9.44 - October 10, 2012
- It is now possible to download cover art from Discogs with the
Download Cover Art feature.
- FIXED: Problem exporting file and web links.
9.43 - October 6, 2012
- Manual Query: Discogs: Search by catalog number now works again
(use the separate Catalog No search field).
- Manual Query: Discogs: Now possible to search by barcode number.
- Export: HTML: Compact: Added a 'Cell spacing' property for the
menu page to set the spacing between menu items.
- Export: HTML: Compact: "All" link can now be displayed either
after the last letter, or on a separate row at the bottom of the
menu (as in the previous version).
- Export: HTML: Compact: You can now specify which font to use for
the overview list (both for the page title, and the list contents).
In addition, you can set the text alignment, and vertical padding
(space between the items in the list).
- Export: HTML: Compact: Overview list now displays the menu
selection as the page title.
- FIXED: Manual Query: Update: All tracks not downloaded if album
contained mutiple tracks with same title.
9.42 - October 1, 2012
- Export: HTML: Added support for a compact and frameless layout
better suited for exports you intend to use on mobile devices. This
will create a simple overview menu (based on the first letter of the
selected data field) on the index page. Clicking one of the menu
letters will open a new page with an overview list based on your
menu selection. When you make a selection in the overview list,
another page is opened that will show the records according to your
selection. Click the back link to go back to the previous page, or
the home link to go back to the index/home page.
- Export: HTML: Added support for exporting Want List data.
- Export: HTML: Updated the default setups to reflect the new
explorer layout.
- Export: HTML: All formatting now controlled by Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS).
- Export: HTML: 'External CSS files' option now selected by
default for new setups.
- Report: Width of left pane in the 'Print Preview' window now
saved.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Album Carousel: Problem displaying extended
characters in artist name/album title.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Problem entering/displaying dates on some
systems.
- FIXED: Loan: Send email: Message encoding not set to UTF-8.
- FIXED: Import: Problem importing data to Genre table.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.41 - August 7, 2012
- Explorer: Added back the "All roles" link on the artist/person
page.
- Explorer: Artist/Person: Type, Country and Genre now
hyperlinked.
- Report: Better quality output when printing memo fields to PDF
files.
- Report: Bar Code field: 'Print number' property no longer
checked by default.
- Loan: Check Out: Added more fields to search for borrower
(including E-mail, and Custom 1-4).
- Loan: Explorer: Number of reserved titles now displayed on the
index page (hyperlinked).
- FIXED: Explorer: Album page displayed data from the Notes field
instead of Reviews.
- FIXED: Explorer: Not possible to set track genre from album
page.
- FIXED: Problem with 'View Image' window position/size if Windows
taskbar was displayed along the left edge of the screen.
- FIXED: Some issues with creating custom browse views.
- FIXED: Report: Text labels: Multiline text not displayed
correctly in the 'Report Designer' window.
- FIXED: Report: Problem printing labels on some systems
(rightmost label column not printed).
- FIXED: Report: Formatted memo text not printed to PDF files.
- Various other minor fixes.
9.40 - July 23, 2012
- Updated the layout of all explorer templates.
- Updated and fine-tuned all standard reports. NOTE: Since old
reports are not automatically overwritten by SETUP, you will have to
delete the old report files in the Report folder, or simply rename
the Report folder, if you want to install the new updated reports.
- Print List: Various enhancements to layout of generated report.
- Updated to latest version of the report engine.
- Report: Added a 'Prevent orphans' setting for groups. When this
setting is activated, group headers that would appear at the bottom
of a page without corresponding detail, will be moved to the top of
the next page. Group footers that would print alone at the top of a
page, will have the last detail of the prior page moved to the top
of the page, followed by the group footer.
- Report: Added an outline list in the 'Print Preview' window.
This list shows the values of the first report group, and allows you
to quickly go to a specific page.
- Report: Printing to PDF creates smaller PDF files (better image
compression).
- Report: Better quality output when printing to HTML. All report
pages are now generated in one single HTML file.
- Report: More accurate positioning of report objects when
printing to MS Word file.
- Report: Print to File: Better support for printing to Excel
files. No longer "Excel found unreadable content" error when opening
file in Excel 2007/10.
- Report: Added a "If empty" property for memo fields.
- Audio: Tag: Customize Tag Write: Added three new templates to
write musicians to the tag.
- Data Entry: Various enhancements to the auto-capitalize feature.
- Data Entry: Better support for pasting data into time fields.
- Loan: You can now disable the warning if the borrower has one or
more overdue titles when checking out titles
(Tools=>Options=>Miscellaneous=>'Check out: Overdue warning').
