SoundConverter Changelog

Version 2.1.6

• Fix: name 'vfs_exists' is not defined.
(Closes pr:10, thanks Michael)
• Fix problem when dropping files.
(Closes lp:1432399, thanks Thibaut & Rüdiger)

Version 2.1.5

• Don't write xing header if target MP3 is in CBR mode.
(Closes lp:1399276, thanks Chuck)
• Fix problem when dropping files with special chars.
(Closes pr:10, thanks Fonfon)
• Update translations.
(Thanks Alain-Olivier)

Version 2.1.4

• Fix Ubuntu automatic plugin installation forever-loop by ignoring video codecs.
(Closes lp:1308187, thanks Thibaut and others)
• Fix converting multiple folders containing the same filenames, as the same temporary files were created.
(Closes lp:1357597, thanks Evert)
• Make sure all file/folder choosers are forced to local file-systems.
(Closes lp:1339836, thanks François)

Version 2.1.3

• Fix the noise in output when converting from certain formats.
(Closes lp:1310576, thanks Allan)
• Now we create temporary files on destination folder, so you can use read-only sources.
(Closes lp:1301095, thanks Lem)
• Fix a crash problem with SMB shares.
(Closes lp:1293517, thanks Bill & Michael)
• Translations fixes.
(Closes lp:1255287, thanks Peter)
• Fix crash in error handler.
(Closes lp:, thanks Ghislain)
• CTRL+Q shortcut added to quit.
(Closes lp:, thanks Ghislain)
• Fix problem with filenames containing / or %.
(Closes lp:, thanks Pawel)

Version 2.1.2

• Fix original files deleted when encoding failed.
(Closes lp:1205828, thanks Ivo & Michael)
• "Same folder as the input file" fix when "Create folders" is active.
(Closes lp:1240770, thanks mesousa & Pawel)
• Reset plugin install cancellation after conversion batch.
(Closes lp:1213244, thanks Michael)
• "Replace all messy characters" based on a black list instead of a white list. This means that only really problematic characters are replaced now.
(Closes lp:584603, thanks Benjamin & Pawel)
• Added appdata for gnome-software.
(Closes lp:1227535, thanks Richard & Michael)
• Translation updates.

Version 2.1.1

• Small, annoying problems with file renaming and codec installation are fixed.
(Closes lp:1163597 and lp:1163595, thanks Michael)
• Change "lame" encoder to newer "lamemp3enc"
(Closes lp:1075951)

Version 2.1.0

• Instead of reading tags and then converting, SoundConverter now converts instantly and rename with the final filename after conversion. This is faster, and remove all multithreading-related problems
(Closes lp:1121254)
• Also fix a number of problems, please see details on the release page.

Version 2.0.4

• Add support for Opus codec.
• Fix command line arguments parsing.
(Closes lp:995862, thanks Michael)
• Fix problem with AAC settings.
(Closes lp:954555, thanks Patrick and zebul666)
• Fix crash in FolderChooser. 836338
(Closes redhat:836338)
• Fix yet another problem with filenames handling.
(Closes lp:998371, thanks Bastian)
• Update Translations.

Version 2.0.3

• Fix stability and progress related problems.
• Disable common path when creating folders using tags.
(Closes lp:972158, thanks Eric)
• Increase Low pass filter frequency when converting to MP3.
(Closes lp:881413, thanks Michael)
• Use original filename as title when tags are not present.
(Closes lp:984790)
• Update Translations.

Version 2.0.2

• Fix progress-related blocking by speeding up the progress update.
(Closes lp:940648, thanks Ben)
• Add canadian french.
(Thanks Alain-Olivier)
• Fix many English spelling errors.
(Thanks Alain-Olivier)

Version 2.0.1

• Fix size of icons in menu bar.
(thanks Johan)
• Fix syntax error when converting to mp3.
(thanks Jakob)
• Fix broken GNOME Audio Profiles.
• Add audio/flac in supported mimetypes, fixing "open with" in recent ditribs.

Version 2.0

• Great code reorganization and cleaning.
• Display individual files progression.
• Fix broken Vorbis output.
(thanks Jarno & Michael, fix lp:508767)
• Much faster adding of files, since we only read the tags when we have to.
• Smoother operation, lesser unresponsive moments.
(thanks Yaroslav & Steven, fix lp:784926)
• Add {Ext} {DiscNumber} and {DiscTotal} filename patterns.
• You can now limit the number of parallel conversions.
• The partial files are removed when canceling a conversion.
• Fix 8 bits wav encoding.
• Reset selected audio profile if not a valid one.
(thanks Michael, fix lp:814015)
• Clearing the filelist is now instant.
• Fix problem with Mime type combobox when one or more encoder is disabled.
(thanks Michael, fix lp:911759)
• Check validity of Gstreamer Audio Profiles.
(thanks Danilo & Michael, fix fedora:744596)
• Translate default album/artist/title names.
(thanks Handrik, fix lp:910522)
• Don't try to display images in log :)
• Exclude .iso files from conversion since we cannot read them.
• Fix crash when last-used-folders and recent.xbel are empty.
(thanks Danilo & Michael, fix lp:921515)
• Translations updated.

Version 1.5.4

• Fix unhandled exception when displaying notifications if notify daemon is down.
(thanks Michael, fixes #17797)
• Apply patch: CLI mode crash when converting to FLAC.
(thanks Michael)
• Apply patch with many batch mode fixes:
  • cli options -t, -m, -s fail or crash
  • crash
  • stop killing output files in batch mode
(thanks Michael, fixes #17743, #17735, #17502)
• Fix destination folder quoting.
(thanks Michael & Elitenoobboy, fixes #17426)
• Make sure all child dialog have a transient.
(thanks Cosimo)
• Add Folder was broken when using Ogg Vorbis filter and trying to add .ogg files, since the extension filter contained two extension patterns and add_uris supported only one.
(thanks philchand, fixes #17675)
• Destination filename was url encoded when stored in gconf.
(thanks Simón, fixes #17302)
• Fix track number missing when writing to AAC files.
(thanks Montel and Tim-Philipp, fixes #17291)
• Translations updated.

