Subler Changelog

What's new in Subler 1.7.4

Apr 10, 2022
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the AppleTV metadata provider from working.

New in Subler 1.7.3 (Mar 15, 2022)

  • Fixed an issue that prevented importing some Dolby Vision tracks.
  • Added French localizations.

New in Subler 1.7.2 (Jan 3, 2022)

  • Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when trying to import MOV files.
  • Update localizations.

New in Subler 1.7.1 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Resolved a crash when trying to load invalid OCR trained data files.
  • Resolved an issue that prevented the download of valid OCR trained data files in the preferences panel.
  • Improved Dolby Vision support.
  • Updated Tesseract OCR library.

New in Subler 1.7 (Dec 9, 2021)

  • Improved Dolby Vision support.
  • Updated Tesseract OCR library.

New in Subler 1.6.13 (Sep 6, 2021)

  • Fixes unrelated artworks showing up when searching for metadata.

New in Subler 1.6.12 (Jul 16, 2021)

  • Preserve HDR10 metadata at the container level.

New in Subler 1.6.11 (May 23, 2021)

  • Fixed an issue in the Matroska importer that cause wrong tracks durations.
  • Added HLG and more colorspaces to the video property view.

New in Subler 1.6.10 (Jan 5, 2021)

  • New app icon.
  • Added a keyboard shortcut to the "Import File…" menu item.

New in Subler 1.6.9 (Nov 13, 2020)

  • Fixes TheTVDB search when the TV Show title contains a "*" .

New in Subler 1.6.8 (Oct 29, 2020)

  • Improves AppleTV TV Shows seasons matching.
  • Fixes an issue that prevented setting the 9-16-9 color tag.

New in Subler 1.6.7 (Oct 16, 2020)

  • Improves AppleTV TV Shows seasons matching.
  • Fixes a regression that prevented Atmos tracks from being properly signaled.
  • Adds Chinese localization.

New in Subler 1.6.6 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • Universal App. Subler will run natively on Apple Silicon.
  • Improves TheTVDB TV Shows search.
  • Fixes an hang that could happen when importing mkv files.

New in Subler 1.6.5 (Mar 26, 2020)

  • Fixes AppleTV metadata search.

New in Subler 1.6.4 (Mar 13, 2020)

  • Fixes an issue that prevented uncheking tracks in the import sheet.
  • Fixes an issue that prevented the parsing of some metadata.
  • Improves Srt export. Subtitles tracks with edit lists are properly exported.
  • Improved VobSub OCR subtitles timing.

New in Subler 1.6.3 (Feb 13, 2020)

  • Adds a preference to show an open panel at launch.

New in Subler 1.6.2 (Feb 5, 2020)

  • Adds Irish iTunes Store ratings.

New in Subler 1.6.1 (Jan 7, 2020)

  • Episode images will be now correctly retrieved from TheMovieDB.

New in Subler 1.6 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • Improves keyboard navigation in the document window, left and right arrow keys can now switch to the left/right tabs.
  • Improves selection of the cover art of a specific size in the queue (standard, square, rectangle/16-9).

New in Subler 1.5.22 (Nov 10, 2019)

  • "4k" is not set automatically anymore because the AppleTV won't stream mp4 with such metadata.
  • Fixes an an additional issue that could led to a crash when importing a 5.1 channels ac3 file on macOS 10.15.
  • Fixes Indian iTunes Store.

New in Subler 1.5.21 (Oct 31, 2019)

  • Adds a "4k" option to the "HD Video" metadata item.
  • Fixes an issue in queue artwork type selection.

New in Subler 1.5.20 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • Fixes a crash when importing a .ac3 file on 10.15.
  • Fixes an issue with "Relase Date" time zone.

New in Subler 1.5.19 (Oct 15, 2019)

  • Renames "Send to iTunes" to "Send to TV" on macOS 10.15, and fixes it to actually add the movie to the TV app.

New in Subler 1.5.18 (Sep 15, 2019)

  • Fixes ChapterDB.
  • Fixes metadata provider languages in the queue options.
  • Improves EAC3+Atmos parser.

New in Subler 1.5.17 (Aug 6, 2019)

  • Improves the reliability of Squared TV Artworks.
  • Improves the iTunes Store TV Show results.

New in Subler 1.5.16 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Upgrades the OCR engine to Tesseract 4. Language data files to improve the results quality can be download directly from Subler OCR preferences panel.
  • Fixes importing AAC audio tracks from some malformed MOV files.

