Finally, after a lot of work, the new version 3.0 of Mp3/Tag Studio is complete!
This is a big update, so if you already have an old version (or else too ;-)) you probably don't want to miss it (look at the list below to see what I mean).
Also, 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
Enjoy!
/Author, Magnus Bråding
Full Version: Mp3/Tag Studio 3.0 released!
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What's new in version 3.0
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* Changed the licensing policy. All registrations are now for life (for the exact same price as before)! That is, if you register the program you will get all future updates of it for free!
* 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.
What's new in version 3.0
----------------------------------------------
* Changed the licensing policy. All registrations are now for life (for the exact same price as before)! That is, if you register the program you will get all future updates of it for free!
* 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.
QUOTE
[b]
Example:
You have a file with the following name
\"Britney (my future wife) Spears - Track 3 CD 1.mp3\"
Example:
You have a file with the following name
\"Britney (my future wife) Spears - Track 3 CD 1.mp3\"
I'd rather not comment on that...
Ok, ok, things have been going pretty much downhill with that girl lately, I know. I was young and ignorant when I wrote that a month ago or so. 
(although those Jenna Jameson + Britney rumours are pretty cool anyway
)
(although those Jenna Jameson + Britney rumours are pretty cool anyway
)
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