Delicious Library Changelog

What's new in Delicious Library 3.9.3

Jan 27, 2021

Fixed a very rare bug where library would crash when refreshing an item from a non-US store.
Fixed a bug where showing the inspector pane just hangs under macOS 11 ("Big Sur").

New in Delicious Library 3.9.2 (May 27, 2020)

New in Delicious Library 3.9.1 (May 4, 2020)

New in Delicious Library 3.9 (Mar 1, 2020)

New in Delicious Library 3.8.3 (Feb 5, 2019)

New in Delicious Library 3.8.2 (Sep 25, 2018)

New in Delicious Library 3.7.2 (Jun 10, 2018)

New in Delicious Library 3.7.1 (Nov 10, 2017)

New in Delicious Library 3.7 (Oct 19, 2017)

New in Delicious Library 3.6.2 (Dec 23, 2016)

New in Delicious Library 3.6.1 (Oct 19, 2016)

New in Delicious Library 3.6 (Sep 19, 2016)

New in Delicious Library 3.5.1 (Apr 12, 2016)

New in Delicious Library 3.4 (Nov 3, 2015)

New in Delicious Library 3.3.5 (Oct 31, 2014)

New in Delicious Library 3.3 (Oct 21, 2014)

New in Delicious Library 3.1.6 (Mar 5, 2014)

New in Delicious Library 3.1.5 (Jan 28, 2014)

New in Delicious Library 3.1.1 Build 32 (Jul 18, 2013)

New in Delicious Library 3.1 Build 130 (Jul 2, 2013)

New in Delicious Library 3.1 Build 114 (Jul 2, 2013)

New in Delicious Library 3.1 (Jun 28, 2013)

New in Delicious Library 3.0.2 (May 21, 2013)

New in Delicious Library 3.0 (Apr 25, 2013)