- Quick Search: Now searches image filename, image notes, file
links and web links.
- Lookup View: Show Albums command will now show albums linked to
*all* selected lookup records.
- Pressing F1 will open help file in Report Designer and Form
Designer.
- Updated the Sample database.
- FIXED: Problem searching/filtering on multivalue fields (for
example Keywords) with "Is not equal to" operator.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Problem editing credits from 'Edit Credits'
window if track #1 did not exist.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Sometimes Access Violation error when editing
data from the audio player.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Problem with dates if date separator was set
to space in Windows Control Panel.
- FIXED: Error when sorting on the New Album field.
- FIXED: Import: Not possible to import data to track credits
fields (songwriter, producer, etc.).
- FIXED: Print List: Width of last column not set correctly when
'Adjust columns to fit page width' was selected.
- FIXED: Report: Problem setting width of text labels from
Properties window.
- FIXED: Report: Selected font not always used when printing a
DBXsl field ("Times Roman" used instead).
- FIXED: Search: Show Previous/Next commands did not work if quick
search was active.
- FIXED: Problem with TWAIN image scanning if more than 3 scanner
devices installed.
- FIXED: Problem printing chart from Statistics window.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.35 - March 24, 2012
- Implemented a new registration key/license file format. If you
purchase the program after April 2, you must update to this version
before you activate your registration key.
NOTE: Existing licenses will continue to work as before!
- Form Designer: Right-clicking and choosing Paste will now paste
control(s) on clipboard where you right-clicked.
- Report Designer: Right-clicking and choosing Paste will now
paste report object(s) on clipboard where you right-clicked.
- Audio: Tag: Write: Better error handling when updating tags.
- Data Server: Info on lookup tables now included in XML data file
for lookup fields.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Used too much CPU if playlist contained
many tracks (500+).
- FIXED: Audio Player: Drag-and-drop operation started when
double-clicking to start playback if 'Use replay gain' was enabled.
- FIXED: Explorer: Strings with Unicode characters not displayed
correctly on some systems.
- FIXED: Search/Replace: Problem with empty fields and 'Match any
part of field' & 'Match whole words only' settings.
- FIXED: Report: Not possible to rotate barcode field.
- FIXED: Report: Print to PDF: Problem with Unicode characters on
some systems.
- FIXED: Loan: Email: "Too many messages for this session" error.
- FIXED: Loan: Email: Error if borrower name contained a comma.
- FIXED: Export: HTML: Problem creating code based setup if setup
name contained a space.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.34 - March 1, 2012
- Added support for Windows 8.
- Sites menu: Added a new field code: "%SEARCH%". This is used by,
for example, the "Search Google" menu entry. The field value to
search by is set according to the active view (for example, if the
Album View is active the search is by artist and title, if the
Artist/Person Lookup View is active the search is by name, and so
on).
- Sites menu: Added the Sites menu to the 'Box Set Edit' and 'Want
List Edit' windows.
- Added a 'Copy Serial Number to Clipboard' button in the About
window.
- Download from Internet: Better error handling if a timeout
occurs.
- Track View: 'Show Albums in Album View' command now processes
all selected tracks.
- Data Entry: Lookup View: Added buttons to copy data from "main"
field to 'Sort by' field, and vice versa.
- Explorer: Track subtitles now displayed in all album track
lists.
- Import: Better support for importing track disc no, side and
index (track no).
- Export: HTML: Possible to create index based setup without a
detail page.
- Loan: Check Titles Out window: Moved Date Borrowed/Date Due
fields up above Borrower field.
- Data Server: Info on lookup tables now included in XML data file
for lookup fields.
- FIXED: Audio: Rescan: "Access Violation" error if selecting
'Remove links to (detach) audio files' option.
- FIXED: Edit Sort Order: Name of selected field not displayed if
the first field in the drop-down list was selected.
- FIXED: "Metadata blocksize is incorrect" when reading FLAC tags.
- FIXED: Export: HTML: Problem creating code based setup if setup
name contained a space.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.33 - January 27, 2012
- Now possible to specify playback device (soundcard) in the audio
player (choose File=>Options, then select from the 'Playback device'
drop-down list.)
- CDDB: Updated to CDDBControl version 2.4.0.9.
- CDDB: Better error handling.
- Export: "Auto-organize images" filename setup used when
exporting internal images.
- Explorer: Updated "list" templates (ArtistPersonList.xsl,
KeywordList.xsl, etc.) and PlayHistory.xsl template.
- Fixed problem cancelling cover art download.
- FIXED: Print List: Stretch property not set for image fields.
- FIXED: Report: Stretch property always set when printing to the
screen, or to a file.
- FIXED: Export: Fixed some issues with image fields.
