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Ethos Cataloger Changelog

What's new in Ethos Cataloger 1.5

May 20, 2019
  • Upgrade ATL library to v1.9 : support for even more audio files, tons of fixes, better compatibility, better speed

New in Ethos Cataloger 1.4a (Sep 21, 2015)

  • [GUI] - Links to online walkthrough/wiki now use a failsafe URL (i.e. that can be modified if the default wiki host goes down)

New in Ethos Cataloger 1.4 (Sep 3, 2015)

  • [GUI] - Links to online walkthrough
  • [ACQ] - Support of TAK files
  • [ACQ] - Support of MOD files
  • [ACQ] - Support of S3M files
  • [ACQ] - Support of DSF (DSD Stream File) files
  • [ACQ] - Support of OPUS files
  • [ACQ] - Support of XSPF playlists
  • [ACQ] - Support of ASX playlists
  • [ACQ] - Support of SMIL playlists
  • [ACQ] - Support of B4S playlists
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > Embedded PNG pictures in unsynchronized ID3v2 tags are now read properly
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > Embedded pictures in Unicode-encoded ID3v2 tags are now read properly
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > Track duration of most MIDI files is now accurately calculated
  • [FIX] - Scan > Scan screen now reacts properly when adding, renaming and removing folders on the filesystem
  • [FIX] - Scan > Switching from album detection "from tags" to "from folder" and vice versa is now possible without restarting Ethos
  • [FIX] - Rescan > Track changes within subfolders of the root folder are now properly detected (Windows only)
  • [FIX] - Rescan > Detecting new albums from tracks' tagging no longer crashes
  • [FIX] - Albums and Track Explorers > Opening the containing folder of a track or album whose path has changed since scan no longer results in an unexpected error
  • [FIX] - Settings > Scan or Export global settings do not reset to erroneous values when not visiting their tab in the Settings dialog

New in Ethos Cataloger 1.3 (Sep 4, 2014)

  • [COR] - Upgraded runtime prerequisites from .NET 3.0 to .NET 4.0
  • [ACQ] - Full UTF-8 and Unicode support for ID3v2, Vorbis, APEtag, FLAC, AAC/MP4/M4A and WMA tags (useful to properly read tracks with "foreign" characters such as japanese or chinese symbols)
  • [ACQ] - Support for FPL playlists (experimental, since FPL format is not documented nor stabilized officially)
  • [ACQ] - Support for RAR, GZIP and TAR archive formats
  • [ACQ] - Support for True Audio (.TTA) audio files
  • [ACQ] - ID3v1 tags contained in WAV files are now read
  • [ACQ] - Cuesheet acquisition now detects more information
  • [ACQ] - "Composer" field automatically recognized on Albums, based on tracks information
  • [ACQ] - "Rating" field automatically recognized on Tracks, based on tagging information
  • [ACQ] - SPC acquisition is now able to scan SPC files with version < 0.30
  • [ACQ] - Ethos now throws a warning in its Log when encountering an audio file without any metadata, or a playlist pointing to a file that does not exist
  • [GUI] - Settings screen > "Scan" section reorganized
  • [GUI] - Log screen > the log now displays seconds, and is more verbose during acquisition, saving and loading
  • [GUI] - Log screen > copying log lines to clipboard is now possible
  • [GUI] - Lock Album title on tracks explorer - tracks' album title is now linked to their album
  • [EXP] - Presets are now available for CSV field separators and delimiters
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > SV8 Musepack tracks info is now properly read
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > Embedded pictures are now correctly detected in ID3v2.2 tags
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > M4A files with embedded pictures are now read properly
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > Miscellaneous improvements in duration and bitrate detection for various audio formats
  • [FIX] - Acquisition > ID3v2 comments are now read properly
  • [FIX] - Export > Loading CSV export settings from a preset file (.xpp) now works correctly
  • [FIX] - Update > Update screen now correctly handles tracks within archives
  • [FIX] - Update > Update screen does not erroneously report missing elements from disabled (unchecked) scanning roots anymore
  • [FIX] - GUI > Track & Albums explorer : "Open containing folder" option now correctly opens containing folder when used on playlists and cuesheets
  • [FIX] - Ethos settings > Cross-tags reading and tag reading priorities are now properly saved from one session to the other
  • [FIX] - Regression from V1.2 : Saved settings are now correctly applied (instead of reset to default)

New in Ethos Cataloger 1.2 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • [GUI] - Link to Ethos interactive project and discussion groups
  • [GUI] - "Open containing folder" option in tracks explorer
  • [ACQ] - Support for AAC/MP4/M4A standard
  • [ACQ] - Support for embedded cover art detection in Vorbis and AAC/MP4/M4A standards
  • [EXP] - HTML, single file : Album cover art thumbnail now displays left of tracklist instead of album header
  • [EXP] - CSV export now available
  • [FIX] - M4A and MP4 files are now mapped to the AAC acquisition module
  • [FIX] - Fixed error when trying to preview catalog export
  • [FIX] - Album cover art thumbnails always saved as PNG regardless of asked format, making them unreadable by IE

