New MMH 9 Beta 5 Released
The highlight:
MMH
Tag & Rename and
Chapter Editor both now support
Matroska MKV and MKA tagging compatible with
Kodi 21.2's partial support and
future Kodi 22 release (pre-release nightly builds)
"Tag 'em and they will come!" Tagged mka are imported into Kodi music library with a normal Source Scan. No Cue files needed!!
Version 9.0.0 Beta 5 (March 5 2025) Changelog since current official MMH 8 release
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New:
MMH updated to .NET 9 Desktop runtime including 3rd Party .NET libraries (faster processing)
Media File Manager tool: Added support new Reporting option that includes cover art for Music, Music Videos/Concerts, Movies, TV series and - new
Media File Manager tool: Now reads additional metadata from Kodi nfo files for Movies & TV Series (adds: Genre, Plot, Cast, Director, IMDB Rating etc)
Channel Volume tool: Added support for viewing & editing wavpack (.wv) file channel volumes (up to 16 channels supported)
Chapter Editor tool: Now tags MKA files with MusicBrainz & other tags compatible with Kodi's recent releases supporting for MKA music tags (no need for a CUE file)
Chapter Editor tool: Now supports reading, editing and saving Matroska (MKA & MKV) music tags for Kodi v22 (v21.2 has limited support)
Tag & Rename tool: Now supports reading, editing and saving Matroska (MKA & MKV) music tags for Kodi v22 (v21.2 has limited support)
Batch Audio tools: Getting/Creating DR readings - Added support for wavpack (.wv) files
Remix Channel layout tool: Added new option to Remix Multichannel to Stereo (experimental - Remixes 7.1, 5.1, 5.0 and Quad to stereo (resampling option included)
Atmos Helper Encoder: New Encoder Queue implemented, allowing users to define new Encode Options and add to existing queued encodes
Atmos Helper Encoder: Now supports encoding ADM BWF files
Atmos Helper Decoder: Added new option to Decoder: 'Auto add Decoded WAV files to the Encoder dialog' - allows for automatic Decode then Re-encode
Atmos Helper Decoder: Added a progress bar for file decode progress, replacing the window showing progress in previous versions
Tagging from Musicbrainz: Added new 'Format' dropdown to filter releases by 'Blu-ray', 'DVD', 'SACD' or 'DualDisc'. The 'All' applies no filter (link MMH 8 & earlier)
MMH Tag Editor control: Now dynamically updates any manual data entry for each tag directly to the selected file row(s) in real time. Instant updates.
MMH Tag Editor control: Added support for Musicbrainz tag editing/viewing. (previously MB tags were only visible in the grid (those columns hidden by default)
New MMH Auto Update features:
- Added new 'Opt in to Beta Release notifications' option in Application Preferences - users will get in app notifications of new Beta releases
- Added new light weight update system to quickly download only changed files and auto-unzip into user's MMH Program Files folder (no full MSI installer)
Changes:
MMH 9 settings are no longer stored in Windows Isolated Storage. Now in user's '..\AppData\Roaming\Music Media Helper' folder
MMH 9 copies MMH8 settings on first run (keeps user's MMH 8 settings)
Added support for getting year from file and folder names with square brackets '[1970]' - previously only '(xxxx)' was supported
Media File Manager tool: Now attempts to get music data from untagged files (based on file and folder naming)
When MMH creates a Dynamic Range file it no longer changes the album folder's Last Modified timestamp
Batch Audio tools: When running option 'Check Cover Art...' a new sub-option added to extract embedded art to 'folder.jpg' if art file does not exist
Chapter Editor tool: Dialog layout changed for clarification on command functionality. Add new 'Edit/View Tags' command
Chapter Editor tool: Now tags files on 'Save' if user has used 'Get Tracks from Musicbrainz' option (previously tags only saved if 'Save CUE' was used
Extract Audio from MKV tool: When user loads a file from 'Open MKV/MKA/M4A' button before the conversion starts a new dialog pops to Confirm output type
Tagging from Musicbrainz: If an album has tracks with different multiple artists, MMH no longer prefixes the track title with Artist name (only the track's artist is updated)
Tagging from tools with grid view: Reduce space to display many tags; Track & TrackCount now displayed as combined in single 'Track' column (e.g. 1/10, 2/10 etc). Same for Disc fields
Atmos Helper Encoder: Added support for 'Optimised Bit Rate' encoder option for TrueHD Atmos encodes (new toggle switch added to Encoder dialog)
Atmos Helper Encoder: Now deletes all temporary files after Encode
MMH Application Preferences: Added new file naming separator option of space ' ' between track number and song name (example use gives: '01 Track Name.flac' formatted file names)
Channel Volume tool: Peaks > 0 are now highlighted. Double-clicking on a Channel gain value resets to 0.0, Double-clicking on file's 'Gain (db) label resets all channel gain to 0.0
Multiple tools: MMH file conversions: When copying existing source file tags, additional tags are now supported: All Musicbrainz tags & tagged album covers
Updated 3rd party UI controls to latest 24.2.5
Updated MKVToolnix to 90.0
Updated Ffmpeg to 7.1.1 (pre-release)
Updated PDF docs
Fixes:
Chapter Editor tool: Failed to load Matroska chapters if a chapter has more than 3 tags - fixed
Chapter Editor tool: Now always saves chapter end times - fixed (better compatibility with some apps)
Channel Layout Remix tool: User Defined Channel mappings fails to create correct ffmpeg filter string if user's Locale has comma as decimal point - fixed
Removed last few stray NET 4.8 Framework Controls, replaced by DevExpress UI (.NET 9)
Tag & Rename tool: Added missing .wv extension as a supported file
A bug in TagEditor 'DiscSubtitle' tag: The tag value was not read or saved - fixed (this goes back to MMHH 5! - an issue in the tagging library)
Split & Join Audio tool: Merging could fail if Title had any illegal file name characters - fixed
MMH 9 beta 3 had a bug in TagEditor (was not updated 'Disc Count' column in Grids - fixed
MMH 9 beta < 5:
- Chapter Editor: Did not show error for 'micro chapters' - fixed in beta 5
- Tag & Rename tool: Beta 4 chapter 'Track' & 'Disc' not updated in UI (underlying data was ok) - fixed in beta 5
Download MMH 9 Beta 5 here:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh9/beta/MMHInstaller.msi
NOTE: MMH 9 uses the .NET 9 Desktop Runtime (x64). Please download and install this first (if you don't have NET 9 installed previously):
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/...u/runtime-desktop-9.0.2-windows-x64-installer
