What's new in Sound Grinder Pro 2.1.6
Feb 17, 2015
- Fixed QuickTime Export - Fixed an issue that prevented QuickTime Movies being created during Export.
- Fixed Font Display Issues - Fixed a Font Display Issue for Yosemite.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.1.5 (Jan 27, 2015)
- Fixed MP3 Playback:
- Fixed an issue where standard MP3 files were not played correctly.
- General enhancements:
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.1.3 (Aug 22, 2014)
- Fixed an issue in creating split audio files
- Fixed an issue when creating split stereo audio files where the 2 channels would inadvertently be mixed before export.
- Fixed an issue with Split File Extension Sets
- Fixed an issue that prevented changing the Default Split File Extension Set
- Fixed an issue with opening Sessions
- Fixed an issue that prevented opening Sessions.
- General enhancements
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.1.2 (Jan 20, 2014)
- Updated eSellerate to latest version:
- Updated eSellerate support to resolve some customer activation issues.
- General enhancements:
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.1.1 (Dec 16, 2013)
- Fixed an issue with multichannel playback:
- Fixed an issue that caused multichannel playback to only play the first 2 channels on certain versions of Mac OS X.
- Folder Aliases as Destinations:
- Added the ability to use Folder Aliases as Destinations.
- Fixed a crash when canceling an Edit Session import:
- Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking the Cancel button during an Edit Session initial import.
- General enhancements:
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.1 (Nov 8, 2013)
- Brand new Cocoa User Interface:
- The entire User Interface has been rebuilt using Apple's Cocoa!
- Enhanced Volume Slider:
- Added current output gain display.
- Added ability to OPTION+click to reset to unity gain.
- Enhanced Broadcast WAVE functionality:
- Introduced Broadcast WAVE as its own output file type. Selecting Broadcast WAVE ensures the Broadcast Extension is written to the file even if "Produce Metadata" is turned off.
- Added support for larger than 4GiB WAVE and Broadcast WAVE files:
- Added support for RF64 and WAVE64 files.
- Select which large file type to use in the File Settings for both WAVE and Broadcast WAVE file types.
- Enhanced MPEG 4 Support:
- Improved MPEG 4 import support to remove potential crash issues with malformed files.
- Enhanced QuickTime File Support:
- Added a fix to workaround a crash in QuickTime that could be encountered when importing invalid audio files.
- Added additional error handling when using QuickTime to read a movie's audio track and it fails.
- Fixed an Edit Session Crash Issue:
- Fixed a crash when exporting audio and the audio came from the Pasteboard.
- Fixed playback crashes:
- Fixed an issue where pressing the Fwd/Rew keyboard keys while the Asset List was empty would result in a crash.
- Fixed an issue where holding Fwd would crash when reaching the end of the Asset.
- General enhancements:
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.0.7 (Sep 17, 2012)
- Enhanced AIFF Support:
- Updated the AIFF support to calculate more accurate file durations.
- Improved read support for 24 bit Integer encoded AIFC.
- Enhanced WAVE Support:
- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash with malformed WAVE files.
- Added import and read support for IEEE Float samples.
- Enhanced SD2 Support:
- Fixed some issues that could cause crashes when importing certain SD2 files.
- Fixed Mountain Lion Issues:
- Fixed MP3 file reading.
- Fixed Edit menu issues.
- Enhanced Float32 Audio Code Playback Support:
- Audio files encoded as Float32 samples should now playback on recent versions of OS X.
- General enhancements:
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.0.6 (Aug 8, 2012)
- Mountain Lion Compatibility - Fixed all known issues with Mountain Lion
- Fixed an issue with Serial Number Authorization - Fixed an issue where the name text field did not appear when authorizing a Serial Number.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.0.5 (Jul 23, 2012)
- Fixed an AIFF import issue:
- Fixed a new issue introduced in previous AIFF import bug fixes that would cause some AIFF files to be imported incorrectly.
