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2007/10/15 - EasyTAG 2.1.3 (Developing version)

Changes since version 2.1.2 (ChangeLog) :

The "convert" function of the 'Process Fields' scanner was improved to allow to replace a string to an other one (instead of only one character),
Added a option to limit the number of lines in the log view,
Added ability to show or hide the log view,
Added command buttons in the "Load TXT file" windows,
Added support of .oga extension,
The "Process Fields" scanner set to uppercase roman numerals (thanks to Slash Bunny),
Fixed problem with the "Encoded by" field in Id3v2.4 tags (thanks to Adrian Bunk),
Fixed rules of the "process fields" to follows The Chicago Manual of Style more closely(thanks to Slash Bunny),
Fixed bug with UTF-8 characters in the "convert" function of the 'Process Fields' scanner,
Fixed problem with the browser window that stays grayed out if the selected directory doesn't exist,
Fixed file descriptor leak in the cddb search,
Improved displaying of extensions supported in the About window,
Improved selection of directories, in the browser tree, if it doesn't exist on the file system, the tree is refreshed automatically,
New Serbian translation (thanks to Miloš Popovic),
Swedish translation updated (thanks to Anders Strömer),
Polish translation updated (thanks to Tomasz Salacinski and Michal Smoczyk),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
French translation updated.

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2007/07/12 - EasyTAG 2.1.2 (Developing version)

Changes since version 2.1.1 (ChangeLog) :

Added an option to update modification time of the parent directory when changing tag values of a file (useful for Amarok for example),
Added autoscroll in log view,
Added new Swedish documentation (thanks to Anders Strömer),
Fixed a problem to display the title in the Cddb window with translation languages (bug introduced in version 2.1.1),
Fixed the loose of focus after saving files : now the same control keep again the focus,
Fixed a mistake in the configure script (thanks to Thomas Klausner),
Swedish translation updated (thanks to Anders Strömer),
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero),
Polish translation updated (thanks to Michal Smoczyk),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk),
French translation updated.

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2007/07/04 - EasyTAG 2.1.1 (Developing version)

Changes since version 2.1 (ChangeLog) :

Added support of ID3v2.4 tags by using library libid3tag (thanks to Alexey Illarionov),
Added Speex support (thanks to Pierre Dumuid) (without displaying bitrate and duration),
Added displaying of the number of pictures in the label of the tab.
Fixed name of default server for the MusicBrainz FreeDB Gateway (thanks to Steve Wyles),
Fixed a problem when renaming file, by changing the case, that may delete one file,
Fixed a small mistake in the cddb query string (thanks to Steve Wyles),
Fix for Ogg Vorbis files: read also the COMMENT tag field when it is used instead of DESCRIPTION,
Should be fixed a bug when refreshing the tree (not sure as it is difficult to reproduce),
In preferences window, the load on startup option and the default directory setting were splitted,
Added some improvments in the cddb window,
Added time in log view,
New Hebrew translation (thanks to Yuval Hager),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk),
French translation updated.

Windows version :
- Fixed the default Russian encoding used under Windows (set to windows-1251 instead of KOI8-R).

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2007/05/07 - EasyTAG 2.1 (Stable GTK 2 version)

Changes since version 2.0.1 (ChangeLog) :

Fixed a crash in the Artist/Album view after saving files,
Italian translation updated (thanks to Costantino Ceoldo),
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero),
French translation updated.

Windows version :
- Fixed displaying of header informations of Ogg Vorbis file,
- Fixed crash when writing tag of Ogg Vorbis file.

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2007/05/01 - EasyTAG 2.0.2 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 2.0.1 (ChangeLog) :

Fixed a runtime crash on Mac OS 10.x platform (thanks to Timothy Lee),
When adding a picture to a file, the selection window starts on the same directory of the file,
Fixed command buttons not disabled when using the scanner command,
Fixed a compilation bug under Solaris (thanks to Ben Taylor),
Fixed sorting of filenames containing some particular UTF-8 characters,
Fixed a crash when double clicking over the file list when no file loaded,
Fixed a crash when deleting severals files,
Some code improvments to increase speed,
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk),
French translation updated.

