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Version 2008.10
 | New Internet Radio upgrades, including:
 | New M3U support for radio station URLs |
| New PLS support for radio station URLs |
| Updated support for entry of radio station IP
address URLs |
| Improved radio station connections; better connection
speed, faster song title & message updates online |
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| New Default Internet Radio Stations |
| New clone (create) SACD entry from audio CD entry
or CD listed in local freedb database |
| Minor cosmetic bug fixes for new 2008.00 version |
Version 2008
| New Disc Library
| New album artwork viewer pane |
| New CD details viewer pane |
| New local freedb database viewer |
| New advanced search options |
| New online research options |
| New GUI design, easier to use |
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| New Media Library
| New album artwork viewer pane |
| New media file details viewer pane |
| New advanced search options |
| New online research options |
| New GUI design, easier to use |
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| New online CD data lookup options; in addition to freedb (Germany)
| TrackType (Australia) |
| MusicBrainz (Oregon, US) |
| MusicBrainz (London, UK) |
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| Redesigned playlist editors |
| Redesigned Alt. Digital Volume mode |
| CD Ripper improvements
| faster rip speed (adv. digital mode) |
| improved automatic drive(s) detection |
| more accurate rip progress indicator |
| MP3 tags modified to include commas as valid characters |
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| New progress indicators throughout for file scanning, database searching, etc. |
| New hyperlinks throughout replace older Browse
buttons |
Version 2007.02
| New Vista shortcut icons (XL & Large, RGB/A 32-bit color+) |
| New Disc Library media types
| HD DVD |
| Blu-ray |
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| New Disc & Media Library option to set custom font color |
| Disc & Media Libraries updated with Vista style GUI if Vista OS detected |
| Updated installer |
| 15-band parametric and graphic EQs updated |
| Fix for intermittent slow retrieval of audio CD data when multiple exact freedb matches found online |
| Cdlaunch utility modified to prevent multiple instances of CD-Runner from being loaded |
| Minor cosmetic improvements for screens when using Vista |
Version 2007.00
| New Microsoft Windows Vista compatible |
| New 'digital' audio CD playback
| Allows spectrum analyzer to work with all audio CDs |
| Allows 15-band parametric and graphic EQs to work with all audio CDs |
| One of the only players available which can analyze and display audio
CD frequencies and VU during playback |
| Optional 'analog' audio CD playback supports all older legacy CD
drives and sound boards |
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| New and Updated Analyzer modes
| Spectrum - Updated |
| Bars - Updated |
| Wave - Updated |
| Sweep - Updated |
| VU - New |
| Stereo - New |
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| New Peak Hold option for analyzer Bars and VU modes |
| New 3D LCD displays |
| New Ribbon Bar
| Minimized to smallest possible height |
| New scrolling Artist-Album/Song Title display |
| Position automatically remembered |
| Optional 'open mode' with full displays |
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| Improved skins, buttons, faceplates, icons |
| New Transparency slider popup for all skins, allows you to vary how
transparent the skin looks from ghost to glass to fully solid or any point
between |
| Support added for MusicBrainz (alternative online
freedb-like service) |
| Manual import from new freedb online search update |
| Improved export to Excel - Disc Library |
| Improved Internet Radio quality for marginal connections, less pops and
clicks |
Version 2006.50
| New 3D Car Stereo Skins
| Colors match main theme selected for home stereo faceplate
 | Black |
| Grey |
| Cobalt |
| Blue |
| Green |
| Red |
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| All graphical screens now match new skin colors
(EQ, Spectrum Analyzer, Playlist Editor, etc.) |
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| New 3D Home Stereo Skins (as above) |
| New 3D Buttons (used for all skins)
| Rubber |
| Plastic-1 |
| Plastic-2 |
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| iPod import for Media Library improved |
| Updated System Info Utility |
| Updated CD-Runner Backup / Restore Utility |
| Improved CD-Runner Setup / Skin selection much faster |
| Improved detection of sound boards and associated drivers when playing audio CDs (e.g. default CD-Runner sound mode now works fine with latest Sound Blaster X-Fi board and driver) |
