MegaSeg Release Notes

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New in MegaSeg 5.0:

Features and Improvements:

• New Animated Interface design featuring fading windows and dialogs for a smoother experience, an animated toggle of Mixer, Library, Open Playlist, and Folders views, and design tweaks to all graphics.
• Mixer: The Crossfader can now be controlled using “two-finger multitouch scrolling” via the MacBook and MacBook Pro trackpad.
• A Denon DN-HC4500 MIDI controller preset, which includes support for its LED-backlit buttons and VFD digital display readout.
• Redesigned Open Playlist dialog integrated into Library view, and shows both MegaSeg and iTunes playlists at once for less confusing access. Also moved the Playlists button to the left side, and removed the Remove button. (Use the Delete key to remove selected files from the Library).
• All transport and timeline controls show playback position as a more visible progress bar within the transport.
• Added an Insert Break button to the main interface for inserting a break track into the next position of the playlist. This will wait for a manual segue or advance while in AutoSeg mode. Pressing the Option key while clicking will insert a break into the selected position.
• Preview player now has a BPM display and a Set BPM button.
• Added Video menu options for Full Screen (Stretched) and Full Screen (Zoom Crop) options in addition to the standard Full Screen (Letterbox) mode.
• Decks: Added keyboard shortcut "B" for a turntable break effect, which works when a deck has the focus.
• Events: Added "Import Files" event type which can be set to import a specific folder or from iTunes and assign a specific category.
• Events: Streaming: Added support for live streams using the Insert URL event.
• Playlists: Streaming: Added additional support for playing live streams via playlist files if it contains a URL to a live stream using HTTP on any port other than 80/8080, or a URL using ICY protocol. The pre-download file behavior (for podcasts, ad server, etc.) is still supported via HTTP on port 80 or 8080.
• Events/Logging: New event to enable or disable network logging to Live365 or SHOUTcast. This allows you to control what times of the day you want track info sent.
• Implemented the Sparkle update framework for easy downloading and installing new versions of MegaSeg. This will check our server at startup for updates, or by using the Check For Updates command in the Help menu.
• Live streaming QuickTime .mov files now play correctly. You can now use QuickTime Player Pro to open a URL live stream, save as a .mov, and import it into MegaSeg. Then either put the mov streaming track into a playlist, or use Events to trigger when to start it, and when to stop it with another track. Live Streaming tracks will play until manually stopped or an Event with the Interrupt option used to stop the feed (or alternatively edit the End Time in the Edit Media dialog).
• Logging: Added "last play date" option tag to logging template file. <!--MegaSeg LastPlayDate-->
• Streaming, Edit Media: You can now set a duration for a stream (aka Segue Time), if you'd like it to AutoSeg after a certain duration, rather than rely on events to interrupt it. The "Native" length setting is the default, i.e. never-ending live stream.
• Added ComingUp and RecentlyPlayed to HTTP commands. (http://localhost:42099/recentlyplayed). Also removed library password requirement for NowPlaying command.
• Added .m4r (iTunes Ringtone) to the default list of extensions that are filtered when importing.
• Added ability to type-to-select in Folders View.
• All Video menu's video size settings are now remembered in preferences (not just Full Screen).
• Ambient Playlist view now hides irrelevant widgets above playlist.
• Closing the MIDI Settings dialog now returns you to the main preferences window.
• Drag-n-Drop: Fixed a bug when dragging tracks from iTunes to support multiple multiple selected tracks during a single drag event.
• Import: Scan iTunes Folder options now skips files inside the Movies and TV Shows sub-folders.
• BPM Tapper lists 17 taps and no longer displays the "safety" dialog stating that the new BPM was saved. Instead a One Moment dialog appears for a minimum of 1.5 seconds blocking any accidental extra mouse clicks or spacebar taps.
• Import AAC Tags: .m4v files now import with all metadata.
• Preview: When in Discrete Output Mode and both decks are set to the same output device, Preview will no longer use Split Stereo Mode.
• Edit Categories: Now supports multiple selection when renaming categories to merge them.
