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Version history for TagScanner (Portable)

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Changes for v5.1.611 - v5.1.612

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

Changes for v5.1.610 - v5.1.611

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

Changes for v5.1.608 - v5.1.610

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

Changes for v5.1.607 - v5.1.608

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 displaing while renaming files
Fixed: Program can't read Album Artist field from ID3v2.2 tag

Changes for v5.1.605 - v5.1.607

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

Changes for v5.1.602 - v5.1.605

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

Changes for v5.1.601 - v5.1.602

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

Changes for v5.1.600 - v5.1.601

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

Changes for v5.1.598 - v5.1.600

New: MusicBrainz open music encyclopedia support with ability to download cover art from sites related to release
New: Transfered 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)

Changes for v5.1.597 - v5.1.598

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)

Changes for v5.1.596 - v5.1.597

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

Changes for v5.1.595a - v5.1.596

Improved: Export funtion 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

Changes for v5.1.594 - v5.1.595a

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 multimonitor systems
Now program interface always scaled according to Windows settings
Updated sound engine

Changes for v5.1.593 - v5.1.594

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

Changes for v5.1.592 - v5.1.593

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 formating 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 beginnig 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

Changes for v5.1.591 - v5.1.592

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
Transfered to new compiler
Translations: Polish, Czech, Chinese Traditional, Slovak, Korean

Changes for v5.1.571 - v5.1.591

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
Transfered to new compiler
Translations: Polish, Czech, Chinese Traditional, Slovak, Korean

Changes for v5.1.563 - v5.1.571

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 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 extention 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
Rewrited 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

Changes for v5.1.562 - v5.1.563

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)

Changes for v5.1.559 - v5.1.562

New: Ability to search info in Amazon Mp3Downloads section
Improved: Program now can automaticaly 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 beginnig 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

Changes for v5.1.558 - v5.1.559

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
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 readed twice after saving
Improved interface usability for some modules
Translations: French (2 versions), Danish (new), Slovak, German, Dutch

Changes for v5.1.555 - v5.1.558

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
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 readed twice after saving
Improved interface usability for some modules
Translations: French (2 versions), Danish (new), Slovak (updated)

Changes for v5.1.553 - v5.1.555

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

Changes for v5.1.551 - v5.1.553

Improved: Increased speed of muliselection processing in the list of files
Improved: Changed logic of the Html filter for export operations
Improved: Reading of unsynchronised 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)

Changes for v5.1.550 - v5.1.551

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

Changes for v5.0 build 532 - v5.1.550

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: Multimonitor 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 occurance 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

Changes for v5.0 build 531 - v5.0 build 532

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 playbak plugin for ALAC format
Updated Discogs support
Translations: Portuguese (Iberian), Romanian, Ukrainian

Changes for v5.0 build 530 - v5.0 build 531

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

Changes for v5.0 build 525 - v5.0 build 530

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 multitagged 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