MyTunesRSS version history
MyTunesRSS 6 (click to expand/collapse)
Version 6.8.2
July 13, 2015
- Fixed SQL exception when using certain user setting with a postgres database.
Version 6.8.1
May 15, 2015
- Fixed failure imoporting certain files.
Version 6.8
May 13, 2015
- Improved embedded (default) H2 database maintenance.
- REST-API: Fixed wrong order when adding tracks to media player via tracklist parameter.
- REST-API: Added missing function to delete playlists.
- Bugfixes.
Version 6.7
March 6, 2015
- REST-API: Return playlist URI when saving an edited playlist.
- REST-API: Added nat_sort_name attribute to album/artist/genre representation.
Version 6.6
January 30, 2015
- Removed option to delete missing files in iTunes import (missing files now are always deleted).
- Removed file types configuration, types are automatically detected.
- Several bug fixes and minor improvements.
Version 6.5.2
December 10, 2014
- Fixed problem with user interface settings page.
- Fixed typo in label in UPnP admin
Version 6.5.1
November 15, 2014
- Use "http://ip4.telize.com" to get external address.
Version 6.5
November 14, 2014
- MyTunesRSS is now free of charge and does not require a license file anymore.
Version 6.3.4
October 4, 2014
- Use other character set when parsing ID3 tags in MP3 files to fix problems with files not 100% compliant to the ID3 specification.
Version 6.3.3
September 19, 2014
- Fixed problem browsing genres when user had certain settings.
- Fixed problem with the "private playlist" checkbox when editing playlists.
Version 6.3.2
September 2, 2014
- Added button to recreate the search index on the content config panel in the admin interface.
- Fixed problems with certain characters and the search index.
Version 6.3.1
August 22, 2014
- Depending on the user permissions some playlists were not shown in the manager.
Version 6.3
August 8, 2014
- Added warning when saving empty admin password.
- Added ID of currently selected media renderer to REST API media player representation.
- Added TOGGLE_PLAY_PAUSE action to media player REST API.
- Several bug fixes and minor improvements.
Version 6.2
June 28, 2014
- Added configurable image size for jukebox configurations.
- Playlist in remote control view now correctly refreshes when another client changes it.
- REST API for adding albums, artists, genres and playlists to remote control playlist.
- Updated bundled Mac OS X and Windows JRE to 1.7.0 Update 60.
- Bugfix for parent URI in REST API playlist representation.
- Bugfix for smart playlist criteria "not recently played".
- Fixed problem interrupting database import.
Version 6.1
May 23, 2014
- Support for sort album and album artist from iTunes, ID3 tags and MP4 atoms.
- Better playback statistics update and LastFM scrobbling.
- Several bugfixes.
Version 6.0.2
May 6, 2014
- Removed automatic QT-Faststart utility since it causes performance problems with HTTP range requests.
Version 6.0.1
May 2, 2014
- Sort order for albums, artists and genres improved, e.g. albums with numbers at the end are sorted correctly in natural order now.
- Search results with the same score are now correctly sorted by album and tracks of the same album are sorted by track number.
- Search results are sorted consistently in all apps (Web interface, iOS app, DLNA server).
- The default media server client profile's user is defaulted if only one user exists in the whole server for easier setup.
- Several minor improvements and fixes.
Version 6.0
April 26, 2014
- MyTunesRSS requires Java 7 now. The Windows and Mac OS X versions come with a bundled JRE.
- Added UPnP DLNA Media Server.
- Remote control feature does not use VLC player anymore but any available UPnP DLNA Media Renderer.
- Several optimizations and improvements.
- Bugfixes.
MyTunesRSS 5 (click to expand/collapse)
Version 5.0.2
February 8, 2014
- Allow smart playlist criteria patterns with up to 255 character. Added a proper error message in case user enters longer values.
- Miscellaneous bugfixes.
Version 5.0.1
January 24, 2014
- Date matcher for smart playlists (recently or not recently played or updated).
- In smart playlists you can use the pipe character "|" for a disjunction of terms.
- Bugfix for image requests without size to return largest available image. This bug made the album covers look bad in the iOS app for example.
- Added single threaded H2 database option. Use it if you have problems with the default H2 database.
- Minor bugfixes.
Version 5.0.0
January 19, 2014
- MyTunesRSS 5.0.0 requires Java 6, so please stay with version 4.x if you still use Java 5.
