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Helium Music Manager 8.4 now available

Helium Music Manager 8.4 is now available officially.

This version focuses on multiple improvements for the Music Browser, a new Device Synchronization tool which integrated with iTunes.

We have also added a much more dynamic way to control which fields the capitalizer should affect as well as which capitalization type that should be used for a specific field, instead of using one type for all.

New features

New rendering technique for all Music Browser pages which gives much better browsing speed
User interface enhancement enhancements using CSS3 (requires Internet Explorer 9) for Music Browser pages. Many pages are also "cleaned up" and comes with minor new functions and improvements.
New Charts page in the Music Browser which allows you to more easily reach charts.
The Summary, Now Playing and Windows Gadget are also using the new rendering techniques and also comes with user interface improvements.
The Synchronize device tool has been reworked to support a new simpler to use user interface, support for more format conversions as well as a new synchronization mode which will allow you to synchronize data to a new iTunes playlist. This specific iTunes playlist can be synchronized to any device via iTunes, therefore giving support for synchronizationto any iPod/iPhone device no matter of which iOS/iTunes version that are installed.
The Capitalizer can now be configured per field, if it should be used as well as which capitalization method that should be used.
New comparison mode for the Find duplicates tool plus various improvements.
Support for Custom parameters used whilst transcoding files.
AAC support in Update Library.
Autosynchronization with the Helium Music Streamer
Updates to German and Polish languages.

Bug-fixes and improvements

The Discogs plugin supports the API version 2, giving much better performance, search results and returned data.
The Amazon plugin has been updated so that it properly works again together with various performance optimizations.
AKAs are properly downloaded from supported plug-ins.
The workflow when downloading multiple Artist informantion has been much improved. Data is now merged so that no prior data is lost plus that the end user has the possibility to exclude artists before the background downloading starts.
Improvements for Album Artist handling in the Tag Editor.
Multiple improvements in the tagging engine to read "custom" tag-frames from other applications
Corrections when Ogg Vorbis file times are read.
Performance and bug fixes for SQL Server Compact databases.
Equalizer presets are now properly stored and restored between sessions.

We recommend all users upgrade to this version.