- Fixed issue with Apple Lossless export:
- Fixed an issue with Apple Lossless export as a result of revisions to CoreAudio.
- General enhancements:
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.0.4 (May 11, 2012)
- Fixed a crash in Preferences - Fixed a crash when adjusting Preferences when there were no Preferences previously stored.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.0.3 (Apr 17, 2012)
- Fixed a crash issue with WMA files. - Fixed an issue where certain WMA files would cause a crash.
- Fixed issues when closing the application - Fixed a few crashes that could occur when closing the application.
- Fixed issues related to reading various audio files - Fixed a few issues where files could be read incorrectly which may have resulted in crashes.
- Fixed the issue of reading Apple Lossless on 10.7.x - Fixed an internal issue that prevented the processing and playback of Apple Lossless content on 10.7.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.0.2 (Dec 19, 2011)
- Fixed an issue with Excluding Metadata - Fixed an issue where selecting to exclude the Broadcast Extension: Description may still export something for this metadata field.
- Fixed an issue with reading text files - Fixed an issue where reading very long lines of text from text files could cause the text to be corrupted.
- Fixed issue with Commit Changes to Original File - Fixed an issue where performing commit changes to original file in an Edit Session would remove any metadata that was set in the Convert Session.
- Fixed an issue with opening a saved Edit Session - Fixed an issue where opening a saved Edit Session that contains audio other than stereo would not open.
- Fixed several issues with Region Spotting - Fixed several issues related to incorrect and extraneous actions occurring when various Region Spotting actions were triggered.
- Fixed an issue with naming interleaved output files when sourced from split files - Fixed an issue where in some cases, an output interleaved file would retain an erroneous split file extension if the asset was composed of split files.
- Fixed several issues where the application would crash on exit - Fixed a number of issues where the application would crash when exiting and a dialog or alert was being shown.
- Fixed issues with importing ID3 Tags - Fixed a couple of issues when importing different ID3 tags where there was actually no data for the tag.
- Improved Import Metadata - The import metadata columns setup is now saved when the Continue button is clicked and restored the next time the setup is displayed.
- Improved Asset Analyzer - Modified the Asset Analyzer to always report errors silently to the log file instead of potentially displaying an error alert.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 2.0.1 (Aug 30, 2011)
- Fixed a crash issue when importing ID3 tags:
- Fixed an issue where importing certain ID3 tags may cause a crash.
- Fixed an issue with Playback Preview in the Plugin Settings Window:
- Fixed an issue where initiating playback preview in the Plugin Settings Window would display an error.
- Fixed an issue with the Monkey Tools Trim Plugin:
- Fixed an issue where a Fade In would be applied even if Trim Beginning was turned off and the same for Fade Out and Trim End.
- Fixed other Lion issues:
- Fixed other issues related to Lion compatibility.
- Fixed an issue with Audio Playback through AU and VST plugins:
- Fixed several issues related to Preview Playback when auditioning Audio Unit and VST plugins.
- Added a Missing Error Message:
- Added an error message for a rare Core Audio situation that wasn't being displayed to the user previously.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.11 (Nov 24, 2010)
- Fixed an issue with Export Portions
- Fixed an issue where full portions may not be exported if the source file is an AIFF or WAVE file.
- Fixed issues when display units is set to Samples
- Fixed an issue where displaying the duration of video content would generate errors when the display units was set to Samples.
- Fixed a display issue in the Waveform Editor
- Fixed an issue where changing samples would not update the display properly.
- Fixed an issue with Make Silence
- Fixed an issue where invoking Make Silence when not all channels were selected would sometimes not work.
- Fixed an issue with audio output routing
- Fixed an issue where audio playback was not respecting the audio routing setup in Audio MIDI Setup.
- Fixed an issue with pausing audio playback
- Fixed an issue where pausing audio playback may cause a buzzing on some hardware. The fix may also address other playback issues.
- Fixed an issue with drawing short files in the Waveform Editor
- Fixed an issue where drawing short files in the Waveform Editor would sometimes not update the display.
