Release history: Songs-DB 1.3 Release 3 - send to ... funtion was added (can send to playlist, classification and folders) - playlist window can be made transparent (Windows ME, 2000, XP) - new track can be announced by a ballon hint (Windows ME, 2000, XP) - media label is shown insted of "?" in "path" column when a media is not present - freedb multiple matches are correctly parsed now - freedb query always scans media and stores result to the database - keys work correctly in the internet browser now - individual artists can be removed from the database - there is a new option to allow just one instance of Songs-DB - properties of the currently playing song can be shown on top (and automatically updated) - progress bar for scanning files is now more realistic - length of MP3 files is read from ID3v2 tags (when present) - shift-Del deletes songs with just a single confirmation - corrected toolbar appearance when WinAmp is the default player - corrected reading of track number from ID3v2 tags - corrected calculation of the total length for big collections - improved reading of various artists CDs from CDPlayer.ini file - added Barnes&Noble, CDUniverse, PlayCentric, AllPoster and AllMusic web pages - other minor improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.3 Release 2 - using of WinAmp input plug-ins for decoding is more compatible now - output plug-ins are no longer all initialized to a fixed volume and balance - new plug-in configuration options were added to the player's context menu - scan media dialog does not have floppy drives selected by default - toolbars are correctly resized - freedb is automatically queried after audio CD scan just when connected to internet - minimized player improvements (time output) - elapsed/remaining time is now changed just by left click - question for new media label is shown just for CDs - some other smaller improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.3 - added audio CD burning support (Nero is required to be installed) - support for format plug-ins which allow scanning and tagging any file format - added format plug-in for Ogg Vorbis - any input plug-in can be used now for getting song length (so virtually any file format is at least partially supported now - by means of WinAmp2 plug-ins) - any input plug-in can be used for converting song to other format - artists and albums node allows to apply a filter - incremental search works for the currently sorted column (and title by default) - most of fields can be edited directly in the main song list - removing songs from a playlist and the cache doesn't cause list refresh anymore - player responds to mouse wheel (volume, balance and position) - database was converted to use general sort order by default - file size was not shown in the computer node - comments and lyrics fields are now in Courier New font (fixed width of all characters) - added player pop-up menu - songs properties dialog can be shown as always on top - mp3 songs length is more accurately calculated now - new version of id3lib was included - original title field is now stored in id3v2 tag - the internal player can show either elapsed or remaining time - screen flickering of some components was removed - windows XP status bar drawing bug was fixed - improved audio CD grabbing (works even with virtual drives on Windows NT,2000 and XP) - scripts error messages were improved - copy and move logic was improved (cache is used, messages on error) - some other small improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.2 release 6 - album details dialog was redesigned - new Enter key shotcuts - new drag&drop possibilities (for categories) - added some song list shortcuts - audio CDs are sorted after data CDs (in the Media and Database node) - corrected wrong grabbing offsets of tracks - added jumps to Computer and Database folders - added an option to normalize songs during conversion - normalization column added to the main song list - added new genre (id 126..147) - genre handling improved (better parsing and storing in ID3 tags) - some smaller improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.2 release 5 - freedb support for "various artists CDs" - rewritten all Windows XP incompatible code - distributed with the latest Lame MP3 engine - Freedb query is possible now even for not yet scanned audio CD - improved HotKey functionality (more switches) - custom field handling corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.2 release 4 - Windows XP themes support was corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.2 release 3 - grabbing of mixed audio and data CDs was corrected - grabbing was one frame shorter - some small improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.2 release 2 - executable is not packed anymore (caused problems on some machines) - corrected startup of the application - corrected database values for newly converted songs - added better freedb time-out handling - added total file size to the status bar - added new fields to the main song list: File Size, BPM, Sample rate, Channels - some other small corrections ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.2 - added script support - added AutoPlaylists (playlists with songs selected by a query) - the main tree was completely redesigned - newly added songs are listed in a special playlist (in Playlists node) - improved Drag&Drop support - added back and forward tree node buttons - corrected WMA input plugin - changed bitrate, channels and sample rate showing logic in the internal player - shuffle logic was corrected - support for WinAmp2 plug-ins was improved - added support for WinAmp2 general plug-ins (gen_*.dll) - user is asked for volume label just for removable media - incremental search logic was corrected - corrected DB error messages - added new query fields (particularly categories) - improved query dialog showing logic - changed main toolbar's icons and play toolbars are hidden for the internal player - songs are no longer removed in threads (was a bit confusing) - added web node with links to various web pages - added Album Details dialog with album cover and "Info/Buy" link - freedb support improved - a check for a new version of Songs-DB available was added - several smaller bugs corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.1 - new plug-ins for audio CDs and WMAs - custom genres can be added (any string can be entered in song's properties dialog for genre name) - improved connection to the database - corrected current playlist node - added the help file and the manual - some other fixes ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.1 beta - a new option to turn off warnings when song to be played is not accessible - a new version of ID3Lib (solves some problems with tagging MP3 files) - after conversion, song is added to database and tagged - an option added to automatically set ID3 tag after song's properties edit - added an option to import track # from .m3u playlist (instead of ID3 tag) - added an option to query freedb automatically after an audio CD is scanned - some small changes and bugfixes - a command line option /NoSplash to prevent showing splash screen during startup ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.1 alpha 3 - added normalization of volume (!) - handling of first song's letters changed - rewritten songs showing window (now looks like playlist window) - few small bugs corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.1 alpha 2 - memory is now released correctly when compressing WMAs - corrected network node browser labels ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.1 alpha - added an internal player compatible with WinAmp (skins and plug-ins)!!! - new properties added for each song: Tempo, Mood, Occasion, Preference - browsing possibilities added for song properties - new node Network added for browsing local network - tray icon (can be disabled) - corrected DB access (problem with non-english version of MDAC) - corrected CDDB(Freedb) access - bugs fixes ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 1.0 beta - optional jitter correction for CD audio grabbing - possibility to setup each CD-ROM drive for grabbing (frames to read, jiter correction, ...) - corrected MP3 encoding - insert and eject of CD causes refresh of related data immediately - a pop-up menu for the currently playing song - several bugs corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------ Songs-DB 0.9 beta - this file has started, until now there were too many changes...