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MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth v1.5.0.0 is now available for download.

This version adds support for additional album artwork sources which increase the quality and number of album artwork search results.  We’ve also added support for updating your iTunes library, if installed and can be disabled, automatically.  In earlier versions, you would have to load iTunes and manually have it pull the newly embedded artwork from the files.  This was a major pain for all iTunes users which is why we’re glad to announce this is now all done automatically.  We’ve also added the ability to resize artwork to the dimensions and quality that fit your needs, whether it’s a smaller artwork file size to keep your music files smaller or whether it’s to make all your artwork the same dimensions, this is a very useful addition to MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth.

We hope you enjoy this new release and all the additional fixes and improvements it brings!

Version History:

• Added support for updating your iTunes library (can be disabled) when album artwork is added so that iTunes will automatically display and sync the new artwork without having to right-click-> Get Info on each album in iTunes.
• Added Album Art Exchange and Discogs in addition to Amazon as the default album artwork sources.
• Added removal of 0kb downloaded album artwork when loading from cache or after downloading to help remove lingering downloaded artwork for search results.
• Added support for resizing album covers when saving; includes width, height, aspect ratio, background color, and compression quality.
• Added support for opening Windows Explorer to the album location(s) from right-click menu.
• Added option to clear search results.
• Added logging of albums to support log that don’t have artist or are corrupt, for user reference purposes.
• Added “Always” options to certain dialogs so users can choose not to be prompted every time.
• Added ability to sort by album title or album artist.
• Added fading information messages near the bottom left when adding, searching, and saving which can be redisplayed by moving your mouse over that area.
  Added “remove saved albums automatically” option.
• Added message displaying number of album artwork found out of the number of albums with percentage and the prompt to search Google Images for remaining missing artwork.
• Added showing image dimensions for the currently embedded image.
• Improved performance and memory usage.
• Improved visibility of scrollbars.
• Improved album and artist tooltip to display the full text when trimmed and increased the font size.
• Modified default window size for better usage of space on lower resolution displays.
• Modified panels to remove the option of virtualized vs. non-virtualized and now auto switches based on number of albums in the list.
• Modified size of artwork being displayed to match the actual zoom ratio: increases when zoomed out, decreases when zoomed in; to help with performance.
• Modified listboxitem textboxes to only be generated when displayed.
• Modified temporary directory and filename length to avoid cases where they could possibly exceed the OS limit.
• Modified globe search to add images to the beginning of results.
• Modified label and checkbox foreground and opacity when disabled to be more readable.
• Modified display of from “No Album” and “No Artist” to “Unknown Album” and “Unknown Artist” and grayed the font to be able to easily tell the difference.
• Modified to show the options dialog the first time the software is run.
• Modified the button focus on MessageBoxWPF to the default button.
• Modified adding of albums to allow adding of albums that are missing the “artist” as long as the “song title” or “album title” exists.
• Modified number of albums shown on default window size from 5 to 4 for increased performance and better visibility of albums.
• Modified listbox to not use deferred scrolling method.
• Fixed an issue where no files could be added to the album list if the users MyMusic path had been modified incorrectly.
• Fixed issue with the audio files size not changing/decreasing when the file previously contained large artwork that was replaced by smaller artwork. 
• Fixed default window size of not being set on initial load (some large auto size was being used).
• Fixed major slowdown of application when a large number of album ( > 1000) were in the album list.
• Fixed search not working when artist was empty.
• Fixed album artwork not saving correctly to files that had multiple tags with artwork in different formats when the “Add Artwork” option was used.
• Fixed options not saving on some options after having restored the default settings and then changing them.
• Fixed cuebanner not showing when removing last album.
• Fixed some issues with the copying/pasting of images.
• Fixed issue with showing separate albums for files that have spaces at the end or front of the album title.
• Fixed file extension uppercase of files not adding to the album list.
• Fixed maximize mode covering taskbar when taskbar is set to auto-hide.
• Fixed random crash when removing saved albums from the album list.
• Fixed random splashscreen crash.