- Optimizations to allow import of much larger libraries with several hundred thousand tracks.
- New sort criteria "play count", "last played" and "last updated" for smart playlists.
- Database maintenance button in the admin interface.
- Access logs for the admin and the user interface.
- Removed tagging support, please use iTunes or ID3 comments for additional information.
- Option to disable playlist import for watch folders.
- Image thumbnails are stored in the file system instead of the database.
- Genres can be renamed in MyTunesRSS.
- The VLC player version (2.0 or 2.1) is detected automatically in most cases now.
MyTunesRSS 4 (click to expand/collapse)
Version 4.9.15
January 10, 2014
- Restored Java 5 compatibility.
Version 4.9.14
November 1, 2013
- Windows installer of v4.9.13 did not work on all systems.
Version 4.9.13
October 30, 2013
- Fixed code signature in Mac OS X build.
Version 4.9.12
October 12, 2013
- Added tracksUri to the REST representation on an artist.
- Fixed a translation problem in the data sources config.
- Fixed a display problem in the playlists view in the content config.
Version 4.9.11
October 10, 2013
- Fixed a problem with HTTP Live Streaming.
Version 4.9.10
October 4, 2013
- Fixed a problem with VLC player 2.1 on Windows.
Version 4.9.9
October 3, 2013
- Restored Java 5 compatibility which was lost in versions 4.9.7 and 4.9.8.
Version 4.9.8
October 2, 2013
- Minor fixes and improvements for the transcoder cache and preparation for the next version (3.1) of the iOS app.
Version 4.9.7
September 27, 2013
- Added jukebox playlist type "JW Media RSS" to support the JW Media Player 6.
- Option for VLC player version. Used to set http-password when starting VLC player 2.1 for remote control. Display error message in admin when VLC player could not be started.
- Minor improvements and bugfixes.
Version 4.9.6
September 8, 2013
- Fixed dialog misplacement for pages with long content.
- Limited size of imported cover images to 2048 pixels.
- Use GraphicsMagick (if configured) for generating cover thumbnails as well.
- Some minor bugfixes.
Version 4.9.5
August 22, 2013
- Several smaller fixes for the remote control, especially when using Internet Explorer.
- Admin interface now works correctly in Internet Explorer 10.
- Fixes for problems detecting the VLC executable on Windows.
- User interface setting for JPEG quality when displaying photos.
- Fixed a problem where the cover image update sometimes stopped when a single cover could not be read.
- New configuration option for optionally using GraphicsMagick to generate thumbnail images.
Version 4.9.4
August 13, 2013
- Some minor bugfixes.
Version 4.9.3
August 10, 2013
- Smart playlists with certain characters in the name caused problems with the refresh button on the portal page.
Version 4.9.2
August 8, 2013
- Fixed a problem when refreshing smart playlists with a Postgres database.
Version 4.9.1
August 6, 2013
- Fixes a problem under certain circumstances when no media files could be downloaded/played.
Version 4.9
August 3, 2013
- Added HTTP response compression.
- Added new smart playlist criteria "random order" and "limit".
- Removed random playlist. Users can configure their own random playlists with the newly added smart criteria "random order" and "limit".
- Added refresh REST resource for smart playlist owned by the current user.
- Bugfixes.
Version 4.8.1
July 2, 2013
- Bugfixes.
Version 4.8
June 6, 2013
- File upload through the user interface has been added again with a new configuration. Uploads to iTunes are possible now.
- Transcoders are selected on more criteria than filename suffix only. The configuration has changed.
- Several bugfixes and improvements.
Version 4.7.1
March 4, 2013
- Added CORS support for the REST API.
Version 4.7
February 9, 2013
- Album view for playlist editor to be able to remove complete albums with a single click.
- A new REST-API function for getting all albums of the currently edited playlist and a function for removing all tracks of an album from the currently edited playlist.
- Added a confirmation dialog when canceling the playlist editor with unsaved changes.
- Switched off transcoding if VLC has been disabled or is not found.
- Limited the number of parallel photo thumbnail generation threads to prevent excessive memory usage.
- Several bug fixes and minor improvements.
Version 4.6.5
January 6, 2013
- MP3 track duration calculated from actual MP3 audio data since the ID3 length tag often does not have the correct value.