- FIXED: Internet.dll file date/time reset when downloading
update.
- FIXED: Explorer: Custom 01 field included in
AlbumBrowse_Right.xsl template.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.32 - December 30, 2011
- Report: Sub-detail band now prints even when height of Detail
band is zero.
- Various enhancements to the auto-capitalize feature.
- FIXED: Vertical scrollbar in browse list sometimes hidden after
backing up database.
- FIXED: Auto-organize image files: Generated filename sometimes
too long ("The field is too small to accept the amount of data"
error).
- FIXED: Auto-organize audio files: "%album_artist_sort_1%" to use
the first character of the artist sort name did not work.
- FIXED: Data Server: Error when opening database after creating
new instance.
- Various other minor fixes.
9.31 - December 20, 2011
- Added a new "Welcome" panel that will appear the first time the
program is run (also displayed when you close the open database).
- Audio: Rescan: Added an option to locate missing audio files.
- Audio: Tag: Write: Existing tags not supported by CATraxx are
now preserved in APE/FLAC tags.
- Audio: Audio Player: Explorer: Added a simplified explorer
template that will only show the cover art, artist, song title and
album title. Click the little green arrow at the bottom of the page
to switch between the two templates. To use this as the default
template, choose Tools=>Explorer Templates and set 'Audio
Player/Preview pane' to 'AudioPlayer_Simple.xsl'.
- Image: Auto-Organize Image Files: You can now use the same field
codes as when auto-organizing audio files (for example '%artist_f%'
to only use the first artist).
- Image: Added a new setting in the Options window: 'Add album
image: open audio folder'. This controls whether the audio folder is
opened or not when you add a new album image.
- Scan CD: Will now wait and retry if cd-rom drive is not ready.
- Export XML: The "auto-organize" filename pattern is now used
when exporting images.
- Export XML: External images now copied to the export folder.
- FIXED: Explorer: Album/Track count not correct when exploring an
artist if the artist name contained an ampersand.
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Write: Sometimes "Frame size differs" error
when updating MP3 tags due to a problem with the Composer and
Lyricist tags.
- FIXED: Auto-Organize Image Files: "Digit grouping symbol"
included when using the ID field in the filename pattern.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Image: Old image file not overwritten when
replacing existing image.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.30 - December 2, 2011
- You can now automatically organize external image files into a
folder structure and filename format of your choice based on
information in the database. To use this feature, choose
'Auto-Organize Image Files' from the Tools menu.
- The folder and filename setup used by the 'Auto-Organize Image
Files' function is also automatically used if you have chosen to
link to external image files: When you download cover art/read cover
art from audio file tags, when you paste an image into the image
field/drag an image from the web browser, and when you use the
'Extract images' feature. To edit this setup, choose
Tools=>Options=>Multimedia, then click the 'Images/Filename setup'
button.
- If CATraxx is unable to locate external image files because you
have moved the files, you can use the new 'Locate Missing Image
Files' function available on the Tools menu. This will scan the
specified drive/folder and attempt to locate the missing image
files.
- Updated the 'Extract images', 'Load external images' and
'Cleanup image folder' functions to support the new features.
- Data Entry: Image: When adding album image, the audio file
folder is now automatically opened if audio files are linked to the
album, and this folder contains at least one image file.
- Data Entry: Image: Removed the two separate "Load Image" and
"Link to Image" buttons. Instead there is now one button that will
use the 'Store images in database/Link to image files" setting (you
can now also right-click the image control to change this setting).
- Data Entry: Image: Now possible to manually rename the external
image file from the data entry window.
- Data Entry: Image: Added Paste and Resize buttons below the
field.
- Data Entry: Image: Added a Center property (changeable from the
Form Designer). When this is checked, the image is centered within
the control (this is now the default behavior).
- Data Entry: Image: You can now change the background color.
- Data Entry: Use Default Layout: Will now automatically remove
fields that are hidden.
- Data Entry: The Clone command is now available on the browse
list right-click popup menu.
- Edit Memo: Insert hyperlink: You can now add links to files and
folders.
- Audio: Tag: Write: MP3: ID3 version 2.3 is now used by default
(instead of v2.4).
- Audio: Read/Write Tag: Fixed various problems with FLAC tags.
- Audio: Auto-Organize: Added support for using the "sort by"
value of a lookup field ("%field_sort%").
- Download from Discogs: Cover art preview not downloaded if
'Automatically download cover art' is unchecked.
- Loan: Send E-mail Notifications: 'Overdue' is now the first tab.
- Loan: Send E-mail Notifications: All operations are now logged.