- Fixed an issue with the Monkey Tools Trim Plugin
- Fixed an issue where the application may crash when using the MT Trim plugin on pieces of audio that are very short.
- Fixed an issue with reading MP3 files
- Fixed an issue where processing MP3 files may not happen correctly (exporting a portion and other).
- Fixed a crash issue when importing an "empty" folder
- Fixed an issue where importing a folder that didn't contain any recognizable files would cause a subsequent crash.
- Fixed a crash issue when importing malformed AIFF and WAVE files
- Added a workaround to import Region info correctly when saved with incorrect endianness.
- Updated Quicktime Time Reference Metadata display
- Updated the Quicktime Time Reference metadata display to show a time value according to the current time units settings.
- Updated Time Metadata displays
- Updated the various Time metadata displays to correctly display sample counts.
- Fixed an issue when closing an Edit Session and Saving
- Fixed an issue where closing an Edit Session and then choosing Save would not actually save the session.
- Fixed an issue where output files may not be exported correctly.
- Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, interleaved exported files may be created with mono audio split between output channels.
- Added change for empty Region Data.
- Added change to skip reading Region Data from WAVE files when the chunk data size is 0.
- Fixed an issue where certain WAVE files would not be properly imported on PPC.
- Fixed an endian-swap bug on PPC that would cause certain WAVE files to be imported as Quicktime files.
- Fixed an issue when reading MP3 files.
- Fixed an issue where the current time was not maintained properly when not reading from the beginning of the MP3 file.
- Fixed an issue when writing MP3 files.
- Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed when writing stereo MP3 files under certain special circumstance.
- General enhancements
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.10 (Mar 15, 2010)
- New handling of embedded artwork in media files:
- Artwork in media files is now handled by loading the artwork as needed instead of loading during import. As a result, the "Import Embedded Artwork" Preference has been removed.
- Fixed an issue with Split Extension Sets
- Fixed an issue so now extensions can contain ".".
- Fixed an issue with the Marker Properties UI
- Fixed an issue where the Remove and Cancel buttons did not work in the Marker Properties Sheet.
- Fixed an issue with FLAC metadata
- Fixed an issue where "COMPOSER" and "CONDUCTOR" were not being written to files or read from files.
- Fixed an issue with "Retain Video Tracks"
- Fixed an issue where the video track could not be retained when processing the entire asset.
- Fixed an issue when clearing a numeric metadata field
- Fixed a crash that would occur when clearing a numeric metadata field.
- Fixed an issue with times in the 00h00m00s format
- Fixed an issue where entering times in the 00h00m00s format would not be interpreted properly.
- Fixed an issue with Commit Changes to Original File
- Fixed an issue where the filename(s) would be incorrect in the Convert Session window after performing Commit Changes to Original File in the Waveform Editor.
- Fixed an issue with metadata and Export Regions
- Fixed an issue where metadata from the original asset is not included when exporting regions in the Waveform Editor.
- Updated LAME Codec UI
- Improved LAME Codec UI to better communicate the methodology of the encoder.
- Enhanced Metadata Artwork Editor:
- Enhanced the editor to show as a drop target when dragging to indicate valid image files.
- Added a Remove button to the editor to remove artwork from the Asset.
- Enhanced DRM content handling:
- Updated Waveform Editor button to not highlight if only DRM Assets are selected.
- Added error message when clicking Edit button and a selected Asset is using DRM.
- Fixed playback issues with Play Control when playing DRM and some other content.
- General enhancements:
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.9 (Dec 16, 2009)
- Fixed issue with Quicktime metadata - Fixed an issue where Quicktime metadata was not displayed or used properly after import.
- Fixed issue with processing numeric metadata - Fixed an issue where some numeric metadata would not be processed correctly.
- Fixed an issue with entering edit mode - Fixed an issue where Option+click would not enter edit mode if the Caps Lock key was down.