New in Subler 1.5.15 (May 6, 2019)

  • Fixes ChapterDB by using Plex mirror.

New in Subler 1.5.14 (Apr 23, 2019)

  • Fixes "studio" and "copyright" info not being found when searching metadata on the iTunes Store.
  • Adds an option to auto-rename all audio tracks according to their number of channels. Thanks to Sidney S.

New in Subler 1.5.13 (Mar 18, 2019)

  • Actually fixes an issue when manually insert a track number.

New in Subler 1.5.12 (Mar 16, 2019)

  • Fixes an issue when manually insert a track number.
  • Improves MOV imports.
  • Fixes a hang when requesting metadata from TheMovieDB.

New in Subler 1.5.11 (Mar 14, 2019)

  • Fixes a crash that could happen when manually adding the "Rating" tag.

New in Subler 1.5.10 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • Fixes queue autostart option.
  • Fixes AppleScript support.

New in Subler 1.5.9 (Mar 8, 2019)

  • Fixed an issue that might result in a delay when importing a EAC3+Atmos track from a MKV file.
  • Improved the "Send to iTunes" option to avoid iTunes automatically playing a file.

New in Subler 1.5.8 (Jan 22, 2019)

  • Fixes ChapterDB.
  • Fixes metadata provider languages in the queue options.
  • Improves EAC3+Atmos parser.

New in Subler 1.5.6 (Nov 11, 2018)

  • Fixes iTunes Store metadata provider after Apple's latest api changes.

New in Subler 1.5.5 (Nov 6, 2018)

  • Improved tv show results from iTunes Store

New in Subler 1.5.4 (Oct 26, 2018)

  • Improves tv show searches when using romanized Japanese.

New in Subler 1.5.3 (Oct 12, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue in the iTunes Store provider.

New in Subler 1.5.1 (Sep 7, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue that could lead to a crash when remuxing certain EAC3 tracks.

New in Subler 1.5 (Aug 17, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue with iTunes Store provider.
  • Displays all the result from TheMovieDB (before only the first 20 were shown)
  • The "load external subtitles" queue action now works properly if the subtitles file name has not a language in it.
  • Recognises Atmos in EAC3 and properly muxes it from MKV.

New in Subler 1.4.12 (Jul 4, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue with TheMovieDB.
  • Partial support for dark mode on macOS 10.14.

New in Subler 1.4.11 (Jun 7, 2018)

  • Fixes TheTVDB poster thumbnail not loading properly.
  • Various bug fixes.

New in Subler 1.4.10 (Apr 13, 2018)

  • Added a "Send to iTunes" queue action.
  • The queue now remembers the recent selected destinations.

New in Subler 1.4.9 (Mar 16, 2018)

  • Added formatting options to filename and metadata placeholders (text case, leading zero for numbers, etc…).

New in Subler 1.4.8 (Mar 4, 2018)

  • Added Argentina and Taiwan iTunes Store.
  • Added a queue action to remove the existing metadata.
  • Fixed the "Load external subtitles" queue action.
  • Fixed a rare crash that could happens when searching for tv show metadata on iTunes Store.

New in Subler 1.4.7 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • Improved subtitles compatibility with VLC 3.

New in Subler 1.4.6 (Dec 12, 2017)

  • Added an option to format the filenames.

New in Subler 1.4.5 (Nov 29, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue with Sub Station Alpha files with Windows end-of-line.
  • Show Squared TV artworks when searching with TheMovieDB too.

New in Subler 1.4.4 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Allow partial tv series name match when searching on the iTunes Store.
  • Fixed a bunch of regression caused by rewriting parts of Subler in Swift.

New in Subler 1.4.3 (Nov 4, 2017)

  • Fixed a bunch of regression caused by rewriting parts of Subler in Swift.

New in Subler 1.4.2 (Oct 28, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue that could cause some samples to be dropped when importing a file with the audio "AAC + Pasthru" mixdown selected.
  • Improved support for reading PCM stored in Matroska

New in Subler 1.4 (Oct 5, 2017)

  • Fixed a crash when using the "Search chapters" function.
  • Fixed metadata search when the search term contains ",".
  • Added support for Advanced SubStation Alpha files (.ssa and .ass).

New in Subler 1.3.8 (Sep 28, 2017)

  • Restored 10.9 compatibility.
  • Fixed a crash when importing some mov files.
  • Fixed the subtitles "forced" option, it was not saved propertly in some cases.

