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Changes 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

Changes v0.9.8

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

Changes v0.9.7

New Library Functionality

  • Can read UTF8-encoded text files
  • Preserves UTF8 encoding 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.
  • Added Chinese and Korean flag
  • 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
  • Format filter for VBR audio files
  • Show song's duration
  • Custom process name (Windows)

New Editor Functionality

  • UTF-8 text displayed correctly within notes in editor
  • Inaccurate playback (in/out points rounded instead taking floor)
  • Reworked audio system using less Mixer lines
  • Sample audio clicks instead synthesized audio
  • Former synthesized clicks optional in preferences.
  • 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.
  • Added Contour Shuttle Pro settings file
  • Display waveform in editor to verify accuracy (via preferences/debug)
  • 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)

Library Bugfixes

  • Flags are displayed again in language group
  • Sometimes cannot stop playback
  • Clear songinfo if no songs available.
  • Could not remove video file when opened in editor before
  • Library could not replace text file and cached cover
  • No more hangups when trying to play OGG files (still no OGG playback).
  • 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 error list failed to open
  • Changes to song title are not stored (thx Sven)
  • Songlist in details view less transparent
  • Songlist in details view does not overlay title

Editor Bugfixes

  • Linux audio clicks caused hangups
  • Some videos forced program crash when trying to edit them
  • Casual crashes when trying to open a video with video view enabled
  • Closing videogap window disables video view
  • 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
  • Shift-p for playing a page with instrument only was broken
  • Seek-in/out set to 0: verified with Accuracy Test song and checked against Ultrastar Deluxe (thx Ian)
  • Lost display after another app going into fullscreen, display mode changing (e.g. dual monitor), task manager being run, screensaver, standby or hibernate mode.
  • Jerky playback cursor for maximized window
  • Inconsistent error list - interface, update, and selection model
  • ConnectedWords auto-correction sometimes fails. (thx Alban)
  • 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

Changes v0.9.6

New Editor Design:

  • Lyrics within note sheet.
  • Smaller lyrics font.
  • Icons rearranged: SpellCheck, Find, Record, PlayCopied, AlignHeights, Zoom.
  • Error list in extra window.
  • MIDI Piano enlarged.
  • Maximum note height.
  • Shade notes (+ color preferences).
  • Grid color changed slightly.
  • Show syllables inside notes (except for versions).
  • Page number moved to bottom.
  • Showing page areas in multipage view.
  • Pagebreak redesigned.
  • Syllables rotated for large zoom.
  • Thin notes for large zoom.
  • Playback buttons at timeline cursor (can be turned off in preferences)
  • Enlarged left/right draggers.

New Editor Functionality:

  • Audio playback volume decreased to make clicks more audible. Click waveform slightly adjusted.
  • Change length for multiple selected notes.
  • Record ("tap") starts 2s prior to selected notes and runs until all selected notes are tapped.
  • Variable playback speed for recording.
  • Playback beyond right border if nothing selected.
  • Support Ultrastar 0.6.2. keys: Ctrl-Shift and Ctrl-P
  • Show background or video.
  • Karaoke text line.
  • Select all (doubleclick line numbers).
  • Select pages by selecting their area.
  • Drag pages by their areas.
  • Slide by dragging textband
  • "Show video" shows background for missing video.
  • Ruler shows quarterbeat number and time.
  • Show syllables when not occluded (for large zooms).
  • Automatic trimming (enabled via preferences).
  • Nonbreakable minus/space can be added outside editing mode.
  • BPM display and input field.
  • Error check: Uncommon number of golden notes (set maximum score and golden bonus in the preferences)
  • Option whether freestyle contributes to score (Performous-support)
  • Error check: Touching notes when they belong to different words.
  • Open file (previously library-exclusive).
  • Windows context menu items for text/midi/kar files and directories (optional)
  • Removed toolbar preferences for editor design (floatable, expert)
  • Removed special handling of dragging two notes

New Library Functionality:

  • Ctrl-R resumes recent edit.
  • Website URL added to menu item Help/About.
  • Support Ultrastar 0.6.2 tags #ALBUM, #YEAR, #ID, #VERSION, #LENGTH, #PREVIEWSTART (including import/export).
  • Group filter for album and length (and preferences).
  • F3/F7 keys for album and id.
  • Update length tag from MP3 duration.
  • Update album tag from MP3 metadata.
  • Update year tag from MP3 metadata.
  • Home/End keys select first/last row.
  • Version check.
  • Removed import function (was unreliable and hard to translate; never used it)
  • Song creation wizard does not require MP3 file
  • Song creation wizard can be used standalone (command line option "-convert" and shortcut for Windows Start menu added)
  • Song creation wizard has option to start editor
  • Added View library menu
  • Added Russian language to metadata
  • Added hyphenation tables for Polish/Spanish/Russian (feedback required, does it work?)
  • Support for custom hyphenation tables $user_home/.yass/hyphen/*.tex
  • Support for custom dictionaries $user_home/.yass/spell/*.dic

Bugfixes:

