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Revel Breezer Changelog

What's new in Revel Breezer 2.1.3.0

Jul 16, 2015
  • Audio engine: Tangible improvement of the UI responsiveness and the playback speed.
  • Search engine: Solved a bug with the exact word search option active.

New in Revel Breezer 2.1.2.0 (Jul 16, 2015)

  • File view: minor typo errors fixes.
  • File view: better spacing of some labels.
  • File view: solved a small UI bug.
  • File view: tag column is now a little bit more wide.
  • File view: now banned (hidden) folders are no more visible in the file view.
  • Search engine: huge performance improvement of file view list population.
  • Search engine: solved a small bug which could create some inconsistent result lists if a test search was cancelled.
  • Search engine: improved search speed (text search).
  • Preview history: added three new commands: filter by today, past week or past month.
  • Preview history: big performance improvement, now when first opened the list displays only the today's playbacks.
  • Installer: added a checkbox which asks the user if he want to check for new updates before install.
  • Tag library: added some labels to the context menu to show the keyboard shortcuts.
  • Waveform preview: Now the loop region is draggable, so you can move it around.
  • Waveform preview: Improved cue markers support plus redesigned layout.
  • Waveform preview: Now you can alter the loop recion by digiting start/end time or in samples.
  • Waveform preview: Improved layout.
  • Waveform preview: Now any command which interacts with the waveform preview is centralized in the new waveform tools panel.
  • Tag properties: Removed the white border around custom colors.
  • Database chooser: small UI fix of the "File name" label.
  • Workspace: Now when a long operation starts a "did you know" message appears.
  • Scanner: Now if the queue length is over 200mb a warning message appers to the user.

New in Revel Breezer 2.1.1.0 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Preview history: fixed a bug which crashes Breezer when switching too fast between history entries.
  • Tag engine: tangible performance improvement in some cases (when tagging files).
  • File view: now each tag displayed has a tooltip associated with tag path information.
  • File view: now changing the tag color changes the tag fill color in sync.
  • Tag engine: changed the smart data shaping delay from 3.5 secs to 1 secs.
  • Tag engine: now the "created on" property is corretly initialized.
  • Tag engine: solved a bug which might pop up if using avast antivirus.
  • Tag engine: first introduction of BWF wave support.
  • Tag library: small usability improvement, now the options button reacts more precisely to clicks.
  • Tool bar: now widgets and view toggle buttons are mutually exclusive.
  • Tool bar: when docked only the search box is visible.
  • Options window: improved disk shaping option description.
  • Global: better expander (folder view) theme.
  • Global: windows background is now a little bit more dark.
  • Global: small tweaks to the buttons theme.
  • Search engine: solved a bug which causes breezer to crash whe he encounters long paths.
  • Search engine: new progress indicator added.
  • Search engine: performance improvements. In particular we now limit the number of notifications it fires.
  • Web services: added some new features useful for developers telemetry.
  • Web services: fixed a bug which prevents some error reports to be dispatched.
  • Installer: now the .net framework is detected precisely. Prior the installer fails when the user has the .net framework 4.0 installed.
  • Workspace: solved a bug found in the docking manager. On window deactivation the docked window remains visible.
  • Workspace: the waveform view now always displays the wave preview.
  • Workspace: the waveform loop region is now more clear and intuitive.
  • Workspace: fixed some mispelled words.
  • Workspace: waveform loop buttons are now always visible even when the loop region is very small.
  • Workspace: added a new waveform command useful to increase the vertical scaling of the preview.

New in Revel Breezer 2.1.0.0 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Added the new Preview history widget.
  • File view: fixed a drop bug (in some cases any tag action was cancelled immediately)
  • File view: Folder icon is now coloured.
  • Global: Small performance improvement.
  • Global: Improved expander toggle button (was not so sensitive in the past).
  • Global: Now when the spacebar start/stop (playback) keyboard shortcut works.
  • Waveform: Improved rendering in some cases (in the past the waveform remains blank).
  • Filesystem view: Solved a bug that crashes Breezer when a usb drive was unplugged.

New in Revel Breezer 2.0.9.0 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • Licensing: small usability improvement of the license reset dialog.
  • Tag library: solved a bug (null reference) dealing with the tag properties window open. Sometime it crashes.
  • Tag library: sometimes after a drop operation the original tag appears duplicated. Now with F5 (referesh) Breezer refresh corretlly the tree view.
  • Tag library: tag refreshing methods improved and cleaned.
  • Licensing: now license data is read before any UI creation.
  • Playback: improved compatibility with lo-fi samples.
  • Installation: Now if the welcome window throws an error Breezer can intercept and report it.

