![]() There is definitely some obscure stuff out there. Changing the decoder is always a tricky thing and in the past we have run into a number of issues with people's audio files. Also, let us know, if any files bomb, i.e. ![]() And we'd love to get feedback about this! Let us know, whether the speedup is as great as we think it is. This should lead to much quicker analysis (BPM and color) and an overall much more responsive system during analysis. We changed our Windows decoding/decompression code to mirror what we have done a while ago on OS X using CoreAudio. Yep, that's right, we finally got to do something Big for You! The major improvement in EA3 is analysis speed. EA3 is out and it should be a blast for Windows users. Our Subversion server is back online (even our continuous integration system Continuum is running) and since you can read this blog entry, our hosting provider managed to get things going again.īut let's talk about more pleasant things. So with most of our infrastructure down the drain, things looked pretty bleak as of this morning.įortunately, since then, thing's have improved. First, the Security Update 2008-004/Safari 3.1.2 wrecked our Subversion server, then our hosting service had a power outage (which wouldn't have been all that bad) combined with a backup power failure (which turned out to be pretty bad). Today's Early Access release 3 almost didn't happen. During the update, beaTunes will display a dialog box. Just so that there is no doubt about it: EA4 isn't even a beta version.ĮA4 changes the database schema first introduced in EA2. This version will cease to function 2 weeks after its release.It may not be possible to migrate data to future versions (even though we make a reasonable effort).Features may or may not work, appear, and disappear.So - here's the obligatory warning: Before downloading and installing this, please make sure you understand what Early Access means: ![]() E.g., you can now limit a search to the artist field. Another goodie: Searchboxes now have a little popup menu that let's you specify the search mode. We also got to improve the typo inspector - it should now do a better job with short names. So for best results, run the language analysis before inspecting sort names. beaTunes now has the ability to detect such errors taking advantage of its language field. Unfortunately, languages like German also have a word "an", which happens to be a preposition, not an indefinite article and should not be dropped from the sort name. If, for example, a song title starts with the word "an", it is assumed to be an indefinite English article and therefore dropped from the sort name. We added a corresponding info dialog pane and, probably best of all, some new inspections designed to deal with wrong or butchered sort names.Īs you might know, iTunes determines sort names mostly automatically. First of all, beaTunes now finally supports iTunes-style sorting utilizing sort name, sort artist, etc. With QTJ out of the way, we're looking forward to many happy Windows users and fewer support cases.īut enough with the technical whining - there are other neat little improvements contained in this release. Many users weren't even able to install beaTunes properly without technical support. For quite a while now, the iTunes updater tended to mess up the QTJ installation. In the Windows world, this move away from QTJ will have positive side-effects. But at least we got rid of the QTJ code as a first step. As of now, beaTunes 2 is still dependent on (native, Carbon-based) QuickTime and will only run in a 32bit JVM. Unfortunately, as part of the 64bit-Carbon-abandonment, Apple decided to drop all QTJ support in the 64bit-only Java 6 VM and as a result, we'll have to slowly migrate away from it. QTJ lets Java programmers easily access one of the most powerful multimedia libraries out there. A biggie for us is the complete removal of any QuickTime for Java (QTJ) dependencies. Even though we made some significant changes, today's new Early Access release 4 is probably not very exciting from a user's point of view.
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