Major New Features:
Fully 3D cover view:
All items are drawn in full 3D [industry first], with multiple light sources and normal, reflection, and environment maps
Books are rendered at actual thickness based on page count
Live lighting changes as items are selected
Shadows draw dynamically behind all items
Many gorgeous woods to choose from for shelves
New "Recommended" pane:
Makes smart recommendations by considering everything the user owns and has ever rated
User can now rate items they don't own to improve recommendations (using search widget)
Recommended items that user's friends own have badges so they can be easily borrowed
Add recommended items to the wishlist with a single click
New "Wishlist" pane:
To populate the wishlist, drag items from recommended items in the right pane or from search widget at the upper right
Or drag URLs or entire blocks of text from Amazon webpages to add items
Wishlist items that user's friends own have badges so they can be easily borrowed
New Flexible Smart shelves:
Instead of discrete "smart shelves" (with rules, like "Author is Larry Niven") and normal shelves (with hand-picked items), all shelves are now both [industry first]
User can add extra rules to any shelf or drag items into or out of any shelf, in any combination
Double-clicking on a shelf shows all its rules and manually added and removed items, for editing
Custom shelves can now be re-ordered by the user or automatically sorted
New global search:
Displays results in a table/popover like iTunes 11
Searches through user's collection, friends' collections, and online
Can be used to find existing items or new ones
Can be used to rate items user doesn't own but has opinions on
User can also search by speaking or selecting a cover color
New iOS barcode scanner app:
Our most requested feature!
We invented video barcode scanning in 2004, and with Delcious Library 3, we're unveiling our fourth-generation, multi-threaded, vector-accelerated recognizer engine, new from the ground up for iOS and OS X
No need to carry items from their shelves to your Mac
Synchronize immediately with your Mac or save items if you're too far away
New interactive charts mode:
Our second most requested feature!
Provides a gorgeous collection overview
Changes interactively as items are added or removed
Shows the total current value of and total amount paid for user's collection, with all prices automatically converted to local currency [industry first]
Double-high media table mode:
New double-line table view always shows the most relevant information in first column, compactly and beautifully
All fields can now be edited in table-view mode directly (finally)
User can specify multiple sort criteria by option-clicking on headers (in addition to using sorts widget at bottom of the window)
Column titles are now media-type specific; e.g., movies have a "director" column, but books have "author" and music has "artist"
Media table resizes automatically with OS X's global "Sidebar Icon Size" from System Preferences
Entire UI redesigned to be bookshelf-centric:
Show covers, a table, or charts using buttons at upper left of the window
Switch between owned items, recommended items, and wishlist items at the upper center
Find existing or new items in search widget at the upper right
Switch between media types with buttons at the lower left
Change sorting at the bottom middle
Show and hide auxilliary right pane using button at the lower right
Source list is hidden by default but available for advanced users
Medium-sized New Features:
We've eliminated the "Preferences" panel—all options are set where they are actually used, instead of in a single global panel
iTunes books will be read into Delicious Library 3 when iTunes is launched.
Two new Amazon stores are now accessible: Italy and Spain
Popover Details:
Dates entered manually remember their precision, so if the user specifies "Jan, 2000" for a book's release date, it won't switch it to "Jan 1, 2000." However, dates are still formatted according to the user's localization settings in System Preferences.
When editing multi-line fields, the "return" key goes to a new line as users expect (no need to figure out "option-return")
Sorting:
User's favorite sorts are remembered and can be re-applied anywhere
Improved per-language article-stripping; e.g., ignoring "a, an, the" in English, "der, die, das" in German
Publishing:
Now remembers multiple places; e.g., set up publishing both to Dropbox and FTP site
Live preview the generated web pages
Privacy options moved to publishing shelves
Printing:
Added "Compact" template to minimize paper use
Added "Insurance" template to show fields insurance companies care about in the event of theft
Interface cleaned up so template selection is obvious
Scanning history:
User's last 500 added items are shown above scanner window for easy rating or deleting
Provides context if a book isn't found online so it can be entered manually
Import from another library:
Import libraries from other machines without removing current items
Importing the same library twice applies the changes but doesn't duplicate items
Can be used to easily sync libraries between computers
Multiple people can scan in items on multiple computers, then merge all the items into one collection
Importing is now undoable
Friends:
Loans now appear in friends' sidebars instead of in main bookshelf view, to reduce confusion
Send loan reminder e-mails with a single click
Friends can be re-ordered in source list. If friends are dragged into a sorted order, they'll stay in that order automatically.
Help:
The "Search:" field in the main menu's Help searches our online forums for relevant answers.
Tiny New Features:
When user first launches the app, most panes explain why they are empty and what to do
All item types from Amazon are supported (user prompted for the type if item is from a store we don't recognize).
More descriptive titles for most menu items; e.g., "Delete 4 Books" or "Delete Shelf" instead of "Delete"
Added expand-on-hover, so if titles or authors are ever drawn truncated they can still be read
Cover view responds to some EMACS keybindings for selection movement
Items can be dragged from and to more places
Items can be dragged to the trash can to delete
User can copy media with command-C and paste into text areas or URL-taking places.
New Features from OS X:
Scene Kit: for fast, gorgeous, interactive 3D graphics
Sharing Services: tweet, iMessage, Facebook, or e-mail items to friends
SQLite write-ahead logging: user's database can no longer be corrupted if machine crashes
Full-screen mode: added and optimized
New drag architecture: multiple items can be dragged in or out at once
Spotlight: Library items are written to Spotlight, can be found quickly in the global Spotlight search pane (command-space) with structured queries like "media:book color:blue" (standard Spotlight keys include: kMDItemAlbum, kMDItemComposer, kMDItemContentCreationDate, kMDItemDirector, kMDItemGenre, kMDItemMediaTypes, kMDItemPerformers, kMDItemRecordingDate, and kMDItemMediaTypes)
QuickLook: Spotlight items (or media dragged onto the desktop) are viewable in QuickLook with full-color covers and complete descriptions
Retina graphics: high-resolution graphics used throughout
State restoration: Delicious Library opens up exactly as it was last closed
64-bit: for unlimited memory, and because it's faster
Obj-C 2 runtime: faster, future-proof
ARC: eliminates certain categories of crash bugs
Constraints-based layout: makes the layout of all buttons and text much more natural
NSSupportsSuddenTermination: quits instantly when it's safe
If it's not safe to quit, user can force quit if there's a long operation in progress, or the app will auto-quit when long operation is over
Automatic termination: can automatically quit under memory pressure
Power assertions: the machine won't idle-sleep during long operations (publishing, importing, etc.)
Some Bugs Fixed:
Deleting thousands of items (and undoing that deletion) is now close to instant instead of taking minutes
Friends:
Friends' libraries now download in the background, NOT blocking the program from running. Yay.
Friends' libraries aren't re-downloaded every launch but only if the friend has changed something
Friends' libraries are imported MUCH more quickly
If friends are removed from Contacts, the app doesn't forget their names
Undoing the deletion of a friend restores items loaned to that friend
Adding a new friend doesn't spam Google when automatically searching for the friend's published library
Adding friends is undoable

New in Delicious Library 2.7.8 (May 8, 2012)

New in Delicious Library 2.7.7 (Mar 14, 2012)

New in Delicious Library 2.7.6 (Jan 26, 2012)

New in Delicious Library 2.7.5 (Dec 8, 2011)

New in Delicious Library 2.7.1 (Sep 23, 2011)

New in Delicious Library 2.7 (Sep 9, 2011)

New in Delicious Library 2.6.3 Build 12901 (Dec 1, 2010)

