MyTunesRSS version history

Version 4.1.11

December 13, 2011

Fixed some MP4 parsing problems.

Version 4.1.10

December 4, 2011

Fixed some MP4 parsing problems (e.g. and endless loop), mostly related to corrupted ATOMs in the files.

Version 4.1.9

December 1, 2011

Fixed very rare fatal error when the web browser cannot be started from the application window.

Version 4.1.8

November 27, 2011

Restored Java 1.5 compatibility.

Version 4.1.7

November 23, 2011

Fixed a problem with the database when using MySQL.
Fixed links to external sites.
Improved MP4 parsing with several bug fixes.

Version 4.1.6

November 4, 2011

Fixed problem parsing some MP4 files for meta information and cover artwork.

Version 4.1.5

October 21, 2011

Refuse startup with an expired license instead of using the default one.
Fixed reading TV show information and media type from MP4 files using watch folders.
Fixed saving of user configuration.
Fixed problems with recreating database when startup failed.

Version 4.1.4

October 8, 2011

Fixed error when clicking the "save" button in the addons panel.
After a database update all non-music genres are removed since they would not display anything.

Version 4.1.3

October 1, 2011

User permissions for photos and sharing (Facebook/Twitter) were mixed up on save.
From watch folders imported photos did not create any albums and hence were not displayed.

Version 4.1.1

September 24, 2011

Allow import of properties file for language packs instead of only ZIP archives.
Prefill driver class name and template connect string when changing database type.
One-click playlists ("create new" and "add to existing") did not work.
Corrected some internationalization issues.

Version 4.1.0

September 18, 2011

Removed additional web languages FR, JA and NB in favour of the language editor and downloadable packages available on http://www.mytunesrss.com soon.
Files are not parsed for artwork in tags if an iTunes artwork is found.
MyTunesRSS automatically creates backups of the default H2 database, so you can go back to the last backup in case of file corruption.
Filter option in album browser in user interface for compilations.
Removed option for URL encryption in admin interface and made it mandatory.
Facebook and Twitter integration in user interface.
Improved artist and album handling (please recreate your database).
Added genre filter in contents configuration.
Playlists from iTunes are now displayed in tree views in the admin interface.
User interface language editor in admin interface.
The default user interface theme can be edited now.
Added an admin option to ignore ID3 tags completely.
New users can send a registration request via the login screen (if enabled).
The contents of the random playlist are only recreated by explicit click in user interface now.
Support for movies, TV shows and photos (watch folder and iPhoto libraries).

Version 4.0.16

April 3, 2011

Fixed startup problem of Windows version 4.0.15.

Version 4.0.15

March 27, 2011

Fixed startup problem of version 4.0.14.

Version 4.0.14

March 26, 2011

Saving the user interface login did not work in Chrome browser.
Minor bug fixes.

Version 4.0.13

February 26, 2011

New playlists are user private by default.
New user permission to create public playlists which is disabled by default.
Bugfix: use the correct host name after the initial wizard finishes to display the user interface.
Bugfix: iTunes path replacements did not work correctly.
Bugfix: admin port from command line did not work.

Version 4.0.12

January 29, 2011

Updated Japanese and French user interface translation.
Renamed Flash players to Jukeboxes.
Added button for explicitly updating mytunesrss.com.
Bugfixes.

Version 4.0.11

January 9, 2011

Added login with ENTER key in admin.
Added an HTML5 based media player for the iPhone (Flash players). Removed Quicktime/iPhone playlist type.
Added playlist type JSON which can be selected for custom Flash player configurations.
UPnP router configuration (default enabled for user interface, disabled for admin).
Bugfixes.

Version 4.0.9

December 24, 2010

Fixed flash player startup issues for some links.
Configurable duration time unit for flash players (JW Media Player needs seconds while XSPF player needs milliseconds).
Removed proxy host and port configuration from user interface HTTP(S) configuration.

Version 4.0.8

December 23, 2010

Log file is opened in new window.
Flash player did not always start correctly.
General performance and stability improvements.

