Added: "android.max_aspect" value to manifest to support very wide screens (e.g. Galaxy S8)

2017-04-21 Release v 2.80 beta 9
2017-04-21 Added: Copy progress dialog: Show 3 lines for source/target file in portrait mode
2017-04-19 Fixed: Editor: Max. file size was limited to 16kBytes on LG phones, caused by an InputFilter - allow up to 1.5MBytes
2017-04-18 Fixed: Crash when re-opening the program with current dir set to secondary storage
2017-04-18 Fixed: Draw better looking frames around button icon on custom sorting buttons
2017-04-18 Fixed: Crash when using custom sorting buttons with old image style
2017-04-16 Fixed: Couldn't move files from/to root of USB storage (not visible in normal file system)
2017-04-16 Fixed: User-defined locations (added via blue plus icon) containing accents were again shown as %values

2017-04-12 Release v 2.80 beta 8
2017-04-12 Added: Internal associations: Put * in front of the association program name to pass the opened file as content: url instead of file: url
2017-04-10 Added: Android N: Use new method to request access to secondary storage, where the user doesn't need to browse to the directory by himself
2017-04-07 Added: Android N: Use new function moveDocument to move files to other folder on secondary storage (SD-Cards, USB-Sticks etc.)
2017-04-07 Fixed: Secondary storage added via blue [+] button: Do not offer to overwrite folder with file
2017-03-29 Added: WiFi plugin: Keep screen on while server is in the foreground (much faster file transfer)
2017-03-13 Fixed: "Case sensitive" search option was ignored in the editor
2017-03-12 Added: 1 new internal command to toggle folder sorting on/off
2017-03-12 Added: 8 New internal commands to sort directly by name, extension ,size, time (ascencing or descending). Click button again to reverse order

2017-03-10 Release v 2.80 beta 7
2017-03-10 Fixed: Search function: didn't find non-English text in UTF-8 encoded files without byte order marker (BOM) -> always search with local encoding and UTF-8
2017-03-10 Fixed: Create new folder -> no error if target already existed
2017-03-10 Fixed: Plugin, use "Download+Edit" -> file was detected as changed by mistake when the plugin set the timestamp with root functions
2017-03-10 Fixed: Disabling image thumbnails also disabled apk icons by mistake
2017-03-10 Fixed: Errors in root functions were not always reported, e.g. when the user changed the target path, and the target didn't exist
2017-03-07 Added: Media Player: New internal commands for button bar to play selected with random and/or loop, and queue selected with random order (just the added files)
2017-03-07 Added: Media Player: Function "Play (background)" doesn't clear the queue when the player is open. Instead, it adds the track/folder to the end and plays it
2017-03-03 Fixed: Root functions could stall/hang TC (problems with threading)
2017-02-24 Added: Support m4a and wav files in ringtone picker on Android 4.1 and newer (API 16)
2017-02-23 Fixed: The main window was mirrored when the system language was set to Hebrew or Arabic -> don't use android:supportsRtl="true"
2017-02-16 Fixed: Don't use new track notification layout while lock screen is active
2017-02-15 Added: Support for Android TV/Google TV: Support menu button in media player, add media player icon to main buttonbar
2017-02-15 Added: Media player: Show floating notifications for new track (configurable)
2017-02-13 Fixed: Create launcher links with content:// URL instead of file:// URL because the file URL would crash Android 7 launchers
2017-02-13 Added: SFTP: Support new bcrypt-encrypted user keys (client authentication), and ed25519 elliptic curve for both server key and user key

2017-02-05 Release v 2.80 beta 6
2017-02-05 Added: User can now rename secondary data partitions like external SD-Card or USB
2017-02-05 Added: Get name of internal memory (formerly shown as "SD-Card") from Android StorageManager
2017-02-03 Fixed: User-defined locations (added via blue plus icon) containing accents were shown as %values instead
2017-01-27 Fixed: Plugins LAN, FTP, SFTP, WiFi: removed dependency on EncodingUtils (Apache class)
2017-01-27 Fixed: Unpacking certain ZIP files failed on Android 7: stream.skip didn't always skip the requested number of bytes
2017-01-27 Fixed: Android 5 or newer sometimes returns 12 hour time format although the language uses 24 hour format -> fix manually
2017-01-23 Fixed: Inform plugins immediately when language is changed, not only when plugin is loaded
2017-01-22 Added: Show permissions in the form -rwxrwxrwx when using "root functions everywhere" (only in folders read with root rights)
2017-01-19 Added: New language: Arabian
2017-01-15 Fixed: Button bar: When moving user-created button, scroll it into view if the bar is wider than the screen
2017-01-15 Fixed: Detect paths in the form /mnt/media_rw/somename for external USB/SD-Card media, e.g. on Nexus devices with Android 6.x
2017-01-15 Added: Prefer root functions for copying on rooted devices when normal write functions fail, instead of asking for Android 5 write permissions
2017-01-15 Fixed: Couldn't open large ZIP files >2GB on external SD-Card added via blue "+" (user-defined location)
2017-01-05 Fixed: All bookmarks had green checkmarks when both panels were in the home folder
2017-01-04 Fixed: Wifi plugin: Resume downloads of large files, show size for files shared from Astro file manager (folders not working)
2017-01-04 Fixed: Wifi plugin: Still some problems with accented characters or cyrillic

