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Förändringar v10.0 -> v10.1

• Support for details mode in the Music Browser. When switching to details mode you will be able to see information presented in detailed lists instead of as thumbnails.
• You can easily switch between detailed an thumbnailed modes from the toolbar. It is now also possible to select how many items that will be shown on a thumbnails or details page.
• User interface and content improvements for the Music Browser artist page. This page will now display information more like the Helium Music Streamer.
• Multiple sorting improvements to various Music Browser pages.
• Corrections and improvements to the Music Browser statistics page.
• Performance improvements to adding operations, adding operations are up to 40% quicker than before.
• Performance improvements to tagging operations using the tag editors.
• Improvements to the Print report tool.
• Improvements for incorrect tags handling. Reading of invalid tags is now much more tolerant.
• New language: Español Latino
• Language updates for German, Italian and Dutch languages
• Various updates to our information download plug-ins

Förändringar v9.4.2 -> v9.5.1

• Twitters new API 1.1 is now supported
• Corrections and improvements to the Discogs and Last.fm plug-ins
• Smart playlist and advanced searches fixes
• Improvements to the Device synchronization tool
• Various language updates

Förändringar v9.4 -> v9.4.2

• This release comes with the following major corrections:
• Auto correction settings could cause problems with special characters
• Rendering of the Music Browser recent albums page did not worked ok
• The local cache could display the wrong information about present tags for a track
• This release also comes with the following changes:
• Change in terminology: Helium Web Service is renamed to Helium Remote in Options
• When the option "Add all tracks on double-click" is selected from Options > Views > General, all tracks in the track list starting the the clicked tracks will be added to the Play queue

Förändringar v9.3 -> v9.4

• •Support and improvements for backup of MySQL 5.6 databases
• •Possibility to automatically calculate AcoustID from the Tag Editor (Advanced)
• When sorting is used in Helium Music Manager, it will also be used by the Helium Remote
• Support for the Initial Key field in the Album details view
• Optimizations and performance improvements for tag updates and database synchronization
• Multiple improvements to discography handling in the Music Browser
• Increased compatibility of the album artist tag
• Fixes and improvements when using the Properties function from the Album details view
• Improvements to sort order handling in the Tag editor (Advanced)
• Various improvements and fixes to the tagging engine
• Fixes and improvements to the Pictures pane when changing display types
• Improvements to saving of rating and genre changes when used from the Internal Player
• Various improvements to FreeDB handling
• Corrections to track list coloring
• Corrections to the Play queue
• Language updates

Förändringar v9.2.1 -> v9.3

• Possibility to directly download and install new updates from the application
• Corrections and improvements to the restore SQL Server database function. If an instance is not found, the user will now be able to select which instance to restore the database to.
• Multiple corrections and improvements to the Discover tracks view
• Corrections and improvements to the import database function
• Improvements and corrections for the Coverflow view
• Improvements to the Smart Playlist limiter functions
• User interface improvements for the artist and album Music Browser views
• Corrections and improvements related to folder synchronization
• Corrections and improvements to the AcoustID calculations
• Corrections and improvements to the Audio Splitter tool
• Extended handling for problematic files in the File Rename Wizard
• Possibility to optionally overwrite existing playlists during exporting of playlists
• Drag and drop corrections in the Music Explorer
• Corrections to favourite artists and albums in the Music Explorer during multi-user usage
• Several fixes to the Tag Editor (Advanced) and the Filename To Tag function inside the Tag Editor (Advanced)
• Updates to the Czech language
• Updates to the Polish language
• Updates to the Swedish language

Förändringar v9.2 -> v9.2.1

• Corrections and improvements to the Last.fm download plug-in
• Corrections and improvements to the Discogs plug-in
• Improvements so that the quick search supports wildcards
• Various improvements to the Music Browser
• Corrections to the Split tool so that very long files are fully supported
• Updates to several of the languages
• Improvements and fixes for the Is Favourite arguments in the advanced search and smart playlists
• Improvements and fixes to the category fields in the advanced search and smart playlists
• Corrections and improvements to the built-in web service to work even better with our streamer and remote products (read more at http://www.imploded.com)
• Other minor bugfixes and small improvements

Förändringar v9.1.2 -> v9.2

• The main changes have been language and stability updates as well as download plug-in fixes.
• We have also updated the digital siganture to ensure you that Helium Music Manager is a certificated and safe product to use.

