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Music Rescue Changelog

What's new in Music Rescue 4.5

Feb 3, 2011
  • New Features:
  • Rewritten copy engine for faster copying.
  • Support for playlist folders on newer iPod all iPhone/iPod touch/iPad models.
  • Support for voice memos on iPhone/iPod touch/iPad devices.
  • You can press ‘return’ to play a selected track. Hooray!
  • Simplified licensing significantly, discontinuing separate computer/iPod licenses for a more flexible system. See this article on our support site for details.
  • Changes:
  • This release requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. Music Rescue 4.1 will remain available from our support site for customers using Mac OS X 10.4.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed crashes caused by a corrupt device filesystem. Problem files will now be skipped and the copy will continue.
  • Fixed a crash that would occur when trying to use an iPad with Music Rescue.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.13 (Apr 21, 2010)

  • Bugs Fixed/Changes - Music Rescue no longer crashes on launch on Mac OS X 10.4.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.12 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • Fixed compatibility problems with certain iPods that’ve been used with iTunes 9.1.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.10 (Jan 19, 2010)

  • Music Rescue no longer hangs forever on the loading screen when it encounters a smart playlist with no rules.
  • Files are no longer copied empty on newer iPods such as the fifth generation iPod nano.
  • No longer shows a spurious “Podcasts” playlist on newer iPods.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.9 (Dec 1, 2009)

  • Fixed a couple of crashes that could occur when reading slightly malformed iPod/iPhone databases.
  • The “Purchased” playlist on newer iPhone OS devices is no longer displayed as a smart playlist.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.8 (Aug 20, 2009)

  • Bugs Fixed/Changes:
  • Tweaks to ensure smooth running on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
  • Sorting Presets now correctly respects the leading zeroes setting for track and disc numbers.
  • The Browse lists are now much smarter about grouping items that contain a lot of whitespace (spaces, etc).
  • Copies no longer fail with a blank “Copying…” sheet when the iPod’s serial number couldn’t be read correctly.
  • Improved serial number reading from older iPods.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.7 (Aug 12, 2009)

  • Tweaks to ensure smooth running on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
  • Fixed a crash that would occur when parsing Smart Playlist data from disk-based iPods on PPC Macs.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.6 (Aug 4, 2009)

  • Music Rescue can now load databases from iPod touch and iPhone devices running software 3.0 or higher on Mac OS X 10.4.

New in Music Rescue 4.0.5 (Jul 20, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Music Rescue is now compatible with the new database format introduced in iPhone and iPod touch software version 3.0. This fixes blank libraries when using Music Rescue with these devices.
  • Introduced a new copy engine, which supports files greater than 3Gb or so.
  • Music Rescue now displays the amount of disk space needed to perform a copy in the Copy Setup sheet.
  • Music Rescue will now reduce the character set used in file and folder names when copying to non-HFS drives to avoid naming issues.
  • Bugs Fixed/Changes:
  • Clicking “Cancel” when copying no longer waits until the current file has completed before actually cancelling.
  • Switching between large playlists is now much, much faster.
  • The “Copy Order” preference is now respected correctly.

New in Music Rescue 4.0 (Jul 25, 2008)

  • Version 4.0 is a ground-up rewrite, allowing us to completely rethink how to structure Music Resue's user interface. This allowed us to bring you a program that's not only more stable and has many, many new features over Music Rescue 3.x, but has a much better interface for the features you know and love.

New in Music Rescue 3.1.6 (Sep 24, 2007)

  • You can now delete Rulesets and make Copy Presets default again.
  • Further improved type detection for 3rd generation iPod nano and shuffles.