- Updated Asset List for Assets that cannot be found - Made a slight change such that assets that are not found on the filesystem are displayed in gray text instead of black text indicating they are "offline".
- Fixed an issue with "Safe Saving" - Fixed an issue where saving session files and "Commit Changes to Original File" would fail if the files were not on the volume containing the OS.
- Fixed a potential crash issue in the Auto Trim Settings Dialog - Fixed an issue where changing values in the Auto Trim Settings Dialog could cause a crash.
- Updated Flip4Mac Compatibility - Updated to work with latest version of Flip4Mac Quicktime Component (v2.3.0.14)
- Updated AIFF Importing - Updated AIFF importing to support more valid, but officially non-compliant AIFF files.
- Fixed issue with exporting MPEG4 metadata - Fixed an issue where iTunes would not recognize the track metadata in MPEG4 Audio files.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.8 (Sep 3, 2009)
- Updated Normalizing Analysis - Updated Normalizing Analysis to include stereo to mono mixing.
- Fixed crash issue with Rapid Convert - Fixed an issue where the application would crash when a Rapid Convert process finished.
- Fixed an issue with Audio Unit plug-in support - Fixed an issue where an error would be displayed incorrectly when creating certain combinations of plugins.
- Enhanced Process -> Metadata Tab:
- Added contextual menus for items whose data values are not strings.
- Removed current item from contextual menu (so you can't set an item as its own source).
- Items that have values now have their labels displayed using a bold font.
- Added "Exclude in Export" setting to cause an item to not be included in the exported file.
- Added Filename, Data Fork Size, Resource Fork Size, Creation Date, and Modification Date as metadata sources.
- Added Spotlight Comments as an item that can be specified or set from a source.
- Enhanced Naming Options - Added Data Fork Size, Resource Fork Size, Creation Date, Modification Date, and Spotlight Comment as sources.
- Fixed issues in Portion Processing - Fixed an issue that prevented Portion Processing from functioning properly.
- Fixed issues with creating and reading split files - Fixed several issues related to creating split files and importing and reading split files.
- Added an additional split file naming option - Added the ability to import and export split files named according to filename_channel.type.
- Fixed MP3 import crash - Fixed a crash when importing MP3 files that contain an ID3 v2.4 tag.
- Fixed an issue that would cause some conversion combinations to fail with an error
- Fixed an issue that caused some conversions to fail with the error "error in user parameter list".
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.7 (Aug 18, 2009)
- Fixed various Movie Preview issues:
- Fixed an issue where previewing a movie, selecting a different asset, then adjusting the UI would cause a crash.
- Fixed an issue where changing playback position of a movie while the movie was paused would not updated the image.
- Fixed an issue where if the movie was paused, when resizing the movie preview area, the movie would not redraw until play resumed, and sometimes would leave artifacts.
- Removed Services Keyboard Equivalents - Removed the keyboard equivalents for the Services menu items since these caused conflicts for many users.
- Fixed issues with Find Peak action:
- Fixed crash that would occur if performing Insert Silence followed by Find Peak.
- Fixed an issue where the selection info was not updated after performing Find Peak.
- Fixed minor issue with Loop, Marker, and Region name suggestion
- Fixed an issue such that if you create a loop, marker, or region with the name "1", the next time you create one, the suggested name will be "2" instead of " 2".
- Fixed an issue importing SD2 Annotation as ProTools File Comment
- Fixed an issue where SD2 Annotations were incorrectly read.
- Fixed an issue regarding custom output file naming
- Fixed an issue where fields would be "???" instead of their metadata values.
- Modified Convert Session Save Functionality
- Significantly modified the Convert Session save functionality to be much faster, use minimal memory during save, and create session files that are approximately half of the previous size.
- Fixed an issue when zooming in with the Waveform Editor
- Fixed an issue where an alert would be triggered often when zooming in.
- Fixed a crash when saving Waveform Editor Sessions
- Fixed an issue that would cause a crash when saving Waveform Editor Sessions.