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2007/04/12 - EasyTAG 2.0.1 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 2.0 (ChangeLog) :

Added WavPack support (thanks to Maarten Maathuis),
Added a log area in the main window to avoid sending all messages to the console,
Added local access to the cddb search for the automatic mode,
Fixed some bugs in the cddb window,
Fixed the reloading of the current which was done two times when changing state of the "Show hidden directories" checkbox,
Fixed Glib warnings on startup,
Italian translation updated (thanks to Costantino Ceoldo),
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero),
French translation updated.

Windows version :
- Fixed a crash in the Cddb window for the manual search.

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2007/02/19 - EasyTAG 2.0 (Stable GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.13 (ChangeLog) :

Added buttons in toolbar to search files, to search in cddb and to write playlist,
Added in the cddb window the option to match lines with the Levenshtein algorithm,
Fixed crash when no audio player is defined and problem of checking in the preferences window,
Added automatically removing of APE tag in a MP3 file,
Improved decoding of Arabic characters,
Added French Users Guide (Than to Emmanuel Brun),
Swedish translation updated (thanks to Anders Strömer),
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Costantino Ceoldo),
Japanese translation updated (thanks to Takeshi Aihana),
French translation updated and typo fixed (thanks to Emmanuel Brun).

Windows version :
- Fixed autocompletion of year when a partial one was entered,
- Fixed crash when no audio player selected in preferences window,
- Improved detection of the locale.

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2006/12/10 - EasyTAG 1.99.13 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.12 (ChangeLog) :

The manual cddb search was reactivated by using now "gnudb.org" instead of "freedb.org" as the last service didn't work,
Faster access for the Cddb search,
Added ability to use the MusicBrainz Cddb Gateway for the automatic search,
The automatic search request the two servers : freedb.org and the MusicBrainz Cddb Gateway,
Fixed compilation for the new FLAC version 1.1.3 (thanks to Josh Coalson),
Fixed reading of invalid UTF-8 strings in Ogg Vorbis and APE tags. We try to convert it to the right encoding.
Added French documentation (thanks to Emmanuel Brun),
A new Chinese translation (thanks to Yang Jinsong),
Hungarian translation updated (thanks to Mészáros Csaba),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
Swedish translation updated (thanks to Anders Strömer),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk),
French translation updated.

Windows version :
- Fixed problem when renaming file with the scanner if a field contained the character '/' or '\',
- Fixed loading of a path ended by '\' in the browser entry,
- Fixed, missing the first file when lauching the player.

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2006/04/06 - EasyTAG 1.99.12 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.11 (ChangeLog) :

New logo and icons (thanks to Der Humph),
Added ability to display all albums of an artist in the 'Artist / Album' view,
Added detection of the bugged version of id3lib when writting ID3 tag to Unicode to inform the user (a patch for id3lib is supplied in package source),
For Ogg files, the field DESCRIPTION is also used for the comment,
Fixed stack corruption bugs in Fill Tag scanner (thanks to Mark Ferry),
Fixed loading disk number for FLAC tag (thanks to Robert Norris),
Fixed error that displays MP3 files in red when no tag is present,
Fixed a crash in the CDDB window when getting tracks of a album,
Fixed playlist name bug when creating it in the parent directory,
Fixed manual CDDB search when using Squid (thanks to Christopher Oliver),
Little fix for FLAC tags,
Fixed various bugs,
Russian translation updated (thanks to Andrey Astafiev),
Greek translation updated (thanks to Apollon Oikonomopoulos),
Spanish translation updated (thanks to Francisco Javier F. Serrador),
Japanese translation updated (thanks to Takeshi Aihana),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero),
Danish translation updated (thanks to Morten Brix Pedersen),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
Hungarian translation updated (thanks to Mészáros Csaba),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

Windows version : (thanks to Michael Pujos)
- Fixed starting the program with a directory as parameter,
- Fixed problem in Fill Tag scanner with the first code,Available menu entry to "Open file(s) with...",
- We recommend to remove your .easytag directory to reinitialize it : as there are many changes when storing filenames or directories in configuration files.

