Transcribe! Changelog

What's new in Transcribe! 9.40.2

Feb 29, 2024
  • Fix a bug affecting Sonoma (but not affecting Ventura). The scrolling of the waveform during playback would become jerky after a while.

New in Transcribe! 9.40.1 (Feb 28, 2024)

  • Fix a bug affecting Sonoma (but not affecting Ventura). The scrolling of the waveform during playback would become jerky after a while.

New in Transcribe! 9.40.0 (Jan 5, 2024)

  • We have reorganised the menus.

New in Transcribe! 9.30.2 (Jul 28, 2023)

  • Fix a minor bug.

New in Transcribe! 9.30.1 (Jul 11, 2023)

  • Fix some minor issues.

New in Transcribe! 9.30.0 (Jul 7, 2023)

  • We now support media files that have multiple sound tracks (e.g. Stem files or a film with sound tracks in different languages). Transcribe! will load all the sound tracks and you can select which one you want on the View menu. It has always been possible to have multiple views of a sound file by using the Split command on the View menu and this now becomes especially useful as you can have multiple views with each view showing a different sound track.
  • When you save a transcription (xsc) file, we now save the state of all your views (if you have used the Split command and have multiple views) instead of just the currently active one.
  • The "Reload last transcription at launch" Preferences option is now called "Reload open windows at launch" because that's what it now does. It loads all of the transcriptions that were open when you last shut down the app, instead of just the most recent one. On the Mac this also applies to when you shut down the computer and it asks whether to re-open windows when logging back in.
  • We now save the window size when you save a transcription file. I don't know why we didn't always do this.
  • With GStreamer we can now read various media files that didn't work before, particularly webm files.
  • On videos we can now display subtitles in the usual way, overlaid on the video. This applies to "integral" subtitle tracks from within the video, and also external subtitle files (e.g. srt files). This may not be very relevant to musical transcription, but not everyone is using Transcribe! solely for music. This feature is accessed via the View menu of the Video Viewer.
  • On Windows if you open a track on an audio CD then it will now copy the track to a temporary file, which works much better than playing it directly from the CD as we used to. We've also removed the "Copy sound file" command which was mainly for copying tracks from CD. If you want to use Transcribe! to copy a track from a CD then you can load the track and "Export sound file".
  • A new option in Preferences: "Paused playback point follows selection" meaning that if you are paused and you adjust the selection or current point in any way then the paused playback point will be moved to the start of the selection. This is useful for people who want to use the paused point as their "current point".
  • New commands for adjusting selection by 500ms and 30ms. You would need to program a keyboard shortcut to use them. The idea about 30ms is that with a video this is more or less frame-forwards and frame-backwards, depending on the exact frame rate of the video.
  • Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 9.25.0 (Mar 19, 2023)

  • If the Transcribe! main window is wide enough then we stretch the speed slider and allow up to 200% speed, and we add a cents (hundredths of a semitone) slider in addition to the semitones slider. Of course it has always been possible to get these effects in the audio effects window.
  • We have overhauled the keyboard shortcuts system. We now allow the previously hard-wired shortcuts (like F1 and '.' and 'M' etc) to be reprogrammed just like any other keystroke, and if a menu command corresponds to a keyboard shortcut then we display the shortcut on the menu as an accelerator (in the past we only displayed those hard-wired ones). Also we now distinguish between some keystrokes which we used to regard as identical, e.g. PageUp/Down on the main keyboard, and PageUp/Down on the Num keypad. If you have programmed a shortcut for one of those keys then you may need to reprogram it if you want it to work for the other one of the pair.
  • We have added a "Quick setup for pedals which pretend to be keyboards" button in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog with ready-made setups for 1-button, 2-button, and 3-button pedals, and the Vidami 5-button pedal. The Vidami pedal is specifically designed for musicians, it has controls for switching between different speeds and different loops, and can trigger ten commands not five, because each button generates a different character for a tap and for a longer press.
  • Some new commands, useful with pedals. You will need to program a keyboard shortcut if you want to use them: SpeedButtonCycleLtoR & SpeedButtonCycleRtoL to cycle through the speed buttons. Also PlayCueToggle & PlayReviewToggle needed for the Vidami pedal, and if you want to do Cue & Review using global shortcuts on Windows (which do not produce a key-up event).
  • In the keyboard shortcut & MIDI shortcut dialogs you will see a new option at the bottom: "Change the keystroke for a shortcut which already exists" and "Change the MIDI controller for a shortcut which already exists". These enable you to take an existing programmed shortcut and change the command which triggers it (instead of deleting the old shortcut and creating a new one).
  • "Display as Mono" is now on the View menu where it always should have been, instead of being a Preference. This means that it is now saved in your transcription file. You can still set a Preference for newly loaded sound files by using Preferences - New Windows - "Set defaults from current window".
  • Added a metronome clicks on/off switch on the Misc page of the Fx window and on the Play menu, and you can create a shortcut for the PlayClicksToggle command if you want. See the Help for the Misc page for more info.
  • Added a command on the Play menu for switching loop delay on/off, and you can create a shortcut for the PlayLoopDelayToggle command if you want. The amount of delay is set on the Preferences - Playback page.
  • The "Speed Up" command (Play menu) now saves its settings between sessions, like a Preference.
  • Various other minor changes and bug fixes.