Version 4.0.7

December 20, 2010

Several flash player configuration bugfixes.
Configurable playlist file type and window width and height for flash players. Added some default HTML content for new players.
Fixed flash player problem with "select on start" option.

Version 4.0.6

December 18, 2010

Do not create MyTunesRSS3 folders while checking for their existence.
Wizard for basic configuration on first start.
Option to remove corrupted database on start.
Admin server uses random port if configured port cannot be used.
MyTunesRSS does not prevent shutdown on Mac OS X anymore.
Bugfixes.

Version 4.0.5

December 14, 2010

Correctly display web interface language chosen in login screen.
Added Norwegian user interface translation.
Minimize to systray on Windows.
Minimize and hide app window correctly on Mac OS X.
Correctly transfer MyTunesRSS 3 settings, license and database to MyTunesRSS 4 during first start.
Opening the admin and user interface in the same browser at the same time works now.
Bugfixes.

Version 4.0.4

December 12, 2010

In addition to selecting a certain Flashplayer you can now select the option to chose the player on each start.
Added JW Media Player with shuffle to default Flash players.
Re-added simple Flash player to default configuration.
Flash player does not require playlist permission anymore.
Bugfixes.

Version 4.0.3

December 9, 2010

Added simple main window.
Removed option to update the database when starting the server.
Removed option to show admin port in popup dialog.
Removed option to automatically start the browser.

Version 4.0.2

December 9, 2010

Problems starting the music server fixed.
Improved overall stability of the web based admin interface.

Version 4.0.1

December 6, 2010

Version 4.0.0 could not be registered with a license.

Version 4.0.0

December 6, 2010

Replaced old admin interface and JMX console with a new web based interface.
Support for users and groups.
User accounts can expire.
Users can be copied when creating new ones.
Shared and private users.
Playlists can be excluded from a user's view in addition to playlist restrictions.
Display currently logged in users only once with all sessions.
Some previously global options are now data source specific.
Buttons for full DB updates, stop DB update and run artwork update only.
Original size cover artwork can be imported.
Option for specifying which iTunes playlist types should be imported.
Presets for commonly used transcoders.
Freely configurable Flash players.
Web interface improvements (Flash player in playlist edit mode, add album/artist/genre/track to an existing playlist).
Added most recently played tracks special playlist.
Support for HTTP Live Streaming on the iPhone using FFmpeg libraries.
Remote API improvements.
Several small improvements and bugfixes.

Version 3.8.12

July 10, 2010

Hide actions menu if all entries are visible as action buttons.
Removed iPhone interface, use official app from store instead.
Fixed YouTube video playback.

Version 3.8.11

June 28, 2010

Fixed missing album artwork after initial import.
Other minor bugfixes.

Version 3.8.10

May 2, 2010

Bugfixes.

Version 3.8.9

March 21, 2010

Clicking a playlist name shows the contents.
Japanese web translation.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.8.8

February 20, 2010

Bugfixes.

Version 3.8.7

February 13, 2010

Bugfix for path replacements in iTunes XML.

Version 3.8.6

February 7, 2010

Smart playlists: use AND instead of OR for multiple terms in a field.
Smart playlists: when saving a playlist with missing name some fields were cleared.
Random playlist source: with only a single playlist in the library it was always selected.

Version 3.8.5

February 3, 2010

Fixed serious bug which prevents MyTunesRSS to start on some systems.

Version 3.8.4

February 3, 2010

Fixed bug with new help button on unsupported (Java 5) platforms.
Fixed bug for smart playlist with multiple terms for a field.

Version 3.8.3

February 2, 2010

Expert search with lucene syntax.
Improved search for better results.
Button for opening documentation in browser on Java 6 platforms.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.8.2

January 29, 2010

Transcoder configuration via regular expressions using the complete file path.
User defined welcome message on login page.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.8.1

January 29, 2010

Bugfix for editing playlist mode action link in web interface.

