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Portable TagScanner Changelog

What's new in Portable TagScanner 6.1.17

Apr 11, 2024
  • New: Unlock all fields button now can toggle state of all fields
  • Improved grouping and sorting of files with mix of local and ansi chars
  • Improved multiline fields editing in advanced editor
  • Improved protection against malformed OGG files
  • Fixed: Access violation error after remove fields in advanced editor

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.16 (Nov 2, 2023)

  • New: Now you can toggle size of list of placeholders
  • New: function $reverse(x)
  • Improved: function $trim(x,c) now has optional parameter with list of character to remove and additional versions $trimleft and $trimright
  • Improved: Adjusted layout of web search results since 6.1.15
  • Fixed: Auto-hided taskbar can't popup while program window maximized
  • Fixed: Resize cover didn't work as intended is some rare cases
  • Updated default export scripts
  • Updated support for OPUS format
  • Translation: Slovenian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.15 (Apr 19, 2023)

  • Improved: Increased default interface font and size of all input fields
  • Improved: Support tag editig of files with very long names on network shares
  • Improved: Protection against corruption of malformed WAV files
  • Improved: On Windows10 and later program now use native border drawing
  • Fixed: Rare problem with name conflict while renaming folders if only case changing
  • Changed: Lyrics are now saved to LYRICS instead UNSYNCEDLYRICS for APEv2 tags to improve compatibility
  • Updated FLAC support

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.14 (Nov 9, 2022)

  • New program icon (thanks to Marcio de Andrade)
  • New placeholder %_length_msec% for track duration in milliseconds
  • Improved formatting of tracks duration
  • Fixed creation of export files while transformations activated
  • Fixed calculation of cover dimensions for OGG and OPUS
  • Fixed work with network shares (SMB)
  • Fixed maximazing of program window on some multiscreen setups
  • Updated playback engine
  • Updated WebP covers support
  • Translation: Italian, German, Hungarian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.13 (May 7, 2022)

  • New: List of possible field values from selected files for Advanced editor
  • Improved: Support for very long filenames
  • Improved: Support for dashed MP4 files
  • Improved: Scrolling multiline fields in tag editor with mouse wheel
  • Updated some dialogs, removed unnecessary autocomplition
  • Updated FLAC support
  • Translation: Italian, Czech

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.12 (Dec 14, 2021)

  • Improved: Added %_filedate_iso% and %_filedate_create_iso% placeholders to make possible to sort filelist correctly independent of system regional settings
  • Improved: Preview mode in Generate tab now sort columns according your scheme
  • Improved: Ability to quick select/unselect all imported fields in web options
  • Fixed: Reading of UTF-8 encoded files on generate tag from file
  • Updated MP4 support
  • Unified separators for multiple values fields
  • Program are now check on exit if main config file is read only

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.11 (Dec 12, 2021)

  • Improved: Added %_filedate_iso% and %_filedate_create_iso% placeholders to make possible to sort filelist correctly independent of system regional settings
  • Improved: Preview mode in Generate tab now sort columns according your scheme
  • Improved: Ability to quick select/unselect all imported fields in web options
  • Fixed: Reading of UTF-8 encoded files on generate tag from file
  • Updated MP4 support
  • Unified separators for multiple values fields
  • Program are now check on exit if main config file is read only

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.10 (Sep 8, 2021)

  • New: Now you can save your filtering patterns for list of files
  • New: Special placeholder for parsing time information %_SCAN_TIME% to find potential problems with files reading
  • Improved: Processing of field names contained hyphens
  • Changed: Progam now reset file selection after playback stop
  • Changed: Play button now start playback of first selected file instead first listed
  • Updated playback engine
  • Translation: Latvian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.9 (Jun 3, 2021)

  • Improve visual appearance on systems with 200% and higher scaling
  • Additional detection and indication of non-native tag formats for FLAC, MP4 and WMA files
  • Fixed: Covers didn't resized to selected format while used Import covers wizard
  • Fixed: Size of covers didn't changed for WebP
  • Fixed: Work with WAV and AIFF files larger than 2GB
  • Changed: Filenames no longer affected by Transformations rules on Tag generation from filename module
  • Updated MP4 support

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.8 (Apr 21, 2021)

  • New: Support WebP image format for covers
  • New: Scripting function $insert(a,b,n), $getpart(x,n,c)
  • Fixed: Incorrect codepage error on some AIFF files
  • Updated some examples in help
  • Translation: Finnish

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.7 (Jan 12, 2021)

  • New: Special placeholders for extended technical info from FLAC: %_flac_md5% and MPEG: %_mpeg_copyright%, %_mpeg_protectection%, %_mpeg_original%, %_mpeg_private%, %_mpeg_emphasis%
  • Improved: Speed up reading of tags from huge files
  • Improved: Importing of titles for each media from Musicbrainz releases
  • Changed: Scripting functions $greater and $longer no longer return true for equal values
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3 chunks situated in the end of some lossless files larger than 4GB
  • Fixed: Wrong selection of now played file when remove some files from list

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.6 (Oct 1, 2020)

  • Freedb lookups switched to gnudb.org by default
  • Improved: Reading of rating atom [rate] from mpe4 metadata
  • Improved: Now you can sort replacement rules automatically with Transformations editor
  • Improved: Added more choices for JPEG files types when inserting covers
  • Fixed: New fields didn't added to Vorbis tag in some cases since 6.1.0
  • Fixed: User fields order change in tag editor
  • List of available fields was expanded
  • Updated WavPack support

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.5 (Jul 1, 2020)

  • Improved: MusicBrainz lookups now import full set of MBIDs to better integration with media managers and also have more relevant results
  • Fixed: Renaming of files with patterns with leading backslash
  • Fixed: %_bitspersample% placeholder not filled correctly in Export scripts
  • Fixed: Filtering didn't work in some cases
  • Fixed: Errors on creating user field containing spaces
  • Fixed: Filelist not updated correctly on undoing of renaming
  • Changed: Publisher's catalog number from web results now saved to CATALOGNUMBER field instead ISRC
  • Updated Export scripts to avoid possible problems with non-latin texts outside placeholders
  • Translation: Turkish, Bulgarian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.4 (Apr 17, 2020)

