Mp3 / Tag Studio Changelog

What's new in Mp3 / Tag Studio 3.5 Beta 21

• Added powerful macro capabilities!
• Arbitrarily complex operations can now be recorded into a macro, and then from that point on be available at the click of a button!
• Added powerful command-line support!
• Practically all program functionality can now be accessed directly from the command-line, making it possible to fully control Mp3/Tag Studio from any other application or script!
• Fixed an incompatibility issue with Windows XP Service Pack 2, it should now work fine with this new service pack too.
• Fixed a problem that could cause the program to seemingly halt, or go extremely slow when tagging certain mp3 files containing large ID3v2 tags.
• Fixed a bug that under certain conditions could cause a parsing error in the direct rename tool while using absolute path mode.
• Fixed a bug that under certain conditions could cause a crash in the browse tool when editing more than one file that only had an ID3v1 tag.
• Fixed a bug that under certain conditions did not correctly reset the list creation tool GUI after usage.
• Fixed a bunch of other small bugs too.
• Fixed a bug that caused macros using the auto tag tool to fail execution. (beta 2)
• Added the hotkey combination alt-1 to start and stop recording macros. (beta 2)
• Fixed a problem that could cause the program to think that it had been illegally modified, and would then refuse to work. (beta 3)
• Added the hotkey combinations alt-plus and alt-minus (where plus and minus are from the keypad) to save and unsave templates in the template dropdown boxes. (beta 3)
• Improved the VBR header repair feature, so that it can now repair the VBR header of files that have frame sync problems too. (beta 4)
• Improved the VBR header repair feature, so that it can now also repair the VBR header of mp3Pro VBR files (and several additional earlier non-supported mp3 types), which is needed to make them play correctly in e.g. iPod or other hardware players. (beta 4)
• Made the program accept macro parameter names both enclosed and non-enclosed in percentage signs when setting them from the command-line, since percentage signs have special meaning in many scripts and similar. (beta 4)
• Fixed a bug in the mass set tool macros, that would make it malfunction when the extended ID3v2 fields were used. Some related bugs in the macro functionality of other tools were also fixed. (beta 4)
• Fixed a problem with capitalizing a certain special Central European character. (beta 4)
• Added a configurable "Always upper-case" list of words in the casefix tool (Advanced mode). (beta 5)
• Added an "Only whole word" option to the substring replacements feature of the casefix tool. (beta 5)
• Fixed an VBR header incompatibility issue with LAME and other third party software. (beta 5)
• Made the "Advanced ID3v2 info" window dockable to the main window. (beta 5)
• Fixed so that all components of a possible compound track number are zero-padded if this is requested by the user, and not only the initial track number like before. (beta 5)
• Fixed a bi-product bug of the new VBR header repair features, that would sometimes result in an incorrect playlength being displayed for mp3 files with VBR headers and certain sample frequencies. (beta 5)
• Fixed a bug that made the procedure fail when attempting to use the mass set tool to edit the mp3 flags in all mp3 frame headers of an mp3 file. (beta 5)
• Fixed a problem in the filter, sometimes giving incorrect results when filtering on mp3 flags (this problem was not present in versions prior to 3.5 beta 1). (beta 5)
• Made another fix to the casefix utility regarding Central European fonts. (beta 5)
• Added macro support to the shell extension (Windows Explorer right-click menu). (beta 6)
• Made a fix to the "Only whole word" feature of the casefix tool, so that it now also supports phrases containing more than one word (it is now called "Only whole word/phrase"). (beta 6)
• Fixed a bug related to the custom replacements casefix feature, introduced in beta 5. (beta 6)
• Fixed a bug (introduced in beta 5) that sometimes caused crashes when analyzing mp3 files in e.g. the browse tool. (beta 6)
• Fixed a bug (introduced in beta 6) which caused macros containing operations using the casefix utility to fail loading/executing. (beta 7)
• Fixed a bug that under certain conditions could miss the last mp3 frame header in the target file when performing a "modify mp3 flags in all frames" operation. (beta 7)
• Fixed a bug that caused problems when reading Unicode-encoded ID3v2 tags. (beta 8)
• Fixed a bug that could cause macros containing operations with the "Direct tag manipulation" tool to fail, when executed from the command-line. (beta 8)
• Fixed a bug that only made it possible to enter content of length 30 or below in some of the fields of the "Advanced ID3v2 info" window in the browse tool. (beta 8)
• Fixed a bug that caused problems when trying to use the root directory of drives as the working directory when executing macros from the command-line. (beta 8)
