What's new in Floola 2012r1
Jul 13, 2013
- expiration removed
- improved podcast support
- added support for podcasts over secure http
New in Floola 2011r3 (Feb 15, 2011)
- FloolaDesktop is now available
- translations updated
- minor bugs fixed
New in Floola 6.1 (Nov 2, 2010)
- Twitter integration
- fixed Facebook authentication
- translation issue with terms containing line feeds icons can be removed from minelayer
- album artwork added to miniplayer
- update translations
- memory usage improvements
- quicker file add process
- last.fm option to submit any kind of media not just music
- improved smart playlist editor window
- minor bug fixed
New in Floola 6.0 (Oct 24, 2010)
- Facebook integration
- database compression for iPods with upgraded hd
- fixed some crashes under linux
- update translations
- menubar optimization
New in Floola 5.9.1 (Aug 16, 2010)
- issue copying files with international characters
- nano5G support fixed
- fixed an issue where loading would hang
- youtube download fixed
- auto delete unused backup files on low free space
- fixed issues with playlist menuitems under windows
- several minor issues fixed
New in Floola 5.8 (Jul 11, 2010)
- issue with database update on iPod shuffle
- podcast window improvements
- improved quit on error
- improved playback when using Windows Media Player
- update translations
New in Floola 5.7 (Apr 25, 2010)
- Fixed issue when deleting items on shuffle3G
- Updated languages
New in Floola 5.6 (Apr 7, 2010)
- Fixed playback issue under windows
- Updated languages
New in Floola 5.5 (Mar 11, 2010)
- nano5G and shuffle 3G support!
- “add this artwork to items in album” feature
- database update when needed
- updated languages
- added scrollbars to smart playlists edit window
- fixed issue where some files would not play entirely after edit operation
- files can be copied over from a network mapped drive
New in Floola 5.4 (Dec 27, 2009)
- improved artwork scaling algorithm under windows
- first playlist could not be renamed
- listbox clicks should now behave as expected on every platform
- app would freeze when sorting playlists under certain conditions
- alert when all podcast episodes were downloaded
- album artwork no longer has white borders
- fixed issue on menubars when changing translation several times
- fixed some issues when editing notes
- sort by date added issues fixed
- runs some basic database sanitization when needed fixed youtube download
- clean orphan items feature
- fixed some selection issues when renaming items
- fixed issues when deleting photos
- fixed issues when deleting playlist items added sort submenu when right clicking on playlists
- fully compatible with iTunes playlist sorting
- improved compatibility with some untagged mp3 files
- added mediakind smart playlist field support
- improved smart playlist window
- improved jpeg artwork decode
- artwork window will resize according to artwork size
- new "retrieve new episodes on startup" in podcast preferences
- playback position of currently playing song was not saved when quitting
- fixed bug in threaded add/delete artwork
- improved show by menu item
- improved podcast update notificiations
- translations updated
- transcode now allows selecting ALAC codec
- unknown elements are now renamed to "unknown artist, unknown album, etc."
- searching by keyboard now properly ignores leading "the " and "a "
New in Floola 5.3.1 (Sep 25, 2009)
- Resolves expiration message.
- Not compatible with iTunes 9.
New in Floola 5.3 (Aug 20, 2009)
- Expiration warning.
- Albanian,Brazilian,Dutch,French,German,Greek,Italian,Japanese,Russian,Simplified.
- Chinese,Slovenian,Spanish translation updated.
- Manage notes exceptions fixed.
- Fixed issue with playlist sorted by "album by artist" or "album by year".
- Performance improvements.
- Fixed issues with iPod shuffle.
- Fixed issue when renaming album/artist/genre or when adding playlists under Mac.
- Main window minimize issue when amazon window was open.
- Improved podcast decoding.
- Fixed a rare hang when adding m4a files.
New in Floola 5.3 Beta 5 (Aug 7, 2009)
- This version features significant usability performance improvements and many bug fixes.
New in Floola 5.3 Beta (Jul 25, 2009)
- This version features significant usability performance improvements and many bug fixes.
New in Floola 5.2 (Jun 18, 2009)
- Rewritten iPod notes manager.
- iTunes 8.2 compatibility.
- Portuguese,Czech,Dutch,French,German,Greek,Hebrew,Italian and Russian translation updated.
- Fixed ffmpeg installation issue (windows).
New in Floola 5.1 (May 24, 2009)
- Cosmetic improvements.
- Added chapter support in audiobooks.
