taghycardia Portable Changelog

What's new in taghycardia Portable 1.57

Mar 5, 2024
  • New: More robust cover art finder: When primary source is unavailable, taghycardia now falls back to others.
  • New: Track-by-track mode usability improvements.
  • Fixed: Minor track-by-track mode bugs.

New in taghycardia Portable 1.56 (May 24, 2023)

  • Added: Improved detection rate/accuracy for track-by-track processing, support for "chart" compilations, option to skip remixes when creating playlists.
  • Fixed: Problem related to a breaking API change, a number of minor bugs.

New in taghycardia Portable 1.55 (Dec 12, 2021)

  • Added: Option to remove duplicate tracks from compilation folders (see help)
  • Added: Option to re-detect and re-tag all tracks in a folder from scratch (see help)
  • Changed: Tracks having id3v1 tags only are now always re-tagged with id3v2.3 to avoid text-encoding issues
  • Fixed: A number of UI annoyances and minor bugs

New in taghycardia Portable 1.52 (May 10, 2020)

  • Added: Tentative support for RIFF ID3v2 tags in WAV files (read-only in the free version)
  • Added: When run with a music file name as a parameter, taghycardia now detects the track, downloads cover art for it, re-tags and renames using %artist% - %tracktitle% pattern
  • Fixed: Minor bugs

New in taghycardia Portable 1.51 (Jan 24, 2020)

  • Added: AIFF support (read-only in the free version)
  • Fixed: High-DPI and track-by-track detection related fixes

New in taghycardia Portable 1.50 (Jan 4, 2020)

  • Added: Track-by-track detection, cover art downloading for compilation folders
  • Fixed: A number of minor bugs

New in taghycardia Portable 1.11 (Apr 19, 2019)

  • New: Less prompts, more automation.
  • New: Auto detect and set missing Album Artist for collaborative albums
  • Fixed: Rare crash when downloading additional images
  • Fixed: Empty album field ignored under certain conditions
  • Fixed: Persistent lyrics search failures

New in taghycardia Portable 1.10 (Nov 6, 2018)

  • Added: High-Accuracy untagged album detection mode
  • Added: Accuracy vs. Speed toggle for untagged albums detection (with balanced mode set as default)
  • Improved: Up to 3x faster lyrics search
  • Fixed: Sporadic crashes during full-folder-tree lyrics search
  • Fixed: Albums with uniform AlbumArtist frame detected as compilations

New in taghycardia Portable 1.09 (Jun 10, 2018)

  • New: Initial setup option to enable Android-related automated tag fixes
  • New: Automated fixes for tag issues causing wrong album track order on Android devices
  • New: Relative path option in Playlist Generator
  • Fixed: Minor issues

New in taghycardia Portable 1.08 (Apr 29, 2018)

  • New: Auto-fix for for tag issues causing wrong character encoding on Android devices
  • New: Automated fixes for tag issues causing album splits on Android/Google Play Music:
  • Fix 'Album Artist' inconsistencies
  • Prevent personal compilations from decomposing into multiple 'albums'
  • Fixed:
  • Minor issues

New in taghycardia Portable 1.07 (Jan 9, 2018)

  • New: Essential system settings now configurable
  • New: Failed/canceled image requests now logged to improve operation speed
  • Fixed: Possible interoperation issues with file change monitoring software
  • Fixed: Persistent cover art finding failures under certain conditions
  • Fixed: TPE2 frame sometimes lost upon ID3 tag rewriting
  • Fixed: Sporadic partial image displays when zooming

New in taghycardia Portable 1.05 (Oct 31, 2017)

  • Added: detection of completely untagged albums using audio signatures.