Click the 'Log File' button to open the latest log file. The log
file includes details about all the processed borrowers with
information about sent e-mails, borrowers with no e-mail address,
and any errors.
- Loan: Send E-mail Notifications: Various issues with setting
SMTP server username.
- Loan: Extend Loan Period: You can extend the loan period for the
selected albums(s) by a specified number of days from both the Album
and Loan view.
- Loan: Check Out: Now supports barcode lookup if you have
multiple copies with same barcode number.
- Explorer: Added the Location field in Album View preview pane.
- Explorer: Index: On the statistics page, removed the labels to
the right of the chart.
- Database Maintenance: Added a 'Update Title Sort' function. This
is useful if you have
- edited the 'Ignore when sorting' list in the Option window, and
want to update the Title Sort fields.
- Update Path: A progress dialog with a Cancel button is now
displayed.
- You can now hide the Box Set, Loan View, Want List View,
Playlist View and Playlist Track View entries on the View menu, in
the view bar, and on the toolbar by deactivating these tables in the
'Database Setup' window.
- Log files now automatically deleted after 30 days.
- Total Value: If multiple albums are selected in the Album View,
only these albums will be included in the calculation.
- Statistics: Added support for GDI+ which provides better
anti-aliasing (edge smoothing) based on ClearType technology.
- Export: Added a 'Open file' button in all export windows. This
will open the last file you exported data to.
- HTML Export: Index based setup: The name of the entry selected
in the left pane is now displayed at the top of the list page.
- HTML Export: Index based setup: The height of the top pane is
now automatically increased when specifying an export title.
- HTML Export: Removed some space after the list page title.
- HTML Export: All temporary .xsl and .css files are now always
deleted when the Export window closes.
- HTML Export: Added a 'External CSS files' option. Activate this
to store CSS formatting in external files, and share the same CSS
file by all generated html files (one file for each page type:
index, overview list, list and detail). If this option is not
activated, all CSS formatting is stored in the HTML files.
- HTML Export: Added a 'Create virtual image' property for image
fields.
Import: When importing links to files (audio/video/image files and
file links), CATraxx will now look for the file in the import folder
if folder is not specified.
- Import: Text: RTF formatting codes automatically removed when
importing text into memo fields.
- XML: Memo fields: The unformatted plain text is now always
included in the XML data file (for example "<Notes_PlainText>").
- XML: Track: If a track has been added to one or more playlists,
the playlist titles are now included in the XML data file.
- Updated the internal XML engine resulting in better performance.
- Help: Added a new section describing the "Copy track data"
feature. Various other changes.
- FIXED: Playlist Track View entry not displayed on the View menu,
and button not visible on the toolbar.
- FIXED: Grid: Row not selected when right-clicking in browse
list.
- FIXED: Grid: Not possible to change the 'Create virtual image'
column property.
- FIXED: Password: Problem turning off 'Login without password'
setting.
- FIXED: Explorer: Problem with artist chart if artist name
contained a comma.
- FIXED: Explorer: Problem with album/track count for artists if
artist name contained an extended character.
- FIXED: Explorer: Images pasted from a Word document into a memo
field would sometimes not display in the explorer.
- FIXED: Search: Problem searching for "#" when using the "Begins
with" and "Contains" operators.
- FIXED: Image field: "Stream Read Error" if external image file
was missing.
- FIXED: Image: Image filename for image #2-9 incorrect in browse
list, reports, etc.
- FIXED: Report: Print to File: Problem printing date fields (year
only) to Excel file.
- FIXED: Import Excel: "Access Violation" error when trying to
import from file open in Excel.
- FIXED: HTML Export: Album sometimes listed multiple times if
filtering on two (or more) fields with the OR operator in an index
based setup.
- FIXED: HTML Export: Problem with upper and lower case characters
mixed up in top menu in an index based setup.
- FIXED: HTML Export: Not possible to change the export title of a
code based setup.
- FIXED: Problem resizing left pane in import/export windows.
- FIXED: Removed a resource leak when converting old database.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Sometimes "Index of out bounds" error when
removing tracks from current playlist.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Incorrect track started playing after
removing tracks from current playlist.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.20.01 - August 30, 2011
- FIXED: Problem downloading cover art from Discogs.
- FIXED: Manual Query: Status dialog window not always closed.
9.20 - August 26, 2011
- Audio Player: Added support for Last.fm scrobbling. Scrobbling a
song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent
to Last.fm and added to your music profile. The first time you open
the player it will ask if you want to enable scrobbling. You can
also turn this on/off in the 'Options' window (File=>Options).
- Audio: Tag: Write: Added support for id3 v2.4 tags, in addition
to v2.3. Version 2.4 is now the default format, and is necessary to
write to the Album Sort, Track Sort, and Artist Sort tags. (You can
switch back to the v2.3 format in the 'Audio File Options' window.)
