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Audiobook Builder Changelog

What's new in Audiobook Builder 2.2.8

Dec 22, 2023
  • Now fully compatible with M3 Macs. Still works great on every other Mac that can run OS X 10.11 El Capitan and later, all the way up to the latest macOS 14 Sonoma.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.2.7 (Sep 30, 2023)

  • Ready for macOS 14 Sonoma. Still works great on OS X 10.11 El Capitan and later.
  • Includes the usual minor user interface fixes and adjustments.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.2.6 (Nov 28, 2022)

  • We broke renaming individual Chapters in Audiobook Builder 2.2.5 but it’s all better now.
  • Corrects an issue preventing OS X 10.11 and macOS 10.12 users from creating new documents.
  • Contextual menus in Cover and Chapter artwork now work for our macOS 13 Ventura users.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.2.5 (Nov 7, 2022)

  • New:
  • Ready for macOS 13 Ventura.
  • Fixed:
  • Prevents a potential crash when a filesystem error occurs while building your audiobooks.
  • Minor Import user interface adjustments.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.2.3 (Aug 8, 2022)

  • Ever tried to copy an image file in the Finder and paste into the Cover artwork? That actually works now.
  • Works around a duration issue when MP3 files have invalid seamless playback data stored in an iTunSMPB comment.
  • No longer presents “no audio in file” errors for WAVE files with MP3 audio data.
  • Corrects an error reporting glitch on pre-macOS 11.3 Macs.
  • The long description (ldes) tag is back in action, so the Description you enter in Audiobook Builder will again appear on some classic iPods.
  • Prevents an error when a file’s audio track is shorter than the overall duration of the chapters text track.
  • Includes minor user interface enhancements and adjustments.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.2.2 (Jan 31, 2022)

  • Prevents a rare situation where audio may be out of order in the final build of an audiobook.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.2.1 (Jan 7, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • Corrects an issue that can cause error -17771 when building.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.2 (Jan 7, 2022)

  • New:
  • Ready for macOS 12 Monterey.
  • Improves build times by up to 20%, depending on disk performance, and writes significantly less to disk in the process, saving wear and tear.
  • Year, or ‘©day’, metadata is now encoded as a full date, giving players that can show the month and day more to work with. Click the More… button in Cover and look for the new Date option.
  • Fixed:
  • Elements in the Rename window’s custom format field no longer shift upward several points on macOS 12 Monterey.
  • Prevents a potential crash when creating a new document.
  • Enhances Chapter artwork with better compression quality and brings a subtle fix in how dimensions are calculated so colors won’t distort on occasion.
  • Cover artwork also benefits from better compression quality.
  • We accidentally disabled that sound of triumph (or the custom sound you might’ve set in Preferences) you’d hear as a build finished a couple of minor updates ago. That sound is back, folks.
  • Prevents a crash when adding files but canceling before all of the files could be scanned for their duration.
  • No longer encodes “long description”, or ‘ldes’, metadata and no longer trims the regular description metadata, or ‘desc’, to 255 characters.
  • Includes minor user interface enhancements and adjustments.

New in Audiobook Builder 2.1.4 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Brings Audiobook Builder 2.1.3’s fix for occasionally shortened MP3 files to our macOS 11.3 Big Sur users. Tests show the issue doesn't happen on macOS 11.2.3 or earlier so everyone’s got the fix now.
  • For our Mac App Store users, this version corrects an issue in Audiobook Builder 2.1.3 that broke the Add Music and Add iTunes feature.

New in Audiobook Builder 1.5.7 (Apr 3, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Resolves a potential situation where CDs may not be ejected after importing
  • Uses far less memory when adding from iTunes so more tracks can be added at the same time
  • New application and document icons for better compatibility with macOS 10.12 Sierra
  • Minor user interface fixes and enhancements

New in Audiobook Builder 1.5.6 (Sep 16, 2016)

  • Ready for macOS 10.12 Sierra.
  • Fixes:
  • Disables App Nap when adding files, importing CDs, and building your audiobooks so Audiobook Builder doesn’t appear to stall.
  • Minor user interface adjustments and error reporting improvements.

