Helium Music Manager

This new release comes with updates for the Music Explorer which now let you rename and/or delete an entire album or artist from the respective node in the tree. There has also been improvements regarding view refreshes.
We have also made several optimizations to the File Rename Wizard, which will now display the result much quicker than before.
The replaying engines for FLAC and WavPack files has also been updated.
A new action has also been added, Capitalize field using capitalizer rules, which allows you to format a specific tag-field using the set capitalizer rule.
We have also made several impovements to the Discogs plug-in.

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The main updates for this Helium Music Manager release relates to updates of download plug-ins.
The main focus has been on updating the Discogs plug-in due to changes in their API.
We have also made improvements to artist picture handling in the Advanced Tag Editor as well as optimizations and bugfixes.

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We are very proud to present Helium Music Manager 11!
Helium Music Manager 11 comes with many new features, improvements and simplifications which will make your work with Helium Music Manager easier.
Key changes
New labels view

A new view has been added to Helium Music Manager 11 - Labels view.
The labels view (label was previously named publisher) will show all labels in your collection, similar to the Albums and the Artists views.

We have also extended the Edit labels information tool which now supports editing of parent label and sub labels. All this allows you to create label hierarchies.

Best of all, we now support downloading of label information via our plug-ins, including parent and sub labels so you won't need to type all label information manually.

The new label system is fully supported in the Music Explorer and the Music Browser.
Tagging

We have extended tagging in Helium Music Manager 11 with several new features:

You can tag a track/album to have multiple labels, just as multiple artists and genres. Multiple labels are supported in all Helium Music Managers tagging tools as well as database tools and views.
We have extended the ID3v2 frame compatibility even more to ensure maximum compatibility with other applications.
Five new custom tag fields and five new customizable release types have been added. Read more about this below.
A new Album version field has been added to allow you to more specifically set if a release is a master, digital remake, special edition or similar. This field can be used for grouping, sorting and display in the Albums view.
If you download track information from the Tag Editor, you can now quickly select a specific plug-in to be used without the need of going via Options.
Your defined external applications can now be accessed from the Advanced Tag Editors toolbar.
Multiple enhancements to the Tag exporting tool has been implemented. You can now add new items to any of the lists as well as move items up/down, sorting the list by clicking the column headers as well as select a specific album to be used as source/destination.

Database changes

Helium Music Manager 11 comes with new database providers, giving you a more stable and quicker user experience.

We have also performed many improvements and optimizations to fine tune the speed even more.
Most templates for tools are now stored inside Helium Music Managers database. This will simplify the backup and restore process as well as migrating between versions.

If you are working with the Network version and multiple users, it is now possible to create "master" templates which are shared between users.

This can be used to create tagging and renaming guidelines to ensure that only the correct data is changed and nothing else.
New duplicate finding tool

Helium Music Manager 11 comes with a completely new version of the duplicate finder tool.

The tool is more precise and now allows you to find both duplicate tracks as well as albums.

When searching for duplicate albums, duplicate matches are presented in a grouped mode just as for tracks.
You can expand a specific album to see all tracks from it and compare with the other duplicates to ensure that you can keep the most appropriate version.
Custom fields, custom nodes and custom release types

We have introduced five new custom fields which are available from all Helium Music Manager tools and database function. Just as for the other custom fields, you can map them to a specific tag-frame.
Another new feature available for all custom fields is that you can control the maximum length of a custom field when you edit tags for the frame.

If you are using the Create report tool, you can now use all ten custom fields in your resulting reports.
For many of Helium Music Managers tools, the user defined name of the custom field will be shown. As a helper, a small suffix text will be added to the visual name will also be shown so that easily can see which actual custom field that you are working with.

In the Music Explorer, we have added five new custom nodes, resulting in ten custom nodes which you can use and configure as you like.

We have also added five custom release types which can be used just like the standard release types, in all tools and functions supporting them.

The network edition of Helium Music Manager allows custom naming per-user of the release type fields.
Various updates

Helium Music Manager 11 comes with the most recent versions of BASS and it's add-ons used for replaying, ripping, encoding and much more.
The BPM tag-field can now be used with Helium Music Managers Actions.
The Rename wizard now warns visually when a specific filename exceeds 255 characters.
You can rename a single item in the Rename wizards preview by selecting it and click F2.
The most tagging and information editing tools now comes with updated drag and drop pictures support.
Suggested tracks in the Now playing view is now much more randomized.
It is now possible to import/export Music Browser data between databases.
Improved possibilities to execute BAT files from external tools.
You can now configure if you would like autofit columns to be automatically used per-view.


New versions of our mobile applications

Together with the release of Helium Music Manager 11 we have released new versions of our mobile applications.

