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MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor Changelog

What's new in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.8.0

Sep 1, 2017
  • Database Edit - Import Tags into database and edit tags based on query (experimental)
  • Multiple databases allowed. User can switch between databases
  • Musicbrainz Artist Database available for download - Allows accurate use of Artist names
  • AutoCorrectArtist script - looks up artist in the internal MusicBrainz Database and allows correction
  • In Artist and AlbumArtist Combo boxes the Musicbrainz database is searched
  • Update to Tablib-sharp

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.7.0 (Oct 12, 2016)

  • MusePack SV8 Support
  • Fixed some errors in Lyrics Search
  • Update to Tablib-sharp

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.6.0 (Nov 14, 2015)

  • Adding LastFM Cover Lookup
  • Added MusicBrainz Cover Lookup
  • Added Discogs Cover Lookup
  • Implemented Reading and saving of Opus Tags and Properties
  • Implemented Reading and saving of Tags and Properties for DSF File Format
  • Store Cover Art with the highest possible JPG Quality
  • Updated Project definition to .Net 4.5
  • Sorting on Track in the Grid didn't work correctly, because String Sorting was used instead of Numeric Sorting
  • Conversion: Run conversions in different threads.
  • ID3 Comments were not always cleared correctly
  • When not all information was returned from a MusicBrainz search, an NullPoinzter Exception was raised
  • Some File Types produced an error on Save, if all Tags have been removed

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.5.0 (Oct 14, 2014)

  • Updated Translation files
  • Identify function was broken due to some changes at Music Brainz
  • Lyrics Search for Artists containing the word "The" was not working
  • Updated Lyrics Engine to latest version
  • The TagEdit Form "Remove Existing Picture" CheckBox State is stored persistent
  • Existing user folder thumb is used when searching for covers
  • Changed default setting for Organise Files

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.4.0 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Fetched latest Transifex translations
  • MPTAG-33: Use Version 2 of MusicBrainz WebServices
  • MPTAG-32: Identify File should use Chromaprint
  • When an Internet Lookup returns only 1 album, the Multiple Album found dialog was shown
  • The Browse Folder Button in Settings -> General -> Ripping didn't allow selecting folder
  • Fix random crashes due to disposing a form too early

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.3.0 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • New TRanslations via Transifex (Danish, Dutch, French, Lithuanian, Swedish, Spanish). Thanks to all translators
  • MPTAG-19: Added BPM Detection
  • MPTAG-29: Allow Adding of User specific Genres to the list of Genres selectable
  • MPTAG-31: Recognize M4B Files
  • Lyrics Sites are now selected via ListView
  • If MPTagThat is already started and it is invoked via Explorer Right Click, just refresh the running instance instead of starting a new version
  • Added Transifex support for language files (thanks Chefkoch)
  • MPTAG-30: Fixed Problems creating folders with special characters
  • Activate the CD Rom Drive Node in Treeview, when a CD is selected
  • When a CD was already inserted in the drive, before start of the application, no FreeDB lookup was performed
  • Upgrade to latest Elegant Ribbon Version
  • Upgrade to latest Lyrics Engine
  • The Main window was not always brought to front in all cases
  • When a Network folder was the last selected folder, the Treeview didn't get expanded on startup
  • Don't list the Bin and Control folder in Treeview, as they will not contain editable content
  • Typing a Genre into the TagEdit Combo, while in MultiEdit, didn't take the change without ticking the check box as well
  • updated to latest BASS binaries
  • Wrong link in About box
  • Remove Language Tool. No longer needed, because translation is via TRansifex

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.2.0 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Added a Quick Folder selection combo, which also contains the last 20 used folders
  • Internet Lookup was picking up the wrong Album from Multiple Album selection list

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.1.0 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Handle WMP Ratings correctly in the Grid Display
  • Fixed a crash when a file contained WMP Ratings

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.1.0.0 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Replaygain Support: TRack Gain and Album Gain can be calculated
  • Script: Added Sample script for changing encoding
  • General: File currently processed is shown in Status Bar
  • General: When working on large number of files a Database will be used instead of keeping the files in memory. Should prevent Out Of memory errors
  • TagEdit: ArtistSort, AlbumArtistSort, AlbumSort and TitleSort are now available for all file types. Not only ID3
  • Rating support for OGG and FLAC
  • The "Star Rating" was not shown correctly in the Grid
  • Picturebox was not cleared in some cases
  • TagEdit: TDRC Frame was removed by mistake

