FW: Mp3/Tag Studio 3.0 released!

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Some People will be interested.

A great tool, and highly recommended.

-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Brading [mailto:himself@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 August 2002 15:27
To: ian@xxxxxxx
Subject: Mp3/Tag Studio 3.0 released!



Hello there dear Mp3/Tag Studio customer!

Finally, after a lot of work, the new version 3.0 of Mp3/Tag Studio
is  
complete!

This is a big update, so you probably don't want to miss it (look at
the list below to see what I mean).

Also, some other news:

New web based message board opened at the Mp3/Tag Studio website!

It includes forums for support, improvement suggestions, bug reports,
and general discussion.

All contacts about support issues, suggestions and bug reports should
primarily go through this message board from now on, since the email
load is really getting too much for me to handle. Please keep this
in   
mind.

You are very welcome to come visit and take a look at the message
board, and maybe even drop a line about what you think of the new
version (no account registration is required to write messages on the
board). You can find the message board either through the main Mp3/Tag
Studio website, or with the following direct link:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/forum


To download the new Mp3/Tag Studio 3.0, and get some more info about
it, please visit the Mp3/Tag Studio website at:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts


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What's new in version 3.0
----------------------------------------------

* Due to popular demand, a second type of
  program installation package was added.
  This new package does not contain any banner
  at all, but it does instead have limitations
  in the unregistered mode. The reason for
  this new package is that so many people are
  terrified of anything that has a banner in
  it, even though the banner in Mp3/Tag Studio
  is a completely harmless image that has been
  compiled into the program. Please note that
  the old style package with a banner in the
  unregistered mode is still available though.
  This new package is only an addition for
  adware-paranoids.

* Added a new tool, the list importer.
  This tool can extract data from files with
  user defined formats (e.g. text or HTML
  files) and tag or rename files based on this
  data. It has a bunch of quite powerful
  features to play around with.

* Added a new tool, the file search tool.
  This tool will let you specify any criteria
  (using the normal filter) and then search an
  mp3 collection of any size using these.
  The results will be presented in a spread
  sheet style window. It's quite good if you
  just want to practise setting up the filter
  for the rest of the tools too (since nothing
  is modified, you only get to see exactly
  which files will pass through certain filter
  settings).

* Added a "preview mode" option for all tools
  in the program that do any kind of tagging
  or renaming. Using this, the results of any
  mass processing operation can be viewed
  before deciding to perform the operation for
  real.

* Big upgrade of the casefix tool.
  Both added functionality to it and redesigned
  its GUI. The new "Advanced mode" should be
  powerful enough for any casefixing needs!
  (read more in the help file)

* Big upgrade of the mp3 processing filter.
  Both added advanced functionality to it
  (read more in the help file) and redesigned
  its GUI.

* Big upgrade of the program main settings.
  Added many options and redesigned the GUI to
  be much more efficient and good looking.

* All tools for tagging and renaming (in
  advanced mode) can now use arbitrary ID3v2
  text fields as targets and sources! These
  fields use the format <V2_XXXX>, where XXXX
  is the ID3v2.3 frame ID of the specific
  frame.

* Added cancel-capability to all mass file
  processing operations.

* Added progress meters to all mass file
  processing operations.

* Upgraded the custom files list box, so that
  it now has checkboxes for each entry, and
  also has a horizontal scrollbar when needed.
  The entries in it can also be manually
  rearranged in any order, or automatically
  sorted by file name or file date.

* Added even more advanced functionality to
  the advanced mode of parse-templates (e.g.
  the auto tag tool). You can now parse out
  data to a single field from any number of
  parts of the source (e.g. a filename).

  Example:
  You have a file with the following name

  "Britney (my future wife) Spears - Track 3 CD 1.mp3"

  You can then e.g. let the artist be set to
  "Britney Spears", and let the tracknumber
  be set to 103. That's just one simple
  example anyway, the possibilities are
  pretty endless.

* Added an advanced mode to the "Direct tag
  manipulation" tool. It can now use templates
  (similar to the ones in the auto rename tool)
  to write new tag contents, and it can also
  process any v1 field, any v2 field (including
  all special v2-fields) and also corresponding
  v1 and v2 fields at the same time!

* Upgraded the list maker tool.
  Both added an advanced mode and custom
  sorting to it, and also added options to
  insert custom headers and footers to the
  lists. It can now output very complex lists
  (including completely custom HTML lists and
  multi-line entries). Some new fields were
  added too, e.g. all ID3v2 text fields (in
  advanced mode) and relative file paths.

* Upgraded the repair tool.
  Added a new repair mode to remove junk data
  before the first mpeg header in mp3 files.
  This can recover many types of problems,
  mostly caused by other programs that have
  written bad ID3v2 tags or VBR-headers to the
  file. The "Totally remove corrupt frames"
  mode is still planned for a future version
  of the program, but I cannot promise exactly
  when it will be.

* Added the "absolute path mode" also to the
  direct rename tool.

* Made it possible to add custom commands
  (i.e. calling of external programs) that
  can be performed on files from the browse
  tool menu and shell extension menu.

* Made the program more responsive during
  mass processing operations.

