Change Log
Version 2.71.3 (April 26, 2008)
- Fixed a bug where the list pane doesn't refresh immediately after a paste or drag & drop
- Fixed registration problems and "protection error" pop ups
Version 2.71.2 (April 11, 2008)
- Fixed a bug where auto-saving feature may truncate collection file names, which may later lead to a program crash.
- Fixed a bug in data file handling routines that may cause program crash upon entering items.
Version 2.71.1 (April 5, 2008)
- Fixed a bug where sort option switching do not reflect result immediately.
- Improved file naming of HTML based exporting.
- Fixed an issue with zlib decompresser that may lead to program crash.
Version 2.71 (March 30, 2008)
- Enhanced performance on startup, MediaMan now launches much faster when "remembering last category" option is set.
- Enhanced performance when working with large collections, item listing and virtual shelf rendering is now much faster than before. This performance enhancement applies to searching and alternative organizing methods too.
- Fixed a problem where Internet Explorer's Just-in-Time debuggers may be triggered during MediaMan's startup.
- Improved collection file handling to reduce fragmentation and corruption.
- Upgaded SQLite component.
- Fixed a minor bug that may cause registration to fail.
Version 2.70 (August 3, 2007)
- New feature: PlayIt is now capable of media file playback inside MediaMan
- New feature: Dual-processor and quad-processor enabled virtual shelf rendering
- New feature: The last selected category is now remembered
- New feature: Search by title
- Improvement: Webcam barcode scanner is now much more usable than ever before
- Improvement: Collation system will now recognize lots of band names people names, conversion is performed a lot accurate than before
- Improvement: Field names are now sorted in field selection dialog boxes
- Improvement: In the detail view, keyboard first letter navigation now applies to the current sorting column
- Changed Actor Artist Author Director google search engine links to Amazon Associate links to comply with the Amazon Web Service usage agreement
- Change: File listing attach folder will no longer enumrates hidden files, folder synchronizing function is added
- Change: Increased JPEG storage quality
- Change: Increased tag content, custom icon content, and string recall content size limitation
- Change: Increased combo box content size limitation
- Fixed a bug where switching between hide/unhide irrelevant sheets causing text and image change to be reverted
- Fixed a bug where long titles could lead to malfunctioning of the category overview pane
- Fixed a bug where custom status is not included in sorting and status is not sorted correctly
- Fixed a bug where keyboard focus stays on the virtual shelf zoom bar when zooming operation is completed
- Fixed a bug where there's no files tab in the new item dialog
- Fixed a bug where items can't be deselected using Ctrl key
- Fixed a bug where there's no view pane context menu on Windows Vista
- Fixed a bug where incorrect item icon is displayed in search results, status, and tag management mode
- Fixed a bug in category icon assignment dialog where the current selected icon is displayed incorrectly
- Fixed a problem where MediaMan stops downloading when incorrect content size is returned from Amazon ECS servers
- Fixed a minor progress bar animation problem on Windows Vista
- Fixed a minor memory leak in drag & drop
- Fixed a bug where the Date Added field is set to GMT today rather than local today when importing new items
- Fixed a bug where Disc Layer and Disc Side radio box can't be choosed at the same time
- Fixed a bug where Format and Aspect Ratio is not showing up in detail view mode
- Fixed a bug where Edit->Delete in main menu has no action
- Fixed minor bugs with toolbar and status bar show/hide
- Fixed minor resource loading and logic problems
- Fixed a bug where newly entered combo box items are not remembered
- Upgraded FreeImage component
- Upgraded SQLite component
Version 2.66.3 hotfix (April 15, 2007)
- Fixed a collection file handling logic bug that can lead to a complete re-initialization of collection file (details)
Version 2.66.3 (March 9, 2007)
- Fixed program crashing on certain computer configurations when third-party spyware scanning program is enabled
- Improved virtual shelf rendering and updating when working with large collection files
Version 2.66.2 (February 11, 2007)
- Fixed a problem where virtual shelf rendering could freeze the program for a long time in certain circumstances
- Upgraded SQLite and data layer component to solve false reports of malformed database image
Version 2.66.1 (February 4, 2007)
- A fix to toolbar painting problem in Windows Vista
- A fix to the installer that caused MediaMan to be executed as Administrator when running for the first time. It's now executed as a normal user
- A fix to drag and drop rollover image font style problem when ClearType is enabled
- Fixed a new problem in v2.66 where virtual shelf PNG export renders empty result
- Fixed gallery pane script error
- Fixed dates before 1900/1/1 cannot be stored (Note: the date 1900/1/1 is still a special date, which is treated as empty in MediaMan, please avoid using this date.)
