What's new in MP3 Tag Express 6.9.3
Aug 10, 2016
- New Features:
- Extended trial period from 7 days to 15 days.
- Added an option to set the starting Track Number when setting the Track Number for a group of files.
- Added multiple encoding options for the Export to CSV feature.
- Fixes:
- Fixed the lyrics lookup feature and bulk lyrics lookup.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.9.1 (Aug 10, 2016)
- Added 'Dictionary Replace'.
- Updated installer.
- Other minor fixes.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.9.0 (Jun 19, 2013)
- Added a dictionary replace function that remembers what terms to replace.
- Updated the installer to fix various installer issues.
- Other enhancements and minor fixes.
- Price reduced to $17.95
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.8.7 (Jan 15, 2013)
- New Features:
- Add selective column export of the tagging list contents to CSV (Comma Separated Values) for use in spreadsheets and other programs.
- Enhancements:
- Make Single-file renaming behave the same was as Multi-Edit Tags for better ease of use.
- Add Paste from clipboard button and copy/paste context (right-click) menu to the Lyrics editor.
- Make tracks in the ripper's track list selectable by left-clicking instead of resorting to a context menu.
- Add an option for "Add Files" to force sorting to the File Name instead of the ordinal default when the files load.
- Make pattern-based file renaming (artist, album, title) flexible with a configuration dialog in the tagger and ripper.
- Fixes:
- Resolve exception when navigational tag editing encounters a folder divider at the end of the list after column sort.
- Ensure all user preferences and application settings are being saved on application shut-down.
- Ensure the folder selection dialog in the ripper defaults to Desktop for the root folder.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.8.6 (Jan 15, 2013)
- Advise user on specific file names that exceed the maximum allowed length in Windows
- Resolve issue with file search failing to load files with mixed-case file extentions
- Fix Drag & Drop from Windows Explorer failing to recognize mixed-case file extensions
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.8.5 (Nov 8, 2012)
- Advise user when attempting to load folders and files that have a combined length that exceeds the maximum allowed length of 260 characters
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.8.4 (Nov 5, 2012)
- New Features:
- Add the ability to save the state of the Tagging List for recovery.
- Enhancements:
- Multi-Edit's Previous/Next buttons automatically skip over folders in the tagging list.
- Auto-scroll the tagging list to the current file when using navigational editing in Multi-Edit.
- Multi-Edit automatically advances to the next file in the tagging list when the "Apply" button is clicked.
- Disc Ripper: Provide an option to disable CDDB auto-lookup from the Internet.
- Disc Ripper: Indicate track progress in addition to overall progress.
- Disc Ripper: Added an option to load artwork from computer.
- Disc Ripper: Added an option to edit the Track title when right-clicking on the disc's track list.
- Fixes:
- Disc Ripper: Fix Disc # not clearing after disc eject.
- Rename Single File stops file playback to prevent an error in the status column.
- Disabled visual screen drawing optimizations in an effort to resolve out of memory errors.
- Make folder loading non-threaded in an effort to resolve null object errors.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.8.2 (Sep 12, 2012)
- Enhancements:
- Include support for the Grouping and Composers tags in the Multi-Edit dialog window.
- Include support for "Navigational Editing" in the Multi-Edit dialog window.
- Fixes:
- Resolved a nasty issue with the new installer and systems running Windows 7+.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.8.1 (Sep 6, 2012)
- Enhancements:
- Include Track Number and Track Title in Multi-Edit.
- Fixes:
- Resolved an issue when specifying only spaces as replacement characters and the way the programming language was re-loading this preference. The functions affected were "Trim / Replace Characters" and "Bulk-Rename Files".
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.8 (Sep 6, 2012)
- Enhancements:
- A new installer that creates a program group and shortcuts in the Windows Start Menu.
- Updater uses smaller updates for faster downloading from the product site.
- Computer Explorer remembers its state if you close it using the "X" and re-open it later.
- When "Loading All Files" for a branch in Computer Explorer, the main window status indicates this.
- Fixes:
- When updating, the installer remembers if MP3 Tag Express was installed for multiple users on the same machine.
- Resolve more issues with Computer Explorer and network paths.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.7 (Aug 31, 2012)
- Enhancements:
- Update "Computer Explorer" to better handle Windows Vista/7 and network paths.
- Allow adding of files or a folder to Auto-Lookup from the pull-down "File" menu option.
