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- Welcome to VisiTrax 2.9.2!
-
- "I have wanted to create a data base of my CD/MD/LP collection for a
- long time but never found the 'right' program until now! I absolutely
- love VisiTrax."
-
- "I am a DJ, and I have also purchased 3 other CD databases online.
- However, I never believed that I could be as happy as I am with VisiTrax.
- This is the best."
-
- VisiTrax efficiently organizes your CDs, records, tapes, and more -- name your
- own categories and media formats. Quickly locate material with wild-card
- matching and multi-column sorts. Intuitive tabsheets let you freely switch
- among views, including a DJ-style playlist and integral CD player with CDDB
- title retrieval via the Internet. Convenient data entry with multi-level
- undelete; data export and import.
-
- VisiTrax includes thorough on-line Help documentation, plus an example music
- library for convenient product familiarization before starting a new library
- of your own.
-
- VisiTrax is a professional Win32 application coded in C++ for blazing speed.
- All VisiTrax files are installed in the same directory -- NO special run-time
- libraries are required.
-
- ZDNet Editors' Pick (5 star rating).
-
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-
- NEW IN VERSION 2.9.2:
-
- NOTE: If you will be updating from a version prior to v2.9.1, please see
- the cautionary note at the start of the v2.9.1 release notes, below.
-
- - Splash banner added at startup.
-
- - Volume category and year can now be set explicitly, and used as filters.
- The resulting new filter layout is now more like it was prior to v2.9.1.
- (To conserve layout space, the Volumes view's Reapply Filters button is
- now a toolbar button.)
-
- - In the manual data entry dialogs, the Title field now appears first.
-
- - Added "Playlist Items Only" filter option to View menu, plus tool button.
-
- - For most combo boxes, pressing up/down arrow now automatically activates
- the drop-down list; also, when a drop-down is activated via the keyboard,
- the mouse cursor is moved out of the way as necessary.
-
- - Shared filter shortcut view switching is now based on the starting view.
-
- - Clicking on an empty filtered grid now resets all filters.
-
- - Clicking on the Volume Contents view's title banner now activates the
- Volume Details dialog.
-
- - A new hint (tool-tip) now appears when grids don't have focus.
-
- - Substantially increased playlist maximum capacity. Widths of the Playlist
- view's leftmost and Start columns now dynamically adjust based on the data.
- Substantially improved rendering speed for Playlist checkmark symbols.
-
- - Playlist view now includes "Move to Top" and "Move to Bottom" functions,
- with corresponding Alt-Home and Alt-End, plus "/" and "*" shortcut keys.
-
- - Now permits read-only viewing of details for tracks in an active playlist.
-
- - In Volumes view, "+" is now equivalent to right-click > Add to Playlist.
-
- - Now shows Volumes view after manually adding a new volume with no tracks.
-
- - Registration dialog now includes a link to the pricing and order web page,
- and its Update button now checks for empty data.
-
- - Fixed: CD autodetect could switch main form to CD Player view while main
- form is beneath another, eventually triggering an access violation.
-
- - Fixed: Given a selected volume with no assigned Index, when a volume editing
- dialog is activated, the Locator Index field is not correspondingly blank.
-
- - Fixed: Pressing "+" in an empty tracks list adds an empty Playlist entry.
-
-
- NEW IN VERSION 2.9.1:
-
- NOTE: Due to needed changes in the way custom settings are saved,
- updating to this version will reset most of your custom settings
- for VisiTrax, such as grid colors and fonts, proxy settings, etc.
- In addition, running an older version after updating to v2.9.1
- or later will require re-entry of your registration key.
-
- - Now prints multi-line notes, via new "Notes columns" Print Preview control.
-
- - Print Preview dialog now remains visible when its Print button is clicked.
-
- - Added F1 Help link to print preview dialog.
-
- - Print status popup now indicates page numbers rather than sheet numbers.
-
- - Added Nominal Duration field to Playlist view, to support display of
- remaining playlist time available.
-
- - Decoupled Volumes view Artist filter from Tracks view Artist filter.
-
- - Revised auto-complete behavior in data entry dialogs.
- (Data is entered exactly as typed, unless actually auto-completed.)
-
- - Text field combo box dropdown heights now auto-sized for best display fit.
-
- - Now suggests use of CD Player view if user chooses Edit > New Volume
- and a new audio CD is detected.
-
- - Now cancels Auto-Hide mode if the Volume Contents view's Artist column is
- manually promoted into the main set.
-
- - Case-insensitive wildcard filtering is now locale-sensitive.
-
- - Added info message for Windows XP users experiencing slow CD MCI_PLAY
- response. (This only occurs with some CD drive models, and should be fixed
- in SP1; for more details, see Microsoft's KnowledgeBase article Q308928.)
-
- - Fixed: "Spreadsheet compatible" copy to clipboard broken in v2.9.0 (ouch).
-
- - Fixed: In "Columns as shown" page layout, items are skipped between pages.
-
- - Fixed: Toggling between "Automatic" and "Columns as shown" page layouts
- messes up pagination for the latter.
-
- - Fixed: Residual in-place editor text appears in CD Player tracks grid if
- CD ejected while in a different view.
-
- - Fixed: Not automatically detecting inserted CDs on some Windows XP systems.
-
-
- NEW IN VERSION 2.9.0:
-
- - Added more filters to Volumes view (Artist, Title, Notes).
-
- - Added Remove Filters button to the toolbar.
-
- - Year filter field now includes a drop-down list containing decades.
-
- - BPM filter now includes an optional tolerance field, plus up/down controls.
-
- - Filter operators now consist of NOT (^), AND (&&), and OR (||). Operators
- can be spaced from text (e.g. "Beatles || Starr=").
-
- - Filter controls in Volumes view can now be hidden, as in Tracks view.
