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Bandcamp Downloader Changelog

What's new in Bandcamp Downloader 1.4.1

Feb 28, 2022
  • Improvements:
  • Added / updated translations thanks to contributors. #203 #205
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue when trying to download tracks containing special characters in their title. #189

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.4.0 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Added an option to download tracks and cover arts using HTTP instead of HTTPS. You can use this option if your HTTPS traffic to Bandcamp is blocked. Thanks @LedAlex! #185 #193
  • Improvements:
  • Added / updated translations thanks to contributors. #170 #184 #190
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed lyrics not saved. Thanks @roonel! #176 #182

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.3.5 (Nov 8, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed HTML characters not decoded in metadata. #157
  • Improvements:
  • Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: Italian.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.3.4 (Oct 30, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed discography download. Thanks @Nebula-Mechanica! #150 #152
  • Improvements:
  • Added the following languages thanks to contributors: Ukrainian.
  • Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: Portuguese.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.3.3 (Sep 24, 2020)

  • Fixed the reading of Bandcamp metadata since their changes.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.3.2 (Aug 25, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • Added the following languages thanks to contributors: Dutch.
  • Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug that caused the release date for tracks to be set to '1'. Thanks @Nebula-Mechanica! #144 #145

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.3.1 (Nov 2, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • Added the following languages thanks to contributors: French, Portuguese.
  • Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: Spanish.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug preventing the app from downloading discography for some artists. Thanks @yuyoyuppe!

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.3.0 (Aug 7, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • Added the following languages thanks to contributors: Chinese.
  • Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish.
  • Removed the Ukrainian language as not complete.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the log position reset when opening the Settings window. #112

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.2.0 (Jun 17, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Reduced exe file size by 1 MB.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a regression that caused a crash when an album ends with a space followed by dot(s). #111
  • Fixed a bug (another one) preventing downloads from being cancelled in some conditions.
  • Fixed some UI freeze when downloading big artwork files.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 1.1.0 (Jun 13, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: German, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Spanish.
  • More data will be logged when a crash occurs.
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug causing albums with no tracks to be downloaded. Thanks @wilbishardis! #106
  • Fixed a bug preventing the app from getting updates info on Windows 7. #109

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.10.0 (May 13, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Added "About" section on Settings window.
  • Improvements:
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug preventing the cover art to be saved in the tracks. #88

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.9.0 (May 4, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Starting next version, the changelog will be displayed when a new version is available.
  • Starting next version, an option will allow to directly download the new version from the application.
  • Improvements:
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed playlist creation for tracks with foreign characters. #82
  • Fixed application crash when saving tracks to a path with more than 260 characters.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.8.2 (Apr 25, 2019)

  • Fixed the track path stored in playlist files. #82

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.8.1 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug preventing the "Playlist file name format" setting to be saved in the ini file.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.7.0 (Apr 17, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Added an option to customize the cover art file name. #77
  • Added german localization. Thanks @Simonwep for the complete translation! #78
  • Added link to the translation guidelines next to the language setting.
  • Improvements:
  • The English name of any language is now displayed next to the local language name in settings.
  • The track file name setting is now checked and must have the mp3 extension. #80
  • The proxy port setting is now checked and must be an integer.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Minor bug fixes relative to the UI.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.6.0 (Apr 10, 2019)

  • Added localization #67 for english and french. If you wish to help translate the application in another language, please see the guidelines.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.5.0 (Mar 12, 2019)

  • When a new version is available, its number is displayed on the main window.
  • Updated dependencies to their latest version. This should fix issue #76 (false positive from Windows Defender).

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.4.2 (Mar 8, 2019)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed issue #75 that would prevent downloading tracks with a name with less than 3 characters.
  • Fixed exponential back-off mechanism that was inactive for artwork files.
  • Improvements:
  • Updated dependencies to their latest version.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.4.1 (Jan 22, 2019)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed issue that would cause the program to crash when the artwork file was already existing in the target folder.
  • Fixed issue #73 that would stuck the downloads in an endless loop when downloading a cover art failed.
  • Fixed issue that would report an incorrect number of tries when downloading a cover art failed.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.4.0 (Dec 24, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Added {album}, {year}, {month} and {day} placeholders to the file name format. #72
  • Bug fixes:
  • {month} and {day} placeholders are now formatted on two digits; for instance: "05" instead of "5".

