Download The Godfather 0.85

After a long time, a new version of The GodFather has appeared again. With this freeware program the complete music collection can be managed. It supports formats including mp3, Ogg Vorbis, mpc, ape, flac and aac, and ID3 tags can be filled in manually or automatically through a connection to freedb. In addition, the program can create, merge and modify playlists, it is suitable for encoding and decoding mp3 and wav files with LAME, and logically organizing your music files on your hard drive. In version 0.8.5 the following changes have been made:

New/Changed

• Rename/Tag/Playlist/Export-Import/Online/ panels all merged into a single Panel named Edit, all functionality is preserved.
• The new grid in the edit panel is now reconfigurable (Column order/visibility/sort) and presets can be defined.
• New % variables ALBUMARTIST %aa, ORIGINALARTIST %oa, PUBLISHER %pu, DISCNUMBER %di, BPM %bp, %ar (%aa or %a), ORIGINALALBUM, ORIGINALYEAR, REMIXEDBY (%OL%,%OY%,%RM% ) all the above fields moved to standard fields also.
• Filters merged and moved into the folder tree panel, (option to show/hide)
• The online procedures have better support for compilations, using the performer per song and/or album artist field upon option/availability.
• The filters have been re-worked, Operators added (=, , !=, <=, >=, ?, !?, ~, !~, $, !$), ? stands for the ‘like’ operator and ~ will use sound-ex for compares, new ‘in list’ operator $.
• Import re-worked, more fields added and two new placeholders, and will keep the original field values ​​or remove them respectively.
• A quick view mini panel added, that provides an easy method to spot differences between the actual values ​​in the tag fields and the ones you defined in the edit grid for further update.
• Scripts have been merged and new functions added (documented in the help file), most build in scripts enhanced/updated.
• Option added ->(ID3v2 user fields named ‘ALBUMARTIST’ or ‘ALBUM ARTIST’ will be read into the standard Albumartist field)
• The library has been updated to support the new fields.
• ‘Expand all’/’Contract all’ buttons at library
• Elevated privileges manifest embedded to the executable
• All variables now have a % suffix, example: %A is now %A% (please update your templates!)

Fixes

• The ID3v2.2 TPA frame handled properly
• The ID3v2. APIC frame with double byte descriptions handled properly.
• Vorbis comment covert art type mix up on multiple covers corrected.
• Genre fields separated with Chr(0) will be read correctly.
• Non numeric track fields will now ignore padding options.
• Range copy/paste in the edit grid will no longer occasionally create excess rows nor delete read only fields.
• Restructure rare bug when Source and Destination files were the same corrected.
• Load/Save issues with .png image files corrected
• Narrower fixes/updates applied.