ChangeLog

Version 0.9.44

• Playlist
  • library artist items display artist name
  • library album items display album name
  • temporarily added a 'Refresh Statistics' item to the Library menu: recalculates item count, lengths and size of library.

• Player
  • bug fixed that skipped songs sometimes

• File views
  • folders icons update automatically if a directory with mp3 files is browsed that wasn't registered before
  • tree view doesn't display duplicated content anymore on double open action
  • small problem fixed: files without modification time don't throw exceptions anymore

• Setup
  • setup wizard activated on first run for linux and mac users also

Version 0.9.4

• Setup
  • setup wizard for importing mp3 files into libraries and winamp location
  • preferences location determined via APPDATA environment variable

• File views
  • correct behaviour after rename
  • double click opens files with associated application under windows
  • different icons for folder that contain mp3 files

Version 0.9.2

• Layout handling
  • doesn't allow closing last window in layout)
  • shelf keeps state on layout change

• editor
  • self made editor replaced with scintilla editor

• playlist view
  • default icon for albums without images in artist icons

• misc
  • warning on missing PIL module
  • context help bug fixed
  • image tools context menu doesn't show convert and scale items if only mp3files selected
  • image tools displays only first image, if multiple mp3files (or album/artists) are selected
  • behaviour of last column in column view improved

Version 0.9.0

• General
  • version number incrementation speed even more incremented :-)

• Installation
  • creation of default layout folder and playlist database without confirmation
  • WinAmp/XMMS player plugin activated by default on Windows/Linux
  • some system paths hidden by default on Windows/Linux

• Playlist View
  • new mode for libraries: artist album icons (displays all albums of an artist as his/her icon)
  • bug fix: size of mp3 files displayed again after import
  • fixed a unicode problem

• Layouts
  • restore single layout item added to layout button context menu

• Preferences
  • line edit replaced by spin box on integer value pages
  • fixed dialog for preferences that expect a file path instead of directory patht
  • last selected directory storage independ of tree view
  • default widget size maximum set for 1024x768 screens

• Misc bug fixes
  • status of view menu items diplayed correctly again
  • filenames of duplicated files fixed
  • empty columns dont show in detail view
  • maximum column width preference works now
  • directories don't expand anymore on drag move events in icon, detail and column view

Version 0.7.0

• General
  • version number incrementation speed incremented :-)
  • column view usable
  • new Icon size added: 48x48, named SM (Small Medium)
  • new default layout: columns

Version 0.6.3

• ColumnView
  • displays root directory icon in path view on startup
  • icon size customizable
  • height adjusted when icon size changed
  • loads a directory, if dropped on empty space

• History
  • 'up' (select parent directory) button added to toolbar
  • keyboard shortcuts for 'forward', 'backward' and 'up'

Version 0.6.1

• ID3 Tag Wizard
  • warns on missing values when renaming files from tags
  • more informative message when album creation failed because no single album or artists found in tag values
  • warning message if album directory isn't set or doesn't exists

• Playlist View
  • storages are removed immediately, if a storage directory is removed from the preference page
  • question dialog that asks if the removed storage directory should also be deleted
  • bugfixes on set but missing storage directories

• Window Layouts
  • toplevel widgets get closed if last window in layout is closed

• ID3 Tag Editor
  • saves preferences on layout change
  • automatically displays selected image files in image field

• Playlists
  • difference calculation threaded

Version 0.5.99

• Configurable Keyboard Shortcuts

• Player
  • Volume and seek slider toolbars
  • status update in main thread again
  • new status format variable '%(time)s'
  • seperate options for time-lcd in status- and seek-toolbar
  • status refresh rate preference accepts float values
  • new preference option: 'Ask For Playlist Replacement'
  • adding files feedback in status bar
  • XMMS-player
    • switched from xmms-shell to python-xmms
  • WinAmp-player
    • speed improvement by loading files through SendMessage calls

• Playlists
  • Storages may be renamed now
  • Rating preserved on import update
  • Import more failsafe

• Detail View
  • size format changed (KB, MB, GB and TB suffix)

• File Views
  • context submenu 'View' moved into 'File' submenu
  • views refresh after change 'Show Directories' or 'Show Hidden Files/Directories'
  • Shortcuts for 'Show Directories' and 'Show Hidden Files/Directories'

• Splash Screen
  • new design
  • verbosity increased

• Trash Tools
  • keyboard shortcuts

• Preferences
  • Playlist selection page for ID3 Tag Wizard, Player and Auto Playlist preferences