2017-01-02 Release v 2.80 beta 5
2017-01-02 Fixed: Wifi plugin: Could not access folders which ended with an accented character or non-English characters
2016-12-29 Fixed: Error unpacking very large ZIP files, because file.read() sometimes reads less than the requested bytes
2016-12-26 Added: Media player: Restore playlist when player is opened without parameters (Add button, type "Send to", use >> to pick "TotalCmd (Queue)", change type to "Main function")
2016-12-26 Added: Media player: When closing via "X" button or menu in the main player, show the notification for another 15 seconds to let the user undo the close
2016-12-26 Added: Media player: Remember last playlist - if the program gets killed, restore the player
2016-12-23 Fixed: Media player settings: Icon for timer not shown if configured time smaller than 5 minutes
2016-12-23 Added: Show thumbnails for webp images on Android 4.0 or newer
2016-12-19 Added: New icon "delete forever" from www.material.io for delete function, available under Apache license 2.0.
2016-12-19 Fixed: Send via bluetooth not working on Android 6 (socket output stream was clearing the send buffer after sending!)
2016-12-09 Fixed: Wifi plugin: Could not download files containing # in the name, Chinese, Russian names etc. not correct in downloaded ZIP; do not set read only attribute for files
2016-10-16 Fixed: Only use metadata to sort media files in an added subdir if all tracks are from the same artist and album
2016-09-05 Fixed: Properties dialog: Permissions were shown correctly there, but not after clicking on "RWX" button: World-execute was checked by mistake when Group-Execute was set but not Worl-Execute

2016-09-05 Release v 2.80 beta 4
2016-08-29 Fixed: Installed apps, uninstall 2 or more apps in one step (select, delete) -> error was shown about active operation
2016-08-29 Added: Support moving files from/to secondary storage on Android 6 and newer
2016-08-29 Fixed: Bookmarks: Could not create multiple bookmarks with the same source, but different target directories
2016-08-29 Added: Unpack RAR archives >4GB, also containing files >4GB
2016-08-29 Fixed: Android M and newer: do not show paths in the form /storage/1234-5678 as USB drives, because secondary SD cards use the same naming scheme now
2016-08-29 Fixed: Secondary SD-Cards: Ignore paths containing "/.android_secure" or "/Android/obb/" appearing in some mounts.txt files
2016-08-29 Fixed: Ringtone picker: Also allow to pick .flac files on Android 3.1 and newer
2016-08-08 Fixed: SFTP plugin: Could not upload files from external SD-Card on Android 5/6 to remote server (the plugin tried to open the files as read/write)
2016-08-08 Fixed: When adding a folder to the media player, use track numbers from file names (not tags) if all the track names in the folder start with numbers
2016-05-30 Fixed: Editor: Don't modify the long tap menu if it already contains a "Share" menu item
2016-05-23 Fixed: Limit number of lines for file names to 8, for details to 2 (3 when there is a line break)

2016-05-20 Release v 2.80 beta 3
2016-05-20 Fixed: "Send to" from other apps to Total Commander not working properly on Android 6 if Total Commander wasn't running in the background
2016-05-20 Added: Show free and total space in file list in "go up" item "..", also possible with plugins
2016-05-17 Fixed: LAN plugin: transfers from/to windows 10 very slow because it reports a buffer size of only 4k, and JCIFS doesn't use larger buffer when CAP_LARGE_* flags are set
2016-05-17 Fixed: SFTP plugin: Support IPv6: entering IPv6 address manually, support for link-local addresses
2016-05-04 Fixed: TC Media Player: After queuing folder via context menu, the tracks inside couldn't be played if they didn't have a track number in the metadata
2016-05-02 Fixed: TC Media player notification had black text on black background on Huawei phone with EMUI theme
2016-04-17 Fixed: Couldn't unpack ZIPs with 7-zip (only newer versions) packed directly to external SD-Card on Android 5/6 because of slight header inconsistency

