Music Rescue 4.5 Build 95 - Changelog

What's new in Music Rescue 4.5:

February 3rd, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.13:

April 21st, 2010

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

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.12:

April 7th, 2010

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

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.10:

January 19th, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.9:

December 1st, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.8:

August 20th, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.7:

August 12th, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.6:

August 4th, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0.5:

July 20th, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 4.0:

July 25th, 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.

What's new in Music Rescue 3.1.6:

September 24th, 2007

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