MusicVault Development

Version history

Version 1.05

New features

• ID3v2-support (only in the registered version).
• Possibility to select if the program should start in vault-view or harddrive view.
• Possibility to remove ID3v1-tags from files.
• Possibility to remove ID3v2-tags from files (registered version only).
• Possibility to export songs as HTML (registered version only)
• Possibility to export songs as Text (registered version only)
• Possibility to print selections or entire vaults (registered version only)

Fixed bugs

• View properties did not work with the new Grid-component. When fields were removed it showed "empty" columns. Fixed now.

Version 1.04

New features

• A progress-indicator is now shown when scanning a vault or harddrive.
• A progress-indicator is now shown when copying files from CD to harddrive.
• If you select a directory on the harddrive with lots of songs, a progress-indicator is now shown so the user understands that it is possible to abort.

Fixed bugs

• Another bug when the status bar was updated 1000 times is now fixed.

Version 1.03

New features

• Possibility to abort when choosing a directory on the harddrive with too many songs
• When the program starts, only maximum 400 songs is read from the start directory, to speed up the start.
• The scrollbars in the list now gets XP-look if the program is run on XP
• The headers in the list now gets XP-look if the program is run on XP
• When something with the list takes a long time, an hourglass is now shown.

Fixed bugs

• Moved the buttons in the "Select-directory"-dialog for better appearance on XP
• When creating a new Vault, the CD-list for the old one was never deleted Fixed.
• When selecting/deselecting many songs in the list, the status bar was updated for every song which could take a lot of time. Fixed.
• Better appearance of the listbox in the vault view (on XP).
• Faster drawing of the listbox in the vault view.
• When selecting a harddrive/directory to create a harddrive vault from, the caption of the dialog was wrong. Fixed.
• When selecting vertically by clicking on a header, the vault didn't realize it was in vertical selection mode. Fixed.
• When tag data was edited, the vault didn't realize something was changed and didnt ask for save when closing. Fixed.
• When pasting directly into the list with Ctrl+V, or removing tag data with DEL, the vault didn't realize it was changed and didn't ask for save when closing. Fixed.
• Fixed a drag-n-drop bug that made XP krash sometimes. Now this operation leaks memory instead, but it is better than a crash...
• If you dragged a file from the vault and dropped it where it was impossible to drop a file, the vault removed the file anyway. Fixed.
• When changing something with the smart-rename-tool, the vault didn't realize something was changed and didnt ask for save when closing. Fixed.
• The list was not updated after smart rename. Fixed.

Version 1.02

New features

• Possibility to export selected songs as M3U-playlists
• Possibility to export selected songs as Spreadsheets (registered version only)

Fixed bugs

• Sometimes there was an "Access Violation" when selecting CD - Fixed
• The link in the About-dialog has changed color to look better in Windows XP and Windows 2000
• Fixed a bug in smartfill that accidently filled in one field extra

Version 0.94 BETA

New features

• There is now multi-language support via external language files. Two files are created so far; swedish and english
• It is now possible to resize the vault properties dialog to see the complete filename
• The caption in the main window now shows the filename if the vault is not given any other name.
• The Vault is now saved on the users request, with the name the user wants and on the location he/she selects.
• The "View properties" dialog is changed to a checked-listbox
• The status bar at the bottom of the main window now shows more information and exists in both harddrive and vault view
• "Edit song data", "Play" and "Queue" is now added to the right-click menu.
• "Add to cathegory" is added to the song-menu
• The action performed when double-clicking on a song can now be choosen between "Edit song data", "Play" and "Queue"
• The 4 latest opened vaults is now listed as shortcuts on the Vault-menu.
• The grid component is now re-written with lots of new features, including
  • Possibility to re-arrange the songs in the list via drag and drop
  • Possibility to select individual songs via ctrl-click
  • Possibility to drag the songs to a cathegory folder
  • Double click on the space between two headers to automatically adjust the width of the column to the longest text
  • Possibility to drag files to/from other programs/the desktop
  • Possibility to copy files in the harddrive view by drag-and-drop, just like in the explorer
• When pressing "Delete" when a cathegory is selected, the songs is only removed from the cathegory, not from the vault.
• A progress dialog shows up when MusicVault is starting, showing what happens. Sometimes it can take some time for MusicVault to start, due to missing network drives or a huge starting directory. This new feature helps explaining what takes time.

Fixed bugs

• On the "Vault Statistics" dialog there was both an OK and Cancel button. Now only OK.
• It is now possible to select a complete harddrive at "Scan drive..." again.
• The number of files that is shown added at "Scan drive..." in the Status bar now shows the correct number.
• It is now possible to add a network drive with a space in the filename.
• Small bugfixes with the network drives.

