BDJ4 Development status 2023

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Well, I broke version 4.0.3. I put in a check in the code that was completely wrong, and it prevents the song list editor from displaying the song list.
I'm putting together version 4.0.4 release right now.

Happy New Years to everyone!

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4.0.5 beta is out!

It features iTunes support.
Many memory leaks have been fixed.
[ And many thanks to Doug M. for his iTunes XML file (from 2015!). Very helpful in testing. ]

iTunes playlists can be imported to song lists.
The database information can be updated from iTunes.

I still have to write the iTunes documentation on the wiki.
Hopefully I can get to that this afternoon.

Enjoy.

I will probably start working on applying adjustments to the audio files: Trim silence, Loudness normalization, song start/end and speed adjustments. If there are any items in the BDJ4 Roadmap that you want prioritized, let me know.

I was just now researching ffmpeg and how to adjust the tempo, and the sound quality of the result seems similar to sox. I don't know that there's any way to get it better.

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I found a bug using the keyboard or scroll wheel to navigate any song selection view.
The scroll wheel is not so bad, but the page up/down and up/down arrows do not work correctly at all.
(note that this is not an issue with music queues).

I'll be working on fixing this bug and release version 4.0.6 with this bug fix and the fix for the crash when configuration exits.

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It also looks like there are some issues with the BDJ3 conversion process. I have a complete copy of the data that is having troubles, so fixing it will not be a problem. I will get this fixed tomorrow and into the 4.0.6 release, which I should be able to get packaged tomorrow.

If any of you have a BDJ3 database that you want to make sure BDJ4 can convert properly, please e-mail it to me.

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It also looks like there are some issues with the BDJ3 conversion process. I have a complete copy of the data that is having troubles, so fixing it will not be a problem. I will get this fixed tomorrow and into the 4.0.6 release, which I should be able to get packaged tomorrow.

If any of you have a BDJ3 database that you want to make sure BDJ4 can convert properly, please e-mail it to me. (data/musicdb.txt or data/masterlist.txt)

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I made a mistake in the installation update process.
If you have done a upgrade to version 4.0.6, you can fix your installation by simply copying templates/audioadjust.txt to data/audioadjust.txt .

I'll make a new release Saturday due to this problem.

Saturday's release will also include the "Export as MP3" feature.

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4.0.7 is released. The installation upgrade process is fixed, the programs will now start properly.
It includes the new feature "Export as MP3" (export menu in the player and in the song list editor).
Multi-media keys should now work.

I will be working on updating the wiki documentation.

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I released version 4.0.8 with various bug fixes.
The 'Export as MP3' is almost done. I will put it in the next release.

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I just discovered that the installer is not working on Windows 11.
It does work on Windows 10.
I don't know exactly why there is a problem. This could take a while to create a work-around.

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I just discovered that the installer is not working on Windows 11.
It does work on Windows 10.
I don't know exactly why there is a problem. This could take a while to create a work-around.

It turns out the installer is probably ok.
I was getting an error code 0xC0000142 in my account, and apparently the Windows user profile or some user permissions are screwed up.
This only seems to happen on Windows 11.
I will document this in the Windows installation wiki page.