Release notes

New in version 5.38 		 topdown
An extra button has been added to the toolbar in the main window, which opens an FTP settings window. FTP servers can be managed by the users in this window (servers can be added, modified and deleted). Each Windows user can setup their own FTP servers and default accounts.

The FTP servers setup by the administrator can be viewed, but not modified or deleted in the FTP settings window.

New in version 5.37 		 topdown
A new feature and bug fix for converting items to audio CD, using the dBpoweramp R12/13
Audio CD codec; Information files (XML, INF, CSV, VOL) were written sometimes when using
the codec (dependant on settings used for other codecs), this has been fixed. A new feature
allows a temporary directory to be setup for the Audio CD codec, this directory is used when
audio files need to be localized to a local hard drive (when the audio file format is different to
the file extension).

The "last modified" field can now be displayed in a new column in the audio items listview.

New in version 5.36 		 topdown
Bug fix for converting audio items to audio CD, using the dBpoweramp R12/13 Audio CD codec.
The "create new" button in the codec settings, now works correctly and the CD tracks now
include title and artist information.

New in version 5.35 		 topdown
A setting has been added to allow/disallow playlist browsing in Browser32. The new setting can be found on the "special functions" tab in the Browser32 setup program.

New in version 5.34 		 topdown
FTP audio conversion issue fixed (FTP process failed after converting audio)

New in version 5.33 		 topdown
Tag writing added for converted files (only available when using dBpoweramp R12/R13).

New in version 5.32 		 topdown
Same as version 5.31. dBpoweramp bug is now completely fixed.

New in version 5.31 		 topdown
Bug fix voor audio conversions using dBpoweramp R12/R13. When logged-in as a different user (than the installing user), the codec settings would not appear and the conversion would not be done.

New in version 5.30 		 topdown
Bug fix voor groups of titles in DaletPlus. Opening on a category containing groups resulted
in error messages. This has now been fixed.

New in version 5.29 		 topdown
Bug fix for "Evaluation Expired" messages while using dBpoweramp Music Converter R12.

New in version 5.28 		 topdown
This version supports dBpoweramp Music Converter R12 (as well as R11.x).

New toolbar button added to open the dBpoweramp CD writer window.

New in version 5.27 		 topdown
Periods (.) in titles would cause the wrong file to be created when converting to other formats.

Exporting a category to a CSV file would give different results than exporting a single title metadata to CSV, if the title contained ampersands (&) and commas (,).

New in version 5.26 		 topdown
Support added for the Browser32 server. The Browser32 server allows registration numbers to be stored at a central location and speeds-up login time for the client application.

Comment fields are now saved in the XML export files.

Selector item player stopped working in version 5.25 - this has now been fixed.

Selector item player fix for Dalet 5.0 databases.

Selector item player now gives usage messages when run from the command line.

New in version 5.25 		 topdown
Bug fixed in the new Audio Converter module (converting to WMA version 9.1 failed).

New in version 5.24 		 topdown
The search bug (when searching from the root) is now fixed. This bug (and error message) only appeared on Sybase Enterprise systems.

The FTP context menu list bug is also fixed (more than 5 FTP servers is now possible).
 
Private queues can be created and managed. Items can be dragged in to the queues and
the item order within the queue can be changed (also using drag and drop). The queues are saved on the local hard disk (workstation specific). These queues can be used for preparing a lists of files to be FTP'ed or converted to other formats.

MP3 conversions are now possible using the latest version of dBPowerAMP (the dBPowerAMP
MP3 codec must be licenced to make this possible). Some windows have also been adjusted to work better with large fonts.

Audio conversions are now done using an internal converter (using the dBPowerAmp codecs). This solves a problem with files in Dalet which have a different extension to the internal format.

A new window has been added to allow changing filenames before they are saved, converted or sent to an FTP server. This includes being able to set upper or lowercase and naming conventions.