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2005/12/15 - EasyTAG 1.99.11 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.10 (ChangeLog) :

Added ability to force saving tag of file even if no changes made (useful to convert quickly tags),
Added switch '--disable-mp3' to not compile the program with id3lib (will allow in future version to choose between id3lib or taglib),
Fixed problem of saving file order (bug introduced in version 1.99.10),
French translation updated,
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
Hungarian translation updated (thanks to Mészáros Csaba),
Spanish translation updated (thanks to Francisco Javier F. Serrador),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

Windows version : (thanks to Michael Pujos)
- Fixed sorting of files,
- Paths and file names are displayed with character '\' instead of '/',
- Fixed renaming directories,
- Various fixes.

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2005/11/28 - EasyTAG 1.99.10 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.9 (ChangeLog) :

Added port to Win32, to compile under MinGW (thanks to Michael Pujos),
The preferences window was clean up : saving configuration changed (the apply button was removed to not confuse user), position of main window, scanner window and cddb are automatically saved (settings were removed from the window),
Added a protection against MP3 corrupted files (files containing only zeroes) which cause a bug in id3lib and so freeze the program,
Added some documentation,
Changed some shortcuts in the menu by following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.0,
Added ability to load pictures contained in ID3v2 tag of a FLAC file,
Fixed a crash that may occurs with the browser at startup,
Fixed displaying of player in preferences window if it not exists, else were can't save the settings,
Fixed a crash that may occurs with message boxes (thanks to Falk Hueffner),
Fixed some memory leaks,
French translation updated,
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
Danish translation updated (thanks to Morten Brix Pedersen),
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2005/11/03 - EasyTAG 1.99.9 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.8 (ChangeLog) :

Ability to read and write UTF-16 strings in ID3 tag (thanks to Javier Kohen and Alexey Illarionov),
Added options to save tags only in ISO-8859-1, or only in Unicode, or to let the program to do the best choice,
Added options to select a non-standard encoding for ISO-8859-1 fields in the tag (very useful for example for Russian people), and can apply some rules when writing tag if some characters can't be converted to this non-standard encoding (activate the transliteration or silently discard some characters),
Changed way to read and write filenames : use the encoding specified into environment variables of language (as LANG or LC_ALL), instead of the GTK2 environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING,
Added options to apply some rules when writing filename if some characters can't be converted to the system encoding (activate the transliteration or silently discard some characters),
Added ability to rename the directory in the browser with masks,
Added an option to return focus to the 'Title' field when switching files with the previous/next button/shortcut,
Added a menu item for the action "Show hidden directories" in the browser,
For Ogg Vorbis files, the file vcedit.h was updated from vorbis-tools-1.1.1,
Some fixes and improvements in the CDDB windows,
Improved compatibility for MP4/AAC files with MPEG4IP-1.2,
Fixed a crash when reading FLAC files,
Fixed : remove old directories when changing path of the file with the 'Rename File' scanner,
Fixed crash when numbering tracks sequentially after renaming files,
Fixed problem when renaming file from one partition to an other one (mananage the error "Invalid cross-device link"),
Fixed : don't replace illegal characters when writing playlist content from a pattern,
Fixed writting of playlist to improve compatibility with some players (uses DOS characters for a new line),
Fixed conversion of the word 'I' with the 'first letter uppercase' scanner: now it stays to upper case,
Check if the program to launch to open files exists before to run it,
A new bulgarian translation (thanks to Luchezar P. Petkov),
French translation updated,
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero)
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2005/08/31 - EasyTAG 1.99.8 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.7 (ChangeLog) :

Fixed hangs in the cddb lookups (thanks to Paul Giordano),
Fixed problem when parsing markup in the 'Fill Tag' scanner preview,
Added MP4/AAC file and tag support (including pictures in tag) by using MPEG4IP (libmp4v2) (thanks to Michael Ihde and Stewart Whitman),
"Copyright" replaced by "License" in .spec file to allow to build the RPM package with rpm-4.4.0 (thanks to Nathaniel Clark),
French translation updated,
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2005/07/11 - EasyTAG 1.99.7 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.6 (ChangeLog) :