- Disable annoying auto-sizing of the File column in the Auto-Lookup.
- Include the full path in the "File" column in Auto-Lookup.
- Allow preferences to save column widths and positions in Auto-Lookup.
- Replace LameEnc.dll with a newer version.
- Fixes:
- Resolve issue with MP3 Gain adjustment slowing down tracks with a bitrate greater than 1411 Kbps.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.4 (May 7, 2012)
- New Features:
- Added editing, copying, and pasting support for the 'Album Artist' tag.
- Added an "Append text to track title" function.
- Added Ctrl+A hotkey combination for "Select All" in the tagging list.
- Added Ctrl+S hotkey combination for "Save All" in the tagging list.
- Added a function to rename files in series with a numerical value only. Useful for certain types of hardware.
- Enhancements:
- Optimized Saving tagging changes to multiple files.
- Fixes:
- Fix exception error when trimming Artist from File name.
- Prevent File Search from throwing an exception for corrupt or non-standard file system entries.
- Both 'Append Track Number To Track Title' and 'Prefix File Name With Track Number' no longer use an automatic increment if the track number doesn't exist, as this could be confusing.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.3 (Mar 23, 2012)
- New Features:
- Added an option for specifying a preferred separator character.
- Added pattern-based file renaming to the 'Rename' functions. e.g: Rename files to: Artist - Title, Album - Title, Artist - Album - Title
- Added an 'Insert text into File Name' function.
- Enhancements:
- Grouped 'Insert text into Title', 'Insert text into File Name', and 'Insert Artist into Title tag' into their own
- menu group and added this group to the 'Edit Tags' menu.
- Added an option to the 'Insert text into Title tag' function to auto-add the preferred separator character.
- Added a "don't ask me again" option to the 'Clear List' function.
- Optimized machine-level instruction sets for faster code execution.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.2 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Critical Fixes:
- Fixed an issue with the updater not allowing the user the chance to re-install for All Users.
- Fixed an issue with Computer Explorer failing to load on 64-Bit versions of Windows.
- New Features:
- Added Video Tutorials. More tutorials will be added in the near future.
- Added a trimming function to strip the [GAIN] prefix from gain-adjusted result files.
- Enhancements:
- Show total track time right hand side of the position slider when playing a file.
- "Trim Special Characters" renamed to "Trim / Replace Characters".
- Sped-up list updating when permanently deleting multiple files.
- Fixes:
- Changed V1 Genre definition "Psychadelic" to "Psychedelic".
- Fixed exception When selecting multiple tracks using ctrl+right-click in Auto-Lookup.
- Fixed exception after a track finishes playing in the Audio Panel.
- Fixed preview player in Gain adjustment not allowing its track position slider to be moved to a different position.
- Fixed exception when appending the track number to the track title for multiple files.
- Fixed exception when sorting tracks by track number.
- Fixed Undo re-introducing files that were previously changed but not included in the current list loaded from a different folder.
- Fixed exception when start Disc Rip and 'Year' is empty.
- Fixed exception when "Inserting Artist into Title" and the Title tag is empty.
- Prevent audio playback from being invoked on Row Headers.
- Fixed exception invalid window handle calling Invoke for File/Folder loading events.
- Fixed exception when Pasting clipboard to tag(s).
- Prevent occasional exception when shutting down app.
New in MP3 Tag Express 6.1 (Feb 29, 2012)
- New Features:
- Added support for the 'Grouping' tag.
- Added a function for removing track numbers for one or more selected files.
- Added a ten-band equalizer for audio playback in the tagging list.
- Added LastFM metadata lookup services to the auto-lookup feature.
- Added support for higher resolution artwork returned from the auto-lookup feature.
- Enhancements:
- Replaced old-style buttons with a compact Tool-Strip control that uses both icons and text.
- Re-organized, streamlined, and added icons to the right-click tagging context menu.
- Added a comfortable gradient design for smoother visual presentation instead the standard colors.
- Trim 'What' from 'Where' uses simplified menu options instead of a pop-up window with checkboxes.
- Auto-Music Lookup now uses three web services in conjunction to return more accurate results.
- Lyrics lookup returns better quality (and more accurate) lyrics.
- One-click reporting for program errors.
- Fixes:
- 'Refresh' files now refreshes whatever is currently in the tagging list.
- Fixed a major issue with Auto-Lookup not returning results.
