Yate Release Notes

Version 5.0.1.3 (8396)

      Bug Fixes

• Catalina: dragging a folder to the dock icon did not work.
• Catalina: when writing the Media Type to a MPEG-4 stik atom, coercing to values acceptable to Music and TV should only happen if the files are linked. The older iTunes semantics still work in other players.
• When floating point BPM support was introduced in v4.6, the TBPM frame in ID3 files was written twice. This is benign and is automatically fixed whenever a file is written.
• If a join override was used in Discogs/MusicBrainz and it was set to the multi-value delimiter, it could cause issues in the Involved People and Musician Credits fields. This case is now handled by substituting a comma for the join sequence in those fields if the override sequence is inappropriate. When manually editing the Involved People and Musician Credits fields, a multi-value delimiter will be changed to a comma.

Version 5.0.1.2 (8391)

      Bug Fixes

• Inline editing of a Comment field in the main file list area would not accept an empty value.
• Fixed a potential crash when saving FLAC files if Musician Credits or Involved People had a trailing unbalanced credit.

Version 5.0.1.1 (8390)

      Bug Fixes

• Yet another terminology change issue introduced in v5.0. The Seller field for MPEG-4 files interprets Apple (iTunes) store country names. Previously the displayed and edited designator was iTunes. The display format is now Apple. When manually editing you can enter Apple, Apple Store or iTunes.

      Reminder ... about 10.9

• Yate still supports OS 10.9. ... but we'd love to be able to drop it. If you're still on 10.9 (why oh why) please drop us a line at support@2manyrobots.com to let us know.

Version 5.0.1 (8389)

      Changes

• The Copyright and Description fields can now be resized vertically on Custom Editing Panels.
• The Get Modification Date from Apple App and Get Date Added to Apple App statements have been merged into a new statement called Get Date from Apple App. The new statement can extract five read-only dates from an Apple application's library: Modification Date, Date Added, Release Date, Played Date and Skipped Date. Note that not all values are guaranteed to be available.
• When an action button is on a custom editing panel, the action can be edited from its associated function button's context menu. When the context menu is displayed via a right click the Edit item will be available even when no files are loaded.

      Bug Fixes

• The Set AAC Kind statement was messed up when the labels were changed in v5.0.

Version 5.0.0.1 (8382)

      10.15 (Catalina) Bug Fixes

• When dragging a movie from the TV application, the dragged track was not automatically linked. Note that currently, dragged TV shows cannot be automatically linked.
• Fixed sporadic crashes when artwork is displayed in a table. This includes any editing panel with a full Artwork element and the file list area's Artwork column.

      General Modifications/Fixes

• The Artwork preference named Do not Issue Errors for Invalid Artwork has been removed. The error is now always silent. If you see artwork which is a big red dot it's a messed up image. This change was necessitated due to changes for 10.15.
• The Preference-Audio-Common panel's Verbose log raw data limit field was not being interpreted correctly.

Version 5.0 (8378)

      The Biggie!

• Yate now supports Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)
• There are numerous changes which were made in order to continue to support iTunes and the new Music and TV applications in 10.15.
• These changes affect functionality and the UI.
• Unless knowing which application is referenced is crucial, references to iTunes in Yate's UI and help has been replaced with Apple App or Apple Apps.
• On Mac OS 10.15 Yate automatically determines whether it should be communicating with the Music or TV application. There is no way to manually specify this .... well except with Music Videos. Unfortunately, there is no programmatic access to the Podcasts application.
• There are far too many changes to present here. There is a new help topic called What! No iTunes! Changes in Yate v5.0 for Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina) available on the main help page. Please take the time to read it.

      Eh ... about 10.9

• Yate v5.0 still supports OS 10.9. ... but we'd love to be able to drop it. If you're still on 10.9 (why oh why) please drop us a line at support@2manyrobots.com to let us know.

      New Application Menus

• The new View menu provides access to various text documents maintained by the application. The items on the menu are documented below where they are appropriate.
• There is a new File>Setup menu which contains access to various functionality which is typically only rarely performed.
• Added a new Known Issues menu item to the Help menu. The link is not local so that the content can be updated when required.

      Notepad Window

• If you want to jot down a few notes while tagging you can use the new Notepad window displayed from the View menu.
• The notepad persists and supports displaying contents using a proportional or fixed font.
• You can choose an alternate background colour.
• Timestamps can be inserted from the context menu.
• There is a new Preference - General setting to modify the default location of the notepad file.
• Additional help is available from the main help page or via the Help menu's Help for Current Context item when the notepad is displayed.

      Log Viewer

• You can choose an alternate background colour.

      Field Changes

• The Show Work Name field is now valid for all supported audio types. It seems as if a few players (Windows based) are implementing it.

      Action Manager

• The file availability statements have been moved to their own category in Action Editor windows.

