Version history

5.1.638 (08/22/2013)

  • Improved: Intellectual sorting by Track Number, BPM and Cover size
  • Improved: Autocorrection of filenames for exported covers
  • Reverted back Genre displaying for FreeDB services
  • Possible fix for sharing violation problem on Win8
  • Translations: Dutch, Ukrainian, Chinese Simplified

5.1.637 (06/04/2013)

  • Improved: Now you can resize action panels
  • Improved: Now you can apply one text transformation for several fields at once
  • Improved: Interface of freedb-like services reworked and now can show several results at once
  • Changed behavior of some dialogs
  • Fixed: Resource leak and random crashes after long work

5.1.635 (04/23/2013)

  • New: Support for regular expressions in Text transform
  • Improved: Optimization of lookups on Discogs and Beatport
  • Improved: Ability to get album covers from MusicBrainz's related coverartarchive.org
  • Fixed some stability issues on Windows8
  • Translations: Polish, Ukrainian, Japanese

5.1.631 (03/15/2013)

  • New: Support for lookups on amazon.it and amazon.es
  • Optimized memory consumption for undo
  • Updated playback engine

5.1.630 (01/16/2013)

  • Improved: Processing of compound fields from MusicBrainz
  • Improved: Support for non-rgb pictures for embedded covers
  • Fixed: Changing of filename in export interface didn't work
  • Fixed: Renaming of files directly in filelist
  • Translations: German

5.1.625 (11/14/2012)

  • New: Support for Opus Codec - stream info and metadata reading/saving (Vorbis Comments)
  • Improved relevance of lookups on Discogs and MusicBrainz
  • Improved: Reading of unsynchronized ID3v2.3 tags
  • Improved: Reading of codec information from MP4 movies
  • Improved: Reading of multi-artist fields from MusicBrainz
  • Internal player now support multimedia features of keyboards
  • Program now tested on Windows 8

5.1.622 (10/17/2012)

  • Improved: Autovalidation of path to folder inserted from clipboard
  • Improved: Tags version indication in filelist
  • Fixed: Processing of tag fields which contain %
  • Fixed: Reading of some types of comments from ID3v2 tags
  • Translations: Dutch

5.1.621 (09/05/2012)

  • New keyboard shortcut to select next file in list CTRL+N
  • Fixed: Sometimes rating information may disappear from Id3v2 tag after saving in Tag editor
  • Fixed: Tagging problems with very short OGG-vorbis files
  • Translations: Chinese Traditional

5.1.620 (07/11/2012)

  • New: Support for largest music store for DJs Beatport.com with ability to get full info about releases and download high quality covers
  • Changed: TOTALTRACKS and TOTALDISCS values now saved in individual fields for Vorbis Comments
  • Fixed rare problem with reading of ID3v2 tags contained exteneded header
  • Updated Discogs service support
  • Translations: Estonian, Chinese Simplified

5.1.612 (05/23/2012)

  • New: Ability to shuffle list of files
  • Updated sorting logic for some columns of filelist
  • Fixed behaviour of some file dialogs on WinXP
  • Fixed problems with false error indication while saving ID3v1 tags
  • Updated playback engine

5.1.611 (03/21/2012)

  • More accurate calculation of bitrate for FLAC-files
  • Workarounds to work with files locked by other programs like Winamp, iTunes etc.
  • Fixed: File operations on the filtered list of files
  • Fixed: Positioning on multi-monitor systems
  • Translations: Greek

5.1.610 (02/15/2012)

  • Improved Discogs service support for old releases
  • Improved context menu for list of files
  • Changed: The program now preserve order of files when opening playlists
  • Fixed some stability issues in Tag processor
  • Updated list of available placeholders
  • Retuned vorbis comments support
  • Translations: Swedish

5.1.608 (01/24/2012)

  • Updated support for WavPack format
  • Unification of the options for processing of existing values in Tag processor
  • Fixed: Work with cover art pasted from clipboard
  • Fixed: Log displaying while renaming files
  • Fixed: Program can't read Album Artist field from ID3v2.2 tag

5.1.607 (01/12/2012)

  • Updated Discogs service support
  • Updated TrackType service support
  • Improved: On Music renamer tab transform scripts now can be applied not only to filenames, but to placeholders
  • Changed: Program now saves ID3v2 tags into AAC-files by default
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 comments with additional description
  • Fixed: Sometimes ID3v2 tag can't be removed on some systems
  • Translations: Japanese, Ukrainian, Turkish

5.1.605 (12/01/2011)

  • New: Volume control for built-in player
  • New: Placeholder %_filedate_rfc% for date and time of file in internet (rfc822) format
  • Improved: Quick preview of full-sized album covers in tag editor
  • Improved: Placeholders are reorganized
  • Fixed: Processing of conditional sections
  • Fixed: Processing of mixed-case strings with non-latin chars in transform scripts and filter
  • Some parts of interface have become more friendly to systems with increased DPI
  • Updated sound engine, fixed problems with running on remote desktop
  • Reverted back internal rules for transform scripts to prior 5.1.602 state
  • Translations: Chinese Simplified, Polish

5.1.602 (11/04/2011)

  • New: Transferred to new version of Amazon Product Advertising API
  • Fixed and reconfigured some templates and export scripts
  • Translations: Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Ukrainian

5.1.601 (10/27/2011)

  • Improved: Speedup filtration of filelist
  • Improved: Ability to get release info directly from MusicBrainz for known PUID
  • Improved: Parsing of some Musicbrainz releases with lack of data
  • Improved: Slightly increased tag writing speed for some systems
  • Fixed: Thumbnails of album covers from Amazon displayed in reverse order
  • Fixed: Processing of several conditional sections in one template
  • Retuned autocorrection function for filenames
  • More friendly autosuggest feature for web requests
  • Translations: German, Ukrainian

