CrateDigger 2.0.0 beta 2 (build 74) — it remembers what you played
Pre-releaseEverything in the 2.0 line so far, newest work first. Unfinished by
definition: this is where 2.0 is built, and it is offered to nobody who has
not asked for it.
Beta 2 is mostly foundations. CrateDigger now keeps a record of what you
listen to, which is the thing every smart crate and every listening stat in
the rest of 2.0 will be built on, and the browser's selection and sorting
moved into the tested core of the app.
Added
- CrateDigger remembers what you play. Play counts, skips, when you last
heard something, when it was added, and a one to five star rating on every
track. Rate from the inspector or with Command-Option-0 through
Command-Option-5. None of it is visible in the browser yet; it is the
foundation the smart crates and the listening stats are built on. - Deep Scan: fix tags by listening to the record. Fix Tags searches with the
tags a file already has, which is no help at all on a rip with no tags or with
somebody else's. Deep Scan fingerprints the audio instead, asks AcoustID what
it is, and offers the answer through the same review sheet, with the tracks
paired to the record by recording rather than guessed into order. It never
runs on its own: press DEEP SCAN in the match window when the proposed record
looks wrong, or take the offer in the alert when nothing matched by name. - Receive beta updates. Settings, Advanced. Off unless you turn it on, and
turning it on is the only way a stable install is ever offered one of these
builds. It selects a separate feed rather than tagging the stable one, so
leaving it alone means a mistake in a beta cannot reach you. Turn it off to
go back to finished releases.
Changed
- Notices are centered on the display. Messages like "MATCHING TAGS" used to
sit hard against the annunciators on the left and shove the transport strip
sideways every time one appeared. They now sit in the middle of the glass and
no longer move anything else.
Notes for testers
Betas can lose data. Point CrateDigger at a copy of your library, not the only
copy, and keep a stable install to fall back to. 2.0's plan is at
cratedigger.mrbarkan.com/roadmap.html.
This is a beta. It is not the release to install if you just want a music
manager: get 1.5.10
instead.
Install: download CrateDigger-2.0.0.dmg, open it, drag CrateDigger to
Applications. Signed and notarized, Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later.
Already on 1.5.x and want these? Settings, Advanced, Receive beta updates. That
switch ships in a 1.5.x update, so until then a beta has to be installed by
hand.