What's new in Floola 2012r1
Jan 7, 2012
- expiration removed
- improved linux support
- improved podcast support
- added support for podcasts over secure http
New in Floola 2011r3 (Feb 15, 2011)
- Floola Desktop now avaliable
- translations updated
- minor bugs fixed
New in Floola 2011r2 (Jan 26, 2011)
- update translations
- much faster orphan check
- fixed issue loading genres (genre not unique error)
- fixed issue with nano5G and tvshows
- improved sorting in nano5G
- fixed various errors when deleting items
- updated application icon
- fixed artwork browse and delete button position
- fixed links to floola.com pages
- fixed growl issue under mac
- fixed progressbar refresh issues
- added support for sort fields in id3v2 tags
- improved artwork resize
- general speedup
- folder synchronization
New in Floola 6.1 (Nov 2, 2010)
- Twitter integration
- fixed Facebook authentication
- translation issue with terms containing line feeds icons can be removed from minelayer
- album artwork added to miniplayer
- update translations
- memory usage improvements
- quicker file add process
- last.fm option to submit any kind of media not just music
- improved smart playlist editor window
- minor bug fixed
New in Floola 5.9.1 (Aug 16, 2010)
- issue copying files with international characters
- nano5G support fixed
- fixed an issue where loading would hang
- youtube download fixed
- auto delete unused backup files on low free space
- fixed issues with playlist menuitems under windows
- several minor issues fixed
New in Floola 5.8.0 (Jul 12, 2010)
- issue with database update on iPod shuffle
- podcast window improvements
- improved quit on error
- improved playback when using Windows Media Player
- update translations
New in Floola 5.6.0 (Apr 7, 2010)
- fixed playback issue under windows
- updated languages
New in Floola 5.5.0 (Mar 13, 2010)
- nano5G and shuffle 3G support!
- “add this artwork to items in album” feature
- database update when needed
- updated languages
- added scrollbars to smart playlists edit window
- fixed issue where some files would not play entirely after edit operation
- files can be copied over from a network mapped drive
New in Floola 5.4.0 (Dec 27, 2009)
- improved artwork scaling algorithm under windows
- first playlist could not be renamed
- listbox clicks should now behave as expected on every platform
- app would freeze when sorting playlists under certain conditions
- alert when all podcast episodes were downloaded
- album artwork no longer has white borders
- fixed issue on menubars when changing translation several times
- fixed some issues when editing notes
- sort by date added issues fixed
- runs some basic database sanitization when needed fixed youtube download
- clean orphan items feature
- fixed some selection issues when renaming items
- fixed issues when deleting photos
- fixed issues when deleting playlist items added sort submenu when right clicking on playlists
- fully compatible with iTunes playlist sorting
- improved compatibility with some untagged mp3 files
- added mediakind smart playlist field support
- improved smart playlist window
- improved jpeg artwork decode
- artwork window will resize according to artwork size
- new "retrieve new episodes on startup" in podcast preferences
- playback position of currently playing song was not saved when quitting
- fixed bug in threaded add/delete artwork
- improved show by menu item
- improved podcast update notificiations
- translations updated
- transcode now allows selecting ALAC codec
- unknown elements are now renamed to "unknown artist, unknown album, etc."