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.7.0 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Cover Art: Added new setting to resize saved Cover Art to the specified maximum width
  • Cover Art: Added Context Menu to search for Coverart on Google based on Artist and Title
  • Cover Art: Allowing Drag and Drop of Images from Explorer or from a Website, e.g. Google Images
  • Cover Art: Enable Drag & Drop of Cover Art from the Non-Music Files Panel
  • Cover Art: Implement Drag & Drop Operation of Cover Art from Explorer to Ribbon Picture Box
  • General: Changed the way the tags are kept in memory, should allow reading a lot more files, without Out Of Memory Exceptions
  • TagEdit: The column for Star rating didn't have the correct background color
  • Language: Fixed some spelling issues
  • TagEdit: Tag from Internet was returning wrong Album in some special cases

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.5.0 (Mar 7, 2012)

  • Added:
  • Localisation: French Translation provided by Pierre le Lidgeu et Colok. Merci
  • Fixed:
  • General: Deleting non-music files did no longer work
  • General: Avoid filling the Tagedit Form with first item of the grid when Scanning a folder
  • Cover Art lookup was broken due to change in Amazon Interface. Made the code a bit more generic, so that it won't break on future changes
  • Cover: iTunes does not recognize Artwork if MimeType is not set
  • TagEdit: Disable editing ID3 v2.4 only frames, when ID3 2.3 is set as default Format for saving
  • Tagedit: The Id3 v2.4 TMCL was not handled correctly
  • TagEdit: The TCMP (Part of Compilation) flag was noit written correctly
  • TagEdit: Saving CoverArt was failing due to some logic error. Converted to FreeImage use
  • Tagedit: Non-Standard ID3 Frames were written multiple times
  • Tagedit: Original RElease Year handling corrected
  • TagEdit: Non-Standard ID3 Tags were not updated
  • TaglibSharp: The ID3 v2.3 IPLS frame was not correctly returned

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.5.0 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • GUI: Added Picture dimensions to the Thumbs title in the Non-Music File section
  • General: Using FreeImage to Create and Resize the Non-Music Files Thumbs
  • GUI: Added "Unknown" Fileicon to be displayed, when a non-music file extension is not found
  • General: Use FreeImage to create Pictures instead of Windows Image. should prevent Exceptions
  • Scripts: Script to change the Picture Description in Songs to "Front Cover" so that iTunes will recognise it
  • TagEdit: Copy (Ctrl+C) didn't work for the text fields in the Tagedit control
  • Settings: Radio Buttons in ID3 Settings, were not working correct
  • Catch OutOfMemoryException in case of an invalid picture

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.4.0 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Cover: under some circumstances a Cover was added twice to a file
  • Cover: Set Description of added Cover to "Front Cover" so that it is recognized by iTunes / iPod
  • TagEdit: Added Vertical Scrollbar capabilities to TagEdit Control

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.3 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Tagedit: Prevent Null value assignment to tag values when editing in Grid
  • Cover Art: Amazon changed API, so an additional parm in the request is necessary

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.2 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Tagedit: Edit of Non-MP3 file caused an error
  • TagEdit: Prevented an error when emptying a title directly in the Grid
  • General: Set Focus when opening Dialogs in the Detail pane, so that the defaultz button actions are used.

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.1 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • General: Performance improvement for startup. Don't access CD Drives during startup
  • Tagedit: Added a Warning icon to the User defined Tab, when user defined frames are found
  • Tagedit: Added a button to remove all use defined frames
  • Tagedit: Remove empty Lyrics and Rating tags
  • Tagedit: Better Error Handling for Non Standard Frames
  • Tagedit: Better Error handling, when reading tags
  • Tagedit: Save was always creating a Lyrics and a Rating frame by mistake
  • Tagedit: Exception, when a file contained user defined frames with empty data
  • Rip: Last Track from FreeDB Query wasn't checked automatically for ripping
  • Rip: When changing a CD, while in Rip View, the view was not refreshed
  • Rip: Corrected Timeout in FreeDB Query
  • Rip: Cancel Ripping was not working correctly
  • Settings: Added Option to ID3 Settings, which allows removing of user defined frames automatically on save