The most important releases are Helium Remote and Helium Streamer for iOS. These products have been rewritten from scratch to support the same user-friendly user interface the other platforms are supporting as well as all views and functions. Helium Remote and Helium Streamer for iOS supports 64-bit architecture as well as iOS 8.

We have also released new updates for our Android applications. Helium Streamer for Android now supports lock screen controls and notification controls for a richer user experience!

Best of all - these products are still fully free to use!
Helium Music Streamer 2.0

The Helium Music Streamer is updated to support the new mobile Streamer products. We have also added a new view - the Added date view - to be unified with our mobile apps.
Summary

All of the above improvements and extensions are something we are very proud over and we highly recommend you to update to Helium Music Manager 11 as soon as possible.

We hope that you will be as satisfied with this new version of Helium Music Manager as we are!
Upgrading

Owners of Helium Music Manager 10 who purchased the version on February 13th 2014 (a year ago) or later will get a free upgrade to Helium Music Manager 11!

Owners of any previous version of Helium Music Manager can upgrade for a discounted price.

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Several important fixes and improvements

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The main improvements for Helium 11.2 relates to stability improvements and bug fixes.

We have correctd several important memory leaks, especially if you work with WMA files and attached pictures.
Corrections related to the tag engine has also been performed to give a better overall experience with more compatibility and better performance.

Several improvements and corrections for Print report are also included in this release.

Some minor corrections to the Labels view and artists view has also been implemented.

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The main improvements for Helium 11.3 relates to stability improvements and bug fixes.
The corrections relates mainly to tagging and template handling as well as various performance and stability files.

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This version contains bugfixes and minor improvements

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We are today more than proud to present the result of the last one and a half years of hard work, a completely new digital music management tool.
Helium 12 is rewritten from the ground up to be a more modern, expandable and powerful tool.
Compared to older versions of Helium, there are some major changes in Helium 12 worth to mention:
There are now only two versions, a free version and a Premium version.
The Premium version is required to be able to use the Helium Remote app, which is still fully free for iOS, Android and Windows 10.
If you would like to use the Streamer app, it is still free for iOS and Android, but it will require a license of Helium Streamer.
Helium Streamer is also rewritten from scratch and now resembles the interface of Helium 12 so it will be easier to switch between the two. We also plan on releasing a free version of Helium Streamer shortly.
The views in Helium 12 is not equal to older versions of Helium – instead they use album, artist and label graphics much more and adds interaction via hyperlinks.
There is no specific Music Browser view, instead all views works similar to the old Music Browser!
We have implemented a powerful scripting engine which comes with many example script for various operations, ranging from tag operations to list creation and importing of external playlists. Best of all – there’s a well-documented API available so that you can start to create your own scripts today!

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Changes

Bugs fixes in the Advanced Tag Editor when working with other formats than MP3
Various minor improvement

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Major improvements in Helium 12.1:
Possibility to toggle between tracklist and albums in the Music explorer and tracks view
Play queue can be docked in the right sidebar. When docked in the right sidebar, you can drag tracks from tracklist to the Play queue as well as albums
Several improvements to importing of Helium 11 databases
Several improvements to handle incorrect ID3v2 tag-frames
Possibility to edit lookup data used in Tag editors from Options
Release type is available in renaming and user defined columns
Three lines of playing information which can be fully customized
Possibility to capitalize all text fields using the active capitalization rules via the script engine
Possibility to set rating to one or more tracks in a tracklist via the context menu.
Possibility to filter contents of tracklists from Music explorer, Genre view, Year view and search results.
Possibility to save album picture to tags
New language, Spanish
Possibility to define what a user column in a track list should link to. Available link types are:
Artist detail page (main artist)
Genre
Label details
Release details
Track details
New statistics, Releases by release year and tracks by recording year
File properties will now show attached pictures
Possibility to execute a specific script via a shortcut
Possibility to inactivate detail page statistics. Useful to improve performance when using larger Sql Compact databases
Album collections filter available from the Albums view. An album can be set to belong to one or more collections, for example “To be tagged”, “To be listened to”, “High quality” via the context menu for an album. A new button located to the top-right in the Albums view allows you to quickly set which collection to be viewed as a static filter. You can still combine this filter with additional filters.
Possibility to set Release type for all tracks of an album via the context menu
Possibility to set Release type for the selected tracks via the context menu
Added date is available as a selectable tracklist column
New iOS applications of Helium Streamer and Helium Remote with full iOS 10 support
Possibility to edit album reviews and view them from album details
Grouping available as a column in track lists
Major bugfixes in Helium 12.1:
Possible crashes in smart playlists if certain arguments were set
Corrections to alternation coloring in Playlists and Smart playlists
Selecting tracks from album details was not in correct order
Corrections to filename collisions in the converter and the CD-ripper
Template editing in Rename tool should now react to new templates
It was previously not possible to use Apply/Apply down on the Album version field in the Tag editor
Importing of playlist folders and playlists in folders works correct
User columns did not show data in the Playlist view