When adding a picture, it tries to identify the type (front or back cover) from the filename,
Fixed saving a path in the browser entry after entering a new path,
Fixed bug on Ogg Vorbis and Flac files which saves severals times the TRACKTOTAL field if tag contains an unsupported field (thanks to Alan Swanson),
Fixed some strings that don't appear translated,
Fixed loading of picture in ID3 tag with file name containing characters not in UTF-8,
French translation updated,
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
Brazilian Portuguese translation updated (thanks to doutor.zero)
Hungarian translation updated (thanks to Mészáros Csaba),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2005/06/26 - EasyTAG 1.99.6 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.5 (ChangeLog) :

Added scanner code '%d' for disc number,
Configuration files updated to support ppc64 (thanks to Andreas Jochens),
History list in comboboxes limited to 15 items,
Fixed tab focus order in the 'Tag' area to avoid auto handling from gtk (may changes on some systems),
Fixed problem when writing playlist after renaming a directory,
Fixed string encoding when writing playlist with the scanner,
Fixed encoding of the default path to file chosen from preferences,
Fixed problem of different file name sorting between file list and cddb track name list,
Fixed displaying number of files located in a directory with UTF-8 characters,
Spanish translation updated (thanks to Francisco Javier F. Serrador),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2005/06/06 - EasyTAG 1.99.5 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.4 (ChangeLog) :

Fixed crash when deleting pictures to severals tags at same time (thanks to Fredrik Noring),
Fixed a little bug when writing album disc number,
Fixed changing case of a directory in FAT partitions,
Fixed crash when using scanner to uppercase first letter of each word,
Added icons in popup menu of tag fields,
A new Greek translation (thanks to Apollon Oikonomopoulos),
A new Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to doutor.zero),
French translation updated,
Spanish translation updated (thanks to Francisco Javier F. Serrador),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Zbynek Mrkvicka),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2005/05/01 - EasyTAG 1.99.4 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.3 (ChangeLog) :

Added ability to rename directories from the "Rename File" scanner (thanks to Guilherme Destefani),
Added new field for ID3v2 tag, Ogg Vorbis tag, FLAC tag and APE tag : disc number,
Added entry in file popup menu to run directly an automatic CDDB search with the selected files,
The CDDB protocol level had been changed to 6 to accept UTF-8 strings,
Some fixes in the CDDB window and search file window,
Added reading of FLAC Vorbis tag encoded into ISO-8859-1 character set,
Added an option to preserve the modification time when saving the file,
Improved settings of character set (for ID3 tags) to allow you to fix some tags (for example if tags were written with UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-15),
Fixed wrong order of ID3 genres 'Swing' and 'Fast Fusion' (thanks to Charles Shannon Hendrix),
Fixed a bug into APE tag when deleting a field (thanks to Artur Polaczynski),
Fixed a bug in the Process fields scanner to remove spaces,
Fixed for FLAC tag : keep the original vendor string while saving tag,
Fixed displaying picture size when changing properties,
Fixed lot of problems when handling UTF-8 filenames and strings,
Fixed converting filenames to UTF-8 : if it fails try to convert from the locale of your lang, else from ISO-8859-1,
Fixed some memory leaks,
Japanese translation updated (thanks to Takeshi Aihana),
Romanian translation updated (thanks to George Pauliuc),
Spanish translation updated (thanks to Fernando M. Bueno Moreno),
Danish translation updated (thanks to Morten Brix Pedersen),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2005/04/07 - EasyTAG 1.1 (Stable GTK 1.2 version)

Changes since version 1.0 (ChangeLog) :

Added ability to authentifiate on the proxy with username and password,
Added ability to search files in hidden directories,
Added shortcut F5 to reload current directory,
Improved use of the command line to run EasyTAG with a directory as,
Removed forcing ID3v2.3 tags to ISO-8859-1 at start (was boring for russian people),
Removed old function to keep the tree browser in memory (to not refresh it),
Replaced icons for directories in the browser,
Fixed requested server when using a proxy for the Cddb automatic searching (thanks to bjustus schwartz),
Fixed a bug with APE tags (thanks to Daniel Drake and Artur Polaczynski),
Fixed compilation problem under gcc-4.0,
French translation updated,
Spanish translation updated (thanks to Fernando M. Bueno Moreno),
Romanian translation updated (thanks to George Pauliuc).