2016-04-08 Release v 2.80 beta 2
2016-04-08 Fixed: Media scanner wasn't called for files in subdirs when renaming/moving a directory
2016-04-08 Fixed: Android N preview: Changed remount command to: mount -o rw,remount /system (rw and remount swapped), because old command failed
2016-04-07 Fixed: Disable new media player control handler (MediaSession) on all devices because it doesn't work with some manufacturer controls. Use old interface instead (RemoteControlClient).
2016-03-28 Fixed: Open context menu when at least 2 files are selected -> Show "Send to" also when long clicking below list (for keyboard users)
2016-03-28 Fixed: Select file with spacebar or left arrow -> number of selected files wasn't updated -> "Send to" wasn't supporting multiple files!

2016-03-24 Release v 2.80 beta 1
2016-03-20 Added: WiFi plugin: Show currently shared files/folders when tapping on "Files: x/Folders: y" text
2016-03-20 Fixed: WiFi plugin: Crash when starting via launcher icon, and the file list didn't exist any more
2016-03-17 Added: MediaPlayer: Sleep timer to pause playing after x minutes (optional button in media player)
2016-03-14 Fixed: LAN plugin: Handle special case: User doesn't store password, only server+user name -> list of shares could be seen, but not opened
2016-03-14 Added: Android TV, Amazon TV: Long OK press on ".." updir now shows "home" and "reload" menu items
2016-03-14 Fixed: Android TV: OK button on home screen player controls opened TC instead of TC media player (fix needs Android 5 or newer)
2016-03-14 Fixed: MediaPlayer: After closing the player via 'X', opening it again in the foreground wouldn't start playing the track
2016-03-02 Added: MediaPlayer: Read Metadata directly from mp3 files using APEv2 format at the end of the track if there is no ID3v2 tag
2016-03-01 Added: MediaPlayer: Read Metadata directly from aac files using APEv2 format at the end of the track
2016-03-01 Added: MediaPlayer: Read Metadata directly from m4a files (aac, mp4) using the iTunes tag format (moov->trak->udta->meta->ilst->nam/ART/alb/trkn)
2016-02-28 Added: LAN plugin: Ask user directly whether he wants to allow connections via phone or vpn when WiFi is off (needs updated Total Commander)
2016-02-26 Fixed: "Search selected" only worked with selected files, not with selected folders (it did work with plugins, though)
2016-02-24 Added: MediaPlayer: Read Metadata directly from mp3 (id3v1 and id3v2), ogg and flac files
2016-02-17 Added: MediaPlayer: Context menu items to move clicked track/selected tracks to the start or end of the playlist
2016-02-17 Fixed: MediaPlayer: Do not resume playing after phone call ends if the music was paused by unplugging headset (and not by the phone call)
2016-02-17 Fixed: MediaPlayer: Do not pause video when switching away from player/turning off screen if the video has extension .mp3
2016-02-17 Fixed: MediaPlayer: Disable gapless playback for videos since it doesn't seem to work
2016-02-15 Added: MediaPlayer: Load album art from cover.jpg/png/gif from track directory if no album art present in the mp3 file itself
2016-02-14 Added: MediaPlayer: Show currently playing track and total number of tracks in the notification if there is more than one track
2016-02-14 Added: MediaPlayer: Let user remove the "Exit" button. Player then needs to be closed via menu or small "x" in Notification
2016-02-14 Fixed: When receiving onLowMemory() event, the root folder would sometimes show the wrong icons
2016-02-07 Added: Android 6 external media: Show properties for single and selected files/folders
2016-02-07 Added: Properties of more than 1 file: Show number of bytes, and on a second line, number of files and (if >1) folders
2016-02-07 Fixed: Create link on desktop via "add widget" - File/Folder picker sometimes opened empty picker window, e.g. when previeous location was /storage/emulated/0
2016-02-01 Added: Unpack ZIP files >4GB
2016-01-29 Added: Show warning when plugins cannot start due to Purify, Greenify or other tools
2016-01-29 Fixed: WiFi plugin: Couldn't close notification when no WiFi available
2016-01-29 Fixed: Main file lists: Better reaction to diagonal scrolling when swapping panels by swiping is disabled
2016-01-14 Added: WebDAV: Support SNI (Server Name Indication) via setHostname() for servers with multiple certificates on the same IP address (Android 4.2 or newer)
2016-01-11 Added: Android 6 external media: Copy button: Show WiFi plugin if it's new enough to support content: URLs