v0.3.4-beta

[Picorims]

This small update aims to fix some annoying bugs (not all of them, sorry 😬) , to give more information to the user in case of heavy processing or unexpected errors, and to slightly improve the user experience in the file picker. It ain't much, but it's honest work.

For information, a rewrite of the software is currently happening there: https://github.com/Picorims/wav2bar-reborn . This is the recommended place for feature requests! Bugs regarding this version may stay in this GitHub repository.

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ PLEASE, IF YOU USED AN EARLIER VERSION of Wav2Bar, pay attention to the changelog! Look in particular for:
[⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️].

Changelog

Added

• Wav2Bar now warns if it fails to load a save file due to corrupted internal JSON data.
• Wav2Bar now warns if it is not able to write app data (which can lead to save failure for instance).
• Added a loading animation while caching audio file in save load.
• Additional context is now printed under the export progress bars to inform about potentially long processes, for which progress can't be tracked.
• Added shortcut buttons to pick another drive in the file picker.

Changed

• Reduced log spam at export.
• If only one extension kind is allowed, the extension will be automatically fixed instead of prompting the user to do so.

Removed

• App no longer scales based on DPI due to negative impact on rendering (see fixes for the reason).

Fixed

• Fixed: Temporary folder is never cleaned up (Temporary folder is never cleaned up #69)
  • An automatic clean up of render frames is done at export, and additional info is provided.
• Fixed: False information display for number of points count ([BUG] False information display for number of points count #84)
• Fixed: Save files won't load correctly (Save filees won't load correctly #73) [⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️]
  • Wav2Bar now correctly uses the appdata directory instead of picking the disk root directory. To recover old settings on Windows, copy the content of C:\Wav2Bar over to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Wav2Bar (you likely only want the user directory there).
• Some log messages were lost in specific scenarios where the window could not be identified.
• Fixed: Choosing no file in file picker leads to errors such as soft lock on save load (Choosing no file in file picker leads to errors such as soft lock on save load #90)
• Fixed: High DPI screens cause the app to scale, which includes intermediatory files for rendering (High DPI screens cause the app to scale, which includes intermediatory files for rendering #71) [⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️]
  • This might alter existing save files depending of your system display settings (basically if scaling was applied to the app for you during edition of the file).
  • The save file display should now be consistent regardless of the scaling of the screen.

Known issues

• Line timers sometimes become transparent due to its color having two hashes #97 : Line timers sometimes become transparent due to its color having two hashes
• See [⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️]

Note on Betas

Wav2Bar is currently in beta, which means that things actively change (UI, saves, etc.)! Please backup your saves, especially when updating Wav2Bar.

Note for Linux

Right now Linux is not very well supported, but I try my best to make it better bit by bit. For now you should be able to use Wav2Bar without much problem by using the zipped version or using the source code after installing the dependencies (see the README or the wiki). There are some predefined (but not tested) configs to make some other linux packages that you can try.

Note for Mac

Mac is not supported at this moment, but you can give it a try using the source code (see the README or the wiki).

Support

For bug reports, please use the issues section of GitHub. For other support, use the discussions section or go over to my Discord server (https://discord.gg/8N2CjCQHuU)

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This discussion was created from the release v0.3.4-beta.