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New job queueing logic which allows tagging whilst playing and having queued jobs
French language added
Click on the player time to toggle between elapsed/remaining time
Proper updating of play counter and last played in the Play queue and track lists
Track list sorting is properly applied in the Music Explorer, Tracks view
Changed default sorting for Artist details > All tracks
More context driven statusbars
Size available as a column in track lists
The playlists a file is contained in is now shown in Propeties
Performance optimizations in the Music Explorer tree
Possibility to resize the left-bar in the Playlists view
Statistics on artist detail pages will now properly scroll when neccesary
Properly opening of files with foreign characters in the Analyse tool
Bug fix when manual enque mode could be lost in the Play queue after tagging
Bug fix related to writing of FLAC attached picture descriptions with foreign characters and incorrect text encoding
Bug fixes and minor improvements related to edit mode in track lists
Bug fixes related to saving of recording year in MP3 files
Bug fixes related to the Smart playlists select by functions
Bug fixes related to locking of multiple pictures in the Advanced tag editor
Reset button properly shows in Music Explorer albums view when using a filter
Visual improvements in the Rename tool
As usual a lot of more minor things which has been reported to us has also been corrected.

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Major improvements in Helium 12.2:
New user interface for the Update library tool. The tool now allows updating of specific folders selected from a tree
Startup speed optimizations. Up to 300% quicker startup when using larger databases.
General speed optimizations for various views
Optimizations for the converter tool (uses multiple cores when possible)
Optimizations for the splitter tools (uses multiple cores when possible)
New now playing view
Possibility to use cropping of thumbnails
Possibility to select different thumbnail aspect ratios per-view
A-Z button filter available from the releases, artists and labels view allowing quick jumping to a specific letter. Can be toggled on/off.
Possibility to mark an album or artist as a favourite directly via the thumbnail control from all views
HTML formatting support for biography (Edit artist, artist pages)
HTML formatting support for Album review
New job queueing logic which allows tagging whilst playing and having queued jobs
French language added
Click on the player time to toggle between elapsed/remaining time
Context driven status bars showing more exact information for the active view/filter
Size available as a column in track lists
The playlists a file is contained in is now shown in Properties as a new tab
Performance optimizations in the Music Explorer tree
Possibility to resize the left-bar in the Playlists view
Visual improvements in the Rename tool
Improvements to MP4/M4* file reading so that videos shall not be added
Option allowing the source file to be automatically removed after a split operation
The current Windows regional date format is now used to display dates
Minor improvements to backup and restore operations
File owner added to the rename tool (Tag to filename engine)
Possibility to update a specific folder from the Music explorer > Library context menu
Possibility to move multiple columns up/down in the Select columns tool
Possibility to edit tags for either selected files/items in the view or all items in the view
Improvements to auto-track increase functions in the Tag editors
Filename to tag templates will be saved and remembered between sessions
Album version available as naming variable for album pictures
Download lyrics API available
Major bug fixes in Helium 12.2:
Logic for cd-path handling fixes and improvements
Bug fix related to writing of FLAC attached picture descriptions with foreign characters and incorrect text encoding
Proper updating of play counter and last played in the Play queue and track lists
Track list sorting is properly applied in the Music Explorer, Tracks view
Statistics on artist detail pages will now properly scroll when necessary
Properly opening of files with foreign characters in the Analyze tool
Bug fix when manual queue mode could be lost in the Play queue after tagging
Bug fixes and minor improvements related to edit mode in track lists
Bug fixes related to saving of recording year in MP3 files
Bug fixes related to the Smart playlists select by functions
Bug fixes related to locking of multiple pictures in the Advanced tag editor
Reset button properly shows in Music Explorer albums view when using a filter
Various visual bug fixes when removing tracks from a playlist
Properly hiding/showing of active Music explorer root nodes
Bug fixes related to displaying of file owner contents

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Major improvements:
Brand new replaying engine with perfect gap-less playback and crossfading support.
My Computer view, a new view which allows you to work with files that are not yet added to your library. A perfect view to do pre-fixes of your meta data such as tagging and renaming before you include the files in your library.
The Quick editor is a new pane available for views with tracklists, including the above mentioned My Computer view. This pane allows you to quickly tag & correct tags in batch without the need to opening a specfic tool for that.
Possibility to select multiple albums and work efficient with the selelections of data.
Performance improvements in several views and tools.
Customizable tooltips for the releases and artists views.
Tooltips for cells in a trackklist.
Releases containing reviews will display a small icon.
Improvements to copy & paste, cut & paste functions in the Tag editor
Major bug fixes:
Improvements and fixes for the backup & restore tools.
Various fixes related to editing of multiple artists
Various fixes related to album and artist handling during adding and updating of files
Fixes of reported issues

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