  • Improved: Now you can use up to 10 nested scripting functions
  • Fixed: In some cases program removes trailing dots from filenames
  • Fixed: Rare problems with scripting engine and values contained $ symbol
  • Changed: Disc number no longer setted up to 1 for Discogs releases without separated medias
  • Improved navigation with keyboard in some parts of interface
  • Translation: Bulgarian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.3 (Mar 5, 2020)

  • New: Number of elements in each group now displayed on group's title bar
  • New: Scripting function $substr(x,a,b)
  • Improved: Internal player now considers if the file list is filtered
  • Improved: Editor now preserve fields values while toggling Transformations
  • Improved: Additional checks on corrupted FLAC files to prevent hanging
  • Changed: ALBUMARTIST placeholder no longer use ARTIST value if own value is empty
  • Updated export scripts
  • Updated playback engine
  • Translation: German, Italian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.2 (Nov 11, 2019)

  • New: $padleft(x,y) and $padright(x,y) functions
  • Improved: 64-bit installer now auto-backup scripts from 32-bit installation before upgrade
  • Improved: Interface now looks and feel more accurate on 175% and higher scaling
  • Changed: After refactoring of scripting engine to speed up processing was reverted back PCRE based regular expression engine to take access to full power of string processing
  • Fixed: Can't update tag while file playing
  • Fixed: Tracks numbering from Musibrainz lookups
  • Fixed: Processing of export scripts with html tags
  • Fixed: In some cases program maked copy of file instead renaming
  • Translation: Portuguese (Brazil), Italian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.1 (Oct 25, 2019)

  • Fixed: 64-bit version didn't launch on systems with increased dpi
  • Fixed: Hanging of 64-bit version while playback music
  • Fixed: Some visual issues in advanced editor
  • Fixed: Access violation error on export in some cases
  • Translation: Portuguese (Portugal)

New in Portable TagScanner 6.1.0 (Oct 22, 2019)

  • New: Dark mode
  • New: 64-bit version
  • New: Customizable list of extended fields in editor
  • New: Predefined folder for covers
  • New: Ability to get params for web requests automatically
  • New: Now you can see total number of tracks in release for online lookups
  • Improved: Format value command nows has own button on main toolbar and works from any modes
  • Improved: Import lyrics wizard nows remember options
  • Improved: Ability to use own musicbrainz server
  • Improved: New hotkey Ctrl+W to send web search request
  • Improved: Scalable interface of Transformations editor
  • Improved: Vorbis comments compatibility with JRiver
  • Improved: Switched to new fast internal RegEx engine
  • Fixed: Access violation error on multilevel transformations with nulled fields
  • Fixed: Processing of track numbers for vinyl releases from Discogs

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.35 (May 24, 2019)

  • Improved layout of some interface elements for hiDpi modes
  • Fixed: Memory leak while tagging OGG files
  • Fixed: Support for WMA files
  • Updated OpenSSL libs
  • Translation: German

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.34 (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Improved: 'Remixed by' internal field are now may be mapped to REMIXEDBY or MIXARTIST (Traktor Pro) tag field
  • Improved: 'Open file location' command works more clearly and don't create additional explorer.exe instances
  • Fixed: Calculation of duration for files with several ID3v2 tags
  • Fixed: Not all placeholders available in Export scripts
  • Fixed: Case change feature failed on some locales
  • Translation: Bulgarian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.33 (Feb 6, 2019)

  • Improved: Autonumbering wizard are now saves settings
  • Improved: MEDIATYPE field now imported from online services
  • Improved: All previews are now updated in real time on Transformations selection
  • Fixed: Memory leak in scripting engine cause "Out of memory" error
  • Starting work to make program more friendly for screen readers
  • Updated playbak engine
  • Translation: Japanese, Bulgarian, German, Norwegian, Czech

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.32 (Nov 14, 2018)

  • Transformation with Format value now may be used to generate fields with predefined value
  • New function: ansi(x) returns X with all characters normalized with system codepage
  • Removed tracktype.org service import - because it's not work anymore
  • Added vgmdb.net (Video Games Music Database) to list of servers for FreeDB/CDDB technology
  • Updated support for DSDIFF format
  • Translation: Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.31 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Additional tweaks for Discogs service
  • Added incremental search by all tag fields on main list and list of transformations
  • Default ID3v1 genres list expanded by almost 50 new genres
  • Improved: Reading of WAV files with ID3v2 chunk identifier in upper case
  • Translation: Chinese Traditional

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.30 (Jul 20, 2018)

  • Updated support for Discogs to reflect latest changes in API for multiple artists tracks
  • Updated support for MusicBrainz to work with updated search engine
  • Additional protection logic for fragmented mpeg4 files
  • Program no longer test on Windows XP/2003, but should work on these systems
  • Translation: Portuguese (Brazil)

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.29 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • New placeholders: %_cover_size% , %_cover_width% , %_cover_height%
  • New function: if2(x1,x2,x3,...) returns first non-empty argument
  • Improved: Bypass of malformed WAV files
  • Improved: Additional information for classical music from Discogs
  • Improved: Adittional processing of subtracks from Discogs
  • Additional checks for names conflict on folder renaming

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.28 (Apr 30, 2018)

  • Updated support for Discogs service
  • New: Format value feature are now available in transformations
  • New: Now you can automatically override any embedded cover with your file
  • New functions: $min(x,y), $max(x,y), $round(x)
  • Improved: Very long file paths support for tag editing
  • Improved: Picture column now shows filename of external cover (if available) if embedded cover is empty
  • Changed: Metadata inside WAV LIST INFO chunks now saved with Windows default (ANSI) encoding
  • Translation: Bulgarian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.27 (Mar 6, 2018)

  • Updated support for CoverArtArchive base which used by Musicbrainz service
  • New function: $in(x,y) returns true, if X contains Y
  • Fixed: Unable to clear Album Artist field inside Vorbis in some cases
  • Changed: $strpos function now case insensitive
  • Updated playback engine

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.26 (Jan 11, 2018)

  • Improved: Dramatically decreased memory consumption for undo changes feature
  • Improved: Player are now may switch output device on-the-fly
  • Fixed: Can't undoing cover resizing
  • Fixed: Manual sorting of text replacement rules
  • Fixed: Paste tag into multiple files
  • Updated support for MPEG to improve detection of Lame encoded files
  • Translation: Japanese, Bulgarian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.25 (Jan 11, 2018)

