playnite

Development update #3

Added 2020-07-31 11:06:48 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone!

I have a new development progress for you.

I mainly focused on bug fixes and clean up work lately, but I've added some new features as well.

As always, thank you very much for continued support.

Josef

PlayStation integration

Playnite can now import PS4, PS3, PSP and Vita games from your PSN account, but there are couple limitations to this integration. Basically only games that are either from PS4, have trophies or were bough digitally will be imported. Meaning that physical games from pre-PS4 era, which don't have trophies, won't be imported.

I originally planned to release this integration separately prior to Playnite 8 release, but it requires new SDK features that are only available in Playnite 8.

Play time tracking

I've made some optimizations and changes to play time tracking. Probably the only thing worth mentioning is that play time will now be counted even if you cancel tracking prematurely. For example when Playnite fails to automatically recognize that game stopped running and you cancel running state manually.

Quick launch list changes

Quick launch game lists (Jump List and tray menu list) are now configurable. You can choose to not display hidden games in the list and also configure how many games will be displayed in the list.

Notes field

You can now assign custom notes to a game (multi-line string like with descriptions). They will appear at the top of the description field in default themes.

New metadata field support

Metadata plugins can now provide Age rating, Series, Region and Platform fields. I'll be updating build-in library integrations to take advantage of this, mainly in regards to age ratings. I've also updated IGDB integration to pull age rating and series information.

Media download canceling

I've made changes to how metadata files are being downloaded while editing a game. You can now cancel download progress if it takes too long or gets stuck for some reason. This is a global changes and doesn't require any support from metadata plugins.