- Fixed an issue with Metadata Sources
- Fixed an issue when specifying a metadata source field that itself has a specified value where the specified value would be used instead of the value from the original asset.
- Fixed an issue with reading files from Audio CDs
- Added a patch to workaround an issue where other apps may cause references to files on Audio CDs to point to the CD itself. This is only necessary on Mac OS X before 10.5.6.
- Fixed a conversion issue - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to convert directly from DVI/Intel IMA ADPCM to MPEG4 Audio.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.6 (Jun 2, 2009)
- Added support for MPEG-1/2, Layer 2 audio in WAV/BWAV and Quicktime files - Added ID/Read support for MPEG-1/2, Layer 2 audio in WAV/BWAV and Quicktime files.
- Fixed bug with source files that have no extension - Fixed a bug where the last character of the filename would be cut off on export if the original file had no extension.
- Fixed bug with creating MPEG 4 Audio files - Fixed a bug involving writing audio packet info when creating MPEG 4 Audio files. The result of this bug would be error messages when playing back created MPEG 4 Audio files in the app.
- Updated MPEG 4 Audio file import - Made a change to more accurately determine the length of the audio in the file.
- Updated file reading support - Made a change for some file types to to remove errors displayed when reading a file when the file indicates a longer duration than the number of samples actually contained in it.
- Fixed a general conversion bug - Fixed a bug involving bounding sample counts when performing audio conversion. The result of this bug would be that when some created audio files using a packetized format when no sample rate conversion was needed and imported into iTunes, would show a length of only 1 second.
- Fixed ID3 Tag issues - Fixed an issue where text that could not be written out as ISO Latin 1 text is now correctly written out as Unicode text.
- Fixed an issue where text encoded in Unicode may not be read properly during import.
- Fixed a bug when reading split files of differing lengths - Fixed an issue where reading split files of differing lengths could cause a crash or other errant behavior.
- Fixed a bug when creating WAV/BWAV files and writing WAVE Info metadata.
- Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the application would crash after writing WAVE Info metadata.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.5 (Apr 8, 2009)
- Added support for Microsoft GSM 6.10 in WAV/BWAV files - Added ID/Read support for Microsoft's GSM 6.10 codec in WAV/BWAV files.
- Fixed bug in MPEG 4 Audio / Apple Lossless files - Fixed a bug in creating MPEG 4 Audio / Apple Lossless files that created slightly malformed files.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.4 (Feb 17, 2009)
- Fixed an issue in writing ID3 Tags v2.3 - Fixed an issue where ID3 Tags v2.3 were written slightly incorrectly such that some readers would ignore the tags.
- Enhanced FLAC reading - Added warning message for various FLAC errors that could be encountered when reading FLAC audio data.
- Fixed an issue in reading FLAC metadata - Fixed an issue where some text was read without the proper encoding when reading FLAC metadata.
- Fixed an issue when writing MPEG 4 Audio metadata - Fixed an issue where some text was not fully written when writing MPEG 4 Audio metadata.
- Enhanced Preset menu - Added the feature that the Preset menu items are now be sorted by name.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.3 (Feb 7, 2009)
- Improved MPEG 4 Audio Import and Export: Added functionality to more accurately read and write the desired number of samples in MPEG 4 Audio files.
- Upgraded LAME support: Upgraded the included LAME support to version 3.98.2
- Fixed an issue when selecting Unchanged Sample Rate for MP3 export: Fixed an issue where selecting MP3 as the file type and selecting Unchanged for Sample Rate displayed Unchanged, but actually selected 8kHz internally.
- Fixed a crash bug when exporting AIFF, QT, and WAVE files: Fixed a crash that could occur under certain circumstances when exporting AIFF, QT, and WAVE files.
- Fixed multiple, identical session windows bug: Fixed a bug that allowed multiple session windows to be open for a single session saved file.
- Fixed a bug in writing FLAC metadata: Fixed a bug that caused read errors with FLAC files that contained metadata.
