Yate v4.7 Released

This is the first version of Yate to be passed though Apple’s Notarization Server.  Some restructuring was required and a few components are now installed after v4.7 is launched for the first time. New versions of Audio File Health Check and dff2dsf were also...

WebSite Refresh

If you’re here you’ve probably noticed the new look for the website.  It’s been a long time coming.  We hope you like like it. We apologize to those of you subscribed to forum topics who have received ‘test’ notifications.

Yate v4.6 Released

We’re back.  Looks like we completely missed posting about v4.5.   Well, in Yate land, v4.5 is now old news. This time around we’ve added support for Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files.  Both these audio containers use APE tags.   We’ve been...

Yate v4.4 Released

This time we thought we’d knock off two feature requests which have been hanging around for a long time:  The ability to download lyrics and support for Ogg files (Vorbis and Opus). Thanks again for all the feedback and the above and beyond help from those...

Yate V4.3 Released

Phew … Just in time for Apple’s macOS 10.14 release on the 24th.   As this is the compatibility release for 10.14 it was a long time coming.  11 betas of the OS …. hopefully not too much changes when it’s released. Special thanks go out to the...

Yate v4.0 Released

Yate v4.0 has been released. 224 builds and three different implementations of Custom Fields. It’s amazing how far reaching a single feature change can be in an application. Thanks again to all our testers on the Preview list who had to put up with ‘less...

Yate v3.17 has Been Released

Loves & Dislikes, changes to the Editing State and various other feature requests have been implemented. When I was first asked to implement iTunes Loves & Dislikes I quite frankly couldn’t see the need for them. However, at some point I realized that...

V3.16.1 has been released!

Ive been a little lazy with the blog posts as evidently I missed v3.16, v3.15, v3.15 and a slew of v3.14 follow up releases. As with most releases, 3.16.1 implements a number of feature requests and fixes various outstanding bugs. We hope to keep pushing out the...

RIP Leonard Cohen

I first saw Leonard Cohen perform in the early ’70s in Montreal. The last time was in Toronto a few years ago. If you never saw him perform you cannot begin to comprehend the joy he brought to his shows. He cared about the show and his audience. As a true...

Yate v3.14 released!

v3.14 has been released and it’s a big one! We’ve actually included everything slated for v3.14 and v3.15 into this release as well as a pile of user feature requests. This release sees an implementation of the new classical fields which will be supported...