5.1.600 (09/15/2011)

  • New: MusicBrainz albums database support with ability to download cover art from sites related to release
  • New: Transferred to new Discogs API v2.0, old version will be shut down 15.12.2011
  • Improved: Correct displaying of multiline fields in tags created on Mac OS
  • Changed: The program now checks write permissions for temporary files to avoid problems with network folders
  • Changed: The program now trying to download previews of disc covers before the data about all albums loaded
  • Changed: The program now load only one folder instead top level path when you use console params
  • Fixed: Processing of tag data for multiple selected files with empty fields values
  • Fixed: Rarely authorization problems for some type of requests on Amazon
  • Translations: Serbian (Latin)

5.1.598 (07/22/2011)

  • New: placeholder %_nl% for new line symbol
  • Improved: Processing of bugged Discogs releases with empty list of tracks
  • Portable version now comes without initial config file to prevent of erasing your settings
  • Translations: Czech, Portuguese (Portugal)

5.1.597 (04/14/2011)

  • Improved: Special indication of spaces and empty values in transform scripts editor
  • Fixed: Rename folder by TAG feature on network drives
  • Fixed: Processing of %foldername% placeholder for network drives
  • Updated Discogs support
  • Program no longer tested on Windows2000
  • Translations: Portuguese (Brazil), German

5.1.596 (02/10/2011)

  • Improved: Export function now can keep current order of files with special placeholder %_index%. Default scripts for html and csv updated.
  • Improved: Automatic validation of output filename for Export function
  • Changed: Mapping VERSION -> REMIXEDBY for Vorbis comments
  • Changed: Processing of cue-files containing multiple PERFORMERs
  • Changed: Program now use path to first dropped file as %workpath%
  • Fixed: Processing of patterns with conditional sections
  • Pressing the tab key in edit mode inside filelist now advances to the same field of next file, just like the Windows 7 Explorer does it
  • Compatibility fixes for some ID3v2 frames
  • Translations: Bulgarian, Italian

5.1.595 (01/26/2011)

  • Improved: Now you can add files to current list if hold down Ctrl button while drag'&'drop files from Windows explorer
  • Improved: Reading of separated fields TOTALDISCS and TOTALTRACKS used in some software
  • Improved: New placeholders %foldername2% for name of folder on two levels up and %foldername3% for name of folder on three levels up
  • Improved: Recovering of ID3v2 tags with empty headers and frames
  • Changed: Non-portable version of TagScanner now store all settings and scripts in current user profile folder %appdata%\TagScanner. All old settings from VirtualStore of Windows Vista and above will be moved to new location.
  • Fixed: Processing of %hascover% placeholder
  • Fixed: Possible 'Out Of Resource' error on multi-monitor systems
  • Now program interface always scaled according to Windows settings
  • Updated sound engine

5.1.594 (11/18/2010)

  • Some tweaks in Discogs and Amazon import
  • Updated WMA support
  • Fixed: Access violation error with some actions
  • Fixed: Tag saving problems on mapped network drives

5.1.593 (11/09/2010)

  • Improved: Greatly increased writing speed with network and external drives
  • Improved: Error protection on corrupted covers from tags, also now you can delete such covers
  • Improved: %_counter% placeholder now use formatting settings in same way as %track%
  • Improved: Image quality for resized and recompressed covers
  • Improved: Support for Vietnamese encoding in converters
  • Improved: Autocorrection of foldernames with spaces at the beginning and end
  • Changed: Program now ignore ID3v2 tags in FLAC files with proper Vorbis tags
  • Changed: Mapping GROUPING -> CONTENTGROUP for Vorbis comments
  • Fixed: Memory leaks in ID3v2 support
  • Fixed: Some errors in WMA support
  • Some fixes in ALAC support for files created with old versions of iTunes
  • Find and Find duplicates functions slightly retuned
  • Changed some groups in filelist
  • Program window now rearranged on startup if its borders out of screen
  • Translations: Czech, German, Ukrainian

5.1.592 (09/24/2010)

  • New tag engine
  • New placeholder %_counter%
  • Improved: Reading of CUE files for various artists compilation
  • Improved: Repairing of some sort of corrupted ID3v2 tags
  • Improved: Compatibility with iTunes10
  • Improved: Program now remember settings for 'Restructure files' feature
  • Changed: Disabled joint reading of ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
  • Changed: Mapping DESCRIPTION -> COMMENT for Vorbis comments
  • Changed: Mapping ORGANIZATION -> PUBLISHER for Vorbis comments
  • Fixed: Generating of tag data with empty user blocks in Filename-to-Tag generator
  • Fixed: Problems with slash symbol in Music renamer for some Windows7 systems
  • Updated Discogs support
  • On Windows Vista and above program now trying to use new system fonts
  • All translation files now utf-8 encoded
  • Transferred to new compiler
  • Translations: Polish, Czech, Chinese Traditional, Slovak, Korean

5.1.571 (07/02/2010)

  • New: Now you can automatically change dimension and compression level of embedded cover art
  • New: Autonumbering function now has an option to reset counter on next group of flles
  • Improved: Transform scripts now applied for live preview in renamer
  • Improved: Processing of multiple user-defined <text blocks> in Filename-to-Tag generator
  • Changed: Transform scripts now applied only for engaged part of filename instead of full path for Filename-to-Tag generator
  • Changed: Program now change case of file extension only to all upper or all lower
  • Fixed: Tag processor ignore numeric values for some placeholders
  • Fixed: Program no longer prevent of actions on auto-hided taskbar
  • Rewritten network code to avoid problems with unstable connections (no need to restart program)
  • Changed interface scaling method
  • Translations: Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, German

