What's new in Floola 2011r3
Feb 15, 2011
- FloolaDesktop is now available
- translations updated
- minor bugs fixed
New in Floola 6.1 (Nov 2, 2010)
- Twitter integration
- fixed Facebook authentication
- translation issue with terms containing line feeds icons can be removed from minelayer
- album artwork added to miniplayer
- update translations
- memory usage improvements
- quicker file add process
- last.fm option to submit any kind of media not just music
- improved smart playlist editor window
- minor bug fixed
New in Floola 6.0 (Oct 24, 2010)
- Facebook integration
- database compression for iPods with upgraded hd
- fixed some crashes under linux
- update translations
- menubar optimization
New in Floola 5.9.1 (Aug 17, 2010)
- issue copying files with international characters
- nano5G support fixed
- fixed an issue where loading would hang
- youtube download fixed
- auto delete unused backup files on low free space
- fixed issues with playlist menuitems under windows
- several minor issues fixed
New in Floola 5.8 (Jul 12, 2010)
- issue with database update on iPod shuffle.
- podcast window improvements
- improved quit on error
- improved playback when using Windows Media Player
- update translations
New in Floola 5.7 (Apr 25, 2010)
- fixed issue when deleting items on shuffle3G
- update translations
New in Floola 5.6 (Apr 7, 2010)
- fixed playback issue under windows
- updated languages
New in Floola 5.5 (Mar 12, 2010)
- nano5G and shuffle 3G support!
- "add this artwork to items in album" feature
- database update when needed
- updated languages
- added scrollbars to smart playlists edit window
- fixed issue where some files would not play entirely after edit operation
- files can be copied over from a network mapped drive
New in Floola 5.4 (Dec 27, 2009)
- improved artwork scaling algorithm under windows
- first playlist could not be renamed
- listbox clicks should now behave as expected on every platform
- app would freeze when sorting playlists under certain conditions
- alert when all podcast episodes were downloaded
- album artwork no longer has white borders
- fixed issue on menubars when changing translation several times
- fixed some issues when editing notes
- sort by date added issues fixed
- runs some basic database sanitization when needed
- fixed youtube download
- clean orphan items feature
- fixed some selection issues when renaming items
- fixed issues when deleting photos
- fixed issues when deleting playlist items
- added sort submenu when right clicking on playlists
- fully compatible with iTunes playlist sorting
- improved compatibility with some untagged mp3 files
- added mediakind smart playlist field support
- improved smart playlist window
- improved jpeg artwork decode
- artwork window will resize according to artwork size
- new "retrieve new episodes on startup" in podcast preferences
- playback position of currently playing song was not saved when quitting
- fixed bug in threaded add/delete artwork
- improved show by menu item
- improved podcast update notificiations
- translations updated
- transcode now allows selecting ALAC codec
- unknown elements are now renamed to "unknown artist, unknown album, etc."
- searching by keyboard now properly ignores leading "the " and "a "
New in Floola 5.3.1 (Sep 25, 2009)
- Expiration message removed
New in Floola 5.2 (Jun 18, 2009)
- rewritten iPod notes manager
- iTunes 8.2 compatibility
- Portuguese,Czech,Dutch,French,German,Greek,Hebrew,Italian and Russian translation updated
New in Floola 5.1.1 (May 25, 2009)
- cosmetic improvements
- added chapter support in audiobooks
- improved artwork duplicate detection when adding compilations
- items with embedded lyrics are added quicker
- fixed some sorting issues
- improved titlebar update under mac
- improved song position slider
- better compatibility with ffmpeg under linux
- dup search detects equal length tracks
- fixed issues exporting to playlist
- issue on quit
- executable integrity check
- warnings when adding videos to a non video capable iPod
- language couldn't be changed easily under linux
- iTunes 8.1.1 compatibility
- greatly improved startup speed
- rename iPod name
- faster delete
- freeze on quit issue
- improved podcast decode
- improved transcode functionality
- improved destination filenames when looking for orphan files
- mac ffmpeg build updated to SVN-r18709 (with swscale)
- win ffmpeg build updated to SVN-r18681 (with swscale)
- tvout photo option write wasn't honored
- FLAC and OGG tag support
- improved photo support on nano 4G
- fixed issue with hidden columns reappearing on startup
- updated dutch translation
- fix some crash under linux when quickly browsing playlists
- fixed some issue when transcoding files
New in Floola 5.1 Beta (May 13, 2009)
- There has been several major changes since 5.0 focused mainly on improving performances. Since large part of code changed I decided to release a beta version.
- Before proceeding with download please beware that beta versions are to be used at own risk. Backup your iPod data before proceeding.
