Helium Music Manager 7 now available!

The best just got better!

We are very proud to present Helium Music Manager 7!

Helium Music Manager 7 is now available and has been rated by our existing customers as the most complete and stable version released so far!

Helium Music Manager 7 contains a complete upgrade of our technical platform which has resulted in full Unicode support and highly increased stability.
On top of this we have redesigned our main tools to give you a better and more easy to use workflow.

Another big change in this version is improved plug-in usage;
results from multiple plug-ins will now be returned when you query any plug-in service such as downloading of track information, artist information, lyrics or pictures.

Major news

Full Unicode support. You can now use Helium Music Manager to store contents in any language. Everything from the user interface to the database and tags will now support contents in Unicode.
We are very proud to present our new product, Helium Music Streamer, which is the perfect add-on to Helium Music Manager.
Helium Music Streamer allows you to access, browse and play your music from any web browser. It links seamlessly with Helium Music Manager and comes with a simple yet powerful user interface that is easy for family members to use.

Click this link to learn more about Helium Music Streamer.
Revised and improved workflow for our main tools. You will find that more common operations will perform more smooth and easily. This can be anything from tagging to browsing in views plus improved refresh logic.
Highly improved stability. During the Unicode migration we changed many of our core components in the underlying platform which has drastically improved stability. During this migration we tested all functions in Helium Music Manager to see that they do what they are meant to do as well as ensuring that they fully support Unicode. We also optimized several of the tools to give a better overall performance and usability.
Our new plug-in system automates your searches for track information, album information, lyrics and pictures. New tools have been created for this purpose which now use multiple plug-ins in one operation. The results are presented in a very easy way to help you to find the information you are looking for more quickly. Support for downloading of track data using acoustic fingerprints for single tracks has also been added. As before, our plug-in system is an open architecture which it is possible for you to contribute to. We will soon release an updated plug-in SDK including documentation and source code to several of our plug-ins.
MusicBrainz support has been integrated into the Tag Editor to enable one-click fingerprinting and downloading of track information.
Support for the newest iPod devices with Firmware 3.x has been added. This means that you can easily synchronize your iPod, iPhone 3G(S) and iPod touch with Helium Music Manager 7.
Improved sort handling: Helium Music Manager's unique sort order system has been extended so that you can now choose how sort information is presented in all the views. In addition, tools like the Tag Editor have had Auto-Sort buttons added to speed up the entering of sort field information.
The picture handling in Helium Music Manager (album and artist pictures) has been much improved by giving you better control of how added and downloaded pictures should be managed. Two very efficient tools are available for downloading and managing of album and artist pictures.
Open importing system. Using our new plug-in based importing system, you can very easily migrate data from other applications into Helium Music Manager. As for our download plug-ins, this is also a system which allows external developers to create their own importing plug-ins. A full SDK with source code for the available importers will be released soon.
Several improvements to the Music Explorer have been made. One of the more interesting is that you now have five totally customizable “User Defined” nodes you can use to create custom groupings of your data.
A tagging new mode, Album Mode, has been added to the Tag Editor (previously known as Tag Editor (Spreadsheet). When you open files in the Tag Editor that come from the same album, a column setup that is optimized for album tagging is automatically loaded and a new Album Information pane is shown. From the Album Information pane you are able to fill in album specific fields (such as album, album artist, publisher and more) and their values are automatically added to all files in the album. You are also able to quickly add, update and download an album picture directly from this pane.
A new Filename to Tags tool has been introduced. This new tool allows you to very easily generate filenames from tags and edit them in a way similar to the Tag Editor. This “mode” of the Filename to Tags tool can either be started separately or directly from inside the Tag Editor.
A new Graphic Equalizer has been added.

Minor news

Support for the WAVPack format has been added. You can now tag, manage and play your WAVPack files with Helium Music Manager 7.
New support for favorites. You can easily mark a track, album or artist as a favorite. Your favorites can easily be accessed from the Music Explorer and they are also shown in views.
Improved sorting and grouping handling in the Artist Browser.
New printable reports based on artist information. (Pictures, information and grouping)
Improved compatibility with iTunes sorting tags.
Minor restructuring of the buttons in the Internal Player. You can now hover over the buttons with your mouse to get quick-access to many of the functions related to a specific button.
More logical restructurings to menus have been done to give you an even more consistent feel and clean look.
The Active Playlist has been renamed to “Play Queue”.
The Tag Editor (Spreadsheet) is now renamed to “Tag Editor” and the old “Tag Editor” is now renamed to “Tag Editor (Advanced)”
Several hundreds of minor improvements, changes and fixes.

Owners of Helium Music Manager 2009 who purchased the version on October the 19th 2008 (a year ago) or later will get a free upgrade to Helium Music Manager 7!

Owners of previous versions of Helium Music Manager can upgrade for a discounted price. Visit the Customer Center for more information about upgrading.