-
- - Edit > Find now unhides the filter controls if they were hidden.
-
- - Added track subtitle field (dumps into CD Player as title: subtitle).
-
- - Added Grp Time field, which indicates the total time for tracks belonging
- to a given track's group (same as track time if track is not part of a
- group). A track group is defined as a set of all tracks in the same
- volume having both subtitles and identical titles.
-
- - Now supports lead-in (Intro) time of ":00" (as distinct from blank).
-
- - Added File > Export Track List function, to facilitate uploads to
- DJintelligence.com or WeDJ.com.
-
- - Re-Index Volumes function now lets you specify the new starting index.
-
- - Added automatic leading-space removal to track and volume editing dialogs.
-
- - Added View > Reset Column Widths.
-
- - Relative column width weights are now saved between sessions.
- Improved column width weight readjustment algorithm.
-
- - Added Sort Across toolbar button, to reset sorting precedence per column
- display ordering in a single operation.
-
- - Added flyover hints for data view cells containing truncated text.
-
- - Added Previous and Next buttons to the toolbar, to facilitate browsing
- volumes while in the Volume Contents view.
-
- - Added "Edit > Renumber Tracks" to Volume Contents view.
-
- - Volume Contents view's right-click menu now includes "Add to Playlist",
- which adds every track in the selected volume to the playlist in one step.
-
- - Added new View > Auto-Hide Track Artist menu item (both this and the
- corresponding toobar button are available only in the Volume Contents view).
-
- - Now supports importing separate tracks and volumes tables via paste, in
- two steps. Tables must use volume locator index as a linking key.
-
- - Now detects duplicate volume indexes or duplicate track numbers during
- paste; user can decide to ignore or continue.
-
- - Printouts from Tracks or Volumes view now have more informative page
- titles.
-
- - Added "Duplicate supression" and "Indented subheadings" controls to the
- Print Preview dialog.
-
- - Can now change fonts and printer setup from within the Print Preview dialog.
-
- - Distinct printing fonts can now be set for the page title, column headings,
- subheadings 1-3+, and the listed data.
-
- - Added Auto-Eject checkbox option to the Add/Update CD dialogs.
-
- - CD Player view now features a track number indicator box. Track time
- box text color changed from green to amber (to better distinguish from the
- green track number). Currently playing track's title now appears as a hint
- popup for either box.
-
- - Instead of disabling Add/Update/Modify buttons when data is missing or
- invalid, their captions are colored maroon; and if the button is clicked
- in that situation, an informative message is displayed.
-
- - Changed "Gray Data Entry Boxes" menu option to "Data Entry Box Colors",
- with custom background color selection.
-
- - In filter data fields, changed "<all>" to "-any-".
-
- - Max Time field now shows "-any-" by default (was just blank).
-
- - Now checks for fit within the current screen dimensions when restoring
- settings, in case display resolution was changed.
-
- - "Limit Reached" warnings added if attempt is made to create too many
- distinct categories or media formats (currently 255 max for each).
-
- - Clarified "rows skipped" warning message associated with import via paste.
-
- - Now uses separate thread for CD access, to improve UI responsiveness
- during the CD eject/load cycle.
-
- - In the CD Player view, the Tracks grid edit cell's background color is now
- the same as that of the other cells.
-
- - Clicking a CD player mode button now immediately disables any that
- are no longer valid (faster visual feedback).
-
- - Fixed: In-playlist checkmarks appear only in cells containing text.
-
- - Fixed: CD Player "Update" not filling in missing tracks.
-
- - Fixed: Under certain conditions, the CD player tracks grid edit field
- is erroneously rendered on the header row when scrolling.
-
- - Numerous additional odds and ends...
-
-
- The latest version of VisiTrax is always available at our web site.
- For a complete revision history, see http://www.synapsa.com/history.htm
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-
- INSTALLATION (Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP):
-
- To install VisiTrax on your computer, run the vsxsetup.exe setup program.
- The setup program will ask where you want VisiTrax installed.
-
- If you have an earlier version of VisiTrax installed, you can safely install
- this version over it. Any data files you created will be left intact.
-
- UNINSTALL:
-
- VisiTrax can be removed cleanly via Control Panel>Add>Remove Programs. This
- is the standard method for removing today's 32-bit Windows applications.
-
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- FILE MANIFEST (installed)
-
- visitrax.xml Portable Application Description (PAD) file
- VisiTrax.exe VisiTrax program file
- VisiTrax.hlp On-line Help (full documentation)
- VisiTrax.cnt Help table of contents
- Example.trx Example library data file
- ReadMe.txt This file
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-
- DISTRIBUTION
-
- VisiTrax, in its original pre-installed form (vsxsetup.exe or the .zip file
- containing it together with this ReadMe.txt file) is freely distributable.
- No restriction is made concerning fees for copying, transmission, or storage.
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-
- PRICING
-
- VisiTrax Lite Edition (FREE)
-
- - No expiration time limit
- - For small libraries (under 1000 tracks or 100 volumes)
- - Same functions as VisiTrax Standard Edition
-
- VisiTrax Standard Edition ($18.00 US) - Order at http://www.synapsa.com
-
- - For professional-sized libraries
- - Low-cost, one-time, on-line registration via secure server
- - Unlimited free updates via web site
-
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-
- FOR MORE INFORMATION...
-
- Company Name: Synapsa Productions (USA)
- sales@synapsa.com
-
- Home Page: http://www.synapsa.com
-
- Product Support: support@synapsa.com
- (comments, suggestions, questions)
-
-
- VisiTrax and Synapsa are trademarks of Synapsa Productions.
- CDDB is a trademark of Escient, Inc.
- Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
-
- VisiTrax - Copyright 1999-2002 Synapsa Productions (USA)
-