SongKong 6.10 Odelay Released July 23rd 2020

We are pleased to announce the release of SongKong 6.10 Odelay, named after my favourite album by Beck released in 1996.

The main purpose of this release is to introduce a brand new Windows installer, solving most installer issues.

We also remove the Izpack linux installer because this required a windowed system to run the installer and did not install desktop shortcuts properly, for now we just provide a simple tar installer that can be extracted to preferred location.

There are also a number of important bug fixes.

Improvement

• [SONGKONG-2002] - Windows:Move to Java 14
• [SONGKONG-2082] - Windows:Replace Izpack installer with JPackage installer
• [SONGKONG-2087] - Make it possible to run songkong.sh from Docker

Bug

• [SONGKONG-0605] - Installer:Rationalise short cuts created during Windows installation
• [SONGKONG-1359] - Windows/Linux:Applescript warning
• [SONGKONG-1581] - Windows:Self Extracting Zip installer does not always work
• [SONGKONG-1687] - Windows:Uninstaller doesnt work properly
• [SONGKONG-1996] - Linux:Izpack Installer could run as console but missing console impl of FinishPanel
• [SONGKONG-2069] - songkong64.bat doesnt work on first install, need to run songkong64.ini first
• [SONGKONG-2071] - Windows:javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
• [SONGKONG-2072] - Possible for song to try and save same song twice, must be issue with SingleSong match, DiscogsSongMatch
• [SONGKONG-2073] - Check Version doesnt show if have current version updates period.
• [SONGKONG-2076] - Mandatory fields such as MB RECORDING ID and MB RELEASE ID are missing from Status Report
• [SONGKONG-2077] - NullPointerException at org.jaudiotagger.tag.mp4.field.Mp4GenreField
• [SONGKONG-2078] - StatusReport says unreported error if just unable to load an audio file (because corrupt)
• [SONGKONG-2080] - Melco:Fix Songs Progress bars dont seem to be updating even though SongKong working
• [SONGKONG-2083] - Drop in users internet connection caused NullPointerException
• [SONGKONG-2085] - Remote:Watch Songs progress not updating as songs fixed.

Full details at https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-6-10-odelay-released-23rd-july-2020/9320

Jaikoz 10.1.0 Released July 5th 2020

Jaikoz 10.1.0 Pavement is now available for all platforms

Major MacOS Changes

 

We now support Dark Mode

and Apple Music App

and MacOS Notarization

Major Windows Changes

We now use a new installer, this is a much more robust installer that works better with Windows

Metadata Tagging

New version of tagging library containing over forty fixes for reading and modifying audio files.

Java Changes

We have moved from Java 8 to Java 11, this provides many fixes and improvements delivered with Java 11. It also means that we can provide a smaller Java Runtime containing only the libraries that Jaikoz needs

Note Java 11 also means we no longer support Windows 32bit, since this is not available with Java 11

• [JAIKOZ-1189] - OSX:Issue with About and Quit handler
• [JAIKOZ-1202] - MacOS:Formatting of some Preferences tabs not quite right
• [JAIKOZ-1215] - MacOS:Quit Handler Exception
• [JAIKOZ-1218] - Removal of Lock on Save can cause problems with M4as because can use temporary files.
• [JAIKOZ-1239] - Not respecting Only allow match if all songs on album are matched option when matching directly from MusicBrainz
• [JAIKOZ-1249] - MacOS:Cannot configure Player app because chooser doesnt let you select Application folders
• [JAIKOZ-1251] - Fixes for Music Tagging Library
• [JAIKOZ-1265] - MacOS:iTunes Add New Tracks sometimes complaining nexttrack not defined

Improvement

• [JAIKOZ-887 ] - Add way of marking Tracks as Instrumental
• [JAIKOZ-1184] - OSX:Font size on detail panel only smaller than it used to be
• [JAIKOZ-1237] - MacOS Mojave and later:Add Support for Dark Mode
• [JAIKOZ-1252 1] - Update to Java 11
• [JAIKOZ-1253] - MacOS:Add support for stricter MacOS Notarization controls
• [JAIKOZ-1254] - MacOS:Add Support for Music app instead of iTunes
• [JAIKOZ-1255] - Remove support for Windows 32bit version
• [JAIKOZ-1257] - Build custom Java runtime with only the classes needed
• [JAIKOZ-1262] - MacOS:Remove Cross-Platform option for MacOS
• [JAIKOZ-1263] - Move to latest version of OneMusic Image Archive
• [JAIKOZ-1264] - MacOS:Preferences:MusicBrainz:Format is not formatted correctly on MacOS