Version 2006.20
| New playback, equalizer, spectrum analyzer and automatic tag reading support for:
| AAC, AACH, M4A (Advanced Audio) |
| AC3 (Dolby Digital) |
| ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio) |
| APE (Monkey's Audio) |
| MPC (Musepack) |
| MP4 (MPEG-4) |
| OFR (OptimFROG) |
| TTA (True Audio) |
| SPX (Speex) |
| WV (WavPack) |
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| Updated playback, equalizer, spectrum analyzer and automatic tag reading support for:
| FLA, FLAC (Free Lossless Audio) |
| OGG (Ogg Vorbis) |
| WMA (Windows Media Audio) |
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| New on/off toggle operation for all playlist editor & info screens; first button click opens, second click closes |
| New Default Startup Screen option (Setup / Advanced 2)
| Last Used |
| Car Stereo |
| Home Stereo |
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| CD-Runner Setup / freedb section modified to show in Windows taskbar; if hidden behind other apps/screens, simply click
[freedb Setup] on taskbar |
| New 'My Music' default music folder |
| freedb local CD database search, new 'exact phrase match' |
| Improved local freedb database indexing, better error correction for non-alphanumeric characters |
| Fixed status bar for very long audio CD tracks (>24 minutes) |
| Improved installer, default CD-Runner icon associated with file types (if
CD-Runner chosen as default player during install) |
Version 2006.10
| New lower prices! $9.95 New, $4.95 Upgrade |
| New Internet Radio support for proxy servers |
| Minimized (Ribbon) faceplate support added for Internet Radio |
| Fixed problem with recording Internet Radio (was reset by some online stations) - now saves songs played online as MP3 files |
| Spectrum analyzer and EQ minor tweaks if new Soundblaster
X-Fi sound card detected |
Version 2006
| New Internet Radio
| Over 100 preloaded radio stations |
| Streaming MP3, MP2, MP1, Ogg, WAV (including
Shoutcast, Icecast & Icecast2) supported |
| Support for 15-band EQ & Spectrum Analyzer included |
| Add, modify and delete radio station favorites |
| Use preset buttons 1 thru 20 on faceplate to quickly tune to favorite stations |
| Use '>20' button and numeric keys to jump to new station |
| View and tune to all radio stations in both Media Library and popup Info screen |
| New Media Library feature to open / play Internet stream (URL) directly |
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| New CD-Text data support for Audio CDs
| Automatic detection of CD-Text data if present |
| Manual mode to view and import CD-Text data into library |
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| New Disc Library for audio CDs, SACDs, DVDs, etc. (replaces older 'Music Library') |
| New iPod iTunes Library import feature - import media files and radio stations from iTunes into the CD-Runner Media Library |
| Updated Media Library for files (MP3, Ogg, WAV, MPG,
AVI, etc.) on hard drive(s) and radio stations |
| Updated CD Ripper
| New advanced digital extraction (rip) mode, with better compatibility and speed |
| Rip audio CD to:
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| New Audio CD refresh feature - helps when ripping several CDs in one session |
| Updated main CD Ripper player with all of the basic Audio CD playback and volume controls |
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| Improved local freedb database searching |
| 15-band EQ now remembers and uses last used profile |
| Backup & Restore Utility now remembers and uses last saved path/file |
| Many small improvements throughout, designed to make the program easier to use |
Version 2005.30
| New local freedb features
| New "exact word(s)" search feature |
| New wildcard(s) search option (see below) |
| New online search options
| Set default online search site in CD-Runner Setup |
| Added "Artist Direct" to list of default online sites |
| freedb section / Advanced tab, new site selection |
| New local freedb stats displayed - freedb / About
| date database last updated |
| date index last updated |
| total titles listed by freedb category - Rock, Misc, Classical, Jazz, Folk, Blues, Soundtrack, Newage, Country, Reggae & Data |
| total titles in local freedb |
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| New wildcard(s) seaching for local freedb, Music Library and Media Library search screens; wildcard characters:
| * - (asterisk) for multiple wildcard characters |
| ? - (question mark) for single wildcard character |
| # - (number sign) for single numeric character |
| Any combination of the above wildcard characters may be used
anywhere in the search string |
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| Music Library - if using custom CD-Runner data directory, path displayed on title bar |
