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If you use VLC with Windows (new installations use the Windows Media Player by default), you may get a very slow startup when playing music.

This is caused by a bug in Windows Defender. This can be worked around by adding an exception to Windows Defender for the VLC folder.

In Windows, open ...

4.18.3.2 has been released.

Japanese has been professionally translated by Kazu Ishihara.
In the process, a couple of issues with supporting other languages have been fixed.

I discovered a problem on Windows where an incorrect third party library would be found instead of the library shipped with ...

2025-5-20
4.18.3.2

Various fixes for different languages.
Song Editor: Updated the menu with the remove song actions.
HTML templates were not being translated.
Windows: Fix a problem loading incorrect libraries (when present).

Translations:
日本語 (Japanese) is now professionally translated ...

2025-4-13
4.18.2

A few bug fixes.

Translations:
Deutsch (German) is now professionally translated!
Español (Spanish) is now professionally translated!

Automated tests were run on:

Linux

MX Linux 25 [Debian 13] (VLC3 and GStreamer)

MacOS

MacOS Sequoia (intel) (macports) (VLC3 and MacOS ...

2025-3-17
4.18.1

Apologies . Version 4.18.0 was released with an installation error.

Before installing on Windows, make sure your anti-virus definitions are up to date.
There is no malware present in BDJ4.

A few bug fixes. I am bumping the major version number, rolling up all the version 17 ...

I released version 4.18.0 to roll up all the version 4.17.x changes plus a few bug fixes.
But I introduced an installation error. My apologies.

Version 4.18.1 has been released with the fix.

2025-3-16
4.18.0

Before installing on Windows, make sure your anti-virus definitions are up to date.
There is no malware present in BDJ4.

A few bug fixes. I am bumping the major version number, rolling up all the version 17 changes as BDJ4 should be stable for a long time, unless I find more ...

Version 4.17.14 is released.

This version fixes a bad bug when multiple queues are used in conjunction with the marquee. BDJ4 could lock up, and less significantly, the marquee display could be incorrect.

Version 4.17.13.1 and 4.17.14 fix various localization issues.

I am very pleased to announce ...

2025-3-6
4.17.14

Before installing on Windows, make sure your anti-virus definitions are up to date.
There is no malware present in BDJ4.

Marquee: Fix incorrect display when switching to a different queue for playback.
Player: Fix a hang when switch to a different queue for playback.
Various ...

2025-2-26
4.17.13.1

Before installing on Windows, make sure your anti-virus definitions are up to date.

There is no malware present in BDJ4.

Be aware that as some of the smaller programs have changed, Windows may mark them incorrectly as malware. If you still get malware notifications from ...