New in Ethos Cataloger 1.1 (Nov 1, 2013)

  • Ensured compatibility with Mono 3.2.3
  • [GUI] - Acquisition/Scan screen : Totally reworked active drive and special folders detection
  • [GUI] - Album art visualization in albums explorer
  • [GUI] - Revamped album art filename patterns settings GUI
  • [ACQ] - Support for Musepack SV8
  • [ACQ] - Added Disc number and Composer fields detection (existing collections need to be re-scanned to detect them)
  • [ACQ] - Various bugfixes and optimizations during acquisition
  • [ACQ] - Added embedded cover art detection for ID3v2, FLAC, APEv2 and WMA standards (Vorbis planned for next release)
  • [EXP] - Added an option to toggle on/off leading zeroes display on track numbers
  • [EXP] - Added %DISC and %COMPOSER exportable fields

New in Ethos Cataloger 1.0 (Nov 1, 2013)

  • [GUI] - The scan dialog's treeview now supports multiple selection (CTRL/SHIFT + click)
  • [ACQ] - Cuesheets are now supported
  • [ACQ] - A "read priority" can be set for each tagging standard
  • [ACQ] - Cross-tagging reading is now possible (if the field of the most prioritary tagging contains no value, Ethos looks for the same field in another tagging)
  • [EXP] - You can now define alternating row colors for tracklists (HTML/PHP export)
  • [FIX] - The scan dialog's treeview doesn't "forget" the scan state of a folder when successively collapsing and expanding its parent (Scan dialog)
  • [FIX] - Selecting just one album enables the export button (Export dialog)
  • [FIX] - Creating a new Catalog now resets the acquisition folders
  • [FIX] - Update CUE file reader to CueSharp v0.5
  • [FIX] - Fixed a bug in parsing seconds in PSF files duration
  • [FIX] - Fixed a bug in parsing ZIP file contents (filenames with special characters)
  • [FIX] - Greatly improved MIDI files parsing speed
  • [FIX] - Crash under Linux when selecting nothing in an Open file dialog and hitting OK

New in Ethos Cataloger 0.9 (May 31, 2006)

  • [GUI] - The export dialog has been redesigned to offer a clearer interface
  • [GUI] - Header and footer editors have been moved to the export dialog
  • [GUI] - The Save button of the main window now works when clicked on directly
  • [GUI] - When looking for a picture in the albums explorer with the [...] button, the dialog will
  • be positioned in the album's folder
  • [GUI] - The "Scan & Exit" button is only enabled when there are albums to scan
  • [GUI] - The scan dialog's folder browser auto-detects directory changes (creation, deletion, renaming).
  • New removable media (CDs, DVDs...) is also detected each time the dialog is opened.
  • [GUI] - The rescan dialog allows you to change each source folder's scan type and album detection method
  • [COR] - Support for PSF audio format and its derivates (PSF2,SSF,DSF,USF,GSF,QSF)
  • [COR] - Support for SPC700 audio format / ID666 tags
  • [COR] - Added %AUDIOCODEC and %CODECFAMILY metakeywords
  • [ACQ] - It is now possible to import albums from M3U and PLS playlists (1 playlist = 1 album)
  • [ACQ] - The media detection engine has been rewritten to allow alternate ways of building albums, such as
  • automatic detection from playlist or building from tracks' "album" tag
  • [ACQ] - Uncompressed filesizes are detected for ZIP archive items
  • [ACQ] - Three modes are available to guess the albums' artist field, including "various artists" autodetection
  • [EXP] - XML export is available
  • [EXP] - Exported tracks can also be filtered according to criterions. New criterions feature codec family and
  • codec type, making it possible to ask for e.g. "all streamed lossless tracks"
  • [EXP] - PHP search now displays the number of found results (PHP export)
  • [EXP] - Album and track field labels are displayed everywhere (PHP export, multi-page HTML export)
  • [EXP] - The trimming length of each field can be configured (TXT & PHP export)
  • [EXP] - Album and track fields can now be sorted on two levels
  • [FIX] - ID3v2 reader is now able to read UTF-8 encoded tags
  • [FIX] - Archives are now all detected and scanned
  • [FIX] - The rescan feature now rescans archives as well
  • [FIX] - Auto-detected new albums have their artist, year, genre (...) fields filled
  • [FIX] - "Expand all" / "Close all" links now work properly (HTML export)
  • [FIX] - Album covers are now displayed (PHP export)
  • [FIX] - Extended characters are now displayed correctly with the UTF-8 charset (PHP export)
  • [FIX] - PHP exported scripts now sort lowercase and uppercase fields the same way (PHP export)
  • [FIX] - Categories colors now are displayed correctly (PHP export)
  • [FIX] - Field decoration text is now displayed (PHP export)
  • [FIX] - A few graphical and typographic enhancements
  • [FIX] - Albums and tracks explorers don't skip a column when the 1st and the 2nd item are the same
  • [MIS] - The "album attributes" setting has been removed (kinda useless)