Download final release 0.9.9.

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?

Thanks for your time and emotion. Have a good time - Saruta

Changes in v0.9.9

Website

• Images showing library and editor components.
• Library/Editor sections extended
• Video: Dragging, Splitting, and Joining Notes. 
• Video: Copying Melodies 
• Previous/Next page navigation

Library

• Copy lyrics to clipboard
• Menu groups "Set metadata" and "Copy" 
• Play/Stop button
• Cursor "right" in playlist selects playlist box
• Filtering progress shown
• Context menu item "Start Playback" for lyrics
• Open library settings by clicking progressbar #
• Quick settings for setting library (search paths can be set in preferences)
• Toggle Fullscreen
• Groups box with larger font
• Group filters for playlists, including one for songs not in playlists
• Sort by length
• Length filter for songs longer than 6 minutes
• Keyboards filter group for songs that can be played with white (natural) notes only, or black notes, or 12/8 white notes, or 25/13 keys (two/one octave).

Editor

• Visual cue for splitting/joining notes
• Clicks on page breaks abandoned
• Removed menu item "show background/video"
• Preview all / Preview remainder (with background image)
• Option to enable video preview
• Video shown when setting videogap
• Notes filled according to progress for playback with background/video 
• Toggle Fullscreen

Library Bugfixes

• Filter names not rendered in title and year groups
• Selected songs marked only when songlist has focus
• Selected group better distinguished from background
• Filtering can be interrupted
• Filtering select first hit
• VBR/Ogg audio not counted
• Error check "Connected words" works across pages (thx alban) 
• Images with grayscale color model loaded correctly
• Cover was sometimes cropped during repaint
• Quality rescale for group image, songlist thumbnail, and cover
• Preferences packed: Shorter labels and variable row height. 
• Seek-out was set to 3 instead to 0 (forgot to reset after accuracy tests...) 
• Group filter for missing background now differentiates existing/missing video
• Some keys triggered cell edit
• Playlist SaveAs menu item was not active for unchanged lists
• Stats diagram zooms to avoid overlap with songlist

Editor Bugfixes

• Clicks casually caused a delay
• Improved performance for video playback

I have included a new error check, "missing end", that could cause some frustration. At least it frustrated me when I found more than a dozen of cropped text files in my collection. Most likely this was caused by lines with missing spaces after characters ":-F*"; this are now completed on-the-fly and loaded correctly. Other reasons could be some disc error or USB connection problem; let's see if cropped files reappear... nevertheless I strongly advise you to backup your karaoke text files! And tell me if you have cropped files, too.

If you have a backup, there is an easy way to repair cropped files: just paste the text or drop the file onto the library backgroud. Video demonstration: Updating Karaoke Text (to repair cropped files)

Here's the changelog.

Library Functionality

• Statistics: number of pages/words/notes/freestyle
• Statistics: max page length (beats/sec), average note length (beats/ms)
• Statistics: percentage of shorts (<50ms,<100ms) and holds (>1sec,>3sec)
• Statistics: speed (inverse duration / notes per second); Calculation of inverse duration is based on Marcel Taeumel's approach (uman.sf.net) -thx!
• Statistics: pitch range (total, per page), percentage of pitch leaps (>3,>6)
• Statistics: pitch difference, average notes distance (ms)
• Statistics details view
• Statistics diagram
• Library statistics can be sorted by column
• Error list can be sorted by column
• Highlight column used for sorting
• Selection box for error type in error details view
• Details view opaque
• Group filters: few/common/many pages, common golden/freestyle, all common
• Group filters: few/many notes per page
• Group filters: slow/fast/average speed (combining both speed measures)
• Group filters: monoton vs. melodic (page/total pitch range ratio)
• Group filters: smooth vs. bumpy (ratio pitch difference / total pitch range)
• Group filter: long breath (long pages, elongated notes)
• Error type: Missing End
• Group filter: Missing End
• Songinfo: Added page count, genre, edition, language, year
• Songinfo: Folder and files can be opened directly with hyperlink (WMP11 broken in Vista; use e.g. VLC)
• Added playlist toggle, rearranged lyrics/songinfo/title bar
• Clicking title bar toggles lyrics/songinfo
• Dynamic songlist width
• Moved ViewSource and OpenFolder to view menu
• Removed fifth state of library view (no view selected)
• Can drop karaoke text files (to songinfo): selects matching song and updates fieldwise
• Can paste karaoke text files and text from System clipboard
• Lyrics cache ($userhome/.yass/lyrics.txt)
• Redesigned group covers
• Songinfo context popups for cover, background, video, lyrics, files

Library Bugfixes

• Lines with missing spaces after characters ":-F*" are completed and loaded correctly (causing no more cropped files when writing)
• Storing the library triggered two competing storage threads
• Video properties were not loaded anymore
• Video icon was not shown anymore
• Removed empty column in details view
• Changing groups interrupts loading
• Some videos were locked after loading (and could not be moved/renamed afterwards)

Editor Functionality

• Moved ShowErrors to view menu

Other major improvements were already communicated in previous news items: This release brings Linux support, sampled audio clicks, UTF-8 (nice greetings to the Asian Ultrastar community!), numeric keypad editing and Contour Shuttle Pro support (a great interface!), and a bunch of bug fixes.