  • Mark selected lyrics when notesheet has focus.
  • Selecting lyrics updates playback position.
  • Jumping to first/last note updates playback position.
  • Lyrics style initialized after spellcheck.
  • Midi keyboard works again.
  • Edition filter shows edition in third line.
  • Playback does not change selection.
  • Keypresses or timeline slider stop playback.
  • Timeline refresh after window resize.
  • Frame resize repaints timeline immediately.
  • Startup flickering removed.
  • "Show Copied Melody" button has correct state.
  • Single window instances.
  • Dragging remainder updates timeline cursor.
  • Ctrl-P works.
  • Lyrics area was continously refreshed (uhhh).
  • Select all lyrics now zooms.
  • Can select short notes in large zoom.
  • Trimming does not change selection.
  • Mouse cuts/joins/resize only for wide-enough notes.
  • Horizontal frame resize updates correctly.
  • Dragging works after scrolling timeline in single-page view.
  • Save changes in library stores all songs, not only filtered
  • Save changes icon enabled when songs unsaved
  • Refresh library icon always enabled
  • No hangup after refreshing library with duplicates filter
  • Library group filter disappeared after editing song (thx Ian)
  • Library details header disappeared after editing song
  • Opening song folder and pdf print works with Linux/MacOS/Java6 (feedback required, does it work?)
  • Song versions can be dropped into groups
  • Ctrl-F in Library
  • Error types "too_much_spaces" and "unconventional_spacing" now functional
  • Multiple errors per note now shown correctly
  • Speedup successive keyboard movements
  • Lost lyrics focus
  • Dragging note length clipped to adjacent notes
  • Note inserts were appended after end line (E)
  • Toggling pagebreaks changed view in multipage view
  • Hangups when starting playback while sheet repaint
  • Spinners for gap/start/stop/videogap restricted to numerical values
  • Rolling or breaking last syllable in editor creates "-" instead " ".
  • Can now copy first note
  • Undo/Redo restores view
  • Recording omits page breaks
  • Creation wizard's file input deactived if "set tones/audio manually" (thx Eric)
  • Creation wizard's "open in editor" set by default (thx Eric)
  • Creation wizard's text field noneditable (thx Eric)
  • Video functions disabled when Fobs library not available
  • Mouse dragging beyond frame borders now usable (thx Ian)
  • Mouse buttons and wheel deactivated during playback
  • Speedup - playback with plain bg renders only notes area.
  • Goto first note
  • Dragging on piano
  • Maximum dragging rate (thx Ian)
  • Height range updated while dragging notes
  • Dragging notes beyond top border
  • BPM input field updated for different songs (thx Ian)

Website:

  • Help on modifying notes, zoom, and recording
  • Help on error list and detected errors.
  • Help on trimming.
  • Ratings (faq, news).
  • RSS news feed.
  • Link to Performous.
  • Link to Audacity.

Changes v0.9.5

New features:

  • Now supporting custom plugins for printing and filter groups.
  • Multi-resolution Vista icons.
  • New exe wrapper with splash screen and proper Vista uninstall.
  • Now using Java user.home instead program folder (works with Vista).
  • Block print redesigned (defaults, line paddings, font downscale, removed number).
  • "Set New Edition" integrated into menu (e.g. for setting entire folder to respective edition).
  • Added menu items and key bindings for "Select All", "Refresh Library", "Store/Undo All Changes".
  • Added "Set Edition To Folder".
  • Moved "Find" to Edit menu (not much better :/)
  • 'Other artists' group now contains artists with less than 3 songs. Parameter added to preferences.
  • Library storing progress now shown.
  • Added "Toggle Heights Alignment (L key)" option.
  • Dragging gap now repositions cursor.
  • Clicking note now repositions cursor.
  • Cursor now updated during selection.
  • Added hover note selections (mouse-over instead of clicking; must be activated in preferences).
  • Selected notes now preserved while new selection is empty.
  • Range selections now possible with Shift + up/down cursor keys.
  • Range selections now adjusts multi-line zoom.
  • Double-click now selects full line (instead of triggering playback).
  • Graphical feedback for Control/Alt/Shift keys and mouse.
  • Snapshot reworked into "copied melody".
  • Snapshot adapts to current rezoom and positions to selected note (paste preview).

Bugfixes:

  • Sorting is locale-sensitive (e.g. German Ä,Ö,Ü are sorted like A,O,U).
  • Uninstall removes start menu entries for Vista.
  • Appended articles are preserved by song cache.
  • Edition popup "more..." is displayed correctly.
  • Store all library changes works on unfiltered songs.
  • Songlist refresh after changes in Details view.
  • Separate key actions for library and editor windows.
  • Dropping images now activated library's save button.
  • Header table in New Song wizard now has correct genre/language list items.
  • Pressing Alt key no more opens native window menu (!).
  • Duration now calculated correctly for current selection.
  • Pen gestures now displayed and detected robustly.

Changes v0.9.4

New functionality:

  • Library playback now starts with first line in lyrics
  • Find text in lyrics
  • Compare songs (select multiple songs, then open)
  • Export metadata to CVS (and import)
  • Articles in artist are appended (Artist, The)
  • Language group now accepts multiple languages (Example: "German;English" to list & print only songs in these languages)
  • Image size check (filesize, width, ratio)
  • Group items are labeled
  • Added element counter for group items
  • New group items: Unspecified genre/edition/year
  • New group action: Rename folder
  • New icon for Details View
  • Keyboard shortcut for Set Year (F6)
  • Editor menu rearranged (view source, snapshot)
  • Note length can now be optionally shown in note sheet.
  • Improved graphics for beats and selected range.
  • Note sheet now shows exact time at cursor.
  • Removed Save All and Save As. "Save" now saves all versions.

Bugfixes:

  • No refresh when toggling Details View
  • Bugfix: Boolean options can now be checked
  • Bugfix: Artist covers can now be dropped on group item
  • Bugfix: Library in Cover View now sorted by title.
  • Bugfix: Print now shows versions and video emphasized (thx to bohning)
  • Bugfix: Note sheet sometimes was not initialized

And, experimentally, Duet support:

  • Songs can now have multiple players (tracks)
  • Duet detection
  • Duet group filter
  • Duet merge and split tracks
  • Duet format tags "P" and "PLAYERS"