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 PerfectTUNES [Windows] Version Changes


R2026-01-16

Using new Windows Image Acqusition for scanning
ID Tags - Folder Icons used in Batch Converter when expanding sub folders
ID Tag folder browser - reads icon from folder
AccurateRip added toggle to scan & report corrupted files
AccurateRip added new rescan all button to recheck against AR and check files for errors
Album art resizing fix window
ID Tag visual display fixes
All programs could corrupt display if too many album arts shown


R2025-12-23

Fixed various memory leaks.
Improved reactions to changes in watched folder settings via settings sub-dialogs in individual apps.
Fixed ReplayGain menu items being incorrectly disabled.
More consistent sorting behaviors between ReplayGain & AccurateRip.
Reworked app icon.


R2025-06-16

Dark mode added

AccurateRip bug fix: was listing some albums as inaccurate if incomplete
Dedup - preview player automatically plays again
Dedup - preview player bug fixes
ID Tags - comment and lyrics box expands to multi line if editing
All Programs better compilation detection
List & Recommendations has a new option 'Compilation' which will list and allow correction of any inconsistent compilation tags (and to remove unneeded ones such as Compilation=No)


R2025-04-08

Regression fix for tagging art to m4a files


R2025-03-28

Album art internet search updated, now obtains better results
Album Art - renamed options, added extra Pixels size options
Album Art - 'Low Resolution Defined As' new option, defaults to 1000 (1400 maximum allowed value).
Album Art - Show Album in Explorer, if album is from multiple folders then multiple explorer windows opened
Main launcher, new options section with new default option 'Album Defined by' default to 'Folder and album tag'
Main launcher: added [Edit] on settings to open default genre and default tag lists which are used by ID Tagger.
Album Art -could resize art to say 999x999 when set to 1000x1000
Album Art - bug fix, was not selecting all tracks in an album when selecting show in explorer

All programs - improved album name workings

Bug Fix: AccurateRip - when reading existing AR result from tag, it would fail if in format: [CRC 917351DC]
AccurateRip - added '(or a different pressing)' when cannot match if reporting not in accuraterip


R2024-06-10

New Program added to PerfectTUNES 'ReplayGain' will show which albums are missing R/G, or can list all albums

ID Tag Editor - ALT + Right Arrow to move to next file, ALT + Left Arrow to previous file
ID Tag on album edit, if press enter when entering a new value now accepts changes
ID Tag Editor - list view of tags, can select more than one file (hold shift), then change one tag of the selected and all selected changes

Bug Fix: Tag Editor - if right click on file(s) to edit tags from main ID Tag edit list then on [Ok] was not updating the tags on main screen
Bug Fix: Pause was not working


R2024-01-09

Tag Editor - the delete [x] button for album art is closer to the art, makes easier on large displays

Album Art - 600x600 is now the art size below which the automatic update will fix
Album Art - Clicking on an existing art in the list will show full size

New AccurateRip button 'Write Tags to All'

Bug Fix: source location could sometimes not stick
Bug Fix: tags could be shown in listing and then un-shown


R2023-07-11

ID Tags cleanup,
ID Tags added some missing tags from the selection for listing
Fixed duplicate rows for artists with different sort values,
Improved performance,
Made tag read settings respected
Made AccurateRip start much faster if everything is in cache
Tag Editor >> single tag edit: better placement of tag editor on screen
Tag Editor art menu added extra options (resize, scan, etc).
All programs, certain button updates
All programs added help button on toolbar
All programs added download update on toolbar when update is released


R2023-03-16

De-Dup: Rewritten audio player code.
Album Art: Fixed indexing of alternate capitalizations (Folder.jpg, folder.JPG, etc) on case-senstivie volumes.
Album Art: Made external .webp album art recognzied.
ID Tags: Sort tag handling update, made multiple tag values disregarded.
ID Tags: Suggest combining of 'lastname, firstname' to 'firstname lastname'


R2023-2-12

New versioning, automatic downloader for updates
Indexer improvements, for libraries with many layers of subfolders
Adding a custom tag to the ID Tag options page, puts this tag as always displayed on the right click edit tag
Fingerprints are only scanned if needed for De-Dup, much faster if not using de-dup when indexing a library

ID Tags fixed folder icons
Utilized Batch Converter's network discovery to mitigate lockup
ID Tags Fixed blank value not being propagated to table view
Added AccurateRip tag writing
Network share improvements
ID Tags >> better alignment of function boxes at top
ID Tags >> Add new tag, more standard tags added
ID Tags >> Added more tags to column selection (Browse by Filename and Folders), list sorted
ID Tags >> Discogs added to Add album art from internet search
Album Art online search bug fixes and optimizations.
Album Art: Refined album detection further, treat files in different folders as separate albums always.
Added Discogs lookup to Album Art search.
Improved matching of Artist vs Album Artist vs Composer in Recommendations.