Förändringar v9.1.1 -> v9.1.2

• Updated German translation
• Updated Hungarian translation
• Improvements related to MySQL transaction handling
• Improvements to downloading of information from the Advanced Tag Editor
• Regional fixes for Podcast handling
• Various improvements and minor corrections to downloading of artist informationfrom the Music Browser
• Corrections to possible duplicate issues in the Album view
• Various improvements related to AcoustID handing
• The Splitter tool now supports current and total CD
• WebServer related fixes
• Various minor improvements to the Splitter tool
• Various minor improvements and corrections to the File properties tool
• Various fixes related to the Download album pictures tool
• Corrections to the Coverflow view
• Corrections to the Quick edit tool
• Corrections to Smart playlist limiters
• Various improvements and corrections in the Music Explorer

Förändringar v9.1 -> v9.1.1

• Corrections and improvements to Last.fm so that foreign characters are now properly supported
• Improvements and corrections to the Podcast handling
• Corrections to the Carousel view
• Fixes for loading and saving of the Playqueue for MySQL databases
• Various MySQL fixes and optimizations
• Minor user interface improvements to the now playing view

Förändringar v9.0.2 -> v9.1

• Searches are now highly optimized in speed
• Improved MTP device handling for Windows 7 and 8
• New and improved Last.fm handling which now supports displaying of which track you are currently listening to
• Duplicates are no longer added when the Auto-enqueue function is populating the Play queue
• If an album contains multiple release years and opened with the Tag Editor, the values will not be overwritten by default (until manually changed)
• It is now possible to save multiple ID3v2 artist tag-fields null separated which is usefull for compatibility with Sonos and other applications
• Multiple Vorbis artists tag-frames are automatically converted to Helium Music Manager multiple artists tag-frames
• It is now possible to save multiple artists as individual artists tag-fields for Vorbis tags
• The Twitter integration has been rewritten and improved
• Updated version of the encoders used for conversion/transcoding operations
• Corrections to duplicate finder
• Corrections when applying Music Browser data to tags
• Improvements and updates to the Discogs download plug-in
• Better status bar indication when saving tags in background
• Corrections to editing of File Rename Wizard templates
• Updated Hungarian translation
• Updated Polish language
• Current CD and Total CD fields are now available from the Audio splitter
• The spacebar will not pause playing music when searching within a list
• Improved exist check during action batches
• Hover texts in internal player for volume/position
• Discover artist Music Browser improvements and fixes
• Corrections to the popup menu for Recent searches in the Music Explorer
• Restructured Tag Editor settings
• New dynamic date arguments in advanced searches
• Edit artist information now updates sort order fields correctly
• Various corrections and improvements to the Music Browser start page
• Play counter values are now updated from the offline synchronization if selected
• Corrections to date encoding in the File Rename Wizard
• Corrections to the Music Analyser
• Toolbar corrections
• Corrections and improvements to Update album pictures tool
• Download support for custom fields
• Corrections to date/time encoding during tagging
• Corrections to editing of Publisher information

Förändringar v9.0.1 -> v9.0.2

• Sorting support in the tracklist of search resuls in the Music Browser
• Corrections to the Discover artist pages in the Music Browser
• Corrections to the Discover tracks pages in the Music Browser
• Corrections to the Artist view when working with grouped modes
• Sorting improvements to the Artist views grouped modes
• Album pictures and number of pictures are properly updated after being tagged with the Tag Editor (Advanced)
• The beep which occurs when searching via the Navigation bar is now removed
• Columns which are dragged and moved in the Play queue are now properly saved
• Corrections to startup problems related to the MTPDeviceManager are now solved