  • New: Online results window are now shows track length if available
  • Improved: Stability while saving tags into multiple huge files
  • Improved: Now you can paste single tag from buffer to all selected files
  • Improved: Playback loop control
  • Improved: Fast forward and rewind while playing
  • Improved: Program are now import genre info from Discogs to CONTENTGROUP field
  • Improved: Additional logic on parsing Vorbis comments fields from foobar2000
  • Updated MP4 metadata support
  • Changed: Program now use 'xxx' language marker for ID3v2 frame USLT to prevent problems with reading lyrics in some players
  • Translation: Bulgarian, Serbian (Latin)

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.24 (Nov 16, 2017)

  • New: Online results window are now shows track length if available
  • Improved: Stability while saving tags into multiple huge files
  • Improved: Now you can paste single tag from buffer to all selected files
  • Improved: Playback loop control
  • Improved: Fast forward and rewind while playing
  • Improved: Program are now import genre info from Discogs to CONTENTGROUP field
  • Improved: Additional logic on parsing Vorbis comments fields from foobar2000
  • Updated MP4 metadata support
  • Changed: Program now use 'xxx' language marker for ID3v2 frame USLT to prevent problems with reading lyrics in some players
  • Translation: Bulgarian, Serbian (Latin)

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.23 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • New keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R and toolbar button for Rename folder by tag wizard
  • New ability to load and save user-defined gernes from external files
  • Support for reading of ID3v2 UFID frame
  • Progam now are remember last used playlist name
  • Most of buttons on toolbars now may change their state depending on selection
  • Fixed: Can't remove metadata from DFF files
  • Fixed: Program crashes if files structure change outside interface
  • Fixed: Saving of some ID3v2 frames with incorrect encoding
  • Translation: Portuguese (Brazil), Persian, Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.22 (Jul 14, 2017)

  • Amazon removed from list of supported web services after Amazon canceled project's accounts
  • Now all lists with user-defined templates can store up to 50 values
  • Updated support for OPUS
  • Translation: Bulgarian, German

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.21 (May 11, 2017)

  • New: Support for DSDIFF files (.DFF)
  • New: Support for new ID3v2 and MP4 tag fields from iTunes
  • New scripting function isnumber(x)
  • Ability to rename field in advanced tag editor
  • Fixed possible FLAC files corruption for files without padding blocks
  • Temporary disabled lookups on non-US Amazon sites
  • Translation: Japanese, Italian, Finnish, Catalan

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.20 (Mar 9, 2017)

  • New: Feature to quick formatting of field value in Editor
  • New: Now you can exclude field from processing using a minus sign before the name
  • Improved: Regular Expressions now works with multiline fields
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 fields INVOLVEDPEOPLE and MUSICIANCREDITS
  • Updated support for FLAC and OPUS
  • Translation: Bulgarian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.19 (Jan 18, 2017)

  • New functions: $swapprefix, $stripprefix
  • Improved: Recognition of APE tags
  • Fixed: Handling of templates for Rename folder by tag feature
  • Fixed: Incorrect sorting of filelist by user-defined columns
  • Changed: APEv2 tag now default for TTA-files
  • Changed: Now when you run the program it opens file from passed arguments, rather than scans folder in which it placed
  • Updated support for WavPack 5.0 format
  • Translation: Turkish

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.18 (Dec 5, 2016)

  • Improved: Handling of non-unique named text frames from ID3v2 tags (more compatible)
  • Improved: Accelerated handling of covers for OGG and OPUS files
  • New placeholder %_bitrate_type% for VBR or CBR indication (if available)
  • Fixed: Work with pictures descriptions in editor
  • Changed: Old СOVERART fields from Vorbis Comments will be converted to the new METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE field while saving
  • Changed: ENCODER field from Vorbis Comments no longer mapped to ENCODEDBY to prevent possible problems with MQA encoded files

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.17 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Fixed: Scaling on hiDPI modes since 6.0.16
  • Updated MPEG4 support
  • Improved Discogs service support
  • New function $char(x) to get unicode character by its code

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.16 (Oct 20, 2016)

  • Improved: Program now handles malformed FLAC files and tries to fix their while saving
  • Improved: Placeholders and functions are now may be used for filtering
  • Improved: Autonumbering wizard automatically recognize scheme of formatting from start value
  • Arithmetic functions: $add(x,y) $sub(x,y) $div(x,y) $mod(x,y) $mul(x,y)
  • Boolean functions: $greater(x,y) $longer(x,y)
  • Fixed: Initialization of predefined genres list in portable version
  • Translation: Catalan, Greek

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.15 (Sep 12, 2016)

  • New: Autonumbering of discs based on groups
  • New scripting function $cutmix(x) to remove mix/cover part in parentheses from string
  • Improved behavior of Rename folder by tag function
  • Improved interaction with MusicBrainz service
  • Improved: Editor now remembers state of folded blocks
  • Fixed: Proxy options reading
  • Fixed: Reading of export scripts in some cases
  • Switch for Track counter in editor reverted back (it was useful in some cases)
  • Translation: Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.14 (Jul 14, 2016)

  • Find duplicates function returned back with new features
  • Now you can customize list of pre-defined genres
  • Support of Replacement Text Case Conversion in Regular expressions
  • New indication for file access problems
  • Updated some default options
  • Translation: Japanese, Turkish, Spanish

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.12 (Jun 16, 2016)

  • New: Filelist filtering feature are now allows to make searching with exact case, whole words and regular expressions
  • Improved: User-defined columns now have text alignment property and may be deleted separately
  • Improved: Regular expressions now tested for errors to avoid program hang
  • Fixed: ID3v2 TDAT frame didn't removed on save
  • Fixed: Covers removed from OGG files after running some tag changing functions
  • Transformations configurator was simplified
  • More smooth work on hiDPI modes
  • Cleaned up content of translation files
  • Translation: French, Czech

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.11 (Jun 1, 2016)

  • New: Ability to use own patterns in filelist columns
  • Improved: Convert codeapge feature now have option to change entirely tag
  • Fixed: Error on Copy/Paste tag data in advanced tag editor
  • Fixed: Processing of empty values with scripting functions
  • Changed: ID3v2.3 TYER/TDAT frames now merged into one YEAR field formatted as YYYY-MM-DD
  • Translation: Spanish

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.10 (May 22, 2016)

  • Fixed: Unicode options processing for ID3v2 tags

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.9 (May 22, 2016)

