May 18th, 2012· Performance improvements when browsing the genre node in the Music browser
· Various SQL Server Compact fixes, related mainly to actions which includes path and/or filename
· Corrections for exceptions that could occur in the Music browser's startpage
· Correction for albums and artists could be missing from the lists in the Music browser
· Search related problems that could occur when searching with all fields from the search view are now handled
· Extended exception handling when adding album pictures
· Custom tag frames was not always properly saved for WMA files
· Browsing favourite tracks with SQL Server Compact databases could generate errors
· Improved error handling for SQL Server Compact databases in the album handling used when adding/updating tracks
· Improved handling for volumes for SQL Server Compact databases
· Corrections and improvements related to genre handling when upgrading databases from earlier Helium Music Manager versions
· SQL Server Compact database problems when artist ids should be fetched are improved
· Improved exception handling when deleting duplicate files
· Updates for the Slovak translation file
May 11th, 2012· Filters are now properly saved/loaded from the database
· Similar artists was not always returned when downloading artist information
· Playlist entries could not always be removed
· Correction for incorrect ratings when working with APE files
· Scrollbars was missing in the edit artist details windows for certain tabs
· The Artist view filter did not work fully when country was included in the filter
· Bug correction for the Music browser genre page which sometimes could throw an exception
· Corrections to the Music browser startpage (aritmetic overflow exception)
· Various SQL Server Compact fixes, related mainly to actions which includes path and/or filename
· Bug correction in the Polish language file
March 14th, 2012· Updated Italian language
· Updates for Czech language
· Device synchronization templates are now stored properly
· Apply commands in the CD-Ripper now works properly
· Summary and Now Playing panes now properly remembers their collapsed state
· Adding and removing favourite paths in the Music Explorer
January 30th, 2012· This version of Helium Music Manager contains corrections and improvements since the last release, mainly related to the Music Browser and Device Synchronization.
· This version also adds some corrections related to tag-reading and writing.
January 20th, 2012New features:
· New rendering technique for all Music Browser pages which gives much better browsing speed
· User interface enhancement enhancements using CSS3 (requires Internet Explorer 9) for Music Browser pages. Many pages are also "cleaned up" and comes with minor new functions and improvements.
· New Charts page in the Music Browser which allows you to more easily reach charts.
· The Summary, Now Playing and Windows Gadget are also using the new rendering techniques and also comes with user interface improvements.
· The Synchronize device tool has been reworked to support a new simpler to use user interface, support for more format conversions as well as a new synchronization mode which will allow you to synchronize data to a new iTunes playlist. This specific iTunes playlist can be synchronized to any device via iTunes, therefore giving support for synchronizationto any iPod/iPhone device no matter of which iOS/iTunes version that are installed.
· The Capitalizer can now be configured per field, if it should be used as well as which capitalization method that should be used.
· New comparison mode for the Find duplicates tool plus various improvements.
· Support for Custom parameters used whilst transcoding files.
· AAC support in Update Library.
· Autosynchronization with the Helium Music Streamer
· Updates to German and Polish languages.
Bug-fixes and improvements:
· The Discogs plugin supports the API version 2, giving much better performance, search results and returned data.
· The Amazon plugin has been updated so that it properly works again together with various performance optimizations.
· AKAs are properly downloaded from supported plug-ins.
· The workflow when downloading multiple Artist informantion has been much improved. Data is now merged so that no prior data is lost plus that the end user has the possibility to exclude artists before the background downloading starts.
· Improvements for Album Artist handling in the Tag Editor.
· Multiple improvements in the tagging engine to read "custom" tag-frames from other applications
· Corrections when Ogg Vorbis file times are read.
· Performance and bug fixes for SQL Server Compact databases.
· Equalizer presets are now properly stored and restored between sessions.
November 11th, 2011· This version of Helium Music Manager contains corrections and improvements since the last release (Helium Music Manager 8.2). It also comes with new functionality to easily connect to the Helium Audio Server (Premium and Network versions only).
· We have also released a updated version of Helium Music Streamer which also comes with bug corrections and minor improvements since the last version was released.
