Finally here is the new version 1.0 beta 1 which has some mighty new features. I took some time (mainly the complete change to unicode character set), but alls well that ends well…

Here comes a list of the new features:

• Unicode support for all fields (but not CD-Text)

• New database engine for storing CD information (old databases can be imported)

• Metadata plugin support, for now there is a freedb plugin included. This will be released as open source freeware soon.

• Cover support, can be drag’n’dropped from a file, a web page oder can be retrieved via a metadata plugin (support included in the freedb plugin). Cover can be written into tags or in the extraction directory

• AccurateRip v2 support

• Better Windows 7 support (like progress display in taskbar icon, storage of user data in the correct folders, etc.)

• Free selection of first track track number (including option to continue numbering from the last inserted CD)

• Option to always write the log file in english language

• Option for writing a checksum over the extraction log data to the log file

• Average extraction speed is listed in the log file

• Possibility to write only V2 tags (and no V1 tags)

• Free choice of replacement characters for filenames

• Range copy selects now the first selected consecutive range of tracks as default

• New folder browser dialog (system dialog for folders)

• Added two placeholders for filename creation for track length (min and sec)

• Test for (command line) compression options (and display of a sample command line)

• Menu for removing unwanted/doubled spaces from “cd title”, “artist” & “track titles”

And some features are now removed:

• Removed Windows 2000 support (and any older OSs)

• Removed ID3V1 tag editor

• Removed compression offset

Hope you like it!

The next version is also planned, it will mainly contain an additional demo for a commercial metadata provider (if anybody would like to have access)