  • Updated support for ALAC format
  • Fixed: Escaping of some chars in scripting functions
  • Fixed: Removing of tag fields with Advanced tag editor
  • Fixed: Proxy options saving
  • Changed logic of WMA tags reading/saving
  • Translation: Polish, Greek, Japanese

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.8 (Apr 26, 2016)

  • New: Wizard to mass import of lyrics from files
  • Fixed: Album title trimming from FreeDB
  • Updated Discogs cleanup script

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.7 (Apr 19, 2016)

  • New: Placeholder %_filedate_create% returns the specified file creation date
  • Improved: Handling of corrupted FLAC files
  • Fixed: Support of FreeDB service since 6th version

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.6 (Apr 19, 2016)

  • New: Helper panel with list of available placeholders in dialogs
  • New: Logic functions $not, $and, $or
  • Improved: Handling of M4A tag “Conductor”
  • Fixed: Usage of patterns in export/import covers dialogs
  • Changed: Unknown metadata blocks inside MP4 files are now preserved
  • Placeholders reorganized
  • Updated some icons for hiDPI modes
  • Updated sound engine and plugins
  • Translation: Chinese Simplified, Persian

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.5 (Mar 10, 2016)

  • Improved: More smooth work with groups in filelist
  • Improved: Dragging files to Log window
  • Improved: Support for latest changes in iTunes
  • Improved: Ability to sort user-defined genres
  • Fixed: Mouse scrolling in any part of interface on windows10
  • Fixed: Forming of LIST INFO chunk in WAV files
  • Translation: Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.4 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • New: Picture column now shows size of data in addition to image dimensions
  • Improved: Recovering metadata from corrupted AIFF files writed by iTunes
  • Fixed: Updating of generators configuration while migrating from 5.1 to 6
  • Fixed: Filtering of fields from online import
  • Fixed: FLAC, WAV, MP4 support since 6.0.3
  • Updated internal scripting engine
  • Updated support for OPUS
  • Changed: Covers resize function does not enlarge small images anymore
  • Changed: Transform scripting files are now updated on disc as needed
  • Translation: Portuguese (Portugal)

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.3 (Feb 10, 2016)

  • New network core with secure connections support. Required for upcoming changes on Discogs
  • New option for padding zone reduction inside FLAC files
  • New: Ability to drag and drop covers from Firefox and Google Chrome
  • Fixed: Scripting functions didn't worked in some cases
  • Fixed: Removing covers from FLAC
  • Changed: Custom fields names case now preserved for ID3v2 tags
  • Changed: ID3v1 tag saving into mp3 files now depend on special option
  • Updated Apple Lossless format support
  • Translation: Ukrainian, Greek, Slovak, Dutch, French

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.1 (Jan 19, 2016)

  • Improved: More accurate sorting by picture dimensions
  • Fixed: Program hang on file list shuffle
  • Fixed: Program hang on paths managment
  • Fixed: Custom tag fields removed while saving with standard tag editor
  • Reverted back loading of user templates for foldernames
  • Updated support for AAC
  • Reorganize files feature again handles folders

New in Portable TagScanner 6.0.0 (Jan 15, 2016)

  • New: Fresh hiDPI friendly interface
  • New: AIFF and WAV tagging support
  • New: Scripting functions
  • New: Ability to load scripts from external files
  • New: Reorganize feature now has two modes Move and Copy
  • New: Placeholder %_bitspersample% for bit depth information (if available)
  • New: Placeholder %_tool% for information about encoding tool (if available)
  • New: Now you can save id3v2.4 tags (2.3 by default)
  • New: Advanced features for sorting and grouping of files including selection of several fields
  • New: Ability to use user-defined columns in list
  • New: Ability to filter filelist by certain fields
  • New: Dialog for tags removing with advanced options
  • New: Advanced mode of tag editor with access to all possible fields and easy creation of user-defined fields
  • New: Dialogs for import/export covers with special features
  • New: Now you can select which fields need to import from online
  • New: Support for Socks proxy
  • New: Support for lookups on Amazon.in (India)
  • New: All program modules reorganized to make program more friendly to new users
  • New: Dialog for autonumbering with advanced options
  • New: Dialog for renaming of folders
  • New: Hotkeys for Copy/Paste tags
  • New: One log for all operations
  • New: Command in filelist menu - Copy filenames
  • Improved: Additional filtering of results from Discogs
  • Improved: Export operation now logs names of created files
  • Improved: Import cover feature now allow not only jpeg files in auto-mode
  • Improved: Autocomplete feature for long dropdown lists
  • Improved: Moving several files at once with arrows or hotkeys
  • Improved: Processing of ID3v2 list frames like TIPL
  • Improved: Processing of iTunes (MP4) mediatype atom
  • Changed: Sorting and grouping now are independent, you can use Auto-grouping mode to return old behavior
  • Changed: Convert codepage function moved from scripts to command in main menu and works more accurate
  • Changed: APEv2 tags now ignored for mp3 files if ID3v2 exist
  • Changed: Tag reading and saving options rethought
  • Changed: Program switches to the Log window only on Preview operation
  • Changed: Log window now show only affected fields
  • Changed: "Move The" function revised due to recent changes on Discogs
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 tags from files larger than 2GB
  • Optimized memory usage during intensive work
  • Updated support for MusicBrainz
  • Translations: Greek, Polish, Japanese, German, Swedish

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 668 (Nov 15, 2015)

  • Improved: Reading of ID3v2.3 tags contained frames marked as version 2.2
  • Fixed: Sometimes program can't delete empty folder after finishing of restructure function
  • Support for Windows 10

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 667 (Mar 31, 2015)

  • Improved navigation with keyboard
  • Fixed playlists saving
  • Optimize memory consumption for undo operation
  • Translations: Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 665 (Feb 24, 2015)

  • Updated Discogs support
  • Improved Discogs cleanup script
  • Fixed problem with locking of taskbar in fullscreen mode
  • Fixed transform sripts changing
  • Translations: Turkish, Japanese

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 663 (Feb 17, 2015)

  • New option to preserve file selection after tag saving
  • Increased startup speed with initial folder scanning
  • Fixed some visual issues with old Windows themes
  • Program now remember state of Restructure feature
  • Ability to create list of predefined paths for Restructure feature
  • All dropdown lists now works as conceived by the system

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 661 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • Improved: Imprort information about subtracks from Discogs
  • New placeholder %_paramstr% for startup options
  • Simplify updates installation