Video Scanning:
We've completely rewritten video barcode scanning again - we're now on our third-generation algorithm! This version is much more sensitive (meaning we read barcodes that much more often) AND uses less processor power than the second-generation one in 2.5.
On iMacs (since 2009) we're seeing an INCREDIBLE 3x increase in sensitivity, as well as a 1.9x reduction in bad scans.
On MacBook Pro-class machines we're seeing an AMAZING 4.1x increase in sensitivity, as well as a PHENOMENAL >~800x reduction in bad scans.
When you re-scan an item we play a different noise, now, so you know you already have that item. Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep.
Scanning on external 27" displays and earlier iMacs now uses correct settings to work better for them.
2.6.3 - fixed scanning on Mac OS X 10.5 so it doesn't just crash when the video window comes up.
Items:
We've added buttons to quickly find all items by a particular author / director / game company / creator.
We use Amazon even more lightly now, since they have imposed new fetch limits. One change is we ONLY search the country selected in preferences, we won't "fall back" to searching the other five countries if the first one doesn't have an item. This makes us 6x as efficient in our use of Amazon, but means if you're scanning in imported items you might have to manually switch your country/store in preferences.
We've added a new button to manually refresh an item's info to the details pane.
The "Sell on Amazon" link has been updated so it works with Amazon's latest changes.
The "Buy on Amazon" link has been updated so it works with Amazon's latest changes.
The "Find Other Editions on Amazon" link has been updated so it works with Amazon's latest changes.
Publishing & Printing:
Limit the user's picture to 60x60 in case she went crazy and set a huge picture in Address Book, TERRY.
Worked around a longstanding crasher in Apple's handling of dates that showed itself when first loading a sample library or sometimes when simply loading an item from Amazon. (Crasher reported to Apple, should be fixed soon.)
Look at your Mac. Now MobileMe. Now "Back to your Mac." I'm on a horse.

New in Delicious Library 2.6.2 Build 12891 (Nov 30, 2010)

Video Scanning:
We've completely rewritten video barcode scanning again - we're now on our third-generation algorithm! This version is much more sensitive (meaning we read barcodes that much more often) AND uses less processor power than the second-generation one in 2.5.
On iMacs (since 2009) we're seeing an INCREDIBLE 3x increase in sensitivity, as well as a 1.9x reduction in bad scans.
On MacBook Pro-class machines we're seeing an AMAZING 4.1x increase in sensitivity, as well as a PHENOMENAL >~800x reduction in bad scans.
When you re-scan an item we play a different noise, now, so you know you already have that item. Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep.
Beta 2: Scanning on external 27" displays and earlier iMacs now uses correct settings to work better for them.
Beta 2: There's a button added to beta builds to capture images of barcodes that are still being troublesome Mail them to support at delicious-monster.com.
Items:
We've added buttons to quickly find all items by a particular author / director / game company / creator.
We use Amazon even more lightly now, since they have imposed new fetch limits. One change is we ONLY search the country selected in preferences, we won't "fall back" to searching the other five countries if the first one doesn't have an item. This makes us 6x as efficient in our use of Amazon, but means if you're scanning in imported items you might have to manually switch your country/store in preferences.
We've added a new button to manually refresh an item's info to the details pane.
The "Sell on Amazon" link has been updated so it works with Amazon's latest changes.
The "Buy on Amazon" link has been updated so it works with Amazon's latest changes.
The "Find Other Editions on Amazon" link has been updated so it works with Amazon's latest changes.
Publishing & Printing:
Limit the user's picture to 60x60 in case she went crazy and set a huge picture in Address Book, TERRY.
Worked around a longstanding crasher in Apple's handling of dates that showed itself when first loading a sample library or sometimes when simply loading an item from Amazon. (Crasher reported to Apple, should be fixed soon.)
Look at your Mac. Now MobileMe. Now "Back to your Mac." I'm on a horse.

New in Delicious Library 2.3 Build 11635 (Oct 22, 2009)

