Acertant News Blog

New TuneRangerâ„¢ beta updates: Mac OS X build 206 and Windows XP/Vista build 188 are now available for immediate download.
These updates include:

• Resets the trial period for an additional 30 days using the original trial activation code.
• Fixed a problem affecting users with internally corrupted iTunes Libraries. While iTunes appeared to work properly, it had internal problems only visible to applications accessing the Library via the published API’s. Previously the solution had been to rebuild the Library which solved the problem in all cases. We implemented a workaround in this build.
• Added a additional diagnostic messages to the logs to help us troubleshoot problem situations.

These updates were released August 22, 2007 and are recommended for all users.

Click here to download the updates or visit our website at http://www.acertant.com/

TuneRangerâ„¢ beta updates for Mac OS X build 203 and Windows XP/Vista build 187 are now available for immediate download.

These updates include:

• Support for shared music repositories. TuneRanger will now sync iTunes libraries and playlists that access a shared media library without duplicating files in the common repository.
• Support for symbolic links and aliases in the iTunes media folder path.
• Fixed problems with non-english versions of iTunes.
• Fixed several elusive threading crashes.
• Fixed crashes when attempting to read tags of bad or corrupted MP3 files.

These updates are recommended for all users.

Click here to download the updates or visit our website at http://www.acertant.com/

New beta releases of TuneRanger network sync for iTunes and iPod are now available for immediate download.

The new updates are recommended for all TuneRanger users.

IMPORTANT:  The new Mac and Windows builds are a “matching set” and are not compatible with earlier releases. The underlying networking system has undergone important modifications in order to make it faster and more reliable, so these new versions will not be able to communicate with earlier releases. You’ll need to upgrade all computers you wish to synchronize with the corresponding OS platform version.

The installers are also undergoing revisions so it is very important that you remove earlier versions of TuneRanger before installing the new ones. On Mac OS X, open the Applications folder, drag the TuneRanger application to the trash, and then empty the trash before running the new installer. On Windows, remove the old version using the “Add/Remove Programs” control panel before running the new installer.

The Mac OS X version (build 200) is available at:

http://www.acertant.com/web/tuneranger/tr_mac_dlref.htm

The Windows version (build 178) is available at:

http://www.acertant.com/web/tuneranger/tr_win_dlref.htm

KEY CHANGES/FIXES/IMPROVEMENTS

• Lots of general reliability, network discovery, and speed improvements.
• We’ve adopted Apple’s Bonjour network discovery on both Mac and Windows. Using Bonjour, TuneRanger will now auto-discover other TuneRanger-running computers on larger more complex networks and it’s much, much faster. On Mac, Bonjour is part of the OS so there is nothing for you to do. On Windows, if you previously installed iTunes version 6.x or earlier you may already have it installed, otherwise you’ll need to download it from: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows.html. If Windows users don’t install Bonjour, TuneRanger will use the original discovery system. Of course you still have the option of adding other computer’s IP addresses manually.
  
• Added “Track #” as a top level comparison key. This was added to resolve false duplicate issues with some classical music collections that use the same song name within an album and differentiate songs only by track number.
• We’ve removed the option to install as a client since this was causing some confusion for some users. Now all TuneRanger installations are client/servers. You can still turn off the server in preferences.
• Improved logging should help us to diagnose problems much better now than with earlier builds.

Read the complete revision history at:

http://www.acertant.com/web/support/tr_revhistory.htm

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At less than $6 per computer TuneRanger is already a great deal. But if you buy a license for Mac and for Windows at the same time now, the deal gets even better. We’ll take an extra $10 off your order and you’ll get 5 Mac and 5 Windows licenses for only $49.98. Offer ends at the time of the Beta period so order today.

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We thank you for your continued support and as always we welcome your suggestions!

The TuneRanger Development Team