Software update: Mp3tag 2.59a

Florian Heidenreich has released version 2.59a of Mp3tag. With this program, the meta tags of the most common music formats can be modified. Support is available for ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes Mp5, wma, Vorbis comments and Ape tags. Furthermore, the file names can be modified on the basis of those tags and playlists can be generated. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

New:

• Added taskbar progress indicator on Windows 7 and above when performing potentially long-running tasks.
• Added support for Direct Stream Digital Audio DSF files.
• Menu for removing format strings from history at converter ‘Filename – Filename’.

Changed:

• Updated help file with changed possible values ​​for ITUNESADVISORY tag field.

Fixed:

• Content rating tag field ITUNESADVISORY was not displayed if set to 0 (None).
• Improved performance when displaying actions menu.
• Enabling/disabling filter via ‘View > Filter…’ or F3 while in editing mode could write data to wrong file.
• ID3v2.3 TDAT was read to DATE when reading but not stored as TDAT when writing.
• Filtering for field HAS ” ” was also matching files without blanks.
• Export field parameter at $loop() was compared case-insensitive which caused unexpected behavior at duplicate detection.
• Fixed repainting issue at menu buttons for removing format strings from histories at converter ‘Filename – Filename’ (since v2.59).

Languages:

• Updated Bulgarian, Catalan and Russian translations.