• Edit dialog now defaults to not renaming files for new users.
• Edit Media: Streaming URLs no longer have an input mask set for the End Time (Segue Time) field. You can now enter larger minute amounts such as "180:00.00" for 3 hours (180 minutes).
• Edit Media: You can now edit missing files as well as streaming URL tracks to change their title as it will appear for net logging and NowPlaying, etc. (Non-streaming files still warn of a missing file but allows the Edit window to display afterward.)
• Edit window: Pressing the Intro Time play button works correctly with intros set to over 99 seconds.
• Events: After adding a new event, the event is now highlighted and scrolled into view in the Events List.
• Events: All events that load playlists now bypass the playlist view dialog avoiding the need to display iTunes playlist which can cause delays.
• Events: Revised Add Event dialog replacing the Add Event button with a New Event pop-up menu to select event type first, which simplifies the dialog and allow for future expansion.
• Events: Set Time/Date dialog is now displayed as a sheet, and pressing A or P keys will toggle AM/PM for time field.
• Fixed tab order for many controls and fixed tab flashing bug in main window.
• Help: Keyboard shortcuts window now uses standard system font for better legibility.
• Hot Keys: Using the left single-quote/tilde key (~) shortcut to trigger a Hot Key now works with the Open Playlist and Log windows open.
• ID3: If a BPM value is over 1000, then it is assumed to be a value divided by 100 for decimal precision.
• If BPM value is not available, "0.0 bpm" is no longer displayed in the main player (non-mixer view).
• Importing AAC files saved or exported from some audio editing applications now works correctly.
• Importing: Now filters .itc files (iTunes Cover Flow Data).
• Importing: If a UniqueID tag already exists in a file, it will be restored regardless if the Use MegaSeg Tags option is disabled.
• Importing: Quick-scan for missing files before import dialog is faster and displays progress by percentage.
• Importing: When the import option "Use ID3 Genre as Category" is not checked, and the Import Category is set to "Uncategorized", the track's category field is now blank instead of being assigned "Uncategorized". If you find you have an "Uncategorized" category listed alphabetically in your category list, you should remove it using the Edit Categories dialog. This will merge the tracks with the others that are truly uncategorized (i.e. has no category set), which can be selected from the top of the category list.
• In Edit Media dialog, if duration is longer than 999 minutes, it will turn off the input field mask, allowing easier data entry.
• Interface: Standard listboxs use lighter highlight color when it does not have focus.
• iTunes Playlists: Should no longer display an error accessing iTunes Playlists when your iTunes Library is not in the default location. However you must tell MegaSeg where your new iTunes import location is in the Import Options dialog, as it will use this as a hint to locate the iTunes Library.xml file. If the XML file is not found there, it will revert to searching the default location.
• Log window can be toggled on/off with Log button or menu command.
• Log window: Added UniqueID column which allows MegaSeg to ensure a track dragged from the Log window into a playlist is referenced correctly (not just rely on title/artist or path, both which could change since the log was created.)
• Logging: In NowPlaying, RecentlyPlayed, and ComingUp template files, added a tag for <!-- MegaSeg UniqueID -->, which is an ID given to all tracks during import into MegaSeg's library.
• Logging: When using a NowPlaying.html template, the tag <!-- MegaSeg Path --> now works correctly.
• MegaSeg is now "Code Signed", which means you only need to confirm the FireWall security dialogs once, instead of every launch.
• Menus: Added Remove File command to File menu (Command-Delete). This was always a shortcut but was not in the menus.
• MIDI: Added support for high-precision (14-bit) Pitch Wheel MIDI signals to be processed (MIDI Status 224-239 or Hex E0-EF).
• MIDI: Added triggers for Time Display Toggle and AutoSeg Mode Toggle, as well as preference to use 64 as the starting speed for the Jog Wheel.
• MIDI: Now auto detects the name of a known controllers and sets it to the correct preset under MIDI Settings dialog. It will not do this however if the "Custom" preset was last selected.
• Mixer: Clicking the Search BPM button uses the adjusted BPM value rather than the default value (taking pitch/speed into account).