Version 0.93 BETA

New features

• The look is improved with a more "flat" look
• The header in the filelist now have small icons indicating what the songs are sorted by and in which order
• There is now an "Apply" button in the rename-dialog which makes it possible to easy perform several rename-actions at once.
• The program now remembers where it last found the WinAmp player, so starting WinAmp is much faster
• If you click the URL in the About-dialog you are directly transferred to the homepage
• Vault properties now contains "Created" and "Changed"
• A new column "Created" contains the file date (on new Vaults, created with v 0.93 and newer)
• A new column "Modified" contains the time the file was latest changed (when it was added to the Vault)
• A new column "Year" have been added
• Copy / Paste in the filelist is now using the "real" Windows Clipboard.
• The "About" dialog is again redesigned with new graphic (Thanx Urban!)
• A new button "Add network drive" have been added in harddrive-view to map network drives to MusicVault
• Another button "Remove network drive" have also been added. Guess what it does?
• The treeview in harddrive veiw now displays the added network drives
• It is now possible to adjust the with of the sections in the Statistics-dialog
• The speed of the MP3-button is now increased. The folders that contains MP3-files is saved in a shortcut list and doesn't need to be scanned each time.
• A new button "Update MP3 folders" is added to the left of the MP3 button. This button re-creates the shortcut list for the MP3 button. This function re-scans your drives and may take some time.
• The help-menu is now linked to online help on the homepage instead of a helpfile.
• When you start MusicVault for the first time, the "Scan drive" or "Add CD" dialog is shown automatically (depending on which album you choose to create)
• The program is delivered as a self-installable exe program made with Nullsoft:s NSIS installation system (Thanx Nullsoft, you are great!)

Fixed bugs

• When you first started the program there was an "Access Violation". Problem fixed.
• When selecting "Scan drive" and then pressing "Cancel" the drive was scanned anyway.
• The menu choice "Visit MusicVaults homepage" is now working
• When you have changed vault, the artists/genres/albums/seeks is now updated
• It is not longer possible to edit in the select-directory-dialogs in the program. (This didn't change the actual names of the directories and was just a bug)
• If you selected "Edit search" when there was no searches there was an error message that is now removed.
• "Start directory on harddrive" in the Options-dialog is now working
• A bug caused the program to take unnessecary long time to start.
• When you have added songs to your vault, the artists/genres/albums is now updated automatically.

Version 0.92 BETA

New features

• It is now possible to create a vault of the files on the harddrive
• A new and better dialog for selecting directories
• The dialog for selecting CD's is improved. Now it shows only cd's and their titles.
• A new dialog called "Vault properties" with information about the vault. You can change the name of the vault and eneter information about the owner and some optional comments.
• Sorting is improved by a factor of 1:100. Sorting is no longer an issue...
• In harddrive-view there is now a warning showing that the changes are made on the actual files. This warning can be hidden and shown again via "View properties"
• A new option on the tools menu called "Validate harddrive vault". The function checks that all the files are still on the same place and reports changes (alt. updates the vault)
• A new dialog and better function when seeking for songs on the harddrive
• "Remove from harddrive" is now possible even from a harddrive vault
• It is not longer possible to add the same song twice (both in Add CD and Scan drive). In a CD vault however, the song is added if it is on a different CD.
• Scan for duplicates and Scan for new files now have the new directory selector
• Possible to play songs directly from a harddrive vault

Fixed bugs

• Select vault is now working
• It is not longer possible to name a vault "untitled"
• Removed the function "remember songs" since it have no purpose
• Scrolling down when already at the bottom of the list caused irritating "flickering"
• Sorting on filename was done by the "old" filename, now it is the new "real" filename.
• When clicking the MP3 button in the harddrive-view, there was an awful long delay before the hourglass was shown, giving the impression that the program hanged
• Selecting "Statistics" on a completely empty vault caused a division by zero.
• The correct button is now selected in the toolbar when switching between views or selecting vertical by clicking on a header
• The vault wasn't saved when switching between vaults, changes were lost
• The categories is now following the selected vault
• Delete vault is now working
• When selecting "New vault" the categories is now cleared
• Removed some annoying flickering when editing in the filelist

Version 0.91 BETA

New features

• Renamed Split-View to Harddrive View
• Re-designed the view properties dialog to look more like other programs
• Renamed "Extract to directory" to "Copy to harddrive"
• A safety is included in the "ID3-Filename" function so that it is not longer possible to get an empty filename (-.mp3)
• A horizontal scrollbar makes it possible to view all columns
• The about-dialog is redesigned
• Some redesign of the options-dialog
• When scrolling with the mousewheel, the list is now scrolled instead of the selected song
• The "thumb" to the right in the filelist now changes size to indicate how many songs of the total is displayed
• A new directory-tree in the harddrive-view that is easier to use and look more like the one in windows explorer
• A new function in harddrive-view that only shows directories containing MP3-music
• A new "fastsearch" button in harddrive-view
• More statistics: Total filesize, Average filesize, Total playing time, Average playing time

Fixed bugs

• When removing a comment, sometimes a tracknumber appeared (ID3v1.0 - ID3v1.1 confusion)
• Genres wasn't sorted alpabetically in the "edit genres"-dialog
• Clear searchlist is now working
• ID3-Filename is now working with the "fast option" on the options-dialog
• The delete button is now working also in the tracknumber field
• CTRL+C and CTRL+V is now working also in the tracknumber field
• When changing something in the ID3-tag to the same name but with a different case, nothing happened
• When moving the headers in the filelist, the moved column is now inserted instead of switched
• The program now starts in the center of the screen