Förändringar v9.0 -> v9.0.1

• Correction for startup problems on Windows machines with older DEP handling
• Updated Hungarian language files
• Corrections for the Artist view when using genre as sub-grouping
• Improvements to Music Browser rendering
• Summary is properly rendered when using SQL Server compact database
• Improved error handling when saving tags in threaded mode from the Tag Editor (Advanced)
• Corrections so that years less than or equal to zero is not shown in the Music Browser
• Corrections for rendering problems with the coverflow view
• Corrections for webradio handling
• Send to recycle bin is properly available in Playlist mode
• ID3v1 tags are properly updated with the TYER field when using ID3v2.3 tags
• Reading support of null separated ID3v2 multiple artists

Förändringar v8.6.3 -> v9.0 beta 2

• Startup errors caused when options were auto-migrated from Helium Music Manager 8 are now fixed
• Corrections and improvements when writing custom tag-fields
• Corrections and improvements related to editing of artist/group information
• Artist summary problems are corrected
• Corrected linkage of fields in the artist summary
• Corrections to IPLS tag-frame writing
• Improved handling of countries
• Improved exception handling
• New language included, Chinese simplified
• Updated German language
• Updated Slovak language
• Updated Hungarian language
• Mapped custom fields are no longer shown in the Advanced Tag Editors field list

Förändringar v8.6.2 -> v8.6.3

• Simplified bug reporting
• Corrections when browsing uncategorized genres in the Music Explorer
• Several corrections to APE rating tag handling
• Sorting implemented for the word replacer list
• Improved error handling for ID3v2 tag comments
• Improvements to the Tag Action manager which now ensures that cache files are always created properly
• Improved error handling to WMA tag reading
• Various improvements to auto enqueue random functions
• Album handling improvements for SQL Server Compact databases
• Corrections to sorting handling in the Music explorer
• Corrections for Album picture cache
• Improvements to extraction of multiple artists
• Improvements for File not found problems with the Tag Editors
• SQL Server Compact corrections for the Album details view
• SQL Server Compact corrections for the Music browsers context menu

Förändringar v8.6.1 -> v8.6.2

• Performance improvements when browsing the genre node in the Music browser
• Various SQL Server Compact fixes, related mainly to actions which includes path and/or filename
• Corrections for exceptions that could occur in the Music browser's startpage
• Correction for albums and artists could be missing from the lists in the Music browser
• Search related problems that could occur when searching with all fields from the search view are now handled
• Extended exception handling when adding album pictures
• Custom tag frames was not always properly saved for WMA files
• Browsing favourite tracks with SQL Server Compact databases could generate errors
• Improved error handling for SQL Server Compact databases in the album handling used when adding/updating tracks
• Improved handling for volumes for SQL Server Compact databases
• Corrections and improvements related to genre handling when upgrading databases from earlier Helium Music Manager versions
• SQL Server Compact database problems when artist ids should be fetched are improved
• Improved exception handling when deleting duplicate files
• Updates for the Slovak translation file

Förändringar v8.5 -> v8.6.1

• Filters are now properly saved/loaded from the database
• Similar artists was not always returned when downloading artist information
• Playlist entries could not always be removed
• Correction for incorrect ratings when working with APE files
• Scrollbars was missing in the edit artist details windows for certain tabs
• The Artist view filter did not work fully when country was included in the filter
• Bug correction for the Music browser genre page which sometimes could throw an exception
• Corrections to the Music browser startpage (aritmetic overflow exception)
• Various SQL Server Compact fixes, related mainly to actions which includes path and/or filename
• Bug correction in the Polish language file