• Open Playlist dialog no longer displays non-imported tracks in red and no longer prevents them from being dragged into the main Playlist. You can now drag any tracks from the iTunes playlist that have yet to be imported into the main playlist and it will import on the fly. If the path to the non-imported track is missing, it will appear red and alert it was not able to locate the file when dropped in the playlist.
• Opening the Select/Edit Categories dialog no longer closes the category browser in the Library display.
• Optimized overall CPU usage.
• Preferences: In/Output settings now use CoreAudio to list available devices instead of the SoundManager. The popup menus now update to show new devices added or removed without needing to restart MegaSeg.
• Preferences: When preferred sound out devices are temporarily not available, it no longer overwrites the saved preference with the temporary output device.
• Removed .m4v from the default list of extensions that are filtered when importing. (iTunes now sells DRM-free music videos that play in MegaSeg.)
• Removed code that ensures hardware play-thru is turned off when MegaSeg launches, due to the fact MegaSeg no longer uses hardware play-thru for Mic On/Off function.
• Removed most of the center buttons between the Library and Playlist from the interface for a clean fresh look. (These were a holdover from before drag-n-drop, and redundant.) The Next, Add, and Add All remain as hidden rollovers. Note all these button functions can be triggered various other ways (drag-n-drop, double-click, command-right arrow keys, option-right arrow keys.)
• Removing an empty category no longer closes the category browser.
• Save Playlist dialog's filename field no longer locks up when you enter more than 31 characters for the playlist name, and now supports long filenames.
• Scheduler: Supports type-to-select in category list.
• Show History command now includes the log files inside the Archived Logs folder.
• Added network preference to enable HTTP commands. (Defaults off for new users.)
• The "One Moment" dialogs now only display if processing takes longer than half a second or so. (No longer flashes for 1/10th of a second for various functions.)
• Updated font for current song's remaining time display (non-mixer view).
• Video: Interlaced video formats are now de-interlaced on playback.
• Library Tools: Refresh Play Counts command no longer supports older version 1.0 - 2.7 log files (pre-2005).

Other Bug Fixes:

• A temporary movie file is no longer left in the Trash after restarting the computer.
• Import: Drag-n-drop import progress window shows the correct number of files as they are imported.
• After saving a playlist with the Save Playlist dialog, the Load Playlists display now refreshes with the new playlist if open.
• Importing: When changing the Import Option "Use ID3 Genre as Category" it now properly refreshes the Import Category popup list to show either "Uncategorized" or "Same As ID3 Tag" without needing to click to select the list.
• When opening a playlist with missing tracks, the missing file report correctly displays the playlist name.
• Events: Option to have Mic Play-Thru toggle on/off now works correctly.
• Events: Fixed a bug where if a slash is between the title and artist in the Insert Track event, it will still be able to find the track in the library.
• Events: Fixed a bug where if you use the Insert Track button in the Scheduler one time, it causes the Event's Insert Track dialog to start using slashes between title/artist which caused it to fail to find the track when the event triggered.
• Events: Fixed the Day View mode buttons that would not enable properly. You can now move forward and backward by date.
• Events: When adding an Open Playlist event, pressing Cancel in the select playlist dialog does not add an incomplete event.
• Events/Scheduler: Insert Category: If scheduling an empty category, it no longer inserts the first uncategorized track and instead reports an error.
• Events/Scheduler: Insert Category: When a category does not exists, it no longer moves the last track in the playlist to the top after logging the error.
• Fixed a BPM sorting bug that could cause delays if a BPM field has a value larger than 9999.
• Fixed a bug if both decks are playing it no longer warns about replacing the track in the decks when opening the saved playlists view.
• Fixed a bug that caused missing files on a PC formatted drive (FAT-32, NTFS) to possibly get miss-linked to other random files.
• Fixed a bug that prevented ampersands (&) from display correctly in the following places: Import Options iTunes import location, standard MegaSeg dialogs, and playlist name display above the Playlist.
• Fixed memory leaks and slightly faster launch time.
