PerfectTUNES Changelog

What's new in PerfectTUNES R2023-03-16

Mar 17, 2023
  • De-Dup: Rewritten audio player code.
  • Album Art: Fixed indexing of alternate capitalizations (Folder.jpg, folder.JPG, etc) on case-senstivie volumes.
  • Album Art: Made external .webp album art recognzied.
  • ID Tags: Sort tag handling update, made multiple tag values disregarded.
  • ID Tags: Suggest combining of &*8220;lastname, firstname&*8221; to &*8220;firstname lastname&*8221;.

New in PerfectTUNES R2023-02-12 (Feb 13, 2023)

  • New versioning, automatic downloader for updates
  • Indexer improvements, for libraries with many layers of subfolders
  • Adding a custom tag to the ID Tag options page, puts this tag as always displayed on the right click edit tag
  • Fingerprints are only scanned if needed for De-Dup, much faster if not using de-dup when indexing a library
  • ID Tags fixed folder icons
  • Utilized Batch Converter's network discovery to mitigate lockup
  • ID Tags Fixed blank value not being propagated to table view
  • Added AccurateRip tag writing
  • Network share improvements
  • ID Tags >> better alignment of function boxes at top
  • ID Tags >> Add new tag, more standard tags added
  • ID Tags >> Added more tags to column selection (Browse by Filename and Folders), list sorted
  • ID Tags >> Discogs added to Add album art from internet search
  • Bug Fix: ID Tags >> Browse by Filename and Folders 'Filename' column was being cleared
  • Bug Fix: ID Tags >> Writing ID Tags... msg could be hidden under search box

New in PerfectTUNES Release 3 (Sep 14, 2018)

  • Graphics are cleaner
  • Supports 200 and 300% DPI scaling
  • ID Tag: Option to disable predictive typing
  • Opus Codec Added
  • Bug fix: De Dup mass delete page had filename and path columns swapped

New in PerfectTUNES 2 Beta 5 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • AccurateRip updated to no longer list files with ripping errors when there were not.

New in PerfectTUNES Release 1.7 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • Fixes to AccurateRip hanging.
  • AccurateRip improvements
  • Updated Codecs

New in PerfectTUNES 2 Beta 4 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • De-Dup includes the much requested Mass Delete option
  • Album Art from Internet speed improved
  • Album Art tag replacing writer speed improved
  • Now minimizes when choose task bar icon
  • AccurateRip: new option "Skip AccurateRip Reporting Not Lossless CD Quality"
  • AccurateRip: new option "Require Confidence 2 or More for AccurateRip Match"
  • AccurateRip: Export lists filenames for 'Cannot Check' list
  • De-Dup: New option 'Mass Delete'

New in PerfectTUNES 2 Beta 3 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • ID Tagger updated to include tag editor.
  • Installer includes 64 bit version of PerfectTUNES (note uninstall previous version before installing)
  • All components code signed.

New in PerfectTUNES 2 Beta (Jun 16, 2015)

  • ID Tagger Added
  • Removes duplicate paths from the library (internally)
  • Album Art from Internet speed improved
  • Album Art tag replacing writer speed improved
  • 64 bit version included, uninstall prevous 32 bit version before install
  • Code signed all components
  • Now minimizes when choose task bar icon
  • AccurateRip: new option "Skip AccurateRip Reporting Not Lossless CD Quality"
  • AccurateRip: new option "Require Confidence 2 or More for AccurateRip Match"
  • AccurateRip: Export lists filenames for 'Cannot Check' list
  • De-Dup: New option 'Mass Delete'
  • Native 64 bit version included.

New in PerfectTUNES 1.7 Beta (Jun 4, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Fixes to AccurateRip hanging.

New in PerfectTUNES Release 1.6 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Made Art searching label on manual page larger (could clip)
  • Manual Album Art - when type a new value, it clears the existing entries
  • Manual Album Art - when sort large to small, keeps the existing art in position 1
  • Installer offers to create a desktop icon
  • Bug fix:
  • If you write art to a flac file, then rerunning any PT program would indicate the flac file was corrupted (it was not, just our rescanner missbehaving)
  • Bug fix: accuraterip export list could muddle filenames

New in PerfectTUNES Release 1.5 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • DeDup able to display large numbers of duplicates (previously would close)
  • DeDup more accurate at detecting duplicates
  • Album Art is able to search more art from internet
  • Album Art now has a maximum size (KB) option
  • Album Art: if have artist as Beetles, The then remove ', the' on manual Fix
  • mp3 will update id tag from v1 to v2 if embedding art
  • AccurateRip can now check incomplete albums (or non lossless) if previously ripped with dBpoweramp (and has AccurateRipResult tag)
  • AccurateRip better able to detect errors
  • AccurateRip indicates 'Track Not Present in AccurateRip' in technical log
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Accuraterip - was removing (xxx) from album title which could blend 2 albums together.
  • m4a decoder crash

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 10 RC 1 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • dedup - mp3 can seek now
  • dedup - allows a match to be hidden (small x in corner)
  • album art - if manually select art then sort from largest to smallest, the perfecttunes art goes in correct location now
  • album art - back cover, etc art is untouched in files
  • album art - if write only folder.jpg then a restart of the art program it lists the albums with art now (previously would say no art)
  • AccurateRip - Added information export for other views

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 9 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Revised beta timeout until the end of 2013.

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 8 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • accurateRip bug fix - was not using all disc records to match against
  • ignore mac files like starting ._
  • no longer uses dbpoweramp codec cache location

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 7 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Update extends the beta timeout until July 2013

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 6c (Aug 1, 2013)

  • This one is for those who are seeing some files reported as Corrupted with a 'WatchDog Timeout Error', it will hopefully resolve this issue.

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 6 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Tracked down why certain albums were missing from AccurateRip + other verification oddities
  • and hopefully put an end to files being indicated as corrupted when they are not.

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 5i (Aug 1, 2013)

  • The only change is more detailed logging of the scanning process (some people are getting files which are reported as being corrupted, a later scan says they are not).
  • The log file is present in %appdata%\PerfectTunes\!ProcessingErrors.txt

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 5 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Added AccurateRip checking program
  • All programs - option on settings page to clear the database cache
  • De-dup - option to export the detected duplicate list (on the settings page is export)
  • De-dup - display resize bug fix
  • Scanner - fix for hex encoded (freaky) album art in Vorbis comments clogging the internal database

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 4 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Bug fix with selecting art from PerfectTunes on the manual fix page.
  • Bug Fix with reporting when a file could not be written to.

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 3 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Album Art added

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 2 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Bug Fix - with a library with a large number of duplicates, the display would slow and stop drawing

New in PerfectTUNES Beta 1a (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Only needed if you had a processor which does not support intrinsic instructions (previously PerfectTunes would crash when detecting duplicates).