New in taghycardia Portable 1.04 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • A number of fixes related to mpeg-4 support.
  • Added: Artist list now downloads along with track list for Various Artists compilations in the embedded Mass Tag Editor
  • Added: Reminder to save changes for sequentially drag-and-dropped albums
  • Improved: lyrics discoverability
  • Fixed: Lyrics showing incomplete for some tracks

New in taghycardia Portable 1.03 (May 3, 2017)

  • Added: Optional auto-correction of Genre inconsistencies
  • Fixed: Cancelling art-adding clears all other operations for a folder
  • Fixed: Unnecessary duplicate tag rewrites under certain conditions
  • Fixed: Ghost cover preview window staying under certain conditions
  • Fixed: Sometimes auto-chosen cover art does not embed into tags in Editor
  • Fixed: Wrong pic sometimes pops up for an album in the main window

New in taghycardia Portable 1.02 (May 3, 2017)

  • Added: Drag and drop multiple selected folders to process at once (see example).
  • Added: Option to select default action for drag-and-dropped folders.
  • Added: Save main window screen position and size for subsequent program runs.
  • Fixed: Couple of minor bugs.

New in taghycardia Portable 1.01 (Dec 27, 2016)

  • Fixed: Faulty tag not updated when original file has id3v1 metadata only.
  • Fixed: 'Disable cover art downloading' button does not work sometimes.
  • Fixed: 'Also rename existing' option fails to work with certain image names.
  • Several minor under-the-hood fixes/improvements.

New in taghycardia Portable 1.0 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • Added: FLAC and APE formats support (readonly in the standard version).
  • Added: Option to set cover embedding behavior for FLAC files separately from other formats.
  • Improved lyrics discoverability
  • Fixed: Working with unmapped network volumes (\VolumeName..) not supported.
  • Fixed: Embedded art in formats other than jpeg saved with a .jpg extension.
  • Fixed: Some tag frames could be lost when updating metadata in non-MP3 files.
  • Fixed: Memory leaks when handling non-mp3 formats.

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.8 (Jun 16, 2016)

  • Added: Ability to preview images/download more in the main window.
  • Added: Support for music file formats other than MP3.
  • Improved online lyrics/release info discoverability.
  • Multiple usability improvements and small tweaks/fixes.
  • Fixed: Track numbers from vinyl and cassette releases (A1/B1...) reported as faulty.
  • Fixed: Track numbers not removed from file names when using them to fill empty track
  • titles.
  • Fixed: No way to disable saving downloaded images in addition to embedding in tags.

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.6a (Feb 3, 2016)

  • Improved online cover art discoverability, fixed a number of minor UI-related bugs.

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.6 Build 08/30/2015 (Sep 19, 2015)

  • Added a .manifest file and some compatibility settings to make Windows' UAC ask for proper permissions for the program.

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.6 (Aug 1, 2015)

  • Added: lyrics management - getting automatically from online sources, editing, embedding into tags & updating

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.5f1 (May 28, 2015)

  • Fixed: corrupted cover art downloads
  • A number of minor fixes. This is a recommended general bugfix update

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.5f (May 28, 2015)

  • Fixed: Inability to find any art online due to API changes

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.5 (Nov 19, 2014)

  • Added: Button to remove all cover art from mp3 tags in a folder tree with a couple of clicks
  • Added: Windows Explorer context menu option to create a Unicode playlist for a folder tree and open the list in a player
  • Several small fixes

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.4 (Apr 8, 2014)

  • Remove covers from tags mode
  • Win32 and Win64 builds in a single installer
  • Lots of small fixes

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.3f (Feb 27, 2014)

  • Fixed: cover art failing to load due to a Discogs API change

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99.3 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • Added: option to manage picture file names used for autoselection; included folder.jpg in the default names list

New in taghycardia Portable 0.99 (Jan 8, 2013)

  • Auto Cover Art download and Analysis.
  • Expanded integrated mass tag editor.

New in taghycardia Portable 0.98 (Nov 6, 2012)

  • Auto add iTunes "Part of a compilation" flag to official ("Various Artists") as well as your own compilations;
  • Sort your personal iPod compilations by album/artist/trackname/filename/random;
  • Fixed and enhanced Discogs database search;
  • Auto get tracklist from Discogs in Mass tag editor, and more.

New in taghycardia Portable 0.97 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Drag and drop folder to start processing
  • Reverse byte order support;
  • Fixed - a nasty bug in the tag write routine causing tag corruption on some systems, as well as a handful of non-critical bugs.

New in taghycardia Portable 0.96 (Apr 19, 2012)

  • New options - Auto rename playlists, Auto add track numbers to filenames when missing.
  • Fixed - minor bug in genre unification routine.