New: Charset auto-detection for wrongly encoded text frames; Small usability improvements.
Fixed: A rare crash, some minor bugs.
ver. 1.57, Build 3/5/2024
New: More robust cover art finder: When primary source is unavailable, taghycardia now falls back to others.
New: Track-by-track mode usability improvements.
Fixed: Minor track-by-track mode bugs.
ver. 1.56, Build 5/29/2023
Fixed: fixes for some recent "fixes" :)
ver. 1.56, Build 5/24/2023
Added: Improved detection rate/accuracy for track-by-track processing, support for "chart" compilations, option to skip remixes when creating playlists.
Fixed: Problem related to a breaking API change, a number of minor bugs.
ver. 1.55, Build 3/12/2023
Added: Prevent launching multiple instances + a couple of minor fixes.
ver. 1.55, Build 2/9/2023
Fixed: Potential crash upon encountering badly encoded FLAC tag text fields.
ver. 1.55, Build 9/9/2022
Added: Option to recursively search for local images within a folder structure (in Settings -> More)
Fixed: Crash when downloading additional images from Discogs.
ver. 1.55, Build 12/12/2021
Added: Option to remove duplicate tracks from compilation folders (see help)
Added: Option to re-detect and re-tag all tracks in a folder from scratch (see help)
Changed: Tracks having id3v1 tags only are now always re-tagged with id3v2.3 to avoid text-encoding issues
Fixed: A number of UI annoyances and minor bugs
ver. 1.53, Build 6/12/2021
Fixed: failure to recognize RIFF ID3v2.4 tags in WAV/AIFF files
ver. 1.53, Build 2/21/2021
Added: Option to hide well-tagged folders from the log (in Settings->More)
Changed: Folders having no music files in them no more showing in the log
Fixed: Minor bugs
ver. 1.53, Build 1/30/2021
New: Configurable single-file processing (via drag-and-drop, Windows context menu, and commandline). See details here.
Fixed: A number of minor bugs
ver. 1.52, Build 1/14/2021
Fixed: 'Unsure how to handle' dialog appears on some perfectly tagged albums.
Fixed: Buggy random-order tracklist generation.
ver. 1.52, Build 8/28/2020
Added: System settings checkbox enabling to prioritize track-by-track processing. Use this to tag and get cover art for your music automatically if your audio folders primarily contain collections of various tracks from various sources. To enable, go to Settings -> More -> tick the "Prioritize track-by-track processing" checkbox. Please see more in Options.
ver. 1.52, Build 5/10/2020
Added: Tentative support for RIFF ID3v2 tags in WAV files (read-only in the free version)
Added: When run with a music file name as a parameter, taghycardia now detects the track, downloads cover art for it, re-tags and renames using %artist% - %tracktitle% pattern
Fixed: Minor bugs
ver. 1.51, Build 5/3/2020
Added: [-gp "path"] switch to generate a tracklist using current settings, open system-default media player, and close taghycardia
Fixed: Minor bugs
ver. 1.51, Build 4/9/2020
Added: Button to copy the log to the clipboard
Added: System settings option to disable all track renumbering features
Fixed: A number of minor bugs
ver. 1.51, Build 1/24/2020
Added: AIFF support (read-only in the free version)
Fixed: High-DPI and track-by-track detection related fixes
ver. 1.50, Build 1/4/2020
Added: Track-by-track detection, cover art downloading for compilation folders
Fixed: A number of minor bugs
ver. 1.11, Build 4/19/2019
New: Less prompts, more automation.
New: Auto detect and set missing Album Artist for collaborative albums
Fixed: Rare crash when downloading additional images
Fixed: Empty album field ignored under certain conditions
Fixed: Persistent lyrics search failures
ver. 1.10, Build 1/22/2019
Fixed: Application showing up blurry on high DPI displays under Windows 10 v. 1803 and later.
ver. 1.10, Build 1/12/2019
Fixed: Cover art downloading fails under Windows 7 and older.
ver. 1.10, Build 11/5/2018
Added: High-Accuracy untagged album detection mode
Added: Accuracy vs. Speed toggle for untagged albums detection (with balanced mode set as default)
Improved: Up to 3x faster lyrics search
Fixed: Sporadic crashes during full-folder-tree lyrics search
Fixed: Albums with uniform AlbumArtist frame detected as compilations
ver. 1.09, Build 9/14/2018
Fixed: Truncated text frames when reading legacy id3v2.2 tags
ver. 1.09, Build 6/9/2018
New: Initial setup option to enable Android-related automated tag fixes
New: Automated fixes for tag issues causing wrong album track order on Android devices
New: Relative path option in Playlist Generator
Fixed: Minor issues
ver. 1.08, Build 4/29/2018
New: Automated fixes for tag issues causing album splits on Android/Google Play Music:
Fix 'Album Artist' inconsistencies
Prevent personal compilations from decomposing into multiple 'albums'
New: Auto-fix for for tag issues causing wrong character encoding on Android devices
Fixed: Minor issues
ver. 1.07, Build 1/9/2018
New: Essential system settings now configurable
New: Failed/canceled image requests now logged to improve operation speed
Fixed: Possible interoperation issues with file change monitoring software
Fixed: Persistent cover art finding failures under certain conditions
Fixed: TPE2 frame sometimes lost upon ID3 tag rewriting
Fixed: Sporadic partial image displays when zooming
ver. 1.05, Build 10/31/2017
Added: detection of completely untagged albums using audio signatures.