• Tag Editor
  • feedback in status bar on failed tag parsing
  • fixed size

• Doc View
  • 'Save File As ...' re-activated
  • Navigation and File menu re-acticated for Preferences Dialog documents
  • Forward and Backward only visible if active
  • toplevel doc views height set to fullscreen height - 100

Version 0.5.97

• Player
  • 'Show in Library' menu item added

• Smart Playlists
  • register ratings of playlist items
  • display files which are not in a library

• File Views
  • 'Show in Library' context menu item in storage menus
  • Reload moved into file menu, shortcut F5
  • hidden preference added for auto selection of parent directory, after directory deletion

• Tag Editor
  • Cut, copy and paste keyboard shortcuts for image well

• Layouts
  • Tree-, Detail-, Icon- and Playlist Views, don't get deleted on change to layout without them. Benefit: increased switching speed and selection status is preserved.
  • collapses parent splitter, if all it's children are collapsed

• Column Layouts
  • 'Show All Columns' item added to context menu
  • 'Show Column' shows column to the right of clicked column
  • remembers column order properly now

• Player Plugin
  • if plugin plays a mp3ql-playlist, it appends files automatically to the players playlist if they are added to the mp3ql-playlist
  • new popup menu item: 'show current playlist'
  • new preference 'current playlist storage': if it contains the path to a directory of an active storage, it adds a playlist in that storage which reflects the player's playlist

• XMMS player
  • launches on program start again

• WinAmp player
  • status update moved into own thread
  • bugfixes

Version 0.5.95

• Smart Playlists
  • Smart Playlist Editor
  • Customizable rating icon directory
  • Lots of bugfixes

• Doc View
  • remembers cursor position after save and reload

Version 0.5.93

• Playlists
  • database format changed, playlists created with previous versions won't work properly
  • playlists, artists and albums may also be rated
  • playlist export
  • playlist import works partially, unable to import playlists that contain files with unicode attributes
  • playlists reflect flat mode in icon
  • playlist view remembers last column layout
  • size format in playlist view changed (KB, MB, GB and TB suffix)
  • keyboard shortcuts added
  • bug fixes

• XMMS Player
  • player status retreaval moved into a thread. i hope that will minimize ui lags.

• Shelf
  • items may be re-arranged by moving them

• General
  • keyboard shortcuts work for undocked toplevel windows now
  • menu mess cleaned up a bit

Version 0.5.91

• Tag Editor
  • bug fix: changing titles of multiple files won't skip files with empty titles
• ID3 Tag Wizard
  • First renames and then creates an album on wizard action
  • Deletes empty directory after album creation
• File Handler
  • Status bar progress animated on file action of unknown length
  • Displays a message on failed file operation
• Doc View
  • File menu inserted into context menu

Version 0.5.89

• Main Window
  • menu bar togglable
• Player
  • keyboard shortcuts
• Table View and Playlist View
  • remember last column layout
  • column layout fixed

Version 0.5.87

• Main Window
  • active widget and selected files displayed in caption
• Player
  • control toolbar may dock left or right
• Widget Layout
  • seperate toolbars for widgets and layouts
  • toolbar reflects collapsed status even when user resizes widgets manually
  • collapsed widgets are disabled
• Keyboard shortcut implementation started:
  • Doc View
    • Save (CTRL-S)
• All Widgets
  • Open Context Menu (ALT-Space)
  • Help (F1)
  • Edit Actions
    • Cut (CTRL-X)
    • Copy (CTRL-C)
    • Paste (CTRL-V)
    • Clear (CTRL-K)
    • Select All (CTRL-A)
    • Select None (CTRL-SHIFT-A)

Version 0.5.85

• Manual Index Document added
• Player
  • rate current file in popup menu
• Playlist View
  • playlists are renameable
  • hierarchical playlists
  • playcount and last played values recorded
  • rating context menu item and rating display
  • seperated icon sizes for library and storages
  • auto scroll while dragging
• Librarys
  • libraries may be activated or deactivated in the preferences
  • context menus cleaned up
• Shelf
  • list items: multiple items in one
  • files may be dropped into list items
  • drag move creates list item, drag copy adds each item
  • list items are mainly useful for copy/move operations, they aren't saved on exit
• File Views
  • duplicate file conext menu item added
  • auto scroll while dragging
• variable menu icon size

Version 0.5.83

• File Tools
  • work on shelf items now
  • double click on text files and small files without extension opens doc view now
• Auto Actions
  • (Sub)Plugin architecture finished
  • execution page finished
  • Auto Playlist Action implementation started
• Doc View
  • able to load simple text files now (without txt or html suffix)
  • font change menu item
  • displays file name in caption
  • remembers wrap option and font per mode