Version 3.8.0

January 28, 2010

Configurable links to external sites for albums, artists and tracks, e.g. to link to Amazon.
Playlist editing with much improved usability.
Search can find exact matches like before or similar matches as well. Similar matches are standard. Improved performance when searching.
Much more comfortable user management.
Support for HTML in welcome message.
System tray support for Mac OS X added (known issues on Linux).
Windows bundle with installer (optionally can install Java runtime as well).
File cache for downloaded ZIP archives (support for download managers).
New function in web interface to set tags for tracks. You can also set tags for all tracks of an album, a playlist, etc.
All functions (rss feed, flash player, download, etc.) are available through a popup menu in the web interface now. So you can enable the ones you usually use in the settings like before and access the other ones through the menu if needed. So you can save display space by disabling some functions but also use them if needed.
When accessing the server with the iPhone the user is asked whether he wants to use the default interface or the iPhone optimized interface which does not have all functions of the default interface. The special iPhone service through http://iphone.mytunesrss.com will be disabled soon.
Optionally configure forced transcoders for a user, i.e. force transcoder usage for a user.
Simpler transcoder configuration for all media types (e.g. transcode AVI video to MP4 or FLV to play it in Flash player).
LDAP authentication support.
You can now configure multiple playlists if you want to restrict a user to a number of tracks.
Opensearch link in portal page. You can add the MyTunesRSS search to your Firefox (other browsers have not been tested yet) search plugins.
Complete new web interface design (not completely done, please report all issues).
Bugfixes.

Version 3.7.8

November 15, 2009

Bugfixes.

Version 3.7.7

October 20, 2009

Bugfix when downloading update.

Version 3.7.6

October 18, 2009

Better configuration options for SMTP (plaintext, starttls and ssl).
Fixed fatal error when using 64 bit Java on OS X (Quicktime exception).
Norwegian translation for web interface.
Better tray icon.
Bugfixes

Version 3.7.4

August 24, 2009

Default volume for remote control is 70% now.
Fixed some bugs.

Version 3.7.3

July 31, 2009

Special iPhone interface from iphone.mytunesrss.com now included in distribution.
Option to recreate a default database if MyTunesRSS cannot initialize database on startup.
Active database update does not prevent MyTunesRSS shutdown anymore.
Fixed encoding problem when using non-encrypted links.
Other minor bugfixes.

Version 3.7.2

July 18, 2009

Option in web settings to keep session alive.
Performance optimization: ZIP files are only stored and not compressed anymore.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.7.1

July 4, 2009

Several bugs fixed.

Version 3.7.0

June 13, 2009

Smart playlists which are defined by some search criteria and contain all matching tracks.
Support for more media types than just audio and video. Added default definitions for "jpg", "gif" and "png".
More compliant RSS feeds which validate correctly now.
Fallback names for album and artist name can be freely configured now.
No restrictions on the original cover artwork image size anymore.
Remote control playback of media files in Quicktime environment on the computer running MyTunesRSS.
User can select preferred language on login screen.
H2 database can optionally be configured to any file system location.
Add YouTube datasources where video meta data is inserted into the MyTunesRSS database. Videos are always downloaded from YouTube on playback.
JW Media Player updated to version 4.4.
Existing datasources can be edited in configuration GUI.
Users can have parent users now. Most settings are inherited from the parent user, so you can manage the settings/permissions for a set of users by modifying the common parent user of those users.
Option for disabling files using certain MP4 codecs. The files using the configured codecs are not imported into the MyTunesRSS database.
Generic transcoder (to MP3) support. You can define any transcoder tool for a list of suffixes and (in case of MP4) optional MP4 codecs.
Wide theme, Leopard theme and french web interface translation bundled.
Several bugfixes and smaller improvements.

Version 3.6.6

May 16, 2009

Option to reset the database to default settings if MyTunesRSS cannot initialize the database in gui mode.
Warning message when changing the database type from standard H2 to anything else.
Fixed a problem with RSS feed links which did not contain a real file name in the end.
Added Download, RSS, M3u and Xspf links in the results of remote API calls which return album, artist and playlist objects.
Other minor bugfixes.

Version 3.6.5

March 11, 2009

Bugfix for database initialization problem.