- Fixed a bug where new fields, such as Original Title, Format, Features are not showing up in the detail mode
- Fixed a minor tab sequence problem in Amazon wizard
- Changing collation setting will now reflect immediately, without a program restart
- The new browser component in v2.66 requires Internet Explorer 6 SP2, which is not compatible with Windows 2000, it's now replaced with the old one in this release
Version 2.66 (January 26, 2007)
- All virtual shelf features now works in Windows Vista
- Fixed a tooltip flicker problem in Windows Vista
- Fixed a scroll bar positioning problem in Windows Vista
- Enhanced Windows Vista style toolbar painting
- Automated updater now works with Windows Vista
- Updated clipboard feature, status, tag organization methods, and search mode now supports copying and cutting, fixed a bug: pasting into the root category is now disabled
- New virtual shelf theme cases for PS3 and Wii
- New virtual shelf selection glowing style
- New virtual shelf drag and drop enhanced roll over image
- Common fields, including publisher and original title are now moved to shared field pages
- List pane keyboard navigation improvement, allowing first letter direct jump in virtual shelf mode, allowing right arrow to jump to the next row
- New list based print style for monochrome printing
- Changed dialog box group style to allow efficient use of screen space
- Minor enhancements to the collation system, German articles are now recognized, "The Band" syntax will now be recognized in artist field
- More fields are now sortable
- More fields can now be exported
- Full status information can now be printed and exported
- URLs in custom fields are now automatically processed and hyperlinked
- Fixed minor tabbing sequence problem in dialogs
- Fixed a problem where the exporter doesn't validate the typed export path and file name
- Fixed a program threading bug that could lead to program freezing when modifying items during the virtual shelf rendering process
- Fixed a bug where gallery view is messed up when "image" is unchecked to hide
- Fixed a bug where deleting items from the search result doesn't reflect changes immediately
- Fixed multiple logic problems in file look up sequence in the PlayIt feature
- Fixed a bug in icon customization where icon deletion doesn't work
- Fixed a data-layer "unable to close collection file" problem appeared in version 2.65
- Fixed a bug where the exporter always exports title, improved single field exporting capability
- Minor fix to field name and value spacing in detail style printing
Version 2.65 (October 28, 2006)
- Switched from MediaMan proprietary collection file format to SQLite 3 for higher reliability, improved functionality and performance. Collection files will be automatically upgraded upon opening, no user attention is required.
- Reduced overheads and improved performance in all collection file related operations including file opening, saving, new item importing, virtual shelf rendering, tag/status parsing, and searching.
- New feature: direct rating setting in detail view mode.
- New feature: collection backup.
- New feature: a full screen mode.
- Improved virtual shelf rendering exporting with more options.
- Corrected several user interaction logic errors in file opening, saving, and creation.
- Corrected a logic problem in Play It.
- Improved virtual shelf theme mechanism, doubled resolution makes it possible to zoom to 200% without upsampling.
- Redesigned the default them package.
- Fixed rating painting bugs in detail mode.
- Fixed program lockup/freeze problems.
- Fixed script error problems with Internet Explorer 7
- Fixed a bug with sorting in item list pane.
- Fixed a bug with sorting in category selection combo boxes.
- Fixed a problem with detail view default column headers.
- Fixed another problem with the updater (If you see error messages during upgrade, click here.).
Version 2.60.2 (September 10, 2006)
- Fixed a problem with detail view mode, where initially there's no field visible because the column header was empty.
- Fixed a problem with detail view column header width sizing.
- Fixed a problem with the updater (If you see error messages during upgrade, click here.).
Version 2.60.1 (August 30, 2006)
- Fixed multiple performance problems with data file handling, corrected slow down behavior introduced with version 2.60.
- Fixed an error message deleting temporary files in the updater (which doesn't affect the update process though).
- Further fix on data layer performance problem. (Released on September 2, 2006, no version change)
Version 2.60 (August 26, 2006)
- Changed program internal structure, MediaMan now complies with the least priviledged Windows application standards. It works smoothly under limited user accounts, and no longer requires administrative priviledge to run.
- Changed program internal structure, MediaMan now relies on the application data folder (typically, C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\MediaMan) to store temporary files and some of the preference settings (including custom icons, tags, and callout/value-remembering settings). This change will cause previous callout/value-remembering settings to be lost.
- Changed program behavior, the icon importing function will now make a copy of the icon in the application data folder, and stores the file name only. This change will cause previous custom icon settings to be lost.
- Changed program behavior, generated statistics chart images will now be put into the application data folder.
- Clarified program behavior, the "Update from Web" feature will prompt that it only works under administrative priviledge.
- Improved print function to allow more control over the styles and field choice.
- Improved export function to allow choices of fields and their orders, and custom "delimiter" choice for CSV
- New export capability, exporting to HTML website.
- Improved data layer file handling performance for large collection files, ensured thread-safety.
