v2.4.1

Changes

• Use git describe to derive application version number @Borewit (#23)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Prevent array-out-of-bound exception loading dirLists.ini @Borewit (#25)

v2.4.0

Changes:

• #13: Updated to JDK 15 & use JavaPackager task to Gradle to generate .msi

Special thanks thanks @fvarrui, I would not have been able to get the msi-build-task working without his help

v2.3.0

Changes:

• #7 Replaces Windows icon based on similar SVG logo
• #2 Update authors in about dialog

listFix() 2.2.0

Version 2.2.0 is dedicated to my late grandfather, Robert "Ruby" Caron.
We love & miss you Pep!

This version was a long time in coming, but it's chock-full of usability
enhancements that makes it easier to work on multiple files at once, to
manage multiple open playlists, and to interact with listFix() via
dragging. Now it takes less time than ever to fix every broken playlist in
your collection!

This release marks the first time we are providing both a JAR file and an
EXE file for download. The EXE file is basically a wrapper around the JAR
for Windows users who aren't used to running Java programs. It will take
you to Java's download page if you don't have the JRE installed, which
isn't something we could do with a standard JAR. Some Windows systems fail
to register double-click support for JAR files as well, and the EXE will
run when double-clicked no matter what.

Thanks to my wife Sarah, John Peterson for building out WPL support, and
those generous souls who have donated.

As always, please report any bugs you find.

New Features:

• Support for reading/writing WPL playlists (thanks to John Peterson).

• Can now run "Closest Matches Search" on multiple playlists at once.

• Drag-n-drop support for dragging files in from the operating system.

  • Playlists & Media Files can be dragged into an open playlist.

  • Playlists can be opened by dragging them into the
    "home screen" or the menu bar.

• Window position & size are now saved at exit & restored on startup.

• Overhauled the config file structure:

  • Broke out a new file for options.

  • Added a new error log file for better debugging.

  • Window size & position stored in its own file.

  • Relocated all files to ~/.listFix() along with a new errorLog
    file, rather than at the root of the user's home directory.

  • Config files from old versions are imported and removed when
    first running this new version.

  • Running an old version again will re-create config files in the
    old location, and this version will leave those alone once new
    config files exist.

• Colored status circles in the playlist editor now contain icons so the
  color blind can easily distinguish between them (they've had tooltips
  since version 2.0.0).

• New red "skip" buttons in the playlist editor for jumping to the
  next/previous missing entry; handy when working on large lists with
  missing entries that have lots of fixed entries between them.

• Replaced the wrapping tabs layout with a flat one and introduced a
  new tabbed component that has a dropdown to select from all open tabs.

• Middle-clicking a tab now closes it.

• New right-click menu on tab titles:

  • Close All Tabs

  • Close All Other Tabs

  • Repair Open Tabs (runs a batch exact match
    search on all the open lists)

• A font chooser in the options screen for setting the program-wide font.
  This should help with internationalization issues, as users can choose
  a font that they know can support the characters used in their filenames.

• A new option for how many matches to find during find closest search,
  starting at 20. This is to allow for configurable memory usage, so we
  don't use too much memory on systems with huge media libraries, or very
  small amounts of RAM.

• Open selected playlists in the playlists panel with the "Enter" key.

• First command line argument support, for passing a list of playlists
  to open on startup.

• The escape key now triggers the cancel button in all cancellable dialogs.

• Tooltip on location column for full path so it's easy to see the whole
  location when the file name column is taking up most of the display.

• When "save playlists with relative file references" is enabled, there is
  now a check to see if a mapped network drive and a UNC path are really
  aliases for the same location, and if so, now saves with relative paths
  despite the apparent mismatch. (example: \foo\bar\testDir\testFile.tst
  is the same location as Z:\testDir\testFile.tst if Z is mapped to
  \foo\bar, so when saving to either Z:\testDir or \foo\bar\testDir,
  \foo\bar\testDir\testFile.tst & Z:\testDir\testFile.tst would both be
  written out as .\testFile.tst)

• Added "Set", "Exact", & "Closest" buttons in the playlists panel, and
  "Open" & "Refresh" in that panel's right-click menu.

  • The "Set" button launches the open screen where the directory to
    be shown in the "Playlist Directory" panel. This will hopefully
    help to clarify the usage of this panel.

• Now launching "Find Closest Matches" when double-clicking on a
  missing entry.

• The closest match search algorithm now breaks CamelCasedWords into
  separate tokens when comparing two filenames and calculating a score.

• "Batch Find Closest Matches" on a the right-click menu in the playlist
  editor has been removed. The "Fix Everything Button" runs this after an
  exact match search, and now "Find Closest Matches" will kick off
  batch mode if multiple entries are selected.

UI Tweaks & Bug Fixes

• Removed the open icon in the top-right open the playlist editor.

• Items in the playlist directory list and the playlist editor are
  now de-selected when you click on nothing.

• Fixed a bug where saving a list with relative references would fail if
  the list contained an absolute reference that didn't exist on disk.

• Fixed a bug where opening a playlist with relative references and saving
  it as absolute, when "always use UNC" was enabled, would result in
  entries with "mapped drive" paths, even when the media directory was
  using UNC paths.

• Fixed a bug where opening a relative playlist and saving it relatively
  in a new location would result in entry paths that first led you to the
  playlist's original location, then back to the song.

• Now stripping invalid filename characters from winamp playlist names when
  extracting them so we don't fail to write any files during extraction.

• Fixed an issue with resolving relative entries in the same directory as
  the playlist itself, as the assumed path was '/' rather than '.'

v2.1.0

Version 2.1.0 contains some critical bug fixes and lots of new features
building on what was introduced in 2.0.0. I have much more to add, but
it was time to get this set of improvements stable and out there for
everyone to try. Thanks to Sarah for putting up with all the time I
spend in front of a computer, to Pierre for taking the time to help me
improve this app, and those those few generous souls who have donated :)

As always, please report any bugs you find.

New Features:

• "Fix everything" button (magic wand icon), first finds exact matches,
  then runs a closest match search on all the missing entries that remain
• Can now create a playlist from scratch (Ctrl-N, menu item under "File",
  or via the "getting started" panel)
• A play button in each row of the closest matches results screen to
  preview potential matches
• Ability to extract all the playlists from the winamp media library
  to a new location
• Cancel button for all long-running opeations
• Saving a playlist is now nearly instantaneous
• Major memory usage improvements and a roughly 40% running time
  improvement for the batch find closest matches operation
• Swtiched font to SansSerif for much better international support (shows
  Latin, Japanese, Korean, etc. characters that Verdana couldn't handle,
  among other reasons)
• Entries that are aren't missing but are found outside the media library
  are now updated to a location inside the media library if found
  there too
• Switching off "use UNC paths for mapped drives" will revert the media
  library to a mapped drive representation if applicable
• Can now drag multiple entries through the playlist at once (this
  should feel more natural now, implemented via Java's Drag-n-Drop API)
• Can drag a playlist from the playlist panel into the current
  playlist as an insert
• "Edit filenames" and "Replace" will operate on multiple entries
• Open dialogs for playlists now let you pick multiple files
• Refresh button for the playlists panel
• Can also multi-select (even directories) in the playlist panel and hit
  either the enter key, or the Open button, to open playlists
  (recursively for directories)
• More flexible parsing of M3U files to deal w/ extra data added by
  some players (lookin' at you MediaMonkey...)
• Can launch URLs for playback

Bug Fixes:

• Solved a major problem with saving files out relatively
• Fix playlist appending/insertion via the '+' button

v2.0.0

v2.0.0

v1.5.3

v1.5.3