- searching by keyboard now properly ignores leading "the " and "a "
New in Floola 5.3 (Aug 21, 2009)
- expiration warning
- Albanian, Brazilian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish translation updated
- manage notes exceptions fixed
- fixed issue with playlist sorted by "album by artist" or "album by year"
- performance improvements
- fixed issues with iPod shuffle
- main window minimize issue when amazon window was open
- improved podcast decoding
- fixed a rare hang when adding m4a files
New in Floola 5.2 (Jun 19, 2009)
- rewritten iPod notes manager
- iTunes 8.2 compatibility
- Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian and Russian translation updated
- fixed ffmpeg installation issue (windows)
New in Floola 5.1.1 (May 25, 2009)
- cosmetic improvements
- added chapter support in audiobooks
- improved artwork duplicate detection when adding compilations
- items with embedded lyrics are added quicker
- fixed some sorting issues
- improved titlebar update under mac
- improved song position slider
- better compatibility with ffmpeg under linux
- dup search detects equal length tracks
- fixed issues exporting to playlist
- issue on quit
- executable integrity check
- warnings when adding videos to a non video capable iPod
- language couldn't be changed easily under linux
- iTunes 8.1.1 compatibility
- greatly improved startup speed
- rename iPod name
- faster delete
- freeze on quit issue
- improved podcast decode
- improved transcode functionality
- improved destination filenames when looking for orphan files
- mac ffmpeg build updated to SVN-r18709 (with swscale)
- win ffmpeg build updated to SVN-r18681 (with swscale)
- tvout photo option write wasn't honored
- FLAC and OGG tag support
- improved photo support on nano 4G
- fixed issue with hidden columns reappearing on startup
- updated dutch translation
- fix some crash under linux when quickly browsing playlists
- fixed some issue when transcoding files
New in Floola 5.0 (Mar 23, 2009)
- better item list sorting (including in playlists)
- season and episode number of TV Shows can now be edited
- optional confirmation before podcast delete
- improved png artwork support in mp3 files
- does not crash anymore when removing rules from smart playlists
- all episodes in a podcast can be marked/unmarked as unlistened
- main listbox columns are resizable when browsing playlists
- issue displaying small artwork on iPod
- linux: check for other processes that might interfere with Floola
- improved generation detection
- improved compatibility with iTunes artwork database
- faster artwork delete
- iTunes 8.1 compatibility
- fixed some exception while loading artwork on startup
- fixed issues while quitting
- threaded artwork library write
- fixed cosmetic issues when using mid and big artwork thumbs
- photo synch window minor cosmetic issues
- text notes manage window improved
- startup empty podcast error message was fixed
- fixed a crash when deleting podcasts
New in Floola 4.9 (Mar 2, 2009)
- playback settings were not saved
- player resumes playback position when necessary
- artwork was not saved to files when selected to do so in preferences
- fixed issue when changing main listbox columns visibility
- new option that allows to consider a track as played when 50% of it was listened
New in Floola 4.8 (Feb 16, 2009)
- Swedish translation updated
- Russian translation updated
- improved tag read compatibility with mp3tag
- fixed issue when storing user and proxy password
New in Floola 4.7 (Jan 27, 2009)
- Czech translation updated
- Turkish translation updated
- fixed issue with photo database of nano 4G iPods
- quicker way to add artwork to albums
New in Floola 4.6 (Jan 19, 2009)
- photos are added sorted by date
- add to iPod window position issue under Linux
- smart playlist video kind bug
- italian translation updated
- slovak translation updated
- simplified chinese translation update
- main menubar items issues
- progressbar updates under linux
- improved mem usage in photo manager displayer
New in Floola 4.5 (Jan 3, 2009)
- simplified Chinese translation updated
- position of add to iPod window saved
- add to playlist in add to iPod window fix
New in Floola 4.4 (Dec 28, 2008)
- minor cosmetic issues
- yellow dominant in gifs under linux
- createphoto error fixed
- podcast todo errormessage fixed
- photos on Nano4G fixed
- fixed issue with Google Calendar
- used in playlist feature added
New in Floola 4.3 (Dec 22, 2008)
- fixed cosmetic issue in Snarl messages
- fixed rate playing song issue under windows
- issue when closing calendar window
- slightly improved dup detection
New in Floola 4.2 (Dec 15, 2008)
- various minor improvements
- podcast "mark as not new" fix
- issue with download from web
- improved podcast decoding