New in Transcribe! 9.24.0 (Oct 26, 2022)

  • Fixes a minor bug (the creation of an unwanted diagnostic file called vvdebug.txt).

New in Transcribe! 9.23.0 (Sep 23, 2022)

  • It is purely for the purpose of fixing issues with macOS 13 Ventura.

New in Transcribe! 9.21.0 (May 8, 2022)

  • Fixes some minor bugs.

New in Transcribe! 9.20.0 (Feb 27, 2022)

  • Windows: we now include GStreamer as part of xscsetup.exe, not requiring a separate install. We already did this for the Mac in version 9.1.
  • MIDI: we now offer another way of using continuous controllers, where you can "Select Response Type" - "Commands". This means that Transcribe! commands can be generated every time a specific value is seen from the control. This is useful with controllers that have a "relative" or "endless" mode. Click the Help button in the relevant dialog for more info.
  • We now allow Import/Export of EQ presets (to a text file). This is for transferring presets to a different computer. Also you can now rename EQ presets, which wasn't possible before.
  • New command "Fit Text Zone Height" on the Text menu. It adjusts the window height so that all the text blocks are shown.
  • Mac: if you have transcription windows open in different Spaces, then pressing the Fx button will show the Fx window in the Space you are on (rather than switching to the Space where the Fx window already was).
  • New command TextBlockNewCurrent which places it at the current point always. You will need to program a keyboard shortcut to use it.
  • Various other minor changes and bug fixes.

New in Transcribe! 9.10.0 (Jun 7, 2021)

  • Various improvements including the first native build for Apple Silicon M1 Macs.
  • Mac: we now have a native build for Apple Silicon (M1 processor) machines, which means you have to choose the right version. In fact the Intel version will also run on Apple Silicon machines but obviously you get better performance with the Apple Silicon version. ALSO we now include GStreamer as part of the Transcribe! Mac download. This has the advantage of convenience and of avoiding confusion about which GStreamer version to use with which Transcribe! version. The only drawback is that the download is bigger: 50 MB (Intel) or 43 MB (Apple Silicon).
  • By popular request, you can now have whatever speed buttons you want (in the range from 5% to 200%), in the upper toolbar. See Preferences - Toolbar for how.
  • CPU usage while playing is now somewhat less, but you can make it lower still by selecting "Reduced CPU" in Preferences - General. This doesn't affect the audio or video, it merely reduces the frame rate of screen redrawing, meaning that scrolling of the waveform or movement of the play position indicator will be less smooth. This is helpful if you are using your laptop on battery power, or want to stop the fan running.
  • We introduced a change in 9.00 which was that maximized transcription windows (e.g. double-click the title bar) would be restored to normal (non maximized) size when you switch transcriptions. This proved to be unpopular so we have now returned to the old way which is that they stay maximized.
  • Metronome clicks: fixed a bug which was, in the last version clicks only worked properly when play speed was 100% !
  • We can now read "mogg" Ogg Vorbis files (multi track Ogg Vorbis audio).
  • New command on the View menu to "Show All Sound Tracks" (for media files with multiple sound tracks).
  • Changing the soundtrack in the Sound File Info window now changes the actual soundtrack in the View.
  • Two-finger pinch & zoom on trackpads, for zooming the waveform, previously worked on some combinations of OS and trackpad but not all. It now works on rather more devices, let me know if it doesn't work on yours (if your trackpad does work for pinch & zoom in other applications).
  • New commands MarkerNewSectionCurrent, MarkerNewMeasureCurrent, MarkerNewBeatCurrent which place the new marker at the current point (red triangle) always.
  • New commands for 10-second selection adjustments (previously 5 was the biggest).
  • You will need to program keyboard shortcuts to use these.
  • The "Export Text Blocks" command has been renamed as "Export Markers and Text Blocks" and moved from the Text menu to the File menu.
  • Various other minor changes.