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 660 (Dec 22, 2014)

  • New: Work with Initial Key field requested by DJs and classic music lovers
  • Now you can click on disc title in web results to select/deselect tracks from current disc
  • Support for Snap feature on latest Windows
  • Fixed rare problem with using of conditinal sections on strings with spanish punctuation
  • Updated Flac support
  • Added ability to playback of Direct Stream Digital format

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 657 (Nov 10, 2014)

  • New: Support for tagging of Direct Stream Digital format
  • Fixed: Some input fields was locked since last update
  • More accurate processing of multi-artist releases from Discogs
  • Program now use new select folder dialog for Vista above

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 655 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Updated Discogs support
  • Fixed: extracting of large covers
  • Fixed: reading of some sorts of ID3v2 unsynced lyrics
  • Translations: Ukrainian, French (new)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 652 (Sep 2, 2014)

  • Fixed reading of transform scripts
  • Fixed saving of some sorts of WMA metadata
  • Improved work of new refresh list function
  • Translations: German (updated)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 651 (Aug 27, 2014)

  • Implemented support of authorized requests for Discogs
  • Improved: Additional processing of compilations from Amazon lookups
  • Improved: Now the regular expressions searching for all matches (don't stop on first match)
  • New hotkeys: [Ctrl+F5] for rescan current folder and [F5] for refresh on screen data
  • New column in the list of files with information about covers
  • Updated playback engine
  • Translations: Czech (updated), Vietnamese (new)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 649 (May 7, 2014)

  • Updated Discogs support
  • Improved reading of corrupted ID3v2.4 tags
  • Translations: Ukrainian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 648 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Optimized work with online services
  • New: Filter for release format on Discogs
  • Translations: Catalan, Slovak, Spain

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 646 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Updated support for Discogs service
  • Fixed: Sometimes program didn't delete tmp-files after tag removing
  • Changed: Tag CUT feature now remove all possible formats of metadata inspite of tags saving options
  • Translations: Finnish, Portuguese (Portugal)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 645 (Dec 17, 2013)

  • Removed support for Beatport lookups due to incompatibility with the new licensing policy
  • Improved work with large FLAC files
  • Fixed: Tags not saved if file is played with embedded player
  • Translations: Latvian (new), Chinese Traditional, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 643 (Nov 7, 2013)

  • New: Now you can download additional images from web sources
  • Improved: Now program shows country of release where possible for web results
  • Improved: Increased tag saving speed on network drives
  • Fixed saving of scripts containing restricted characters in their names
  • Fixed some files sharing issues on multi-user systems
  • Translations: Turkish

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 641 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • Rollback changes which hide files from indexing service after tags saving

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 640 (Oct 9, 2013)

  • Updated support for Beatport service
  • Improved: Case change function now works with multiline fields
  • Improved: Date of release from web sources now can be saved in full format
  • Increased tag saving speed for most systems
  • Fixed some stability issues on Windows 8

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 638 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Improved: Intellectual sorting by Track Number, BPM and Cover size
  • Improved: Autocorrection of filenames for exported covers
  • Reverted back Genre displaying for FreeDB services
  • Possible fix for sharing violation problem on Win8
  • Translations: Dutch, Ukrainian, Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 637 (Jun 4, 2013)

  • Improved: Now you can resize action panels
  • Improved: Now you can apply one text transformation for several fields at once
  • Improved: Interface of freedb-like services reworked and now can show several results at once
  • Changed behavior of some dialogs
  • Fixed: Resource leak and random crashes after long work

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 635 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • New: Support for regular expressions in Text transform
  • Improved: Optimization of lookups on Discogs and Beatport
  • Improved: Ability to get album covers from MusicBrainz's related coverartarchive.org
  • Fixed some stability issues on Windows8
  • Translations: Polish, Ukrainian, Japanese

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 631 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • New: Support for lookups on amazon.it and amazon.es
  • Optimized memory consumption for undo
  • Updated playback engine

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 630 (Jan 15, 2013)

  • Improved: Processing of compound fields from MusicBrainz
  • Improved: Support for non-rgb pictures for embedded covers
  • Fixed: Changing of filename in export interface didn't work
  • Fixed: Renaming of files directly in filelist
  • Translations: German

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 625 (Nov 14, 2012)

  • New: Support for Opus Codec - stream info and metadata reading/saving (Vorbis Comments)
  • Improved relevance of lookups on Discogs and MusicBrainz
  • Improved: Reading of unsynchronized ID3v2.3 tags
  • Improved: Reading of codec information from MP4 movies
  • Improved: Reading of multi-artist fields from MusicBrainz
  • Internal player now support multimedia features of keyboards
  • Program now tested on Windows 8

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 622 (Oct 17, 2012)

  • Improved: Autovalidation of path to folder inserted from clipboard
  • Improved: Tags version indication in filelist
  • Fixed: Processing of tag fields which contain %
  • Fixed: Reading of some types of comments from ID3v2 tags
  • Translations: Dutch

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 621 (Sep 6, 2012)

  • New keyboard shortcut to select next file in list CTRL+N
  • Fixed: Sometimes rating information may disappear from Id3v2 tag after saving in Tag editor
  • Fixed: Tagging problems with very short OGG-vorbis files
  • Translations: Chinese Traditional

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 620 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • New: Support for largest music store for DJs Beatport.com with ability to get full info about releases and download high quality covers
  • Changed: TOTALTRACKS and TOTALDISCS values now saved in individual fields for Vorbis Comments
  • Fixed rare problem with reading of ID3v2 tags with exteneded header
  • Updated Discogs service support
  • Translations: Estonian, Chinese Simplified

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 612 (May 23, 2012)

  • New: Ability to shuffle list of files
  • Updated sorting logic for some columns of filelist
  • Fixed behaviour of some file dialogs on WinXP
  • Fixed problems with false error indication while saving ID3v1 tags
  • Updated playback engine

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 611 (Mar 21, 2012)

  • More accurate calculation of bitrate for FLAC-files
  • Workarounds to work with files locked by other programs like Winamp, iTunes etc.
  • Fixed: File operations on the filtered list of files
  • Fixed: Positioning on multi-monitor systems
  • Translations: Greek

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 610 (Feb 16, 2012)