Förändringar v8.5 -> v8.6 RC

• Various corrections in the Music Browser, mainly related to SQL Server Compact databases
• Corrections for the start and genre pages in the Music Browser so that the new genre types are used properly when displaying data
• Corrections to the album handling used during an Add files operation, mainly related to SQL Server Compact databases
• Improvements for the send to Plays for sure/MTP device function which did not work on some devices
• Corrections to the filters to that the new genre fields are always used
• Improvements and corrections to the web service when working with an SQL Server Compact database
• Bugfixes when removing a genre category from the Manage genres tool
• Improvements and bug corrections to the search in the Music Browser which could return too few tracks
• Verifying that Helium Music Manager 8.6 works properly with SQL Server Express 2012
• Bug corrections related to multiple WMA artists
• Updates to the Swedish language

Förändringar v8.3 -> v8.4

• New features
• New rendering technique for all Music Browser pages which gives much better browsing speed
• User interface enhancement enhancements using CSS3 (requires Internet Explorer 9) for Music Browser pages. Many pages are also "cleaned up" and comes with minor new functions and improvements.
• New Charts page in the Music Browser which allows you to more easily reach charts.
• The Summary, Now Playing and Windows Gadget are also using the new rendering techniques and also comes with user interface improvements.
• The Synchronize device tool has been reworked to support a new simpler to use user interface, support for more format conversions as well as a new synchronization mode which will allow you to synchronize data to a new iTunes playlist. This specific iTunes playlist can be synchronized to any device via iTunes, therefore giving support for synchronizationto any iPod/iPhone device no matter of which iOS/iTunes version that are installed.
• The Capitalizer can now be configured per field, if it should be used as well as which capitalization method that should be used.
• New comparison mode for the Find duplicates tool plus various improvements.
• Support for Custom parameters used whilst transcoding files.
• AAC support in Update Library.
• Autosynchronization with the Helium Music Streamer
• Updates to German and Polish languages.
• Bug-fixes and improvements
• The Discogs plugin supports the API version 2, giving much better performance, search results and returned data.
• The Amazon plugin has been updated so that it properly works again together with various performance optimizations.
• AKAs are properly downloaded from supported plug-ins.
• The workflow when downloading multiple Artist informantion has been much improved. Data is now merged so that no prior data is lost plus that the end user has the possibility to exclude artists before the background downloading starts.
• Improvements for Album Artist handling in the Tag Editor.
• Multiple improvements in the tagging engine to read "custom" tag-frames from other applications
• Corrections when Ogg Vorbis file times are read.
• Performance and bug fixes for SQL Server Compact databases.
• Equalizer presets are now properly stored and restored between sessions.

Förändringar v8.2 -> v8.3

• This version of Helium Music Manager contains corrections and improvements since the last release (Helium Music Manager 8.2). It also comes with new functionality to easily connect to the Helium Audio Server (Premium and Network versions only).

Förändringar v8.1 -> v8.2

• New features
• The internal player now has a function which allows you to mark the playing track as a favourite track, favourite album or favourite artist.
• A new share function is available from the Internal Player which enables you to share the playing track easily to Facebook and Twitter.
• The CD-Ripper comes with a new simplified interface for selecting the output format, which enables ripping to more formats.
• The Windows Gadget comes with support for Lyrics.
• Improvements to the Add files failure dialog: Play, Properties, Delete and Open folder commands are now available.
• Hungarian translation is now included.
• Updates to German and Czech languages.
• Support for MixMeisters BPM tag field.
• Updated database drivers.
• Bug-fixes and changes
• SQL Server Compact Local ID Compatibility problem which could prevent importing/adding of files is now solved.
• SQL Server Compact size limitation (256 MB) is now increased to 2047 Mb.
• Please note that we do not recommend SQL Server Compact databases to be used with more than 35,000 tracks because of performance reasons.
• SQL Server Compact corrections in the Music Explorer.
• Unicode fixes for MySQL databases. Sometimes filenames could be incorrectly added to the database when the filename contained unicode characters.
• Updates to the Music Browser?s album page, which previously could have problems displaying the track list of albums with more than 50 tracks.
• Corrections when working with Smart Playlists. Sometimes when using randomized results, the content could be repeated.
• Correction for MusicBrainz PUID generating.
• Improvements to database importing as well as improvements to the error handling during import operations.
• The field encoder could incorrectly be available in the Tag Editor, which is now not possible.
• Improvements to the search view so that it performs less refreshing.