- Manual Query: Discogs: Updated to the new v2.0 API.
- Manual Query: Discogs: An album cover thumbnail is now displayed
in the preview pane below the search result list.
- Manual Query: Improved the order of the search result based on
the specified artist/title (best matches displayed first).
- Card layout: You can now change the border color, and deselect
the highlighting of the selected record.
- Album menu: Show Tracks in Track View command is now faster.
- Explorer: Pages with a statistical chart now automatically
regenerated when the explorer pane is resized.
- Report Designer/Form Designer: You can now edit the text of text
labels directly from the popup menu (without having to open the
Properties window first).
- Report: Text label: Added support for the following codes:
%date_long% - insert the current date using the Long Date Format,
%time% - insert the current time using the Short Time Format,
%time_long% - insert the current time using the Long Time Format.
- Import: Text: Now automatically detects the byte order mark
(BOM) and encodes the text correctly.
- Import: Text: Select File window now shows both .csv and .txt
files by default.
- Import: Text/Excel: File Link and Web Link fields now available
for import.
- Backup: If running, the audio player now automatically closes
the database when the database is being backed up.
- Loan menu: Moved all loan commands from the Album and Tools menu
to the new Loan menu, and changed the shortcut keys.
- Loan: Print receipt: You can now (automatically) print a receipt
from the Check Titles In/Out window when checking titles in or out.
- Loan: Check out: Added a "History" button in the Check Titles
In/Out window. Click this button to display the selected borrower's
loan history.
- Password: You now set up both master and guest password from the
same window. Added a Remove button to remove the current password.
Added a 'Log in as guest without password' option. Check this box to
add the ability for guests to log in without having to specify a
password.
- Update Path: Number of records updated now reported.
- Data Server: PlayBoxSet method added. This will play the audio
files linked to the specified box set.
- Data Server: GenerateM3UPlaylist method added. Call this method
to generate a M3U playlist file based on a playlist.
- Data Server: GenerateM3UPlaylistFilter method added. Call this
method to generate a M3U playlist file dynamically based on a
filter. For more information, please see the online
FAQ.
- Fixed problem trying to activate registration key if
registration email was copied from Opera.
- Fixed a few spelling errors.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Explorer window would reopen if previously
opened after minimizing and then restoring the player window.
- FIXED: Audio: Auto-Organize: Error if file path longer than 259
characters.
- FIXED: Audio: Scan Folders: Track length and bitrate not read if
all data was fetched from the filename (tag was ignored).
- FIXED: Audio: Attach: Problem attaching audio files to album
from the Album Edit window if all files started, or ended, with
numbers.
- FIXED: Data entry: Paragraph color sometimes reset when opening
the Edit Memo window.
- FIXED: Data entry: Problem with the highlighting of the
selected rating in drop-down list when running the program on
Windows XP.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Last Modified not updated after merging
albums.
- FIXED: Buttons below Rating Image field in the Edit Personal
Rating window did not use the button size setting as specified in
Options.
- FIXED: Database maintenance: Capitalize data: Error when using
the Marked option.
- FIXED: Problem with search if the field value contained an
ampersand ("&") character when searching via the Sites menu.
- FIXED: Import: Text/Excel: Internal ArtistSort field not always
updated.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.10.01 - August 11, 2011
- FIXED: Problem downloading data from Discogs.
9.10 - June 9, 2011
- Now possible to use the mouse wheel to scroll in all drop-down
lists.
- Now possible to preview the various menu/toolbar skins without
having to close the 'Options' window.
- Dual monitor setup: If CATraxx is run on secondary monitor, all
windows you open now appear on this monitor. In addition, if CATraxx
was closed when placed on secondary monitor, it will appear on this
monitor the next time you start it.
- Added a new color selector with more predefined colors. This
includes a "color picker" you can use to pick up a color already
visible on the screen, for example from another report object.
- Audio Player: Updated the field layout in the explorer pane.
- Audio Player: The explorer pane now uses the default explorer
font.
- Audio Player: The playlist now uses the default system font
(Segoe UI on Win 7/Vista, Tahoma on XP) by default.
- Audio Player: Problems playing some flac files.
- Audio: Tag: Read: Bitrate/length now read even if the file is
untagged.
- Audio: Tag: Fixed some problems with tags in flac files (for
example, non-supported tags are now preserved).
- Audio: Tag: Better error description in log file if an error
occurs when reading and writing tags.
- Audio: Tag: Write: Now usually faster if 'Compare dates' is
selected.