  • Improved Discogs service support for old releases
  • Improved context menu for list of files
  • Changed: The program now preserve order of files when opening playlists
  • Fixed some stability issues in Tag processor
  • Updated list of available placeholders
  • Retuned Vorbis comments support
  • Translations: Swedish

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 608 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Updated support for WavPack format
  • Unification of the options for processing of existing values in Tag processor
  • Fixed: Work with cover art pasted from clipboard
  • Fixed: Log displaing while renaming files
  • Fixed: Program can't read Album Artist field from ID3v2.2 tag

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 607 (Jan 12, 2012)

  • Updated Discogs service support
  • Updated TrackType service support
  • Improved: On Music renamer tab transform scripts now can be applied not only to filenames, but to placeholders
  • Changed: Program now saves ID3v2 tags into AAC-files by default
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 comments with additional description
  • Fixed: Sometimes ID3v2 tag can't be removed on some systems
  • Translations: Japanese, Ukrainian, Turkish

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 605 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • New: Volume control for built-in player
  • New: Placeholder %_filedate_rfc% for date and time of file in internet (rfc822) format
  • Improved: Quick preview of full-sized album covers in tag editor
  • Improved: Placeholders are reorganized
  • Fixed: Processing of conditional sections
  • Fixed: Processing of mixed-case strings with non-latin chars in transform scripts and filter
  • Some parts of interface have become more friendly to systems with increased DPI
  • Updated sound engine, fixed problems with running on remote desktop
  • Reverted back internal rules for transform scripts to prior 5.1.602 state
  • Translations: Chinese Simplified, Polish

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 602 (Nov 4, 2011)

  • New: Transfered to new version of Awazon Product Advertising API
  • Fixed and reconfigured some templates and export scripts
  • Translations: Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Ukrainian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 601 (Oct 27, 2011)

  • Improved: Speedup filtration of filelist
  • Improved: Ability to get release info directly from MusicBrainz for known PUID
  • Improved: Parsing of some Musicbrainz releases with lack of data
  • Improved: Slightly increased tag writing speed for some systems
  • Fixed: Thumbnails of album covers from Amazon displayed in reverse order
  • Fixed: Processing of several conditional sections in one template
  • Retuned autocorrection function for filenames
  • More friendly autosuggest feature for web requests
  • Translations: German, Ukrainian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 600 (Sep 15, 2011)

  • New: MusicBrainz open music encyclopedia support with ability to download cover art from sites related to release
  • New: Transferred to new Discogs API v2.0, old version will be shut down 15.12.2011
  • Improved: Correct displaying of multiline fields in tags created on Mac OS
  • Changed: The program now checks write permissions for temporary files to avoid problems with network folders
  • Changed: The program now trying to download previews of disc covers before the data about all albums loaded
  • Changed: The program now load only one folder instead top level path when you use console params
  • Fixed: Processing of tag data for multiple selected files with empty fields values
  • Fixed: Rarely authorization problems for some type of requests on Amazon
  • Translations: Serbian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 598 (Sep 15, 2011)

  • New: placeholder %_nl% for new line symbol
  • Improved: Processing of bugged Discogs releases with empty list of tracks
  • Portable version now comes without initial config file to prevent of erasing your settings
  • Translations: Czech, Portuguese (Portugal)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 597 (Apr 14, 2011)

  • Improved: Special indication of spaces and empty values in transform scripts editor
  • Fixed: Rename folder by TAG feature on network drives
  • Fixed: Processing of %foldername% placeholder for network drives
  • Updated Discogs support
  • Program no longer tested on Windows2000
  • Translations: Portuguese (Brazil), German

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 596 (Feb 10, 2011)

  • Improved: Export funtion now can keep current order of files with special placeholder %_index%. Default scripts for html and csv updated.
  • Improved: Automatic validation of output filename for Export function
  • Changed: Mapping VERSION -> REMIXEDBY for Vorbis comments
  • Changed: Processing of cue-files containing multiple PERFORMERs
  • Changed: Program now use path to first dropped file as %workpath%
  • Fixed: Processing of patterns with conditional sections
  • Pressing the tab key in edit mode inside filelist now advances to the same field of next file, just like the Windows 7 Explorer does it
  • Compatibility fixes for some ID3v2 frames
  • Translations: Bulgarian, Italian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 595a (Jan 26, 2011)

  • New placeholders, ability to work with multiple folders at once, improved compatibility with other software and fixed some bugs.

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 595 (Jan 25, 2011)

  • Improved: Now you can add files to current list if hold down Ctrl button while drag'&'drop files from Windows explorer
  • Improved: Reading of separated fields TOTALDISCS and TOTALTRACKS used in some software
  • Improved: New placeholders %foldername2% for name of folder on two levels up and %foldername3% for name of folder on three levels up
  • Improved: Recovering of ID3v2 tags with empty headers and frames
  • Changed: Non-portable version of TagScanner now store all settings and scripts in current user profile folder %appdata%\TagScanner. All old settings from VirtualStore of Windows Vista and above will be moved to new location.
  • Fixed: Processing of %hascover% placeholder
  • Fixed: Possible 'Out Of Resource' error on multimonitor systems
  • Now program interface always scaled according to Windows settings
  • Updated sound engine

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 594 (Nov 18, 2010)

  • Some tweaks in Discogs and Amazon import
  • Updated WMA support
  • Fixed: Access violation error with some actions
  • Fixed: Tag saving problems on mapped network drives

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 593 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • Improved: Greatly increased writing speed with network and external drives
  • Improved: Error protection on corrupted covers from tags, also now you can delete such covers
  • Improved: %_counter% placeholder now use formating settings in same way as %track%
  • Improved: Image quality for resized and recompressed covers
  • Improved: Support for Vietnamese encoding in converters
  • Improved: Autocorrection of foldernames with spaces at the beginnig and end
  • Changed: Program now ignore ID3v2 tags in FLAC files with proper Vorbis tags
  • Changed: Mapping GROUPING -> CONTENTGROUP for Vorbis comments
  • Fixed: Memory leaks in ID3v2 support
  • Fixed: Some errors in WMA support
  • Some fixes in ALAC support for files created with old versions of iTunes
  • Find and Find duplicates functions slightly retuned
  • Changed some groups in filelist
  • Program window now rearranged on startup if its borders out of screen
  • Translations: Czech, German, Ukrainian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 592 (Sep 24, 2010)

