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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)