- Improved artwork duplicate detection when adding compilations.
- Items with embedded lyrics are added quicker.
- Fixed some sorting issues.
- Improved titlebar update under mac.
- Improved song position slider.
- Better compatibility with ffmpeg under linux.
- Dup search detects equal length tracks.
- Fixed issues exporting to playlist.
- Issue on quit.
- Executable integrity check.
- Warnings when adding videos to a non video capable iPod.
- Language couldn't be changed easily under linux.
- iTunes 8.1.1 compatibility.
- Greatly improved startup speed.
- Rename iPod name.
- Faster delete.
- Freeze on quit issue.
- Improved podcast decode.
- Improved transcode functionality.
- Improved destination filenames when looking for orphan files.
- Mac ffmpeg build updated to SVN-r18709 (with swscale).
- Win ffmpeg build updated to SVN-r18681 (with swscale).
- tvout photo option write wasn't honored.
- FLAC and OGG tag support.
- Improved photo support on nano 4G.
- Fixed issue with hidden columns reappearing on startup.
- Updated dutch translation.
- Fix some crash under linux when quickly browsing playlists.
- Fixed some issue when transcoding files.
New in Floola 5.1 Beta (May 10, 2009)
- Several major changes since 5.0 focused mainly on improving performances.
New in Floola 5.0 (Mar 22, 2009)
- Better item list sorting (including in playlists).
- Season and episode number of TV Shows can now be edited.
- Optional confirmation before podcast delete.
- Improved png artwork support in mp3 files.
- Does not crash anymore when removing rules from smart playlists.
- All episodes in a podcast can be marked/unmarked as unlistened.
- Main listbox columns are resizable when browsing playlists.
- Issue displaying small artwork on iPod.
- Improved generation detection.
- Improved compatibility with iTunes artwork database.
- Faster artwork delete.
- iTunes 8.1 compatibility.
- Fixed some exception while loading artwork on startup.
- Fixed issues while quitting.
- Threaded artwork library write.
- Fixed cosmetic issues when using mid and big artwork thumbs.
- Photo synch window minor cosmetic issues.
- Text notes manage window improved.
- Atartup empty podcast error message was fixed.
- Fixed a crash when deleting podcasts.
New in Floola 4.9 (Mar 2, 2009)
- Playback settings were not saved.
- Player resumes playback position when necessary.
- Artwork was not saved to files when selected to do so in preferences.
- Fixed issue when changing main listbox columns visibility.
- New option that allows to consider a track as played when 50% of it was listened.
New in Floola 4.8 (Feb 14, 2009)
- Swedish translation updated.
- Russian translation updated.
- Improved tag read compatibility with mp3tag.
- Fixed issue when storing user and proxy password.
New in Floola 4.7 (Jan 27, 2009)
- Czech translation updated
- Turkish translation updated
- fixed issue with photo database of nano 4G iPods
- quicker way to add artwork to albums
New in Floola 4.6 (Jan 18, 2009)
- Photos are added sorted by date.
- Smart playlist video kind bug.
- Italian translation updated.
- Slovak translation updated.
- Main menubar items issues.
- Improved mem usage in photo manager displayer.
New in Floola 4.5 (Jan 2, 2009)
- Simplified Chinese translation updated.
- Position of add to iPod window saved.
- Add to playlist in add to iPod window fix.
New in Floola 4.4 (Dec 27, 2008)
- Minor cosmetic issues.
- Yellow dominant in gifs under linux.
- Createphoto error fixed.
- Podcast todo errormessage fixed.
- Photos on Nano4G fixed.
- Fixed issue with Google Calendar.
- Used in playlist feature added.
New in Floola 4.3 (Dec 22, 2008)
- Fixed cosmetic issue in Snarl messages
- Fixed rate playing song issue under windows
- Issue when closing calendar window
- Slightly improved dup detection
- Issue notifing under linux
New in Floola 4.2 (Dec 12, 2008)
- Various minor improvements.
- Podcast "mark as not new" fix.
- Issue with download from web.
- Improved podcast decoding.
- Issue with png embedded artwork under linux.
- Slovak translation.
- Google calendars import added.
New in Floola 4.1 (Nov 30, 2008)
- Fixed bug with id3v2.2 embedded artwork.
- Fixed podcast decoding issues.
- Artwork preview in main window (nano 4G).
- Danish translation update.
- Improved gui of manage note window.
- Fixed bugs in manage note window.
- Improved artwork rebuild for non mp3 files.