As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions.

For the latest version of MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth, please visit our downloads section.

-The MuvEnum Development Team

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• The $5 bonus will be applied automatically during checkout.
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So, go ahead, purchase MuvAudio2 and MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth today!

MuvEnum Address Bar v3.5.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added support for showing Favorites, Bookmarks, and History from Firefox 3.x and Google Chrome.
• Added Support for displaying the History List, Auto-completion List, or Nothing when the global hotkey is pressed.
• Added support to automatically show the new manual on installation completion so users can see all the features that are supported and to see how to resize the address bar.
• Added message to Clear History to notify users that it only clears the history for Internet Explorer and the MuvEnum Address Bar.
• Added “Options – MuvEnum Address Bar” and “Clear History – MuvEnum Address Bar” to the autocompletion list for users to more easily find.
• Added message when entered text didn’t fit any of the possible choices, to allow the user to say they wanted to search for the term, or just ignore it.  This helps when typing in network paths that don’t exist which used to take you to http://networkpath.
• Improved the performance of gathering the Favorites, Bookmarks, and History for the selected browsers.
• Removed the Internet Explorer Favorite folders from the autocomplete list because it already shows the favorites in the folders.
• Fixed an issue where the autocomplete list would display over-the-top of the history list when trying to navigate the history list using the up and down arrows.
• Fixed issue where the history bar in Internet Explorer would still show the history when clearing the history using the MuvEnum Address Bar.
• Fixed an issue where pressing one of the “Ctrl+Enter”, “Shift+Enter”, or “Ctrl+Shift+Enter” key combinations when www. or .net, .com, or .org were already being displayed, would still add the prefix and suffix and try to open the page.  An example would be www.google, and “Ctrl+Enter”, would become www.www.google.com.

MuvEnum Address Bar v3.1.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added real-time updates of Favorites and Desktop Items in the auto-completion list.
• Added System Items to the auto-completion list along with their modified names, if they’ve been changed by the user.
• Modified the final loading of a keyword to search on the keyword if it doesn’t contain a period and to navigate to a webpage if it contains a “period”.  This modifies the original address bar behavior but saves time compared to the useless navigation to http://keyword/ which will never exist.
• Modified auto-completion list to show all Favorites in all Favorite folders.  In v3.0.0.0 it would only show the favorites in the root of the favorites folder.
• Modified auto-completion list to not show folder paths from Favorites as it now shows all of the Favorites.
• Fixed an issue where certain system folders would open when hitting “Ctrl+Enter”, “Shift+Enter”, or “Ctrl+Shift+Enter” to navigate to a website if the keyword matched a system folder.  It now navigates to the webpage with the added url prefix and suffix.
• Fixed an issue where Explorer may crash when entering certain invalid characters.
• Fixed an issue with environment variables immediately followed by folder or file paths opening a browser to search for the terms instead of navigating to the expanded environment variable path.

 

MuvEnum Address Bar v3.0.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added Tab support for navigating through the auto-completion list!
• Added instructions for enabling the toolbar on the finish page of the installer.
• Added support for looking in HKEY_LOCALMACHINE for quicksearch urls if none exist in HKEY_CURRENTUSER.
• Added support for automatically searching on keywords when they contain spaces without requiring “go ” in front of them.
• Added the ability to set the default search engine.
• Added first level favorites, favorites root folders, and desktop items to the auto-completion list.
• Added support for loading desktop items and items in your documents folder based on their name.
• Added logging to the event viewer on initialization of the address bar to help diagnose non-loading issues.
• Added support for typing in “clearhistory” into the address bar to clear your browsing history.
• Modified options dialog to always be on top.
• Renamed “support” button to “manual” to take the user to the product manual.
• Decreased the minimum allowed size for address bar so it can take up less space.
• Fixed an issue where one of the files may have not been updated properly when upgrading from an older version (should fix address bar not staying open between computer restarts).
• Fixed issue with options dialog displaying incorrectly on machines with a DPI higher than 96.