Release Notes

Release History

Version Date Description
4.3.3.48 2010-06-28 HSQLDB 2.0 Migration
4.3.1.46 2010-03-14 FreeDB search, export to XML and some minor changes
4.3.0.45 2010-02-25 New version of Amazon search, and some minor changes
4.2.0.44 2009-12-21 Many enhancements
4.2.0.43 2009-10-07 Many enhancements
4.1.2.42 2008-11-14 Russian
4.1.2.41 2008-07-07 Library Updates
4.1.1.40 2008-05-20 Translations
4.1.1.39 2008-01-24 JIntellitype Fixed, Spanish Translation
4.1.1.38 2008-01-02 Vista Fix, Amazon Updated
4.1.0.37 2007-09-04 Minor Fixes
4.1.0.36 2007-08-01 Minor Fixes
4.1.0.35 2007-06-08 German Translation
4.1.0.34 2007-03-10 ID3 Tag Fixes
4.1.0.33 2007-02-07 Bitrate Report
4.1.0.32 2007-01-30 Minor Fixes
4.1.0.31 2007-01-11 Reports Added
4.1.0.30 2007-01-02 Java 6 required
4.0.5.29 2006-11-21 Last Java 5 version
4.0.4.28 2006-11-05 Minor Upgrade
4.0.3.27 2006-10-12 Major Library Upgrades
4.0.2.26 2006-10-04 JSpiff, Entagged, APE, SPEEX Added
4.0.1.25 2006-09-25 Updated Licenses
4.0.1.24 2006-09-19 First Official Release
4.0.0.5 2005-12-23 Initial BETA Version

Release 4.3.3.48 - 2010-06-28

Type Changes By
update HSQLDB 2.0 Thanks to AZ Development. azuser

Release 4.3.1.46 - 2010-03-14

Type Changes By
update FreeDB search Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Export of DataBase to XML file Thanks to AZ Development. azuser

Release 4.3.0.45 - 2010-02-25

Type Changes By
update New version of Amazon search Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Catalog Export - export in UTF-8 . Additional fields are added : year, genre, bitrate, location Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Bitrate report - added report parameters : From, To; New report design Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Albums for Artist report - added Dialog to select Artist Thanks to AZ Development. azuser

Release 4.2.0.44 - 2009-12-21

Type Changes By
update New functionality: List of discs Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Add Single Track options added Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Add Single Disc: Prompt to select directory instead of track Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Multi-Lingual Error Messaging System Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Jukes portability added: All LOG-files are redirected to /log/ subdirectory in current Application directory; All default directories are redirected to current Application directory; All preferences are stored in jukes.xml file in current Application directory (System Register entry is used for compatibility); Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Find and Add All discs mode: optimization of subdirectory recursing Thanks to AZ Development. azuser

Release 4.2.0.43 - 2009-10-07

Type Changes By
update New multilingual resources. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Filter panel: Artist and Disc filters are added to Filter panel. Exact Match flag is added to Filter panel. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Preferences: To speed up main tree initialisation new flag is added to Preferences - Show main tree by default. With this flag user can hide main tree and show filtered tree only. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Preferences: New "Update Audio Tags in files" flag is added to Preferences to allow user change database info without changing tags in music files. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Preferences: Check Genres tools is added to check genres of all discs for compliance with standard table of music genres. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Preferences: New option added to allow copying covers from discs directories to selected directory. It allows to show covers even when external discs are not connected. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Tag processing: Album Artist field is used for compilation albums. Appropriate parameter is added to Preferences. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Tag processing: Disc Number and Total Discs fields are used to process boxsets. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Preferences: New flag "Show Empty Node In Tree" is added to Preferences to allow user to show artists without discs. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update New reports added - -Genres report to show all genres in Catalog. -Catalog by genres report -All Discs for selected Artist report. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Genres: Complicated descriptions of genres are allowed. Descriptions of genres must be of following format: . Where must be in standard table of genres. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Playlists: - adding a few selected discs and artists to playlist - re-paint empty playlist after playlist clearance - GoTo button for tree with active filter -playlist clearance - deleting current track Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Search tools : - Select button for tree with active filter Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Find discs: - "Errors only" flag is added ti allow user to hide all message except errors messages. - "All subdirectories successfully processed" message added to indicate the and of process. - System and hidden directories processing error was corrected -"readonly" files processing error was corrected Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update TCON (genre) tag processing: - iTunes-style tag "(NNN)" processing is added Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Cover processing: -Smooth scaling added Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update Year tag processing: -If no Year is specified in tags then "9999" year is used instead of current year as it was in previous version. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update DiscEditor: -Option for changing Artists for selected disc is added. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser
update TrackEditor: -Disc is automatically deleted if all track are deleted for this disc. Thanks to AZ Development. azuser

Release 4.1.2.42 - 2008-11-14

Type Changes By
update Updated Russian Translation Thanks to AZ Development. elefkof

Release 4.1.2.41 - 2008-07-07

Type Changes By
update Updated JFlac library to 1.3 because of freezing issues in 1.2 Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
fix Fixed connection pooling to C3P0 in Hibernate and NoCacheProvider. elefkof
update Updated JIntellitype to version 1.3.1 elefkof
update Updated various other libraries elefkof

