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MusicBee Portable Changelog

What's new in MusicBee Portable 3.5.8698

Oct 25, 2023
  • Update that includes numerous bug fixes.

New in MusicBee Portable 3.4.7749 RC 2 (Mar 22, 2021)

  • Second release candidate that also addresses changes in bing search results for artwork searches

New in MusicBee Portable 3.4.7735 RC 1 (Mar 19, 2021)

  • First release candidate that also addresses changes in bing search results for artwork searches

New in MusicBee Portable 3.3.7491 (Jul 7, 2020)

  • Fixes a number of bugs found. I will post a link on the downloads page and update the store version over the next couple of weeks.
  • FreeDb CD tags and Icecast radio are no longer supported.

New in MusicBee Portable 3.2.6902 (Nov 27, 2018)

  • Fix to iTunes store functionality in the Music Explorer and various bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 3.2.6827 (Sep 13, 2018)

  • Mini player now supports a large abum artwork layout
  • A stop button can now be displayed for all types of progress bars (regular skins only)
  • Minor layout tweaks for the "Now Playing" panel
  • For the "Album Color Mix" view in the "Now Playing" panel, you can set it to display the artist biography and artist picture
  • The Music Explorer panel now allows sorting tracks by title and also shows the album name for duplicate titles
  • Playlist header now also shows the album count in the playlist
  • When dragging files, the left sidebar no longer automatically pops up (you can hover on the left panel edge and it will pop up)
  • You can now instruct MusicBee to use the legacy DirectSound API from the Player preferences
  • Various bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 3.2.6760 (Jul 6, 2018)

  • Fix to address changes made by MusicBrainz that stopped the Auto-Tag and also artwork retreival from fanart.tv

New in MusicBee Portable 3.1.6590 (Jan 16, 2018)

  • Fix bug introduced in the last release that incorrectly reports some files as corrupt

New in MusicBee Portable 3.1.6585 (Jan 13, 2018)

  • replaced Groove Music with iTunes Store in the Music Explorer
  • some minor speed improvements
  • various bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 3.1.6510 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • Bug fixes and minor speed improvements since the official release
  • Fixed a bug with the silence remover DSP

New in MusicBee Portable 3.1.6466 (Sep 16, 2017)

  • The following are no longer custom tags and now have dedicated tags: "Title Sort-Order", "Album Sort-Order", "Album Artist Sort-Order", "Artist Sort-Order", "Composer Sort-Order", "Language", "Original Artist", "Original Album", "Original Year", "Musician Credits List"
  • The various Sort tags are now editable in a new "Sorting" tab in the tag editor
  • Original Year, Title and Artist are now standard tags in the Tags(2) tag editor panel
  • Musician credits are now editable in the Artist tag splitter (click the ... button by the Artist tag)
  • The library database: musicbeelibrary.mbl is copied to musicbeelibrary.preupgrade in case you need to undo the upgrade and revert to an older MB version
  • The behaviour of the various Sort tags (Sort-Artist, Sort-AlbumArtist, etc) has been changed so when sorting by Artist, MusicBee will now automatically use any Sort-Artist tag value for the sort operation. Note that if an album is not consistently tagged with the same Sort-AlbumArtist then it will be split
  • Classical music tags: Work and Movement are now supported (click the arrow button on the title prompt)
  • Long filenames (>260 characters) is now supported
  • Playlists panel enhanced to support multiple levels of folders and provide the full functionality equivalent of the left navigator playlists
  • Playlists can now also be displayed in a standalone panel (set in the Panel Arrangement dialog)
  • New Volume visualiser panel (Peak and VU)
  • New Graphics visualiser panel (allows the Milkdrop visualiser to be displayed in a panel)
  • Spectrum visualiser can now be displayed using a centered frequency range
  • Inconsistent tags "Files to Edit" filter now includes the Album Gain tag
  • New "Album Played" display tag
  • Panel layout is enhanced so each panel header can optionally be hidden
  • New Hotkeys for the following:
  • Send files to the active device
  • Send files to the active playlist
  • Toggle playing tracks to show the upcoming tracks
  • Drag/drop is enhanced so you get a visual representation of the number of files being dragged and a message showing what action would be taken if you dropped the files on a panel
  • Artwork layout now allows the selected tracks to be displayed to the right of the main panel
  • Nested filter rules in auto-playlists can now be set as an "And" or "Or" condition
  • Auto-playlists can now be set to automatic or manual refresh of the matching tracks
  • New Album Artwork Manager tool, enables you to view and correct a variety of inconsistent album artwork conditions
  • You can now disable the display of the current playing track in the windows Taskbar popup (this addresses a windows display issue when alt-tabbing)
  • New "Remove Cuesheet" right click menu item
  • New naming template functions:
  • $RxReplace(<field>,"reg-ex search pattern","regex-replacement pattern")
  • $RxSplit(<field>,"reg-ex search pattern",index)
  • The virtual tag/ file naming template field editor can now Preview the results of any template you define
  • The Playing Tracks panel can now show Upcoming Tracks
  • The Library Explorer can now display and navigate the folder structure of files in your library