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2005/01/20 - EasyTAG 1.99.3 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.2 (ChangeLog) :

Added searching (search window) in the new tag fields added in the previous version 1.99.1 (Composer, ...),
Fixed displaying ratio for pictures in ID3v2 tags,
Fixed requested server when using a proxy for the Cddb automatic searching (thanks to bjustus schwartz),
Fixed a bug with APE tags (thanks to Daniel Drake and Artur Polaczynski),
Removed association of the program with directories in easytag.desktop,
Removed forcing ID3v2.3 tags to ISO-8859-1 at start (was boring for russian people),
Replaced icons for directories in the browser,
French translation updated,
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/11/29 - EasyTAG 1.99.2 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 1.99.1 (ChangeLog) :

Added support for picture into ID3v2 tags (thanks to Fredrik Noring),
Added, for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC Vorbis, use of field TRACKTOTAL for the number of file (instead doing like '02/21' in field TRACKNUMBER),
Added ability to authentifiate on the proxy with username and password,
Some fixes for the process fields scanner (thanks to Baris Cicek),
Changed order of buttons in the message box dialogs (button OK on the right, ...),
Fixed saving of FLAC Vorbis tag, which was truncated with UTF-8 strings,
Fixed running program from console using a relative or absolute path,
Fixed displaying of hidden directories in the browser,
Fixed using the command line to run EasyTAG with an hidden directory as parameter (for example "easytag .a_hidden_dir/"),
Using previous version for requesting cddb server as the new one doesn't work with a proxy,
Fixed gtk2 dependencies in easytag.spec file (thanks to John Thacker),
Danish translation updated (thanks to Morten Brix Pedersen),
Dutch translation updated (thanks to Vincent van Adrighem),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
Russian translation updated (thanks to Andrey Astafiev),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/10/25 - EasyTAG 1.99.1 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 0.31_gtk2.4_pre3 (ChangeLog) :

Added new fields for ID3v2 tag, Ogg Vorbis tag, FLAC tag and APE tag : Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL and Encoder name,
Added an option to select or not the corresponding file when selecting a track name in the Cddb results,
Added ability to search files in hidden directories,
Added an option to not convert some words when using the scanner 'First letter uppercase of each word' (theses words were skipped automatically in the previous release),
Fixed crash when switching between the Artist/Album view and the Browser view (thanks to Daniel Drake), code was also improved,
Fixed bug of loss of filename after opening the file with an external program,
Fixed displaying of small icons on small button as in Sequence Track button,
Fixed some memory leaks,
French translation updated,
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/10/20 - EasyTAG 1.0 (Stable GTK 1.2 version)

Changes since version 0.31 (ChangeLog) :

Added ability to request Cddb database automatically from the selected files (computing the CddbId) (thanks to Justus Schwartz),
When applying Cddb results to the files, the cddb genre is converted to an ID3 genre,
Improved settings of character set (for ID3 tags) to allow you to fix some tags (for example if tags were written with UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-15),
Fixed request to cddb for getting album tracks,
Fixed UTF-8 strings into easytag.desktop (thanks to Ville Skyttä),
Some updates in the USERS-GUIDE files (thanks to David Greaves),
A new Danish translation (thanks to Morten Brix Pedersen),
French translation updated,
Hungarian translation updated (thanks to Nagy Boldizsar).
Russian translation updated (thanks to Andrey Astafiev),
Dutch translation updated (thanks to Björn Olievier),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Milan Siebenburger),
Japanese translation updated (thanks to Takeshi Aihana),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/09/29 - EasyTAG 0.31_gtk2.4_pre3 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 0.31_gtk2.4_pre2 (ChangeLog) :

UTF-8 filename fixes (thanks to Daniel Drake),
Added ability to request Cddb database automatically from the selected files (computing the CddbId) (thanks to Justus Schwartz),
When applying Cddb results to the files, the cddb genre is converted to an ID3 genre,
Added ability to convert filename extension to lower or upper case,
Removed old function to keep the tree browser in memory (to not refresh it automatically when collapsing and expanding a node),
Fixed problem with UTF-8 strings and the process fields scanner (thanks to Baris Cicek),
Fixed ability to open a file with the popup menu entry "Open File(s) with ...",
Fixed displaying search result to red if matching,
Fixed displaying of the last selected file when selecting severals files,
Fixed error messages in the Artist/Album view,
French translation updated,
Danish translation updated (thanks to Morten Brix Pedersen),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/09/11 - EasyTAG 0.31_gtk2.4_pre2 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 0.31_gtk2.4_pre1 (ChangeLog) :