Fixes for Snow Leopard:
Fixed hang on Snow Leopard when switching from list view to cover view.
Fixed graphical glitches and slowness when scrolling in cover view (especially with large collections).
Fixed the "beam-in" animation for adding items, and the "burning" animation for deleting books on Snow Leopard.
Fixed our most common crasher on Snow Leopard, where launching fails with a message about "_kCAEmitterLayerFill".
Fix crasher when user would duplicate selected items (⌘-D).
Only register the first 10,000 characters with speech recognition under 10.6.0 and 10.6.1, since Snow Leopard will do a 1-minute timeout otherwise, argh. Apple bug #7146027.
The long-delayed Help files are finally here! (I'm sorry this took so long.) These are still being finalized, so please report anything that seems odd using the built-in bug reporter (under the "Help" menu).
Publishing:
FTP site editing is much more sane. Copy and paste now work when editing FTP sites.
Sites added from Transmit now have fancy quotes around them in the list, like “Delicious Monster,” so it's clearer where they came from.
Use a much smarter algorithm to add the folder "/deliciouslibrary" to the end of the path the user gives us, so we won't WON'T WON'T add it twice if the user happened to end her path with "/". DUR DUR DUR.
If the user doesn't have a card set in Address Book OR doesn't have an image on that card, we use a default image when publishing to the web, instead of exporting a broken link and/or crashing sometimes.
We now ALWAYS publish HTML files when we publish the user's website - in the past, we tried to be clever and NOT publish a file if it was the same size as the previous one, but for HTML that hack isn't too smart.
On Snow Leopard we don't reset the currently selected FTP site back to 'none' every time you look at it.
Don't double-escape entities (like "&" showing up as "&") when publishing to iWeb.
Cover view graphics are zippier thanks to some tricks from the author of CoreAnimation.
Selecting very large shelves is faster.
Loading and using a file where you have a friend (or multiple friends) who is no longer in your Address Book is now MUCH faster.
iSight Scanning Items:
Don't pop up two scanner windows when we launch and the scanner preference is on, DUH DUH DUH.
Scanning items by EAN is now supported by Amazon France (even though it's documented not to work), so we allow scanning of items like 3596972080128.
We pop up an error panel if the user's Mac clock is set wrong and prompt her to fix it in System Preferences, since we can't fetch information from Amazon after August 15, 2009 without a correct timestamp.
Bluetooth Scanners:
Fixed a crasher that would sometimes hit when we first pair with a scanner.
Added auto-detection and auto-pairing of scanners under Snow Leopard (just as it always worked under Leopard).
We now recognize and work with more revisions of Microvision's RoV scanner.
Manual Item Lookup:
Manually looking up for items with apostrophes in their names (') works again.
If a user is looking up a 10, 12, or 13-digit number, then remove spaces and dashes for her, so that, for instance, "978-0-316-01876-0" will correctly look up as "9780316018760", the latter of which actually works on Amazon.
Because sqlite files can sometimes become corrupted when a Mac is suddenly shut down or crashes, I've written a utility to repair corrupted files. To use the utility, just hold down the "shift" key when launching Delicious Library 2. This should solve the problems of the few users are having upgrading from version 2.0.x to 2.1 or beyond, when those users have some slight corrupting in their old file.
Details:
Setting / editing a user synopsis is now undoable, as it always should have been.
Added the "series" field back to Music, because some people were using it to store metadata.
The fields "title", series", "subtitle", "notes", and "location" now sort numbers as humans expect, so that if you have books titled "Manga 1", "Manga 2", ..., "Manga 10", "Manga 11", then they sort in that order (eg, NOT "Manga 1", "Manga 10", "Mange 11", "Manga 2", ..., as a computer would do it).
Recognize "DreamCast" as a platform as well as format.
Fix for the "I have become confused" bug on save where 'userSynopsis' is reported as not being valid after editing details for an item.
Interface:
Change keyboard shortcut for "Sell this" to command-shift-S, because command-shift-$ is screenshot, DUR.
Hooked-up the 'Add Manually' button that appears if an item lookup fails.
We now correctly re-launch Delicious Library 2 after we upgrade and/or move Delicious Library 2 automatically to the /Applications folder, instead of CLAIMING to do so and then not really doing it. (This will only affect the next update the user does, NOT this update.)
Fix a missing term in the localization that caused exceptions for Swedes when adding shelves.
Feedback Panel:
Sending feedback works more reliably with Apple Mail under Snow Leopard.
We don't launch Apple Mail when the feedback panel is first shown.
We don't launch Apple Mail ever if the user has never set it up; we just submit our bug using whatever the default handler for "mailto:" URLs is.
Added code to make problem reports MUCH more meaningful to us (the developers).

New in Delicious Library 2.2 (Aug 12, 2009)

IMPORTANT: If you do not upgrade to 2.2, you will not be able to scan in, update, or look up new items automatically as of August 15, 2009. (Your current items will continue to exist, of course.) Amazon now requires all users of their data (eg, Delicious Library) to digitally 'sign' requests for information - this update includes code to do this.
Snow Leopard compatibility
This is the first version that works under Snow Leopard.
There was a bug in my code (see below) which appeared rarely under Leopard, but very often under Snow Leopard, thus making Delicious Library 2 very flakey on Snow Leopard.
The largest single source of crashers and strange warning messages for Delicious Library 2.x has been fixed: the dreaded "recommendations" bug. This bug was rare but annoying - it could affect anywhere a list is displayed in Delicious Library 2, including the Synopsis , Reviews, and Recommendations tabs in the details pane, the list of items in the "manual item creation" sheet, and the list of active fetches in the "Activity" panel. (I finally found a way to reproduce this bug and was able to figure out what I'd done wrong and fix it.)
Manual item searches with characters like "ü" or "é" just started failing again, because Amazon has changed how searches need to be encoded. This release changes to their new (more sane) system.
Manually searching for videos on Amazon Japan was only finding VHS titles, because that site (like Amazon Canada and France) hasn't actually merged its VHS and DVD offerings the way Amazon's documentation describes. We now search only for DVDs instead of only VHS titles, since we had to choose one, and it seems like more people will want to manually find DVDs. (Note that if you scan an item's barcode or drag a URL from any Amazon, any item (DVD or VHS) will be added - this note only applies to items added with the manual search window.)
The harmless but very annoying "stream had too few bytes" modal panel that would pop up occasionally for some users (specifically, once every two days when you clicked on an item that wasn't downloaded from Amazon) is gone.
Debug panel options are turned off in final release builds, so if beta testers accidentally turned on maximum logging and forgot about it, they don't find that Delicious Library is suddenly super-slow and possibly also crashy (eg, when the log overflows the computer).
Fixed a tiny display bug where "Slumdog Millionaire" (or ANY movie with the consecutive letters "umd" in its title) would display as a Sony mini-disc.
iPhone App Removed - Amazon has forced us to remove our companion iPhone application from the iTunes App Store, pursuant to section 4(e) of the contract we must operate under as long as we use their data. They declined to specify any reasons for the exclusion of mobile devices.