New in Transcribe! 9.00.0 (Mar 28, 2021)

  • We now support media files that have multiple sound tracks (e.g. Stem files or a film with sound tracks in different languages). Transcribe! will load all the sound tracks and you can select which one you want on the View menu. It has always been possible to have multiple views of a sound file by using the Split command on the View menu and this now becomes especially useful as you can have multiple views with each view showing a different sound track.
  • When you save a transcription (xsc) file, we now save the state of all your views (if you have used the Split command and have multiple views) instead of just the currently active one.
  • The "Reload last transcription at launch" Preferences option is now called "Reload open windows at launch" because that's what it now does. It loads all of the transcriptions that were open when you last shut down the app, instead of just the most recent one. On the Mac this also applies to when you shut down the computer and it asks whether to re-open windows when logging back in.
  • We now save the window size when you save a transcription file. I don't know why we didn't always do this.
  • With GStreamer we can now read various media files that didn't work before, particularly webm files.
  • On videos we can now display subtitles in the usual way, overlaid on the video. This applies to "integral" subtitle tracks from within the video, and also external subtitle files (e.g. srt files). This may not be very relevant to musical transcription, but not everyone is using Transcribe! solely for music. This feature is accessed via the View menu of the Video Viewer.
  • On Windows if you open a track on an audio CD then it will now copy the track to a temporary file, which works much better than playing it directly from the CD as we used to. We've also removed the "Copy sound file" command which was mainly for copying tracks from CD. If you want to use Transcribe! to copy a track from a CD then you can load the the track and "Export sound file".
  • A new option in Preferences: "Paused playback point follows selection" meaning that if you are paused and you adjust the selection or current point in any way then the paused playback point will be moved to the start of the selection. This is useful for people who want to use the paused point as their "current point".
  • New commands for adjusting selection by 500ms and 30ms. You would need to program a keyboard shortcut to use them. The idea about 30ms is that with a video this is more or less frame-forwards and frame-backwards, depending on the exact frame rate of the video.
  • Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.80.2 (Dec 17, 2020)

  • Fixes a memory leak where memory usage would gradually increase.

New in Transcribe! 8.80.0 (Nov 12, 2020)

  • In terms of features this is a minor update, however on the Mac it is the first version to specifically target macOS 11 (Big Sur). We will keep version 8.75.2 available for people running earlier versions of macOS.

New in Transcribe! 8.75.2 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • This removes one of the features added in 8.75 which turned out to be a bad idea - see the release notes for 8.75 for details. And it fixes (I hope) a bug which could cause the names of MIDI devices to be displayed as blank.

New in Transcribe! 8.75.1 (Aug 10, 2020)

  • Fixing a bug reading the sound track from some flv (flash video) files.

New in Transcribe! 8.75 (Jul 24, 2020)

  • Substantial improvements to the video viewer are the main feature of this one.

New in Transcribe! 8.73 (Mar 25, 2019)

  • Main new features are metronome clicks and scrubbing.

New in Transcribe! 8.72.1 (Sep 1, 2018)

  • This is a very minor bugfix, in some dialogs the key should act as if you had pressed the "OK" button, but was failing to do so.