Fixed the option to load a directory at start (it read the dir. even if disactivated),
Fixed the conversion of the red lines to black when file was saved (thanks to John Spray),
Fixed UTF-8 strings in easytag.desktop,
Fixed 'configure' scripts as libvorbis is needed for libFLAC (thanks to Daniel Drake),
Fixed request to cddb for getting album tracks,
Fixed the command to 'Reload Directory' which didn't work,
The fields identifiers for Vorbis FLAC tag are written with upper letters (ex: TITLE= instead of title=) as they are recommended by Vorbis standard,
Various fixes,
Some updates in the USERS-GUIDE files (thanks to David Greaves),
Added an option to write or remove ID3 tag in FLAC files,
Added the matching of cddb title against every file using Damerau-Levenshtein Metric (thanks to Santtu Lakkala),
Added Mime type in desktop file to be visible in the right click menu for directories (with GNOME-2.7) (thanks to Goetz Waschk),
A new Danish translation (thanks to Morten Brix Pedersen),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/07/16 - EasyTAG 0.31_gtk2.4_pre1 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 0.31_gtk2.4_pre0 (ChangeLog) :

Added an option to display the changed files to bold or red, like in the gtk-1.2 version (thanks to Hagen Möbius),
Fixed functions to process fields with UTF-8 strings, in the scanner (thanks to Santtu Lakkala),
Fixed renaming directories (thanks to Daniel Drake),
Fixed sensivity of file and tag area, when changing directory,
Japanese translation updated (thanks to Takeshi Aihana),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/07/02 - EasyTAG 0.31_gtk2.4_pre0 (Developing GTK 2.4 version)

Changes since version 0.31 (ChangeLog) :

GTK 2.4 port (thanks to Daniel Drake and Mihael Vrbanec).

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2004/05/29 - EasyTAG 0.31

Changes since version 0.30.2 (ChangeLog) :

Tried to fixed the problem to get list of selected files after deleting of files,
Added ability to set/unset padding in ID3v2 tags,
Added an option in the 'Playlist window' to write only the selected files or directly all the files in the playlist,
Polish translation updated (thanks to Artur Polaczynski),
Russian translation updated (thanks to Andrey Astafiev),
Romanian translation updated (thanks to George Pauliuc),
Dutch translation updated (thanks to Björn Olievier),
Japanese translation updated (thanks to Takeshi Aihana),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Milan Siebenburger),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
French translation updated.

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2004/03/25 - EasyTAG 0.30.2 (Developing version)

Changes since version 0.30.1 (ChangeLog) :

Some tabs in the preferences window have been reorganized,
Fixed in configure script, the detection of libFLAC when using the switch --disable-ogg,
Fixed a wrong numbering in sub directories for the new track field button (to set the number of files in the directory to the track field),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2004/03/22 - EasyTAG 0.30.1 (Developing version)

Changes since version 0.30 (ChangeLog) :

