Software Update: The Godfather 0.89

Barely three years after the beta, the final of The GodFather version 0.89 has now been released. With this freeware program the complete music collection can be managed. It supports formats including mp3, Ogg Vorbis, mpc, ape, flac and aac, and ID3 tags can be filled in manually or automatically through a connection to freedb. In addition, the program can create, merge and modify playlists, it is suitable for encoding and decoding MP3 and WAV files with LAME, and for logically organizing the music files on your hard drive. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New/Changed

• New right click command, ‘Open file in explorer’
• New columns: encoding/tag type/path/directory/file date/file time
• Added support for Bad ID3v2.3 tags using ID3v2.2 frames
• Library added fields compilation,content group,conductor, media type
• Library small UI changes
• Support for the Initial Key field
• Option to use the current folder for Open/Save file dialogs
• Added miscellaneous options for the grid appearance
• Restructure: ‘Remove empty folders’ option added
• Restructure: Added support for presets
• Restructure: ‘Other files’ can now include entire folders (eg *.m3u;\covers )
• Drag n Drop allowed for template image
• Library: improved list parsing for tones/styles and added situation,composer,genre
• Library: listings used on tree
• Library: Added artist rating
• Workflow recap
• Presets dialog enhanced
• All controls that accept %variables have a context menu attached
• Option for ID3v2 language descriptor added
• Grid column presets remember row height, header height, word wrap
• Internal optimizations
• Updated compiler, support for high DPI screens
• Option to keep original track padding

Fixes

• Rename: Preview will no longer produce an empty result under some circumstances
• Rename: Illegal character removal is executed after the work flow
• Minor script engine corrections
• %!u% case variables corrected
• Library, Unicode temporary playlist is used for play and enqueue operations
• Web queries containing certain Unicode characters work correctly
• Presets dialog narrower fixes
• Library track sorting fixed
• some regex functionality restored
• %R% variable padding fix for mp4 files
• Small Online script updates +++
• Minor Restructure fix for illegal folder names
• Command line decoding with flac.exe always uses the -F switch (ignore decoding errors)
• illegal folder names ending with ‘.’ fixed during restructuring
• Organize/restructure script combo will refresh correctly
• Full tag edit: deleting pictures always refreshes the display correctly
• Library: minor UI fixes
• Library random record generator fixes