- Auto-Organize: The folder/filename setup is now stored in a file
named AutoOrganise.dat in your data folder instead of in the Windows
Registry. This makes it easier to backup your customized setup, or
transfer it to another computer.
- Data Entry: Rearranging the track order with drag and drop now
works better if you drop the track between two other tracks (same is
also true when rearranging the disc order).
- Data entry: Image field: Image slots with an image are now
better highlighted.
- Data Entry: Edit memo: Added a function that will remove all
hyperlinks from the selected text.
- The Explorer window is now faster to reopen (especially from the
audio player).
- Explorer: When looking at albums released by a specific artist,
clicking the album cover will now play the album. Same is true for
the "pick of the day" album on the explorer home page.
- Explorer: The AlbumList_Cover.xsl template now automatically
adjusts the number of columns based on the width of the explorer
pane.
- Explorer: Added some space around images.
- Explorer: Various other minor adjustments.
- Search: Number of records shown in the caption of the 'Search
Result' window.
- Search: Now possible to search for "*" and "?" with the Contains
operator.
- Search: You can now use the Simple/Advanced/Summary search from
the Lookup, Loan and Want List views.
- The 'Summary Search' window now includes a button to copy the
data in the list to the Windows clipboard.
- Form Designer: Word wrap for text labels now supported.
- Report: Single-line text fields can now be rotated 90, 180 or
270 degrees by setting the Angle property.
- Report: Increased the size of the 'Label Definitions' window.
- Update Path: Number of records updated now reported.
- Improved the repair database function.
- Updated help file.
- FIXED: Track order in manual playlists sometimes incorrect.
- FIXED: Error when editing album cover if same album was playing
in the audio player.
- FIXED: Problem searching from Sites menu if data entry window
opened via the popup menu of a lookup field.
- FIXED: Data entry: Selection not shown in Personal Rating
drop-down list.
- FIXED: Data entry: Problem pasting RTF formatted text into memo
fields.
- FIXED: Data entry: Program froze if opening a data entry window
from the Explorer window, and then closing the Explorer window
before the data entry window.
- FIXED: Card list: New cover art not shown in card list after
downloading cover art.
- FIXED: Form Designer: "List item not found" error when using the
'Auto Update Tab Order' function.
- FIXED: Form Designer: Save/Cancel buttons sometimes enabled even
if no changes were made.
- FIXED: Export: HTML: Using "%date%" code in export title did not
work.
- FIXED: "Incorrect length" error when trying to activate
registration key on some systems.
- Various minor fixes and enhancements.
9.05.03 - April 28, 2011
- FIXED: Audio: Scan Folder: Album artist not set correctly when
'Group by album title' was selected.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Error when trying to play some flac files.
- FIXED: Report: Run-time error when selecting File=>New to create
a new report in the Report Designer.
- FIXED: Data Server: Toc node not included in xml data file.
9.05.02 - April 9, 2011
- It is now possible to unselect a single record by holding down
Ctrl and clicking if multiple records are selected.
- FIXED: CDDB: Download: 'More info' button in 'Match' window did
not work (displayed if multiple matches, or a "fuzzy" march).
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Read: If Composer/Lyricist tag was empty,
"empty" credits sometimes saved (Name column empty, Role column
filled in) - only visible in the 'Edit Credits' window.
9.05.01 - March 29, 2011
- Message boxes now always centered over the active window.
- FIXED: Download from CDDB: "No interface supported" error on
some systems.
- FIXED: Set Field Value: Sometimes "Access Violation" when
updating multivalue fields.
- FIXED: Database Maintenance: Error when setting track genre =
album genre.
9.05 - March 24, 2011
- You can now specify the Amazon site to go to when you select
"Buy from Amazon" (from the Sites menu, the Want list, or the
explorer). Choose Tools=>Options=>Internet to select site.
- Audio: Tag: Write: Artist name no longer split up if name
contains a slash (for example "AC/DC").
- Audio: Tag: Write: Added the ability to temporarily disable code
in the 'Customize Tag Write' window (simply uncheck the box next to
the tag name).
- Audio Player: Added the ability to display the playlist track
index (you can disable this by right-clicking the playlist, and
unchecking the Index option on the popup menu).
- Data Entry: Set Field Value: You can now use this function to
update "role" fields (for example Composer, Conductor, Recording
Location, or Producer).
- Data Entry: Set Field Value: Added a 'Remove existing data'
option for multivalue fields (for example Artist or Keyword). Check
this box if you want to remove all existing data in the field before
the new field value is saved.
- Data Entry: Set Field Value: The last selected field is now
always selected the next time you open the 'Set Field Value' window.
- Data Entry: Search & Replace: You can now use the search &
replace function to update fields in the Box Set, Want List, and
Playlist table, and all lookup tables.