New in Delicious Library 2.1.1 (Jun 12, 2009)

New in Delicious Library 2.1 (Jun 12, 2009)

New iPhone App:
There is a free Delicious Library iPhone app for viewing your collection on-the-go (without needing a network connection).
When you first run Delicious Library 2.1 you'll be prompted to download the iPhone app, if you have an iPhone.
Vertical Details Pane:
Our long national nightmare is finally over, and details are vertical again (like in version one), instead of horizontal.
Lots of layout changes because of this. Rather than merely going back to version one's look, I've tried to improve on it.
We now allow copying / pasting the raw cover image from the details pane using standard copy menu item. (Just click on image first.)
File Format Change:
Some fields have been added to make syncing and publishing your collection faster in the future, but this requires a one-time upgrade when you first launch version 2.1.
This upgrade may take a long time. Sorry.
Your new file will NOT work with 2.0, but a backup of your 2.0 data is made in the folder Library / Application Support / Delicious Library 2 - you can use that if you want to go back for some reason.
If you launch Delicious Library after upgrading, and get a message to the effect of "the model file can't be used with the data file," that means you're accidentally running an your old 2.0 version, not 2.1. You probably don't want to leave Delicious Library 2.0.7 on your system after going to 2.1.
Scanning:
Scanning with your web cam, our Bluetooth scanner, or a USB scanner has been enhanced so you can select different kinds of shelves and scan new or existing items and the functionality you might expect now actually works:
If you select a custom shelf in your collection and scan a new or existing item, the item will be created if needed, then added to the selected shelf.
If you select a friend's shelf and scan a new or existing item, the item will be created if needed and then loaned to the friend. (If you have multiple copies of the same item already in your library, only the first one that hasn't already been loaned out will be lent.)
If you select one of your shelves (or your main library) and scan an existing item that has been loaned out, the item will be checked-in. (If you have multiple copies of the same item in your library, only the last one on your shelf that has been loaned out will be checked-in.)
'Number in Series' property is now present for all media types.
Worked around a Logitech mouse driver bug - people who installed the Logitech mouse driver found that many items would draw as their generic types instead of specific types (eg, Nintendo video games would draw as DVDs instead of in Nintendo boxes). Logitech illegally injects their code into ALL running programs in their current software, and actually messes up other people's code.
Fixed a very rare bug we'd fail to scan items that had two different keywords in their subtitles that we recognized, like "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Widescreen & Full Screen Edition)"
Fixed a bug where Backups were sometimes truncated when they were written out, so they couldn't be read in again. (Sorry!)
iPod (classic) syncing:
iPods (non-touch) are now listed under the new "DEVICES" header shelf.
iPods present themselves like iPods do in iTunes, for syncing libraries.
iPods now delete the library out of their "Notes" directory if you set them to no longer sync.
iPods won't needlessly sync as often if you leave them plugged in.
iPods won't ever be duplicated (rare bug).
Only write out the first 1,000 items to the iPod, since iPods are hard-wired by Apple to never display more than 1,000 notes, and it just slows us down to write, like, 7,000 items every time a single one changes.
Pop up a HUD when updating the iPod's contents.
UNICODE support in Searches:
Searches are now encoded correctly when searching for items by keywords in non-English alphabets, including Japanese (finally), German, and French. It turns out there's no real standard for these searches, but I finally figured out what Amazon does.
'Search for Cover Art' now works for items with special characters in their names (eg, "Harold & Kumar").
Translations:
Added a first Korean localization.
Fixed some translations from user suggestions.

New in Delicious Library 2.0.7 (Jan 23, 2009)

New in Delicious Library 2.0.6 (Jan 16, 2009)

New in Delicious Library 2.0.5 (Oct 22, 2008)

New in Delicious Library 2.0.4 (Oct 9, 2008)

New in Delicious Library 2.0.3 Build 10644 (Sep 19, 2008)