New in Transcribe! 8.72 (Jul 18, 2018)

  • By popular request, we now support Undo/Redo of all operations affecting Markers and Text Blocks (but not changes to selection/current point, Fx settings, or stored loops).
  • You can now adjust Tuning by dragging the spectrum left or right with the mouse right button, or control-mouse on Mac (on the View menu, turn on View Spectrum). This is a fun alternative to using the controls on the Fx Tuning page. It's best done by first selecting (on the waveform) a note or chord so you see its spectrum, then drag the spectrum left or right until the selected note or chord is playing at the pitch you want (which you can see, by its alignment with the piano keyboard displayed). The spectrum will not move as far as the mouse does, this is to allow fine adjustment. You can also adjust Transposition this way, if you hold down the shift key. Adjusting transposition does not change the pitch of playback - if you want to know what it does do, go to the Transposition page of the Fx dialog and press the Help button.
  • The current volume of the piano keyboard is now remembered between sessions, as it always should have been but wasn't.
  • New command LoopUpdateRecent: update the most recently selected or created loop, from the current selection. Very useful for adjusting an existing loop: you select the loop, make adjustments with the mouse, then use this command to update that loop. You will need to program a keyboard command if you want to use it.
  • Mac version is tested on beta version of Mojave (OS 10.14), due to appear later this year.
  • Mac: control-click the title bar of a transcription window now brings up a box showing the folder where the transcription file is (if it has been saved). This is standard behaviour for Mac apps.
  • Various other minor improvements and bug fixes.
  • New commands (for use in automation only):
  • SelectionMoveSeconds(double) Move the current point or selection in seconds.
  • SetSelectionSizeSeconds(double) Set the size of the selection in seconds.
  • TranspositionOctaveSet(int), TranspositionSemitoneSet(int), TranspositionCentSet(int) Set transposition.

New in Transcribe! 8.71 (Jan 5, 2018)

  • This release has some significant enhancements, and some bug fixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.70 (Oct 4, 2017)

  • Video Export: fixed bug causing some video exports to have a weird warbly sound (actually caused by excessive audio compression).
  • Mac: although Transcribe! 8.6 abandoned many obsolete technologies, there was one which slipped through the net. We have now abandoned the Carbon Component Manager for hosting Audio Units (deprecated since OS 10.11), in favour of the current AudioUnit API's.
  • Added a Preference (off by default) to go to sleep after a specified number of minutes of inactivity to reduce power consumption. Once sleeping, you may find that Transcribe! will not respond to some events such as pedals, until you click on the window to wake it up. Note the Help Viewer and Video Viewer windows also use processing power and are not affected by this feature.
  • When you use in the Fx window to bring the main window to the front, it will now trigger the command currently configured for the spacebar. Previously it always triggered PlaySpacebar, which would be wrong if you had changed the command triggered by the spacebar.
  • New command PlaySpacebarDelayStart which will start playback after a delay, to give you time to prepare yourself before playback starts. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it - see the Help for "Playback start delay" in Preferences - Playback.
  • New command RecentFilesClearNoVeto (you will need to program a keyboard command to use it).

New in Transcribe! 8.66 (Jan 20, 2017)

  • This is a bugfix to fix *another* issue with some sound files playing at the wrong speed.

New in Transcribe! 8.65 (Sep 23, 2016)

  • Bug fix to fix issues with some sound files playing at the wrong speed.

New in Transcribe! 8.64 (Sep 5, 2016)

  • This is a bug fix release to fix issues reported in version 8.62.

New in Transcribe! 8.63 (Sep 2, 2016)

  • Changes:
  • Fixed anomalies in directions of scrolling, particularly when using sideways two-finger scrolls on a touchpad, and when using "Scroll direction: natural" on a Mac.
  • Mac: we've reduced sensitivity to mouse wheel scrolling and two-finger scrolling on the touchpad (because it seemed rather too sensitive). If you have in the past adjusted Preferences - Mouse Wheel Sensitivity then you may need to go to Preferences and turn it back up a bit. The default setting is 10.

New in Transcribe! 8.62 (Aug 6, 2016)

  • The most important thing about this release is the move from QuickTime to GStreamer on Windows & Mac.