  • New tag engine
  • New placeholder %_counter%
  • Improved: Reading of CUE files for various artists compilation
  • Improved: Repairing of some sort of corrupted ID3v2 tags
  • Improved: Compatibility with iTunes10
  • Improved: Program now remember settings for 'Restructure files' feature
  • Changed: Disabled joint reading of ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
  • Changed: Mapping DESCRIPTION -> COMMENT for Vorbis comments
  • Changed: Mapping ORGANIZATION -> PUBLISHER for Vorbis comments
  • Fixed: Generating of tag data with empty user blocks in Filename-to-Tag generator
  • Fixed: Problems with slash symbol in Music renamer for some Windows7 systems
  • Updated Discogs support
  • On Windows Vista and above program now trying to use new system fonts
  • All translation files now utf-8 encoded
  • Transfered to new compiler
  • Translations: Polish, Czech, Chinese Traditional, Slovak, Korean

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 591 (Sep 21, 2010)

  • New tag engine
  • New placeholder %_counter%
  • Improved: Reading of CUE files for various artists compilation
  • Improved: Repairing of some sort of corrupted ID3v2 tags
  • Improved: Compatibility with iTunes10
  • Improved: Program now remember settings for 'Restructure files' feature
  • Changed: Disabled joint reading of ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
  • Changed: Mapping DESCRIPTION -> COMMENT for Vorbis comments
  • Changed: Mapping ORGANIZATION -> PUBLISHER for Vorbis comments
  • Fixed: Generating of tag data with empty user blocks in Filename-to-Tag generator
  • Fixed: Problems with slash symbol in Music renamer for some Windows7 systems
  • Updated Discogs support
  • On Windows Vista and above program now trying to use new system fonts
  • All translation files now utf-8 encoded
  • Transfered to new compiler
  • Translations: Polish, Czech, Chinese Traditional, Slovak, Korean

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 571 (Jul 2, 2010)

  • New: Now you can automatically change dimension and compression level of embedded cover art
  • New: Autonumbering function now has an option to reset counter on next group of flles
  • Improved: Transform scripts now applied for live preview in renamer
  • Improved: Processing of multiple user-defined in Filename-to-Tag generator
  • Changed: Transform scripts now applied only for engaged part of filename instead of full path for Filename-to-Tag generator
  • Changed: Program now change case of file extention only to all upper or all lower
  • Fixed: Tag processor ignore numeric values for some placeholders
  • Fixed: Program no longer prevent of actions on auto-hided taskbar
  • Rewrited network code to avoid problems with unstable connections (no need to restart program)
  • Changed interface scaling method
  • Translations: Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, German

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 563 (May 12, 2010)

  • Updated rules for words capitalization
  • Retuned autocorrection function for filenames
  • Retuned Import data from CUE function
  • A smoother migration from version 5.0 to 5.1
  • Translations: Portuguese - European, Croatian (alternative)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 562 (Apr 29, 2010)

  • New: Ability to search info in Amazon Mp3Downloads section
  • Improved: Program now can automaticaly save downloaded covers into album folder
  • Improved: Program now remember last working module
  • Improved: Program now can indicate about problems with access to the file
  • Improved: Import of additional info about track featured artists from Discogs
  • Improved: Now you can use full range of metadata placeholders for List maker and Tag Processor
  • Improved: Interface for web services reorganized
  • Improved: Autocorrection of foldernames with dots at the beginnig and end
  • Fixed: Last line from text file sometimes ignored when you try to generate tag data from
  • Fixed: Incorrect work of trim filename function
  • Fixed: Preserve file modification time when removing tags if option enabled
  • Fixed: Reading of Genre field containing brackets
  • Translations: Belarusian, Hebrew (new)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 559 (Mar 18, 2010)

  • Improved: Program now use Windows interface scaling option
  • Improved: Trim filename function now also affect on created folders
  • Improved: Reading and mapping of Album Artist field for better compatibility with other software
  • Improved: New placeholder %foldername% for name of folder which contain current file
  • Improved: Processing of multiartist releases from Discogs
  • Changed: Program help now opened in default browser
  • Changed: Remapped key shortcuts to fix problems with typing of some national symbols
  • Changed: iTunes service comments in ID3v2 tags now always saved in ISO-8859-1 encoding
  • Fixed: Error on removing files from list
  • Fixed: Saving of playlists in PLS format
  • Fixed: Reading data from CUE-files
  • Fixed: Next file in list readed twice after saving
  • Improved interface usability for some modules
  • Translations: French (2 versions), Danish (new), Slovak, German, Dutch

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 558 (Mar 12, 2010)

  • Improved: Program now use Windows interface scaling option
  • Improved: Trim filename function now also affect on created folders
  • Improved: Reading and mapping of Album Artist field for better compatibility with other software
  • Improved: New placeholder %foldername% for name of folder which contain current file
  • Changed: Program help now opened in default browser
  • Changed: Remapped key shortcuts to fix problems with typing of some national symbols
  • Changed: iTunes service comments in ID3v2 tags now always saved in ISO-8859-1 encoding
  • Fixed: Error on removing files from list
  • Fixed: Saving of playlists in PLS format
  • Fixed: Reading data from CUE-files
  • Fixed: Next file in list readed twice after saving
  • Improved interface usability for some modules
  • Translations: French (2 versions), Danish (new), Slovak (updated)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 555 (Dec 16, 2009)

  • New: Ability to edit tag fields directly in list of files
  • Improved: Tag Processor now highlights changed fields
  • Improved: Now you can use Transform scripts to replace field value with static text
  • Improved: Fast processing of very large or corrupt text fields inside ID3v2 tags
  • Improved: Export scripts is now updated in real time, if changed outside
  • Improved: Folding sections in tag editor
  • Changed: 'Rename folder by tag' now can work with all selected files instead of focused
  • Changed: Now the program in AUTO mode saves only APEv2 tag in ape,wv,mpc-files if they don't contain ID3v1 tag
  • Fixed: Handling restrictions on 99 tracks in album for freedb and tracktype services
  • Fixed: Problems with selection of last file in list on Win7
  • New keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+P - options, Ctrl+Shift++/Ctrl+Shift+- - expand/collapse groups, Ctrl+Shift+O - open playlist, Esc - cancel any long-running operation
  • Compatibility fixes for some ID3v2 frames
  • Translations: Hungarian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 553 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • Improved: Increased speed of muliselection processing in the list of files
  • Improved: Changed logic of the Html filter for export operations
  • Improved: Reading of unsynchronised ID3v2 tags
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2.4 tags with utf-8 encoded description inside APIC frames
  • Fixed: Change case in multiline fields
  • Fixed: Publisher was mapped to Album Artist in Filename/Text file to Tag modules
  • Fixed: Incorrect calculation of MP4 tag size that prevent saving changes
  • Updated export scripts
  • Translations: German, Portuguese (Brazil)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 552 (Oct 7, 2009)