Added support of FLAC Vorbis tag for FLAC files (if the file has no FLAC vorbis file, it tries to read the ID3 tag) (thanks to Pavel Minayev),
Added support of APE tag for OptimFROG files (.ofr, .ofs),
Added ability to write by default ID3v2.3 tags to ISO-8859-1,
Version of libFLAC (1.0.3) supplied in the package was removed,
Added ability in the Process Fields scanner to convert a character by an other on (patch from Ben Hearsum),
Added ability to display the files by Artists and by Albums,
Added ability to set independently the character conversion for the Tag scanner and the Rename File scanner,
Added a new button to set the number of files in the directory to the track field,
Added the entry "Tag selected files with this field" in the popup menu of tag entries,
Added a sub menu Scanner into popup menu over the file list,
When resizing the main window, the tag area doesn't grow,
The fields identifiers for Ogg Vorbis tag are written with upper letters (ex: TITLE= instead of title=) as they are recommended by Vorbis standard,
The CDDB results can be applied to the files selected in the main list,
Fixed the execution of scanner, when using entries of the main menu 'Scanner' in the menu bar,
Fixed the CDDB server name, that wasn't saved in the configuration file,
Fixed connection to CDDB under FreeBSD 5.1 (thanks to from Jan Kanty Palus),
Fixed a bug when using "Repeat action for the rest of the files" when deleting files,
Fixed a bug that doesn't save the changed files, which aren't selected,
When changing of directory or exiting, even if you select the button "Yes" in the dialog box,
Fixed a bug when renaming files with the scanner and using the character conversion (some spaces or underscores weren't replaced),
Fixed some memory leaks (in browser, scanner, ...),
Updated easytag.desktop and EasyTAG icon,
French translation updated,
Spanish translation updated (thanks to Fernando),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Kostantino),
Dutch translation updated (thanks to Björn Olievier),
Ukrainian translation updated (thanks to Cawko Xakep).

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2004/02/02 - Patch for EasyTAG 0.30c -> 0.30d

Here is a patch to fix a problem of CDDB connection under FreeBSD 5.1 (thanks to Jan Kanty Palus), and an other bug when saving the CDDB server name in the configuration file.

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2003/12/29 - Packages for Suse 9.0

Thanks to Mark Volkert, the packages of EasyTAG 0.30c and id3lib 3.8.3 for Suse 9.0 are available in the download section.

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2003/10/18 - Patch for EasyTAG 0.30b -> 0.30c

Here is a patch to fix a bug when using the check button "Repeat action for the rest of the files" in the dialog box, when deleting files.

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2003/10/18 - Patch for EasyTAG 0.30a -> 0.30b

Here is a patch to fix a bug that doesn't save the changed files, which aren't selected, when changing of directory or exiting, even if you select the button "Yes" in the dialog box.

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2003/09/27 - Patch for EasyTAG 0.30 -> 0.30a

Here is a patch to fix a bug when renaming files with the scanner and using the character conversion (some spaces or undercores weren't replaced!).

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2003/09/08 - EasyTAG 0.30

Changes since version 0.29 (ChangeLog) :

Added an option to define the number of characters to use for the Track field (see Misc tab),
Added a button in the browser to jump to the parent directory,
Pressing the Enter key in the tag entries set the focus to the next entry,
The selection of files in the search window select also the corresponding files in the main list,
Added ability to select files of the same directory by double clicking over the list, triple clicking select all files,
The tree browser is sorted again after renaming a directory,
The tree browser is sorted ignoring the word case,
Content of the clipboard is automatically set in the 'Words' field of the CDDB window and Search window, when opening them,
Added button in the CDDB window to filtrate the 'red' lines in the albums list,
Added button in the CDDB window to select/unselect all lines and invert the selection in the tracks album list,
Fixed position in the list when selecting a file with the mouse (use of the next or previous button select the wrong line),
Fixed state of the Undo and Redo buttons when using the command to select all files and invert the selection,
French translation updated,
Czech translation updated (thanks to Milan Siebenburger),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2003/09/01 - EasyTAG 0.29

Changes since version 0.28.1 (ChangeLog) :

When selecting a "changed" file, the background color is set to red (as for the filename in the normal state),
Fixed problem when selecting file after to have been sorted,
Fixed problem to display file data, when selecting finally only one file of the last selected files,
Added ability to sort the CDDB results by track name or track number or manually,
Added detection and linking with iconv in the configure script to avoid compilation error,
When using buttons 'first', 'previous', 'next' and 'last', only one line is selected,
Russian translation updated (thanks to Andrey Astafiev),
Dutch translation updated (thanks to Björn Olievier),
Japanese translation updated (thanks to Takeshi Aihana),
Polish translation updated (thanks to Artur Polaczynski),
Italian translation updated (thanks to Lorenzo Cappelletti),
Romanian translation updated (thanks to George Pauliuc),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2003/07/13 - EasyTAG 0.28.1 (Developing version)

Changes since version 0.28 (ChangeLog) :

