Lists of changes: 2010-09-24: Similarity v1.5 + new Analysis mode (search unquality music) + some small bugs fixed 2010-09-03: Similarity v1.4.1 + Premium subscription introduced + Duration test + Usability improvements - Small fixes 2010-09-01: Similarity v1.4.0 Internal build 2010-08-07: Similarity v1.3.7 + New Similarity icon. + New decoders tab in options, you can now enable/disable decoders, set priority and extensions to them. + Some fixes in DirectShow decoder + By default we disable DirectShow decoder, some users have very old, bugged 3rd party filters, and they can't properly work, if you need DirectShow decoder you can simply enable it. 2010-07-22: Similarity v1.3.6 + Fully rewritten network protocol and network processing (still beta) + Tested tag sharing via proxies + Autoclose for servers + Minimize to tray in config + More statistics for network, enabled local rating - crash with networking fixed 2010-07-05: Similarity v1.3.5 + added working proxy connection - fixed issue with arthmetic error on specific files 2010-07-03: Similarity v1.3.4 + Greatly improved precise algorithm, it now consumes 20 times less memory (Similarity can now compare more than 200 000 files on 2 Gbyte RAM) - fixed some compartability and visual issues with Windows XP 2010-06-29: Similarity v1.3.3 + Automarking mechanism + Added Move to folder + Added mark file - fixed issue with autloading/autosaving - fixed issue with flickering in tabs 2010-06-27: Similarity v1.3.2 + Autosaving/autoloading results and progress on exit and start + Grouped folders selection (only files from different groups compared) + Rearranging duplicates groups - network problems fixed - some bugs fixed 2010-06-12: Similarity v1.3.1 + New DirectShow decoder (Similarity can use any direct show filter like FFmpeg, AC3Filter, Haali, CoreAVC, etc and decode any supported by them format) + New Microsoft Media Foundation (MMF) decoder (natively support M4A,M4,AAC in Windows 7) - removed ACM decoder (replaced by DirectShow) - 2 crashes fixed 2010-05-30: Similarity v1.3 + New superior "precise" algorithm + Keyboard shortcuts + Network functionality + P2P tags sharing + New results showing mechanism + Results showing speed significantly improved + Estonian,Italian languages added - Some bugs fixed 2010-05-21: Similarity v1.2 Beta 2010-01-19: Similarity v1.1 + Major changes in Results view (its now descending with columns) + Changes in folder view, added folders reloading, icons support. Possibility to select folder without subfolders + Added support for Windows 7 Libraries + Portable mode, all data stored in same folder with exe file, use "similarity.exe /portable" + Crash gathering and submitting mechanism. Similarity can now ignore minor crashes than decoding some files, this files automatically added to skip list and never touched again. - Offically doesn't support Windows 2000 now (too old for new features) - WavPack memory leak fixed - Some small visual/translation bugs fixed 2009-11-20: Similarity v1.0.1 - slow scanning fixed 2009-11-17: Similarity v1.0.0 + New tag editor (results tab) + Some improvments in comparing algorithm + Some visual improvements - Many small visual/translation bugs fixed 2009-09-29: Similarity v0.9.360 + New expermental algorithm (it outperform other algorithms) + Czech language added - Many small visual/translation bugs fixed 2009-09-03: Similarity v0.9.350 + MusePack (MPC,MP+,MPP) decoder added + 3 languages added (French,Spanish,Bosnian) + license file added + 'Shift-space','Ctrl-space' keys works now in results list + All cache data now stored in 'APPDATA' (ie. X:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Application Data) - Resample bug fixed (only one channel taken from sounds) - WavePack decoder fixed 2009-08-26: Similarity v0.9.340 + German translation added + Rewritten FLAC decoder (it now correctly show duration) - fixed nasty bug with ACM decoder (that led to crash and not worked at all) - fixed bug in comparer (that potentially could miss absolutely identical files) 2009-08-25: Similarity v0.9.335 + multilanguage support (all phrases are translated) - fixed some minor bugs 2009-07-22: Similarity v0.9.330 + multilanguage support (not all phrases are translated) + Similarity can be translated in any language (in this moment english/russian) - fixed some errors in tag editor 2009-07-13: Similarity v0.9.320 + Tag Editor (MP3,WMA) + File to Tag, Tag to File renaming + some minor changes 2009-06-20: Similarity v0.9.310 + own resampler, Similarity correctly works with all sample rates in OGG,FLAC,WM,APE now + with new resampler Similarity correctly works in Windows 7 - fixed bug with invalid cache loading + ignores stored in "ignores.list" text file, not in cache + separate sensivity for tags and content - changed scores calculation mechanism - fixed bug with incorrect audio files, that showed them as similar to every file 2009-06-06: Similarity v0.9.300 - new GUI design (major GUI changes) - acm decoder now support ID3v2 tags (as WMF decoder) - working threads can be stopped or paused - integrated tag editing mechanism (not yet completed) - integrated crash logging mechanism - new installer 2009-05-17: Similarity v0.82 - changed cache storage, it's now fully unicode - you can now ignore pairs, they never showed again in list (ignores info stored in cache) - corrected compatibility with screen resolution less 32bit - fixed some issues with invalid flac's - changed % showing mechanism, if sounds don't similar by some algorithm they doesn't shown with 0% - changed progress updating mechanics 2009-05-09: Similarity v0.81 - added ogg support - acm decoder info corrected - window position stored - issue with utf-8 tags in flac fixed 2009-05-05: Similarity v0.8 - visual improvements - user interface improvements - some bugs fixed - fixed vista uac problems (cache.dat moved to 'appdata') 2009-02-04: Similarity v0.71 - FLAC decoder correction 2008-07-04: Similarity v0.7 - suport APE,FLAC,WV - decoders dll's - decoders API - new experemental algorithm - installer support - some minor visual changes 2008-02-01: Similarity v0.62 - marked delete 2008-01-31: Similarity v0.61 - minor UI and usability changes 2008-01-06: Similarity v0.6 - UI changes - detail window - changed folder and cache work 2007-09-29: Similarity v0.51 - multicore speed improved - the experimental algorithm is made postponed 2007-09-28: Similarity v0.5 - new experimental algorithm 2007-09-10: Similarity v0.4 - new decoder added: Windows Media Format 9.0 SDK (supported formats MP3,WMA,ASF) - double click on a file opens default player - parsing of ID3v2.x/ASF tags is added 2007-09-03: Similarity v0.32 - visual bugs fixed (Vista) - pre-version 0.5 check update 2007-08-23: Similarity v0.31 - improved content comparing engine 2007-08-14: Similarity v0.3 - fixed bug: thread pool not stop then application closed - added id3 tags comparing 2007-07-26: Similarity v0.2 - first release