New in MusicBee Portable 3.1.6445 RC 2 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • small bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 3.0.6335 (May 6, 2017)

  • when saving a single file, library auto-organise enabled, although the file was being auto-organised, if you try to edit the file straight away, the file in the main panel was still referencing the old file location
  • various bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 3.0.6276 (Mar 10, 2017)

  • upgrade the xbox music plugin to use the new groove api (note the old xbox plugin api will cease working after March 2017)
  • fix wavebar seek when outputting to a UPNP device
  • add back in support for localised artist biographies
  • fix rename a podcast episode when renamed from the tag editor
  • fix autosweep not applying the autosweep naming template if the library is auto-organised with no naming rule for the target drive
  • fix music explorer not retrieving all matching files when filtering by Genre
  • fix synching virtual files (single file split by cuesheet) when no format conversion is done
  • when locking with full screen enabled/ unlocking MusicBee (from the view menu), the window should now size correctly on win10
  • fix tag changes not being saved to file when you edit the tags of a playing track and then you rate the track while still playing
  • when moving files to a new folder, the file permissions are now inherited from new parent folder
  • fix high dpi scaling for the custom tags dialog
  • include "always on top" option in the compact player header menu
  • fix group by bug when the artwork panel is configured to show the selected tracks on the bottom of the main panel
  • tweaked caching of artwork for the Album and Tracks view
  • improved handling for multi-line podcast episode descriptions

New in MusicBee Portable 3.0.6132 (Oct 15, 2016)

  • fix for artist biographies
  • fix artist picture in the Now Playing panel and the Compact Player which can stay switched to a blurred album cover
  • fix MB freezing in certain circumstances when moving files to an organised folder
  • enable sorting on the soundcloud search panel and fix the "likes" count column
  • fix the device synchronisation to respect the file converter encoder thread count and priority settings (was effectively always using 2 threads)
  • add support for mod files (mo3/it/ xm/s3m/ mtm/ mod/ umx)
  • add support for chiptunes files - you will also need the basszxtune.dll plugin
  • change the Music Explorer panel to show album year instead of album artist
  • fix CD ripper not saving artwork where the artwork is not embeded
  • drag/ drop files from windows explorer into the now playing list doesnt also import linked file artwork
  • fix music explorer filter panel handling for files with multiple values in a tag
  • fix file rescan aborting when encountering a long filename (>260 chars)
  • support for dockable plugin panels
  • change to the way Locate in Windows Explorer is implemented
  • fix breaking change for the soundcloud search results
  • change the behavior of the Panel Layout button. It now shows a menu for quick layout changes, including the Hide Panel Header function and Arrange Panels dialog
  • thumbnail browser can now be configured to show text only with no thumbnails
  • Music Explorer filter panel can now be configured to show pictures (like the thumbnail browser)
  • various bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 3.0.6067 (Aug 13, 2016)