ver. 1.04, Build 9/12/2017
A number of fixes related to mpeg-4 support.
ver. 1.04, Build 6/8/2017
Added: Artist list now downloads along with track list for Various Artists compilations in the embedded Mass Tag Editor
Added: Reminder to save changes for sequentially drag-and-dropped albums
Improved: lyrics discoverability
Fixed: Lyrics showing incomplete for some tracks
ver. 1.03, Build 5/2/2017
Added: Optional auto-correction of Genre inconsistencies
Fixed: Cancelling art-adding clears all other operations for a folder
Fixed: Unnecessary duplicate tag rewrites under certain conditions
Fixed: Ghost cover preview window staying under certain conditions
Fixed: Sometimes auto-chosen cover art does not embed into tags in Editor
Fixed: Wrong pic sometimes pops up for an album in the main window
ver. 1.02, Build 3/7/2017
Added: Drag and drop multiple selected folders to process at once (see example).
Added: Option to select default action for drag-and-dropped folders.
Added: Save main window screen position and size for subsequent program runs.
Fixed: Couple of minor bugs.
ver. 1.01, Build 12/26/2016
Fixed: Faulty tag not updated when original file has id3v1 metadata only.
Fixed: 'Disable cover art downloading' button does not work sometimes.
Fixed: 'Also rename existing' option fails to work with certain image names.
Several minor under-the-hood fixes/improvements.
ver. 1.0, Build 09/28/2016
Added: FLAC and APE formats support (readonly in the standard version).
Added: Option to set cover embedding behavior for FLAC files separately from other formats.
Improved lyrics discoverability
Fixed: Working with unmapped network volumes (\\VolumeName\..\) not supported.
Fixed: Embedded art in formats other than jpeg saved with a .jpg extension.
Fixed: Some tag frames could be lost when updating metadata in non-MP3 files.
Fixed: Memory leaks when handling non-mp3 formats.
ver. 0.99.8, Build 06/11/2016
Added: Ability to preview covers/download more in the main window.
Added: Support for music file formats other than MP3.
Improved online lyrics/release info discoverability.
Multiple usability improvements and small tweaks/fixes.
Fixed: Track numbers from vinyl and cassette releases (A1/B1...) reported as faulty.
Fixed: Track numbers not removed from file names when using them to fill empty track titles.
Fixed: No way to disable saving downloaded images in addition to embedding in tags.
ver. 0.99.6c, Build 05/20/2016
Fixed 'Discogs unavailable' message.
Removed deprecated options from the settings dialog.
Couple of usability improvements.
ver. 0.99.6a, Build 03/22/2016
Fixed: inability to process network shared folders and online search inaccessibility on some systems.
ver. 0.99.6a, Build 02/10/2016
Fixed: rare freeze in playlist generating mode.
Fixed: corrupt image file in a folder leads to a repetitive error message.
ver. 0.99.6a, Build 01/10/2016
Improved online cover art discoverability, fixed a number of minor UI-related bugs.
ver. 0.99.6, Build 08/11/2015
Added: lyrics management - getting automatically from online sources, editing, embedding into tags & updating
ver. 0.99.5f1, Build 05/22/2015
Fixed: corrupted cover art downloads
A number of minor fixes. This is a recommended general bugfix update
ver. 0.99.5f, Build 03/17/2015
Yet another API-related fix
ver. 0.99.5f, Build 02/25/2015
Fixed: Inability to find any art online due to API changes
ver. 0.99.5, Build 11/19/2014
Added: Button to remove all cover art from mp3 tags in a folder tree with a couple of clicks
Added: Windows Explorer context menu option to create a Unicode playlist for a folder tree and open the list in a player
Several small fixes
ver. 0.99.4f, Build 10/30/2014
Yet another temporary Discogs-related fix (with more seem to come)
ver. 0.99.4, Build 04/20/2014
Fixed: "Personal compilation" button not working in Win64 version
ver. 0.99.4, Build 04/02/2014
Added: option to strip cover art from tags and save the images (thx to Midas @ www.portablefreeware.com for the suggestion and Kwstas Lavdas for advice/testing)
Taghycardia is now offered both in Win32 and Win64 version
Multiple small fixes and optimizations; this is a recommended bugfix update
ver. 0.99.3f, Build 02/27/2014
Fixed: cover art failing to load due to a Discogs API change
ver. 0.99.3, Build 11/02/2013
Added: option to manage picture file names used for autoselection; included folder.jpg in the default names list (more details here). Thx for the tip to Matt Nall