Version 3.6.4

March 4, 2009

Do not start if either configuration or database is newer than application version.
Use standard ports for sending mail when no ports have been set (25 for non SSL/TLS, 465 and 587 for SSL/TLS enabled).
When file is an image (jpg, png, gif) itself, it is used as the "artwork" information.
Artwork for track is read from equally named image when scanning watch folders as well.

Version 3.6.3

February 12, 2009

Remote-API: Allow password to be SHA-1 hash of password in "LoginService.login".
Fixed CSS bug where links were not displayed in one row.
Update file type information in the database on change.
Default file type mp4 (video/x-mp4) changed from audio to video.

Version 3.6.2

February 6, 2009

SMTP with TLS/SSL.
Configuration action to remove saved settings from user profile.
Default web settings for Nintendo Wii.
User can choose between 3 Flash players now: JW Player 4, JW Player 3 and simple player.
Add image tag in RSS and XSPF only if image is available.

Version 3.6.1

January 30, 2009

Fixed continuous playback in the Flash player.

Version 3.6

January 23, 2009

All configuration options available in configuration GUI and JMX console. No need for manually editing the settings file anymore.
Configuration GUI completely redesigned to allow dialogs to have individual screen positions and sizes.
User email addresses.
Admin notifications via email.
Simple usage statistics which can be sent as CSV file to admin email.
Support for more tokens in the transcoding binary command lines.
Track images are fetched from image files named like the track itself with the suffix (jpg, gif or png in that order).
Special button for creating playlists with a single click (available in edit playlist mode).
RSS feeds in HTML-HEAD as alternate links (button to add feed in Firefox and Safari next to the address line).
Tracks in MyTunesRSS playlists can be sorted.
Link on the login page to retrieve a forgotten password (user email must be set).
Embedded quicktime video playback in track info for movie files. No Last.FM scrobbling for movie files.
Folder from iTunes marked with special icons in the web interface and each playlist knows its container if any. Navigation for iTunes folders.
Updated to JW Media Player 4.3.
Remote API authentication via HTTP header "X-MyTunesRSS-ID" as well (preferred over path info).
Support for optional JSONP parameter.
Many other remote API improvements and fixes.
Many minor bugfixes and other improvements.

Version 3.5.3

September 21, 2008

Reasonable defaults for web interface configuration when iPhone or PSP are detected.
Bugfixes

Version 3.5.2

September 12, 2008

Simpler iPhone playlist type which works better on the iPhone.
Option to use either the mytunesrss.com address or the IP address in RSS feeds and playlists.
Bugfixes

Version 3.5.1

August 21, 2008

Bugfixes

Version 3.5 (Commercial only)

August 1, 2008

More flexible database update schedules
Works with Apache's mod_proxy now
Remote API (XML-RPC, JSON-RPC)
iPhone/iPod Touch support
SSL support
Last.FM community integration
Lots of other improvements
Bugfixes

Version 3.1.11

April 21, 2008

Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.10

April 18, 2008

Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.9

March 31, 2008

Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.8

March 17, 2008

Playback of individual tracks on iPod Touch works.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.7

March 12, 2008

Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.5

February 23, 2008

Improved cover art tooltip.
Performance improvement when scanning watch folders with cover art.
Improved support for ID3 tags in comments through the "track.comment.id3v2" system property.
Transcoder log files in debug mode.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.4

February 16, 2008

Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.3

February 9, 2008

Debug logging option and support request for JMX console.
Maximum number of server threads can be configured.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.2

January 23, 2008

Bugfixes.

Version 3.1.1

January 18, 2008

Yahoo media player integration in browse track page.
Option to not read cover artwork from MP3 and MP4 files.
Bugfixes.

Version 3.1

January 6, 2008

Custom web interface themes.
Custom web interface languages.
MySql and Postgres database support.
Transcoding (AAC -> MP3, ALAC -> MP3, MP3 -> MP3).
Optional bandwidth restriction.
Optional web settings in user profile.
Cover thumbnails in album browser.
Better content (restriction) management per user.
New Flash player.
Lots of other improvements.