• Finally fixed the long standing GUI problems occurring for people who use non-standard DPI settings in Windows (e.g. the “Large Fonts” setting). (beta 9)
• Fixed the problems with the Explorer dir tree (both the earlier more rare ones, and the one introduced in beta 9) (beta 10)
• Fixed some bugs in the shell extension (i.e. the Explorer right-click menu). (beta 10)
• Added an option to rename macros (from their context menu in the macro window). (beta 11)
• Added an "invert selection" feature to the custom file selection box context menu. (beta 11)
• Added display of the frame codes for additional ID3v2 frames in the Advanced ID3v2 info box of the browse tool. (beta 11)
• Added enter as a hotkey for the write button in the Advanced ID3v2 info box of the browse tool. (beta 11)
• Fixed a bug that caused syntax errors when selecting template fields from the advanced mode context menu in all the tools (this bug was introduced in beta 10). (beta 11)
• Fixed a bug that made ID3v1/ID3v2 contents still show up in the preview dialog of the mass clean tool, even if the user had selected to remove the entire tags. (beta 11)
• Fixed a problem with colliding hotkeys in the mass set tool. (beta 11)
• Fixed a bug that still modified the file dates on files when writing their tags from the Advanced ID3v2 info box of the browse tool, even when the global setting to not modify file dates was active. (beta 11)
• Fixed a bug that made custom genres added from the global settings not show up in the genre drop-downs until after a program restart. (beta 11)
• Fixed a bug that made custom genres show in the genre drop-downs even though the program was in ID3v1-only mode (and hence they cannot be written to tags in that mode anyway). (beta 11)
• Fixed a startup problem that may occur in the special condition that a user doesn't have a C:-drive in the computer, and at the same time has corrupted the Mp3/Tag Studio main datafile. (beta 11)
• Added a context menu option for all status/warning/error boxes, enabling the user to save the contents to a chosen text file on disk. (beta 12)
• Fixed a bug that would under some conditions cause Mp3/Tag Studio to slow down or even crash with an error message ("Thread creation error...") when auto-renaming mp3 files. This bug was introduced in beta 10. (beta 12)
• Fixed the problems with manual refreshes of the Explorer dirtree. (beta 12)
• Fixed a bug that would under certain conditions cause the program to fail including certain mp3 info when creating custom lists. (beta 12)
• Fixed a bug that would under certain conditions attempt to extract mp3 encoding info from non-mp3 files when creating custom lists. (beta 12)
• Fixed a bug that caused the mass set tool not to display the changes in some ID3v2 fields in preview mode. (beta 12)
• Fixed a bug that under certain conditions caused ID3v2 comment frames with non-standard content descriptors to be removed when tagging files. (beta 12)
• Fixed a problem that caused the program not to switch working directory when the directory was selected from the Explorer dirtree by using the keyboard instead of the mouse. (beta 12)
• Fixed a bug that would cause the filter not to work properly if only filtering based on mp3 stereo mode was used. (beta 12)
• Fixed a problem related to refreshing the Explorer dirtree, introduced in beta 12. (beta 14)
• Re-enabled the auto update feature of the Explorer dirtree. (beta 14)
• Made the auto refresh of the Explorer browse tree optional. (beta 15)
• Fixed a problem with the Explorer browse tree, that made it display expansion icons (plus signs) also for folders that did not contain any subfolders. (beta 15)
• Fixed a problem with the Explorer browse tree, that made it expand or collapse the currently selected folder if it was refreshed. (beta 15)
• Fixed a problem with the Explorer browse tree, that made it flicker when the update button (F5) was pressed while it was selected in the GUI. (beta 15)
• Fixed a problem that under certain conditions could prevent some files from being processed correctly by the Direct Rename tool when the output template contained folder levels. (beta 15)
• Fixed some problems in a third-party component, which could in turn trigger certain bugs in other third-party programs (e.g. crashes and unexpected program starts). (beta 16)
• Fixed a problem with using multi-row values in macro recordings. (beta 17)
• Fixed a problem that under certain conditions could cause a non-removable empty field to appear in templates. (beta 17)
• Fixed a problem that could erroneously display the non-saved tag data confirmation message in the browse tool. (beta 17)
• Fixed a problem where a settings value was not remembered between program executions. (beta 17)
• Updated third-party controls to latest versions. (beta 17)
• Fixed some smaller GUI bugs. (beta 17)
• Experimental Windows Vista support. (beta 18)
• Improved experimental Windows Vista support. (beta 19)