- Fixed issue with the app confirming to save changes if files were simply re-named.
- Fixed a critical error with error logs being locked by other processes.
- Errors for file renaming are now indicated in the Status column instead of a pop-up message for every error.
- Auto-Lookup prevents the same files from being added more than once.
New in MP3 Tag Express 5.7 (Oct 1, 2011)
- Enhancements:
- Added update notification with scheduled reminder for product updates.
- Fixes:
- Resolve issue with saving .wma files if no composers were present.
New in MP3 Tag Express 5.6 (Sep 12, 2011)
- New Features:
- Added Insert text into Title tag.
- Enhancements:
- Add overwrite, skip, and make copies options to the "Move files to folder" function.
- Fixes:
- Resolve excessive memory usage when loading a large number of files that contain album artwork.
- Resolve issue with registration data being lost between updates.
New in MP3 Tag Express 5.5 (Sep 12, 2011)
- Enhancements:
- When multiple files selected, copy / paste composers now pastes the composer for each respective track to the target tag.
- Added Auto-Save feature to the automatic music lookup. This can be enabled to prevent loss of lookup results if the automatic music lookup throws an exception for whatever reason.
- Fixes:
- Empty composer value causing exception when loading files after changes saved in automatic music lookup.
- Auto-Music lookup now refreshes the underlying list with the saved changes.
- Fixed mis-spelling of the .flac extension when normalizing .flac filenames.
- Fixed undesired normalization of file extensions when normalizing file names.
- Gain Adjustment failing to copy multiple composers to the new copies of the files.
New in MP3 Tag Express 5.4 (Jul 22, 2011)
- Enhancements:
- Multiple title clipboard for copying and pasting multiple titles at once
- Fixes:
- Fixed two critical errors with all Internet related functions, including long hesitations when trying to use the Internet lookup functions
- Fixed bugs when trying to copy/paste non-present artwork to and from the Windows clipboard
- Fixed "Old/New Artist" labels in "Change Title Tag" dialog window
New in MP3 Tag Express 5.3 (Jul 22, 2011)
- Fixed an error that was occurring with the Internet lookup options
New in MP3 Tag Express 5.2 (Jul 22, 2011)
- Added batch Auto Lookup track details, artwork, and lyrics based on how tracks sound
New in MP3 Tag Express 5.1 (Jul 22, 2011)
- New Features:
- Support for Disc # tag
- Lookup, add, and edit multiple composers
- Permanent Gain adjustment for Mp3 files
- CD Ripper automatically looks up cover art
- Copy/Paste full album details across files
- Multi-tag editing dialog for changing several tags at the same time
- Bulk-Rename multiple files to one name with auto-numbering
- Visual and batch online lookup for Album details, Artwork, and Lyrics
- Copy, paste, and remove Artwork
- Copy, paste, edit, and print Lyrics
- "Computer Explorer" (Windows Explorer clone) for familiar navigation
- Delete file(s) and remove empty folders
- Custom font selection for file list, buttons, and lyrics
- Full, compact, and minimalist user interface modes
- Clear tags from files
- Enhancements:
- No need to run app as Administrator on Vista and Win7 systems
- All iPod and iTunes related functionality moved to a separate product called "iPod Tag Express"
- Display columns in the list can be individually hidden/shown
- "Auto clear list" option when adding files or folders
- Copy/Paste genre operates on both versions at the same time
- All pop up windows optimized for speed when loading
- Button style changed to a modern look and feel
- Improved error reporting and support options
- Double-clicking on a file starts playback
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed memory leak issue
- Fixed sporadic error exception on start-up (Splash-screen removed)
- Re-prioritize the loading/saving of Basic, V1, and V2 tags for improved tag relevance
- Fix certain column positions not persisting
- Fixed mis-matched undo for files that were re-arranged in the list
- Correct issues loading files for "No tags only"
- Fix issue with list preventing manual arrangement of files using drag and drop
- Fixed Remove items from list not functioning properly
- Fixed some behaviour issues with the CD ripper
New in MP3 Tag Express 4.5 (May 6, 2010)
- Fixed critical bug with audio player when launched from the iPod music list or the playlist manager.
- Fixed Stereo mp3 files being reported as Mono.
- Added conditional handling for iTunes error messages for non-iTunes users.
- Advise user when they try to copy a modified file to the iPod that contains tag changes but hasn't been saved yet.