Release 4.1.1.40 - 2008-05-20

Type Changes By
fix Fixed Bug with images in JasperReports. Thanks to Michael Caletka. elefkof
fix Fixed NullpointerException when setting playlist to shuffle with no songs in list. elefkof
add Korean Language Translation. Thanks to Sung Hee Lee. elefkof
add Indonesian Language Translation. Thanks to Aroon Damanik. elefkof
add Norwegian Language Translation. Thanks to Arild Hansen. elefkof
add French Language Translation. Thanks to Thierry Delaunay. elefkof
update Updated HSQLDB to 1.8.0.9. elefkof

Release 4.1.1.39 - 2008-01-24

Type Changes By
fix Updated JIntellitype to version 1.3 which fixes race condition in DLL. elefkof
fix Fixed many minor issues caught by Findbugs. elefkof
add Added call to JIntellitype.isJIntellitypeSupported to make sure it won't try and load on a 64 bit OS or a non-Windows OS. elefkof
add Spanish Language translation. Thanks to Gelo. elefkof
add As part of the Common Jukebox project Jukes will look for a Music folder at ./Music on first startup and add the music there. elefkof

Release 4.1.1.38 - 2008-01-02

Type Changes By
add Added tooltip to playlist when hovering shows you artist - album - track - duration Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
add Added Vista manifest to EXE to allow User Access Control to run at highest privileges. This is required to run Jukes under Vista properly. elefkof
fix Fixed bug in global tag replacer in Disc Finder not updating album titles. Thanks to Larry Morroni. elefkof
fix When adding albums with more than 100 tracks pad with 3 digits. Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
fix Fixed problem if Jukes was already running not shutting down new instance. elefkof
update Updated Amazon Web service to latest version and removed Axis for HttpClient. This makes the searching more accurate, faster, and decreases the size of the executable. elefkof
update JAudioTagger library to 1.0.8 elefkof
update Nimrod LF to 1.0.b elefkof
remove REMOVED: Hibernate caching to improve memory usage. elefkof
remove REMOVED: Entagged and ehCache JARS as dependencies. elefkof
remove REMOVED: Napkin Look and Feel. Too buggy, slow, and bloated. elefkof

Release 4.1.0.37 - 2007-09-04

Type Changes By
update Hibernate library to 3.2.5.ga elefkof
update HSQLDB library to 1.8.0.8 elefkof
update Donation redirect right to Paypal page. elefkof

Release 4.1.0.36 - 2007-08-01

Type Changes By
fix Fixed milliseconds in XSPF files. Thanks to Szabolcs Horvat. elefkof
update Nimrod LF library to version 0.9.9 for JDK 16 elefkof
update L2FProd library to version 7.3 elefkof

Release 4.1.0.35 - 2007-06-08

Type Changes By
fix German translation now included if your JRE is set to German it will display in German. Thanks to Michael Caletka. elefkof
update JAudiotagger library to version 1.0.5 elefkof
update Hibernate library to version 3.2.4.ga elefkof

Release 4.1.0.34 - 2007-03-10

Type Changes By
fix Common "InputLength = 1" error and many other ID3 Tag errors now fixed with latest JAudiotagger Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
add Ability to perform Difference Tool case insensitively. Thanks to Larry Morroni. elefkof
update JAudiotagger library to version 1.0.4 elefkof
update Commons Lang library to version 2.3 elefkof
update Commons IO library to version 1.3.1 elefkof
update Hibernate library to version 3.2.2.ga elefkof

Release 4.1.0.33 - 2007-02-07

Type Changes By
add Added new report to display all albums with a bitrate less than a certain value elefkof
fix FINALLY fixed GUI lockup problem. elefkof

Release 4.1.0.32 - 2007-01-30

Type Changes By
add Added a Clear Playlist option to the playlist Thanks to Top Gear. elefkof
add Added preference for Spectrum Analyzer Mode. Either Off, Analyzer, or Scope. Thanks to Top Gear. elefkof
add Added KDE and Gnome desktop icons in the Unix.zip file to use in those environments. Thanks to Larry Morroni. elefkof
fix Added some more checks for GUI lockups when adding songs to an empty playlist. Thanks to Top Gear. elefkof
fix Fixed rare bug where if you had the last song selected and track changed and then you tried to remove that track from your playlist. elefkof
update Updated copyright year to 1999-2007 elefkof
update Updated JGoodies Looks 2.1.2 which fixes native icons in File Open dialog. elefkof
remove REMOVED: Custom TableSorter for Java 6 TableRowSorter. elefkof

