0.2.3346 RC1

New additonal default display sort field

Fix iTunes import failing when library is not in the standard location

Fix equaliser settings not being applied to songs in some cases

Fix embdeded cuesheet now following standard format when the first track has a pregap

Fix cuesheet track start time for albums longer than 1 hour

Fix Quick Track album selector so that albums are now also separated by album artist

Fix ratings import from files tagged with other tools that use a 1-5 rating scale

0.2.3340

New preference for default sorting by multiple fields in Edit/Preferences/System

New File Converter input to specify an organised filename for the converted file, and an option to always embed artwork into the converted file

Change volume control so volume only affects MusicBee and not globally as before

Change 'Choose Artwork' picture selector to default to directory of the music track

Improve speed of copying files to portable devices using drag/drop, especially for devices with a large number of files

Improve drag/drop of files to portable devices for formats not supported by the device - now prompted to set transcoding settings

Fix compatability of Artist tag for AAC/MPEG files with other tagging/player tools

Fix interoperability for converted AAC/MPEG files created using the Nero encoder so tagging is recognised by Foobar (other players were OK)

Fix occasional freeze when toggling between Mini Player and Main Window while a song is playing

Fix File Converter handling of embedded cuesheets (track artist and title are now saved to the converted file)

Fix on-the-fly transcoding when synching or drag/drop copy files to portable devices

Fix device artwork size-to preference occasionally changing randomly after a device synch

Fix CD rip failing when one or more tracks has very long artist/title as returned from freedb

Fix adding a picture to multiple files failing (0.2.3333)

Fix organised directory heirachy not being honoured when saving a ripped file (0.2.3329)

0.2.3333

New Player Preferences for how tracks are added to the now playing list

Improve quick track handling for long artist, album and track titles

Improve handling of read-only files

Improve album artwork file selector defaults to folder the music track is located

Fix cd ripper failing when invalid filename character in album title

Fix auto-tag occassionally displaying blank track selection list

Fix duplicate album artist name being displayed for re-scanned FLAC and OGG files

Fix library file scanner reporting error when adding or removing a large number of files from some drives

0.2.3329

New Quick Tracks enables searching for tracks by Artist, Album or Genre from the notification tray without having the main application window open

New double-click preference (play now or queue track), with optional prompting

New display playlist duration or toggle to time remaining

Improve startup time for people with very large collections

Improve auto-tagging to download higher resolution artwork when available

Improve artwork display to automatically display folder.jpg image if no picture is already associated

Improve artwork display so non-square artwork is not distorted

Fix saving invalid ogg file header in rare cases

Fix podcast download not working when source url contained invalid file characters

Fix global hotkey assignment not working when attempting to add a command already in use

Various minor GUI fixes

0.2.3323

New skip track/ album controls on Now Playing Track notification popup

New open Windows Explorer to the folder of a selected track

New option to enable/disable replay gain volume normalisation and also the ability to control selection of album or track adjustment levels

Fix replay gain normalisation not being applied for first 0.5 seconds and also occasionally randomly stopped working ie. track returned to unadjusted volume

Fix replay gain volume normalisation adjustment being out by a factor of 100 for users with non-American number settings

Fix autotag and artwork failing when album name had a ':' character

Fix now track playing icon correctly follows song when list is resorted

0.2.3319

New remove dead links option in the library scanner tool

New file monitor option to add new files to the Now Playing list

New menu item in the Now Playing list File menu to go to the current playing track. This command can also be associated with a hotkey

Improve detection and handling of invalid mp3 frame headers - previously incorrect track durations may have been displayed based on an invalid header (if you have any files with this problem, you will need to rescan the files using Tools/ Rescan or Add to Library with the rescan flag ticked)

Improve silence trimming option when playing tracks - silence threshold has been reduced as it was causing some songs to start at a loud part of the song

Fix saving Preferences failing in certain circumstances

Fix multiple artist splitter not saving when single artist split is exactly same as display name

Fix image embedded in WMA file not being displayed

Fix auto-tagging failing, including picture retrieval when invalid data is returned by web service

Fix auto-tagging lyrics not being retrieved when that option is ticked

Fix Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X edit handling in text boxes

Fix changing the file sequence in the Now Playing list not relocating the current playing track icon

Fix dragging new files into the Now Playing list failing in certain circumstances

0.2.3314

Fix screen repaint bug for a few users when using non-windows skins

Fix edit-paste using mouse action only not being recognised when editing multiple tracks together

0.2.3312

New TAK file playback and WavPack, TAK encoding

New rip as WAV file

Fix application startup crash - this applies to XP users that did not have the PortableDeviceApi.dll file already installed on their PC

Fix AccurateRip.com validation now also works for CDs' with a data track

Fix source file reference in Cuesheet generated from a rip now refers to encoded file rather than the temporary rip file

Fix add/delete items from a playlist failing in certain circumstances when in album view

Improve support for Network Shares that are not mapped to a drive letter - you can now refer to folders using the UNC path of the share when adding files to the library

0.2.3304

New secure CD ripping with the option to validate against AccurateRip.com

Improve file monitor to import files ripped using EAC

Improve cuesheet handling to allow rating and playcount for each track in the cuesheet

Imrove Ipod sync to set 'Part of a Compilation' flag

Fix folder renaming bug

0.1.3284

New playback of M4P DRM protected files using Quicktime, and optionally also standard AAC/MPEG files

New editing of M4P DRM protected file tags

Improved cuesheet handling

Fix GUI bug with mini-player where it couldn't be moved

0.1.3277

New Windows Native skin

Improve exception handling when re-organising files - previously an error dialog would popup when an exception was encountered. Additionally files are now required to already be located on the target drive (so out of disk space errors don't occur during re-organisation)

Improve folder monitor - now handles files temporarily locked eg. large file copy

Improved handling for large fonts (120dpi)

Fix Last.fm login exception for Vista users

Fix device synchronisation freeze when manually copying a second lot of files that already exist on the device

0.1.3270

Update to fix various reported bugs, and includes handling for embedded cuesheets

0.1.3263

This is the initial beta release of MusicBee. See the features page for a summary of the features provided.

While this is the first beta release, considerable effort has been made with testing but of course not all bugs will have been caught - so please treat with caution for now.