New in Floola 4.0 (Nov 17, 2008)
- various crashes under Ubuntu 8.10
- fixed blank messageboxes under linux
- tracks can be tagged as audiobooks
- minor issue when trying to repair
- rate current playing song
- not new podcasts that are deleted don't show up again
- when updating
- German translation updated
New in Floola 3.9 (Nov 10, 2008)
- faster podcast add
- blank messageboxes under linux
- crash on FAT32 iPod under Mac
- improved eject message warning
- audio transcode up to 320kbit/s
- podcast can be marked as new/not new
New in Floola 3.8 (Oct 27, 2008)
- current selected songs playback time was wrong
- improved playback of items in smart playlists
- albanian translation
- tag read/writing (id3v2+quicktime) improved
- fixed freeze when adding bad pictures
- issue with preference window under Linux
- fixed "decoding rss feed" error
- fixed issue copying some files under Windows
- issues with auto install of ffmpeg
- improved quit
- fixed issue copying podcast from podcast window
- podcast downloaded with Floola can be imported to iTunes
New in Floola 3.7 (Oct 12, 2008)
- improved podcast decode
- better/faster user experience when adding podcast
- error when adding many podcast at the same time
- fit to screen (crop to 4:3 option) when converting
- linux root=nil? error
- tab order in preferences
- fixed db writing error
- fixed some rare problems when adding podcasts
- visual glitch when renaming genres/artists/albums
- sequential add when copying to iPod
- artwork wasn't embedded in files when copying
- improved mem usage when adding files to iPod
- Czech translation updated
- Hungarian translation updated
- improvements and bug fixes in folder synchronization
- fix playcount update when playing in Floola
- skip count data wasn't correctly loaded from db
New in Floola 3.6 (Oct 12, 2008)
- fixed album mixup
- support for Nano4G
- fixed issue with shuffle playcount
- better quitting
- fixed autocomplete with TAB
- more iTunes like db
- ascending/descending setting for playlists
- smart playlists can be sorted by fields
New in Floola 3.4 (Aug 27, 2008)
- new ffmpeg version (windows only)
- minor issues with iteminfo window
- more consistent autocomplete feature in iteminfo window
New in Floola 3.3 (Aug 1, 2008)
New in Floola 3.2 (Jul 27, 2008)
- fixed some minor issues with photo feature
- faster quit
- fixed artist/album mixup issue
- swedish translation update
- fixed issue searching for certain characters
- fixed issue downloading certain podcasts (ex. CNN)
- issue editing song tags
- photos were not deleted from ithmb files
- fixed minor bugs in photo managing window
New in Floola 3.1 (Jul 7, 2008)
- issue with main listbox columns
- podcast downloading issue when loosing focus
- writes also filetype to db
- ffmpeg paramater issues (mac win)
- improved photo db handling
- issues copying photos when fullres is not available
- invisible files on copy (windows)
- last.fm tracks played in Floola had wrong timestamp
- Korean translation added
- synch folder wrong file count
New in Floola 3.0 (Jun 30, 2008)
- PHOTO SUPPORT
- last.fm startup submission improved
- last.fm "now playing" multiple track submission
- last.fm "now playing" support
- reset last.fm
- audioscrobbler protocol 1.2
- Czech translation
- improved folder sync
- fixed issue with ffmped under linux
- artwork mixup improvements
- get tags from filename also when converting
- df error under linux
- fixed issue when limiting by "least recently..."
New in Floola 2.9.6 (Jun 12, 2008)
- copy from podcast
- minor podcast improvements
- updated swedish translation
- fixed issues in 2.9.5
New in Floola 2.9.5 (May 31, 2008)
- shell timeout error when converting (windows only)
- MSN now playing plugin (windows only)
- shuffle isn't autodetected anymore
- ffmpeg debug mode window
- hungarian translation updated
- fast mode space wasn't recovered when quitting
- overall much faster read/write (db artwork)
- better sorting of albums and tracks starting with "the" and "a"
- Issue adding items to playlist
New in Floola 2.9.4 (May 5, 2008)
- Bug rewriting last smart playlist
- MBS registration issue
New in Floola 2.9.3 (Apr 29, 2008)
- Fast mode enabled by default
- Fix a problem writing id3v2 tags
- Minor problems when getting song info from path
- Fixed issue with smart playlists and older iPod gens
New in Floola 2.9.2 (Apr 16, 2008)
- rare problem retrieving unicode tags
- Japanese translation
- fixed issue with some FWIDs
New in Floola 2.9.1 (Mar 29, 2008)
- freeze issue when editing artwork
- Basque translation added
- Danish translation updated
New in Floola 2.9 (Mar 24, 2008)
- artwork mixup fix!