New in Subler 1.3.7 (Sep 19, 2017)

  • Preserve tracks video rotation.
  • Improved search for some tv shows on iTunes Store.

New in Subler 1.3.6 (Aug 30, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue that could cause TheTVDB to return data for the wrong series.
  • Added an option to decide if existing artworks and annotations can be kept or not when a preset is applied.

New in Subler 1.3.5 (Aug 10, 2017)

  • Retrieve square TV Show artworks from http://squaredtvart.tumblr.com .
  • Various bug fixes.

New in Subler 1.3.4 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • Show only the related season poster images from TVDB in the artwork selection window.
  • Various bug fixes.

New in Subler 1.3.3 (Jul 6, 2017)

  • Subler can now retrieve TV Shows metadata from TheMovieDB.
  • Various bug fixes.

New in Subler 1.3.2 (Jun 12, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the retrieval of TheTVDB series posters.

New in Subler 1.3.1 (May 31, 2017)

  • Uses TheTVDB new API, the previous version is being retired (old version of Subler won't be able to fetch metadata from TheTVDB after October 1st, 2017).

New in Subler 1.3 (May 22, 2017)

  • Support for DTS to AC3 + AAC conversion.
  • Configurable chapter preview position.
  • Fixed a crash then could happen when reading a file tagged with another app.

New in Subler 1.2.9 (Apr 20, 2017)

  • Improve iTunes Store TV Show result.
  • Fixed an issue that could result is out of sync subtitles when OCRing a PGS track.

New in Subler 1.2.8 (Mar 26, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue that prevented opening files with AppleScript.

New in Subler 1.2.7 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • Fixed an issue that prevented opening files with AppleScript.

New in Subler 1.2.6 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • Better TV Show results for iTunes Store.
  • Reverted TheTVDB to http to avoid issues.

New in Subler 1.2.5 (Jan 26, 2017)

  • Fixed a crash when reading metadata from a mov file.
  • Added a queue action to set a file color space.

New in Subler 1.2.4 (Dec 17, 2016)

  • Fixed .SCC files import.
  • Added Czech iTunes Store.

New in Subler 1.2.3 (Dec 9, 2016)

  • Fixed a crash that could happen when reading a set saved in a previous version.
  • Keep the chapters track language after an edit.
  • PlaylistID metadata is now properly written to the file.
  • Added an option in the queue to select the preferred artwork (iTunes, episode, season) to use when getting metadata from TheMovieDB or TheTVDB.

New in Subler 1.2.2 (Dec 1, 2016)

  • Added support for extended language tag. The extended language tag can provide better language information, including information such as region, script, variation, and so on.
  • Added support for setting the color tag of a video track.

New in Subler 1.2 (Nov 16, 2016)

  • Added Italian localization
  • Removed the "Other settings" metadata tab. Those metadata can now be added/removed the same way as the other metadata
  • Added Philippines and Hong Kong ratings/iTunes Store
  • Fixed frame rate selection for raw h.264
  • Fixed a crash when opening some audiobooks

New in Subler 1.1.7 (Sep 26, 2016)

  • PCM audio can be converted to AAC.
  • Added a DRC option in the advanced preferences.

New in Subler 1.1.5 (Sep 12, 2016)

  • Matroska files with more than 32 tracks can now be properly imported.

New in Subler 1.1.4 (Sep 12, 2016)

  • Audio tracks with a sample rate higher than 48000 kHz can now be correctly converted to AAC.

New in Subler 1.1.3 (Aug 19, 2016)

  • Sometime the rating was not saved properly, fixed.
  • Fixed decoding of E-AC3 audio.

New in Subler 1.1.2 (Aug 16, 2016)

  • HEVC (H.265) is now supported.
  • Notification when the queue is completed.

New in Subler 1.1.1 (Aug 9, 2016)

  • Fixed a couple of regression in the iTunes Store metadata importer.

New in Subler 1.1 (Aug 6, 2016)

  • More robust audio conversion.
  • User configurable metadata import, the way Subler maps data from iTunes Store, TheMovieDB and TheTVDB can be manually configured if you don't like Subler defaults.
  • Better placement for the media characteristics options.
  • 64-bit.
  • Requires OS X 10.9 or later.

New in Subler 1.0.9 (Feb 16, 2016)

  • Updated Sparkle.
  • Fixed a regression in the srt parser that broke the font tag.
  • Added EAC3 support.