Förändringar v8.0 Build 9315 -> v8.1

• New database engine
• The new database engine in Helium Music Manager 8.1 is more stable, better optimized for improved performance and more up-to-date compared to the database engine previously used.
• We have also decided to move away from the obsolete database format Access to SQL Server Compact 4.0.
• SQL Server Compact 4.0 is a more lightweight and competent format than Access which also enables users of Helium Music Streamer to operate with the new default database on 64-bit systems, something Access could not do.
• When using MySQL, the MyODBC layer is now no longer needed, enabling you to have an easier, improved and better integrated MySQL setup with the added benefit of much improved performance.
• SQL Server also comes with several optimizations which enable database requests to deliver data quicker.
• The migration process from Access to SQL Server Compact is fully automated and uses the new and improved importing functions.
• Music Browser improvements
• The Music Browser (Premium and Network versions) contains several enhancements such as improved and quicker paging functions, revised statistics page
• and support for per-user-favourites which is available from the statistics page (this applies specifically to the Network version when multiple users are configured).
• The new favourites lists enables you to quickly and easily browse your favourite artists, albums and tracks from the Music Browser.
• Convert to format
• Our Convert to format tool has been extended with support for many new formats. The end-user interface has also been simplified to make this process
• much easier for the end-user.
• Join audio files
• Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with a new tool which allows you to join multiple audio files into one single file.
• The tool can handle all music formats supported by Helium Music Manager as input formats and can output files into many different formats.
• The end-user can select if any silence should be added between tracks as well as whether a CUE file should be created.
• Split audio file
• Similar to the new Join audio file tool, Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with a new tool which allows the end-user to split one large audio file into several smaller files. It allows you to create tracks in the following ways:
• By loading a CUE file
• Creating a specific number of tracks of equal length
• Create tracks of the same lengths
• Create manually defined tracks by specifying start and end offsets
• Creating tracks from existing subtracks
• The end-user can select between many different output formats.
• Favourite folders in the Music Explorer
• A end-user can quickly select if a specific folder under Library folders in the Music Explorer view should be a favourite folder.
• Folders marked as favourites can easily be reached from the right-click menu and are stored per-user in Helium Music Manager's database (Network version).
• New Helium Music Streamer version
• If you own a Helium Music Streamer license you will need to update to the most recent release of the Helium Music Streamer in order to continue using it after you have updated to Helium Music Manager 8.1. You can download Helium Music Streamer from the Customer Center.
• Windows Gadget
• The Windows Gadget (for Windows Vista and Windows 7) which allow you to easily remote control Helium Music Manager is back and graphically revised.
• The gadget allows end-users to see artist, title, rating, album picture and playing time. Music controls for play/pause and skip between tracks is available.
• Favourite and Suggested tracks can be accessed as well as artist biography and playing album details. The gadget is now included in Helium Music Manager's installer.
• Free version improvements
• We have enabled the equalizer fully in the free version as well as removed any bitrate limitations when using rip and convert function.

