Metashine 3.0.0-rc.1

How to install

Download Metashine-Setup-3.0.0-rc.1.exe (windows) or the appropriate Linux package from the Assets dropdown below and run the file or install the package.

Release info

More editing functionality and much better ID3 compliance 🥳

Added

• All discovered ID3 frames can now be viewed
• Multiple images can now be edited
• Frames can now be removed
• Unsaved changes are now indicated
• Some frames are now hard-coded as favorites (will be customizable in the future)
• If a favorite frame is missing there is now a button to add it
• Favorite frames are sorted on top of others

Changed

• Previously hard-coded frames are now favorite frames
• Official ID3 frame names are now displayed next to commonly-known ones
• Empty and missing frames now look different
• Hovered file style is now different from one of a selected file
• File compatabilty is not determined based on file extension anymore
• Tagging backed is now written in rust 🦀

Removed

• The "Preview build..." message (the app is almost ready now)
• Dependency on node-id3 and music-metadata. Bye bye 😢
• Temporarily disabled multi-file editing (will be back soon, in a better shape than it is leaving now)

Fixed

• File selection does not disappear when switching between files and the assistant
• File list now correctly takes up the entire width of the file section even when no files are added

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Metashine 2.0.0-beta3

Release info

Complete rewrite in modern tech stack.

Changed

• Significantly improved development experience
• Improved security
• Added Arch Linux support

Metashine 1.2.0-beta2

Release info

Tag search has been added! This app is actually objectively better than all others now.

Added

• Tag search

Changed

• Tighter design to better fit on fullHD screens (spacious design will come back in the future)
• Slightly different file list design
• Code is now split (WIP) for a better development experience

Fixed

• Scroll and width issues in the file list

Why is this still a pre-release

Tag formatting suggestions are still missing, there are some minor UI implerfections, and most importantly, there is a very weak code execution policy which can potentially lead to exploits. I am not going to do a full release until I solve that.

Metashine 1.1.0-beta1.3

Release info

New name, better performance, cleaner code and automatic updates

Added

• Automatic updates
• Handling of unsupported files
• Handling of directories

Changed

• Renamed the project to Metashine
• Improved the codebase and development workflow
• Removing files now also removes them from the main process

Fixed

• Add files back after removing

MP3 Tag Assistant 1.0.2-beta1.2

Context menus

This update focuses on context menus.
Starting this update new releases may imply deletion of downloadable binaries of older releases.

Added

• Context menus
• Ability to copy file names
• Ability to remove files from the list (only on the renderer side)
• Ability to remove album art
• WAV files can now be inspected (but not saved!)

Changed

• Improved the code structure
• Replaced string IPC event names with a dedicated object
• Typed most of the variables used in the code

MP3 Tag Assistant 1.0.1-beta1.1

The image update

Only adds the ability to edit the front cover

Added

• Drag .png .jpg and .jpeg images into the image filed to edit the front cover

MP3 Tag Assistant 1.0.0-beta1

First release

Download mp3-tag-assistant-win32-x64.zip, extract the mp3-tag-assistant-win32-x64 folder and run mp3-tag-assistant.exe.
Only portable installations are going to be published for now.

What's already working

• Drag MP3 files into the app to edit tags
• The app merges new ID3 tags into existing ones

What's not working yet

• Editing the album art is not possible yet
• Only ID3 tags are supported
• No assistance writing tags is implemented