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.3.0 (Dec 18, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Added an option to disable notifications sound (off by default). #71
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed race condition #54 that would make the program crash when downloading two albums with the same name.
  • Fixed issue with albums name too long to be supported by Windows.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.2.0 (Dec 8, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Added an option to download through a specified proxy. #70 You can choose between:
  • No proxy.
  • The system proxy.
  • A manually configured HTTP/SSL proxy.
  • Improvements:
  • Tracks size download is now done asynchronously in order to speed up the process. For instance, when downloading 124 albums, we got the following results:
  • Before: downloading tracks size took 33m30s.
  • Now: downloading tracks size takes 2m30s.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed issue #65: the total downloaded size reported when downloads were finished was wrong under some circumstances.
  • Fixed the exponential back-off mechanism that forced to wait 200ms (with default settings) before the first download try.
  • Fixed issue that would prevent the cover art to be saved in the folder when "☑ Convert to jpg" was unchecked.
  • Fixed issue that would prevent the settings file to be correctly saved after clicking on "Browse".
  • "☑ Download artist discography" was (un)checkable during downloads. No more.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.1.0 (Dec 2, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Added an option to empty tags from the downloaded files.
  • Added an option to disable checking for updates at startup.
  • Added a button to check for updates.
  • Improvements:
  • Various UI improvements.
  • Log file will be archived to BandcampDownloader.0.log if its size exceed 1MB. Only one archive log file will be kept.
  • Updated dependencies to their latest version.
  • Bug fixes:
  • After selecting a folder via the "Browse" button, the placeholders were lost. The default placeholders will now be added back.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.2.0.0 (Nov 17, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Added separate settings for the cover art downloaded in folder and the one saved in tags. #64
  • Lyrics can be saved to tags when available. #42 Thanks @ajsnyde!
  • You can now choose which tag should be saved (artist, title, album...) or not.
  • Added an option to remove comments from tags.
  • Added an option to reset settings to their default values.
  • The log is now saved to a file: BandcampDownloader.log.
  • Improvements:
  • Settings are now displayed on their own window.
  • Added advanced settings to the UI. #46 No need to edit your settings file anymore. Thanks @ajsnyde!
  • Log is now automatically scrolled if position is at the end. "☑ Auto scroll log" option has been removed.
  • DLL files are now packed inside BandcampDownloader.exe.
  • Updated dependencies to their latest version.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.9.3 (Mar 17, 2018)

  • Fixed issue #40 that prevented downloads of track when their name was too long.
  • Fixed issue #21 that prevented downloads of one-album artists when "☑Download artist discography" was checked.
  • Updated Json.NET and ImageResizer libraries to their latest version.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.9.2 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • Added an option to skip retrieved the track size #27. Progress is then based on the downloaded files count. Thanks @ajsnyde for implementing this!
  • Added an option to stop scrolling the log #29. Thanks @ajsnyde for implementing this!
  • UI revamp. Thanks @M4lik for working on this!
  • Updated Json.NET and ImageResizer libraries to their latest version.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.9.1 (May 22, 2017)

  • Fixed issue that prevented to download albums or tracks that contained whitespaces in their name.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.9.0 (May 22, 2017)

  • Added a confirmation dialog on closing the application when there are active downloads
  • Fixed the issue that prevented the application to download the cover arts
  • Fixed the issue that caused the application to crash when the album name was too long

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.9.0 (May 5, 2017)

  • Added a confirmation dialog on closing the application when there are active downloads #28
  • Fixed the issue that prevented the application to download the cover arts #31 #33
  • Fixed the issue that caused the application to crash when the album name was too long #22

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.8.0 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Added placeholder for {year}, {month} and {day} (album release date) that can be chosen for the download location. Thanks @kaktus313 for implementing this!
  • Added support for system proxy. Thanks @Aljenci for implementing this!
  • The default settings are now using the exponential back-off algorithm in order to prevent Bandcamp to throttle the downloads. Values can be tweaked in the settings file if you encounter some issues.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.7.1 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue with the option to download the artist discography.
  • Minor UI changes.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.7.0 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Added support for track pages (http://[artist].bandcamp.com/track/[track]) #18
  • Added option in config file to modify the file naming scheme #17

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.6.1 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Fixed issue #15 that prevented BandcampDownloader to correctly save the cover art files.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.6.0 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Added a new functionality to check for updates when starting the application.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.5.2 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Songs can now be downloaded under a artist/album folders architecture.
  • The maximum number of tries when a download fails is now configurable
  • An exponential back-off system has been implemented in order to bypass Bandcamp anti-spam filter. By default, this mechanism will not be used, you have to manually edit your settings file. See help here.
  • BandcampDownloader now checks if files are already present in the download folder in order to prevent to download twice the same files in case an error occurred and the downloaded has been restarted.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.5.1 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Fixed issue #9 that prevented BandcampDownloader to retrieve the artwork file size. Thanks @dashWo for fixing this!

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.5.0 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Added option to save the current settings to a file (named BcDlSettings.json, located next to the .exe file). Settings are automatically loaded when starting the application.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.4.3 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Fixed issue #1 that prevented BandcampDownloader to find the correct url to download tracks.

New in Bandcamp Downloader 0.1.4.2 (Apr 21, 2017)

  • Updated Json.NET and ImageResizer libraries to their latest version.