September 30th, 2011New features:
· The internal player now has a function which allows you to mark the playing track as a favourite track, favourite album or favourite artist.
· A new share function is available from the Internal Player which enables you to share the playing track easily to Facebook and Twitter.
· The CD-Ripper comes with a new simplified interface for selecting the output format, which enables ripping to more formats.
· The Windows Gadget comes with support for Lyrics.
· Improvements to the Add files failure dialog: Play, Properties, Delete and Open folder commands are now available.
· Hungarian translation is now included.
· Updates to German and Czech languages.
· Support for MixMeisters BPM tag field.
· Updated database drivers.
Bug-fixes and changes:
· SQL Server Compact Local ID Compatibility problem which could prevent importing/adding of files is now solved.
· SQL Server Compact size limitation (256 MB) is now increased to 2047 Mb.
· Please note that we do not recommend SQL Server Compact databases to be used with more than 35,000 tracks because of performance reasons.
· SQL Server Compact corrections in the Music Explorer.
· Unicode fixes for MySQL databases. Sometimes filenames could be incorrectly added to the database when the filename contained unicode characters.
· Updates to the Music Browser’s album page, which previously could have problems displaying the track list of albums with more than 50 tracks.
· Corrections when working with Smart Playlists. Sometimes when using randomized results, the content could be repeated.
· Correction for MusicBrainz PUID generating.
· Improvements to database importing as well as improvements to the error handling during import operations.
· The field encoder could incorrectly be available in the Tag Editor, which is now not possible.
· Improvements to the search view so that it performs less refreshing.
September 19th, 2011New database engine:
· The new database engine in Helium Music Manager 8.1 is more stable, better optimized for improved performance and more up-to-date compared to the database engine previously used.
· We have also decided to move away from the obsolete database format Access to SQL Server Compact 4.0.
· SQL Server Compact 4.0 is a more lightweight and competent format than Access which also enables users of Helium Music Streamer to operate with the new default database on 64-bit systems, something Access could not do.
· When using MySQL, the MyODBC layer is now no longer needed, enabling you to have an easier, improved and better integrated MySQL setup with the added benefit of much improved performance.
· SQL Server also comes with several optimizations which enable database requests to deliver data quicker.
· The migration process from Access to SQL Server Compact is fully automated and uses the new and improved importing functions.
Music Browser improvements:
· The Music Browser (Premium and Network versions) contains several enhancements such as improved and quicker paging functions, revised statistics page and support for per-user-favourites which is available from the statistics page (this applies specifically to the Network version when multiple users are configured).
· The new favourites lists enables you to quickly and easily browse your favourite artists, albums and tracks from the Music Browser.
Convert to format:
· Our Convert to format tool has been extended with support for many new formats. The end-user interface has also been simplified to make this process
· much easier for the end-user.
Join audio files:
· Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with a new tool which allows you to join multiple audio files into one single file.
· The tool can handle all music formats supported by Helium Music Manager as input formats and can output files into many different formats.
· The end-user can select if any silence should be added between tracks as well as whether a CUE file should be created.
Split audio file:
Similar to the new Join audio file tool, Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with a new tool which allows the end-user to split one large audio file into several smaller files. It allows you to create tracks in the following ways:
· By loading a CUE file
· Creating a specific number of tracks of equal length
· Create tracks of the same lengths
· Create manually defined tracks by specifying start and end offsets
· Creating tracks from existing subtracks
· The end-user can select between many different output formats.
Favourite folders in the Music Explorer:
· A end-user can quickly select if a specific folder under Library folders in the Music Explorer view should be a favourite folder.
· Folders marked as favourites can easily be reached from the right-click menu and are stored per-user in Helium Music Manager's database (Network version).
New Helium Music Streamer version:
· If you own a Helium Music Streamer license you will need to update to the most recent release of the Helium Music Streamer in order to continue using it after you have updated to Helium Music Manager 8.1. You can download Helium Music Streamer from the Customer Center.
Windows Gadget:
· The Windows Gadget (for Windows Vista and Windows 7) which allow you to easily remote control Helium Music Manager is back and graphically revised.