New in Transcribe! 8.61 (Aug 1, 2016)

  • The biggest single change in this new version is the adoption of GStreamer on Windows & Mac, and the abandonment of QuickTime. This means that on both Windows & Mac you will need to download GStreamer if you want to handle video, but I hope that video handling will be improved. In the past I've often had emails from people telling me that a video plays jerkily, and I have to advise them to use video editing software to save the video in a different format. This works but is not ideal. With GStreamer I hope that many videos will play better, but also Transcribe!'s Video Export command now works in a quite different way. Regardless of the original format of the video, Video Export will always save in a format which I hope is portable and will play smoothly in Transcribe! (mp4 with H264 video and aac audio, with frequent iframes, and a bitrate similar to the original). So now if you have a video which plays jerkily, the solution is to use the Video Export command to create a copy of it, and then load that instead. Also the Video Export command used to be available on Windows & Mac only, but is now available on Linux too.
  • With GStreamer you can now load some sound & video file formats which wouldn't load before, such as Flash Video (flv), and Windows Media (wmv, wma) on the Mac.
  • With GStreamer you can export sound files in a variety of different compressed formats such as m4a, mp3, ogg. See Preferences - Export.
  • Mac: fixed (I hope) timing bug where markers added by "M" etc were placed a little late.
  • Fixed bug where loading a file in a script with "Auto play on load" turned on caused the script to abort.
  • Mac: control-click the dock icon to get a menu showing currently open transcriptions (as is standard on Mac).
  • When you open a transcription file which uses a sound file which cannot be found (because it's been moved or deleted), T! will look in the location of the most recent sound file opened to see if it can find it there instead, and if it's there then T! will offer you this to see if you want it. This can be a time-saver if you have moved a folder full of sound files to a different location, or a different machine. If it still doesn't find it then it will immediately bring up the Import Sound File dialog.
  • Mac: you can now choose to output to AirPlay if available, in Preferences - Playback
  • Mac: we are now 64-bit.
  • Windows: we no longer support reading any media files protected by DRM (digital rights management). This might be a step backwards but my impression is that DRM is not much used for audio these days (Amazon & iTunes don't use it), it's more for things like Netflix.
  • New command on Markers menu to equal-space selected markers : see the Help for details.
  • New commands TimestampCopyCurrentPoint & TimestampCopyPlayingPoint which copy the timestamp of the current point or the playing/paused point so you can paste it elsewhere. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it. It's under the "Markers and Navigation" category.
  • New WindowVideoToFront command. Brings the video window to the front, though depending on OS it may not really bring it to the front, it may merely cause the taskbar or dock icon for the video window to flash, asking for attention. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • New command PlayFromMousePointer. This will play from the place where the mouse pointer is, without actually needing to touch the mouse, and without changing your current position or selection. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • New command SelectionMakeAll (select whole track). You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • New command PlaySelectionDelayStart (play, with a delay before starting). The amount of delay is set in Preferences - Playback - "Playback start delay" (which affects only this one command). See the Help for this Preferences item for more info about how to use it. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • In response to a request, I was going to add a command which would create a new text block and immediately start editing it, until I realised that you can already do this by programming a keyboard command as OnPress: TextBlockNewSilent, OnRelease:TextBlockActiveEdit
  • Mac: fixed bug where it would collect midi or footpedal commands while a dialog is up, then respond to them when the dialog is closed. Now it ignores such commands.
  • Piano notes no longer play when side-to-side dragging the piano keyboard.
  • Linux: added a Preference for whether to use video hardware acceleration. I have seen buggy hardware acceleration causing corrupted video display.
  • Linux: we no longer use ALSA for reading MIDI, so if you are using MIDI commands you may need to change the device name, see the Help for the MIDI Commands dialog.
  • Added the note frequencies table to the Help.
  • Increased maximum number of transcriptions shown in Window menu to 32
  • Horizontal zoom using control-arrow (command-arrow on Mac) or the menu commands will now hold the current point (red triangle) in place if it is on screen (rather than the point in the centre of the display as before).
  • New "Check for Updates" command on the Help menu.
  • Many other minor bugfixes and improvements.

New in Transcribe! 8.50 (Jul 8, 2015)

  • Fully 10.10 compatible

New in Transcribe! 8.41 (Sep 29, 2014)

  • Fixed display glitches affecting Retina displays (the play position indicator would leave a grey trace behind it you might have thought it was supposed to,
  • but it wasn't).
  • It was sometimes necessary for the user to switch off Apple's new "App Nap" feature, or Transcribe! would stop responding to foot pedals after a while. It should no longer be necessary to do this.
  • It sometimes happened that Transcribe!'s windows did not come to the front properly when launching the app, and it was necessary to click the Transcribe dock icon. This should no longer be necessary.
  • I've also fixed a bug in Export Split Sound File which caused the initial section not to be exported if the first section marker was at the very beginning of the track. This bug still affects Windows & Linux versions but doesn't seem important enough to deserve an update just for that. The workaround is very simple, just move the first section marker slightly away from the very beginning.

