What's new in Decibel 1.3.5
Oct 23, 2018
- What's Fixed:
- Fixed a crash on startup for old-style license files
New in Decibel 1.3.4 (Oct 23, 2018)
- What's New:
- DSD64 to PCM conversion
- What's Fixed:
- macOS Mojave compatibility
- Scrobbling uses https
New in Decibel 1.3.3 Build 35 (Nov 29, 2015)
- Fixed crash on startup if an old Mac App Store receipt was being used
- Improved launch time for large playlists
New in Decibel 1.3.2 Build 34 (Jan 12, 2015)
- Fixed:
- Output preferences now display correctly for non-English locales
- Registration processed correctly after trial period expiration
- Text on retina displays is no longer blurry
New in Decibel 1.3.1 Build 33 (Jun 23, 2014)
- Fixed an incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.7
- Tracks from cue sheets now play correctly
New in Decibel 1.2.11 Build 31 (Dec 27, 2012)
- Fixed an issue for multichannel playback on certain audio devices such as the Metric Halo ULN-2
New in Decibel 1.2.10 Build 30 (Dec 27, 2012)
- Fixed an incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.6
New in Decibel 1.2.9 Build 29 (Dec 21, 2012)
- What's New:
- Added Save Selection As Playlist menu item
- Added bitrate and rating columns
- Added advanced preferences for control of logging and buffer sizes
- Added options to ignore .cue and .m3u files
- Added retina artwork
- What's Fixed:
- AirPlay now works correctly
New in Decibel 1.2.8 Build 28 (Apr 21, 2012)
- Fixed a crashing bug on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
New in Decibel 1.2.6 (Jan 5, 2012)
- What's Different:
- The iTunes browser now automatically uses iTunes libraries in non-standard locations
- What's Fixed:
- Preferences are written to a single file to comply with the MAS guidelines
New in Decibel 1.2.5 (Dec 6, 2011)
- Changed:
- Digital volume is now always available
- Fixed:
- Fixed a crash that could occur while quitting
- Fixed crashes that could occur when reading tags from malformed M4A files
- Fixed a crash when WAVE files containing MP3 data were opened
- Fixed a bug where the output device's sample rate wasn't automatically adjusted if the device was the default
New in Decibel 1.2.4 (Jul 4, 2011)
- What's New:
- Added support for swiping to play next (↓) and previous (↑) tracks, and fast forward (→) and rewind (←)
- Added support for additional file formats, including expanded WAVE and AIFF types
- Added display of total frames for WAVE and AIFF files
- APE tags in MP3 files are detected and handled correctly
- What's Different:
- Improved AppleScript support
- What's Fixed:
- Fixed a bug where some MP3 files were not clipped correctly
- Fixed a bug in the Last.fm plug-in that could prevent now playing from being updated
- Fixed several bugs that could cause crashes during playback
- Fixed a bug that could cause a beach ball during quit
New in Decibel 1.2.3 (Jun 6, 2011)
- What's New:
- Added a plug-in restoring the Add iTunes Selection and Add Finder Selection functionality
- What's Different:
- If exclusive access is enabled, it is taken immediately before playback starts and is relinquished as soon as playback is finished
- What's Fixed:
- Fixed a bug in the Last.fm plug-in that prevented some tracks from scrobbling
- Album Artist metadata is correctly recognized in cue sheets
- Transitions between very short tracks are correctly handled
- Fixed several bugs that could cause crashes during playback
New in Decibel 1.2.2 (May 21, 2011)
- iTunes libraries in the non-default location are handled correctly
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when opening a license file
- Fixed a bug in the iTunes browser that could cause a crash at startup
New in Decibel 1.2.1 (May 20, 2011)
- Added a preference specifying which iTunes library to use for the iTunes browser
- Non-English iTunes libraries are now handled correctly
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash at startup
New in Decibel 1.2 (May 17, 2011)
- New Features:
- Plug-ins. Decibel now includes a plug-in architecture. Plug-ins are enabled, disabled and configured in the preferences and augment many of Decibel's features:
- iTunes browser - Allows rapid addition of tracks from iTunes to Decibel's playlist
- Last.fm - Update your Last.fm now playing, library, and love and ban tracks
- IR remote - Use an infrared remote to control Decibel
- Growl - Provides Growl notifications for Decibel events
- The player window now includes a dynamic status bar in the window's footer
- Added a preference to select the sample rate converter's quality (if a sample rate converter is necessary)