Custom naming conventions for saving, converting and FTPing soundfiles. This includes variables which can be used to build-up the name. The naming convention type can be selected by the user ("custom" or one of the other formats). The definition of the naming convention is done in the Browser32 setup program.

The software would lock-out on all workstations if the software was used on more workstations than available in the licence. This has now been fixed.

200+ licence works correctly for more than 200 workstations.

New in version 5.23 		 topdown
A bug has been fixed when saving audio items with UNICODE titles to a local disk (extension was missing from the final saved file).

Category information added to INF and CSV metadata files.

Titles_mix.crossfade added to INF and CSV metadata files.

New in version 5.22 		 topdown
It is now possible to setup the separator character for the CSV files.

There is a checkbox for overwriting (or not) saved and converted files in the save dialog box.
This can be used to stop overwriting already converted or saved files.

The soundfile can be displayed in a column in the list of items.

One of the four multimedia fields (selectable) can be displayed in a column in the list of items.

A bug has been fixed for showing private categories.

More database fields have been added to the printing window (orchestra, composer, etc...).

Searching in databases with more than 250 categories on Sybase Enterprise caused an SQL error. This has been fixed.

New in version 5.21 		 topdown
A new version of the “item player” has been added to this release. The item player has been succesfully tested with Selector V12. See the installation manual for a description of how to set this up.

New in version 5.20
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ItemPlayer function added to allow the use of Browser32 to play Dalet files from other systems and programs which can call external programs with an itemcode in the command line. Example command line: “c:\program files\Browser32\ItemPlayer.exe 4567”. This function can be used with Selector to listen to Dalet items direct from the Selector program.

The FTP module can now convert to different audio formats (using dBPowerAMP Music Converter) before sending to the FTP server.

There is now better support for the conversion of audio files to different formats using DBPowerAMP Music Converter.

Properties window bug resolved. It is now only possible to query the proerties for valid item types.

FTP servers list bug solved in setup program. When the list was empty, the setup program would save circa 20 "empty" FTP server configurations.

Files to be sent to an FTP server are now copied (or converted) first to the temp directory. This is to overcome file-blocking of the original files caused by the FTP module.

New in version 5.19 		 topdown
Broadcast reports browsing is now available for reports which are stored in the database (for registered users only). The scheduled time, actual start time, actual duration and clock name are shown for each item. These columns can also be printed using the new printing functions.

The printing function has had a complete “make-over”. It is now possible to print 10 columns of item information and the field widths are now measured in millimeters, instead of a percentage of the total page width which was confusing for some users. The icons used to display the item status are now printed on the left hand side of the printed page.

There is a new print preview window which also allows the user to change the paper size, orientation, column widths and the item information to be printed. The print preview window is also available in the setup program to allow correct installation of the default settings.

The save dialog window has been removed when "converting" items to an Audio CD with the dBPowerAMP CD writer. This was because the save settings were not used (or misinterpreted) by the CD  writer plug-in.

New in version 5.18 		 topdown
Viewing playlists now work for Sybase engines other than 5.x and 11.9.2 (e.g. Sybase 7.x).

Bug resolved for viewing the texts in a group or playlist. This could, in some, cases return the wrong text - now fixed.

30x FTP servers can now be configured (instead of 5) to send audio (and XML/INF metadata) files to.

Export function added to allow saving the metadata for the audio items currently on screen (in a category, playlist or archive unit) as a CSV (comma delimited) file. This file can easily be read into Excel, which gives better printing and formatting possibilities.

Bug fix in search window. Apostrophes in the search text caused the application to crash. This has now been resolved.

Known problems 		 top
There is a problem with MAPlayer on Windows NT. Use WinAmp (or another player) when running NT.

The newer versions of Winamp don't play Dalet WSX standard files. Versions up to 2.091 of Winamp can play Dalet files without a problem.

If the item counter in the status bar doesn't update while getting items from the database for a given  category, then you need the COMCTL32.DLL update from Microsoft. This is a problem with Windows 95 and NT.

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