PerfectTUNES Version Changes [OS X]

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Release 2024-6-10

New Program added to PerfectTUNES 'ReplayGain' will show which albums are missing R/G, or can list all albums

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R2024-1-9

Album Art - 600x600 is now the art size below which the automatic update will fix
Album Art - Clicking on an existing art in the list will show full size

New AccurateRip button 'Write Tags to All'

Bug Fix: source location could sometimes not stick
Bug Fix: tags could be shown in listing and then un-shown

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R2023-7-11

Stability and performance fixes.
ID Tags: Fixed duplicate lines in Browse by Metadata
ID Tags: Additioanl columns (album - disc - track, album artist - disc - track)
ID Tags: Removed duplicate Length column

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Release 2023-04-02

Bug Fix: Removed redundant debugging code

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Release 2023-03-16

Album Art: Made &*8220;load from file&*8221; start in album&*8217;s folder.
Album Art: Prettier scaling of stub picture to actual screen pixels.
Album Art: Mitigated album art read corruption when indexing specific NAS shares.
Album Art: Fixed indexing of alternate capitalizations (Folder.jpg, folder.JPG, etc) on case-senstivie volumes.
Album Art: Made external .webp album art recognzied.
ID Tags: Sort tag handling update, made multiple tag values disregarded.
ID Tags: Fixed crashing when interacting with ID Tags editboxes.
ID Tags: Suggest combining of &*8220;lastname, firstname&*8221; to &*8220;firstname lastname&*8221;.

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R2023-2-12

New versioning, automatic downloader for updates
Indexer improvements, for libraries with many layers of subfolders
Adding a custom tag to the ID Tag options page, puts this tag as always displayed on the right click edit tag
Fingerprints are only scanned if needed for De-Dup, much faster if not using de-dup when indexing a library

ID Tags fixed folder icons
Utilized Batch Converter's network discovery to mitigate lockup
ID Tags Fixed blank value not being propagated to table view
Added AccurateRip tag writing
Network share improvements
ID Tags >> better alignment of function boxes at top
ID Tags >> Add new tag, more standard tags added
ID Tags >> Added more tags to column selection (Browse by Filename and Folders), list sorted
ID Tags >> Discogs added to Add album art from internet search
[macOS] Delete button could be hidden by long album name
Bug Fix: ID Tags >> Browse by Filename and Folders 'Filename' column was being cleared
Bug Fix: ID Tags >> Writing ID Tags... msg could be hidden under search box
Reworked DMG appearnce.
Apple Lossless decoding overflow fix.
Greatly improved keyboard accessibility of the whole application.
Various visual updates, made various tables/lists more consistent with Mac UI conventions, replaced in-table buttons with plus minus buttons next to the table.
AccurateRip: Fixed search box being initially disabled until a change of view.
Removed the toggle for WAV tagging character set. Unicode is always used. The old default value prevented Unicode text from being written.
Enabled decoding of WavPack files with DSD.
Edit ID Tags: Removed cycling of edited fields by left/right cursors. Cycling with tab & shift+tab still works.
Fixed launcher window position not being remembered (3.2 beta regression).
ID Tags / Recommendations: special display of leading/trailing spaces in tags.
Fixed Album Art treating albums with similar names as one.
Faster startup of all apps other than De-Dup, no longer fingerprints all audio.
Various visual glitches fixed.
Made possible to write AccurateRip info to file tags.
ID Tags: Custom fields specified in settings are always-shown in Edit ID Tags dialog.
ID Tags: Added trailing dots in Sort Tags also.
ID Tags: Prevented tags from being rewritten when dismissing an edit box without actually changing its content, under Recommendations and Sort Tags.
ID Tags: Recommendations - never recommend 'fixing' tags by changing to values with leading/trailing spaces even if these are more common.
Album Art online search bug fixes and optimizations.
Album Art: Refined album detection further, treat files in different folders as separate albums always.
Added Discogs lookup to Album Art search.
Improved matching of Artist vs Album Artist vs Composer in Recommendations.

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Changes R3.1

Fixed Album Art tool showing multi-disc albums with nonsensical track numbers.
Less blurry images in "listening to albums" dialog.
Added an option to exclude specific albums from AccurateRip checks, if they're not sourced from CD media for an example.
New layout of Edit ID Tags dialog.
ID Tags: Added an option to use non-standard multi value delimiter.
ID Tags / List & Recommendations: added searchbox, added option to show inly suggested changes.
ID Tags / Sort Tags: added searchbox.
ID Tags / Folders & Filenames / Mixed view: Added recursive listing toggle.
ID Tags: Added more tag field columns, added option for custom columns.
De-Dup: Harder-to-accidentally-dismiss mass delete prompt, made delete file list sorted on load.

