I am aware there are more throughout the codebase but intentionally left
the remaining mentioned for one reason or another. The intention here is
to mainly change user-facing versioning to change the positioning of the
"lazer" term (to be where we would expect "cuttingedge" or "beta" to
be).
Also refactors the whole method to generally clean things up. One more
important fix is setting the frequency on the channel before starting
playback, so avoid the frequency potentially being adjusted after the
playback is already started.