5.1.563 (05/12/2010)

  • Updated rules for words capitalization
  • Retuned autocorrection function for filenames
  • Retuned Import data from CUE function
  • A smoother migration from version 5.0 to 5.1
  • Translations: Portuguese - European, Croatian (alternative)

5.1.562 (04/29/2010)

  • New: Ability to search info in Amazon Mp3Downloads section
  • Improved: Program now can automatically save downloaded covers into album folder
  • Improved: Program now remember last working module
  • Improved: Program now can indicate about problems with access to the file
  • Improved: Import of additional info about track featured artists from Discogs
  • Improved: Now you can use full range of metadata placeholders for List maker and Tag Processor
  • Improved: Interface for web services reorganized
  • Improved: Autocorrection of foldernames with dots at the beginning and end
  • Fixed: Last line from text file sometimes ignored when you try to generate tag data from
  • Fixed: Incorrect work of trim filename function
  • Fixed: Preserve file modification time when removing tags if option enabled
  • Fixed: Reading of Genre field containing brackets
  • Translations: Belarusian, Hebrew (new), Croatian (new), Japanese

5.1.559 (03/16/2010)

  • Improved: Program now use Windows interface scaling option
  • Improved: Trim filename function now also affect on created folders
  • Improved: Reading and mapping of Album Artist field for better compatibility with other software
  • Improved: New placeholder %foldername% for name of folder which contain current file
  • Improved: Processing of multi-artist releases from Discogs
  • Changed: Program help now opened in default browser
  • Changed: Remapped key shortcuts to fix problems with typing of some national symbols
  • Changed: iTunes service comments in ID3v2 tags now always saved in ISO-8859-1 encoding
  • Fixed: Error on removing files from list
  • Fixed: Saving of playlists in PLS format
  • Fixed: Reading data from CUE-files
  • Fixed: Next file in list was read twice after saving
  • Improved interface usability for some modules
  • Translations: French (2 versions), Danish (new), Slovak, German, Dutch

5.1.555 (12/17/2009)

  • New: Ability to edit tag fields directly in list of files
  • Improved: Tag Processor now highlights changed fields
  • Improved: Now you can use Transform scripts to replace field value with static text
  • Improved: Fast processing of very large or corrupt text fields inside ID3v2 tags
  • Improved: Export scripts is now updated in real time, if changed outside
  • Improved: Folding sections in tag editor
  • Changed: 'Rename folder by tag' now can work with all selected files instead of focused
  • Changed: Now the program in AUTO mode saves only APEv2 tag in ape,wv,mpc-files if they don't contain ID3v1 tag
  • Fixed: Handling restrictions on 99 tracks in album for freedb and tracktype services
  • Fixed: Problems with selection of last file in list on Win7
  • New keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+P - options, Ctrl+Shift++/Ctrl+Shift+- - expand/collapse groups, Ctrl+Shift+O - open playlist, Esc - cancel any long-running operation
  • Compatibility fixes for some ID3v2 frames
  • Translations: Hungarian

5.1.553 (10/08/2009)

  • Improved: Increased speed of muliselection processing in the list of files
  • Improved: Changed logic of the Html filter for export operations
  • Improved: Reading of unsynchronized ID3v2 tags
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2.4 tags with utf-8 encoded description inside APIC frames
  • Fixed: Change case in multiline fields
  • Fixed: Publisher was mapped to Album Artist in Filename/Text file to Tag modules
  • Fixed: Incorrect calculation of MP4 tag size that prevent saving changes
  • Updated export scripts
  • Translations: German, Portuguese (Brazil)

5.1.551 (08/27/2009)

  • Improved: Now you can remove files from main list of files
  • Fixed: 'List index out of bounds' error when using scripts with the clearing of fields values
  • Fixed: Working of Autonumbering function outside Tag editor tab
  • Fixed: Last selected file inserted twice into playlist
  • Program once again show data offset for mp3 files
  • Translations: Greek

5.1.550 (08/04/2009)

  • Removed: Tag processor module: Copy tag
  • Removed: Standalone playlists editor (now integrated into main list of files)
  • New: Tag Processor module: Tag fields mixer - format, extract and move any tag fields data to other fields
  • New: Tag Processor module: Import tag data from text files
  • New: Special field SOURCESTRING in text transform script editor for source strings in new processor modules
  • New: Filtering in list of files
  • New: Change codepage function (from selected codepage to unicode) in text transform scripts
  • New: Ability to create playlist from selected files
  • New: Natural sorting algorithm for list of files (on by default for WinXP and later)
  • New: 'Export list' module with scripting support, included scripts for xml, csv and html
  • New: Reader for Mpeg based files with detection of encoder type and accurate calculation of length and bitrate
  • New: Find duplicates function for list of files (by Title, Size and Length)
  • New: Conditional sections [...] in output strings
  • New: Support of new official OGG Vorbis field designed for embedded cover art (METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE)
  • New: Functions to import/export covers for multiple files at once
  • Improved: Now you can copy/paste TAG information between different media formats(Vorbis to ID3, APE to MP4 etc.)
  • Improved: In Filename-to-TAG generator you can now append text to extracted parts directly in formatting string
  • Improved: User defined templates for quick renaming of folders from menu
  • Improved: User defined genres for Tag Editor
  • Improved: 'Open file location' operation now highlight selected file in explorer
  • Improved: In list of files now you can see columns for all available for editing fields
  • Improved: Import additional information from a Amazon and Discogs (Composer, Conductor, Remixed by etc.)
  • Improved: Additional fields: CONDUCTOR, ISRC, REMIXEDBY, SUBTITLE, LYRICIST
  • Improved: Option for Discogs - Move "The" at the beginning in artist names
  • Improved: Ability to Copy/Paste covers from clipboard
  • Improved: Ability to sort list of files on presence of embedded pictures
  • Improved: Ability to create copy of whole text transform script
  • Improved: Transition to the new Amazon access protocol
  • Improved: Keeping aspect ratio of covers when displaying in the tag editor
  • Improved: Updated support for MusePack and WavePack formats
  • Improved: Multi-monitor support
  • Improved: Check for updates on program startup
  • Changed: 'Undo' operation now restore original encoding of tag
  • Changed: 'Export list' function now work for selected files
  • Changed: In Tag Editor, all fields on the screen except locked are cleaned up when you click Remove tag button
  • Changed: To improve compatibility with other software the program now use first occurrence of frame instead the last one for ID3v2 tag
  • Changed: Program now updates tag information instead complete overwrite when you get data from web
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 tags with GEOB frames
  • Fixed: Saving of ID3v2 tags APIC descriptions
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 tags with utf-16 BigEndian encoded frames
  • Fixed: Saving of cover art from web into OGG
  • Fixed: Unicode paths usage in some dialogs
  • Fixed: Reading of text files with BOM
  • Fixed: Incorrect processing of files dragged from explorer
  • Fixed: Reading of some MP4 with very long custom tag fields
  • Fixed: Memory leaks in interface render
  • New internal tag storage and processing engine
  • Most of program dialogs was rearranged
  • Updated help files, added examples of usage for all modules
  • Updated playback engine
  • Translations: Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Polish, Spanish