- (windows) problems with certain versions of robocopy.exe
- semi automatic iPod generation detection
- more iTunes consistent smart playlist rewrite, fixes some issues with podcast rule
- fixed bug with iPod video 5G and 5.5G
- iPod mounted as C: will be detected
- problem with iPod not correctly setup with iTunes as described in online documentation
- Polish translation update
- iTunes playlist duplicate bug
- artwork rebuild problem
- "item mhsd" error
- changes not saved in fast mode
- Thai translation added
- full repair new generation iPods (Classic and Nano)
- added compatibility to iTunes 7.6
- progressive search problem with unicode chars
- artwork consistency check added to fix yet more artwork related problems
- added support for unsynch frames in id3v2.4
- problem with podcasts when iTunes was never used
- fixed issues with date field in smart playlists
- fixed bug with OTG playlists
- Polish translation added
- Floola now generates MHOD 52 and 53
- updated Hungarian translation
- "calculating needed size" speedup in artwork rebuild
- fixed various issues writing some id3v2 tags
- writes disc tag in id3v2 tags
- new copy options
- slightly improved artwork decode speed
- fixed artwork issues introduced in 2.3
- improved support for newer iPods
- minor cosmetic issues
- problems when using with older iPod generations
- fixed issue with GEOB tag in id3
- Motorola ROKR was not recognized
- fixed various issues with artwork
- fixed issues with new iPods
- encoding problems under linux
- fixed album artwork rebuild
- crash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- added support for .ra files
- added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
- fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
- Hungarian translation
- Support for iPod classic and iPod nano 3G
- option to encode wavs on add
- improved transcode feature
- fixed bug removing artwork
- fixed bug with On The Go playlists
- sort tracks properly when more than one disc exists
New in Floola 2.8 (Feb 28, 2008)
- More iTunes consistent smart playlist rewrite, fixes some issues with podcast rule
- Fixed bug with iPod video 5G and 5.5G
New in Floola 2.7 (Feb 22, 2008)
- iPod mounted as C: will be detected
- problem with iPod not correctly setup with iTunes as described in online documentation
New in Floola 2.6 (Feb 11, 2008)
- Polish translation update
- iTunes playlist duplicate bug
- artwork rebuild problem
- "item mhsd" error
- changes not saved in fast mode
- Thai translation added
- full repair new generation iPods (Classic and Nano)
- added compatibility to iTunes 7.6
- progressive search problem with unicode chars
- artwork consistency check added to fix yet more artwork related problems
- added support for unsynch frames in id3v2.4
- problem with podcasts when iTunes was never used
- fixed issues with date field in smart playlists
- fixed bug with OTG playlists
- Polish translation added
- Floola now generates MHOD 52 and 53
- updated Hungarian translation
- "calculating needed size" speedup in artwork rebuild
- fixed various issues writing some id3v2 tags
- writes disc tag in id3v2 tags
- new copy options
- slightly improved artwork decode speed
- fixed artwork issues introduced in 2.3
- improved support for newer iPods
- minor cosmetic issues
- problems when using with older iPod generations
- fixed issue with GEOB tag in id3
- Motorola ROKR was not recognized
- fixed various issues with artwork
- fixed issues with new iPods
- encoding problems under linux
- fixed album artwork rebuild
- crash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- added support for .ra files
- added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
- fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
- Hungarian translation
- Support for iPod classic and iPod nano 3G
- option to encode wavs on add
- improved transcode feature
- fixed bug removing artwork
- fixed bug with On The Go playlists
- sort tracks properly when more than one disc exists
New in Floola 2.5 (Jan 22, 2008)
- added compatibility to iTunes 7.6
- progressive search problem with unicode chars
- artwork consistency check added to fix yet more artwork related problems
- added support for unsynch frames in id3v2.4
- problem with podcasts when iTunes was never used
- fixed issues with date field in smart playlists
- fixed bug with OTG playlists
- Polish translation added
- Floola now generates MHOD 52 and 53
- updated Hungarian translation
- "calculating needed size" speedup in artwork rebuild
- fixed various issues writing some id3v2 tags
- writes disc tag in id3v2 tags
- new copy options
- slightly improved artwork decode speed
- fixed artwork issues introduced in 2.3
- improved support for newer iPods
- minor cosmetic issues
- problems when using with older iPod generations
- fixed issue with GEOB tag in id3
- Motorola ROKR was not recognized
- fixed various issues with artwork
- fixed issues with new iPods
- encoding problems under linux