As a bonus, I have now added medley support for the German USDX 1.0.1a Challenge-Mod (available here). Select your song in the Yass library and switch to lyrics view. Then select the lines you want to become part of the medley, and choose "Set Medley To Selection". Don't forget to save your changes.  Video demonstration: Setting A Medley

Download and have fun! And don't forget to support me with a donation. I have hosting costs that I try to balance with advertizing, but it doesn't work yet. If you have suggestions, tell me.

New in this release:

Library:

• MedleyStartBeat/MedleyEndBeat tags supported; can be set in library. Attention: for technical reasons, only full lines can be set.
• Songinfo Displays Gap, BPM, MedleyStartBeat, MedleyEndBeat, PreviewStart, Start, End
• Playback narrowed to selected lyrics
• PREVIEWSTART tag can be set to selected lyrics in library
• Library Preview respects PREVIEWSTART tag
• Tags filter group for songs tagged with PreviewStart, MedleyStartBeat, Start, End, Relative, Gap<5s, Gap>30s, Gap>60s, BPM<200, BPM>400
• Added Chinese and Korean flag
• Bugfix: Flags are displayed again in language group
• Bugfix: Sometimes cannot stop playback in library
• Bugfix: Clear songinfo if no songs available.
• Bugfix: Could not remove video file when opened in editor before

Editor:

• Major Bugfix: Inaccurate playback (in/out points rounded instead taking floor)
• Display waveform in editor to verify accuracy (via preferences/debug)
• UTF-8 text displayed correctly within notes in editor
• Optimized pitch range in editor's multi-line mode.
• Editor layout and font size added to preferences (for TeLiX)
• Editor search dialog revised: size, location, scrollbars (for yunho)
• Debugging information: memory used/total/reserved (activated via preferences/debug)
• Error console buffers console output (displayed via Shift-F1)
• Auto-correction for non-zero beat at first note (for Ian).
• Bugfix: Shift-p for playing a page with instrument only was broken
• Bugfix: Seek-out set to 0 again: verified with Accuracy Test song and checked against Ultrastar Deluxe; see news item (thx Ian).
• Bugfix: Could not remove video file when opened in editor before
• Bugfix: Display lost after another app going into fullscreen, display mode changing (e.g. dual monitor), task manager being run, screensaver, standby or hibernate mode.
• Bugfix: Jerky playback cursor for maximized window

For changes since version 0.9.6, see the full changelog.

- Saruta

Thanks for your patience. Now, please download, test, and provide me feedback if this release is stable or if something still needs to be fixed.

Cheers, Saruta

As always, download and have fun.

Changes compared to 0.9.7.pre1:

• Added Contour Shuttle Pro settings file
• Can read UTF8-encoded text files
• UTF8 encoding is preserved when writing text files
• Library option to change encoding to UTF8 or ANSI.
• Wizard option to create UTF8 karaoke text files.
• Format group to filter UTF8 and ANSI encoding.
• Song information shows text encoding.
• Format filter for VBR audio files.

Bugfixes

• No more hangups when trying to play OGG files (still no OGG playback).
• Inconsistent error list - interface, update, and selection model
• ConnectedWords auto-correction sometimes fails. (thx Alban)
• Library details view in errors group show i18 text (thx Alban)
• Error "connected words" now included into library error list (thx Alban)
• Batch correction window in library error list failed to open
• Changes to song title are not stored (thx Sven)
• Optionally separate connected syllables instead words (preferences->errors->others; for Alban)
• List connected-words error only when first note has length > 1
• Tag errors are checked in library only (no more in editor)
• Cancel closes error list in editor

Feedback appreciated, especially for the Linux version.

- Saruta

Download and have fun.

Changes so far for 0.9.7.pre1:

• Reworked audio system using less Mixer lines
• Sample audio clicks instead synthesized audio
• Former synthesized clicks optional in preferences.
• Extended note playback by few audio frames (to better hear short notes).
• Library now shows song's duration
• Custom process name (Windows)
• Quick editing using the numerical keypad.
• Keyboard mappings for quick editing in preferences.
• Keep player position visible while scrolling
• Visual cue for editor background
• Display note text for error messages.

Bugfixes

• Linux audio clicks caused hangups.
• Songlist in library details view less transparentone:
• Songlist in library details view does not overlay title
• Some video songs forced program crash when trying to edit them
• Casual crashes when trying to open a video song with video view enabled
• Closing videogap window disables video view
• Library could not replace text file and cached cover
• Render full video in video view instead optimization.
• Playback buttons do not overlap first note
• Dragging gap does not trigger zoom.
• Lyrics height updated after clicking/zooming one line.
• Preferences scrollbars.

Feedback appreciated, especially for the Linux version.

- Saruta

This new update fixes a bug in the video realizing/prefetch cycle and that hopefully removes the problem. Contact me if you still experience crashes.

Another workaround would be to remove the fobs4jmf.dll in the Yass directory. This disables all video functions.

Cheers, Saruta