5.0 build 532 (05/06/2009)

  • Improved: Added placeholder for Composer field in all modules
  • Fixed: Processing of temporary data while searching on Amazon
  • Fixed: Creating of new tag within MP4 files without section for user data
  • Fixed: Creating of new tag within FLAC files created by older versions of the codecs
  • Updated playback plugin for ALAC format
  • Updated Discogs support
  • Translations: Portuguese (Iberian), Romanian, Ukrainian

5.0 build 531 (03/26/2009)

  • Changed: Now for the Filename-to-tag processor used the same logic as for the Tag editor when reads data from multi-tagged files
  • Fixed: Case change operation from scripts for templates containing backslashes
  • Fixed: Tag-to-Tag processor errors
  • Fixed: Export to html
  • Translations: Korean

5.0 build 530 (03/08/2009)

  • New: Completely redesigned Filename-to-TAG processor
  • Updated: Discogs support
  • Improved: Work with BPM field in all modules
  • Improved: Tag processing from Kenwood Lossless format *.kls
  • Improved: Ability to quick check/unchek tracks from web results
  • Improved: Processing speed of multi-tagged files
  • Improved: Additional fields in Listmakers export dialog
  • Changed: Now the program in AUTO mode saves APEv2 tag in mp3-files if they already contain APE tag
  • Fix: Calculation of the duration of very long mp3 tracks
  • Fix: Blocking of the folder after you add an image
  • Fix: Cover art were not saved into APEv2 when importing data from web
  • Fix: Reading of BPM data with non-integer values
  • Fix: Proxy password saving
  • Translations: Greek, Italian

5.0 build 525 (08/22/2008)

  • Changed logic for reading from multi-tagged files that contain APE tags with only replay_gain info
  • Improved: Optimized network code to became more friendly for slow connection
  • Improved: Decreased program startup and shutdown time
  • Fix: Transform scripts could not apply to values from multiselection in tag editor
  • Small improvements and fixes in several modules
  • Translations: German, Dutch, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish

5.0 build 524 (06/27/2008)

  • Improved: Reworked Filename -> Tag converter interface
  • Improved: Greatly increased speed of processing in Tag editor when you change number of selected files
  • Fix: 'Invalid Floating Point Operation' error on several operations
  • Fix: Embedded artwork from id3v2.2 could not be read (very old bug)
  • Translations: German, Chinese Simplified, Portuguese (Brazil)

5.0 build 523 (06/12/2008)

  • New: Now you can undo last operation
  • New: Ability to use transform scripts with individual fields
  • Improved: Correct work with several unofficial frames from MP4 and ID3v2 tags
  • Improved: Now you can drag'&'drop playlists into program window to scan their
  • Improved: Mapping settings for Album Artist from Vorbis comments (ALBUMARTIST or BAND)
  • Improved: Slightly increased speed of reading from ID3v2 tags with embedded cover art
  • Improved: Now restructure function can move included subfolders in addition to files
  • Improved: Check for updates function
  • Fix: Unicode chars not showing in renamers live preview
  • Fix: Transform scripts are not used for filenames
  • Fix: APEv2 Discnumber value could not be read after saving in editor
  • Updated help
  • Translations: Japanese, Polish, Spanish

5.0 build 522 (05/24/2008)

  • New: Foobar-like formatting placeholders
  • Improved: Now you can select only desired tracks when importing data from Web
  • Improved: Live preview in music renamer
  • Improved: Now you can drag'&'drop folders into program window to scan their
  • Improved: Ability to copy transform params in script editor
  • Improved: Extraction of track and disc info from Vinyl releases from Discogs
  • Improved: Additional columns in playlist and playlist export settings
  • Improved: Now you can set autosize option for columns in playlist and filelist
  • Fix: Tab navigation in some windows
  • Fix: Sometimes ID3v2 tags can't be read in software based on id3lib after saving in build > 520
  • Fix: Data reading speed from ID3v2 tags with big padding zone
  • Reworked localization engine to become more friendly for translators

5.0 build 521 (05/09/2008)