- issue with png embedded artwork under linux
- Slovak translation
- Google calendars import added
New in Floola 4.1 (Dec 2, 2008)
- fixed bug with id3v2.2 embedded artwork
- fixed podcast decoding issues
- artwork preview in main window (nano 4G)
- Danish translation update
- improved gui of manage note window
- fixed bugs in manage note window
- improved artwork rebuild for non mp3 files
New in Floola 3.9 (Nov 11, 2008)
- faster podcast add
- blank messageboxes under linux
- crash on FAT32 iPod under Mac
- improved eject message warning
- audio transcode up to 320kbit/s
- podcast can be marked as new/not new
New in Floola 3.8 (Oct 26, 2008)
- Podcast manager and tag writing improved. Many other bug fixes
New in Floola 3.7 (Oct 13, 2008)
- Photo and nano 4G support
New in Floola 3.6 (Sep 29, 2008)
- fixed album mixup
- support for Nano4G
- fixed issue with shuffle playcount
- better quitting
- fixed autocomplete with TAB
- more iTunes like db
- ascending/descending setting for playlists
- smart playlists can be sorted by fields
New in Floola 3.4 (Aug 28, 2008)
- New ffmpeg version
- Minor issues with iteminfo window
- More consistent autocomplete feature in iteminfo window
New in Floola 3.3 (Aug 5, 2008)
New in Floola 3.2 (Jul 27, 2008)
- fixed some minor issues with photo feature
- faster quit
- fixed artist/album mixup issue
- swedish translation update
- fixed issue searching for certain characters
- fixed issue downloading certain podcasts (ex. CNN)
- issue editing song tags
- photos were not deleted from ithmb files
- fixed minor bugs in photo managing window
- issue with main listbox columns
- podcast downloading issue when loosing focus
- writes also filetype to db
- ffmpeg paramater issues (mac win)
- improved photo db handling
- issues copying photos when fullres is not available
- invisible files on copy (windows)
- last.fm tracks played in Floola had wrong timestamp
- Korean translation added
- synch folder wrong file count
- PHOTO SUPPORT
- last.fm startup submission improved
- last.fm "now playing" multiple track submission
- last.fm "now playing" support
- reset last.fm
- audioscrobbler protocol 1.2
- Czech translation
New in Floola 2.9.5 (Jun 1, 2008)
- various bug fixed and performance improvements
New in Floola 2.9.3 (Apr 29, 2008)
- fast mode enabled by default
- fix a problem writing id3v2 tags
- minor problems when getting song info from path
- fixed issue with smart playlists and older iPod gens
- rare problem retrieving unicode tags
- Japanese translation
- fixed issue with some FWIDs
- freeze issue when editing artwork
- Basque translation added
- Danish translation updated
- artwork mixup fix!
- (windows) problems with certain versions of robocopy.exe
- semi automatic iPod generation detection
- more iTunes consistent smart playlist rewrite, fixes some issues with podcast rule
- fixed bug with iPod video 5G and 5.5G
- iPod mounted as C: will be detected
- problem with iPod not correctly setup with iTunes as described in online documentation
- Polish translation update
- iTunes playlist duplicate bug
- artwork rebuild problem
- "item mhsd" error
- changes not saved in fast mode
- Thai translation added
- full repair new generation iPods (Classic and Nano)
- added compatibility to iTunes 7.6
- progressive search problem with unicode chars
New in Floola 2.9.2 (Apr 16, 2008)
- japanese translation added, some other improvements
New in Floola 2.9.1 (Apr 7, 2008)
- freeze issue when editing artwork
- Basque translation added
- Danish translation updated
- artwork mixup fix!
- (windows) problems with certain versions of robocopy.exe
- semi automatic iPod generation detection
- more iTunes consistent smart playlist rewrite, fixes some issues with podcast rule
- fixed bug with iPod video 5G and 5.5G
- iPod mounted as C: will be detected
- problem with iPod not correctly setup with iTunes as described in online documentation
- Polish translation update
- iTunes playlist duplicate bug
- artwork rebuild problem
- "item mhsd" error
- changes not saved in fast mode
- Thai translation added
- full repair new generation iPods (Classic and Nano)
- added compatibility to iTunes 7.6
- progressive search problem with unicode chars
- artwork consistency check added to fix yet more artwork related problems
- added support for unsynch frames in id3v2.4
- problem with podcasts when iTunes was never used
- fixed issues with date field in smart playlists
- fixed bug with OTG playlists
- Polish translation added
- Floola now generates MHOD 52 and 53
- updated Hungarian translation
- "calculating needed size" speedup in artwork rebuild
- fixed various issues writing some id3v2 tags
New in Floola 2.9.1 (Apr 7, 2008)
- freeze issue when editing artwork
- Basque translation added
- Danish translation updated
- artwork mixup fix!
