[Itms-backup-beta-testing] Beta 0.8 released!

[Mario D. <mar...@ma...>]

Greetings,

I have released 0.8 this morning. The full release notes are here:

     http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=257396

Most important for us is the change in the GUI. The application now 
finds the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file automatically.

That XML file must be in the same directory as the "iTunes 4 Music 
Library" file (which is what iTunes actually uses). Both of these files 
are generated anew each time iTunes quits.

If the XML file is not found, the application prompts you to create a 
new one by launching and quitting iTunes, incorporating an AppleScript 
to do just that. Hide the file and see!

Most of you should notice that the application builds its database much 
more quickly. I have replaced the Java code that used to perform the 
parsing with Objective-C code. (It turned out to be much simpler in 
Objective-C!)

The previous release attracted over 900 downloads! Undoubtedly this is 
due to my posting the release on MacUpdate.com. I plan to post this 
release there by Wednesday, after we have had a chance to test this 
release ourselves.

Also, we picked up two additional beta testers, both of whom are from 
Germany. The one, Joachim ("Achim"), was instrumental in helping me 
track down a bug that left non-English localizations unable to parse 
the XML file correctly. That bug has been fixed for this version.

Have fun testing, and please let me know what you think (good and bad). 
I'm going to be working on the code to implement automatic scheduling 
of backups, which will be incorporated into release 0.9.

Mario


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