- Fixed a problem where stopping a running database update sometimes did not work correctly.
Version 4.6.4
December 15, 2012
- Fixed problem when starting VLC player for remote control feature.
- Fixed problem switching to other speakers in the remote control player.
Version 4.6.3
December 8, 2012
- Use cover artwork when sharing a single track even when the image is not displayed in the track browser view.
- Added TV show name and season name to what is shared on Twitter and Facebook when sharing a single episode.
- Bugfixes.
Version 4.6.2
November 28, 2012
- Fixed jukebox selection for Facebook and Twitter sharing.
- Use cover artwork for Facebook sharing if available.
Version 4.6.1
November 27, 2012
- Database connection options can be added (some defaults for internal MySQL).
- Prompt to reset database to default when broken on startup. Command line switch (-resetDatabase) to force the reset (e.g. for headless mode).
- Fixed Facebook sharing.
Version 4.6
November 21, 2012
- Option for MySQL database using MXJ connector lets you use a MySQL database without explicitly installing and configuring a MySQL server.
- Include names of missing files in the admin notification email after an update.
Version 4.5.1
November 7, 2012
- Restored Java 5 compatibility.
Version 4.5
November 3, 2012
- REST resource for deleting tracks from a playlists allows a single track ID only now.
- Added an option for a user's bandwidth limit.
- Removed all JSON- and XML-RPC APIs.
- The upload for a custom jukebox must now contain the complete code. The uploaded ZIP archive must contain a file called index.html on top-level. See http://kb.mytunesrss.com for more documentation.
- Option to disable VLC.
- Bugfix for MacOSX: MyTunesRSS seemed to hang after startup in headless mode.
- Removed user interface upload feature.
- File types configuration per data source.
- Search result list improvement.
- Generate JPG images instead of PNG images for thumbnails and previews.
- Separate "normal" albums from compilations.
- Improved cover artwork display.
- Only load a single image for thumbnail and preview in the album browser.
- Bugfix: Search for combination of artist and title/album does not return any result.
- Improved browser caching and page display performance.
- Fixed display of albums and contents of albums where multiple artists have albums with the same name.
- Case-insensitive ordering of albums/artists/genres.
- Cover artwork always imported at sull size. Removed option to ignore cover artwork. Added import options for cover artwork (auto or never) and photo thumbnails (auto and on-demand). Both default to "auto".
- Remote API for photos added.
- Replaced "update images" function with "remove images" function. This removes images for selected datasources (track artwork and photo thumbnails). Image inport/updates are done in background jobs now. This makes the data import finish faster.
Version 4.3.9
September 28, 2012
- Fixed code signature of Mac OS X binary.
- Fixed a bug when migrating old settings.
Version 4.3.8
August 21, 2012
- Fixed a bug with compressed MOOV atoms in MP4 files which also caused a Java 5 incompatibility.
Version 4.3.7
August 6, 2012
- REST service: fixed session timeout attribute name in session representation (was "sessionTimeoutSeconds" but should have been "sessionTimeoutMinutes", value always was in minutes).
- Fixed a possible problem with leaked database connections.
Version 4.3.6
July 31, 2012
- Improved VLC executable detection.
- Fixed a rare threading issue.
- Scheduled database updates will no longer cancel already running jobs but they will be skipped now. An optional admin notification for this event can be enabled.
Version 4.3.5
July 21, 2012
- After a database update remove all media data from data sources which have been removed.
- REST service: Added imageUri and imageHash to TV show and TV show season representation.
Version 4.3.4
July 18, 2012
- REST service: Use the configured search fuzziness of the user (if any) and ignore any parameter values.
- REST service: Session representation now has the session timeout and the search fuzziness of the user.
- REST service: All permissions are returned in the session representation now.
Version 4.3.3
July 8, 2012
- Removed another Java 6 dependency which prevented the admin to work with Java 5.
Version 4.3.2
July 7, 2012
- REST service: new representation of the server version, separate values for major, minor, bugfix and the complete version text.
- REST service: fixed httpLiveStreamUri in track representation (it was the normal playback URI).
- REST service: added albumsUri and artistsUri to genre representation.
- REST service: switched default sort order for tracks of an album to "Album" instead of "KeepOrder" (which is database order).
- REST service: the login POST request returns the session representation now, just like the GET request. The response now also contains the library URI.