  • Changed license. Now the program became a free for commercial use in addition to private use
  • Improved: Now you can use 'Search all' searching method with Discogs
  • Improved: Settings for 'Disc' field format
  • Improved: New column in filelist - Modified time
  • Improved: Now the replacement scripts can be applied to filename before processing in Filename -> Tag converter
  • Improved: Resizable main window
  • Fix: Reading of ID3v2 frames with incorrect size in header
  • Fix: Processing of placeholders for non-text fields in Music renamer

5.0 build 520 (04/16/2008)

  • New: Now you may get album info and cover art from database of music information Discogs
  • Improved: Now you can drag'&'drop files into program window to scan their
  • Improved: Now you can add cover art via drag'&'drop into picture window
  • Improved: Ability to search with national characters from TrackType.org
  • Improved: Support for new native search from FreeDB
  • Improved: Settings for 'Track' field format
  • Improved: Changed cover art saving in ID3v2 for compatibility with some cell phones players
  • Improved: Changed cover art saving in FLAC for compatibility with some software
  • Improved: The file with insufficient tag information are not affected by renamer anymore
  • Fix: File size increased twice if metadata in MP4 located at the end of file
  • Fix: Track value from Amazon results are not saved into ID3v1
  • Fix: Proxy authorization
  • Reworked network support
  • Updated playback engine and all formats plugins
  • Translations: Chinese Simplified

5.0 build 518 (02/15/2008)

  • New: Support for embedded cover art from APE tags (binary)
  • Improved: Autodetect picture format from ID3v2 for incorrect frames
  • Improved: Now you can automatically get info from selected files for web-search request
  • Improved: Now you can save covert art into tag without changing text data for web-search results

5.0 build 517 (01/24/2008)

  • New: Now you may get album info and cover art from Amazon online shop catalog
  • New: Work with tag field: Publisher
  • New: Indication in filelist of presence at a file of cover art
  • Improved: Support for OGA and OGV -files (new Ogg profiles)
  • Fix: Renaming of support files (i.e. karaoke cdg)
  • Fix: Incorrect applying of transformations scripts for filenames
  • Fix: Picture extraction from OGG files
  • Fix: OGG files corruption after changing of embedded art
  • Translations: Japanese, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish

5.0 build 516 (12/21/2007)

  • Improved: Usability of online search
  • Improved: Increased text transformations processing speed
  • Fix: Picture extraction from flac files
  • Small fixes and improvements
  • Translations: Belarusian, Portuguese (Iberian), Greek

5.0 build 515 (09/15/2007)

  • Improved: Support for unsynchronised ID3v2 frames
  • Fix: Errors when try to save changes in some MP4 files
  • Fix: Newly created text transformations script are not worked correctly in some cases
  • Fix: ID3v2 POPULARIMETER frame handling
  • Updated some player plugins
  • Translations: Bulgarian

5.0 build 514 (06/14/2007)

  • Improved: Program now keep save extended iTunes comment frames from ID3v2
  • Fix: Newly created text transformations script are not saved correctly in some cases
  • Fix: ID3v2 Comment frame are not created after update to build 512
  • Fix: Filename -> TAG: Incorrect processing of unicode strings on some systems
  • Fix: 'Track number' value for WindowsMedia files can't be cleared
  • Translations: French, German

5.0 build 512 (05/31/2007)

  • Improved: Now you can apply text transformations for tag information and filenames separately
  • Improved: Files can be reordered now by hotkeys Alt+Up/Alt+Down
  • Improved: Support for embedded cover art from OGG files (base64 encoded)
  • Improved: Support for embedded cover art from FLAC files (metadata block)
  • Improved: Last codepage used for freedb result is applied for all results received in one request
  • Improved: m3u8 playlists support
  • Improved: New engine for Vorbis comments
  • Improved: Updated OGG files parser
  • Improved: Updated FLAC files parser
  • Improved: Filelist now are transferred to the auto-playlist instantly
  • Improved: Text transformations now are stored in separate files
  • Improved: Program now autoselet source tag version in filename to tag generator if current tag doesn’t exists
  • Fix: Text transformations settings saved incorrectly if they contained spaces
  • Fix: Tab order navigation in tag editor
  • Fix: Incorrect encoding of genre data from freedb
  • Fix: Ignored 'Genre' field for WindowsMedia files
  • Fix: Memory leak on MP4 saving
  • Fixed some stability issues
  • Translations: Portuguese (Brazil)

5.0 build 511 (04/25/2007)

  • Fix: On Vista files are not renamed if operations is made not inside of one folder
  • New smart 'Rescan/Cancel' button next Path-bar in Vista style
  • Improved: Now you can interrupt almost all long operations with 'Cancel' button
  • Improved: More informative conclusion of reports on renaming
  • ID3v2 UTF-16 encoded text frames are written now without terminating 00
  • Translations: Belarusian, Polish

5.0 build 510 (04/08/2007)

  • New: Work with tag field: Album Artist
  • Improved: Changes in TrackType.org (former freedb2.org) support
  • Fix: Some random errors on file selection
  • Translations: Slovak, Finnish

5.0 build 509 (02/18/2007)

  • Fix: FreeDB text transcoding feature for some locales
  • Improved: More safe files moving with restructure feature
  • Improved: Text replacement for long strings
  • Updated playback engine
  • Translations: Korean, Bulgarian, Romanian

5.0 build 508 (11/12/2006)

  • Improved : Now freedb2.org base used for manual search of album info
  • Improved : Now you can use http://freedb2.org as web source (see options)
  • Fix: Some graphic problems
  • Translations: Dutch

5.0 build 507 (10/05/2006)

  • Improved: ID3v2 embedded artwork processing for multi-tagged files
  • Improved: Embedded artwork decoding speed increased for PNG
  • Fix: Flac format support for some files
  • Fix: Some translations problems
  • Fix: Some tags are not saved from freedb request

5.0 build 506 (08/29/2006)