· The gadget allows end-users to see artist, title, rating, album picture and playing time. Music controls for play/pause and skip between tracks is available.
· Favourite and Suggested tracks can be accessed as well as artist biography and playing album details. The gadget is now included in Helium Music Manager's installer.
Free version improvements:
· We have enabled the equalizer fully in the free version as well as removed any bitrate limitations when using rip and convert function.
June 10th, 2011· This version contains corrections for the reports report via the Customer Center since the prior release.
· It contains important corrections related to artist ratings and therefore we recommend all users running any prior release to upgrade to this build.
May 17th, 2011· This version contains corrections for the reports report via the Customer Center since the prior release.
· It contains important corrections to adding of files to MySQL databases and therefore we recommend all users running any prior release to upgrade to this build.
April 30th, 2011Multi-User Support (Network Edition only):
· Helium Music Manager 8 Network Edition supports multiple users. This enables each user of Helium Music Manager to have individual song ratings, favourites and playlists etc.
· Multi-user support applies to Helium Music Manager’s Library and individual music track tags, allowing each user to record their own values.
The Helium Music Manager Library Multi-user support enables individual user values for the following library based tags:
· Song ratings
· Favourites (Artists, Albums and Tracks)
· Playlists
· Smart playlists
· Podcasts
· Playing history
· User categories
New version of Helium Music Streamer:
· The new version of the Helium Music Streamer also comes with multi-user support as well as support for new browsing views (years, smart playlists), subtrack support, Last.fm support and much more.
· Duplicate Finder (Premium and Network version)
· The Duplicate Finder has been completely rewritten for Helium music Manager 8 and contains a brand new user interface with new hot features such as comparission by MusicBrainz PUIDs and powerfull automated finding.
Podcast Support:
· A podcast (or non-streamed webcast) is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically which can be downloaded and replayed with Helium Music Manager. Common usage of Podcasts is for radio shows and similar events.
Sharing (Network Edition only):
· The Network Edition of Helium Music Manager supports user to user sharing of Playlists, Smart Playlists and Podcasts.
· When you create a new Smart Playlist, create a new Playlist or add a new Podcast, you get the opportunity to mark it as Shared.
· A shared item will be accessible for all members in the database.
Integrated support for Helium Music Streamer for iOS:
· Helium Music Manager 8 provides support for version 2.0 of Helium Streamer for iOS by way of specific commands to make synchronizing music to your iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad easier.
· This works in a similar way to Synchronize Device in that you define a list of music that you wish to synchronize to the iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad device.
· It differs from Synchronize Device in that once you have defined the list of music to synchronize; you start the actual synchronization from the device itself rather than Helium Music Manager.
Enhanced artist information downloading:
· This has been enhanced to enable the use of MusicBrainz PUID data to obtain artist information (pictures, biography, relations and more) from multiple sources in just one click.
February 28th, 2011· This version contains corrections for the reports report via the Customer Center since the prior release.
December 17th, 2010· This version contains corrections for the reports report via the Customer Center since the prior release. It contains a few important corrections to Smart Playlists and therefore we recommend all users running any prior release to upgrade to this build.
November 16th, 2010· This release corrects the start-up problem with iTunes 10.1 as well as a few other corrections reported via the Customer Center.
November 5th, 2010This release contains corrections to the following areas:
· Various corrections reported via the Customer Center since build 8660.
October 5th, 2010· Various corrections reported via the Customer Center since build 8640.
· Full preparation for Helium Streamer for iPhone.
September 1st, 2010· Previously created MySQL databases were sometimes unable to open.
· Corrections to Filename to tag when parsing full paths.
· Corrections to the File Rename Wizard. Paths and filenames are now correctly updated renaming files.
August 20th, 2010· New mode for the Artist view - Album Artist view, which enables you to only browse and view "Album Artists"
· Mapping of vorbis comment fields - You are now able to specify the tag identifiers that are mapped to a specific Helium Music Manager tag field.
· This enables you to get your previous ogg & FLAC files perfectly mapped into Helium Music Manager without losing any data. (This feature is available in Premium/Network versions only)
· New action for the Action Manager - Append field to existing field.
