Software update: Floola 5.4

Floola has been updated to version 5.4. This free program manages iPods and mobile phones with iTunes support. The program is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and has support for album art, podcasts and smart playlists. Floola is completely portable, as it does not need to be installed to do its job. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Version 5.4 released, recent changes:

• Improved artwork scaling algorithm under windows
• First playlist could not be renamed
• Listbox clicks should now behave as expected on every platform
• App would freeze when sorting playlists under certain conditions
• Alert when all podcast episodes were downloaded
• Album artwork no longer has white borders
• Fixed issue on menubars when changing translation several times
• Fixed some issues when editing notes
• Sort by date added issues fixed
• Runs some basic database sanitization when needed fixed youtube download
• Clean orphan items feature
• Fixed some selection issues when renaming items
• Fixed issues when deleting photos
• Fixed issues when deleting playlist items added sort submenu when right clicking on playlists
• Fully compatible with iTunes playlist sorting
• Improved compatibility with some untagged mp3 files
• Added mediakind smart playlist field support
• Improved smart playlist window
• Improved jpeg artwork decode
• Artwork window will resize according to artwork size
• New “retrieve new episodes on startup” in podcast preferences
• Playback position of currently playing song was not saved when quitting
• Fixed bug in threaded add/delete artwork
• Improved show by menu item
• Improved podcast update notifications
• Translations updated
• Transcode now allows selecting ALAC codec
• Unknown elements are now renamed to “unknown artist, unknown album, etc.”
• Searching by keyboard now properly ignores leading “the ” and “a “

The following downloads are available:
Floola 5.4 for Windows
Floola 5.4 for Linux
Floola 5.4 for Mac OS X