Fixed a bug in the 'Shelves' template where we weren't setting the correct encoding, so multi-byte characters would not show up correctly on some web servers.
When viewing a library on the iPhone or iPod Touch, we do a better job of switching to the special version of the published library.
Publishing libraries with unnamed shelves now works.
Cleaned up memory usage when publishing, so it should be a bit less resource-intensive.
Fixed typo in "Library Shelves" template that gave wrong icon to iTunes Music shelf.
The "Paper Stencil" template would throw an error if any of your items had "$" in their names or creator names. (For example, the rap artist "Too $hort" couldn't be published with the Paper Stencil.)
If the user quits when publising her collection, she is now always asked if she really wants to leave her site half-published.
FTP has been completely rewritten. It should work much better, not crash, and is hundreds of times faster publishing if you've already published once (it does a smart merge).
FTP error messages are now very descriptive, and shouldn't ever return bizarro numbers like 'Error code 8'.
FTP publishing to absolute pathnames (eg, "/var/www/html/") now works. Before we could only publish to relative paths (eg, "html_files/").
When editing FTP sites, the 'viewing URL' field is now automatically populated with a decent guess (that is, we look at your ftp host, strip the prefix "ftp." from it if it has one and add "www.", and assume you're probably publsihing to the top level of your website).
When editing FTP sites, the 'path' and 'viewing URL' both now always show "/deliciouslibrary/" as their final component. This was always (quietly) added in the past, but it wasn't really clear in the UI, so some people were adding extra components to their paths themselves, and trying to publish to paths that didn't exist on their FTP site, which resulted in 'file not found' errors, except it used to say 'Unknown Error 550', to make matters even worse.
We're now using the latest MobileMe interface from Apple, which should make MobileMe publishing less tweaky.
Optimized memory use when loading friends' libraries, so DL2 doesn't suck up all available memory, slow down, and (in some cases) crash.
We show a progress sheet when reading another user's library, either from a friend or over Bonjour. This makes it much more obvious why DL2 sometimes pauses (often for a long time) on startup -- it's loading the user's friends' libraries.
If a friend library load (from the internet) is cancelled, we pop up an auxilliary sheet asking the user if she'd like to stop trying to load this library forever, since a lot of users appear to have not realized they were loading friends' libraries at all.
Fixed how we parse Google results when attempting to auto-find a friend's library, because Google recently changed their results format, so we just started getting NO matches, ever.
We now score (and sort) Google's results based on how close they are to the friend we are looking for, and ignore results below a certain threshold. No more returning libraries for "Bob Smith" when you search for "John Doe"!
Changed the UI in "Add Friend" sheet a bit, so it's a bit clearer when the user is loading friend libraries.
There's now a preference to turn off storing of loaned items in iCal.
USB barcode scanners now work much, much, much more reliably.
Shelves with numbers in their names now sort intuitively, so instead of "Box1, Box10, Box2, Box3, ..." you now get "Box1, Box2, Box3, ... Box10."
Fix idiotic bug I introduced in 2.0.2 where the Dashboard widget didn't work. Duh duh duh.
The progress HUD is now a sheet instead of a free-floating pane (like it always should have been), so it won't obscure other applications when Delicious Library is in the background.
If a currency conversion rate can't be found for a price, currencies fall back on being equal to USD, so that they'll at least sort somehow with each other, although their values relative to other currencies will of course be incorrect.
We now attempt to reload global currency conversion rates from the internet every three days.
Added a baseline set of currency data for South Korean Won (KRW), Maltese Lira (Lm), Mauritius Rupee (MUR), Nepalese Rupee (Nrs), Danish Krone (DKr), Malaysian Ringgit (RM), United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED), Chinese Yuan Renminbi (Y), Cyprus Pound (£C), Japanese Yen (¥), Kuwaiti Dinar (KD), Pakistan Rupee (Pra), Swedish Krona (SKr), Qatari Rial (QR), Czech Republic Koruna (CZK), Taiwan New Dollar (NT$), Slovak Koruna (Sk), Swiss Franc (SwF), Kazakhstan Tenge (T), Sri Lanka Rupee (SL Re), Hungarian Forint (Ft), Australian Dollar ($A), Oman Rial (RO), Singapore Dollar (S$), Thai Baht (THB), Icelandic Krona (ISK), Indian Rupee (Rs.), South African Rand (R), Norwegian Krone (NKr), Brunei Dollar (BND), Euro (€), Bahraini Dinar (BD), Brazilian Real (R$), Hong Kong Dollar (HK$), Indonesian Rupiah (Rp), Venezuelan Bolivar (Be), British Pound Sterling (£), New Zealand Dollar ($NZ), Canadian Dollar (Can$), Israeli New Sheqel (ILS), Mexican Peso (MEX$), Russian Ruble (RUB), Saudi Riyal (SRl), Chilean Peso (Ch$). This data is current as of the publish time of DL2, but obviously will fall further and further out of date as time goes by if the user can't connect to the internet and never runs the "Unit Converter" widget on the Dashboard.
The borrower pull-down now shows the borrower's name, not the phrase "Borrower Name". Heh.
If an item is loaned to or from you, the word "You" is shown in the correct place on the borrower tab instead of the word "LIBRARY", to be more clear.
The "Loan" menu item has been renamed to "Borrower" to match the name of the tab it shows, and is now hidden unless the currently-selected item is loaned-out, so users aren't fooled into thinking that this item is how you loan out items.
Searching for cover art for items with special characters in their titles now works.
Fixed bug where some version 1 libraries would not load into version 2 correctly, and would instead claim to be "corrupted" even though they worked fine in version 1. (We are now more strict about enforcing XML rules.) If this bug affected you, you need to delete your version 2 collection in Library / Application Support / Delicious Library 2 before running version 2.0.3, so that DL2 will auto-update your version 1 data file again.