Version 0.5.81

• Doc View
  • scrolls to top if new document is loaded
  • links have to be absolute or relative to current document now
  • anchors work now
  • context menu items:
    • switching between rich text (view) and plain text (edit) modes
    • backward and forward
    • reload
    • save file
• Splash Screen
  • hides on warnings and questions
• Bug Fixes
  • broken image files repaired
  • undocked windows keep their size and postion on linux as well

Version 0.5.75

• Splash Screen

Version 0.5.73

• File Views
  • Cut operation works now
    • cutted files are moved to a temporary directory
    • subsequent cuts will delete the files from the previous cut!
• Layout Handler
  • toolbar shows buttons for all windows now, sorted by link batches
  • icons for layouts moved to subdirectory icons
  • new layouts got numbered icons
• Image Tools
  • downscale item (32x32) added

Version 0.5.71

• Layout Handler
  • windows undockable
• Doc View
  • context help menu items open document window if none exist
  • help documents are displayed in single window
• WinAmp player plugin
  • raise and lower volume increment doubled

Version 0.5.7

• Playlists
  • selected files are automatically loaded into the tag editor
• File Views
  • mimetype TIFF added
  • icon for image files changed
• WinAmp plugin:
  • adding files to playlist in thread
• BugFixes:
  • All Platforms:
    • next and previous image buttons in tage editor show icon now
  • Windows:
    • window layouts remember visibility of windows now

Version 0.5.5

• Doc View
  • implementation started, works for simple html files, even with links
• Context menu help items for the different window types
• Logging
  • command line option added:
  • logging-config=FILE
  • default config files moved to subdirectory logging
  • in debug-version, user config instead of debug.config loaded, if present: mp3ql/logging/USERNAME.config
• Command line options
  • --version, --help|-h
• BugFixes:
  • Linux:
    • XMMS player status display re-enabled

Version 0.5.3

• Playlist
  • Library updates hierarchy on changes of artist or album tags
  • playlist view updates icons and tag information if changed in tag editor
• Player Plugins
  • Status Refresh Rate preference added
• WinAmp Player
  • winamp path preference added
  • status displays icon and customizable info
  • status playlist and context menu implemented
• Status bar shows and hides automatically for progress display if user preference is to hide it
• BugFixes:
  • Windows:
    • status bar progress bar show now

Version 0.5.1

• Status Bar
  • showing it works now
  • visibility displayed in View menu

Version 0.5.0

• Player
  • status in it's own toolbar
  • status display format configurable
  • playlist popup for player status
  • select current file from player status
• Window Layout
  • new widgets connect to widgets in same splitter
  • bug fixed: tag editor now uncollapsible via toolbar
• Databes icon caching for configurable directories

Version 0.4.9

• Playlists
  • threaded import
  • open/close/expand/collapse context menus
  • icon sizes seperately adjustable for artist and album nodes
  • playlists remember open status
  • two display modes: flat and hierarchical
• Status Bar
  • multiple progress bars for multiple tasks
  • possibility to cancel task
• Simple icon caching

Version 0.4.3

• Playlists implementation started
  • requires now an installed ZODB (>= 3.3 ?)
• AutoActions implementation started
• Layout handling
  • Default layouts (initial installation and recovering)
  • Current layout reflected in it's toolbar button's state
• ID3 Tag Editor
  • resizes to 0 instead of closing on cancel
  • ugly looking toolbar buttons replaced
  • titlecase problem fixed (*'T, *'S)
• ID3 Tag Wizard
  • New option: Move new albums
  • Operates also on directories
• Reads preferences from old versions on first run of a newer version
• Toolbars improved
  • Application remembers preferred toolbar icon size
  • Icon sizes [small, large] stored in hidden preferences
  • Default icon sizes reduced (from [22x22, 32x32] to [16x16,22x22])
• Context Menus improved
  • Rename file item
  • Image Tool
    • more downscale items (64x64, 128x128, 256x256)
    • Make directory icon (copies a scaled version of the selected image to .directory.png and creates a .directory file referencing it)
• Pictures from album directories can be any image format now
• Logging
  • Loglevels, formats, handlers, etc. configurable via the logging module
  • Console colorized
• File handling
  • Progress Dialog appears when moving/copying many files
• Lots of bugfixes

Version 0.4.1

• WinAmp player plugin added
• context menu item for file containers added:
  • hide (adds path to hidden dirs or files)
• context menu item for shelf added:
  • paste (adds item to shelf or copies it to selected directory)
• popup menus for layout toolbar buttons added:
  • delete layout (deletes the selected layout)
  • new layout (creates a new layout)

Version 0.4.0

• inital release