* Enabled use of track numbers larger than 255
  (only in ID3v2 tags though, in ID3v1.1 tags
  this is theoretically impossible, but as long
  as ID3v2 tags are enabled inside Mp3/Tag
  Studio, it is handled as smooth and seamless
  as possible anyway).

* Enabled addition of own genres to the genre
  drop-down boxes in the program.

* Added auto completion of genres when typing
  in the genre drop-down boxes in the program.

* Enabled use of "/" in ID3v2 track number
  fields, e.g. "5/16", according to the ID3v2
  standard.

* Enabled auto parsing of genres from filenames
  to tags. It being left out in the first place
  is a relic from the ID3v1 days, when genres
  could not be set to arbitrary strings, but
  only to certain genres from a closed set.

* Rewrote and optimized parts of the undo code,
  to get rid of a strange bug that caused some
  people to get random crashes while undoing
  lots of files. I think I finally found this
  bug, but please report if you have any such
  crashes in this version!

* Added access to all saved casefix/substring-
  replacement presets from the shell extension.

* Added access to all saved filter presets from
  the shell extension.

* Added access to the remove tag commands from
  the shell extension.

* Fixed so that the program will remember if it
  was started with the "-resize" parameter the
  last time, when executed from the shell
  extension menu. Previously it only remembered
  the "-noresize" parameter in this way.

* Added an option to set the number of
  characters that track numbers should be zero
  padded to, when used in e.g. file names.

* Added an option to preserve the file date
  (timestamp) of all tagged and renamed files.

* Added an option to use a custom directory for
  temporary storage (e.g. of undo data).
  Good for people that for different reasons
  can't write data to the Mp3/Tag Studio
  install dir, which is used for this purpose
  by default.

* Added an option for the user to customize the
  font used in the tag field text edit boxes.

* Added an option to automatically truncate all
  created filenames that exceed a certain length
  (some portable mp3 players have relatively low
  limits for filename lengths).

* Added an option for the browse tool to
  primarily display another tag version than the
  global primary tag version in case of unsynced
  tags in selected files.

* Added an option to disable the warning message
  that is displayed when leaving an unsaved
  edited file in the browse tool.

* Added an option to enable/disable the
  descriptive header row in created mp3 lists.

* Added an option to issue a warning in the auto
  rename tool when any of the fields used to
  rename a certain file is empty.

* Added cut/copy/paste/delete/select-all
  capabilities to certain context menus inside
  the program.

* Added an optional disk space check when 
  writing ID3v2 tags to mp3 files, so that an
  mp3 file can never be damaged even if the disk
  space runs out during the operation.

* Added support for ID3v2 tags with multiple
  comment fields (with non-equal content
  descriptors). Comment fields with non-empty
  content descriptors are now treated as non-
  directly supported ID3v2 frames.

* Upgraded the "error and warnings" window,
  it is now fully resizeable. It can also be
  detached, so that one can investigate the
  files listed in it while it is still visible.

* Added a hotkey for the "Execute" command in
  all tools (ctrl-enter).

* Added an "up one directory level" button for
  the working directory box.

* Added some new items to the browse tool
  context menu, and also added hotkeys for every
  item in this menu.

* Added a display of the mean bitrate in VBR
  files.

* Made the program a bit better on extracting
  the mp3 sound data from files with certain
  kinds of damages.

* Fixed a bug that under certain conditions
  could cause problems in the program when the
  current working directory had been moved or
  deleted by the user.

* Fixed a bug that under certain conditions
  resulted in some bad data in the first sound
  data frame of files that were VBR-header-
  repaired.

* Fixed a bug that under certain conditions
  caused the genre field to seem empty in the
  browse tool, even though the current tag
  actually contained a genre.

* Fixed a bug that caused the mass clean tool
  to under certain conditions create unnecessary
  empty tags, even though they did not exist to
  start out with.

* Fixed a bug that caused fixed-width fields not
  to always work correctly in the direct rename
  tool.

* Fixed a bug that limited the user input to 30
  characters when writing to advanced ID3v2 fields.

* Fixed a bug that made the shell extension act
  somewhat different for mp3:s with an uppercase
  file extension.

* Fixed a bug related to processing some tag
  genres that had originally been written by
  Winamp. This bug arose from Winamp fixing a
  bug in their program, which I have earlier
  compensated for. :-)

* Fixed a bug that under certain conditions made
  the genre in the "mass set tag" tool not to be
  remembered between executions of the program.

* Fixed a bug that under certain conditions made
  the comment in the "mass set tag" tool not to
  be remembered between executions of the program
  (unrelated to the similar genre field bug that
  was also fixed).

* Fixed a bug that could cause an entry in a
  created list to be broken into several rows if
  any of the listed information in that entry
  contained a line break.

* Fixed a bug that could potentially result in
  empty list entries from the list creator under
  certain conditions.

* Fixed a bug that caused the program not to warn
  when only special v2 tag fields had been edited
  (without saving), and the user selected another
  file in the browse tool.

* Fixed a bug that caused the "include subdirs"
  box of the direct tag manipulation tool to be
  enabled in custom file selection mode, although
  it can't be used in that mode.

* Fixed a potential memory leak in the undo data
  generation code for some of the tools.

* Made a lot of smaller fixes, GUI detail
  adjustments and other stuff.


Enjoy!

/Author, Magnus Breding

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