· Capability to define odd/even row coloring colors
· New WebService API commands
· Optimizations to the cache performance when using a database with larger amounts of data
· Corrections when using Subtracks in searches
· Corrections to Filename to Tag handling
· Corrections to the Device Synchronization wizard (duplicate handling plus exist checks)
· Corrections to the "Various Artists" node in the Music Explorer
· Minor corrections to multiple artist handling
· Recording and release year are now used in an "all" search
· Correction for auto track numbering with WAVE files
· Correction in Hotkey handling
· Corrections to USB devices appear/removal notifications
· Sorting corrections in the Playlist View when removing items
January 13th, 2010· Corrected handling for nested data transactions and MySQL which could cause problems on some systems.
· Corrections to iPhone synchronization with devices running on firmware 3.x.
· Some changes in the Volume Path handling when adding custom directories.
· Some minor corrections to the Last.fm scrobbling engine.
· Various minor corrections and enhancements.
December 15th, 2009· Important corrections to the Filename to tags tool
· On rare occasions some tag fields could be lost while using the Filename to tags tool.
· MySQL trouble with "Too many connections" while deleting files solved
· Corrections to the Tag Editor when editing full albums
· When tagging full albums the fields in the album pane will now be correctly saved to tags for all tracks
· CD ripper ejects after ripping
· Added support for automatic ejecting of CDs after ripping
· Corrections in send to album when using MS SQL Server
· Using the Send to Album feature could cause hangups
· Corrections to "Attached Pictures (Selected File)" Picture Pane mode
· The picture pane now shows embedded pictures only when using this setting
· Various corrections to offline data editing
· Favourite icon is now properly pained in the Album Browser
December 10th, 2009· Some problems in Helium Music Manager 7 build 7835 (released this monday) was found.
· The problems stopped Helium Music Manager 7 from starting on computers where Helium Music Manager 7 was not previously installed.
· Users who have been experiencing problems with starting the program should try this new build which solves these problems.
November 21st, 2009· This version contains corrections for problems reported by users since the last build as well as some minor tweaks and changes.
November 7th, 2009· This version contains corrections for problems reported by users since the last build as well as removal of code that some anti-virus applications misinterpreted as trojan code.
September 1st, 2009· This release is a maintenance release containing corrections since Helium Music Manager 2009 build 6930 was released.
· Our work with the next major version continues, be sure to keep an eye on our Blog for the latest news.
· Also note that the summer discount is still valid, purchase Helium Music Manager 2009 for only $29!
June 16th, 2009· improved support for iTunes 8.2. (related to device synchronization)
May 20th, 2009· This release is a maintenance release containing minor improvements and corrections since
March 10th, 2009· Apple firmware 2.x support (iPod Touch and iPhone).
· At last we now offer support for new versions of iPhone and iPod Touch (firmware 2.x+)!
· Revised Album Cover Manager
· The new album cover manager is a totally rewritten tool which will save hours of work when managing and downloading album covers for large collections.
· It will give you great control over which pictures that are assigned to your albums as well as a streamlined way to download new, change or remove covers.
· Language support added in the Last.fm plug-in.
· This gives you the ability to get information such as biography in your locale.
· Album Artist Sorting corrections.
· Key handling in Tag Editor (Sheet) corrected.
· Drag and drop corrections.
· Minor corrections in the File Rename Wizard.
· Corrections to the Discogs plug-in.
· Corrections to the freedb plug-in.
· Corrections to Send To Category (allows more than 2 levels).
· Improvements to the Browse Album in Music Browser toolbar button.
February 16th, 2009· Corrections to the File Rename Wizard when renaming and moving non-audio files.
· Corrections to template handling for the Tag Editor (Sheet), CD-Ripper, Subtrack Editor.
· Corrections to importing of iTunes databases.
· Minor improvements related to streaming music.
· Minor bug-fixes and adjustments.
February 7th, 2009· Corrections to the Discogs plug-in. Album pictures are now downloaded correctly.
· Corrections to issues with starting the application if using Polish or Czech language.
· Corrections to some tools not displaying columns correctly.
