Version History
Release Notes / Revision History
- Added support for embedded cast & crew listings, a la Apple TV
- Added support for new Apple TV-branded MP4 files exported from QuickTime
- Fixed the Options drawer so it now correctly remembers whether it was open or closed between sessions
- Added rudimentary support for iPhone ringtones, although iTunes 7.4.2 appears to have broken it
- Fixed an issue with iTunes integration where some tags that were cleared out/deleted in the MP4 file remained in iTunes’ database; still happens (unavoidably) with certain tags
- Improved error reporting/handling
- The dock icon is now always reset to its normal state when the application quits
- Lostify no longer complains when processing files that already contain embedded lyrics
- The timeout value for making backup copies was increased from 1 minute to 5 minutes
- If you change the file kind between Movie, TV Show and/or Music Video while running from within iTunes, Lostify now instructs iTunes to re-categorize the file appropriately
- Added option to back up original file before overwriting
- Added option to automatically add tagged tracks to iTunes
- Added option to invoke Lostify from iTunes Script menu
- Automatically add the “i” button in iTunes for pop-up descriptions
- Added support for movie and TV ratings from those countries supported by iTunes (AU, CA, IE, NZ, UK, US)
- Added support for ratings annotations, i.e. often the rationale behind the rating
- Streamlined popup alerts; show application status through badges on the dock icon rather than alert boxes
- Added additional error checking to detect when tagging may have gone wrong
- Improved and corrected parsing of existing metadata
- Incorporated new build of AtomicParsley with improved support for Apple TV compatible movies
- Added support for the MPAA / US-TV Rating tag
- Added support for the Encoding Tool tag
- Added a File > Open menu for people who don’t care to drag and drop
- If Lostify is already engaged in tagging a file, and you open or drag and drop additional files, it now adds them to the queue
- When opening or dropping multiple files simultaneously, Lostify now sorts them in alphabetical order for processing
- Bug fixed where Lostify failed to detect previously-set Content Advisory
- Thanks to the latest build of AtomicParsley (11/18/06) for adding Ratings support
- Fixed a newly arisen oddity where some files with no pre-existing metadata were detected as having invalid UTF-8
- integrated latest build of AtomicParsley
(should fix intermittent problems on some Intel Macs, as well as better handle MP4 files from different sources)
- program stays open until you quit it manually
- no longer writes out random filenames; lets you specify a custom suffix
- added option to enforce .m4v file extension
- added “trash original” option (safe)
- added “overwrite original” option (unsafe - only use if you have backups!)
- use latest version of AtomicParsley (0.8.4)
- added “re-embed tags” option (to fix problematic tags created by early versions of AtomicParsley)
- added support for AtomicParsley -freefree option to reclaim wasted space in MP4 atoms
- bugs fixed
Version 0.3.2 - 23 Feb 2006
- integrated a newer build of Atomicparsley from CVS
Version 0.3.1 - 22 Feb 2006
- integrated a newer build of Atomicparsley from CVS; may fix problems with files encoded by iSquint 1.2.x
Version 0.3 - 14 Feb 2006
- integrated the latest build of AtomicParsley from CVS (post-0.8) compiled as a Universal Binary
- compiled Lostify as a Universal Binary (Intel and PPC native)
- replaced the Date Picker control to achieve Panther compatibility
- widened range of supported file extensions (now supports mp4, m4v, m4p, m4a, m4b, 3gp)
- removed (for now) the “re-embed” feature, since it was hopelessly broken
- improved error checking (but still not perfect)
- fixed bug where iTunes failed to recognize videos you tagged the Video Kind as “Movie”
- fixed bugs where release date was not set
- lots of other bug fixes (sorry, too many to list)
Version 0.2.1 - 2 Jan 2006
- fixed a bug which caused a spurious AppleScript error
- changed behavior so changes to locked/unlocked fields are remembered even when the current file is Skipped
- fixed release and copyright dates to 2006 — oops!
Version 0.2 - 1 Jan 2006
- all-new user interface
- “field locking” added in response to requests for batch facilities
- included AtomicParsley 0.7.6, which facilitated better Unicode support and fixed a null-termination problem
- support for disc numbers
- more complete support for unicode characters, long descriptions, content advisory ratings
- support for iTunes-compatible comments
- added an indeterminate progress spinner
- added a feature to force re-embedding of existing metadata (useful to fix the buggy string terminators that caused the underscore in iTunes)
Version 0.1.4 - 21 Dec 2005
- added support for text editing commands (cut / copy / paste / etc.)
Version 0.1.3 - 19 Dec 2005
- fixed a bug where meta-data containing single or double quotes (and possibly other characters) were not being properly handled
Version 0.1.2 - 17 Dec 2005
- fixed a bug where it choked on files that contained no readable metadata
Version 0.1.1 - 16 Dec 2005
- Included AtomicParsley 0.75e
- Included support for Album Artist tag
- fixed deployment bug that prevented anyone from running it (oops!)
Version 0.1 - 16 Dec 2005
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