• ID3 Tags: Fixed a bug when reading v2.2 tag format files, where the Lyricist field could be read incorrectly, and cause the imported track to be corrupted and display with junk characters after restarting MegaSeg.
• Import: Fixed a bug when the custom iTunes Import Folder Location preference was set to a folder on a non-Mac format drive (FAT32, NTFS), it could sometimes reset to a random folder.
• Importing: Fixed a tag reading bug when importing QuickTime movie files with Unicode tags.
• Importing: Now ignores "engitun" junk metadata in all frames, not just comments tag.
• iTunes: Fixed a bug that prevented MegaSeg from working with iTunes Playlists on newer systems that use “iTunes Library.xml” instead of “iTunes Music Library.xml” for the iTunes shared database.
• Library Tools: Refresh Play Count command now includes the Archived Logs folder, as well as matches tracks using the UniqueID field if available. This means that even if a track was edited to a slightly different title and artist, it can still match a previous play from older logs using the uniqueID.
• Log: Clicking Segue on last file in playlist no longer logs a Break.
• MegaSeg no longer searches for a global documents folder (root of drive) which could trump the User's documents folder if found (rare). You can of course still set the location of the MegaSeg User Data folder to anywhere you like.
• Mixer Decks: Memory points can now be deleted without fail, and also fixed a bug that caused the first memory button to enable (light up even though not set) while setting or deleting other memory points.
• Menubar: Fixed a bug where it would intermittently fail to draw the right side menu items (Clock, Spotlight, WiFi, etc.)
• MIDI: Fixed a bug that would cause MIDI Status values of 128 or 143 not to be recognized as MIDI Off codes.
• MIDI: Fixed various MIDI bugs that prevented the Denon HC4500 and some other controllers from working before.
• MIDI: The routing for the right deck's five memory buttons are now correct.
• MIDI: While in MIDI Learn Mode, pressing OK or the Close button properly exits MIDI Learn Mode and allows MIDI signals to be processed.
• Mixer Decks: Fixed bug where after a drag-n-drop of a track into the Mixer, double clicking the already selected deck did not edit the correct track until the 2nd try.
• Playlists: Fix a rare possible problem that may cause your saved playlists to display unsorted alphabetically.
• Playlists: The list of playlist files is sorted correctly when using a non-Mac (FAT32) formatted drive.
• Playlists: The Open button in the playlist dialog now works even if the MegaSeg library is empty.
• Preview: Volume knob now defaults to 100% (middle position) for new users.
• Save Playlist: Fixed a bug that would allow a colon to be typed in the playlist name field (a non-valid filename character).
• Show History: Fixed a bug that prevented the UniqueID field from being used to match tracks that had their title or artist fields renamed.
• When opening a playlist, if tracks need to be auto-imported, it now shows the current number of tracks imported instead of the total number of tracks in the library.
• Playlist: Inserting a track correctly updates the cue count display.

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New in MegaSeg 5.1:

• Events: Fixed an issue when using the Insert Playlist event that would sometimes insert a wrong playlist.
• Events: Fixed a display issue with Select Time/Date dialog. (This also fixes an intermittent crash that could occur.)
• Events: Insert Track event no longer relies on the search box, causing visual interruption to the library or saved playlists view. This also fixes an issue where it would intermittently leave the search display in an odd state (with search results for the text "search"), and possibly insert the wrong track on a rare occasion.
• Events: Insert URL Track or Stream event dialog's pre-download option was moved to the Time of Event dialog that follows it, under the options section. This solves a problem where sometimes you could not adjust the pre-download setting after the re-ordered dialogs in version 5.0. Note pre-downloading is only supported for non-streaming URLS using the Time/Date, Minutes Past Hour, or Every X Minutes event triggers.
• Fixed a maloc double free object error.
• Fixed an issue where UTF-8 text might not be interrupted correctly in the Event list or Log viewer.
• Fixed console warning message regarding AutoRelease Pool.
• Fixed issue with reading certain ID3 comments fields incorrectly, and added safety filter to truncate excessively long tags.
• Fixed warning in console referring to NSDocumentController and CFBundleTypeRole. Role is now defined as Editor.