| All new installer - much better compression, much faster |
Version 2005.20
| New Spectrum Analyzer update frequency settings for audio CDs and media files - allows for custom graphical redraw speeds to match different sound boards and systems |
| New setup option to match info screen colors and fonts with skin display screens |
| New setup option to set text color for info screens |
| New Music Library features
| New automatic database updating |
| New Info screen - 'Help / Music Library Information' menu or press F2 |
| SACD automatic filename created during manual Add operation
improved |
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| Improved Backup & Restore Utility for CD-Runner data |
| Improved Installation Wizard |
| Updated FLAC decoding - more accurate timing+ |
| Improved sizable media playlist icons / text displays |
| Added media type to sizable media playlist STATS view |
| New sizable media playlist sort by media type option |
Version 2005.10
| New FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback |
| New setup option to specify custom CD-Runner data
directory |
| New freedb local database features
| Date local database file last indexed |
| Link to download latest freedb database file |
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| Minor cosmetic bug fixes for a couple of new for
2005 features |
Version 2005
| Comprehensive redesign of all screens
| If using Windows XP, new XP themes for all buttons, tabs,
listboxes, etc. |
| New & improved screen layouts, much easier to use |
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| New Library design - new XP style GUI |
| New Compact faceplate mode - much smaller than Car Stereo
and Home Stereo faceplates |
| Automatic docking of screens expanded to support sides and
bottom of faceplates |
| When using Car Stereo mode, new Car Stereo surround theme
used on related screens (e.g. EQ, Spectrum Analyzer, etc.) |
| Improved Music Library label section
| Pulldown choice of preset label types |
| Label positions approximated on screen |
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| New CD Ripper filename format - "01 - track desc.mp3" added
to preset selection of filename types |
| Direct file play from Windows Explorer changed to display
last used faceplate mode |
| New MP3 CD Auto Start option |
| New Sizable Media Playlist Editor features:
| Size (KB) and Date/Time now displayed in Stats view |
| New feature to sort playlist by Date/Time |
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| CD-Runner Setup redesigned to make easier to use (with
volume labels displayed on drive selection pulldowns, improved layout of tabs
& options, much more) |
| Improved messages displayed when audio CD not found online;
server busy or unavailable, unable to connect to freedb due to problem with
Internet connection, setup configuration problem, etc. |
| New & improved progress bar popups with % completion |
| Cosmetic improvements to Ribbon (minimized), Home Stereo
and Car Stereo faceplate modes |
| Improved installer will search for existing CD-Runner
installation and use existing path if found |
Version 2004.05
| New System Information Utility - this is now exactly how
CD-Runner "sees" your system (in the event of trouble, send us a screen shot
of this utility) |
| New progress bar popups showing percent completion for all
search, scan and reindex screens |
| Improved freedb servers update
| Date last updated displayed |
| Server settings preserved (unless server removed/added) |
| Manual server add operation improved |
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| Improved music library data entry |
| Improved MP3 CD text position when using Car stereo mode
with small spectrum analyzer |
| Redesigned freedb Setup tab (easier to read) |
| Fixed minor issue with playing (jumping to) different part
of media audio file (MP3, Ogg, WAV, etc.) by clicking status bar or using
fast-rew/fwd buttons |
| Fixed >20 button conflict with remote control numeric keys |
| Many small cosmetic improvements, including new icons,
graphics and layout changes |
Version 2004.04
| New freedb HTTP submit mode
| Faster than email submission, works with
firewalls (including those requiring username/password
authentication) |
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| New freedb online text search
| freedb section / Advanced tab |
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| New add music library entries option using online
freedb for any non-CD media such as LP, Cassette, etc. (uses
text-based freedb online lookup with your web browser) |
| New local freedb database search features
| All words (e.g. word1 AND word2 AND...) |
| Any words (e.g. word1 OR word2 OR...) |
| Exact phrase |
