May 16th, 2012· Implemented spectral view.
· Support for AIFF files on Windows.
· Genre tags are now retrieved from Discogs.
· VinylStudio no longer (erroneously) checks whether the track has been saved before when using 'Save Track As'.
· When playing a recorded file or saved track, VinylStudio no longer displays a 'do nothing' volume slider when it shouldn't. It should only be there when playing back to an ASIO device.
· Fixed missing sample rate display in the Recording Options dialog when using ASIO.
· Fixed a crash sorting the album list with no collection open.
· Fixed a rare crash connected with duplicate track names.
· Report failure to load the LAME MP3 encoder when saving tracks in MP3 format, rather than crashing.
· Switched over to using Discog's JSON interface. This improves the speed and accuracy of Discogs searches and is more future-proof.
· Album art is now not retrieved automatically by default. This speeds things up somewhat. Check 'Auto' to change this behaviour.
· By popular request, when preparing to record an album, you can now select the artist from a dropdown list of the existing artists in your collection.
· Fixed a problem where the numeric genre code was being prepended to the folder name when using [Genre] in the save tracks template.
· Increased the number of hiss filter settings from 4 to 8 (more precision).
· Preserve commas in the file names of saved tracks. This also applies to track names on MP3 CDs.
· When saving tracks, if you change something like the genre or the album year the track will be saved again (previously, VinylStudio reported 'track already saved').
January 24th, 2012· Clipping was not being shown on some machines when recording using ASIO.
January 24th, 2012· Re-enabled WASAPI on Vista and Windows 7, but not for devices such
· as the NAD PP-3 using USB Audio Codec as there are problems
· Windows problems) with this combination.
· There is now an option to turn WASAPI off, if it doesn't work for
· your particular device.
· Fixed a couple of problems inserting trackbreaks while recording.
December 28th, 2011· By popular request, there is now an option in the Recording Options dialog to determine whether or not VinylStudio stops monitoring your recording when you leave the Record tab.
· Fixed a rare crash in Check Level (and Record) on Vista and Windows 7.
· Disabled WASAPI for now; there are problems with USB audio devices on Windows 7, looks like a Windows bug. Apologies to those affected.
December 21st, 2011· You can now load and save 'noise samples' for use with the hiss filter. When used, this avoids the need to define a noise sample for each recorded album side
· You can now view a frequency analysis of the noise sample used by the hiss filter ASIO support
· The limit on the maximum number of tracks (previously 399) has
· been removed
· Fixed a bug not changing the album status to 'Recorded' when recording completes
· You can now use the catalog number to look up albums on Discogs
· To do this, precede it with a #
· VinylStudio now uses WASAPI to record sound on Vista and Windows 7. This gives a cleaner signal path but if your recordings exhibit 'dropouts' or skips, try setting 'Turn off display' to
· Never in Control Panel - Power options. This advice also applies if recording via ASIO
· You can now display the sample rates and bit depths supported by your sound card
· VinylStudio now starts and stops monitoring automatically when you return to / leave the Record window (suggested by Neil Paisnel)
· Fixed a crash burning MP3 CDs and DVDs (sorry about that)
· Migrated to version 2 of the Discogs API (but still using xml and the old endpoints)
· Fixed a problem dragging markers in the Split Tracks window at higher sample rates
· Fixed an occasional crash dragging markers in the 'Split Tracks' window
December 21st, 2011· Correctly increment the album side when recording completes and the current screen is not the record screen (regression from V7.5)
· Fix a tab display glitch when opening another collection.
December 21st, 2011· Increase maximum number of tracks from 199 to 399.
· Fix empty album list in Lookup Track Listing window when the album list is filtered.
December 21st, 2011· Comply with new rules for accessing the Amazon online databases
· Access to amazon.jp will stop working soon and has been removed
· Dropped support for filenames > 256 characters in length because Windows Explorer cannot handle such long filenames
· Fixed a display glitch in the maximimum recording time dropdown
· Fixed a problem arising with the Discogs database
December 21st, 2011· Fix a problem saving tracks - this process sometimes terminated prematurely.
· Fix the display of the results of batch normalisation. The process itself worked but displayed the wrong results
December 21st, 2011· Fix a problem opening collections on networked drives.
December 21st, 2011· You can now print your collection (or a selected part of it)
· You can now sort and / or filter the album list in various ways
· This makes it easier to find your way around large collections
· You can now flag individual albums with a 'status' - recorded split into tracks, etc. This helps you keep track of your workflow
· We have added a time scale to the waveform display
· There is also now an (optional) vertical scale and scrollbar in the waveform display in the Cleanup Audio window
· You can now move albums between collections
· The Split Tracks window now contains a button to search the Web for track listings
· The maximum number of tracks in an album has been raised from 99
· to 199
· VinylStudio now tags WAV files when saving your tracks in WAV format. Please be aware that not all players can read these tags.
· When opening Internet Explorer, VinylStudio will now launch the currently configured default browser (whatever it might happen to be) rather than always launching IE.
· You can now correct the channel balance after recording; you can also elect to normalise each channel independently
· Markers (the little yellow triangles) can now be used in the Split Tracks window as well as the Cleanup Audio window
· You can insert a trackbreak while recording by pressing B, and a user marker by pressing M. You can do this from the Record or Split Tracks windows
· You can now specify whether or not a particular track is saved when you invoke VinylStudio's 'Save Tracks' function. Thus, some tracks can be omitted, if that's what you want to do
· By popular request, you can now tell VinylStudio to add a gap between tracks (and you can specify what it is)
· VinylStudio now supports 88.2 and 176.4 kHz files
· Holding down the Alt key displays the fader handles at all times even if no fade in / out has been defined. This lets you set a fader without having to open the Adjust Faders dialog
· The default fade time is now remembered as the last setting used
· The album title written to audio CD's now includes the release year (if there is one)
· By request, we have removed the leading zero from displayed track times (e.g. 2:19 in place of 02:19)
· When deleting files, VinylStudio now moves them to the Recycle bin rather than deleting them permanently
· Fixed a bug with additional filter sets at sample rates other than 44 kHz (reported by Dieter Karner)
· Fixed a problem scanning very long (> 400 minutes) files for
· clicks
· Increased the maximum number of tracks from 99 to 199 VinylStudio can now handle files with names longer than 255 characters. Not all media players can do this though so it still pays to keep your album / track names reasonably short
· VinylStudio now displays the size of the cover art retrieved from
· online databases
· A few minor bug fixes
August 7th, 2010· VinylStudio is now more tolerant of malformed or damaged MP3 files.
· The marker time is now displayed the status bar while dragging a marker in the waveform display.
· Added support for the 'Grouping' tag.
· VinylStudio can now import .mp4 files (as well as .m4a files).
June 30th, 2010· support for FLAC, Ogg and WMA files (on the Mac, FLAC, Ogg, AIFF, AAC, Apple Lossless and CAF)
· drag-and-drop album art from your browser
· play at reduced speed, to find those elusive clicks
· many detailed improvements
March 13th, 2010· normalisation
· 'turbo' declicker settings for difficult material
· many detailed improvements
February 10th, 2009· Presets for the declicker and sound filters, embed album art in MP3 files, more flexibility naming saved tracks, better support for complation albums, support for higher sample rates, improved declicker and many other detailed improvements.
September 17th, 2008· Much improved user interface and many other new features
September 17th, 2007· New: A complete set of audio cleanup tools, including declicking, hiss, hum and rumble filters and a graphic equaliser.
August 6th, 2007· We have added the ability to declick your recordings
April 4th, 2007· Much improved user interface to the track-splitting functions.
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