PerfectTUNES Version Changes [Windows]

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PerfectTUNES R1.5

The main update is to AccurateRip which is more efficient (if there are AR Tags), and Album Art can search more art.

Changes

DeDup able to display large numbers of duplicates (previously would close)
DeDup more accurate at detecting duplicates
Album Art is able to search more art from internet
Album Art now has a maximum size (KB) option
Album Art: if have artist as Beetles, The then remove ', the' on manual Fix
mp3 will update id tag from v1 to v2 if embedding art

AccurateRip can now check incomplete albums (or non lossless) if previously ripped with dBpoweramp (and has AccurateRipResult tag)
AccurateRip better able to detect errors
AccurateRip indicates 'Track Not Present in AccurateRip' in technical log


Bug Fixes

Accuraterip - was removing (xxx) from album title which could blend 2 albums together.
m4a decoder crash

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Updated to R1.6

Changes

Made Art searching label on manual page larger (could clip)
Manual Album Art - when type a new value, it clears the existing entries
Manual Album Art - when sort large to small, keeps the existing art in position 1
Installer offers to create a desktop icon

Bug fix: if write art to a flac file, then rerunning any PT program would indicate the flac file was corrupted (it was not, just our rescanner missbehaving)
Bug fix: accuraterip export list could muddle filenames

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Updated to R1.7

Changes

Fixes to AccurateRip hanging.
AccurateRip improvements
Updated Codecs

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Updated to R2

Changes

ID Tagger Added
64 bit version included, uninstall previous 32 bit version before install
Removes duplicate paths from the library (internally)
Album Art from Internet speed improved
Album Art tag replacing writer speed improved
Album Art: shows ', Writing...' on the Fix albums page
Album Art: Added menu next to each album, which allows: Show Album In Explorer, Load from File, Acquire from Scanner, Paste from Clipboard
AccurateRip: new option "Skip AccurateRip Reporting Not Lossless CD Quality"
AccurateRip: new option "Require Confidence 2 or More for AccurateRip Match"
AccurateRip: Export lists filenames for 'Cannot Check' list
AccurateRip: Shows disc ids on the match info export
De-Dup: New option 'Mass Delete'
All - Now minimizes when choose task bar icon
All - Code signed all components

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Updated to R2.1

Changes:

Excludes recycle bin
Playback in de-dup works correctly under x64
Correctly creates desktop icon for x64
Added a new genres.txt file in %appdata%/PerfectTunes/ which can be user edited

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Updated to R3

Graphics are cleaner
Supports 200 and 300% DPI scaling
ID Tag: Option to disable predictive typing
Opus Codec Added

Bug fix: De Dup mass delete page had filename and path columns swapped

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Update to R3.1

Bug fix: m4a tags would not write from ID Tag editor (single tag edit)

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Update to R3.2

all % working screens, made taller to fit text and icon better

Album Art
Retrieve from Internet updated for compatibility
Sort on Resolution takes both width and height into account
Previously fixed listing page gives also option for 'Fix' as well as 'Undo Fix' and '...' menu
When click fix, shows Existing art if using only folder.jpg as source

ID Tag
Better support of high DPI
Added 'Type' to file listing options
Added DSD (dsf) tagging support
Added settings option (in ID Tag) add 'PerfectTUNES: Edit ID-Tags' Command to Windows Explorer folder right click
Added Channels, Bitrate, Sample Rate and Sample Size possible columns
Added refresh button for file listing view (if new folders appear)
No longer indexes when choose option 'Previously edited'
Sort Tags >> Added new option to only show Items which are Inconsistent

ID Tag & Album Art - added option in settings to preserve modification date when adding art or updating Tags
AccurateRip - folder button added so can open explorer to show actual file
DeDup - added option to send deleted files to a set folder

Bug Fix
If added D:\Music and D:\Music2 to be watched then last folder would not be scanned
Possible GUI lockup removed
ID Tag, if browsing by metadata and add a new column then would show tracks for first entry in file view
ID Tag, if sorting by Rating then would put 5* near zero star rating

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Changes R3.3

Miniumum Windows Vista supported (XP no more)
All Programs - better support for high resolutions
DSD Tagging support added
if screen resolution changes and is showing maximized or too big for screen, then make maximized again
DeDup performance enhancement
Skips hidden files being indexed
Added new Apple Core Audio Format (CAF) decoder
Added close and minimise to processing albums (Album art)
PerfectTUNES Added minimize and cancel to various processing pages
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
Loads PerfectTUNES specific decoder (previously could have loaded one from dBpoweramp or TuneFUSION)
ID Tag: Added work, movement name, movement count and movement number to the list of tags can add

Bug Fix: Year in format YYYY-MM-DD would cause the browsing by year to put year in wrong section
Bug Fix: file rename + edit tags could corrupt the internal database

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Changes R3.4

Shell installs right click icon for PerfectTUNES Edit ID-Tags

ID Tag: Recommendations, new option 'Show Only Recommended'
Added a search option to search on Lists & Recommendations, or Sort tags page, for example could search for 'feat' to find tags with Artist1 feat artist2
ID Tag: can rename filenames on 'browse by file and folder' page
ID Tag: Browse by Filenames, added sort tags to columns and ability to set custom tags in the settings page
ID Tag: Speed up when listing 'Browse by Filenames'
ID Tag: Browse by Filenames >> Mixed Track Editing new 'Scan sub-folders' button which lists all tracks on one screen

De Dup: Mass Delete - Lossless preserves the higher quality original (first on bit depth, then sample rate)
De Dup: Added bit and KHz to main page and mass delete page
De Dup: mass delete final verification before deletion, states where files will be deleted to, also default button is cancel

AccurateRip added "exclude album" feature

Bug fix: De dup indexing crash fixed.
Bug fix: DSF (not all DSD files could be tagged)
bug fix: Time presentation in local time
bug fix: on scanning page presented art was showing small on high resolution displays

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Changes R3.5

Fixed crash in De-Dup Mass Delete

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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
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
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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Release 2023-03-16

De-Dup: Rewritten audio player code.
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: Suggest combining of &*8220;lastname, firstname&*8221; to &*8220;firstname lastname&*8221;.