  • Improved: Increased speed of muliselection processing in the list of files
  • Improved: Changed logic of the Html filter for export operations
  • Improved: Reading of unsynchronised ID3v2 tags
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2.4 tags with utf-8 encoded description inside APIC frames
  • Fixed: Change case in multiline fields
  • Fixed: Publisher was mapped to Album Artist in Filename/Text file to Tag modules
  • Updated export scripts
  • Translations: German, Portuguese (Brazil)

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 551 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • Improved: Now you can remove files from main list of files
  • Fixed: 'List index out of bounds' error when using scripts with the clearing of fields values
  • Fixed: Working of Autonumbering function outside Tag editor tab
  • Fixed: Last selected file inserted twice into playlist
  • Program once again show data offset for mp3 files
  • Translations: Greek

New in Portable TagScanner 5.1 Build 550 (Aug 5, 2009)

  • Removed: Tag processor module: Copy tag
  • Removed: Standalone playlists editor (now integrated into main list of files)
  • New: Tag Processor module: Tag fields mixer - format, extract and move any tag fields data to other fields
  • New: Tag Processor module: Import tag data from text files
  • New: Special field SOURCESTRING in text transform script editor for source strings in new processor modules
  • New: Filtering in list of files
  • New: Change codepage function (from selected codepage to unicode) in text transform scripts
  • New: Ability to create playlist from selected files
  • New: Natural sorting algorithm for list of files (on by default for WinXP and later)
  • New: 'Export list' module with scripting support, included scripts for xml, csv and html
  • New: Reader for Mpeg based files with detection of encoder type and accurate calculation of length and bitrate
  • New: Find duplicates function for list of files (by Title, Size and Length)
  • New: Conditional sections [...] in output strings
  • New: Support of new official OGG Vorbis field designed for embedded cover art (METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE)
  • New: Functions to import/export covers for multiple files at once
  • Improved: Now you can copy/paste TAG information between different media formats(Vorbis to ID3, APE to MP4 etc.)
  • Improved: In Filename-to-TAG generator you can now append text to extracted parts directly in formatting string
  • Improved: User defined templates for quick renaming of folders from menu
  • Improved: User defined genres for Tag Editor
  • Improved: 'Open file location' operation now highlight selected file in explorer
  • Improved: In list of files now you can see columns for all available for editing fields
  • Improved: Import additional information from a Amazon and Discogs (Composer, Conductor, Remixed by etc.)
  • Improved: Additional fields: CONDUCTOR, ISRC, REMIXEDBY, SUBTITLE, LYRICIST
  • Improved: Option for Discogs - Move "The" at the beginning in artist names
  • Improved: Ability to Copy/Paste covers from clipboard
  • Improved: Ability to sort list of files on presence of embedded pictures
  • Improved: Ability to create copy of whole text transform script
  • Improved: Transition to the new Amazon access protocol
  • Improved: Keeping aspect ratio of covers when displaying in the tag editor
  • Improved: Updated support for MusePack and WavePack formats
  • Improved: Multimonitor support
  • Improved: Check for updates on program startup
  • Changed: 'Undo' operation now restore original encoding of tag
  • Changed: 'Export list' function now work for selected files
  • Changed: In Tag Editor, all fields on the screen except locked are cleaned up when you click Remove tag button
  • Changed: To improve compatibility with other software the program now use first occurance of frame instead the last one for ID3v2 tag
  • Changed: Program now updates tag information instead complete overwrite when you get data from web
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 tags with GEOB frames
  • Fixed: Saving of ID3v2 tags APIC descriptions
  • Fixed: Reading of ID3v2 tags with utf-16 BigEndian encoded frames
  • Fixed: Saving of cover art from web into OGG
  • Fixed: Unicode paths usage in some dialogs
  • Fixed: Reading of text files with BOM
  • Fixed: Incorrect processing of files dragged from explorer
  • Fixed: Reading of some MP4 with very long custom tag fields
  • Fixed: Memory leaks in interface render
  • New internal tag storage and processing engine
  • Most of program dialogs was rearranged
  • Updated help files, added examples of usage for all modules
  • Updated playback engine
  • Translations: Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Polish, Spanish

New in Portable TagScanner 5.0 Build 532 (May 6, 2009)

  • Improved: Added placeholder for Composer field in all modules
  • Fixed: Processing of temporary data while searching on Amazon
  • Fixed: Creating of new tag within MP4 files without section for user data
  • Fixed: Creating of new tag within FLAC files created by older versions of the codecs
  • Updated playbak plugin for ALAC format
  • Updated Discogs support
  • Translations: Portuguese (Iberian), Romanian, Ukrainian

New in Portable TagScanner 5.0 Build 531 (Mar 26, 2009)

  • Changed: Now for the Filename-to-tag processor used the same logic as for the Tag editor when reads data from multitagged files
  • Fixed: Case change operation from scripts for templates containing backslashes
  • Fixed: Tag-to-Tag processor errors
  • Fixed: Export to html
  • Translations: Korean

New in Portable TagScanner 5.0 Build 530 (Mar 8, 2009)

  • New: Completely redesigned Filename-to-TAG processor
  • Updated: Discogs support
  • Improved: Work with BPM field in all modules
  • Improved: Tag processing from Kenwood Lossless format *.kls
  • Improved: Ability to quick check/unchek tracks from web results
  • Improved: Processing speed of multitagged files
  • Improved: Additional fields in Listmakers export dialog
  • Changed: Now the program in AUTO mode saves APEv2 tag in mp3-files if they already contain APE tag
  • Fix: Calculation of the duration of very long mp3 tracks
  • Fix: Blocking of the folder after you add an image
  • Fix: Cover art were not saved into APEv2 when importing data from web
  • Fix: Reading of BPM data with non-integer values
  • Fix: Proxy password saving
  • Translations: Greek, Italian