Version 1.5.3

• Fix crash in TaskQueue
• Fix progress bar oddities.
(Closes #17244, #17264, #17266, #17268 and #17269). Thank you so much Zachary and Michael.

Version 1.5.0

• Faster TypeFinder. & Memory usage reduction.
(61.9s -> 2.8s, 45.5MB -> 37.8MB to load 2918 files)
• Fix missing "year" tag. (closes #16425)
• New, working, command line parser.

Version 1.5.0 (alpha1)

• New Asynchronous core. Adding files is much faster.
• Add wav sample width setting. (8/16/32 bits)
• Add flac compression setting.
• Remember the last used folder when adding files/folders.
(thanks szpak, add #4807)
• Add realaudio to mime whitelist.
(thanks Lonnie, fix lp:518973)
• Fix tagreader stall when adding unrecognized files.
• Fix missing quoting when using destination folder.
• Fix hanging when trying to load DXR files.
(thanks Nastrafireblaze, fix lp:479420)
• Fix wrong destination folder when using both same-folder-as-source, base folder, and custom filename patterns.
(thanks Tino, fix #016295)
• Update dutch translation.
(thanks Tino)
• Follow symbolic links when adding files.

A lot of code has been changed, please file bugs if anything bad happens, thank you.

Version 1.4.4

• Force vbr-max-bitrate to 320 when using mp3+vbr, since gstreamer now defaults to 160.
(thanks psychoman, fix #15950)
• Activate GVfs authentication so we can log to remote shares.
(thanks ikus060, fix lp:386849)
• Fix crash in query_duration.
(fix lp:333024)
• Change deprecated Tooltip code, SoundConverter now requires GTK 2.12+!
(thanks Matt)
• Reset status after clearing file list.
(Thanks Sean)
• Fix unhandled exception when removing original files went bad.
(thanks surreal, fix lp:278782)
• Allow loading glade file from source folder so you can run soundconverter without installing.
(Thanks Geoff)
• Rosetta sync, Update all translations.
  Add Bulgarian, Danish, English (Australia), Estonian, Japanese and Vietnamese translations.
• A some minor cosmetic changes.
(Thanks Uwe)

Version 1.4.3

• Fix freezing when adding encrypted mp4 files.
fix lp:263889
• Display notification at the end of conversion.
(thanks Royall)
• Display error dialog when something bad happened.
• And minor corrections, like Preference Dialog fixes, spellings fixes, a better URI handling and others minor glitches fixed.
(thanks Geoff, Hew)

Version 1.4.2

• Translations update.
(thanks Translation-love-team)
• Add a checkbox to optionally choose .oga extension for vorbis files.
(thanks Ben&Andy for lobbying)
• Minor bugfixes (python 2.5 problem, and some interface stalling fixes).
(thanks Dag)

Version 1.4.1

• Fix crash at startup when more than one encoding format is missing.
(thanks Denis)
• Stop trying to load all the whole disk at startup, due to broken option parser.

Version 1.4.0

• Add AAC quality setting.
• Added an higher quality level to Vorbis and MP3, now up to 320kbps*.
(thanks Juan Martin and Michael) (fix #3955)
• Fix an old problem with spaces in folder names.
• Flac files will be smaller (~20%), by forcing "join stereo" option.
(thanks Georges)
• Add optional resampling.
(thanks Francis)
• Add {Timestamp} custom filename template.
(thanks Mark)
• Updated Polish translation.
(thanks Tomasz)

* and it's just useless :)

Version 1.3.2

• Add AAC encoding support.
(thanks Ian) (fix #001653)
• Use gstreamer gio source when available
(fix #14184)
• Create-folders is also actived when using same-as-input-folder.
(thanks Jason) (fix #13915)
• Fix problem with slashes in tags. No more creating unwanted folders. This is just a fast hack, slash is just replaced by dash.
(thanks Fred) (fix #14286)
• Fix crash when gnomevfssink not present.
• Fix small crasher in batch mode.
(fix LP: #243831)
• Updated Polish tranlation.
(thanks Piotr)

Version 1.3.1

• SoundConverter is now able to run multiple conversions at the same time.
Default is one per core, you can adjust with --jobs.
Note that SoundConverter is now 4 times faster*.
• Fixes various crashers reported by ubunteros.
(thanks Michael, Øyvind Stegard, Matthieu, ...and apport !)
• Updated Polish, Serbian and German translations.

Version 1.3.0 was broken, sorry.
* on quad core processors.

Version 1.2.0

• TagReader perform *much* faster (500s -> 20s on 260 files)
(thanks thaytan on #gstreamer)
• Progress indicator reset after a conversion.
• Updated Arabic Catalan Czech Spanish French Slovak translations.
• Added Esperanto & Persian translations.

Version 1.1.0

• Support for Codec Buddy. So missing plugins for reading files will be installed automatically (where supported).
• Display an message when trying to read Audio CD. (Audio CD are complicated to work with, use Soundjuicer instead...)
• Little faster starting time.

Version 1.0.2

• Fix crasher when using cdda:// uris.

Version 1.0.1

• Fix crashes when using filenames with unicode.

Version 1.0.0

• Fix crash in format_tag() when loading file with binary tags.
• Fix annoying gvfs error message at startup when output folder is not set.
• CustomFileChooser now have case-insensitive filters.
• Add 3gp to the mime whitelist.
• Add a clear list button on toolbar.