Teen spirit 0.93 released

Most significant changes...

Tree
- New Gui for browsing your collection with 5 (currently) different styles
- More Browse your collection types
- More Sort your collection options

Track List
- Gui changes
- Multiple sorting

PlayList
- Quicker - Better

Information Downloads
- Amazon Album Cover / Info support
- Updated LastFM support
- Updated Google Lyrics support

Collections
- New Gui
- More Info
- More update options

Player
- Better Crossfading
- External Player Support

Database
- Abstraction. May use SQLite in the future

New Teen Spirit Site

After a long time teen spirit site has been updated. Now it is using the Drupal 6 framework.
The new teen spirit site address has been changed to http://teenspirit.artificialspirit.com
The new forum is in http://forum.artificialspirit.com

0.92a screenshots

Some Conium (TS) screenshots just after i finished the "Captioned Panes" feature.

The captions over the panes are changing through time showing various info like playlist mode, tree mode, auto continue mode etc.

just the playlist and the visualization / video

a clean view without visualizations / information

I was getting bored with the same GUI all the time. Check also that the player controls have been moved down over the status bar (and an explicit Pause button has been added).
Other Developments that are ready.
A new Ultra rich menu in player.

..featuring some autocontinue modes / Insert Random Tracks (using criteria) / Insert m3u at position and more.
There is also an option to synchronize the Information Control (Review-Bio-Lyrics) with the Player.
Also LastFM artist (AMG Successor) info are ready / an improved version of the google lyrics plugin.
Also the external plugin support is finished.

Regards

Cease and Desist Order

Dear Mr. Oikonomou:

Please find attached an order of Cease and Desist requiring you to stop incorporating the copyright protected AMG Data into your software Teen Spirit.

This notice has been sent by email and post.

Regards,
Lisa Powell

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Lisa E. Powell

Attorney

All Media Guide, LLC

1168 Oak Valley Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

734-887-8202

20 more hours and a hotfix

xc-se revealed a bug in track edition. In certain cases (when you add a track before you update one!!!) it could completely disable track editing (even ratings)
This bug, was introduced in one of "those" optimizations in 0.91b.
Anyway it is fixed now..
Latest changelog for 0.91b (hotfix)
(130307)* AMG Info now correctly translating in Western European code page (not to the system default)
(130307)* BugFix. Track Edit was disabled in certain cases
(130307)* 00:00 duration will not be visible anymore
(130307)* Bugfix illegal rating warning appearance

as always you may download from
http://www.artificialspirit.com/download.php

TS/C development suspended

... but not for long.
I ll be travelling in Montreal and Cuba for at least the next 3 weeks.

See you around guys



P.S I hope i haven't screwed anything in the latest release.

Versioning

Maybe there is a little confusion about the version numbers in this project. Well it can get even worse. The project name may change in the next version. :)
Anyway I ve decided to have an "emule" like versioning. So there were 0.91(a) later (now) 0.91b and maybe in the future 0.91c (if there are any serious bugs) before the next serious upgrade 0.92a.
I m planning the plugin architecture for this version and also some user interface gui customization options (not exactly skins) and of course various smaller fixes/updates etc

0.91b is out

A computer program written in English language by a Greek showing a Cuban song's Spanish lyrics in a Japanese translated User Interface. Globalization or what?

Thanks everyone who helped in this release

Release Highlights

+ Virtual Track Collections. Add YouTube links as 'Virtual' Files in your collection. You may also import/export these files as 'xlc xml link collection files'
+ New actiion logger
+ Easy Drag Drop tagging in tree view
+ Web Services. Quick Search in Google - YouTube - Wikipedia (add yours in the services.xml) for artists / albums / tracks.
* New 'Tango' compatible icons
* Many bug fixes and visual enhancements

Detailed Change Log since v0.91(a)

+ Import/Export added for Virtual Track Collections
* GUI enhancments in History Dialog / Collections Dialog
* Better UI drag-drop support
* Minor changes in the Information GUI
* Some more untranslatable strings were corrected
* Changes to support better the new "Japanese" translation (you need to "install files for East Asian Languages" (Control Panel/Regional/Languages) to see this)
* A new photo in the "Empty Database" Dialog
* Update single collection is working again
* BugFixed 2 cases where TS/C could crash in "Update Collections"
+ Testing Implementation of virtual tracks (eg YouTube videos added by right clicking on artists)
* Artist Picture show when album picture is not available
* Quicker code in Playlist additions
* Added ctrl+A (Select All) & ctrl+I (Invert Selection)
* Fix on filenames with '%'. (on collection update)
* Changes in the look of some Properties windows
+ See the most serious program actions (Warnings-File Operations-Downloads), using the application log. (DblClick in status bar)
* Tagging support for filnames in Unicode fixed
* Edition of Artist Name have been removed from Album Properties (Confusing for the user)
* BugFix in "only one-instance" code
* Fixed the behaviour of many search queries (Rewritten some code)
+ Drop implemented in Tree View (Tag tracks if tagging is enabled)
* m4a basic support added (can be added in the db through the filename parser)
* Correction for international characters in lyrics downloading
* BugFix in a strange effect in playList (black bars). Also Active Track correctly stays visible
* Locate Items In Collection/Artists Mode
* BugFix in Locate Track while quick searching
* BugFix in writting id3v2 comments/lyrics/TrackNumbers
* BugFix when tagging International characters (at least Greek) (This was serious)
* Improved the way of reading/writing tags. There should be a lot of performance increase in these operations
* Added icons in services
* FreeCoversDownloading is working again. Not the best quality though (about 400x400)###Update### the site changed again ==> stopped working)
* Grouping of artists now works only in Artists/Albums mode (BugFix)
* Play/Pause Icon now changes correctly (BugFix)
* XML Parser changed
+ Added Web Services (Google - YouTube - Wikipedia more if you modify the services.xml).
You can find these services in the 'services' submenu of the context menu in TreeView/ListView
* Fixed Bug when dropping a folder in the Player List (BugFix)
* TS will not affect "Wave Volume" anymore
* Quicksearch now has a delay for keystrokes
* Quicksearch now searches for Path also (BugFix)
* New Icons based on Tango
* 'folder' added to the album picture finder

0.91b beta1 (611)

A new beta is out. Check here for more info.

Road to 0.91b

Some raw data of my programmers log...

(070207)* Improved the way of reading/writing tags. There should be a lot of performance increase in these operations
(070207)* Added icons in services
(060207)* FreeCoversDownloading is working again. Not the best quality though (about 400x400)
(060207)* Grouping of artists now works only in Artists/Albums mode (BugFix)
(060207)* Play/Pause Icon now changes correctly (BugFix)
(060207)* XML Parser changed
(050207)+ Added Web Services (Google - YouTube - Wikipedia more if you modify the services.xml).
You can find these services in the 'services' submenu of the context menu in TreeView/ListView
(300107)* Fixed Bug when dropping a folder in the Player List (BugFix)
(290107)* TS will not affect "Wave Volume" anymore
(240107)* Quicksearch now has a delay for keystrokes
(240107)* Quicksearch now searches for Path also (BugFix)
(240107)* New Icons based on Tango
(210107)* 'folder' added to the album picture finder
TS/C Screenshot with the new Tango Icons

Estimated TimeToRelease .. a week