Mp3tag v3.33.1 released

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Mp3tag v3.33 released

I've just released Mp3tag v3.33 and wanted to outline some of the new features and changes:

Adjust Covers to Square, Crop to Square, and new resizing options

This new version comes with various improvements and new functions for adjusting cover art. Next to proportional scaling, it's now possible to scale to square, and even crop to square when adjusting album covers. Resizing can now be skipped entirely, allowing image-format changes while keeping the original cover size. Resizing used a maximum size setting before, where the image was only resized if its dimensions exceeded a certain threshold. Now, with the minimum size setting, a fixed target size can be configured.

Mitigation for issue introduced by recent Windows Update

I also had a lot of fun with a recent Windows Update, which broke some basic functionality (extending a file in size) if the file was synced via OneDrive or another cloud-storage provider like Dropbox. This was mainly noticeable when adding cover art, because those modifications usually use up all reserved padding in the files and, well, extend the file size. So if you noticed any flakiness in adding cover art, it's thanks to a recent Windows Update that dropped in January.

Versioning Scheme Changes

I've also changed the versioning scheme I'm using for Mp3tag. While this version doesn't look different from the ones before, the new scheme now allows for bugfix releases independent from beta versions. I changed this in the hope of being more flexible in reacting to issues like the one mentioned above. Let's see how long it takes for a version v3.33.1 to be released.

Bugfixes and Internal Changes

As usual, this new version also includes bug fixes and many other improvements, including changes to ID3v2 writing, where unmodified fields now preserve the original ID3v2 frames stored in the file. If you're curious, the changelog has the complete list.

:rocket: Download the new version

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html

:orange_heart: Support my work as an Indie Developer

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/donations.html

Enjoy and take care
— Florian

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I've just released Mp3tag v3.33.1 which includes bug fixes and other improvements that have been reported since the last release. If you're curious, the changelog has the complete list.

Most notably, it reverts back to the previous behaviour where it doesn't try to preserve umodified ID3v2 frames and MP4 atoms. When saving, Mp3tag now writes tags according to its documented internal mappings by default.

If someone prefers minimal changes applied to the tag, I've added the configuration options Reuse unmodified ID3v2 frames and Reuse unmodified MP4 atoms at Options → Tags → Advanced.

If those options are enabled, existing user-defined fields for which a mapping exists are not remapped to the target representation unless the field value changes. As a result, mapped fields are only rewritten when their corresponding field contents are modified.