- (windows) problems with certain versions of robocopy.exe
- semi automatic iPod generation detection
- more iTunes consistent smart playlist rewrite, fixes some issues with podcast rule
- fixed bug with iPod video 5G and 5.5G
- iPod mounted as C: will be detected
- problem with iPod not correctly setup with iTunes as described in online documentation
- Polish translation update
- iTunes playlist duplicate bug
- artwork rebuild problem
- "item mhsd" error
- changes not saved in fast mode
- Thai translation added
- full repair new generation iPods (Classic and Nano)
- added compatibility to iTunes 7.6
- progressive search problem with unicode chars
- artwork consistency check added to fix yet more artwork related problems
- added support for unsynch frames in id3v2.4
- problem with podcasts when iTunes was never used
- fixed issues with date field in smart playlists
- fixed bug with OTG playlists
- Polish translation added
- Floola now generates MHOD 52 and 53
- updated Hungarian translation
- "calculating needed size" speedup in artwork rebuild
- fixed various issues writing some id3v2 tags
New in Floola 2.8 (Mar 3, 2008)
- 5G and 5.5G problem fixed.
New in Floola 2.6 (Feb 14, 2008)
- Many bug fixed. Better support for newer iPods. Improved artwork support.
New in Floola 2.5 (Jan 22, 2008)
- Many bug fixed. Better support for newer iPods. Improved artwork support
New in Floola 2.4 (Jan 3, 2008)
- fixed artwork issues introduced in 2.3
- improved support for newer iPods
- minor cosmetic issues
- problems when using with older iPod generations
New in Floola 2.3 (Jan 3, 2008)
- Fixed issue with GEOB tag in id3
- Motorola ROKR was not recognized
- Fixed various issues with artwork
- Fixed issues with new iPods
- Encoding problems under linux
- Fixed album artwork rebuild
- Crash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- Fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- Added support for .ra files
- Added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
- Fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- Volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
New in Floola 2.2 (Dec 10, 2007)
- crash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- added support for .ra files
- added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
New in Floola 2.1.1 (Nov 19, 2007)
- Fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- Volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
- Hungarian translation
- Support for iPod classic and iPod nano 3G
- Option to encode wavs on add
- Improved transcode feature
- Fixed bug removing artwork
- Fixed bug with On The Go playlists
- Sort tracks properly when more than one disc exists
- Adding folders with circular shortcuts
- Fixed issue when deleting artwork
- Rowpicture error after download
- Vbr xing wrong file lenght
New in Floola 2.0 (Sep 1, 2007)
- fixed crash under linux when using some keyboard shortcuts
- last.fm timezone bug
- ukranian translation
- portuguese translation fixed
- adding youtube video fix
- video playback under linux
- improved artwork preview
- finnish translation
- fixed issue with some podcasts
- AAC audio conversion bug
- shuffle playback wasn't working for iPod shuffle
- reset playback data of all items
- 303 redirect issue when downloading youtube videos
- growl not working in previous version
- sync wasn't working under linux and mac
- playcount bug fix
- video stops when closing playback window
- video playback size under linux
- fixed minor cosmetic issue when adding artwork
- improved fast mode flush
- you can save artwork as .png (right clicking on it)
- look for ffmpeg under /usr/bin as well
- ffmpeg stored in a different location under windows
- fixed bug with podcast download button
- fixed podcast exceptions under windows
- fast mode enabled by default
- encoding incompatible files