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 3.0.0 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • GUI: Complete redesign of GUI
  • GUI: Added Find / Replace to Ribbon
  • GUI: Show a symbol for changed tracks, as the color for changed rows can't be seen, when all rows are selecteed
  • General: .Net 4.0 now required
  • General: Setup will now uninstall previous version before installing new version
  • General: Added "Cancel ALl" Button to Cover Search dialog
  • TagEdit: Added a button, which copies content of Artist to AlbumArtist
  • TagEdit: Allow changing of Type and Desc of an existing Picture
  • TagEdit: Organise uses now no longer just only the filename as target, but will allow to fully qualify the format of the filename
  • TagEdit: Added Ribbon for Validate / Fix MP3 Songs
  • TagEdit: Added re-search dialog, if nothing is found or wrong album displayed
  • TagEdit: Cash retrieved covers, so that the user isn't asked multiple times on Cover Search
  • TagEdit: Allow Lyrics Search, when Multiple Songs are selected
  • TagEdit: 0003495: Ability to store Cover Art only in folder thumb and don't touch the Music File
  • TagEdit: 0003496: Reset the Number count in the ribbon to 1 after folder change
  • TagEdit: 0003488: Better handling of Read-only files
  • TagEdit: 0003479: User may change Text Encoding for MP3 files
  • TagEdit:0003518: Setting to display TagEdit Details in Top or Bottom Panel
  • General: Handle exceptions when loading Main Menu. The splash screen sometimes kept open without any further reaction
  • General: Further Performance Improvement on Folder Scan

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 2.0.4034 Build 35136 (May 31, 2011)

  • General: Don't save folder.jpg as hidden
  • General: Implemented sorting of Grid on Multiple columns
  • Rip: Enable Rip buttons on program startup, if a CD is present in drive
  • Rip: Prevent failure, when RIP button is pressed, without a CD drive selected in the Treeview
  • Rip: Don't block User interface while Ripping
  • Rip: Set Wait Cursor while querying FreeDB
  • Rip: Capture Timeout on FreeDB query and write meaningful Message
  • Rip: Fixed error when ripping single tracks and the first one is omited
  • Rip: Ribbon ComboBox entry for the Last used encoder for Ripping was not set correctly
  • Conversion: Don't block User Interface during Conversion

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 2.0.4014 Build 22365 (May 31, 2011)

  • Lyrics: Updated LyricsEngine to 1.5.5.0
  • Encoding: FAAC is now used for AAC encoding instead of Winamp aacplus.
  • Encoding: WMA Lossless Ripping / Conversion was not working correctly
  • Encoding: Progress Counter for Conversion was not updated
  • Ribbon: Upgrading Ribbon Component to Version 3.8
  • Ribbon: Zooming of Gallery Item no longer worked after ribbon upgrade
  • Ribbon: Added some separators in Ribbon
  • General: Color was not correctly reset, when hovering in Treeview
  • General: Enable / Disable the Buttons on Rip and Burn Page, when a media is inserted / removed
  • General: Make controls use the Themes
  • General: Some controls were missing translations

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 2.0.3987 Build 39202 (May 31, 2011)

  • New version of BASS libs. Should fix problems some user have

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 2.0.3960 Build 40336 (May 31, 2011)

  • Changed Logging to NLog. This allows to keep the last 10 log files available amongst other comfortable logging methods.
  • Display progress count besides the progress bar
  • Updated Norwegian strings - Thanks again Roy
  • Ribbon: Update "Recent Folders" List in the ribbon Application menu on a folder change
  • Selecting a CD/DVD drive in Treeview with no media inserted resulted in an error in the log
  • CD/DVD Drive was not detected correctly. This caused Rip to fail
  • Waitcursor not reset after a Database Scan finished
  • Wong version displayed on setup
  • Some files and folders have been left over on an uninstall
  • Fixed possiblle exception when reading non-music files
  • Burner: Burning files, which don't conform the CD Specs (44khz, stereo), failed
  • Cover Art in Ribbon was not always cleared correctly on folder change.
  • Fixed crash on OutOfMemoryException, when scanning a very large amount of files with subfolders included
  • The non-music Files area was not always cleared on folder change
  • Fixed crash when processing a non-music file, which has no extension.
  • The SaveAll function got an exception, if not all rows were selected.
  • Ribbon: Save Button had wrong action assigned, causing a dialog to pop up instead of saving changes

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 2.0.3890 Build 30591 (May 31, 2011)