New in Transcribe! 8.40 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • A number of small improvements and fixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.31.0 (Nov 5, 2012)

  • Export of compressed sound files (by popular request)
  • When exporting or recording sound files, you can now choose compressed sound formats (instead of only offering uncompressed wav or aiff as we did before). On Windows & Mac we use m4a, which means that on Windows you will need to install QuickTime (it's a free download from Apple).
  • On Linux we default to Ogg Vorbis but this can be changed.
  • See Preferences Export, for compression settings.
  • And see the FAQ for comments about why m4a rather than mp3.
  • Video Viewer : the "Zoom" menu is renamed as "View", and on it you will find a new "Mirror" command which flips left-right. This can be handy e.g. with saxophone or guitar, where it puts the instrument and player's fingers the same way round as your own, as if you were looking at yourself in a mirror.
  • Recent Files when you select one but it doesn't exist, we remove it from the Recent Files list.
  • You can now hold down Alt (on Windows or Linux) or Command (on Mac) while dragging a text block, to constrain the drag to vertical or horizontal only.
  • New command MarkerEditMostRecent "Edit the most recently created or edited marker." (You'll have to create a keyboard shortcut for it if you want to use it).
  • The "Speed Up" command:
  • fixed glitch where it would stop briefly each time it went around.
  • now works properly with "Playback loop delay" (Preferences).
  • bug fixed : if you were already playing then SpeedUp would not take immediate effect. Now it does.
  • (Windows only) added keyboard shortcuts to the 4 spin controls in the dialog.
  • you can now pause and resume the speed up sequence (using the Pause button in the lower toolbar, or the ',' key). Though the use of any other command will still abandon the sequence.
  • You can now pause & resume any script without aborting it, using the Pause button in the lower toolbar, or the ',' key). Though the use of any other command will still abandon the script.
  • New command ScriptWaitLoops(int), makes the script wait until a specified number of loops have been played. Can only be used in a script.
  • If a transcription has a not-found sound file then if you drag-n-drop (or actually open by any means) a sound file, Transcribe! offers the option to import it into the current transcription rather than starting a new transcription.
  • Export and Import Foot Pedal Commands (File menu).
  • These commands are very useful if you want to have different pedal setups for different purposes. With these commands you can save multiple different setups to files named e.g. "speech_pedals.txt" and "music_pedals.txt" or whatever, and then switch between them by importing the appropriate one.
  • Also, the Export & Import commands for shortcuts are no longer directly on the File menu, instead they are now buttons in the relevant dialog (e.g. "Keyboard Commands..." is on the File menu, and if you select it then you will find "Export" and "Import" buttons in the resulting dialog).
  • You can now save Fx settings with loops on the Misc page of the Fx window. Press the Help button on that page for more info. This means you can, e.g, have a loop button not only set the position and length of the loop, but also the speed at which it is to be played (or the volume, or any other Fx setting you want).
  • Improved (less cryptic) reporting of global keyboard shortcuts in the "Keyboard Commands" dialog.
  • If you drag the splitter to hide the piano keyboard, save the transcription, then later load into a window of a different size, there was a tendency for the piano to partially reappear. Should now be fixed.
  • As you may know, keyboard shortcuts don't work in the Fx window due to the confusion this would cause, as the Fx window also uses keystrokes for its own purposes. However by popular request I have relented in the case of since this keystroke is not needed in the Fx window, and it is one of the most commonly used keystrokes for starting and stopping playback. So now, the spacebar can be used
  • in the Fx window : it will bring the current transcription window to the front (like the key) and will start or pause playback in the usual way. Note this does mean that you can't type a space in the "At" and "Selected" boxes of the Misc page, but you don't need to.
  • When selecting which command to attach to a shortcut, you can now double-click the listbox.
  • Export Split Sound File : there were various oddities that could happen if you used explicitly named section markers to name the split tracks, and if you used characters that are not allowed in filenames. This should now be fixed, and we replace illegal characters with underscores.