- Fixed error message when removing files from the iPod.
New in MP3 Tag Express 4.4 (Apr 19, 2010)
- Added playback support for Flac files.
- Fixed issue with Flac files not loading into file list.
New in MP3 Tag Express 4.3 (Apr 19, 2010)
- Add tagging support for m4a(AAC), wav, flac, and wma files.
- Add support for copying m4a(AAC) and wav files to iPod.
New in MP3 Tag Express 4.2 (Apr 19, 2010)
- Resolve error(s) for users who don't use iTunes.
New in MP3 Tag Express 4.1 (Apr 6, 2010)
New in MP3 Tag Express 4.0 (Mar 30, 2010)
- New Features:
- Direct device support for the iPod, iTouch, and iPhone.
- Enhancements:
- Make the "Go To" search continue from where the user set the focus on a listview item.
- "Auto-Lookup Tags" options for selectively replacing Artist, Album, Year, Track #, Title, Genre, or all tags.
- Provide an option to diasble grouping by folder in the file list.
- Button highlight color changed to "Powder Blue".
- Bug Fixes:
- Remove grouping headers if no more items exist for the group.
New in MP3 Tag Express 3.4 (Feb 23, 2010)
New in MP3 Tag Express 3.3 (Jan 30, 2010)
- New Features:
- Add "Insert Artist in Track Title" feature.
- Enhancements:
- Added option to Auto-Create Artist/Album Folder structure when copying files.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolve Windows 7 compatibility issues.
- Store settings and logs in "Application Data" folder for design standards compliance.
- MusicIP lookup shouldn't mark a track as modified if nothing was changed due to empty tags returned.
- Ensure illegal characters are substituted for valid ones for when renaming files to Title tags.
New in MP3 Tag Express 3.2 (Dec 28, 2009)
- Bug Fixes:
- Added conditional beta code for notepad support in Windows 7.
- Track number appending padding now based on the quantity of files for a given folder.
- Fixed performance issue when removing tracks from the filelist.
- Fixed Trim Artist/Album is failing if the Album tag is empty.
- Fixed Auto-lookup Tracks (Music IP) is leaving xml files behind.
- Fixed Auto-lookup Tracks doesn't signal un-saved changes when app is being shut-down.
- Fixed Track needs to stop playing when "Save all Files".
- If empty values returned from Music IP then don't modify the item.
New in MP3 Tag Express 3.1 (Dec 12, 2009)
- New Features:
- Added Multiple Undo for rolling-back tag and filename edits.
- Added "Sort Selected Tracks by Track Number" feature.
- Enhancements:
- Trim Artist/Album made case-insensitive.
- Added Auto-trim of residual characters to Trim Artist/Album from Tags/Filename.
- Quarantine Files for a folder by highlighting the folder header row only.
- Allow user to toggle between time elapsed/remaining when playing a track.
- Allow zero-length Album names.
- Bug Fixes:
- Copy filename to Title applies across multiple tracks.
- Fixed track details in Audio Panel not showing any info for a focused track.
- Ensure modified filenames don't contain leading white-spaces.
- If quarantine all files in a folder, remove the empty folder.
- Fix Enter key not committing changes in dialogs.
- Changed Genre not applying across multiple items if the 1st item matches the new Genre.
- File info not showing in audio panel when focused item changes.
- Release handle to a file that finished playing.
- Audio panel file info now persists for the current playing track.
- Fix edit Album/Year dialog not loading year.
- Stop playback of a file when it's being renamed to prevent an exception.
New in MP3 Tag Express 3.0 (Nov 2, 2009)
New in MP3 Tag Express 2.0 (Sep 4, 2009)
- New Features:
- "Normalize Text" lowercases and capitalizes Artist, Album, Title, and File names from caps.
- Audio CD Ripping to MP3 with Auto-Tagging:
- Music CD online database Artist/Title/Tracks retrieval.
- Extraction and compression of tracks to MP3 files.
- Auto-tagging of Artist, Album, Title, Year, Genre, and Track Number.
- Auto-creation of Artist/Album folders.
- Auto-prefix finished tracks with Track Number.
- Enhancements:
- "Add Files" folder selector remembers the last location.
- Bug Fixes:
- Don't overwrite the V2 Genre Tag with the V1 Genre when "Copy to V2" is unchecked in the Change Genre Window.