New in Audiobook Builder 1.5.5 (Mar 26, 2016)

  • Recovers more gracefully when the iTunes Media folder is moved or the preferred output location is removed between builds
  • Begins a CD import session when a CD is dragged to the Chapters list, instead of adding the CD like a regular audio file, heading off a painful delay
  • Minor fixes, user interface adjustments, and error reporting improvements

New in Audiobook Builder 1.5.4 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Ready for OS X El Capitan
  • Ready for Retina Display
  • Spanish localization
  • Fixes:
  • Resolves a situation that could prevent Audiobook Builder from opening
  • Better audio quality when building at 32 Kbps and less
  • Improved compatibility with iTunes
  • Improved importing of individual track names
  • Minor audio handling adjustments
  • Minor user interface adjustments

New in Audiobook Builder 1.5.3 Build 53 (Jul 28, 2012)

  • Fixes:
  • Corrects a potential issue when adding files with extra-long names
  • No longer leaves ".mp4" in file names when importing tracks from CDs
  • Tweaks to ensure adding files to a Project doesn't cause the interface to hang
  • Minor error management fixes
  • Minor user interface adjustments

New in Audiobook Builder 1.5.2 Build 49 (Jul 28, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Skip backward/forward buttons in Chapter and File Inspectors
  • Portuguese localization
  • Author field now autocompletes with the last 10 Authors
  • Open Recent button next to Open an Existing Project button in main window
  • Fixes:
  • OS X Lion user interface fixes
  • Minor user interface adjustments

New in Audiobook Builder 1.5 Build 46 (May 14, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Advanced metadata tagging with the new More Info feature, including Narrator,Year and Description
  • Batch Chapter renaming with fully-customizable string formats
  • Preferences for choosing which metadata tags to use for Author and Narrator
  • Russian localization
  • Growl support
  • Fixes:
  • Improved support for non-Apple playback devices and software
  • Minor user interface adjustments

New in Audiobook Builder 1.2.6 Build 36 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Improved performance when importing from CDs and building audiobooks
  • Swedish localization
  • Traditional Chinese localization
  • Fixes:
  • Removes invisible control characters from Chapter names before writing to disk, preventing loss of some audio data
  • Minor AAC encoding adjustments
  • Minor user interface adjustments

New in Audiobook Builder 1.2.5 Build 3 (Dec 29, 2010)

  • Corrects a potential hang when adding files under Mac OS X 10.4.x

New in Audiobook Builder 1.2.5 (Dec 26, 2010)

  • Respects actual pixel dimensions (instead of resolution) of cover and Chapter artwork
  • Windows now work properly with Expose and Spaces (Mac OS X 10.6 only)
  • Now supports more than 127 Par ts per build
  • Now supports track numbers and track counts higher than 234
  • Optimized iTunes integration to quickly add hundreds of Parts to iTunes
  • Correctly handles diacriticals and forward slashes in title tags, which could lead to faulty builds
  • Prevents potential incorrect "This CD has already been imported" messages

New in Audiobook Builder 1.2.3 (Oct 20, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Chapter images may now be up to 512x512 pixels
  • Fixes:
  • Resolves an issue that could lead Audiobook Builder to ignore the user's file naming preference
  • Resolves a potential error -43 when building from audio data imported from an audiobook
  • Resolves a potential error -43 when using pass through

New in Audiobook Builder 1.2.2 (Sep 2, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Provides better compatibility with Mp3tag. Mp3tag remains somewhat incompatible with audiobooks that include cover or chapter art (or any MP4/M4A/M4B file with an artwork video track).
  • Autosave now works between each CD imported during a single import session
  • Corrects an issue preventing Mac OS X 10.4 users from importing CDs
  • Handles special characters in some MP3 titles by parsing ID3v1.1 tags directly, working around QuickTime’s inability to convert from ISO 8859-1 text encoding.
  • Prevents a rare situation where users could see a message stating a CD has already been imported followed by a crash
  • Improves the way required space is estimated to help prevent errors related to low disk space

New in Audiobook Builder 1.2.1 (Jul 10, 2010)

  • Fixes:
  • Corrects a potential issue when importing more than one CD during a single import session
  • Corrects a potential issue with recognizing when an audio CD has been inserted

