History/1.0d52

The History of d52 is every change i've made to d51: in chronological order (latest at bottom)

• Previous Version

The Sovereign Integral version

d51r0 June 27 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• fixed crash when creating "corrupted zip files" playlist
• fixed ability to run on OS 10.4 (totally hosed you there, sorry)
• Windows
  • prefs no longer go missing (with your serial number! would revert to tryout)
  • no longer saving the DB every 2 seconds
  • should no longer get "can't save preferences" error
  • better error handling when mounting any media at startup
  • better logging in some places

d51r1 July 1 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• no longer puts up a dialog if an export or encode fails, only growls at you
• much faster "directory sorting" during song importing
• turned off menu item setting logging
• it is no longer possible to set your Cache to a dangerous place (like the root of a HD)
• fixed: the auto-re-launching was busted when updating to a new version
• it is again possible to QT Export audio-only songs
• Windows:
  • Search!!
  • prefs dialog shortcut key is ctrl-,
  • prefs for logging and thread-logging now work. please do NOT use thread logging
  • new Audio engine: no longer required to set your speakers to 44k 16 bit Stereo
  • Now compatible with Windows XP (due to above audio fix)
  • text edits no longer "forget" how to draw (they would not appear to be editable)
  • in Preferences, you can now change your Cache and Library location
  • no longer flash a progress bar dialog when sorting a short list
  • no longer hang or crash on startup due to attempting to mount virtual discs that don't exist (like an empty CD tray)

d51r3 July 5 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• fixed a rare crash on quit bug
• no longer logging drive mounting info
• fixed Logging to always be on on startup
• importing SuperCDG meta data progress bar updates 4x/sec, rather than kindof randomly
• fixed rare crash on startup
• Windows
  • You can now select an output audio device in your prefs
  • Playing SuperCDG files no longer crashes
  • no longer crash on startup when using a library from a mac with a playlist that was sorted by a slow searching column
  • updated crash reporter. requires built-in email system (web mail is a fail)
  • started work on the TAB key changing focus to the sources<->tracks<->search. not working, not done yet
  • when scrubbing the playhead, no longer set scrub time on mouse UP
  • when clicking on LCD timecode, now only changing time display on mouse UP
  • if a folder (like the kJams Music folder) is missing, kJams lets you find it

d51r4 July 6 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• browser window does not continually refresh (redraw / blink) when music stores are parsing
• fixed yet another crash on quit
• the "selection" now has a guard around it to ensure it doesn't become corrupted (debugging tool)
• sorted lists now have guards as well, to ensure they really really stay sorted
• Windows:
  • no more choppy / stuttering audio: smooth as silk sound!
  • Music store purchases from KaraokeLocker now succeed completely, adding BOTH the CDG and MP4 tracks, with meta data
  • purchased single song now actually plays when you have the auto-play pref turned on
  • auto-updater is fixed again. sorry you'll have to do one last manual update.
  • mastercard works for Tricera again. sorry you'll have to fix your prefs one last time

d51r6 July 9 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• doing a search no longer does a "select all"
• re-vamp'd the preferences under the hood. that means test your prefs, they may have changed!
• Adding a folder with an insane number of files in it now puts up a progress dialog if it takes too long
• progress bar when using "add to library" works again
• Fixed crash allocating song album list if it hasn't been allocated yet
• fixed slowness adding songs to library
• fixed newly introduced slowness displaying search results (it's still slow like before)
• songs with certain characters in the song/artist/album name would simply "not play", fixed.
• restarting the web server tries for five seconds rather than three tenths of a second
• number of CPU Cores is now reported (on mac anyway)
• now only ever writing "windows file system" legal characters when naming a file, even on mac
• the number of QT exports you can do simultaneously defaults to the number of cores in your machine
• Windows:
  • All the preferences checkboxes are hooked up
  • You can use the Gift Pack radio button
  • Skip Silence at start of song works
  • Fixed ability to select a folder for "add to library" that was at the root of a drive. note: you probably still can't select the root itself
  • no more "KJPro™" pref panel
  • "Reveal in Explorer" now works on files with funny characters
  • Add to library no longer hangs when there are funny characters in a file name