- Corrected user interaction logic in icon importing, field order selection, export wizard, print dialog.
- Fixed a bug in the collation sorting system where names containing "-" (dash) and "'" (single quotation mark) can't be sorted correctly.
- Fixed a bug that the program will not download correct item information when secondary search is activated in Amazon wizard.
- Fixed a crash problem under certain circumstances in the print dialog.
- Fixed a crash problem with tag, status management and search tool when the collection is empty.
- Fixed a problem where file name containing a single quotation mark can't be used in the file list section of the detail pane.
- Introduced extra theme looks for HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.
Version 2.51.2 (June 22, 2006)
- Fixed another problem in sorting function that may produce erroneous results.
- Fixed a bug where detail view column arrangement can't be saved.
Version 2.51.1 (June 20, 2006)
- Fixed a problem in sorting function that may produce erroneous result after editing items.
- Fixed a problem with secondary searching in wizard
- Fixed a problem where the detail view became blank if attempting to import an item in home screen.
- Minor performance improvement in sorting
Version 2.51 (June 17, 2006)
- New feature: detail view mode. This is a grid-based view mode that behaves similar to the detail view in Windows explorer. Items are listed in the form of a table. The choice of what fields to display and order can be configured on a per-category basis. Header-click sorting is supported. This feature is available in alternative program modes, such as search, tag, and status, too.
- New feature: automatically searching on a secondary site, when no items is found on the primary one. This feature allows you to configure a secondary Amazon international site. In a batch or single query, if MediaMan found one or more unmatched items, it'll prompt you to proceed another search on the secondary site.
- New feature: treating the search keyword as actor/author/title etc in the Amazon wizard.
- New feature: acending/descending option on all sortable fields
- Improvement, asynchronous list pane selection to detail pane update, providing higher overall performance when working with the item listing.
- Minor improvement on the user interface, revised button styles and sorting menu
- Fixes, some improvement to the datalayer provding higher sustain to faulty collection file and repairing capability
- Fixes, tweaks in the datalayer to meet the new Amazon ECS standard.
- Revised theme, HD DVD and glass frame cases included
Version 2.50.2 (March 16, 2006)
- Fixed a background search/parsing thread that could lead to deadlock/freeze or cause the program to be malfunctioning on fast processors, and/or processors with HyperThreading, DuoCore, or SMP (dual processor) technology
- Added tag group renaming feature
Version 2.50 (March 12, 2006)
- New feature: organizing by tags, with tag mode switch and tagging dialog
- New feature: organizing by status, with status mode switch
- New feature: program background thread status indicator, including rendering and searching available on top-right of the caption bar
- Number-of-item display in category tree, available in all 3 program modes, including tag and status mode
- Added new tag field to support the tagging feature
- Revised search tool, now embedded in the category pane, results are displayed in the item list pane, search engine style syntax is now supported, searching date fields is now supported
- Revised program experience, common item modification tasks can now be performed in a similar way. The manipulation of search result, tagged items, and status management are now as easy as performing the same task under categories
- Category overview pane used a new approach to list rental items, clicking items in the list has the same effect as selecting the item in the list pane
- Revised export wizard user interface, providing simplified process
- Exporting to CSV and HTML listing style now features automatic total price calculation if the price field is selected, same feature is available in printing
- Revised status indicator in virtual shelf
- Improved performance in item listing and virtual shelf rendering
- Improved overall program performance by avoiding handling unnecessary notifications and callbacks
- Option to render titles when exporting the virtual shelf rendering
- Revised frame user interface, zooming and sorting feature are easier to access
- Revised sorting feature in other part of the program
- A revised version of theme package
- Preview dialog will now automatically aligned in the viewable area in low screen resolution configuration
- Fixed a potential deadlock problem with background record parsing threads
- Fixed a problem where status isn't displayed correctly in the detail pane
- Fixed a problem where underscores (_) isn't being converted to spaces in the detail pane
- Fixed a painting problem in caption bar when working with multiple monitors
- Fixed a problem where the program doesn't accept registration names ending in full stop (.)
Version 2.33.4 (December 21, 2005)
- Fixed the long overdue registration problem. All trial users are strongly advised to upgrade.
Version 2.33.3 (December 17, 2005)
- Fixed a bug where importing a new item using the dialog will not work
- Fixed a bug where canceling the statistics exporting process can cause a crash.
Version 2.33.2 (December 14, 2005)
- Improved Amazon and LOC wizard result box behavior, added "not found" item report, can be copied to clipboard.
- Fixed a bug when editing an item in the flattened-category mode, item category will be wrongly assigned.
- Fixed a bug when editing multiple items in the flattened-category mode, certain modified items may disappear.
