Version history for Collectorz.com MP3 Collector

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Changes for 2.2.4 - v2.3.1

• Support for VBR encoded MP3 files with VBRI headers (previously only Xing VBR headers were supported)
• Support for Unicode (UTF-16) encoded data in ID3v2 tags (as written by e.g. WinAmp) Windows Vista compatibility/compliance:
• changed default location of user data (database, backup) to: \My Documents\MP3 Collector\
• User Templates can now be (optionally) placed in a user configurable location (Tools / Options), which defaults to \My Documents\MP3 Collector\Templates\
• System" Templates (the ones included with the program) are still in /MP3 Collector/Templates/
• Fixed: program hangs when closing on some Vista systems Editing Lists:
• new right-click menu with Add/Edit/Remove/Merge/Generate commands
• simplified Merge system: just multi-select items and choose Merge Selected or Merge Selected To
• "Generate" functions can now be performed in batch on selected items in list (use Generate commands in right-click menu)
• new "Auto Re-sort" checkbox on toolbar for enabling/disabling automatic resorting
• Last Name column is now actually called "Last Name" (previously it was called "Name")
• Next/Previous buttons in all Edit Item screens (e.g. Edit Artist, Edit Genre, etc..)
• Automatic update option in Check For Update screen, which downloads and installs the latest version automatically
• Sorting on text fields now takes numbers into account (e.g. 'title 10' sorts after 'title 2' instead of before)
• for some types of VBR encoded MP3 files the wrong bitrate and duration were reported
• rare problems when tagging files that are in use
• Check for update period was not taken into account
• Sorting of listfields now works similar to sorting of string fields.
• Printing and Export to HTML: Text fields now show HTML tags correctly in list reports (e.g. the tag is shown as bold text)
• Quick Search did not work after having done a Filter earlier using the "EXCEPT" option
• Program icon now looks much better
• pressing Alt-F4 opened the Edit Tag screen, while it should close the program