      Action Statements - Modifications

• The Remove PIDs functionality now has more granularity in the action statement and in the UI.
• List Item at Index has been renamed to List Item at Index/Sublist. The statement can now extract sublists.
• The Prompt and Ask statements now have Hide Info initially set.
• The Preferences statement has a new Maximum Grouping-Work Name Compatibility override.
• The Preferences statement has a new Batch Auto-Save Files override.
• Added Double low-9 quotation mark(„) to " fold characters used by the Re-Encode statement.
• The Run External Script statement now sets an External Script Result Code named variable.
• MusicBrainz Metadata for Release has been modified to handle new metadata types.
• Renamed the Load and Run statement to Load & Run.
• Renamed the Restore Ignored Files statement to Restore Initial Set of Files. The statement can now restore the initial file selection after executing a Constrain Execution to a Single File, Expand Execution to Unselected Files and Ignore Files statement.
• The Access Discogs and Access MusicBrainz statements now support selecting multiple import types at once to make it easier to change the import status on multiple items from the context menu.
• The Access Discogs and Access MusicBrainz statements may now be executed when not batch processing if the operation mode is Release Matching and Import Changes.
• The Evaluate Expression statement now posts a message and cancels action processing if an expression cannot be compiled. The action test state is still set to false if there is an evaluation error. ie. division by zero or a number which cannot be represented.
• The Test Property statement can now identify ALAC and STEM files. It can also now SET, AND, OR the result of testing each file to a track variable.
• The Set Action Test State from File Type statement can now SET, AND, OR the result of testing each file to a track variable.
• The Compare Text Test statement has new Trim SP and Trim NL options. These options effectively will cause the test to ignore leading and training whitespace or newline characters.
• The Copy Non Audio Files and Move Non Audio Files statements have a new Preserve existing files setting. Previously existing files were always overwritten.

      New Action Statements

• New statement named Involved People/Musician Credits Functions. Various functions to extract and set metadata from the two fields.
• New statement named Expand Execution to Unselected Files. The statement changes the set of files being processed by an action to include visible (ie.not hidden) files. This allows you to select some files and run an action which makes decisions on the selection then expands its scope to files.
• New statement named Show in Finder.

      Escape Sequence Changes

• New sequence \?mv to return the version of the Music application.
• New sequence \?tv to return the version of the TV application.
• New sequence \os returns the OS version number as #.#.# except on 10.9
• The Yate version number sequence \?yv no longer returns a Yate prefix.
• New sequence \[<varname] to insert the contents of the field name stored in the named variable 'varname'.
• New sequence \{<varname} to insert the initial contents of the field name stored in the named variable 'varname'.
• New sequence \^<varname^ to insert a the value of a UDTI whose name is in the named variable 'varname'
• New sequence \2 used to repeat escaping on a string after escape processing has been done. This enables you to insert content from a track or named variable which contains escape sequences and to have the sequences processed. There's a new help topic called Delaying & Repeating Escape Processing which provides additional information.
• The numeric evaluation escape sequences \x( now post an error and cancel action processing if an expression cannot be compiled. Note that the action may not be cancelled until the start of the next statement.
• The Insert Yate Escape Sequence menu has been divided into a number of grouped submenus. The online help follows the same groupings.

      Discogs & MusicBrainz

• Both wizards now allow the selection of multiple items in the release metadata panel to make it easier to set the import mode from the context menu. Also changed in the Exclude from Discogs/MusicBrainz panels.
• Discogs and MusicBrainz have a new Preferences option named Normalize Roles. When enabled, imported credits for Involved People and Musician Credits will be established by looking them up in the Combined Credits Editor list of Known Credits. The credit type, capitalization and possible alias name will be substituted for the role. If a credit cannot be matched, the credit will be used as extracted. Note that if a credit has optional [qualifying information] and the qualifying information is not matched, the name and and assignment of the credit might be changed but the qualifying information will be preserved. An attempt is first made to match with the qualifying information swapped. For example base [electric] will be returned as Electric Bass. However, if Bass was assigned an alias of 4 stringed Instrument, Bass [special] will be returned as 4 stringed Instrument [special].
• Discogs and MusicBrainz Catalog Number{-#} UDTIs are now all normalized. Previously the numbered variants were not.
• The Access Discogs and Access MusicBrainz statements may now be executed when not batch processing if the operation mode is Release Matching and Import Changes.

      Discogs

• Discogs Release Notes are now saved as a UDTI as opposed to a Comment. Some players are merging comments. Files already containing the comment will be adjusted automatically when saved.