- rating column move problem
- fixed exception when adding songs under linux
- transcode: convert incompatible files to iPod
- web download: get youtube, myspace videos
- iTunes 7.3.1 compatibility
- updated french translation
- play/pause pressing space
- default listbox height increased to improve readability
- more consistent rename behavior
- more consistent behavior on multiscreen setups
- issue with miniplayer sticked on left side of the screen
- this version has expired message
New in Floola 1.5 (Aug 6, 2007)
- fixed bug with podcast download button
- fixed podcast exceptions under windows
- fast mode enabled by default
- encoding incompatible files
- rating column move problem
- fixed exception when adding songs under linux
- transcode: convert incompatible files to iPod
- web download: get youtube, myspace videos
New in Floola 1.4 (Jul 28, 2007)
- iTunes 7.3.1 compatibility
- updated french translation
- play/pause pressing space
- default listbox height increased to improve readability
- more consistent rename behavior
- more consistent behavior on multiscreen setups
- issue with miniplayer sticked on left side of the screen
- this version has expired message
- id3v1 genres bug
- podcast management simplified and improved
- fixed a bug removing items
- fixed path cosmetic issue in edit info window under win and linux
- fixed rare issue when writing id3 tags
New in Floola 1.3 (Jul 23, 2007)
- podcast support improved
- faster artwork rebuild
- artwork rebuild bugs
New in Floola 1.2 (Jul 11, 2007)
- iTunes 7.3 compatibility
- issue with some translations
- bug closing amazon browser in some situations
- issues with searchbox
- dictionary.remove exception when adding items
- artwork database loading bug
- improved podcast compatibility
- artwork rebuild memory problem
- artwork rebuild improvements
- some rare exceptions
- problems copying items from iPod under linux
- create playlist of exported items
- minor other enhancements
- turkish translation
- luxembourgish translation
- issue opening artwork window
- artwork repair issue
- Galician translation added
- current playing item window when minimizing
- current playing track incorrectly truncated
- podcast played bullet bug
- mainwindow X and Y postion are saved
- fixed issues export item list
- fixed issue exporting playlist list
- copy issue under windows
- ghost items when deselecting playlists
- playlist reorder issue
- check updates in podcast window
- saved podcast window size
- iTunes 7.2 compatibility
- mainwindow splitter position
- hide compilation wasn't saved
- bugs with video playback
- AudioTagX.Read error
- fixed problems with amazon browser
- export iPod playlists
- new way to add items to playlists
- search podcasts
- further iTunes 7.2 compatibility
- updated german translation
- support for AACplus files
- updated french translation
- issue copying some files under windows
- mainwindow's width and height are now saved
New in Floola 0.52 Beta (Jun 19, 2007)
- PODCAST and SMART PLAYLIST support!
New in Floola 0.49 Beta (Jun 8, 2007)
- FULL SMART PLAYLIST SUPPORT!
- artwork database rebuild improvements
- fixed issue with non square album artwork
- improved podcast handling
- bug importing playlists
- iTunes 7.2 support
- less error messages will be shown
- bugs in artwork database rebuild
- improved artwork database rebuild speed
- smarter artwork thumbs loading (uses less cpu)
- smart playlist bug with "in the last" rule
- updated french translation
- bug copying songs from iPod under windows
- podcast headerReceived error
- artwork loads faster on iPod
- artwork error after item rename
- cosmetic bug deleting items
- cosmetic bug copying items
- album edit with double click
- album artwork rebuild
New in Floola 0.47 Beta (May 31, 2007)
- PODCAST and SMART PLAYLIST support!
New in Floola 0.46 Beta (May 28, 2007)
- FULL SMART PLAYLIST SUPPORT!
