Version 6.18 (11760.11753)
Full Artwork Panels
- The Artwork edit panel and Custom Edit panel Artwork Full items both display fields which allow you to view and edit information about the selected artwork item.
- You can now toggle the display of these fields on and off. The status indicator for the selected artwork item now has a context menu (displayed on left or right click). Hiding the fields maximizes the display space but allows but you still retain control to display the information if desired.
- The same menu allows you to hide/show the Initial Values and Editing State Values controls. When you hide the controls, they are both disabled (ie. unchecked).
- The context menu for the large image in full artwork panel items has a new context menu item named View Options. The displayed submenu has the previous two options and an item to control how artwork actions are displayed on the context menu: inline or in an Artwork Actions submenu.
Main Window Artwork Displays
- All main window artwork displays, with the exception of those in the optional Artwork column, now have a Get Info context menu item. The displayed popup presents the properties of the associated image.
- Double clicking a main window non full information artwork image previously always caused the Artwork edit panel to be selected. It will now select the Artwork edit panel if associated with a preset button; alternately a custom edit panel which contains a full artwork item if it is associated with an edit preset button; alternately the Artwork edit panel will be mapped to a preset button and displayed.
Artwork Normalization
- Previous to this release, normalization was always based on Albums and treated the Media (CD Label) picture type as being per disc.
- You can now chose Album, Folder or All Files as the source and you can optionally disable the special handling of the Media (CD Label) picture type.
- This additional functionality is available in the UI and on the Normalize Artwork action statement.
Edit Panel Preset Buttons
- Every edit panel preset button has two associated menus. The right click context menu is a menu with all functionality and panel selection options.
- The menu displayed when the current preset button is clicked, makes it easy to select an edit panel which is not on a preset button. (It also will not display hidden custom panels). The edit panel previously associated with the preset button will now be displayed at the top of the menu. Effectively the displayed item is a back. This provides an easy means of toggling between two panels using the same preset button. Remember that this menu is only displayed when clicking on the selected preset button.
Custom Panel Editor
- Previous to this release, link items were assigned to the first empty edit preset button or the last preset button. These links were intended to duplicate the links available on built in edit panels. The links are only displayed if any of the associated tag items exist and if the tag item is valid for the current file selection. The Custom Panel Editor's per grid item context menu will now display these links at the top in a submenu named Conditional Links.
- The Custom Panel Editor's per grid item context menu has a new submenu named Unconditional Links. This submenu has an item for each possible edit panel.
- When an unconditional link is clicked, the associated panel is placed on the currently selected edit panel preset button. ie. the link is in place. Using the new back logic on an edit panel preset button's left click menu, you can easily go back to the panel containing the link.
- The Custom Panel Editor's Import menu now directly supports the copying of built in edit panels. Previously templates for the built in edit panels had to be downloaded from the resources page.
Main Window Field Function Buttons
- For those fields which are associated with a list, the function button menu items to add and remove list items previously were only displayed if the field had a common value for all selected files. This limitation has been removed. All selected files will be processed correctly even if mixed is the displayed value.
- When a Multi Field Editor action is run from a function button's Multi Field Editor Actions menu, named variable Run from Function Button will be set to the name of the field associated with the function button.
Menu Items
- On various menus on/off menu items are displayed.
- Some menu items modify the displayed title where it makes sense.
- In the past other menu items identified the on state by a checkmark. The issue with this method is that there is no visual identification for the off state. Remember when Macs displayed a check mark and an x?
- In order to make the state more identifiable, on will be displayed as a green circle and off as a red circle.
Preferences
- Preferences - File List has a new setting named Abbreviate file and folder paths. This is a display only setting which will use ~ notation for paths relative to the home folder. The setting affects: the main window status bar; the most recent files menu; the File Browser's Pinned Folders menu. The setting is initially enabled.
- Preferences - Actions - General has a new setting named Treat container object item names as case insensitive. More information can be found in the new help topic named Container Item Names.
- When importing and exporting preferences, File Browser pinned folders can now be specified.
File Browser
- If a folder in the File Browser panel is clicked when displaying a context menu, you can now pin or unpin the clicked folder. Previously you could only pin or unpin the currently displayed folder.
Action Statement Changes
- All Container statements can now optionally treat object item names as case insensitive.
- The File Browser statement now accepts paths which start with a ~ sequence.
- The Get Info statement can return the value of the new Treat container object item names as case insensitive setting.
- The Modify Preferences statement can override the new Treat container object item names as case insensitive setting.
- The Normalize statement supports new settings allowing for source selection and the disabling of per disc handling.
- The Prompt from Container statement supports a new abbreviatePath item. When true and the getFile, getNewFile or getFolder key is set, paths relative to the home folder will automatically be abbreviated. ie. ~ notation will be used.
- The Search Discogs and Search MusicBrainz statements can now save the results to a container.
- The Stop Action and Post Process statement now allows folders after an #open marker. Previously only paths to audio files were permitted.
Bug Fixes
- The Discogs wizard's view changes panel's help button was not working.
- The Set Action Test State statement was not logging named variable usage.
- When preserving view attributes of a database plist file which requires rewriting, the appearance setting was not preserved.
- The Custom Panel Editor was not clearing the panel's name and tooltip when Clear was performed.
- The Get Containing Playlist from Apple App statement was clearing the destination even if a track was not linked.
- The Discogs/MusicBrainz Metadata for Release statements were not unescaping \n sequences in Involved People and Musician Credits.
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