  • main panel now keeps focus when closing the tag editor (docked in the main panel) and clicking the save button
  • fix freeze on startup with a specific combination of artwork panel set to "Selected Tracks" and the artwork storage type
  • some visual improvements for drag/drop operations eg. scroll bar shouldnt flicker when dropping a file and artwork repaint should flicker less
  • manual file scanner was failing with certain directory structures
  • auto-playlists now refresh when editing tag values that affect the auto-playlist
  • double click on the thumb browser when artists displayed in the main panel was not working
  • windows screen border snap was not aligning correctly for the mini-player on windows 10
  • the computer node in the left navigator was locking on start up with certain settings
  • the Now Playing Bar has been updated to be more similar to v2.5 and also the missing right click context menu for the album cover is implemented
  • for the Album Covers layout, the expanded panel now uses blended colours from the album cover
  • global search should now perform faster in many cases
  • mouse wheel anywhere on the player controls panel now adjusts the volume (as was the case with v2.5)
  • create a new playlist now resorts the playlists in the navigator panel
  • cd ripper: improved "encode selected" and volume analysis handling for failed or rips with errors
  • expanded panel layout handling for multi-disc or sub-header grouping is improved so each disc/group starts on a new line
  • playlist file linkages displayed in the "Playlists" field in the main panel now load in the background so not locking the GUI for large playlists
  • right click/ Search/ Locate in Playlist now loads in the background so not locking the GUI for large playlists
  • gradient blending for the expanded panel has been tweaked and improved to reduce banding effect for some album covers
  • the selected tracks in the "Files to Edit" filter panel were not always used for various menu commands and a "No selected tracks" message was displayed
  • the 'Track difference more than 10 seconds' option was missing from the Duplicates Manager
  • further tweaks to the Now Playing Bar - now the panel is filled with a blend from the album cover
  • added support for showing a small album cover in the main player controls panel. Right click/ Panel Layout/ Show Album Cover
  • when the Playing Tracks panel has focus, MB no longer forces the panel to scroll the current track to the top
  • text search for individual tracks when using the Album Covers or Artists view is now supported and enabled from the search menu dropdown
  • Collapsed Albums grouping now shows duration and size of the album when an album is collapsed
  • addressed temporary freezes when selecting items in a filter panel (thumb browser, column browser, library explorer) and the main panel is showing artists that require an image to be downloaded
  • the filter panel in the "Music Explorer" panel now only shows values from files in your library and also respects any library filter active in the tab
  • faster loading of file/ playlist linkages eg. when you show the "Playlist" field in the main panel, use Search/ Locate in Playlist etc

New in MusicBee Portable 3.0.5995 (Aug 13, 2016)

  • various bug fixes and some UI improvements

New in MusicBee Portable 3.0.5977 (May 16, 2016)

  • reverted the wavpack.exe version to the older version
  • google artwork retrieval
  • playlist synchronisation for MTP devices
  • various minor bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 3.0.5973 (May 12, 2016)

  • Revamped user interface with more customization and layout flexibility.
  • Many users should see substantial performance improvements, especially for large libraries.

New in MusicBee Portable 2.5.5804 (Nov 23, 2015)

  • Update to reduce bandwidth used for downloading artist pictures.
  • Various bug fixes.

New in MusicBee Portable 2.5.5721 (Aug 31, 2015)

  • Device synchronisation - speed improvements, enhanced UI, and more flexibility with files and playlists to be synched
  • Improved support for creating Virtual Devices
  • New "Recently Added" node in the podcasts panel
  • Various speed improvements when loading panels
  • Improved continous folder monitoring - now detects updates and deletions
  • Various UI enhancements for setting fields and editing the formula for virtual tags
  • Integrated Shoutcast radio station directory support
  • Player support for DSD files (but no tagging support)
  • Plugin support for UPNP devices
  • Plugin support for XBox music subscriptions and custom radio stations

New in MusicBee Portable 2.4.5404 (Oct 18, 2014)

  • Update to remove SSL3 protocol for https connections due to the "Poodle" vulnerability. This update is required for last.fm logons to work.
  • Also addresses an issue with locked MTP devices causing MusicBee to run at very high CPU and memory usage.

New in MusicBee Portable 2.4.5349 (Aug 25, 2014)

  • New "expanded view" for the artwork layout, where tracks are displayed in-place in the panel
  • Expanded view includes support for when the artwork layout is grouped by artist
  • Enhanced file organiser: you can define rules in the auto-organiser for each drive, and to move files across drives
  • The volume analysis tool has been enhanced to give better feedback and control when peaks would be clipped
  • Support for searching and playing internet tracks via Soundcloud
  • The progress of long running operations now shows in the windows taskbar (win7+)
  • Various layout enhancements for the Tabs Bar
  • Enhancements to the "Now Playing Assistant"
  • Enhancements to "Mixer" playlist criteria and shuffling
  • The library explorer can now be set to not filter tracks in the main panel when viewing Inbox and playlist nodes ie. allows dragging files from the library explorer into the main panel
  • Library filters can be directly edited using the right click button on a library filter node
  • Improved handling for winamp visualisers and support for "desktop mode" with other visualisers
  • Support for premium podcast subscriptions
  • Media keys should now work without the need for the "media keys" plugin
  • Various new plugins, such as VST sound effects, Discogs Tagger, Track Previewer, Skip Silence, MP3 Blog/ Web File Analyser