  • Implementation of new Ribbon Component
  • Added Context Menu to the Non-Music File Listview, which allows easy renaming of graphic files to folder.jpg
  • Show Non-Music Files when selecting a folder. Allows Renaming / Deleting / opening the non-music file
  • Show WaitCursor for long running actions
  • Added Screentips to the various Buttons in the ribbon
  • Quickedit Control on right Panel side for changing quickly the most used tags
  • Ctrl-F11 toggles the Quickedit Panel
  • Localisation of Splashscreen
  • Added support for KeyTips. i.e. Pressing "Alt" shows the Keytips on the Ribbon Button. Due to a bug in the ribbon component, tghose are not shown for spli buttons
  • Moved Coverart Display / Handling to Ribbon. FileInfo Panel removed.
  • Removed Progress Popup. Progressbar is now in Status Bar
  • Allow 1-digit Disc/Track Numnber on Rename / Organise
  • Ability to hide the Player, which gives more editing space
  • Changed some default keystrokes so that they will not collide with the "Alt+" shortcut supplied by the ribbon
  • Bring Form to front after startup
  • Check for valid screen position and screen size before setting it from Config. Sometimes the screen wasn't shown because of invalid coordinates
  • On first use the Scripts Combo Box was not populated. Use standard script for switching artists.
  • Database Search: Wrong default Filter being used
  • TagEdit: Clicking on the same link in the Navigation pane of the Single / Multi Tagedit Dialog causes the Detail page to be hidden
  • Preferences: Changing a Theme and cancelling out of the dialog should restire the old theme
  • Preferences: Theme was not applied correctly to Group Boxes
  • Background color of Rating cell in Tracks grid was not shown correctly.
  • Remember Last Used Script for Single Tag Edit Dialog
  • Various Translations.

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 1.1.3582 Build 27754 (May 31, 2011)

  • Added support for Network folders View. Views are selectable via Combo Box
  • New Find / Replace function. Reachable via (Ctrl + Alt + F and Ctrl + H). icons still to be done
  • Added support for "Compilation". useful for iTunes / iPod users
  • Update of Lame encoder
  • Upgraded cdrtools to new version
  • Update of Lyricsengine to latest version. Seeklyrics no longer supported, LyricsPlugin site added instead

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 1.1.3539 Build 36477 (May 31, 2011)

  • Scripts can be used on Organise to override target folder
  • Tagging: Requests to Amazon are now signed to comply with the new API

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 1.1.3489 Build 33914 (May 31, 2011)

  • Language: Added Language Tool in the hope to get more translations
  • Language: added Spanish translation
  • General: MPT can be now invoked from the Explorer Context menu and will read all files of the selected folder
  • Setup: Options to select creation of startup menu, Desktop Shortcut and Explorer Context Menu
  • General: Added new startupparms "/folder=" and "/portable"
  • Riping: Added Option to Eject CD when finished with Riping
  • Riping: Added Option to select the Target Folder after Riping
  • TreeView: Folders can be renamed by editing the label of the node in the TreeView
  • Language: Added bitrate range to the description of the Lame presets
  • Lyrics: Upgrade of Lyrics Engine
  • TreeView: Folders with the System attribute set to on, where omitted
  • Organise: Translation for "Disc Number" was not used
  • Tagedit: Selection combos for Artist, AlbumArtist and Album where not filled correctly
  • Riping: When a CD is inserted, the Riping View should be displayed automatically
  • Riping: When a CD is inserted, all tracks on the CD should be selected in the Rip View
  • Keys: Changed the default Key map for "Remove all Comments" from F2 to F4, so that F2 can be used for invoking edit within the grid
  • FolderScan. Capture errors reading a file and log the filename
  • Database Search: Searching for multiple fields, e.g. Artist and Title / Album was not working
  • Player: Playback was stopping after the first song of the playlist finished
  • TreeView: Prevent nullref, when filter is added, with no column selected

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 1.1.3434 Build 16708 (May 31, 2011)

  • TagEdit: Saving Tags in Database View, resulted in wrong updates to the Music Database
  • DatabaseScan: Capture Exception, when retrieving files from database and the physical file no longer exists
  • TagEdit: Single Lyrics could not be deleted
  • BASS: Init Bass engine with "No Sound" device, so that Non-player functions, like convert work also on machines without sound card

New in MPTagThat the MediaPortal Tag Editor 1.1.3412 Build 36986 (May 31, 2011)

  • TreeView: Ability to specify Filters on FileName and Tags
  • Player: Allow saving of playlists with relative pathes
  • Layout: Added "Path" column to the Tracks grid, which is initialy hidden an can be displayed by right-click on the column header and ticking it
  • TagEdit: Made Album a Comboboin MultiTagEdit to allow easier selection of multiple entries
  • General: Don't handle the Delete key, when the grid track has no focus. this allows the use of delete on other controls as well
  • Layout: Moved Status column to be the first column in the GridViewColumns
  • TagEdit: Combo Bofor AlbumArtist was not filled correctly
  • TagEdit: Convert coverart in BMP format to jpg when saving folder thumb (folder.jpg)