What's new in TapeDeck 1.5.4
Oct 25, 2013
- TapeDeck no longer fails to launch in certain circumstances.
New in TapeDeck 1.5.3 (Apr 19, 2013)
- TapeDeck now adopts the new sharing feature that was introduced in Mountain Lion.
New in TapeDeck 1.5.2 (Feb 26, 2013)
- You can once again drag MPEG-4 audio files into the list of tapes.
New in TapeDeck 1.5.1 (Dec 14, 2012)
- Restores the ability to choose higher quality recordings.
New in TapeDeck 1.5 (Dec 5, 2012)
- TapeDeck now supports the Retina display, and it looks great!
- Uploading to YouTube is improved: Now with HD videos!
- TapeDeck is now a sandboxed application
- Performance has been improved for large collections of tapes
- Scrolling behavior is much better in the tape box
- Various other fixes and improvements
New in TapeDeck 1.4.2 (Jun 30, 2011)
- In rare instances, TapeDeck would fail to record unless the MONO and STEREO modes were changed. This is no longer the case.
- When starting up in MONO mode, and STEREO mode is enabled, the level meter no longer shows a full volume signal on the right channel.
- Various fixes to the YouTube Upload feature.
New in TapeDeck 1.4.1 (Jan 30, 2011)
- TapeDeck now lets you choose the audio channel(s) to record on, so you can use a wide variety of pro hardware.
- You can now also monitor the recording device, which is handy when digitizing Tapes, LPs, etc.
New in TapeDeck 1.4 (Jan 30, 2011)
- Added channel selection to the Sound preferences, so you can record on channels other than the default selection of 1 (and 2 for stereo.)
- You can now also monitor your recordings by checking the appropriate box in the Sound preferences, which will allow you to hear attached record and tape players while you are recording them.
New in TapeDeck 1.3.3 (Aug 20, 2010)
- Quick-Capture Workflow
- You're always one click (or keystroke) away from a new recording, and your tape is automatically saved when you hit STOP.
- Lossless Recording
- Using the Apple Lossless Audio Codec, TapeDeck can capture your tapes with full fidelity, so you can ensure your musical ideas are kept intact when moved to Garage Band, or Logic.
- Click, Whirr, Pop!
- The TapeDeck UI is chock-full of animations and sound effects. You'll find yourself clicking REC just to watch the tape spin!
New in TapeDeck 1.3.2 (Nov 16, 2009)
- ALAC recording was broken in 1.3.1, and is now repaired. Unfortunately, that means HQ mode is limited to
New in TapeDeck 1.3.1 (Nov 16, 2009)
- No longer crashes in Snow Leopard when recording very long audio files (>1h).
New in TapeDeck 1.3 (Nov 3, 2009)
- The path control to select the tape library directory now lets you choose directories properly again in Mac OS 10.6.
- High-Quality recordings are now recorded using the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) format. These recordings may be exported to popular uncompressed formats with no loss of the original recording's fidelity. Medium-Quality recordings still record at 128kbps AAC.
- If you desire, you may 'unlock' the sample rate from 44.1kHz when recording lossless, high quality audio. Now you can record extremely high-quality audio, tested to work up to 192kHz.
- Lots of little visual tweaks to spruce up the UI.
- Added some new search terms: 'quality:', 'date:', 'month:', and 'year:'
- Beefed up the help documentation
- TapeDeck no longer fails to record when the device set in the preferences has a different sample rate than the system-default recording device.
New in TapeDeck 1.2 (Aug 31, 2009)
- New features:
- You can now choose TapeDeck's record and playback devices in the preferences.
- Right-clicking on the tape box header will allow you to reveal the tape library in the Finder.
- Bug fixes:
- When Marker Felt is disabled on the system (but, why?!), you can now edit tape labels. Also, it looks far less horrible.
- When recording is paused, the 'Pause' status menu item reflects this.
- QuickTime progress window now displays centered over the main TapeDeck window.
- Sped up launch time when the tape library contains very large M4A files.
- Sound is no longer played when fast-forwarding or rewinding tapes. (Cueing and reviewing is still audible, as it should be).
- You can no longer choose stereo recording when a mono device is being used to record. This should eliminate "left channel only" recordings from being accidentally captured in the future.
New in TapeDeck 1.1.1 (Apr 25, 2009)
- Fixed a crash that occurred when playing back corrupt audio files. Now the tape will simply appear to stop playing earlier than expected.
- Copies .m4a tapes directly into the library, rather than sending them through the QuickTime importer engine
- Drawing performance improved slightly
- Set the file’s extension automatically according to the user’s currently selected QuickTime export component.
New in TapeDeck 1.1 (Aug 15, 2008)
- Upload to YouTube option for easily sharing recordings with friends/family.
- TapeDeck can import and export audio in various formats supported by QuickTime.
- Renaming a tape that's stopped at the end should no longer cause it to be unplayable until the next selection was made.
- There is no more slowdown due to battery during the evaluation period.
- Users can now seek/play/review while buttons are held down, just like some real tape recorders.
- Reviewing a tape to the beginning no longer causes the playhead to appear at the end of the tape.
- Commands that are disabled during recording are now reflected as disabled in the menu.
- Users can no longer delete an in-progress recording.
- The window may no longer be dragged by the buttons used to disclose the tape drawer.
- A custom folder icon is used when creating the TapeDeck library directory.
- The 'tape does not exist' message should no longer show up when deleting a tape that has been recently renamed.
- Acknowledgements now appear in the about box.
- Recordings are now done in much higher quality, with HQ now at 320kbps.
New in TapeDeck 1.0.3 (Jun 13, 2008)
- Fix a bug introduced in 1.0.2 which caused an extra bit of 'old' audio data to get recorded at the end of a tape.
- TapeDeck now keeps the level meter and tape moving while accessing the main menu.
New in TapeDeck 1.0.2 (Jun 11, 2008)
- Selection in the tape box is no longer active while recording
- Improved recording code to reduce potential gaps in recorded audio
- Addressing a crash found while rewinding
- Window corners no longer become 'sharp' when the tape box is closed
- Adopting a new internal versioning scheme
New in TapeDeck 1.0.1 Build 560 (May 29, 2008)
- Help file no longer references old transport keystrokes
- TapeDeck no longer launches on older versions of OS X
- UI sound effects now play through the system output device, and not the default output device
- Reduced skipping artefacts in audio playback
- Fast-forward / Rewind no longer interrupted when changing tape metadata
- One-click unlock method for new purchases
- The record level meter now responds to device and sample rate changes properly
- Selection in the tape box is now disabled while recording