- fixed album artwork rebuild
- crash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- added support for .ra files
- added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
- fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
- Hungarian translation
- Support for iPod classic and iPod nano 3G
- option to encode wavs on add
- improved transcode feature
- fixed bug removing artwork
- fixed bug with On The Go playlists
- sort tracks properly when more than one disc exists
New in Floola 2.4 (Jan 3, 2008)
- fixed artwork issues introduced in 2.3
- improved support for newer iPods
- minor cosmetic issues
- problems when using with older iPod generations
- fixed issue with GEOB tag in id3
- Motorola ROKR was not recognized
- fixed various issues with artwork
- fixed issues with new iPods
- encoding problems under linux
- fixed album artwork rebuild
- crash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- added support for .ra files
- added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
- fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
- Hungarian translation
- Support for iPod classic and iPod nano 3G
- option to encode wavs on add
- improved transcode feature
- fixed bug removing artwork
- fixed bug with On The Go playlists
- sort tracks properly when more than one disc exists
- adding folders with circular shortcuts
- fixed issue when deleting artwork
- rowpicture error after download
- vbr xing wrong file lenght
- artwork quality degrade issue
- fixed issues with date smart playlists
- show by item bug under linux
- synchronization bug under linux
- fixed crash under linux when using some keyboard shortcuts
- last.fm timezone bug
- ukranian translation
- portuguese translation fixed
- adding youtube video fix
- video playback under linux
- improved artwork preview
New in Floola 2.3 (Dec 28, 2007)
- fixed issue with GEOB tag in id3
- Motorola ROKR was not recognized
- fixed various issues with artwork
- fixed issues with new iPods
- encoding problems under linux
- fixed album artwork rebuild
- crash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- added support for .ra files
- added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
- fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
- Hungarian translation
- Support for iPod classic and iPod nano 3G
- option to encode wavs on add
- improved transcode feature
- fixed bug removing artwork
- fixed bug with On The Go playlists
- sort tracks properly when more than one disc exists
- adding folders with circular shortcuts
- fixed issue when deleting artwork
- rowpicture error after download
- vbr xing wrong file lenght
- artwork quality degrade issue
- fixed issues with date smart playlists
- show by item bug under linux
- synchronization bug under linux
- fixed crash under linux when using some keyboard shortcuts
- last.fm timezone bug
- ukranian translation
- portuguese translation fixed
- adding youtube video fix
- video playback under linux
- improved artwork preview
New in Floola 2.2 (Dec 8, 2007)
- rash when downloading not existing videos to transcode
- fixed unicode char issue with downloaded videos
- added support for .ra files
- added Break, 5min.com and Metacafe video support
- Swedish translation
- fixed issue with artworks on iPod nano and classic
- volume menubar
- Czech translation
- Luxemburgish translation update
- Hungarian translation
- Support for iPod classic and iPod nano 3G
- option to encode wavs on add
- improved transcode feature
- fixed bug removing artwork
- fixed bug with On The Go playlists
- sort tracks properly when more than one disc exists
- adding folders with circular shortcuts
- fixed issue when deleting artwork
- rowpicture error after download
- vbr xing wrong file lenght
- artwork quality degrade issue
- fixed issues with date smart playlists
- show by item bug under linux
- synchronization bug under linux
- fixed crash under linux when using some keyboard shortcuts
- last.fm timezone bug
- ukranian translation
- portuguese translation fixed
- adding youtube video fix
- video playback under linux
- improved artwork preview
- finnish translation
- fixed issue with some podcasts
- AAC audio conversion bug
- shuffle playback wasn't working for iPod shuffle
- reset playback data of all items
- 303 redirect issue when downloading youtube videos
- growl not working in previous version
- sync wasn't working under linux and mac
- playcount bug fix
- video stops when closing playback window
- video playback size under linux
- fixed minor cosmetic issue when adding artwork
- improved fast mode flush
- you can save artwork as .png (right clicking on it)
- look for ffmpeg under /usr/bin as well
- ffmpeg stored in a different location under windows
- fixed bug with podcast download button
- fixed podcast exceptions under windows
- fast mode enabled by default
- encoding incompatible files
- rating column move problem
- fixed exception when adding songs under linux