      MusicBrainz

• The MusicBrainz wizard has many new classical metadata items which can be extracted. Where possible standard Apple and Roon variants are supplied. The fields include the Work Name, Movement Name, Movement Number, Movement Count, Opus, Cardinal Number Part and additional Recording Information items. Note that the fields are not always available.
• Some of the new classical metadata items must be saved to Custom Fields. You will be warned when running the wizard if you attempt to import these metadata items and an associated custom field does not exist. There is a new Yate>Setup menu item named Create Missing MusicBrainz Classical Fields which will create the required fields. Note that only the name of the custom field is important. You can change the low level mappings to whatever you'd like.
• The MusicBrainz wizard can now extract Publisher metadata when available.
• Preferences has a new option named Do not append album disambiguation. Unless this option is set, album disambiguation text will be appended to the Album field. Prior to this release the appending always took place if both Album and Album Disambiguation were marked for import.
• The wizard's Album Disambiguation import field, when set, will now store the text to a UDTI named MusicBrainz Album Disambiguation. Prior to this release, the text was always appended to the Album field.

      AcousticBrainz

• The functionality is now available directly in the UI as opposed to only via an action statement.
• The Actions menu and the main window context menu have a new item named Import from AcousticBrainz.
• There is a new Preferences section named AcousticBrainz which has settings used by the UI based functionality.

      AcoustID

• The AcoustID Recording Information Panel's Show MusicBrainz Release in Wizard and Goto MusicBrainz Release in Wizard context menu items now work with more than one selcted item as long as there is a consistent Release ID. This means after a successful Select Best Release Containing All Tracks you no longer have to select a single row before showing in MusicBrainz the wizard.

      Beatport

• The Force Beatport Authorization and Validate Beatport Access Token menu items have been moved to Yate>Setup.

      The Batch processor

• The Batch Processor now accepts multiple root folders.
• You can add more than one folder at a time or do successive adds.
• Overlapping folder paths are detected. No folder will be processed more than once.
• There is a new View Folders button which will display the list of selected folders.
• The Batch Root Folder named variable is now a list where the supplied folder paths are delimited by the default list delimiter (\~).
• The Batch Processor log file is now automatically saved. You can display the file at any time via the View menu.
• The Batch Processor now always writes a crash resistant trace file logging each folder as it is processed. You can display the file at any time via the View menu.

      m3u files

• New File menu item named Analyze m3u File which looks for duplicates and files which cannot be located.
• When creating a file in the UI you can now specify full paths.

      Opening the currently playing track

• Yate has a new plugin architecture called the Open Track Player Interface. When an interface for a player is installed you can load the track currently playing (or paused) in a supported application.
• There is a new File menu submenu named Open Track Playing in. The menu lists those applications for which interfaces have been installed. Clicking on an application's name will attempt to load the track currently playing in the application. The iTunes, Music and TV interfaces will also link the loaded track. Depending on the Open Mode, all tracks in the same folder may be opened as well.
• Open track player interfaces can be installed from the same menu. The interface files are available on the Yate Resources page in the template section. At this time interfaces are available for Audirvana, iTunes, Music, Swinsian, TV, VLC and Vox.
• Interfaces can be removed by holding down the Shift key when clicking on an item.

      Other Preferences Modifications

• 'Always display video fields' has been moved from from Preferences-Audio-MPEG4 to Preferences-Video
• There's a new Preferences - General setting named Force lowercase filename extensions when renaming. The filename extension is not modified when renaming. Evidently certain players have issues with extensions which use uppercase alphabetic characters.
• The Preferences - General Always Open Embedded Online Help in Safari menu item has been removed. The functionality is available on the Help Menu.

      Removed

• The Auto Link to iTunes functionality has been removed. It was a dangerous proposition at best and really does not play well with three different applications. It has been removed from the Open Mode menus and the toolbar. Depending on which Open Mode toolbar item you were using, it may have to be re-applied. Note that this has nothing to do with the linking of tracks dragged into Yate from iTunes, which will continue to work.

      Bug Fixes

• The Episode ID field's synthesize function was not working correctly.
• The MusicBrainz wizard will now correctly import multiple Composers, Lyricists, Remixers and Conductors.
• Yate was using non standard frames to store Movement Name, Movement Number and Movement Count. At least they weren't the same non standard names that iTunes uses. This was irrelevant if you are using iTunes and auto-exporting the Classical Metadata. v5.0 reads both mappings and writes the more standard ones.
• The Set as Key Column menu item in database viewers was not always working.
• Opening database files via File>Open or Finder Open-With as opposed to dragging them in, potentially closed open unmodified files.
• The Access Discogs and Access MusicBrainz statements' custom table context menu access to the import settings manager was disabled.
• Fixed a bogus Log>Validation Errors message in MPEG-4 files with video and long description fields.
• If a number of files were selected of which only some were linked, Refresh iTunes would display errors for the files not linked.
• The Beatport Importer could hang on a network error.
• The Beatport Importer now silently ignores 404 errors when retrieving artwork.
• The test used to determine if Safari is the default browser did not work on Mac OS 10.9.