- Bug Fixes:
- Files on NAS are correctly remembered between launches
- Mac App Store receipts are now recognized in the non-MAS version
- Cue sheets in character encodings other than UTF-8 are handled more gracefully
- Improved the behavior of rapid sequential fast-forwards or rewinds
- The volume control panel shows correct dB values for device volume
- Improved handling of device addition/removal
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening multiple MP3 files simultaneously
New in Decibel 1.1 (Apr 25, 2011)
- Added replay gain support
- Added an option to have the Inspector show the currently playing track
- Added Clear Sort Order menu item
- Fixed a crash that occurred when using cue sheets with APE files
- Files on NAS are correctly remembered between launches
New in Decibel 1.0.4 (Apr 4, 2011)
- Fixed a crash on startup that would occur if files on NAS could not be found
- Tracks added to the playlist are now properly sorted
- Added support for MOD audio files
New in Decibel 1.0.3 (Apr 2, 2011)
- Added support for .cue files
- Added a volume control panel
New in Decibel 1.0.2 (Mar 14, 2011)
- AIFC files containing floating point data are handled correctly
New in Decibel 1.0 (Mar 1, 2011)
- Added digital volume control
- Tracks added to the playlist by double-clicking in Finder automatically play
- The track overlay banner now displays properly after display changes
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 13 (Feb 2, 2011)
- Added an option to display album art behind the playlist
- Fixed gapless playback for files with unknown channel layouts
- The playback position slider is now hidden when the player is stopped
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 12 (Jan 31, 2011)
- Changed the appearance of the playback position slider
- Added optional Filename, Format, Sample Rate, Channels and Bit Depth columns to the playlist
- Fixed a crash that could occur between track transitions
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 11 (Jan 27, 2011)
- Channel mapping for multichannel files works correctly
- The Quit menu item title was updated
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 10 (Jan 22, 2011)
- New Features:
- Added support for Monkey's Audio (.ape) files
- Added support for Ogg Speex (.spx) files
- Bug Fixes:
- Adding iTunes tracks from a volume that isn't mounted no longer causes crashes
- Files with uppercase characters in their extensions are recognized correctly
- Track transitions should no longer cause crashes
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 9 (Jan 3, 2011)
- Expiration date extended to 1 Mar 2011
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 6 (Dec 3, 2010)
- Improved performance for non-gapless track transitions
- Fixed a crash that could occur after an AppleScript error
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 5 (Nov 29, 2010)
- Gapless playback now works correctly when memory play is enabled
- The playlist is now correctly remembered between launches
- Fixed a bug where the proper output format may not have been selected
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 4 (Nov 26, 2010)
- Fixed crashes when adding files to the playlist
- Fixed a bug where the sample rate was not changed correctly during track transitions
- The entire playlist is now remembered correctly if filtered on exit
- Files are now added to the playlist more efficiently
- Files in the playlist are found even if they have been moved or renamed
- Gapless playback may not work properly with memory play enabled. This will be addressed in the next version.
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 3 (Nov 17, 2010)
- Mac OS X 10.6 or greater is now required
- Added Disc, Album Artist, and Composer columns to the playlist
- Playlist columns may now be individually shown/hidden
- Added support for Ogg Vorbis album art
- Improved performance when adding many files to the playlist
- Ensure that the highest bit depth supported by the DAC is selected
- Added flexible logging output
New in Decibel 1.0 Beta 2 (Nov 4, 2010)
- MPEG-4 files with the .mp4 extension no longer cause AyreWave to crash
- Apple Lossless files with bit depths greater than 16 are handled correctly
- Improved metadata support for WAVE and AIFF files
- Fixed a problem where transitions between tracks could cause a crash
- Fixed a problem where some DACs would only play one channel if Exclusive Access was enabled
- Fixed a problem where a track's metadata was not displayed properly until the track was selected