- Fixed several items related to ID3 Tags
- Added support for v2.2 of Attached Picture (previous support was limited to v2.3).
- Fixed a bug where other ID3 Tags could overwrite the Attached Picture during import.
- Changed such that any specified text in the Metadata Tab overrides other values for Encoded By.
- Updated handling of numeric genres.
- Fixed issues with saving File Settings in the Convert/Audio Tab: Fixed an issue that prevented some file settings from being saved after changing in the Convert/Audio Tab.
- Minor update to WAV file export: Made a minor change to exporting WAV files to not write the 'fact' chunk for uncompressed audio.
- Updated LAME MP3 support: Updated LAME MP3 support to add support for gapless playback.
- General enhancements: This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.2 (Dec 12, 2008)
- Fixed an issue when pressing Escape to cancel text edit - Fixed an issue where pressing Escape to cancel text edit would inadvertently start editing the next item.
- Fixed an issue where metadata in the Metadata Tab could not be cleared - Fixed an issue when editing text in the Metadata Tab where clearing text and then pressing Return would not clear the text.
- Fixed an issue with transferring artwork from MPEG4 Audio files to MP3 files - Fixed an issue where the artwork was not transferred when converting MEPG4 Audio files to MP3 files.
- Enhanced metadata handling when creating ID3 metadata - Fixed some issues and added some functionality with the Title, Year, and Track ID3 metadata items.
- Fixed an issue with using Finder/Spotlight Comments as a Metadata Source - Fixed a crash issue when using the Finder/Spotlight Comments as a Metadata Source
- Fixed an issue with reading ID3 v2.4 text tags - Fixed an issue regarding unknown text encoding when reading ID3 v2.4 tags.
- Fixed an issue where the application would not quit - Fixed an issue where closing the Preferences window with File->Close would not allow the application to quit.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1.1 (Nov 20, 2008)
- Fixed a bug in setting MPEG 4 Cover Art - Fixed a bug where setting the MPEG 4 Cover Art in the Metadata Tab would not actually save it.
- Fixed a bug in writing metadata to MPEG 4 files - Fixed a bug where metadata would be written to MPEG 4 files even if the Produce Metadata checkbox was off.
- Fixed a bug when trying Portion Control in demo mode - Fixed a bug that would generate entirely silent or mostly silent files when using Portion Control and in demo mode.
- Fixed small bugs in AIFF, SD2, and WAV file handling - Fixed a small bug in reading SD2 files and a few small bugs in writing AIFF, SD2, and WAV files.
- Fixed a crash bug with ID3 Comments - Fixed a crash when using ID3 Comments as a metadata source in the Metadata Tab.
- Fixed an issue where an error would occur when converting to AAC Low Complexity - Fixed an issue where a converter quality error would be displayed when converting to AAC Low Complexity.
- Fixed an issue with MPEG 4 Audio Apple Lossless Sample Rates - Fixed an issue where Sample Rates greater than 65535Hz were not read correctly from MPEG 4 Audio Apple Lossless files.
- Fixed an issue where some artwork wasn't display properly - Fixed an issue where artwork tagged with the MIME type "image/jpg" wasn't displayed properly.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.1 (Nov 1, 2008)
- New Portion/Extract Tab - Extract a specified portion from your assets, or all regions or all loops. Includes the capability to perform auto-region on each asset before processing.
- New Monkey Tools Plug-Ins - Introduced the new Insert Silence and Trim plug-ins.
- New Extend Audio to Keep Plug-in Tails - Added new functionality to extend the audio when using plug-ins which generate tails. The specific settings are user-customizable.
- New Volume Control - Added a new volume control for playback. It is implemented as a taper fader with a range of +10dB to -200dB.
- New MPEG 4 Audio file support - Added support for importing and creating MPEG 4 Audio files with complete metadata import and export.
- New "Clear Pipeline" button in Plug-ins Tab - Added a new button to clear any plug-ins from the current pipeline.