New in Delicious Library 2.0 Build 10329 (May 27, 2008)

Publish to the web in one click
.Mac users are automatically configured � just press the 'Publish' button on the lower right, and DL2 will build a website for you and put it up on your .Mac account
A special version optimized for the iPhone or iPod touch is also published automaticaly when the main web pages are published, as well as a binary version for other Delicious Library 2 users to view
Alternately, publish your collection as web pages into your iWeb site or a local folder
Experts can publish to any FTP site � Transmit's sites are automatically added, or FTP sites can be manually entered
Publish the entire collection or only selected shelves
Choose from multiple templates, or create new templates using HTML and CSS (with a few extensions)
Mark private items with a flag so they don't get published
New categories � tools, toys, software, gadgets, and apparel � join version one's books, music, videos, and videogames
Cover view changes
CoreAnimation gives us the power of OpenGL, the framework used by game writers for fast 3D graphics
Fast, beautiful animations when resizing or scrolling
Funny animations added for adding and deleting items
Covers are loaded lazily and, under 10.5.3, in the background � on separate cores if available � so scrolling is always smooth and responsive, even with thousands of items
Books now use their real cover dimensions when drawing, toys, tools, and gadgets draw with correct relative sizes but aren't exact
Toys and tools and gadgets automatically have their white borders removed and are drawn as if in 3D
Apparel includes shoes and jewelry and draws items as Polaroids�
Tools and gadgets and apparel all have special shelf backgrounds (pegboard, metal shelves, corkboard)
Loaned-out items appear as "ghosted," except tools draw a chalk outline on their pegboard where they should be put back
Zoom in and out using shift-scrollwheel or trackpad gestures on Macs that support them.
Large collections � now using an industry-standard SQL database
File format is changed from flat XML to sqlite database
Delicious Library 2 has no absolute item limit, but will obviously get incrementally slower with more items
Performance depends on machine�s available RAM, its graphics processor, and its disk speed (in that order � on our laptops Delicious Library 2 will launch in seconds with five thousand of items in its database.
Updating or adding an item takes under a second to save, no matter how big the database, now. (As opposed to minutes for thousands of items, before.)
iTunes shelves automatically read in iTunes collection
iTunes shelves automatically stay in sync with iTunes media � albums, TV shows, movies, & audiobooks
Editing a song's info in iTunes updates it in Delicious Library 2 seconds later
Individual songs from iTunes are automatically grouped into albums for display in Delicious Library 2 (iTunes 7 copied this).
Delicious Library 2 is the easiest way to publish your iTunes collection to the web
Publish to other Delicious Library 2 users
Use Delicious Library 2 to browse other users' published libraries from inside DL2 instead of the web
Find users automatically, if they use .Mac or if their site is linked into Google, or enter a URL manually.
Local users automatically share libraries with each other over Bonjour (preference)
Smart Shelves
Build smart shelves using almost any attribute of your media
Smart shelves support drag-and-drop editing
You can build arbitrarily complex smart shelves using logical and, or, and not subgroups as deep as you'd like to nest them
You can search for items based on the color of their covers. There are two fields for this -- one simplifies the cover to primary color names, the other uses fancier names (like 'ecru' and 'salmon') to be more specific. There are also color wells so you can just pick the color visually
Smart shelves autocomplete from your library and from lists of standard words as you type
User-created shelves now always appear in alphabetical order, instead of order of creation
Friend shelves
Friends' collections are automatically viewable from inside Delicious Library 2 if they have a .mac account on their Address Book entries
Friends' collections can also be found automatically if they have been indexed with Google.
Delicious Library will now re-connect to the correct user if your Address Book has been rewritten but the original user is still present (but with a different id), instead of replacing the friend with "DELETED"
Loans are tracked in iCal (as in version 1), but using the new Leopard framework, making this feature much faster and more reliable. Changing a loan's date in iCal will change it in Delicious Library 2 instantly, and deleting it will delete it from Library as well.
iSight scanning is much easier with our new guides, algorithm is slightly tuned up
Bluetooth scanners now auto-pair and auto-connect when enabled
Autocomplete
Editing common fields in the details panel (actors, creators, composers, platforms, etc) autocompletes from other media you have entered
Certain fields also have built-in autocompletion presets: languages, formats, platoforms, conditions, MPAA ratings, and ESRB ratings
Autocompletion also works when building smart shelves
Currency Conversion
Delicious Library 2 now continually tracks the relative values of the world's 25 most popular currencies
Sorting shelves by any currency attribute (eg, retail price, buy price, current value) now compares different currencies correctly using current approximate exchange rates. Eg, if you buy a Harry Potter book from Amazon UK for �20, then it'll be valued at approx. US$39 for sorting
Smart shelf rules with any currency attribute (eg, retail price, buy price, current value) automatically convert other currencies to your local currency using current approximate exchange rates. Eg, if you are in America and make a shelf for "Items Under $30", your Harry Potter book that you bought from Amazon UK for �20 will NOT be on it