New in MusicBee Portable 2.3.5173 (Mar 3, 2014)

  • thumbnail browser that shows artists, albums and genres with thumbnail pictures
  • "Track with Thumbnail" layout for the Now Playing list
  • improved layout and navigation for podcasts
  • improved podcast directory
  • new mini-player layout with artwork and spectrum visualiser
  • improved layout and additional configuration options for the Compact Player
  • improved search functionality in the Compact Player and Now Playing Assistant
  • volume analysis now uses the EBU R128 algorithm
  • OPUS is now supported for encoding
  • improved scrobble handling when the last.fm connection drops

New in MusicBee Portable 2.3.5153 (Mar 3, 2014)

  • includes a number of enhancements to support new skinning features
  • thumbnail browser now supports larger thumbnails - you may need to reset the size setting
  • hotkeys to toggle display of the left and right panels
  • theater mode has been enhanced to support new features and should be faster and have smoother fading for some of the more complex skins
  • this is the final planned v2.3 update other than bug fixes

New in MusicBee Portable 2.2.5069 (Nov 18, 2013)

  • The portable version now prompts for language selection on the first startup

New in MusicBee Portable 2.1.4924 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • new modern Compact Player mode which is focused on artist and album artwork
  • improved playback buffering and gapless playback for all output modes
  • various new layout options, improved usabilty and navigation improvements
  • wave bar and large spectrum visualiser that can be displayed in various configurations
  • tracks in your library can be colour highlighted according to custom rules you define
  • ex.fm added as an online music source for the auto-dj and as a genre based radio source
  • di.fm and sky.fm added to the radio station directory
  • enhanced playlist and artwork format support for MTP device synchronisation

New in MusicBee Portable 2.0.4663 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • XulRunner (for the internal web-browser) updated to the equivalent of Firefox 16.1 to address a Firefox security issue
  • TheaterMode plugin that has a visually oriented and minimalistic layout
  • player enhancements:
  • improved buffering for music playback
  • 15-band equaliser
  • playback of cuesheet files is now continous
  • OPUS file support
  • HDCD decoder plugin
  • support for Winamp output plugins
  • interface enhancements:
  • windows 7 AeroSnap is now supported for skinned window borders
  • the main menu can now display as a button in the windows caption bar
  • tabs can now be docked in the windows caption bar
  • new "flat layout" for the player controls panel that has a more modern look
  • save and load custom views
  • various layout settings and enhancements
  • auto-open the left navigator panel when it is collapsed
  • various new hotkey functions
  • select or skip playback of files using a tickbox
  • auto-playlists enhancements:
  • filter on similar artists and on similar tracks to the current playing track
  • various shuffling types to change the distribution of the matching tracks: Random; Higher Rating Preferred; Same/Different Artist
  • filter out duplicate tracks with the same artist and title on multiple albums
  • manually add extra files by drag/dropping files into the auto-playlist
  • filter based on information for the current playing track
  • the auto-DJ can now select similar tracks to the current playing track
  • plugin to generate playlists based on data from last.fm
  • infrastructure:
  • support for windows 8
  • upgrade to .NET4
  • upgrade the internal web-browser to the equivalent of Firefox 16
  • video support (playback via a plugin and video file organisation)
  • new Swedish translation and updated translations for: Dutch, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese

New in MusicBee Portable 1.4.4418 (Feb 7, 2012)

  • CD/DVD burning for win7 and vista
  • artist photo slideshow and new "playing track" tab
  • new layout customisation settings
  • library explorer now has tabs to jump between different filters
  • play queue manager and auto-pruning for the now playing list
  • now playing list can now be displayed with album artwork
  • static playlists can now be set with specific views and fields
  • advanced naming functions for organising files
  • auto-calculated album ratings
  • volume analysis now allows adjusting the calculated replaygain values with clipping detection
  • option to automatically detect duplicates when importing files
  • new skins
  • completed Polish translation
  • various bug fixes