- Data Entry: Lineup: Lineup data is now saved when only "year to"
is specified (that is, "year from" is empty).
- Import: Excel: You can now import data directly from xslx files
(Excel 2007/2010 format) without having Excel installed.
- Export: Excel: You can now export data to xlsx files (Excel
2007/2010 format).
- Explorer: Changed the default separator for multivalue fields
from " / " to "; ".
- Explorer: Adjusted some of the colors (Style.css).
- Help File: Reformatted the "CATraxx Database" section.
- FIXED: Fixed a memory leak when reading/writing some audio file
tag types.
- FIXED: Fixed a memory leak when generating html pages.
- FIXED: Fixed a memory leak when refreshing the explorer index
page.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Shortcuts on Play menu mixed up.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Problem with album carousel if artist name
contained a comma.
- FIXED: Audio: Auto-update tag: Folder cover file not updated.
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Write: Sometimes "Frame size differs" error
when updating MP3 files.
- FIXED: "WMP11" skin not loaded when program was restarted.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Cancel button displayed to the left of the OK
button in the 'Edit Credits' window.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Position of "info label" incorrect in the
'Track Template' window if Large Fonts were used.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Split Lookup: Correct record not selected in
the browse list behind the data entry window if a filter was active.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Multiple tracks sometimes selected in track
list ('Album Edit' window')after editing tracks or media.
- FIXED: Various problems with import from Excel files.
- FIXED: Query Internet: If no match was found at Discogs an error
message was displayed.
- FIXED: Explorer: "&" shown as "&" in window caption.
- FIXED: Explorer: Weblinks from Sites menu not displayed on the
index page.
- FIXED: Statistics: Not possible to select fields from the Want
List table.
- FIXED: Statistics: Data based on the Want List.Priority field
incorrect.
- FIXED: Sites Menu: Problem parsing field codes if URL contained
a "%".
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.03 - February 3, 2011
- Data Entry: In addition to Internet Explorer, you can now also
drag images from Mozilla Firefox and Chrome to the image field.
- The 'Image Properties' window has been redesigned. Long file
paths no longer truncated.
- Export: The "Track.Full Title" field is now available in all
export windows.
- Export: Excel/HTML/Text: You can now export all box set fields.
- Export: Text: You can now specify text encoding: ANSI, Unicode
UTF-8 or Unicode UTF-16.
- Export: HTML: Fixed some issues with Unicode characters in top
menu if index field was selected.
- Export: HTML: When deleting a "code based" export
definition, all corresponding css/xsl files are now automatically
deleted.
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Write: Problem writing Unicode text to MP3
ID3v2 tags.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Data entry window disappeared when opening
drop-down lists/date picker if the data entry window was opened from
the Explorer window.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Memo: Insert Date function did not work
properly with US time setting.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Sometimes problem with mouse cursor when
selecting genre.
- FIXED: Data Entry: When cloning a track, the new track not
always displayed in the track list.
- FIXED: Data Entry: Button to open drop-down list in multivalue
fields (eg. Artist) not
displayed when opening data entry window if vertical scrollbar was
visible.
- FIXED: Grouping: Album/track sometimes displayed multiple times
in the browse list when
grouping on the Main Genre field.
- FIXED: Explorer: Album View: Web Links field displayed twice in
preview pane to the right.
- FIXED: Explorer: Problem with hyperlinks if link data contained
either "+" or "&".
- FIXED: Explorer: Problem with @validate parameter in links if
TARGET tag set (TARGET="_BLANK").
- FIXED: Export: HTML: Problem if index field (top menu) contained
a "*" character.
- FIXED: Report: Problem opening reports created with previous
versions if the report contained the Artist.Type field.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.02 - December 17, 2010
- Data entry: Edit credits: Added the following shortcuts to the
right-click popup menu (track list): Alt+1 - Check All, Alt+2 -
Uncheck All, Alt+3 - Invert, Alt+4 - Check Disc, Alt+5 - Uncheck
Disc.
- Export: HTML: Clearing the output folder is now much faster.
- Export: HTML: The Overview export (and any export with an
index/menu) is now generated faster.
- FIXED: Data entry: Dragging an image to the image field did not
work.
- FIXED: Data entry: Edit lineup: Instruments somestimes hidden in
lineup list to the left.
- FIXED: Data entry: Auto-backup not activated when editing a memo
field from the explorer.
- FIXED: Data entry: If "Use Status color coding" was enabled, the
background color of new status entries added directly from the Album
or Playlist window was set to black.
- FIXED: Data entry: Temporary form layout file (.fla) moved to
the Windows Recycle Bin instead of being deleted when using the
default form layout from the database template.