  • It has always been the case that tab/shift-tab activates the next/previous text block, but would do nothing if there was not already an active text block. Now, if there is no active text block, tab/shift-tab will activate the text block after/before the playing,
  • or paused, or current point.
  • A section or measure marker with blank text now has an empty box instead of no box.
  • Video Viewer : fixed bug where, when loading a second video, it would sometimes get confused and end up with two viewers running, and a failure to load the video.
  • Resetting bar numbering with e.g. "(99)" now works whether or not "number measures continuously".
  • Marker auto subdivision: the default division option is now 4 instead of 2.
  • Shift-clicking a marker now extends the current selection to the marker, and then shift-dragging naturally brings the selection with it.
  • When Quitting : the "Do you want to save changes" dialog, if you have multiple transcriptions with unsaved changes : there is now a check box that says "Apply this choice to all remaining unsaved transcriptions?".
  • On the Fx EQ page, the ranges for some of the preset instrument EQs have been extended at the top end. You'll need to press the Defaults button on that page to get the altered settings.
  • New commands which will place new markers at each end (hence "EE" in the name) of the current selection. MarkerNewSectionEE, MarkerNewMeasureEE and MarkerNewBeatEE. (You'll have to create keyboard shortcuts if you want to use these).
  • Mac: The application is now signed with a Developer ID issued to Seventh String by Apple. This is for the benefit of the OS 10.8 "Gatekeeper". In fact Transcribe! 8.21.3 has also been signed since May 2012.
  • Mac: You can now select output devices in Preferences Playback, instead of having to use System Preferences.
  • Mac: bug fixed where opening a file from the "Media" section of the File Open dialog would not work second time.
  • Mac: bug fixed where the File Open dialog would not show an inserted CD.
  • Mac: on OS 10.7 and later you can now drag all 4 edges of the application window, which is standard for these OS versions.
  • Mac: Record New Sound File now works better for selecting & remembering your choice of input devices.
  • Mac: Copy & Paste now work in the At & Selected boxes of the Misc page of the Fx window, which they didn't before.
  • Mac: the and keys now both work to activate the default button in a dialog.
  • Windows & Linux : there was some text and lines which would vanish in the Fx window if you used "Accessibility Options" or "Themes" to set a white-on-black display mode. This should now be fixed. Though When you change your display settings, you may need to relaunch Transcribe! to get the right colours.
  • Linux Video Viewer: fixed bug where some long videos would produce a "progress dialog out of range" GTK message.
  • Linux Video Viewer : keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback should now work in the Video Viewer window, as they already do on Windows and Mac.
  • Linux playback : fixed bug where it leaked 2 sockets each time you start & stop playback. This would mean that eventually you wouldn't be able to start playback, and would have to relaunch Transcribe!
  • Linux playback: changed the default audio output device to "autoaudiosink" but if the audio sink you specify isn't found, Transcribe! will automatically try various alternatives before giving up.
  • Linux: when specifying a GStreamer device for inputting or outputting sound, some parameter types were not handled correctly. They should be ok now.
  • Various other minor bugfixes and changes.

New in Transcribe! 8.21.0 (Sep 12, 2011)

  • Fixed jerky movement of playing-position indicator.
  • Recent files - Clear list - there is now a warning dialog "Are you sure?".

New in Transcribe! 8.10.0 (Aug 4, 2010)

  • video export,
  • font selection in text blocks,
  • many other small improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.00 (Nov 21, 2009)

  • Features a whole new layout and look.
  • Various improvements to sound file handling.
  • Some new commands.
  • Various other improvements and bug fixes.

New in Transcribe! 7.51.2 (Mar 15, 2009)

  • A fix for a drag-n-drop incompatibility with the new iTunes version 8.1 (which does things a bit differently for some reason).
  • This fix is necessary for dragging tracks from iTunes to Transcribe!

New in Transcribe! 7.51.0 (Feb 13, 2009)

  • Improved loop-store capability, Video Viewer "always on top" mode (on Windows), dB calibration lines, "Time Line", many other small improvements.