New in Audiobook Builder 1.2 (Jul 9, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Streamlined Import CD process
  • Menu items to move Chapters and Files up or down the list of Chapters
  • Sparkle update support
  • Additional VoiceOver support
  • Fixes:
  • When Chapter artwork is removed it now remains permanently removed instead of returning the next time a Project is opened
  • Cover artwork now appears without stretching on iPad
  • Add to iTunes feature ignores corrupt artwork instead of failing
  • Resolves an outstanding -43 error
  • Corrects a potential issue with the ordering of audio tracks in some audio files
  • Minor Import CD user interface adjustments

New in Audiobook Builder 1.1.5 (Feb 11, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Incoming File name style preference
  • Fixes:
  • Resolves a blank error that could occur when trying out Audiobook Builder before registering
  • Fixes a rare -43 error
  • Minor user interface adjustments

New in Audiobook Builder 1.1.4 (Jan 5, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Drag and drop straight from iTunes to your Audiobook Builder Projects.
  • Fixes:
  • Resolves a potential condition that could lead some Projects to build with some audio data missing or out of order.
  • Fixes a crash that could occur when using the Revert to Saved... menu command.

New in Audiobook Builder 1.1.3 (Dec 23, 2009)

  • Preserves audio file titles as tagged in each file.
  • No longer overwrites tracks imported from CD when they are named identically.
  • Corrects all reported -43 errors.
  • Resolves a potential issue where some data may be duplicated in or omitted from an Audiobook.
  • Build performance enhancements - in some cases up to twice as fast.
  • Minor interface adjustments.
  • Minor German localization improvements.

New in Audiobook Builder 1.1.2 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Addresses a performance issue during import from CD under Mac OS X 10.6.
  • Cover Art reflections will now be drawn properly under Mac OS X 10.6.
  • Minimizes a potential performance issue during build.
  • Corrects two possible causes for -43 errors during build.
  • Audiobook Builder and Action Complete sounds have been restored.
  • Missing Import CD Eject button has been restored.
  • Minor user interface adjustments.

New in Audiobook Builder 1.1.1 (May 19, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Progress bar in Dock icon when adding Files, importing CDs and building.
  • Fixes:
  • Resolves a hang when entering the Import CD sheet.
  • Enhances performance when entering the Build section.

New in Audiobook Builder 1.1 (May 15, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Part length is no longer limited to 12 hours.
  • Build Options provides multiple settings for splitting Audiobooks into Parts.
  • Audio format can be adjusted just before building Audiobooks.
  • Genre can be set before building Audiobooks.
  • Additional VoiceOver support.
  • Unnecessary CD track numbers are now removed during import.
  • Audio format of individual Files now visible in the Inspector.
  • Fixes:
  • Resolves potential crash when reverting to the last saved version of a Project.
  • Will not add files that exceed QuickTime’s 32-bit limitations.
  • Automatically splits files that exceed user’s specified target Part length.
  • Corrects a situation where Audiobooks could end up missing several seconds at their end.
  • Resolves a potential for Chapter markers to drift slightly over the duration of an Audiobook.
  • Minor user interface fixes and adjustments.

New in Audiobook Builder 1.0.11 (Sep 13, 2008)

  • Supports artwork associated with iTunes tracks.
  • Compatibility fix so Audiobooks play properly under iPhone OS 2.x.
  • File previews now play properly and stop when Projects are closed.
  • Properly handles umlauts and forward slashes when saving Chapter art files.
  • Prevents multiple documents from opening simultaneously via drag and drop.
  • Robust fix for crashes related to QuickTime 7.5

New in Audiobook Builder 1.0.10 (Jun 12, 2008)

  • Fixed: QuickTime 7.5 compatibility - Projects will open and CDs will import without leading to a crash

New in Audiobook Builder 1.0.9 (May 15, 2008)

  • Autosave periodically and after importing CDs
  • Chapter artwork is now scaled to 320x320
  • Minor interface enhancements
  • Chapter preview works after the first use
  • Lists display selection properly after a right-click or Control-click
  • Better detection of iTunes Library folder location
  • Chapter text encoding is now stored properly for better compatibility with QuickTime applications
  • Track names as displayed in iTunes will now be used when adding from iTunes
  • File extensions are properly removed from tracks imported from CD
  • No more slow saves in Mac OS X 10.5 and later
  • Purchase button now works properly on PowerPC-based Macs