New in Subler 1.0.7 (Jan 8, 2016)

  • ChapterDb support. Search in ChapterDB database from File -> Import -> Search Chapters Online… or add the toolbar item by customizing the toolbar. Result quality may vary.
  • Fixed MPEG-4 Visual tracks muxing from mp4.
  • Added an option to automatically add the missing audio fallback tag to ac-3 tracks.

New in Subler 1.0.6 (Jan 8, 2016)

  • Resolved a crash that could happen when downloading some artworks from iTunes Store.

New in Subler 1.0.5 (Nov 9, 2015)

  • Resolved an issue that prevented the download of high resolution artworks from iTunes Store.

New in Subler 1.0.4 (Oct 16, 2015)

  • Fixed ac3 to aac downmix on 10.11.

New in Subler 1.0.2 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Fixed a crash that could happen when trying to open a srt file on 10.9 or earlier.
  • Media characteristics tags are now supported. You can use this feature to tag for example a SDH subtitles track or an auxiliary track. QuickTime will use this settings to append a “SDH” label in the tracks selection menu or let you select two different tracks with the same language. See the QuickTime File Format specification for more info. You can edit these kind of tags from Edit -> Media Characteristics Tags menu.

New in Subler 1.0.1 (Sep 4, 2015)

  • Fixed a regression in 1.0 that broke the mov importer.

New in Subler 1.0 (Aug 31, 2015)

  • Added ability to update chapter track titles from Handbrake-compatible chapters CSV file.
  • Added a shortcut to the "Send to Queue" menu, cmd-b.
  • Added a "Open in Queue" menu item.
  • Fixed the size of the artworks from iTunes Store.
  • Added Mexican iTunes Store.
  • Fixed a good number of bugs.

New in Subler 0.31 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • Added the Russian iTunes Store.
  • Fixed previews track generation.
  • Fixed a rare crash when importing a .srt file.
  • Fixed an issue where a subtitles track bold style couldn't be exported properly to srt.
  • Fixed an hang when trying to mux an unsupported track.

New in Subler 0.30 (Nov 10, 2014)

  • Fixed another crash with ratings.

New in Subler 0.29 (Nov 8, 2014)

  • Fixed a crash that could happen when opening a file with ac3 audio if it was Subler first run.
  • Fixed the rename all chapters function.

New in Subler 0.28 (Nov 7, 2014)

  • Fixed a crash that could happen when editing a mp4 with an unknown rating tag.

New in Subler 0.27 (Nov 5, 2014)

  • Improved queue.
  • Improved metadata search for non English languages.
  • Added the "Alert Tone" media type and the "m4r" file type.
  • Added a way to rename all the chapters to the format “Chapter number”.
  • The audio decoders (ac-3, vorbis, flac, dts) are now bundled with Subler
  • Alert when the save destination folder is read-only.
  • Improved validation in the optimize feature.

New in Subler 0.25 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • Fixed a cache invalidation issue that could prevent the download of updated movie and tv show metadata.
  • Fixed mono audio conversion.
  • Various bug fixed.

New in Subler 0.24 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • New audio conversion option: AAC + AC-3.
  • Better results from TVDB and iTunes Store.

New in Subler 0.23 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when searching for metadata with TheMovieDB.
  • Retrieve TV Network, Genre and Rating from TheTVDB.
  • Better posters selection with TheMovieDB.

New in Subler 0.20 (Sep 18, 2013)

  • Updated TheMovieDB api.
  • Added iTunes Store metadata importer.
  • Improved ratings selection.
  • Srt -> tx3g conversion improvement: font color, subtitles position (bottom, top), forced subtitles. (refer to the SrtFileFormat wiki page for an example).
  • Various bug fixed.

New in Subler 0.19 (Dec 21, 2012)

  • HDMV / PGS OCR.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the save operation to take a long time.
  • Added "Home Video" to the media kind list.

New in Subler 0.18 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Fixed an issue with thetvdb, results were not returned for some tv series.
  • Fixed some regression in the mov importer.
  • Added "iTunes U" to the media kind list.

New in Subler 0.17 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • Forced subtitles tracks. A new options to set a track as "forced". iDevices will automatically display the right forced track for a given language.
  • Ocr languages. Subler will now check ~/Library/Application Support/Subler/tessdata for Tesseract traineddata files.
  • Fixed an issue with the rating tag.

New in Subler 0.16 (Jul 31, 2012)

  • VobSub OCR to text for subtitles
  • Per track conversion settings.
  • ALAC and DTS muxing support.
  • Queue window for batch operations.
  • 1080p tag (iTunes 10.6).
  • Requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.