SongGenie Changelog

What's new in SongGenie 2.2.9

May 24, 2016
  • We've fixed a few UI glitches
  • Restoring the defaults in your search preferences works again
  • An issue with filtering songs has been fixed
  • Smoother Genie animations

New in SongGenie 2.2.8 (Aug 21, 2015)

  • Stability improvements

New in SongGenie 2.2.7 (Aug 14, 2014)

  • Improved SongGenie for upcoming OS X releases

New in SongGenie 2.2.6 (May 21, 2014)

  • SongGenie will now work more reliably when analyzing a lot of songs at once
  • Improved overall stability

New in SongGenie 2.2.5 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Fixes a crash that could occur while looking up songs
  • A few other minor issues have been fixed

New in SongGenie 2.2.4 (Dec 19, 2012)

  • You can now tell SongGenie to prioritize certain genre results: Simply change the sort order under SongGenie's genre preferences.
  • SongGenie's search algorithms have been improved.

New in SongGenie 2.2.3 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • Adds support for the new Gatekeeper security feature in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and fixes an issue that could cause album artwork not to show up.

New in SongGenie 2.2.2 (Nov 5, 2012)

  • This update adds support for the new Gatekeeper security feature in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and fixes an issue that could cause album artwork not to show up.

New in SongGenie 2.2.1 (Jan 16, 2012)

  • We have improved compatibility with iTunes Match. For full details, please visit our iTunes Match information page.
  • Any song information you add using SongGenie will be automatically synced to your iOS devices via iTunes Match.

New in SongGenie 2.2.0 (Oct 6, 2011)

  • SongGenie is now exclusively optimized for Intel Macs and no longer supports old PowerPC Macs. This gives us much more flexibility in development going forward and has allowed us to streamline SongGenie.

New in SongGenie 2.1.4 (Sep 1, 2011)

  • Fixed an issue with OS X 10.7 Lion, that could cause an error message to appear when quitting SongGenie.

New in SongGenie 2.1.3 (Aug 6, 2011)

  • SongGenie is ready for OS X 10.7 Lion
  • We’ve added a new feature for repairing song information with incorrect text encoding
  • Improved handling of files with corrupt cover data
  • Faster and more reliable cancelling of identify operations
  • Fixed an issue which could cause SongGenie not to find any music at start
  • Improved stability when quitting SongGenie while still reading music files

New in SongGenie 2.1.2 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Now available in Japanese

New in SongGenie 2.1.1 (Jan 14, 2011)

  • Improved support of MobileMe preferences synchronization
  • Prepared for the Mac App Store
  • Minor changes to the update system

New in SongGenie 2.0.6 (Nov 12, 2010)

  • The temporary issue affecting lyric searches has been fixed:
  • Fixed an issue that prevented song lyrics from being found
  • Fixed an issue that prevented users on Mac OS X 10.5 from editing certain song
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New in SongGenie 2.0.5 (Oct 22, 2010)

  • Fixed an issue that prevented search results being shown

New in SongGenie 2.0.4 (Aug 6, 2010)

  • Fixed an issue where genres were incorrectly shown in iTunes

New in SongGenie 2.0.3 (Jun 17, 2010)

  • Improved stability of Lyrics Web Search
  • Improved behavior of result flags
  • Fixed a bug where it was not possible to manually edit a song's year
  • Fixed a crash which would occur when reading songs with invalid metadata

New in SongGenie 2.0.2 (Apr 15, 2010)

  • Improved handling of cover art in certain music files
  • Improved compatibility with various music file formats
  • Optimized overall memory usage
  • Improved iTunes compatibility
  • Fixed an issue where SongGenie didn’t recognize new CD albums ripped with iTunes
  • Resolved a crash which could occur during activation

New in SongGenie 2.0.1 (Mar 25, 2010)

  • Now availiable in French
  • Now reliably indexes entire library
  • Improved memory usage when mass applying lyrics
  • Improved memory usage when reading music library
  • Improved performance when switching songs
  • Album results are now sorted chronologically
  • Added keyboard shortcut Cmd-Option-F to move focus to search filter text field
  • Improved CoverScout integration
  • Improved behavior when filter is empty
  • Songs are now always marked as checked after clicking last result flag
  • Applying certain song information is now faster in certain cases
  • Fixed an issue with Playback where the wrong song was occasionally being played

New in SongGenie 2.0.0 (Mar 19, 2010)

  • NEW Search the internet automatically for lyrics
  • NEW Manually search specific websites for lyrics
  • NEW Analyze and visualize the state of your music library
  • NEW Indicator for missing track information, lyrics, cover art
  • NEW Song playback starts automatically while working on a music file
  • NEW Customize search columns with available song tags
  • NEW Sort music by quality of tags, cover size & lyrics
  • NEW Ignore podcasts and iTunes-U files
  • NEW Clean up genres with a pre-defined standard list
  • NEW Support for AIFF music format
  • NEW Find additional information for music tracks
  • NEW Add and edit tags
  • NEW Define intelligent naming consistency rules for specific tag information
  • IMPROVED Progress indicator for reading music library
  • IMPROVED Options for filtering titles with incorrect information
  • IMPROVED Detection of iTunes library
  • IMPROVED Workflow with refined user interface

New in SongGenie 1.2.1 (Nov 11, 2009)

  • The search box will no longer lose focus as soon as search results start to appear.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause minimized windows not to open whilst switching applications.
  • Additional Snow Leopard Core Graphics improvements.

New in SongGenie 1.2.0 (Jul 16, 2009)

  • now available in Simplified Chinese
  • is now ready to go for upcoming Mac OS X system updates
  • uses system resources more efficiently

New in SongGenie 1.1.1 (Apr 30, 2009)

  • Automatically apply song information now works without changing the preferences beforehand.
  • Improves stability when applying automatically while working with protected or corrupted MP4 files.
  • Improved overall stability.

New in SongGenie 1.1.0 (Mar 27, 2009)

  • NEW SongGenie shows all available albums that contain the track you are searching for.
  • NEW Identify and apply all track information automatically.
  • NEW Apply identified track information to multiple songs at once.
  • NEW Start searching for album covers in CoverScout.
  • NEW Show music tracks in CoverScout.
  • NEW Contextmenu available for finding music files in finder, marking and start playing tracks.
  • NEW Immediately shows changes to a music file made in other applications.
  • NEW Display cover art downloaded from the iTunes Store.
  • NEW Recognizes new music folders that have been added by CoverScout.
  • BOOSTED Better workflow by an improved user interface.
  • BOOSTED Ignores invisible files and folders.
  • BOOSTED Improved management of music archives on external hard drives.
  • BOOSTED Bugfixed jumping textcursor when manually entering song information.
  • BOOSTED Bugfixed the error that prevented the ability to stream edited MP4 files.
  • BOOSTED Bugfixed the error causing music tracks in deactivated music folders to be displayed.
  • BOOSTED Extended App Preferences.