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Release 3.0

Added Apple Silicon code for optimal performance on next-generation Mac computers, M1.
Added new Apple Core Audio Format (CAF) decoder
Album Art: if a custom art export filename is used (but not a dynamically created one from tags), then these will be read when program restarts and scans changes
Album Art: new setting on options page 'Separate Multi Disc Albums' allows different art to be set for disc 2, disc 3, etc on box sets

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R2.6 Changes

Removed multi selection capability in add-music-folder dialog, as some users accidentally added each individual artist or album instead of the music folder itself.
List of music folders is now automatically deduplicated. Adding a parent folder removes subfolders. Subfolders of a folder already listed cannot be added.
Edit ID Tags dialog: setting a blank field now removes it.
Edit ID Tags dialog: added acquire-cover-from-scanner.
Added remove all folders button in music folders list.
Introduced help buttons in window title bar.
Fixed incorrect behaviors of edit boxes in ID Tags / Files and Folders / album view.
Fixed incorrect appearance of help buttons in window title bar on some machines.

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R2.5 Changes

ID Tags: Fixed various erratic behavior of "Date Modified" etc columns.
ID Tags: Fixed spurious rewriting of file tags when no edits were made.
ID Tags: Fixed some fields appearing to be editable when they should not be.
ID Tags: Greatly improved keyboard accessibility, can cycle edited fields with tab key, move up/down with cursor keys.
Edit ID Tags dialog keyboard accessibility fixes.
Fixed track & disc tags not being read from FLAC/Ogg/Opus with some obscure options enabled.
Fixed extreme memory usage when attempting to read tags from M4A files with QuickTime chapters.
Fixed glitches in codec settings dialog.

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R2.4 Changes

Bug Fix: file rename + edit tags could corrupt the internal database
Bug Fix: Fixed De-Dup crash when scrolling thru the list.

Improved De-Dup performance on large collections.
Various ID Tags / files view bugs fixed.
Hidden files are now ignored by ID Tags files view.

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R2.3 Changes

Main Changes:

Mac OS Mojave dark mode support
Lowest supported Mac OS version is now 10.10 'Yosemite'



All Changes:

Added DSD codec, can now edit tags of .dsf files
Dark mode visual fixes
Fixed visual glitches in various tables (regression from 2.2).
Fixed corrupted undo database after a "Clear Database Cache" command.
This won't fix undo data corrupted by previous versions, but you can specifically clear undo history from ID Tags / Previously Edited.
Enabled "Edit Tags in PerfectTUNES" from Finder.
Bug fix - if added ~/Music and ~/Music2, the last folder would not be indexed.
Album Art: Sort on resoluton now takes both width and height into account.
Fixed failure to delete/recycle files if a volume does not support recycling.
De-Dup: Added option to move files to a folder instead of deleting.
ID Tags & Album Art: Implemented option to preserve modification times when editing tags.
Updated window position remembering logic, now much less annoying with multiple displays.
De-Dup: Fixed failure to remember hidden (suppressed) duplicate groups in some cases.
Various other bug fixes.
Added beta update checks; when running a beta version, the launcher dialog will show you if there is a newer beta available.
Fixed a regression causing COMMENT tag to be written to ID3v2 TXXX rather than COMM.
Updated code signing, should now run correctly on Mac OS Catalina.
Fixed ID Tags / view by year misbehaving with iTunes-style date tags.

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R2.2 Changes

Changed remember-window-position semantics
Fixed search not working in Album Art tool
Less confusing ID Tags / Folders view behavior when dealing with tagless files
Fixed missing dropdown list for configuring external album art, can now disable writing of external album art

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R2.1 Changes

Fixed crash when indexing certain strange/malformed M4A files
Fixed sorting of album tracks in ID Tags / Browse by File & Folders
Made ID Tags / Browse by File & Folders view show configured music folders first
Made ID Tags / Browse by File & Folders view show /Network/ alongside /Volumes/
Removed window position remembering which was glitchy and caused unintended side effects with our morphing windows

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R2 first release