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| Fixed problem with automatic local freedb CD lookup |
| Redesigned freedb Setup section |
Version 2004.03
| New local freedb search features
| New search type options
| Normal, read data direct from index file, no
additional RAM required |
| New RAM Cache method, 50% faster and 50% less
RAM required |
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| CDDB ID now shown in search results box along
with Artist and Album |
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| New Media Library features & improvements
| New Add files features to add or update files
stored on any drive and/or directory |
| Much faster when displaying listings |
| New Hide / Display Media Library when playing
media file(s) option |
| New remove file from hard drive option |
| New remove file from Media Library option |
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| New Music Library report option to export only
displayed entries (e.g. a single Artist-related entries, or Album,
Genre, Format-related, etc.) as CSV, HTML, TXT or XLS |
| Improved automatic DVD movie aspect ratio detection
and sizing |
| New automatic popup control panel when playing
movie file or DVD and full screen selected |
| New default 2 band EQ for Media Video files |
| Fixed status bar display for very large movie files |
| New keyboard hotkeys for all faceplates:
| Left arrow = Previous if playing track, else
playlist editor |
| Right arrow = Next if playing track, else Play |
| P = playlist editor |
| ~ = playlist editorw |
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Version 2004.02
| New support for Windows XP Media Center Edition
2004 |
| New support for Microsoft Remote Control (or compatible)
| [Remote Key Description], CD-Runner function:
| [Numeric keys 1-9], jump to track 1-9 |
| [Replay], Previous Track |
| [Skip], Next Track |
| [Stop], Stop playback |
| [Clear], Power Off (Player screens), Cancel (all others) |
| [Back], Music Library (if playing CD), Media Library |
| [Up Arrow], Eject CD/DVD |
| [Down Arrow], Pause (toggle on/off) |
| [Left Arrow], Playlist Editor |
| [Right Arrow], Play |
| [Numeric key 0], CD-Runner Mute (toggle on/off) |
| [Enter, OK], Enter, OK |
| [Volume Up/Down], Master Volume Up/Down |
| [Mute], Mute (toggle on/off) |
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| New support to export listing or entire Music/Media
databases as generic XLS file, compatible with all Excel versions |
| New Music & Media Libraries Print, Report & Export Features
| New printing options & features (File/Print...)
| Print displayed listing |
| Additional Music Library print features
| Print database listing |
| Print database listing w/ changer ID |
| Print user selected database fields |
| Print entire database |
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| New export database features
| Export listing as CSV, TXT or XLS |
| Export listing as HTML |
| Export user selected database fields as CSV, TXT or XLS
(Music Library) |
| Export entire database as CSV, TXT or XLS |
| Export listing as HTML |
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| New database statistics report |
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| Last used positions and sizes of library screens saved |
| New center screen option for libraries |
(right click any row, new option added to popup menu)
| Improved data archive & retrieval utility - faster, easier
to use |
| Fixed problem with CD Ripper, track read error if invalid
characters (?,* etc.) in filename to be created |
Version 2004.01
| New data archive & retrieval utility - now save and restore
all of your CD data, playlists, etc. as a ZIP file |
| New CD Label printing options, with support for many more
sheet label sizes and CD label locations |
| New option to start 15-band EQ minimized (CD-Runner Setup) |
| New media file information popup if not playing MP3 or Ogg |
| New Music Library primary and secondary scan sort options |
| New CD-Runner Setup drive selection pulldowns - these
replace the previously problematic standard Windows drive selection pulldowns
which failed on some machines if no disc was in the drive |
| New - skins implemented for spectrum analyzer and 15-band
EQ |
| Improved SACD data import options |
| Improved handling of 32-bit Ogg streams |
| Improved tag editors |
| Fixed a couple minor DVD playback issues (previously loaded
DVD data cleared when new DVD loaded, DVD playback screen automatically
stopped and closed if eject button pressed on drive) |
| Updated context-sensitive help |
Version 2004
| New Spectrum Analyzer
| Includes small faceplate & large equipment displays |
| Multiple modes: Spectrum, Bars, Waveform, Sweep |
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| New 15-band Equalizer
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