  • Improved: MP4 'gnre' atom support
  • Improved: Freedb: Impoved usability of change encoding function
  • Improved: Changed look of renaming report
  • Improved: Remember window state on exit
  • Fix: ID3v2: Embedded artwork removed after updating tag info for multiple files
  • Fix: Incorrect sorting in main filelist
  • Translations: Turkish, Japanese

5.0 build 505 (08/05/2006)

  • Interface redesigned
  • New: Grouping in filelist
  • New: One filelist for most operations
  • New: Now user can perform per file operation instead of whole filelist
  • New: Text processing module: text replacement, case change etc.
  • New: Open files parent folder from context menu
  • New: Option for scan last active folder on startup
  • New: Option for preserve file modification time when saving tags
  • New: Get tags from cue-files
  • New: Renamer : Powerful module for restructure files on disk based on tag information
  • New: Renamer : Now you can autorename support files with same names ( *.cdg, *.txt default)
  • New mediaformat: WindowsMedia (asf,wma) - stream info and metadata reading/saving
  • New mediaformat: Mpeg4 (m4a,mp4 etc) - stream info and metadata reading/saving (iTunes format)
  • Improved: Filelist: Additional columns
  • Improved: Filelist: Changed logic for some sorting
  • Improved: Showing filesize in KB, MB and so on
  • Improved: Completely rewritten Vorbis tagging module
  • Improved: Completely rewritten APE tagging module
  • Improved: Special settings for writing ID3v2 tags in unicode format
  • Improved: Editor : ID3V2 unicode flag indication
  • Improved: Editor : Now can decode and show embedded PNG artwork
  • Improved: Editor : New tag fields - BPM, Disk Number, Content Group Description, Part of Compilation (ID3v2, MP4 only)
  • Improved: Listmaker: HTML-export: now save files in UTF8 encoding
  • Improved: Listmaker: HTML-export: now use field names from language files
  • Improved: Freedb: Updated search engine
  • Improved: Freedb: Reworked UTF8 support
  • Improved: Freedb: Codepage conversion for non-unicode results
  • Improved: Renamer: Now you can set variable length of filename
  • Improved: Renamer: Additional visualizations
  • Improved: Renamer: New placeholder %8 for Disk number
  • Improved: Slightly increased scan speed for non-mpeg based formats
  • Improved: Removed some redundant scans
  • Improved: Now you can cancel some longtime operations
  • Improved: Player now supports Musepack, Mpeg4, Monkey's Audio, FLAC, AAC, ALAC(Apple Lossless), OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack, TrueAudio files (Windows Media Format modules v9 or above are required for playback)
  • Fix: Incorrect displaying and saving custom genres in unicode
  • Fix: Sometimes tags are not saved for FLAC files
  • Fix: Incorrect ID3v2.4 tag reading in some cases
  • Fix: ID3v2.2 Album and Artist misplaced
  • Fix: Incorrect text transcoding in non-affected frames from ID3v2
  • Fix: Can't remove vorbis tag from flac files larger than 2GB
  • Fix: Tags was read twice then you navigate in filelist with keyboard
  • Fix: Program can't delete temporary file after creation of new ID3v2 tag for unicode-named files
  • Fix: Player time displaying for long songs
  • Fix: Ignored unicode paths as startup parameter string
  • Fix: Filename -> TAG: Incorrect processing of unicode strings
  • Fix: Filename -> TAG: Up one level folder name processing
  • Fix: Filename -> TAG: Incorrect parsing of foldernames in some cases
  • Fix: Listmaker: pls format export
  • Fix: Trim filenames for *.wv files
  • Updated support for some audioformats
  • Optimized structure of language files
  • Discontinued support for win9x family
  • Revisited help
  • Updated translations: Polish, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Russian
  • A lot of minor changes and fixes

4.9 build 497b (04/18/2005)

  • Fix: pictures removed from ID3v2 in some cases
  • Fix: sometimes Year field not recognized from ID3v2.4
  • Translation: Chinese Simplified

4.9 build 497a (04/09/2005)

  • Fix: ID3v2 incorrect work with TXXX frames
  • Fix: Program freez on some mp3-files with APE-tags
  • Fix: APEv2 tag incorrect saved in some cases
  • Fix: Again! Preserve replaygain information in MP3 files
  • Multichannel files recognition: WavPack, OGG
  • Improved support for ID3v2 tags created by iTunes

4.9 build 496 (03/28/2005)

  • Support for extended Vorbis-comments fields
  • Fix: Preserve replaygain information in OGG files
  • Fix: Preserve replaygain information in MP3 files
  • Fix: Pictures not saved to ID3v2 tags
  • Fix: removed debug file creation on FLAC reading
  • Fix: WavPack 4 support, now based on official specifications

4.9 build 495a (03/12/2005)

  • Fixed: East Asian languages support
  • Fix: APEtag in some cases detected as ID3v1
  • Processor: Fixed case conversions
  • Freedb settings moved to general settings window
  • Added option for Id3v2 unicode mode (off by default)
  • Some interface changes

4.9 build 494 (03/06/2005)

  • New ID3v2 core library
  • Improved handling of incorrect ID3v2 frames
  • Now supports ID3v2.2
  • Fixed reading of UTF8 encoded APE tags
  • Fixed unicode filenames processing
  • Now you can view/edit unicode tags
  • Freedb protocol version 6 support (UTF8)
  • New language: Korean
  • Program no longer work on Win95
  • Improved stability

4.9 build 493 (02/05/2005)

  • Translations: Finnish, Swedish
  • Now you can close program during scan procedure
  • TagEditor: Some corrections in remove multiple tags procedure
  • Greatly increased afterscan operations speed, upto 10 time faster
  • Fixed memory leaks on scan
  • Some corrections in OGG support
  • Lot of minor changes/fixes!

