What's new in iDupe 2.9.3y
Oct 28, 2014
- Resigned for Gatekeeper v2/Yosemite
New in iDupe 2.9.3 (Nov 25, 2013)
- Certified for Mavericks.
- Fixed preserving artwork.
- Fixed issue identifying certain audio file types.
- Fixed some issues with Growl support.
- Update instructions to better conform to iTunes 11.
New in iDupe 2.9.2 (Jun 28, 2012)
- Code signed to support OS X Mountain Lion Gatekeeper.
New in iDupe 2.9 (May 13, 2011)
- Reorganized main Steps buttons, separating out "tools" that need not be used in any of the steps.
- Now shows all status messages as dialogs when "show warnings and alerts" is on and Growl is not installed.
- Diacritical marks and case are now ignored when identifying duplicates.
- Fixed bug involving scanning duplicates when ignoring album and track number.
New in iDupe 2.8.5 (Sep 27, 2010)
- Fixed an issue with Deep Clean mode.
- Verified compatible with iTunes 10.0.1
New in iDupe 2.8.4 (Sep 13, 2010)
- Tested for iTunes 10 compatibility.
- Added one-time alert to make sure "show list checkboxes" is enabled in iTunes 10+.
- Fixed another issue related to Tiger/intel compatibility.
- Added hidden setting to increase timeout limits.
- Minor interface and documentation changes.
New in iDupe 2.8.3 (Jul 20, 2010)
- Now again compatible with Tiger Intel systems.
New in iDupe 2.8.2 (Mar 31, 2010)
- Added option to group lossless and lossy audio formats into separate duplicate sets.
- Improved fuzzy matching dealing with leading and trailing spaces, line endings, and case.
- Added partial support for AIF, ALAC, FLAC, and WAV (all now work with most functions of iDupe).
- Trapped a potential error involving removing dead tracks.
New in iDupe 2.8 (Nov 11, 2009)
- Better handling of tracks with no ID3 tags.
- Fixed hanging issue involving scanning tracks without tags when an album folder has a massive number of files.
- iDupe attempts to guess at artist and track name based on the file name for tracks without tags.
- Fixed issue preserving playlists when a track is missing artist or album tags.
- Fixed similar issue when restoring dead tracks when a track is missing those tags.
- Rewrote more portions to rely less on the Finder (now almost not at all). This increases speed generally.
- Improved portion relating to evaluating whether an album has more files of a certain type (mp3, m4a, m4p, ogg, flac).
- Better handling of .ogg files, especially .ogg bit rates.
- Added timeout handling to the initial "checking selection portion" of the scan.
- Better handling of time outs overall.
- Partial results now available if scan is cancelled.
- Fixed initial non-appearance of scan progress bar when scanning very large selections.
- Improved debug logging.
- Debug log cleared when toggling debug mode is toggled.
- Tweaks to iGotta dead track scanning feature.
- Clean up some documentation.
New in iDupe 2.7 (Sep 14, 2009)
- Compatibility adjustments for iTunes 9.
- iTunes LP always considered keeper album given any duplicate album. (see advanced info to disable).
- Possible to scan iTunes U playlist.
- Major changes under-the-hood to cope with certain problem file systems and architectures.
- Above changes minimize use of the Finder, which makes iDupe faster on other systems.
- Above changes fixed compiler issue with intel Macs running Leopard that returned -3 errors when scanning in iDupe 2.6
- Above changes may make iDupe compatible with file vault systems but this still needs testing (volunteers?)
- Changed iTunes version handling to cope with future iTunes versions greater than 9.
- When counting album files, obvious copies are not counted.
- Debug logs can now be accessed on the info tab.
- Debug logging improved.
- Group Scan mode now default for new users.
- Minor interface tweaks.
New in iDupe 2.6 (Sep 8, 2009)
- Snow Leopard compatibility
- Rebuilt as 32/64 bit universal binary in XCode 3.2
- Fixed issue getting selection if no tracks selected on Music library.
- Added option to always treat a 5-star-rated track the keeper in a duplicate set, if it is the only one rated 5 stars.
- Re-worded warning about large selections to highlight the availability of group scan mode.
- Above warning only shown when group scan mode is off.
- Improved debug logging.
- Now requires at least OS X 10.4.
New in iDupe 2.5.3 (Jun 17, 2009)
- Work around iTunes 8.2 bug that made it impossible to scan normal user playlists.
- Rebuild on XCode 3 on Leopard with appropriate adjustments to work around Tiger backwards compatibility issues.
- Minor interface changes.
New in iDupe 2.5.2 (Jun 7, 2008)
- Rebuilt with XCode 2.5 on Tiger.
- Work around Leopard XCode 3.0 bug causing issues with Tiger when (optional) FileMaker or Growl not installed (fixed).
- Restore defaults button restores default settings of several recent features that were overlooked before.
New in iDupe 2.5 (Jun 5, 2008)
- �Added faster copy to "iDupe Remove" playlist instead of removing from Music library mode.
- Fuzzy matching now treats "&" and "and" as equivalent.
- More track-by-track progress reporting when "more information" option is on.
- More warnings given when "show warnings" option is on.
- More functions can be canceled.
- Broke information screens into several sections.
- Interface adjustments, especially tool tip edits.
- Fixed some issues with Step 2 check mark all & reverse check marks actions.