- artwork is shown for compilation albums
- playlist list can be made invisible
- hiding genre list work without resizing
- fixed some bugs in the edit info window
- items are browsed by genre first
- no lyric for wav warning
- wrond id, mhit error fixed
- fixed issue copying files containing unicode chars under windows
- issue editing lyrics
- issue editing some items with artwork
- hide compilation artists
- playback issue under windows
- notification window size under linux
- nicer rating icons
- faster browsing (with many files)
- lyric warning for unsupported format (ex .wav)
- header sort column error
- multiple rating warning
- fixed some minor bug adding files
- multiple files transfer bugs
- freeze after adding directly to playlist
- fixed podcast subscriptions errors
- improved podcast metadata decoding
- vary rare mhit problem
- various smart playlists issues
- podcast with no episodes can be stored on iPod
- podcast groups can be deleted
- repeat playback
- shuffle playback icon bug
- listbox multiselect workaround
- automatically delete old podcasts
- podcast browse by favorite
- when auto retrieval podcast were incorrectly downloaded
- podcast can be sorted by name (asc/desc)
- when browsing only by podcast, video podcast were not shown
- video podcast type icon
- deleting an item from a playlist would shuffle it
- playcount update bug
- rating doubleclick outofbounds
- problems rating tracks
- faster track rating
- hidden columns would reappear after restart
- various amazon window issues
- rare error 'wrong id' when adding compilation albums
- podcast issues in automatic mode
- better videos tag decoding (bitrate, length)
- podcast open www link
- last play date in item info
- faster playback song change
- you can unsubscribe from a podcast
- skip count in floola bug
- submit only music to audioscrobbler (no podcast, videos)
- expiration error message
- faster startup playcount update
- text overlap issue with big artwork
- check for software updates
- current playing song text issue
- smartpls update issues
- playback issue when end is reached
- empty podcast issue
New in Floola 0.45 Beta (May 24, 2007)
- FULL SMART PLAYLIST SUPPORT!
- playback issue under windows
- notification window size under linux
- nicer rating icons
- faster browsing (with many files)
- lyric warning for unsupported format (ex .wav)
- header sort column error
- multiple rating warning
- fixed some minor bug adding files
- multiple files transfer bugs
- freeze after adding directly to playlist
- fixed podcast subscriptions errors
- improved podcast metadata decoding
- vary rare mhit problem
- various smart playlists issues
- podcast with no episodes can be stored on iPod
- podcast groups can be deleted
- repeat playback
- shuffle playback icon bug
- listbox multiselect workaround
- automatically delete old podcasts
- podcast browse by favorite
- when auto retrieval podcast were incorrectly downloaded
- podcast can be sorted by name (asc/desc)
- when browsing only by podcast, video podcast were not shown
- video podcast type icon
- deleting an item from a playlist would shuffle it
- playcount update bug
- rating doubleclick outofbounds
- problems rating tracks
- faster track rating
- hidden columns would reappear after restart
- various amazon window issues
- rare error 'wrong id' when adding compilation albums
- podcast issues in automatic mode
- better videos tag decoding (bitrate, length)
- podcast open www link
- last play date in item info
- faster playback song change
- you can unsubscribe from a podcast
- skip count in floola bug
- submit only music to audioscrobbler (no podcast, videos)
- expiration error message
- faster startup playcount update
- text overlap issue with big artwork
- check for software updates
- current playing song text issue
- smartpls update issues
- playback issue when end is reached
- empty podcast issue
- quits faster under windows
- fixed issue searching unicode chars
- some issues when disabling artwork
- better videos tag decoding (bitrate, length)
- issue submiting to last.fm
- fixed click through window issue under Windows
- movie playback width corrected
- podcast issue
- copying under windows
- iPod manual change issue
- issue with Greek translation not loading
- bug deleting multiple playlists
- improved iPod generation detection
New in Floola b5 (Oct 11, 2006)
- fixed some smart playlist errors
- added support for mpeg 2.5 mp3s
- universal binary version added
- copy paste problems in add/edit window
- items are now added to iPod correctly ignoring the initial 'The' if present
- various contextualmenus problems
- smarted item sorting when browsing
- fixed issue with certain playlists (pltype=256)
- mhit error
- languages can be changed
- improved playlist sort option
- italian translation added
- fixed a couple of "don't warn again" that were reappearing
- Check all checkboxes were not all working as expected in the add/edit item windoow
- videos (.m4v and .mp4) can be added now to iPod video
- multiple selection fix
- smart playlist engine fixed
- iTunes 7 compatibility (iPod video only)
- speed problem under linux
- Audio lib problem under linux
- Less lib requirements under linux
- Added Amazon.com browser