- New Editor/Viewer for ID3 Attached Picture Tag - Added the ability to view and change ID3 Attached Pictures.
- New Import Embedded Artwork Preference - Added a new preference to control importing embedded artwork. This option skips importing artwork reducing memory needs and improves performance. The default is on.
- New Display Help in Asset List Preference - Added a new preference to control displaying help messages in the Asset List.
- Changed Single Click Functionality in Edit Window - Changed the functionality of a single click in the Waveform View in the Edit Window. Previously a single click would move the playhead and select a single sample. Now a single click moves the playhead and clears the selection.
- Fixed an issue when playing back MP3 assets - Fixed an issue where while playing several MP3 assets, hitting the right arrow would cause the application to hang.
- Fixed an issue when writing Regions and Loops to output files - Fixed an issue when writing Regions and Loops to output files of a different sample rate than the input file, the Regions and Loops would have corrupted time values.
- Fixed issues with the VST Plugin Validator - Fixed an issue where VST Plugin Validator would not run on OS X 10.3. Also added a timer such that if the validation process hangs while validating a plugin, it will eventually abort that plugin and proceed to the next one.
- Fixed issues when creating 5.1 MP3s with the FhG encoder - Removed an errant error dialog and subsequent crash when creating 5.1 MP3s with the FhG encoder.
- Fixed an issue when creating Droplets - Fixed an issue where an error was encountered when creating Droplets on OS X 10.3.x
- Fixed an issue with Check for Update - Fixed an issue where Check for Update would hang in certain circumstances.
- Fixed an issue with loading Edit Sessions - Fixed an issue where loading a previously saved Edit Session would not display properly if the sample rate was not 44.1kHz.
- Fixed issues with the Monkey Tools Finder Contextual Menu Plugin - Fixed an issue where the Monkey Tools Finder Contextual Menu Plugin was not being installed on OS X 10.3.x. Also fixed an issue where the plugin would not load in certain circumstances.
- Fixed an issue with applying Plugins in the Edit Window - Fixed an issue where, in certain circumstances, applying a Plugin in the Edit Window would introduce pops.
- Fixed a crash when closing the Plugin Settings Window - Fixed a crash triggered when closing the Plugin Settings Window with the window close button.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.0.2 (Jul 16, 2008)
- Fixed an issue where v1.1 Tags were always written to MP3 files despite the setting of the "Produce Metadata" checkbox.
- Fixed an issue where some settings were not restored when opening a saved Convert session.
- Fixed an issue where the application needed to be restarted to exit demo mode after activation.
- Fixed an issue where Droplets would not process Folders. Droplets need to be remade to add processing of folders.
- Fixed an issue where stopping the Rapid Convert process would trigger a crash.
- Fixed an issue where an error during downloading the check for update data caused a crash.
- Fixed an issue where writing v1.1 ID3 tags to MP3 files could cause a crash.
- Fixed an issue where some Audio Units would display an error when processing audio and reached the end of the audio.
- Fixed an issue where the UI was not updated for some VST plugins.
- Fixed an issue where some VST plugins were not recognized as valid.
- Fixed an issue where some VST plugins were not loaded properly.
- Fixed an issue where endless error messages were displayed after applying a plugin in the Edit Window and previewing the audio before processing.
- This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.
New in Sound Grinder Pro 1.0.1 (May 24, 2008)
- Fixed MPEG-4 Playback When More Than 2 Channels in Output Device - Fixed an issue where playing back MPEG-4 (.m4a) files to output devices set up to play more than 2 channels would generate an error and not play.
- Fixed a Crash When Clicking the Loop Button - Fixed an issue where clicking the Loop button with no assets in the asset list would crash.
- Fixed a Crash When Editing Info in the Asset List - Fixed an issue when editing metadata in the Asset List and hitting the Delete key in certain situations would cause a crash.
- Fixed Issues With Reading ID3 Tags - Fixed a couple issues where ID3 Tags were not being read correctly.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.