Förändringar v8.0 Build 9315 -> v8.1 RC

• Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with several updates and new features, the most important are listed below:
• New database engine
• The new database engine in Helium Music Manager 8.1 is more stable, better optimized for improved performance and more up-to-date
• compared to the database engine previously used.
• We have also decided to move away from the obsolete database format Access to SQL Server Compact 4.0.
• SQL Server Compact 4.0 is a more lightweight and competent format than Access which also enables users of Helium Music Streamer to operate with the new default database on 64-bit systems, something Access could not do.
• When using MySQL, the MyODBC layer is now no longer needed, enabling you to have an easier, improved and better integrated MySQL setup with the added benefit of much improved performance.
• SQL Server also comes with several optimizations which enable database requests to deliver data quicker.
• The migration process from Access to SQL Server Compact is fully automated and uses the new and improved importing functions.
• Music Browser improvements
• The Music Browser (Premium and Network versions) contains several enhancements such as improved and quicker paging functions, revised statistics page
• and support for per-user-favourites which is available from the statistics page (this applies specifically to the Network version when multiple users are configured).
• The new favourites lists enables you to quickly and easily browse your favourite artists, albums and tracks from the Music Browser.
• Convert to format
• Our Convert to format tool has been extended with support for many new formats. The end-user interface has also been simplified to make this process
• much easier for the end-user.
• Join audio files
• Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with a new tool which allows you to join multiple audio files into one single file.
• The tool can handle all music formats supported by Helium Music Manager as input formats and can output files into many different formats.
• The end-user can select if any silence should be added between tracks as well as whether a CUE file should be created.
• Split audio file
• Similar to the new Join audio file tool, Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with a new tool which allows the end-user to split one large audio file into several smaller files.
• It allows you to create tracks in the following ways:
• By loading a CUE file
• Creating a specific number of tracks of equal length
• Create tracks of the same lengths
• Create manually defined tracks by specifying start and end offsets
• Creating tracks from existing subtracks
• The end-user can select between many different output formats.
• Favourite folders in the Music Explorer
• A end-user can quickly select if a specific folder under Library folders in the Music Explorer view should be a favourite folder.
• Folders marked as favourites can easily be reached from the right-click menu and are stored per-user in Helium Music Manager's database (Network version).
• Windows Gadget
• The Windows Gadget (for Windows Vista and Windows 7) which allow you to easily remote control Helium Music Manager is back and graphically revised.
• The gadget allows end-users to see artist, title, rating, album picture and playing time. Music controls for play/pause and skip between tracks is available.
• Favourite and Suggested tracks can be accessed as well as artist biography and playing album details.
• The gadget is now included in Helium Music Manager's installer.
• Apart from the above mentioned fixes, Helium Music Manager 8.1 comes with many bug fixes and improvements, reported by our users during this development phase.

Förändringar v7.3 -> v7.3 build 8705

• A maintenance release of Helium Music Manager 7.3 is now available (build 8705).
• This version contains corrections for the reports report via the Customer Center since the prior release.
• It contains important corrections to MySQL backups and therefore we recommend all users running any prior release to upgrade to this build.
• Also, to ensure that your backup of your MySQL database is proper, we strongly recommend you to take a new a new backup with this version.

Förändringar v7.2 -> v7.3

• New mode for the Artist view - Album Artist view, which enables you to only browse and view "Album Artists"
• Mapping of vorbis comment fields - You are now able to specify the tag identifiers that are mapped to a specific Helium Music Manager tag field.
• This enables you to get your previous ogg & FLAC files perfectly mapped into Helium Music Manager without losing any data. (This feature is available in Premium/Network versions only)
• New action for the Action Manager - Append field to existing field.
• Capability to define odd/even row coloring colors
• New WebService API commands
• Optimizations to the cache performance when using a database with larger amounts of data
• Corrections when using Subtracks in searches
• Corrections to Filename to Tag handling
• Corrections to the Device Synchronization wizard (duplicate handling plus exist checks)
• Corrections to the "Various Artists" node in the Music Explorer
• Minor corrections to multiple artist handling
• Recording and release year are now used in an "all" search
• Correction for auto track numbering with WAVE files
• Correction in Hotkey handling
• Corrections to USB devices appear/removal notifications
• Sorting corrections in the Playlist View when removing items

Förändringar v7.1 -> v7.2

• This maintenance release corrects problems with the CD Ripper, Content Cache, MTP device support and MySQL connection handling.
• We recommend all users running build 8475 or earlier using these features to download and install this update.

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