Version 4.3.1
June 30, 2012
- More checks for ensuring a valid VLC executable is selected.
- Return the HTTP live streaming URI for all video tracks in the REST service, regardless of the user agent.
- Bugfix: REST service calls sometimes had access to other user's sessions.
- REST calls for TV shows and TV shows seasons now return show/season representations.
- Fixed mysql statement for creating search temp table.
- Restored JDK 1.5 compatibility.
Version 4.3
June 24, 2012
- MyTunesRSS REST service added. Please migrate your client applications. The existing JSON-RPC and XML-RPC APIs will be removed in the next version. The RemoteControlService, TagService and EditPlaylistService have already been removed.
- Completely dropped special PSP support.
- Added HTML IMG references to RSS feeds and removed the yahoo media tag.
- Make default jukeboxes editable and restorable.
- Option to ignore timestamps on database update has been removed. When manually updating the database you can select the data sources you want to update and also select whether or not to ignore timestamps.
- Optionally select a single network interface to listen on.
- Customizable RSS feed description message.
- Option to show or hide the OpenID login form.
- VLC is now used for transcoding, server local playback (remote control feature) and HTTP live streaming. No other transcoders like FFmpeg can be configured anymore. If you already have VLC installed in a default location, MyTunesRSS should automatically find it.
- Option for maximum number of search results (default is 250) in web settings.
- Search results are much better now.
- Smart playlist criteria have been redesigned.
- Fallback name configuration for tracks title.
- You can explicitly exclude certain data sources from a user.
- The database will be refreshed automatically on the first start of MyTunesRSS 4.3 due to some internal changes. This may take a while.
- Individual permissions for music, movie and TV shows per user.
- Display logged in user name in user interface on the portal page.
- Optional "Stop-Port" to stop a running server via command line. Use command line option "-shutdownPort 12345" to enable the shutdown listener and use command line option "-shutdown 12345" to stop an instance running on the same machine with the specified shutdown port. Using the "-shutdown" option will just try to stop another instance, it will not start MyTunesRSS itself.
Version 4.2.5
May 2, 2012
- Restored Java 5 (JDK 1.5) compatibility.
Version 4.2.4
April 1, 2012
- Fixed several bugs.
Version 4.2.3
March 25, 2012
- Set video type correctly for non-MP4 video imported from watch folders.
- Show random playlist only if it contains at least 1 track.
- Fixed error in statistics display when tracks which do not exists anymore had been recorded.
Version 4.2.2
March 17, 2012
- Fixed display problems of photo browser in Internet Explorer 7 and 8.
- Photo count in statistics now only reflects photos linked to albums, i.e. photos being accessible in the user interface.
- In some rare cases files from iTunes, Aperture and iPhoto libraries were not found.
Version 4.2.1
March 4, 2012
- Bugfix: Last.FM account data could not always be saved in the user interface settings.
- Bugfix: Photo dates from Aperture libraries were the modification dates instead of the original photo dates for most photos.
- Bugfix: Log viewer did not scroll automatically.
- Update: OpenID login timeout increased - should prevent failed OpenID logins.
- Bugfix: Some values were not displayed correctly in admin statistics.
Version 4.2
February 28, 2012
- Aperture Support.
- Added OpenID login.
- Sharing and downloading of language packs from mytunesrss.com integrated into the admin.
- MP4 videos are now streamed with "qt-faststart", i.e. no playback delay when using the Flash player for example.
- Improved (graphical) statistics.
- Playlists can now be hidden per user.
- Several photo viewer improvements, e.g. a download button for the full sized photo and a button to display EXIF data.
- Only refuse to start the user interface with an expired license, i.e. admin can be used to add a valid license.
- Path replacements are applied to the string from the iTunes XML without any preprocessing before. Should make the handling easier to understand.
- Option for track to image file mapping.
- Headless mode option in admin interface.
- Optional admin warning if iTunes XML is older than iTunes master file.
- Removed user bandwidth limit.
- Transcoder binaries now must read from stdin, the "{infile}" token is no longer supported.
- Better handling of broken databases on startup, e.g. show "create new database" in list of backups.
- Several improvements and bug fixes.
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.
MyTunesRSS 3 (click to expand/collapse)
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 collapsed" 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...
MyTunesRSS 2 (click to expand/collapse)
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 collapsed.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
MyTunesRSS 1 (click to expand/collapse)
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