Bug Fix: ID Tags >> Browse by Filename and Folders 'Filename' column was being cleared
Bug Fix: ID Tags >> Writing ID Tags... msg could be hidden under search box


R3.5     26th February 2022

Fixed crash in De-Dup Mass Delete


R3.4     19th January 2022

Shell installs right click icon for PerfectTUNES Edit ID-Tags

ID Tag: Recommendations, new option 'Show Only Recommended'
Added a search option to search on Lists & Recommendations, or Sort tags page, for example could search for 'feat' to find tags with Artist1 feat artist2
ID Tag: can rename filenames on 'browse by file and folder' page
ID Tag: Browse by Filenames, added sort tags to columns and ability to set custom tags in the settings page
ID Tag: Speed up when listing 'Browse by Filenames'
ID Tag: Browse by Filenames >> Mixed Track Editing new 'Scan sub-folders' button which lists all tracks on one screen

De Dup: Mass Delete - Lossless preserves the higher quality original (first on bit depth, then sample rate)
De Dup: Added bit and KHz to main page and mass delete page
De Dup: mass delete final verification before deletion, states where files will be deleted to, also default button is cancel

AccurateRip added "exclude album" feature

Bug fix: De dup indexing crash fixed.
Bug fix: DSF (not all DSD files could be tagged)
bug fix: Time presentation in local time
bug fix: on scanning page presented art was showing small on high resolution displays


R3.3     9th July 2020

Miniumum Windows Vista supported (XP no more)
All Programs - better support for high resolutions
DSD Tagging support added
if screen resolution changes and is showing maximized or too big for screen, then make maximized again
DeDup performance enhancement
Skips hidden files being indexed
Added new Apple Core Audio Format (CAF) decoder
Added close and minimise to processing albums (Album art)
PerfectTUNES Added minimize and cancel to various processing pages
Album Art: if a custom art export filename is used (but not a dynamically created one from tags), then these will be read when program restarts and scans changes
Album Art: new setting on options page 'Separate Multi Disc Albums' allows different art to be set for disc 2, disc 3, etc on box sets
Loads PerfectTUNES specific decoder (previously could have loaded one from dBpoweramp or TuneFUSION)
ID Tag: Added work, movement name, movement count and movement number to the list of tags can add

Bug Fix: Year in format YYYY-MM-DD would cause the browsing by year to put year in wrong section
Bug Fix: file rename + edit tags could corrupt the internal database


R3.2     13th April 2019

all % working screens, made taller to fit text and icon better

Album Art
Retrieve from Internet updated for compatibility
Sort on Resolution takes both width and height into account
Previously fixed listing page gives also option for 'Fix' as well as 'Undo Fix' and '...' menu
When click fix, shows Existing art if using only folder.jpg as source

ID Tag
Better support of high DPI
Added 'Type' to file listing options
Added DSD (dsf) tagging support
Added settings option (in ID Tag) add 'PerfectTUNES: Edit ID-Tags' Command to Windows Explorer folder right click
Added Channels, Bitrate, Sample Rate and Sample Size possible columns
Added refresh button for file listing view (if new folders appear)
No longer indexes when choose option 'Previously edited'
Sort Tags >> Added new option to only show Items which are Inconsistent

ID Tag & Album Art - added option in settings to preserve modification date when adding art or updating Tags
AccurateRip - folder button added so can open explorer to show actual file
DeDup - added option to send deleted files to a set folder

Bug Fix
If added D:\Music and D:\Music2 to be watched then last folder would not be scanned
Possible GUI lockup removed
ID Tag, if browsing by metadata and add a new column then would show tracks for first entry in file view
ID Tag, if sorting by Rating then would put 5* near zero star rating


R3.1     9th October 2018

Bug fix: m4a tags would not write from ID Tag editor (single tag edit)


R3.0     13th September 2018

Graphics are cleaner
Supports 200 and 300% DPI scaling
ID Tag: Option to disable predictive typing
Opus Codec Added

Bug fix: De Dup mass delete page had filename and path columns swapped


R2.1     9th September 2015

Excludes recycle bin
Playback in de-dup works correctly under x64
Correctly creates desktop icon for x64
Added a new genres.txt file in %appdata%/PerfectTunes/ which can be user edited


R2.0     31th July 2015

ID Tagger Added
64 bit version included, uninstall previous 32 bit version before install
Removes duplicate paths from the library (internally)
Album Art from Internet speed improved
Album Art tag replacing writer speed improved
Album Art: shows ', Writing...' on the Fix albums page
Album Art: Added menu next to each album, which allows: Show Album In Explorer, Load from File, Acquire from Scanner, Paste from Clipboard
AccurateRip: new option "Skip AccurateRip Reporting Not Lossless CD Quality"
AccurateRip: new option "Require Confidence 2 or More for AccurateRip Match"
AccurateRip: Export lists filenames for 'Cannot Check' list
AccurateRip: Shows disc ids on the match info export
De-Dup: New option 'Mass Delete'
All - Now minimizes when choose task bar icon
All - Code signed all components


R1.7     26th June 2014

Fixes to AccurateRip hanging.
AccurateRip improvements
Updated Codecs


R1.6     17th March 2014

Made Art searching label on manual page larger (could clip)
Manual Album Art - when type a new value, it clears the existing entries
Manual Album Art - when sort large to small, keeps the existing art in position 1
Installer offers to create a desktop icon

Bug fix: if write art to a flac file, then rerunning any PT program would indicate the flac file was corrupted (it was not, just our rescanner missbehaving)
Bug fix: accuraterip export list could muddle filenames


R1.5     20th February 2014

DeDup able to display large numbers of duplicates (previously would close)
DeDup more accurate at detecting duplicates
Album Art is able to search more art from internet
Album Art now has a maximum size (KB) option
Album Art: if have artist as Beetles, The then remove ', the' on manual Fix
mp3 will update id tag from v1 to v2 if embedding art

AccurateRip can now check incomplete albums (or non lossless) if previously ripped with dBpoweramp (and has AccurateRipResult tag)
AccurateRip better able to detect errors
AccurateRip indicates 'Track Not Present in AccurateRip' in technical log

Bug Fix: Accuraterip - was removing (xxx) from album title which could blend 2 albums together.
m4a decoder crash


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