New in Floola 5.0 (Mar 22, 2009)
- better item list sorting (including in playlists)
- can now edit season and episode number of TV Shows
- optional confirmation before podcast delete
- improved png artwork support in mp3 files
- does not crash anymore when removing rules from smart playlists
- all episodes in a podcast can be marked/unmarked as unlistened
- main listbox columns are resizable when browsing playlists
- issue displaying small artwork on iPod
- linux: check for other processes that might interfere with Floola
- improved generation detection
- finally 100% compatible with iTunes artwork database
- faster artwork delete
- iTunes 8.1 compatibility
- fixed some exception while loading artwork on startup
- fixed issues on quit
- Threaded artwork library write
- fixed cosmetic issues when using mid and big artwork thumbs
- photo synch window minor cosmetic issues
- text notes manage window improved
- empty podcast error message
- fixed crash when deleting podcasts
New in Floola 4.9 (Feb 28, 2009)
- playback settings were not saved
- player resumes playback position when necessary
- artwork was not saved to files when selected to do so in preferences
- fixed issue when changing main listbox columns visibility
- new option that allows to consider a track as played when 50% of it was listened
New in Floola 4.8 (Feb 14, 2009)
- Swedish translation updated
- Russian translation updated
- improved tag read compatibility with mp3tag
- fixed issue when storing user and proxy password
New in Floola 4.7 (Jan 26, 2009)
- Czech and Turkish translation were updated,
- Fixed an issue with photo database of nano 4G iPods,
- Now there's a quicker way to add artwork to albums.
New in Floola 4.6 (Jan 18, 2009)
- Photos are added sorted by date.
- A problem with the "add to iPod" window position under Linux was fixed.
- A smart playlist video kind bug was fixed.
- The Italian, Slovak, and Simplified Chinese translations were updated.
- Problems with main menubar items were fixed.
- Progressbar updates were made under Linux.
- Memory usage was improved in the photo manager displayer.
New in Floola 4.5 (Jan 2, 2009)
- simplified Chinese translation updated
- position of add to iPod window saved
- add to playlist in add to iPod window fix
New in Floola 4.4 (Dec 27, 2008)
- Various minor cosmetic issues were fixed.
- A yellow dominant issue in GIFs under Linux was fixed.
- A createphoto error was fixed.
- A podcast todo error message was fixed.
- An issue with photos on Nano4G was fixed.
- Various issues with GoogleCalendar synch were fixed.
- A "used in playlist" feature was added.
New in Floola 4.3 (Dec 20, 2008)
- fixed cosmetic issue in Snarl messages
- fixed rate playing song issue under windows
- issue when closing calendar window
- slightly improved dup detection
- issue notifing under linux
New in Floola 4.2 (Dec 12, 2008)
- various minor improvements
- podcast "mark as not new" fix
- issue with download from web
- improved podcast decoding
- issue with png embedded artwork under linux
- Slovak translation
- Google calendars import added
New in Floola 4.1 (Nov 29, 2008)
- fixed bug with id3v2.2 embedded artwork
- fixed podcast decoding issues;
- artwork preview in main window (nano 4G);
- Danish translation update;
- improved gui of manage note window;
- fixed bugs in manage note window;
- improved artwork rebuild for non mp3 files.
New in Floola 4.0 (Nov 16, 2008)
- various crashes under Ubuntu 8.10
- fixed blank messageboxes under linux
- tracks can be tagged as audiobooks
- minor issue when trying to repair
- rate current playing song
- not new podcasts that are deleted don't show up again when updating
- German translation updated
New in Floola 3.9 (Nov 9, 2008)
- faster podcast add
- blank messageboxes under linux
- crash on FAT32 iPod under Mac
- improved eject message warning
- audio transcode up to 320kbit/s
- podcast can be marked as new/not new
New in Floola 3.8 (Oct 25, 2008)
- The current selected songs playback time was wrong.
- Playback of items in smart playlists was improved.
- An Albanian translation was added.
- Tag reading and writing was improved.
- A freeze when adding bad pictures was fixed.
- An issue with the preference window under Linux was resolved.
- A "decoding rss feed" error was fixed.
- An problem copying some files under Windows was fixed.
- Issues with automatic install of ffmpeg were resolved.
- Quitting was improved.
- A problem copying a podcast from the podcast window was fixed.
- A podcast downloaded with Floola can be imported to iTunes.
New in Floola 3.7 (Oct 12, 2008)
- Podcast decoding was improved.
- The user experience when adding a podcast was made better and faster.
- An error when adding many podcasts at the same time was fixed.
- A video is made to fit to the screen when converting.
- A Linux root=nil? error was fixed.
- A database writing error was fixed.
- Some rare problems when adding podcasts were fixed.
- A visual glitch when renaming genres, artists, or albums was fixed.
- Artwork is now properly embedded in files when copying.
- Memory usage when adding files was improved.
- The Hungarian and Czech translations were updated.
- Improvements and bugfixes were made in folder synchronization.
New in Floola 3.6 (Sep 29, 2008)
- This release fixes album mixup, an issue with shuffle playcount; and autocompletion with Tab.
- It has a more iTunes-like database, an ascending/descending setting for playlists, the ability to sort smart playlists by fields, support for Nano4G, and better quitting.
New in Floola 3.4 (Aug 27, 2008)
- new ffmpeg version (windows only)
- minor issues with iteminfo window
- more consistent autocomplete feature in iteminfo window