Siren Changelog

What's new in Siren 3.14

Dec 28, 2013
  • New features:
  • File type "auto detection" for wrong or unknown file extensions
  • New column : "Detected Type" (not displayed by default)
  • New variable "Detected Type" : %yd
  • New options in Preferences/General
  • Monitor changes in current directory. It even takes in charge the modifications done by Siren. The directory tree is not monitored
  • Support of some new file types: fon : font file (Windows only), snd : sound file
  • Minor modifications:
  • "Insert into expression" option added in the right-click menu of completion windows
  • Better first placement of the completion windows
  • The toolbar buttons and menu options associated to completion windows are now "checkable"
  • Bugs correction:
  • Display of the image after modification of Display/Image preferences
  • Stricter management of the ':' character in new filenames
  • In the directory tree the "backspace" key generates a two levels jump back

New in Siren 3.13 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Correction of a bug in the computation of mp3 duration
  • New variables:
  • �h : Audio duration in hours, minutes and seconds
  • �m : Audio duration in minutes and seconds
  • �s : Audio duration in seconds
  • %Vdh : Video duration in hours, minutes and seconds
  • %Vdm : Video duration in minutes and seconds
  • %Vds : Video duration in seconds
  • Use of the wxWidgets 2.9.5 library (fixes a file date/time problem under Windows)

New in Siren 3.12 (Apr 18, 2013)

  • Bugs correction:
  • File copies can remain after a failed rename operation
  • Crash during the "expression testbed" window opening if the "immediate recomputation" preference is set
  • Other modifications:
  • New option in the "View" menu to specify the visualisation window placement
  • Change in : Preferences/New name computation/Characters/Replace characters
  • If "From" is longer than "To" the last character of "To" is used
  • Expression testBed : new button to replace "current names" with the ones of the selected files

New in Siren 3.11 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Bugs correction:
  • Automatic text file format recognition used for %T
  • Crash when right clicking in the file list on the column header after the last one
  • Audio/video data storage for some qtf files
  • Minor modifications:
  • For %T and %C, empty file lines are kept
  • Contextual menus
  • Help
  • New Siren png icons

New in Siren 3.10 (Jan 11, 2013)

  • New modifier : Group renaming
  • By default a variable content always belongs to the file currently treated. This modifier allows to change this behaviour and use the information from another file of the "group" it belongs to. A group is a number of consecutively selected files.
  • The usage is : < p, i >
  • p : group size
  • i : file indice in the group
  • Examples : %b.%e : the base names will be set to the one of the first file of the group
  • 2,2>b.%e : the base names will be set to the one of the second file of the group
  • b - %Xdo.%e : append to the base names the exif date of the second file of the group (of three files)
  • Contextual help:
  • In the completion window (F1 and contextual menu)
  • In the tag visualisation tab (F1 and contextual menu)
  • In the file list (contextual menu)
  • Bugs correction:
  • A crash can happen during the extraction of the metadata from some flv files
  • Problem with the extraction of image data embedded in flac files
  • Minor modifications

New in Siren 3.01 (Sep 17, 2012)

  • Correction of a bug in the date modifier "add time to date" part
  • New information extracted from png files
  • Minor modifications:
  • Remove some useless error messages
  • Main window size and position on multiscreen systems
  • Siren icons
  • Help
  • Use of the wxWidgets 2.9.4 library

New in Siren 3.00 Build 906 RC1 (May 18, 2012)

  • Bug : Wizard doesn't start ...
  • New example : add value to numbers
  • Change a few texts

New in Siren 2.01 (Jul 3, 2010)

  • Correction of a compatibility problem with the 64 bits versions of Windows
  • Under Vista 64 bits and 7 64 bits Siren "crashed" during the opening of the completion window

New in Siren 2.00 (Jul 4, 2007)

  • New data extracted from files
  • Date and time format
  • New modifier "{}"
  • Move/copy files to another directory
  • Sub-expressions
  • Force case of some words
  • New variables
  • Modification of the combos behavior: Expression, Directory and Filter
  • Search in text windows
  • Default date/time formats and default time to add (Options/Dates)
  • Value to add to "number in names" (Options/Numbers)
  • Use of the regional decimal separator (Options/Numbers)
  • Sort files "� la" XP (Options/Display)
  • Extraction (or not) of the files meta data (Options/Display)
  • Lock the toolbars (Option in the "Display" menu)
  • Minor modifications
  • Some elements go into the options
  • Vista compatibility
  • Bugs correction