Version 3.0.6

October 23, 2007

Bugfix: M3U playlists in watch folders were not always recognized and imported.

Version 3.0.5

September 6, 2007

Bugfix: Problems when installation path contained spaces.
Bugfix: Clicking the Flash player caused the page to scroll.

Version 3.0.4

August 4, 2007

Switch to debug logging in the config interface.
Bugfix: Database updates sometimes did not work.

Version 3.0.3

July 24, 2007

Bugfix: MyTunesRSS not starting after (trial) license expiration.
Bugfix: Flash player works with additional permission "playlist" only.

Version 3.0.2

July 13, 2007

File suffix "wma" supported
Additional file suffixes with mime types can be added

Version 3.0.1

July 6, 2007

Window close button on Mac OS X hides/closes window instead of application
Bugfixes

Version 3.0 (Shareware)

July 1, 2007

Watch folders
Multiple user accounts
Flash player
mytunesrss.com accounts
JMX configuration in headless mode
Upload files to server from web interface
Discover other MyTunesRSS servers on LAN
much more...

Version 2.3.6

December 17, 2006

Bugfixes

Version 2.3.5

November 14, 2006

Bugfixes

Version 2.3.4

November 8, 2006

Prevent MyTunesRSS from being started more than once
Initial "iTunes Music Library.xml" search can be cancelled
ZIP archives with multiple tracks contain a complete M3U playlist
Bugfixes

Version 2.3.3

November 5, 2006

Internal improvements of support requests
Bugfixes

Version 2.3.2

November 4, 2006

Support request directly from MyTunesRSS
Bugfixes

Version 2.3.1

October 22, 2006

Bugfixes

Version 2.3

October 21, 2006

Virtual playlists with all tracks
Virtual playlist with random tracks
(De-)select all albums/artists in playlist mode
Removed configuration for fake suffixes
Password stored in encrypted form
Advanced mode without GUI
Advanced configuration via XML file
Automatically search for "iTunes Music Library.xml" on first start
HSQL database engine v1.8.0.7
Tomcat v5.5.20
Bugfixes

Version 2.2.4

August 20, 2006

Own implementation for reading ID3 tags from MP3 files
Bugfixes

Version 2.2.3

August 10, 2006

Button for deleting and recreating the database
Display artwork on track info page (RSS item link)
Fixed mime type bug when downloading tracks
Fixed bug when no address was found in server info

Version 2.2.2

August 8, 2006

Option to disable MP3 artwork in RSS feeds
Stability improvements for MP3 artwork support

Version 2.2.1

August 6, 2006

Added missing library

Version 2.2

August 6, 2006

Download of multiple titles in ZIP archive
Option to ignore timestamps on database updates
More information in server status window
Album art from MP3s in RSS feed
Bugfixes

Version 2.1

June 25, 2006

Download link for individual tracks
Database auto-update in minutes instead of seconds
Older iTunes versions should work
Display of local/external address in dialog
Error sound when requesting missing files
Bugfixes

Version 2.0.1

June 10, 2006

Fixed bug which caused most RSS feeds to fail on PSP
Fixed bug which caused database failure with some artist/album names
Database stored in special folder under user home

Version 2.0

June 7, 2006

All file types from the iTunes library are used
Browse the library by album or artist
Manage own playlists with MyTunesRSS
Create M3U playlists
Automatic server start when starting MyTunesRSS
Automatic updates from iTunes during runtime
On Windows systems the application can be minimized to the system tray
User interface comletely redesigned

Version 1.2

May 7, 2006

Optionally limit size of an RSS feed
Compose RSS feed from multiple search results
Automatic checking for updates

Version 1.1

May 1, 2006

Support for unprotected AAC files
Create RSS directly from iTunes playlists
Protect web pages with password
Less memory consumption
Improved user interfaces
Easier to use
Overall stability improvements

Version 1.0.1

April 5, 2006

Missing files do not crash application
Log files for better maintenance

Version 1.0

April 2, 2006

First official release