• Hot Keys: No longer has a playback delay when using an external audio device (e.g. iMic) and a hot key is not used for over 30 seconds.
• ID3 Tags: Added scan for corrupt ID3 tags in library which re-imports a corrected version of the tag automatically (this is checked once per version update).
• ID3 Tags: Created a solution for ID3 tags that are labeled as a Latin-1 encoding but actually are Mac Roman or UTF-8, which would result in possible junk characters.
• ID3 Tags: ID3 v2.4 relative volume tags (RVA2) are now properly supported.
• ID3 Tags: If no TPE1 field is found ("Artist") then it will look for a TPE2 field ("Band/Orchestra"). Most often TPE1 are used for both bands or solo artists.
• ID3 Tags: Improved reading of comment frames including better filters for skipping over iTunes data frames.
• ID3 Tags: Fixed an ID3 v1.1 tag reading bug where it would include leftover text in a field.
• Importing: Added additional checks to prevent importing apps and other bundles.
• Importing: Added support and filters for new iTunes Media file structure.
• Importing: Removes "m4v" extension from Filter Extensions import options preference. This is a one-time removal for previous versions that had this set as a default. You can add this back if you do not want MegaSeg to import music videos with the m4v extension.
• Keep Drive Spinning code now ignores when a Time Capsule is mounted for a Time Machine backup, which should prevent delays.
• Known Issue: The infra-red Apple Remote does not function in "exclusive mode" with Mac OS X 10.6.0 through 10.6.1 (this means iTunes starts and stops in unison with MegaSeg). Apple fixed this problem in the 10.6.2 update released on 11/9/09.
• Library and Playlist displays now draw the last partial row instead of a blank black background when list is at odd heights (not divisible by row height). Clicking this partial row will cause it to autoscroll into full view and be selected.
• Limited display of single-line notes to 128 characters (affects track info popups and log files).
• Logging: The RecentlyPlayed log file can now output the last 30 tracks when using a custom template.
• MIDI: Fixed an issue when in Discrete Output Mode, sending a Preview command for either the left or right deck would cause it to swap outputs and display a preview volume knob.
• Notes search results can be cleared using the "X" in the general search box.
• Optimized logging code regarding notes/comments tag field.
• Playback: Protected AAC files (.m4p extension files) no longer cause a delay and audio dropout the first time one is cued in the playlist. (This issue was recently introduced with a QuickTime, iTunes, or OS X update.)
• Popup info display updates faster when mousing over multiple tracks.
• Preferences: Clicking on the output settings popup menus no longer resets the Discrete Output Mode setting to the default each time.
• Re-Import Tags correctly grabs the publisher tag.
• Reading iTunes XML file to locate the Music Folder location is now UTF8 compatible.
• Reading Notes/Comments from resources now bypass expensive search for missing files which could cause delays.
• Rules: Optimized Artist Separation and Previous Day/Hour code. No longer parses massive strings which could cause dropouts if log files are corrupted with junk tag data.
• Search: Fixed issue where category browser display will be shown after clearing a search even in cases where it was not displayed before starting the search.
• Segue: Fixed a bug where if you click Segue quickly in succession to skip a song that just started, it would not fadeout and continue to play in the background. (This issue only happened when the Fade-Out Time setting was set longer than 0 seconds, and you clicked Segue twice within the Fade-In Time period.)
• Segue: Fixed an issue where if you start a track playing on the left deck, and then stop the playlist (Command-G or Stop Playlist button), then re-start the left deck clicking the deck's Play button, then click Segue or Start Playlist, the song that was playing would not fade out and continue to play.
• Segue: If a long Fade-In Time preference is set (longer than 0 seconds), and you click Segue to start a new song before it completed a fade-in, the audio level no longer jumps to full volume to start the fade-out. The fade-out starts at the current fade-in volume.
• There is no longer a delay when cueing the first track after launching MegaSeg.
• You can now preview streaming URL tracks from the Library without getting a "missing file" error. (Note streaming URL tracks are not currently routable to outputs other than the default system output as set in the System Preferences.)

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