- FIXED: Data entry: Problem checking/unchecked the box next to
the track title in the 'Edit Credits' and 'Assign Template to
Tracks' window with the mouse if the mouse cursor was moved when you
clicked.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Error when trying to sort playlist.
- FIXED: Audio: Auto-Organize: Audio file type field reset to "1"
when using auto-organize (affected all audio file types except mp3).
Version 9.02 automatically corrects this the first time the database
is opened.
- FIXED: Audio: Auto-Organize: Preview: Folder list not
automatically scrolled when using the arrow keys to select folder.
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Write: Sometimes "Frame size differs" error
when updating mp3 tags.
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Write: Tags not automatically updated after
transferring the album artist to all tracks on the album when
"Auto-update tag" was enabled.
- FIXED: Audio: Scan Folder: Problem setting album title if the
'album title' tag contained double quotes.
- FIXED: Audio: Attach: Fixed some issues with attaching untagged
files from the 'Album Edit' window.
- FIXED: Download from Internet: Problem with "extended
characters" (all sites except Discogs).
- FIXED: Views: Grouping: The 'Include empty' setting did not work
for the Sub-genre field.
- FIXED: Views: Sometimes "Access Violation" error when activating
the Playlist Track View.
- FIXED: Explorer: The link to the track detail page from the
Playlist Track View explorer preview pane did not work.
- FIXED: Explorer: Problem with the BorrowerCustom03Browse.xsl
template.
- FIXED: Export: HTML: Backslashes not always converted to forward
slashes.
- FIXED: Export: HTML: Error with Overview export if the artist
name containd a "%" character.
- FIXED: Data Server: Mouse cursor not reset after generating an
index page with GenerateHTML.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.01 - November 23, 2010
- Audio: Bitrate for APE and FLAC files
now calculated the same way as in version 8.
- Audio: Tag: Write: The album title is
now written to the album title tag by default. If you would like to
write the disc title instead, select the 'Disc Title' template in
the 'Customize Tag Write' window.
- Audio: Drag to player: Fixed some
issues with dragging tracks to the audio player (both the CATraxx
Audio Player, and any 3rd party player). By default, you must hold
down the Alt key to able to drag to the player. If you want this to
be the default drag operation, check the "Default drag to audio
player" option in the 'Audio File Options' window. Note that if this
option is checked you must hold down Alt to drag tracks to the
'Manual Playlists' window, or to drag tracks from one playlist to
another.
- Exported M3U playlists no longer saved
with UTF-8 encoding by default (incompatible with some players, eg.
Windows Media Player). To enable this, check the "Save M3U playlist
as UTF-8" option in the 'Audio File Options' window (should only be
necessary if the audio file names contain Unicode characters).
- You can now drag box sets from the Box
Set View to the 'Manual Playlists' window.
- You can drag box sets from the Box Set
View, and tracks from the Playlist View and the Playlist Track View,
to the audio player.
- You can drag tracks from the 'Manual
Playlists' window to the audio player.
- The title of the open playlist in the
'Manual Playlist' window is now shown on the statusbar of the main
window.
- Explorer: Custom memo fields now only
shown if field actually contains data.
- FIXED: Problem activating registration
key ("Incorrect length" error).
- FIXED: Scan image: Problem with colors
in scanned image on some systems.
- FIXED: Not possible to delete records
if list layout selection setting was set to "None".
- FIXED: Album edit/track list: List not
automatically scrolled when using arrow keys to select track.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Error when trying
to open 'Track Selector' window.
- FIXED: Audio Player: Error when
right-clicking in current playlist below the last track.
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Problem reading some
APE tags.
- FIXED: Audio: Tag: Problem writing disc
no, track no and year to FLAC files.
- FIXED: Audio: Playlist: Sometimes error
when adding tracks to playlist.
- FIXED: Form Designer: Access Violation
error when inserting a lookup field.
- FIXED: Explorer: Problem displaying
Greek characters.
- FIXED: Explorer: Weeks part of Music
Chart field not shown.
- FIXED: Explorer: Problem editing the
custom track memo field from the explorer.
- FIXED: Explorer: Error when searching
for a string containing an apostrophe.
- FIXED: Search: Error executing search
if the audio player was started after CATraxx.
- FIXED: Download from Internet: Discogs:
Track artist not always updated when updating an existing album.
- FIXED: Export: Excel: Error when
exporting a text field containing numbers only.
- FIXED: Import: Excel/Text: Error when
importing both album and track data.
- Various other fixes and enhancements.
9.00 - November 8, 2010
- CATraxx v9 released. Click
here for more
information about the new version.