New in Revel Breezer 2.0.8.0 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • Tag library: Tag auto-expansion on selection is now disabled by default (improves usability).
  • Search: Added a new setting under the "Scope tag search to selected folder". Now you can choose to include or not media files stored in a folder child of the current.
  • Tag library: Fixed a small UI glitch (the list grouping check was not hidden if grouping is disabled).
  • Tag library: Moved under the options panel the checkbox to enable or disable AND/OR search.
  • Search engine: Many performance optimizations.
  • Search: Now the "Include tag child" flag works when you're searching the library with a AND operator.
  • Tag properties windows: Improved window layout, bigger color tiles.
  • Workspace: Info bar layout improved.
  • Tag properties windows: Improved window layout, bigger color tiles.

New in Revel Breezer 2.0.7.0 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • Player: REX file playback improved (more fast file loading).
  • Player: REX certification received. Now Breezer passes the official test-suite of propellerheads.
  • Player: Solved a REX playback bug. Sometime Breezer do not play a loop with the right tempo.
  • Player: REX library upgraded from 1.6 to 1.7.
  • Audio Engine: Solved a small bug, sometime repositioning the position cursor Breezer crashed.
  • Waveform view: Changed loop highlight color and buttons hot track color.
  • Waveform view: Moved the "Clear loop region" command to the right.
  • Waveform view: Added a loop on/off button directly into the repeat region.
  • Program activation: Solved a bug in date/time comparison, in one case we use locale date time and not UTC.
  • Program activation: Improved license reset routine.
  • Activation dialog: Fixed a misspelled word.
  • Tag library: Added a new "Add tag to view" command, which adds the right-clicked tag to the current view (folders and files).
  • Tag library: Solved few usability glitches (especially regarding the tag delete command).
  • Tag library: now the tag name is shown in the confirmation messages when dragging a tag from the library to the folder view.
  • Tag library: improved tag assignation when dragging a tag from the library to a folder in the file view.
  • Tag library: Bugfix, now Breezer sorts alphabetically tag child.
  • Tag library: Some commands now shows the currently right-clicked tag name in their description.
  • Tag library: Now a colored box appears around opened tags to make easier its use. The option can be turned on or off.
  • Tag library: minor UI fixes.
  • Tag library: clearing a search now will clears the tag selection in the tag library tree.
  • Search engine: Now it is possible to choose between an AND and OR search, when searching for multiple tags.
  • Search engine: Improved predictability.
  • Support tools: Added a UI watchdog. It can report to support staff about UI freezes.
  • Options: Added a new setting useful to enable or disable UI watchdog. Disabled by default.
  • Options: Added a new setting to control the expanded tag box color.
  • Database switcher: Added a new feature called "Database Switcher" which allows the creation and management of multiple tag libraries in separate databases.
  • Database backup: Added a new integrity check to the database repair task.
  • General: Fixed a bug that appears on systems with installed "John’s Background Switcher". Breezer freezes on desktop background change.
  • General: Fixed a first run bug.
  • File operations: solved some minor bugs dealing with the delete command.
  • File view: now the delete key works (delete the selected files).
  • File view: Added two new commands: reapply filter and stop search.
  • Folder view: The message telling the user that browsing is not available when searching the entire tag database is now coherent.
  • Workspace: small performance improvement, now when in working mode no status message is shown.
  • Workspace: button clarity improved on hig-dpi screens.
  • Database: huge performance improvement (optimized the relation items counter).

New in Revel Breezer 2.0.6.0 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • Tags: Query engine [Ignito] small performance improvement (now it caches the queries, if possible).
  • Tags: Query engine [Ignito] solved a recursion (aka infinite loop) problem.
  • Workspace: Now root tags are loaded in background, this will prevent a freeze of Breezer UI at start.
  • Workspace: Text clarity improved.
  • Workspace: fixed docked/undocked windows size.
  • Workspace: Program version number now matches installer's one and the web site follow the same rule.
  • Workspace: Now the play/stop button are merged together.
  • Workspace: Now the backup reminder will show only after 7 days from the installation.
  • Website: Release version and next planned update added in the download page.
  • Options: Added a "Dump tag table to file" button, for support purposes in the tools tab. This command will show the raw tags table.
  • Options: The window is now a little bigger and is re-sizable by the user.
  • Options: Added a database integrity check confirmation dialog, just before a database backup.
  • Tag properties: now the name is a required field.
  • Activation: Better user experience, fixed some dialog boxes which appears with cryptic messages.
  • Backup window: Small UI improvements. Now the progress message changes when an action or check starts.
  • General: Some tips are now more clear and informative.

New in Revel Breezer 1.0 Build 181 Beta 2 (May 24, 2011)

  • Updated audio engine, which now support ant bit depth (up to 64bit) for Wave files
  • Performance improvements
  • Fixed many bugs

New in Revel Breezer 1.0 Build 176 Beta 1 (May 24, 2011)

  • Drag'n'drop improvements
  • General performance improvements