[Due to a last-minute change in Leopard, in this release the currency conversion feature requires that you have launched the Dashboard conversion widget at least once. We hope to address this in a future release.]
Scripting: AppleScripts, shell scripts, and CoreFoundation tools can be put into /Library/Scripts/Applications/Delicious Library 2/ or your home folder/Library/Scripts/Applications/Delicious Library 2/ and they will automatically show up in Delicious Library 2's main menu
User-supplied script menu items always start with Apple's "S" script graphic, so they don't present a security / crashing risk. Use scripts at your own risk!
Shell scripts and applications are called with the Delicious Library 2's process id and the current data file's URL on their command-lines. This would look something like: "-pid 5888 -datafileURL file://localhost/Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Delicious Library 2/database.deliciousLibrary2"
Specifying how/where the menu item should appear for your scripts
An AppleScript has a line that starts "-- Menu Title:" you can specify the title of this script in the application's main menu. For example, '-- Menu Title: [1.5] "My Exciting Script"' Leaving out the [number] adds the new menu item to the end
An AppleScript has a line that starts "-- Menu Path:" you can specify under which menus you'd like to put your new script, and create new submenus as well. For example, '-- Menu Path: [2], "Import", "Import Scripts"' Leaving the [number] out from new submenus adds them to the end, specifying just a [number] says to look at whatever submenu is at that number, no matter what it is named (eg, in case it is localized)
An AppleScript has a line that starts "-- Menu Keyboard Shortcut: alt-command-K. For example '-- Menu Keyboard Shortcut: alt-command-K' or 'Menu Keyboard Shortcut: % - * - K' are the same
Shell scripts can do the same three things (above) by using "#" instead of "--" (eg, using the shell comment prefix instead of the AppleScript ones)
Applications can do the same thing by including a C string constant somewhere in their source code that starts with "//" instead of "--". For example, a programmer might say: static char *menuTitle= "// Menu Title: [3.5] My Exciting Helper App";
AppleScript Support
Getting values from, creating, changing, and deleting all type of media, user shelves, and borrowers is supported using standard AppleScript syntax (eg, "get", "make new", "set", "delete") whenever it's legal. An example of an "illegal" thing to do would be to change the borrower on an existing loan -- loans are defined to be immutable, and thus you must delete a loan and create a new one if you want to change a borrower
Example AppleScripts can be installed with a single click from the Preferences panel
Works with Apple Remote
Pressing play on a medium will open the file or launch the URL you have associated with the selected medium
If you don't associate any URL with a medium, some have built-in play actions -- books will open on Amazon's "Look Inside" site, and iTunes songs or movies will simply start to play in iTunes
Printing is redone with cooler, extensible HTML-basesd templates and a preview mode
Speech Input
When speaking a title, you can now speak just the first part (up to a ":") of a multi-part title. For example, you can say "Visual Explanations" to get to "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative"
New cover graphics
New movie types: HDDVD, Blu-ray, and UMD movies
More music types: Paper CD cases, and 7" and 10" vinyl records
New video game types: XBox, XBox 360, Wii, Playstation 3
Legacy video games: Sega CD, Sega 32X and Neo Geo
Export to comma and tab separated files, Bookends (via BibTeX), Excel (via SYLK), XML, and the six most common bibliography formats (AMA, Turabian, APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA), or back to Delicious Library 1's format.
Import from delimited files with a flexible import assistant that guesses the file type and then has tweakable settings. (Delicious Library 1 files are automatically and non-destructively imported on first launch.)
New fields for items
The type of an item is now a pop-up, so if an item is mis-classified it can be changed.
The dominant color of the cover is automatically calculated, can be used in smart shelves ('all blue items') and sorting items on shelves
Private collection marks items as non-published.
The country field is now obeyed when refreshing an item, assuming there's a web source in the specified country
Composer is now avaiable as well as creator, especially for classic pieces
Screenwriter and cinematographer have been added for movies
Players is now separated into minimum and maxium players for games and videogames
Serial Number has been added to videogames and software and gadgets and tools
Dimensions are now editable, and are obeyed when drawing most item types
Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress are new for books and videos and music, the former is automatically filled for many items, but the latter is not (yet). Both are sorted correctly according to library standards.
The asin field has been renamed Amazon link and, if present, makes the item auto-refresh its information every couple days (if the item is inspected), but it will not overwrite user changes that were made in version 2
Details pane redone to be horizontal, supports title-only mode or complete hiding
Inspecting an item that was loaded from Amazon will automatically update its information (again, on a background thread and separate core if available) if it hasn't been refreshed in a little while.
Quick Look can inspect items dragged out onto desktop or dragged into e-mail
Backup and restore functionality built in, to checkpoint your collection or copy to another computer

New in Delicious Library 1.6.6 (Oct 24, 2007)