MM 2024 Test builds

[rusty]

Hi,

We're beginning a new round of testing for MediaMonkey 5.0.4. This release is going to consist of some feature additions, UI improvements, scripting enhancements for developers, along with bug fixes and performance improvements.

This initial build 2653 includes over 50 fixes and improvements.

Download:

• Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

Installation:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Test notes:

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's a new alpha build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4. It includes 13 fixes including fixes to playback regressions in the initial alpha.

Download:

• Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

Installation:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Test notes:

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's a new alpha build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4. It includes 15 fixes and improvements.

In addition, there's a new test build of the MediaMonkey Codec Pack available that includes a couple of fixes.

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 Codec Pack 3.0.7: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MM_Cod ... 3.0.7.mmip

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Codec Pack Installation:

• Download and then install by double-clicking or via Tools > Addons > Add...

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's another alpha build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4. It includes 11 fixes and improvements including a fix to a memory leak introduced in an earlier alpha that could trigger a crash.

Also, a build of the MediaMonkey Codec Pack that includes a couple of fixes is still available for testing.

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 Codec Pack 3.0.7: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MM_Cod ... 3.0.7.mmip

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Codec Pack Installation:

• Download and then install by double-clicking or via Tools > Addons > Add...

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4. It includes over 25 fixes and improvements including several more stability fixes.

Also, a build of the MediaMonkey Codec Pack that includes a couple of fixes is still available for testing.

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 Codec Pack 3.0.7: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MM_Cod ... 3.0.7.mmip

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Codec Pack Installation:

• Download and then install by double-clicking or via Tools > Addons > Add...

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4 containing 12 fixes and improvements including more stability fixes.

Also, a build of the MediaMonkey Codec Pack that includes a couple of fixes is still available for testing (it'll be released this week).

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 Codec Pack 3.0.7: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MM_Cod ... 3.0.7.mmip

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Codec Pack Installation:

• Download and then install by double-clicking or via Tools > Addons > Add...

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4 containing 14 fixes and improvements including the addition of deezer integration for playlist sync.

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4 containing 15 more fixes and improvements including support for synchronization with iOS 16.

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2662.exe

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's a new build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4 containing 15 more fixes and improvements including several stability fixes.

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2663.exe

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Let us know what you think!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's the (hopefully) final beta build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4--there only remain a few issues to resolve before we can create a release candidate. This build includes about 25 more fixes and improvements.

Also, an fyi for translators: all strings have been frozen. We'd appreciate your help in updating them in weblate (there are about 50 updated/modified strings). Thanks!

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2665.exe

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Let us know what you think!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Here's one more beta build of MediaMonkey 5.0.4. It includes about 15 more fixes and improvements. We have about 5 more issues remaining to be fixed for the upcoming release candidate.

Note to Translators: Thanks for all the updates and feedback. We've added explanations to all the strings that were unclear, and fixed a couple of problematic strings. Thanks!

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2667.exe

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Let us know what you think!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

We're very close to a release candidate of MediaMonkey 5.0.4, but first have another beta build to share. It includes 15+ fixes and improvements along with updated translations. We have 2 more issues that we're looking into for the upcoming release candidate.

Thank you Jordi (Catalan), Gerd (German), Panagiotis (Greek), SangOh (Korean), Marcin (Polish), Gervasio (Portuguese-Brazil), Marko (Slovenian), Leandro (Spanish), Alberto (Spanish-Latin America), Igor (Ukrainian), and Chyuan-Fu (Mandarin) for the various language updates (in addition to Czech, Dutch and French which were updated by the MM team).

Download:

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2670.exe

Test notes:

• This is pre-release software -- please backup your files to protect against data loss.

• The debug build can experience issues when your machine goes to sleep.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Let us know what you think!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

We're happy to announce MediaMonkey 5.0.4 RC-1! It includes another 5+ fixes and improvements.

Please let us know if you observe any major problems. At this point in the development cycle, we're only going to fix really serious issues.

Download:

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2672.exe

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

Test notes:

• At this stage, we recommend using the regular build (rather than the debug build) to avoid any artifacts related to the debug code.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

It seems that RC-1 was a dud for some users (it experienced instability on some systems and the mini player didn't work). Here's a new build that fixes all of the reported problems. Here's a complete list of changes.

Please let us know if you observe any major problems.

Download:

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2673.exe

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

Test notes:

• At this stage, we recommend using the regular build (rather than the debug build) to avoid any artifacts related to the debug code.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team

[rusty]

Hi,

Thanks for all the feedback on RC-2! It's helped us improve stability further and tweak a bunch of usability issues in RC-3 which includes 18 fixes and improvements.

We're still investigating a couple more reports, so there'll likely be another RC. Please let us know if you observe any major problems.

Download:

• MMW 5 regular build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... 4.2675.exe

• MMW 5 Debug build: https://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/MediaM ... _Debug.exe

Test notes:

• At this stage, we recommend using the regular build (rather than the debug build) to avoid any artifacts related to the debug code.

MediaMonkey Installation:

• Double-click the downloaded file and follow the installation instructions.

• To be notified of new beta builds, enable Tools > Options > General:Check for updates:Include beta builds.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-The MediaMonkey Team