- General bug fixes to the frame window
Version 2.33.1 (December 1, 2005)
- An attempt to fix registration problems
Version 2.33 (November 28, 2005)
- Improved theme mechanism, added new group "Software" and "Video Games". They, plus "Book", now feature aspect-ratio locked rendering based on the original cover picture
- Expanded list mode now uses colored status
- Field show/hide settings for the search dialog, export wizard, print dialog are now remembered separatedly
- Fixed a bug where auto-save time interval can't be changed
- Fixed a small bug with the "rendering" icon in the theme package
- Fixed a minor problem with CRLF (the return character) in CSV exporting
Version 2.32.1 (November 14, 2005)
- Fixed a bug where show/hide toolbar and statusbar wasn't working correctly.
- Fixed a bug where importing an item from Amazon containing no pictures can cause a crash or a non-breaking halt.
- Fixed a bug where the LOC wizard accidentially quit the program while performing UPC and EAN based searches. (Note: UPC and EAN searches are not supported by the Library of Congress, recognition feature for both types of barcodes has been disabled. However, EAN->ISBN conversion will continue to work)
- Fixed several severe bug with the web-update feature.
(Note: The web-update feature of the previous version, 2.32, is broken. To obtain this update, please click here for instructions. This doesn't affect version 2.31.)
Version 2.32 (November 8, 2005)
- Revised detail pane design and improved overall usability
- Revised theme design and default rendering
- Revised list pane selection behavior
- New feature: tooltips in list pane offering basic information quickly on rollover, can be turned off
- New feature: "Play It!", providing shortcut launch of media files and playlist files in your default player from within MediaMan
- New feature: new fields, "Location", "Number of Copies" are now supported, "Location" is available for sorting
- Improved virtual-shelf performance, lowered CPU usage
- Improved item status rendering, item status is now rendered in colored tags available in both list pane tooltips and the virtual shelf view
- Removed limitation on the number of characters allowed in descriptive fields
- Fixed a bug where Amazon query using Japanese didn't work
- Fixed a bug where the search tool don't search date-related fields
- Fixed miscellaneous bugs in virtual shelf renderer
- Fixed a bug where barcode scanning button didn't work in Library of Congress wizards
- Fixed a bug where custom status do not show up in detail pane
- Fixed minor bugs with option check in the main menu
- Fixed a bug where deleting an item causing list pane selection to reset
- Fixed a bug where image can't be imported from a directory with non-latin characters
Version 2.31 (MediaMan Web Update on October 20, 2005)
- Fixed a bug where "skip welcome screen" option is not remembered. This option is now also available in the option dialog.
Version 2.31 (MediaMan Web Update on October 13, 2005)
- MediaMan no longer relies on system Internet security settings. It's now possible to raise the Internet security level (in Control Panel -> Internet Properties) to the highest available level or use any kind of Internet security software with MediaMan.
Version 2.31 (October 11, 2005)
- Automated program updating from the web
- Unlock the number of images to around 25 in total
- Unlock the number of discs to around 30 in total
- Convert genre field to a multi-value field
- Revised category overview pane to show more information
- Bug fix: Field show/hide settings aren't being saved
- Bug fix: Window position and size isn't remembered correctly when is used maximized
- Bug fix: Collation system doesn't convert names like "Arthur C. Clarke", "Cuba Goodings Jr.", "Catherine Zeta-Jones" or doesn't convert them correctly.
Version 2.30.1 (September 28, 2005)
- Bug fix: collection file won't be automatically loaded if it's the first time you saved the file
- Bug fix: first time amazon import in new collection file won't show up in virtual shelf (just switch between categories, and they'll show up.)
- Bug fix: restore to the subcategory view from the collection overview, the detail pane will display the last record instead of empty if there's no record in the category
- Bug fix: category statistics feature wasn't working correctly
Version 2.30 (September 28, 2005)
- Improved virtual shelf rendering mechanism, renders in background without blocking user interface
- Virtual shelf live zooming feature
- Virtual shelf rendering cache improvement
- Improved rendering for items not having a picture associated
- Revised theme
- Performance improvement: textual data cache
- Importing from the Library of Congress wizard
- Preview of search result in wizards
- New fields: Genre, Rating, Subjects
- Improved custom field mechanism
- Handling up to 5 pictures for each item
- Editing multiple items
- Date fields are converted from strings to date/time
- Various new sorting-field options
- Category-specific sorting options
- Collection file structure improvement for fast parsing, safety, and caching (Collection file saved by version 2.30 is not compatible with previous versions of MediaMan)
- Revised item status, and custom status feature
- Improved category overview for status list
- Improved field-selection tree for all related dialogs
- Exporting virtual shelf rendering as PNG images
- Printing feature, and new export format
- "Show Flattened" category feature
- Gallery view in addition to the item detail view
- Miscellaneous user interface improvements
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Removed collection update wizard
- Removed price tracker feature