4.9 build 492 (01/08/2005)

  • NEW format: WavPack version 4, also added encoder mode detection
  • NEW format: TrueAudio (TTA) - ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 tags (id3v1+v2 in Auto mode)
  • Translations: Belarussian, Hungarian, Dutch, Serbian
  • Freedb: Fixed "Access violation" on file selection
  • TagEditor: Some corrections in save multiple tags procedure
  • Fixed: In some cases program can't remove ID3v2 comment
  • Now program select up one level folder if current path not exists
  • Updated sound engine
  • Lot of minor changes/fixes!

4.9 build 490 (10/24/2004)

  • New TAGformat > APE 1.0 and 2.0 Tags : Basic fields + Copyright,Composer,WWWUSER,EncodedBY,OrigArtist, UnsyncedLyrics
  • New audioformat > SPEEX : streaminfo, vorbis comments
  • New audioformat > FLAC : streaminfo, vorbis comments (supports padding)
  • New audioformat > WavePack : streaminfo, all tags support
  • New audioformat > OptimFROG(DualStream) : streaminfo, all tags support
  • New audioformat > MonkeyAudio : streaminfo, all tags support
  • New audioformat > AAC : streaminfo, all tags support
  • Multilanguage interface: Czech, Galician, Norwegian, Portuguese (Iberian),Bulgarian, Thai, Italian, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Polish, French, Russian, English
  • Support for Unicode filenames!
  • Resizeble inteface
  • Separate settings for TAG reading/saving
  • Renamer: Fixed parsing of renaming format string
  • Renamer: Some corrections in Translit operation
  • Editor: New interface!
  • Editor: Multiple files tag editor!
  • Editor: Track field as any string
  • Editor: Now show version of output tag
  • Editor: Functions for files (from context menu)
  • Editor: Track autonumbering (from context menu)
  • Editor: Now can Cut/Copy/Paste TAGs from/to multiple files
  • Editor: Fixed error with lock Picture field
  • Editor: Some correction on folder renaming from menu
  • Editor: Now you can open file in associated application from context menu
  • Editor: Now you can rename file directly in filelist (context menu or F2)
  • Editor: Player now recheck played file on list resort
  • Editor: Empty string for ID3v1.track instead 0
  • Editor: Reset checked fields on rescan
  • Editor: Now can delete corrupted ID3v2 tags
  • Processor: Fixed parsing of input fields formatstring on tag generation
  • Processor: Generator > Some corrections in foldername parsing
  • Processor: Generator > Parse foldername as well as filename
  • Processor: now can generate different Tags at once
  • Processor: Generator > Reset field values function
  • Processor: FIX: ogg-comments not removed in Tag Processor
  • Freedb: http access and improved speed
  • Freedb: proxy support
  • Freedb: Search in online database
  • Freedb: Manual query for albums info
  • Freedb: FIX: Program don't write Vorbis comments
  • Freedb: ability to manual set order of tracks after getting info from database
  • Freedb: getting active servers list in settings
  • Freedb: support for multistring titles
  • Listmaker: Corrected export settings saving
  • Listmaker: new list
  • Updated case change procedures: [Every First Up] and [Only first up]
  • New search and scan procedures (speedup!)
  • Improved TAB navigation
  • New engine for Vorbis comments processing
  • Now you can delete formats/paths from stored list
  • Pathfield now reread only after click Rescan button(or Enter key) (like explorer address bar)
  • Some corrections in Musepack/MPC support
  • Renamed genre AlternRock to Alt. Rock
  • Corrected some visual appearances
  • New installer
  • Updated help file
  • A lot of minor changes and fixes

4.8 build 481 (12/03/2003)

  • Store path from pathbox for browsing dialog
  • Bugfix: program don't show numbers in ID3v2 genres
  • Bugfix: Access violation then tag removed
  • More stable work with corrupted files
  • Updated sound engine

4.8 build 480 (10/27/2003)

  • Get album info from internet database freedb.org
  • Program now not buzz on win98/ME when you try to choice Genre from list
  • Bugfix: ID3v2 Comment not changed after save
  • Corrected bug with ID3v2 when Comment field displayed incorrectly in other programs
  • Program now use new style browse for folder dialog on win2k/XP
  • Renamer: CD ISO/Joilet filenames length control
  • Renamer: Now show extended info on Preview
  • Listmaker: Export > Ability to change column order
  • Listmaker: Export > Counter
  • Support for windows2003
  • Some other changes

4.7 build 472 (08/03/2003)

  • Improved interface render speed on WinXP
  • Now files not rescaned on Preview operations
  • More accurate ID3v2 and OGG-info tags reading
  • Improved OGG-info tag reading/writing speed
  • A lot of minor changes and fixes

4.7 build 471 (01/08/2003)

  • Fixed interface bugs on WinXP
  • Fixed interface problems when StyleXP installed
  • Improved OGG writing speed
  • A lot of minor changes and fixes

4.7 build 470 (29.12.2002)

  • New tag reading engine
  • New scanning algorithm
  • Removed 'TAG preview', now program always scan files for TAG
  • New sound engine: excelent OGG and MP3 playback
  • Support for OGG files (Vorbis tag and stream info)
  • Support for MpegPlus files (added stream info)
  • Fixed some resource leaks
  • Fixed ID3v2 Comment reading for some MP3s (e.g. created with CDex)
  • Fixed #Track writing
  • Reanmer: New options for 'spaces'
  • Renamer: Improved Rename folder by TAG
  • Editor: Added new fields in ID3v2 mode
  • Editor: Ability to read/write total album tracks (e.g. 01/12)
  • Listmaker: Export > Preinstalled Excel it is not necessary any more
  • Listmaker: Export > Changed #Track writing
  • Listmaker: Export > Some changes in HTML links
  • Listmaker: Work with OGG and MPC files
  • Hint for player now show track time and song info
  • Returned incremental search in lists
  • Greatly improved Unicode support in ID3v2