Release 4.1.0.31 - 2007-01-11

Type Changes By
add Added Catalog report and Albums Missing Cover Artwork reports under Reports menu. Thanks to Matt Farkas. elefkof
fix Fixed issue on some Windows machines with System Clock speeding up. Thanks to Matt Farkas. elefkof
fix Fixed GUI lockup and freeze issues (I think). elefkof
fix Fixed problem with Directory Chooser if you renamed directory on file system. Thanks to Stefan Gruenig. elefkof
fix Fixed problem deleting or refreshing a disc with a Track that has been removed. Thanks to Stefan Gruenig. elefkof
fix Switched to Java 6 TrayIcon elefkof
fix Right click menu on TrayIcon now works under Linux Gnome and KDE elefkof
fix Fixed Linux tray icon sizes to 24x24 for KDE to look right on both Windows and Linux. Thanks to Top Gear. elefkof
update Now displaying error when trying to play Layer I MP3 files that Javazoom player does not like. Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
update Updated to JIntellitype 1.2 to handle only ONE instance of app on Windows. elefkof
remove REMOVED: com.jeans.trayicon and DLL. Now using JDK 6 trayicon elefkof

Release 4.1.0.30 - 2007-01-02

Type Changes By
add Java 6 is the minimum version required going forward elefkof
add Tray Icon under Linux/Unix.(only pause, play, next song functionality) elefkof
update Updated Look 2.1.1 which has Windows Vista and Java 6 UI improvements elefkof
update Added DLL's to unix version in case user wants to run JAR version on Windows elefkof
update Updated Hibernate 3.2.1.ga elefkof
update Updated JIntellitype to 1.1 elefkof
fix Fixed bug in tree search introduced by Looks 2.1.1 elefkof
fix Only start playing song when queuing into playlist when the playlist is empty. Thanks to Larry Morroni. elefkof
fix Save the current song playing in the playlist when Saving Playlist. Thanks to Larry Morroni. elefkof
fix When clicking on the spectrum analyzer it would not turn off. Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
fix Right clicking on the tree view left everything selected. Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
remove Removed BrowserLauncher code and now uses Java 6 Desktop API to launch URLs elefkof

Release 4.0.5.29 - 2006-11-21

Type Changes By
fix When playing FLAC files the tooltip on the Windows icon was null-null. Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
update Updated SpectrumAnalyzer based on jlgui code version 3.0 elefkof
update Fixed Hibernate problem when deleting an album after editing it. elefkof
update Updated for JDK1.5 warnings elefkof

Release 4.0.4.28 - 2006-11-05

Type Changes By
update Updated Hibernate to 3.2 GA Release. elefkof
fix When shuffling playlist, Play Immediate would just queue it in the list. Thanks to Ben Bustard. elefkof
add Added Napkin Look and Feel. elefkof
update Updated L2Fprod after fixing Napkin look and feel bug. elefkof
update Updated Jaudiotagger to 1.0.3. elefkof

Release 4.0.3.27 - 2006-10-12

Type Changes By
add Added Squareness Look and Feel. elefkof
add Added NimROD Look and Feel. elefkof
add Added Substance Look and Feel. elefkof
update Updated JGoodies to 1.5.0. elefkof
update Updated Commons Lang to 2.2 elefkof
update Proper handling of FLAC files. FLAC Icon in tree. Flacs play correctly. elefkof
update Proper handling of OGG files. OGG Icon in tree. OGGs play correctly. elefkof
remove Removed ANNOTATION from XSPF playlists, its useless and just adds file size elefkof
fix Fixed problem with special characters in XSPF playlists that were not UTF-8. Thanks to Larry Morroni. elefkof
fix Fixed ClassCastException on Statistics Dialog caused by Hibernate upgrade. elefkof
fix Fixed problem with double error dialogs if there was a Player error. elefkof

Release 4.0.2.26 - 2006-10-04

Type Changes By
add Added new JSpiff library to handle XSPF playlists elefkof
add Added new Entagged library to handle OGG and FLAC tags elefkof
remove Removed old XSPF code and replaced with JSpiff elefkof
update Updated HSQLDB to 1.8.0.7 and Log4j to 1.2.14 elefkof
fix Rendering of search dialog did not look right. elefkof

Release 4.0.1.25 - 2006-09-25

Type Changes By
update Updated Hibernate versions. elefkof
fix Fixed many libraries to now include their licenses on the Project Dependencies page. elefkof
fix Fixed Jukes license to be proprietary Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5. elefkof

Release 4.0.1.24 - 2006-09-19

Type Changes By
add WINDOWS ONLY: Added JIntellitype to listen for Intellitype keyboard commands like Winamp and Windows Media Player. elefkof
add WINDOWS ONLY: Added global hotkey WINDOWS+J to bring up the Window even if it is minimized to the tray and hide it if it is showing. elefkof
fix Fixed bug when Queue Next from the treeview inserting the list backwards. elefkof
fix Fixed previous to go back to the beginning of the song, but if within 2 seconds goes to the previous track. Thanks to Greg Welc. elefkof
update Updated Jaudiotagger which fixes problem with POPM frames in ID3V2.3 tags. Thanks to Tom Cockerline. elefkof
update Updated splash screen, no album image, and website graphics. Thanks to Larry Morroni. elefkof

Release 4.0.0.5 - 2005-12-23

Type Changes By
add Initial release to BETA testers. elefkof