· Corrections to problems importing a previous Helium Music Manager database.
· LyricsFly plug-in is now included.
· Corrections to crashes when using the Evil Lyrics plug-in.
February 2nd, 2009· The Device Synchronization can be runned in the background to allow you to work whilst synchronizing
· Support for editing of Lyrics in Tag Editor (Sheet)
· Support for editing of Biography in Tag Editor (Sheet)
· Support for editing of Multiple Comments in the Tag Editor (Sheet)
· Support for editing of Attached Pictures in the Tag Editor (Sheet)
· New plug-in: LyricsWiki
· New plug-in: LyricsFly
· Improved repeat handling in the Internal Player
· New database field – has lyrics, can be used in lists as well as in queries
· Improvements for album rating and rating handling on MySQL
· More tolerant importing of data to a MySQL database
· Improvements to cut & paste handling in the Tag Editor (Sheet)
· Corrections when renaming a file from Track Details
· Send to existing album is now possible to perform from the Album Details, Albm Thumbnails and Coverflow views
· Send to category is now possible to perform from the Album Details, Albm Thumbnails and Coverflow views
· Sort order corrections for the Album Browser
· Incremental search added to the Content Filter
· New layout for the Last.fm status window
· Possibility to eject iPod device after synchronization
· Correction to adding Videos in Music Browser
· Corrections to refreshes in the tree (My Computer Node)
· Recursion problem in Music Explorer corrected
December 29th, 2008· Support for MTP/Plays-for-sure/Certified for Windows Vista device synchronization on 64-bit systems.
· The sidebar gadget now works on 64-bit systems.
· New plug-in system, smaller, better and faster plug-ins. It also allows for easier development of third-party plug-ins since it is based on the .NET 2.0/3.5 framework. More information for developers will be released shortly.
· NOTE: We recommend existing users to manually remove old plug-ins before installing this release to avoid ending up with duplicate plug-ins.
· The plug-ins are found in the Helium Plugins folder. No plug-ins will be removed automatically during the installation"
· New Last.fm extensions; Love track, add to your Last.fm playlist and tag a playing track with Last.fm tags.
· External Applications, Browse and Search commands can now be accessed from the main toolbar.
· The lend out filter in the Album Browser is reintroduced.
· Better handling of extra paths for the File Browser.
· Corrections to the remap path tool.
· Fixes for crashes when rating songs from certain views.
· Improved handling of BPM tag-fields that do not follow the ID3v2 standards.
· Minor changes to the FLAC decoding engine.
· Minor changes to the M4A decoding engine.
· Improvements to synchronizing of iPod covers.
· Improved drag 'n' drop handling for album covers. (Applies to multiple views).
· Improved auto converting of replay gain fields.
· Improved synchronization of iPod play data back to Helium Music Manager.
· Improved extraction of album pictures during updating of your Library.
· Improvements when restoring a backup.
· Corrections to the Album Details and Coverflow views when using Smart Playlists.
· Danish language support has been added
November 26th, 2008· Pictures attached to tags are now transferred to iPod devices during a device synchronization
· Several enhancements when synchronizing Play for sure devices
· Replay gain values will be converted to iTunNORM fields when converting to MP3 during a device synchronization to an iPod device to preserve volume normalization settings
· Bugfixes in the Album Details view
· Minor optimizations, improvements and bug fixes to the Coverflow mode
· MyODBC v5.1.x will now be used instead of MyODBC v3.5.x
· Updated language files
· Updated version of the Last.fm plug-in included
· Updated version of the Amazon plug-in included
· New toolbar items are available
· Performance improvements when using large Album reviews
· Optimizations when working with pictures attached to tags as album pictures
· Importing improvements
· When browsing files not in your database, attached pictures will now be supported in the Pictures Pane
August 6th, 2008· Corrections when viewing statistics with a Microsoft SQL Server database using a date format other than English
· Corrections when viewing statistics with an Access database
· Corrections when browsing to a country page in the Music Information Browser
· Corrections when writing FLAC tags with attached pictures
· Corrections when using Sonique visualisation plugins
· A few textual corrections
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