d51r7 July 14 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• logging works again, busted in last release
• any UI string that had a slash "/" in it was truncated (like ". and space" is now "You have entered an illegal character in one of your templates. Legal characters are LTRSI-()/. and Space."), these now show the correct full string
• in the above situation, you should only get the dialog like once or twice, not a zillion times
• when reading meta data, i now remove "surrounding quotes", and trim white     space     and carriage
  returns and trailing tilde's~
• fixed a bug that made "Add to Library" extremely slow
• when getting bulk catalog info, i fetch 1000 items at a time instead of 100, makes things go much faster for folders with a bazillion items in them
• fixed the Tricerasoft store. Whupps!
• songs added to "corrupted zip file" or "songs not renamed" actually get added, rather than the song "- - -"
• fixed a bug that would cause duplicate singers in your "KJ Rotation" list
• when you reinterpret a bunch of songs and then they all need pushing, i first wait 'till they're all reinterpreted AND the database has SAVED, and THEN i start pushing. this ensure's your DB doesn't get all out of sync
• if the app fails to start, it tells you, rather than crashing
• for now, logging is permanently on, and thread logging is permanently off, ignoring the prefs
• no longer asserting IsMainThread()
• no longer flushing the progress dialog extra times, which slows things down
• progress dialogs *should* now have correct titles in all cases, not just "one moment please"
• Windows
  • fixed crash on quit

d51r8 July 16 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• you should get FAR fewer ASSERTs about sorting and sort keyVec
• fixed a crash WRT music store updating if you turned off music stores
• fixed a crasher when moving song files to the trash (trash original)
• fixed the "please crash" when "update lyrics meta"
• KMA files no longer crash on windows, but they don't work cuz they're WMA, need to write a decoder for that
• fixed yet another "xml file failed to save" bug, I now leave them in the temp folder for 12 hours! HAH! That'll show'em!!
• Windows
  • You can now use the sort column context menu
  • you can now use (some of the) song context menu (right click on a song name)
  • MAY have fixed a crash on quit problem. more logging anyway
  • dialog popup menus now have "correct" separators (that you can't select)

d51r9 July 21 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

Latest Changes

• you can now search for track numbers. not that you'd want to. (unless you use CAVS numbering)
• hopefully fixed the "you're about to crash" problem when sorting (definitely no longer erroneously reporting bad sorting)
• Mac
  • if your singer name had an asterisk in it, you no longer get deleted and duplicated and generally blow'd up
  • same story for playlist names
  • fixed bug where dialogs could come up before the app was completely initialized
• Windows
  • finally fixed text encoding problem when using "CFStringCreateWithFormatAndArguments()". now all string args are treated as UTF8
  • the "*" character is used again when duplicating the name of something

d51r10 July 23 2010 Lite Mac, Pro Mac, Lite Win, Pro Win <-- does not include changes BELOW this line

• Pro: on FIRST startup, or when creating a new venue, all the venue playlists are actually saved, causing you to NOT crash.
• you SHOULD no longer get the "you are about to crash" stuff any more, i hope!!!
• kjams will now try *even harder* to find missing files before giving up
• kjams can now play Audio+QuickTime files (separate audio file, plus a quicktime movie for video), crazy, i tells ya. please let me know if i broke something!
• no longer forcibly gathering the total size of all the media that represents a song when saving. now i only save whatever size is cached (faster saving first time)
• there was yet another remote possibility that you could lose xml playlists, this has been fixed!
• fixed another crash on quit
• eSellerate purchase process now has more logging
• you can now force-crash kjams with command-option-shift-anything in the help menu
• Windows:
  • multi-modifier key commands (like above) now work properly