Added the ability to perform an action only for the selected files : to set a field to other files, to remove tags, to scan files, to save files, to delete files, to use undo and redo, to open files with an external program,
Added ability to (un)select all files or to invert the selection,
Changed writing of the genre in ID3v2.3 tags (according to id3v2.3.0 standard),
Added displaying of number of files in the directory of the selected file (in the browser area),
Added preview for the Fill Tag scanner,
Added buttons in the toolbar to select all files and invert the selection,
Cleanup in the toolbar and in menus,
Warning : Many shortcuts have been changed!,
A lot of code cleanup,
Fixed a small bug in the preview of the Rename File Scanner,
Fixed problem of zombie process when terminating the audio player (thanks to Tony Mancill),
Fixed a bug when starting with some gtk themes as H2O (no window appeared) (thanks to Tony Mancill),
Fixed a bug when applying CDDB results to the files excepted for the filename,
Romanian translation updated (thanks to George Pauliuc),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk),
Russian translation updated (thanks to Andrey Astafiev).

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2003/06/29 - Patch for EasyTAG 0.28a -> 0.28b

Here is a patch to fix a strange bug when starting with some gtk themes, as H2O, (no window appeared)..

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2003/06/24 - Patch for EasyTAG 0.28 -> 0.28a

Here is a patch to fix a bug when applying CDDB results to the files excepted for the filename.

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2003/05/31 - EasyTAG 0.28

Changes since version 0.27.1 (ChangeLog) :

Added ability to add the CRC-32 value (for files with ID3 tags only) as default comment when using scanner (thanks to Oliver),
Added ability to write the playlist with DOS directory separator (thanks to Oliver),
Added ability to write the playlist in the parent directory (thanks to Oliver),
Fix for Ogg Vorbis files : skip the ID3v2 tag (if it exists) to open the file without error,
Bugfixes in the playlist generator (character replacement, ...),
Fixed refreshing of file path when renaming a directory,
Now the configuration and history files were created at the start up to avoid error messages,
Added some patch for NetBSD (thanks to Soren Jacobsen),
French translation updated,
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2003/04/20 - EasyTAG 0.27.1 (Developing version)

Changes since version 0.27 (ChangeLog) :

Added support of APE tag for MusePack and Monkey's Audio files (thanks to Artur Polaczyñski),
Cast and pointers fixes for a clean compilation on 64bits platform (thanks to Philipp Thomas),
Fixed a bug when using "Open File With..." after renaming a file without reloading the directory (it was using the old filename),
Cleaning in the configure script (thanks to Philipp Thomas),
When loading files with id3 tags, it checks if it has the versions of tags specified in the preferences window,
Genre in ID3v2 tag : use only the string for an unknowm id3v1 genre,
Added the missing instruction "#include <errno.h>" in about.c that may produce compilation problems,
Dutch translation updated (thanks to Björn Olievier),
Polish translation updated (thanks to Artur Polaczyñski),
Czech translation updated (thanks to Milan Siebenburger),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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2003/04/10 - Packages for Suse 8.0

Thanks to Mark Volkert, the packages of EasyTAG 0.27a and id3lib 3.8.3 for Suse 8.0 are available in the download section.

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2003/03/02 - id3lib 3.8.3 is out!

It's a bugfix release of the previous version 3.8.2. So, all users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

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2003/02/03 - Patch for EasyTAG 0.27 -> 0.27a

Here is a patch to fix a compilation problem, and some other minor stuff.

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2003/02/02 - EasyTAG 0.27

Changes since version 0.26 (ChangeLog) :

Fixed an other filepointer leak when renaming file and directories (thanks to Artur Polaczynski),
Improved speed when applying a field to all other files, removing all tags and scanning all files,
Fixed problem with too long track name in CDDB albums,
When getting files list of a cddb album, it tries to reconnect severals times if the connection fails,
Ability to run the scanner when loading filenames from a TXT file,
Ability to run the scanner when loading fields from CDDB results,
Ability to load CDDB results only for the selected lines,
Ability to generate the playlist name from mask codes,
Added tab in "About" window to display the ChangeLog,
Fixed detection of version id3lib (due to an error in configure.in),
Added german help documentation (thanks to Daniel Pichler),
Russian translation updated (thanks to Andrey Astafiev),
German translation updated (thanks to Götz Waschk).

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