4.5 build 456 (20.08.2002)

  • Program now support MPEGplus files (Only ID3v1 and ID3v2 TAGs, no stream info)
  • Added support for graphics inside ID3v2 (JPEG,GIF,BMP)
  • Renamer: Subfolders creation by ID3
  • Editor: Correct lyrics writing/reading
  • Editor: New listfile sorting order (Artist - Title)
  • Editor: Ability to save/load lyrics to/from external file
  • Editor: Some functions for fields
  • TAGer: New special delimiter '_-_'
  • Listmaker: Some correction in Excel export
  • Listmaker: Comment and Track field in export settings
  • Listmaker: HTML export: active links to files
  • Listmaker: Added sort by Genre ability
  • Corrected genre - Trash metal to Thrash metal
  • Improved non-English TAGs support
  • Updated help files

4.5 build 454 (16.04.2002)

  • TAG Generator replaced with Batch TAGer for better mass TAG processing
  • TAGer features: Generate TAGs by filename/foldername or mass change any TAG fields
  • TAGer features: Copying TAGs between versions
  • TAGer features: Remove TAGs by version
  • TAGer: TAG fields capitalization
  • TAGer: Track value correction if not integer
  • TAGer: ID3v1: fixed bug with spaces in some fields after first time creation
  • Editor: Added support for Unsynchronised Lyrics
  • Editor: Save or Remove both TAG versions simultaneously
  • Editor: Improved tag switching operation
  • Editor: Little improved ID3v2 write speed
  • Listmaker: added export settings
  • Listmaker: added export to CSV (Comma Separated Values) format for databases
  • Listmaker: corrected track in album
  • Listmaker: files moving in list
  • Added support for ID3v2 compressed Tags
  • Better exceptions processing
  • Some language corrections
  • Ability to rescan folder
  • Fix to ID3v2 Unicode support
  • Fixed the resource leaks in scan operations
  • Fixed bug with reading some national characters (255ascii symbol)
  • Fixed bug with processing after moving or deleting files
  • Help file

4.5 build 452 (22.01.2002)

  • Support for ID3v2: version 2.3 / 2.4
  • Added 2 ID3 modes: ID3v1 - old mode / ID3v2 - combined (see Using)
  • Speedup all basic functions
  • Improvements in searching and scanning
  • Some interface improvements
  • For longtime operation added progress indicator in status bar
  • Editor: Rename file folders by ID3 (RightClick in filelist)
  • Editor: Operations with files (RightClick in filelist: Copy/Move/Delete)
  • Editor: Highlight now playing track
  • Editor: Some list sorting ability
  • Generator: Ability to Preview results
  • Generator: Changed 'Update' mode - now not empty fields has changed
  • Listmaker: HTML export: optimising by size
  • Listmaker: HTML export: CSS in HTML header
  • Listmaker: Excel export: columns headers
  • Listmaker: Ability to create playlists from any number of CD's
  • Listmaker: M3U playlist space bug
  • Listmaker: New sorting order: Track in Album
  • Renamer: New %N worksheet for old fileName
  • Browse dialog now store last folder
  • Command line parametr (use Foldername or Filename)
  • Work on CD-RW UDF disks (ability to saving)
  • Support for WinXP
  • Mpeg stream information fix
  • Correct processing files with ReadOnly attribute where possible(bug: Can't open file)
  • Correct translit (bug with 'a')
  • Correct Genres
  • Correct Genre generating
  • Correct time displaying
  • Correct size displaying
  • A lot of minor changes and fixes

4.3 build 437 (10.06.2001)

  • More stability on Windows2000
  • Bug fix: Double serching on click to [Recurse subdirectories]
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+R not work properly
  • Song information on mouse move on player
  • List maker: export to Excel (required installed Excel)
  • MP3 renamer: Genre on end of filename bug fix
  • MP3 renamer: 'division by zero' on some nonstandard MP3s
  • TAG editor: settings for quick tag preview in filelist

4.2

  • Added TAG generator (Filename --> ID3 Tag)!!!
  • Added Hotkeys
  • Improved player
  • MP3 renamer: added new worksheets
  • MP3 renamer: worksheets store
  • MP3 renamer: changed algorithm
  • TAG editor: quick tag view in filelist
  • A few other fixes I forgot to log

4.0 beta2

  • Added very quality player
  • Added test mode
  • MP3 renamer: translit for Cyrillic
  • MP3 renamer: added track number (%7)
  • List maker: right VBR detection
  • TAG editor: added more genres
  • TAG editor: added autosaving
  • TAG editor: fixed wrong sorting
  • Fixed a few small bugs

3.3

  • Added ability for work with subdirectories
  • MP3 renamer: fixed a bug with deleting some files
  • MP3 renamer: maximized rename speed
  • TAG editor: added output of extended information
  • List maker: added ability for write extended playlist to HTML
  • List maker: added ability for write extended playlists
  • List maker: maximized speed of scan/read/write
  • Fixed a few small bugs

3.0

  • Interface changed
  • MP3 renamer: added formating output
  • MP3 renamer: added spaces replacing
  • TAG editor: added simple surfing
  • TAG editor: added possibility for hold TAG editor positions
  • Added playlist editor (List maker)(undertesting)

2.0

  • Interface changed
  • Fixed progress indicator bug
  • Added TAG editor

1.1

  • Changed TAG scan algorithm
  • Fixed some stupid bugs

1.0 (09/10/1999)

  • First release
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