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General Category => News => Topic started by: Admin on April 24, 2011, 12:05:45

Title: Beta version 1.6.0
Post by: Admin on April 24, 2011, 12:05:45
Similarity 1.6.0 build 1133 Beta version

Download (http://www.music-similarity.com/downloads/similarity.beta.zip)

- New activation mechanism with online and offline activation. Premium uses should reactivate Similarity with they keys, because old activations not compatible with new.

(http://www.music-similarity.com/forum/data/similarity_1.6.0_activation.png)

(http://www.music-similarity.com/forum/data/similarity_1.6.0_offline.png)

- Removed Network, at this time it unused, rewritten all remaining network algorithms.

- Corrected files and pairs counters in context menu. Added "Clear" item to clear all results.

(http://www.music-similarity.com/forum/data/similarity_1.6.0_context.png)

- Added possibility to clear ignores separately from cache.

(http://www.music-similarity.com/forum/data/similarity_1.6.0_clear.png)

- Many improvements in OpenCL algorithms.

- Small fixes.


Added in build 1134

- Fix with tag editing and file renaming details (http://www.music-similarity.com/forum/index.php?topic=328.0)

- Add "Copy Tag", "Copy All" (includes fiename) to  Tag Editor dialog

- Improved OpenCL speed on AMD/ATI devices, speedup approx. 2 times

- Fully rewritten Microsoft Media Foundation Decoders (MMF), it now works in Vista too

- Fixed cache/files counter in status bar



Added in build 1136

- Fixed bugs what lead to crashes

- Fixed new MMF decoder, bug with freeze on small files and title and album swapping

- Corrected universal tag reader, it now correctly support ID3 tags ver 2.3 and 2.4



Added in build 1140

- Improved speed of new MMF decoder

- Added support of 5.1 and 7.1 surround audio to MMF,DirectShow and WMF decoders.

- Fixed some bugs
Title: Re: Beta version 1.6.0
Post by: hsei on April 28, 2011, 11:18:20
In order to express it in different terms:
Offline activation is for those cases where the computer on which similarity in premium version has to be started has no connection (or not always) to the internet. As a side effect online control of subscription key is no longer done at every start of similarity, which seemed to me unnecessarily over-anxious.