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Richard, thanks a million for the beta, I am really grateful for the ability to play .HES now.

However, the channel preferences are sorely missed-- I use AO to listen to individual tracks over and over to figure out how to play tunes on guitar.

Can channel toggles be in the next release, pretty please?

Channel toggles are even more impossible in AO than they were in M1 - every file format in AO has it's own CPU cores, sound cores, mixer, etc. I'd still like to do a MAME-style "M2" console/computer sound player based on the M1 core at some point (maybe that can be AO3), but AO2 more than fills my feature wants right now so I forgive it's architectural oddities.

This is far from impossible; AO1 has separate channel toggles for Atari/Gameboy/Genesis/NES/SMS/SNES. Just add controls for the new formats.

And as for M1, MAME allows individual channel volume control via the ~ menu, again it is not impossible it just needs careful handling of the UI.

AO1 was a horrendous hack. AO2 is substantially better, but is still spaghetti code under the bonnet. I might add this support again at some point -- since the code is so messy, it wouldn't make things a lot worse to have a few prefs in there -- but it's not a priority.

*pout* Ah well, I can always drop back to my copy of 1.5 for channel-by-channel stuff (which is actually terribly useful for remixing- I generally have a good enough ear to pick out individual notes in chords, but it's nice to confirm harmonies).

Even if individual channel controls don't become available, I would still join the crowd in asking for some master volume control. AO2 does seem to play, on average, a couple notches louder than the system volume I like to set for everything else.