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@sandreas sandreas released this 03 May 14:52
· 316 commits to master since this release

Important notice
During the development of v.0.4.0 there were A LOT of changes to prepare performance improvements, some of these are breaking changes or experimental changes. It is likely that there will be some issues, so backup before you update.

breaking changes

  • By default, m4b-tool is now quiet and provides no output - add -v to restore the old behaviour (-vv and -vvv are also supported for higher verbosity)
  • The parameter --convert-charset has been renamed into --platform-charset
  • Parameter --debug-filename has been removed in favor of --logfile, which also supports logging of non-debug levels

new features

  • The batch-pattern and dry-run parameters allow to load tags from directory names (see README for details)
  • The jobs parameter should improve merge performance on systems with multiple cores
  • Added an mp4v2 fork to support sortname, sortartist and sortalbum for some players

improvements

  • reworked all output and logging (colors are now supported for command line output)
  • support for mp3 chapters added
  • improved many things in tagging support
  • added best practices section in the documentation