listFix 2.1.0

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Date updated

April 11, 2011

Developer

Jeremy Caron | (more products)

All time downloads

451

License

Free

Platform

Windows

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5 / 5

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Description of listFix 2.1.0

A tool to repair broken playlists with ease

Have you ever spent some time making a playlist, only to have it break when you reorganize your files? listFix() is a Swing application that solves this problem by finding the lost or missing entries in your playlists automatically. Tell it where you keep your media files, load in the playlist you want to fix, and hit the locate button. The program will search your media library for the file and update the playlist accordingly when it finds a match.

If a few files are still missing, they were probably renamed. listFix() has a way of finding these files as well, by scoring the files in your media library with a "similarity" test and offering you a choice of the best potential matches, pre-selecting the matches it deems "best".

Key features

• M3U/M3U8/PLS Support (Winamp, XMMS, Foobar2000, etc)
• Find lost/missing playlist entries
• Insert/Move/Delete/Replace/Append entries
• Insert/Append Playlists
• Sort the playlist by filename, status, and location
• Randomize the list
• Remove duplicates and/or missing tracks from the playlist
• Copy all songs in a list to a specified directory
• Advanced search for renamed tracks
• Launch an entry or playlist in the system's default media program
• Support for URL & UNC path entries
• Save playlists with absolute or relative references
• Batch repairing of playlists
• Batch find closest matches (for renamed files)
• Batch repair Winamp Media Library playlists

Editor's review for listFix

There are numerous occasions when the playlist which you have so diligently prepared breaks when you organize your files again. All the efforts and time spent goes down the drain and it is a disaster which occurs. Bu help is also on hand with ListFix which is a Swing application and capable of automatically locating the missing files in the playlist.

This unique program has the ability to nose out the missing entries once ListFix is informed about the location of the media files. ListFix just peruses the library of media files and after locating the required file will update automatically the incomplete playlist. Some of the missing files may yet not be traced due these files being renamed. ListFix is capable of even tracing such renamed files by tracking them in the media library with a ‘similar’ tag and displaying all probable matches which ListFix thinks are the “best fit”. The formats supported by ListFix include PLS / M3U / M3US for media players like Foobar2000, Winamp, XMMS and others.

ListFix will also add or replace or insert or even move entries in the playlist or sort it by virtue of location or filenames or even status of the playlist. This program also randomizes the playlist and enables removal of duplicate entries and also the missing tracks from the list. The program can copy all the songs in one playlist to a single directory and can even launch playlists or entries in the media program of the system. ListFix offers support for UNC and URL path entries and also saves playlists with relative or absolute references. The program also repairs playlists in batches and also scores the playlist for “best fits” in batches and repairs Winamp media playlists in batches.

ListFix has a ‘Merlin’ fix everything button which will initially locate exact matches and then run a search for additional missing files which will be closest match to the remaining missing entries. This version also facilitates creation of a playlist form scratch and also extraction of all the playlists from the media library of Winamp to another new location. There is a button to cancel all operations which may be running for a long time because saving files are normally instantaneous. The Drag-n-Drop API of Java has enabled dragging of multiple files simultaneously as also an entire playlist from the panel can be inserted into a current list.

No need to visit ‘Lost and Found’ for your missing files when you have ListFix!

What is new in version 2.1.0

New Features:
• "Fix everything" button (magic wand icon) - first finds exact matches, then runs a closest match search on all the missing entries that remain
• Can now create a playlist from scratch (Ctrl-N, menu item under "File", or via the "getting started" panel)
• A play button in each row of the closest matches results screen to preview potential matches
• Ability to extract all the playlists from the winamp media library to a new location
• Cancel button for all long-running opeations
• Saving a playlist is now nearly instantaneous
• Major memory usage improvements and a roughly 40% running time improvement for the batch find closest matches operation
• Swtiched font to SansSerif for much better international support (shows Latin, Japanese, Korean, etc. characters that Verdana couldn't handle, among other reasons)
• Entries that are aren't missing but are found outside the media library are now updated to a location inside the media library if found there too
• Switching off "use UNC paths for mapped drives" will revert the media library to a mapped drive representation if applicable
• Can now drag multiple entries through the playlist at once (this should feel more natural now, implemented via Java's Drag-n-Drop API)
• Can drag a playlist from the playlist panel into the current playlist as an insert
• "Edit filenames" and "Replace" will operate on multiple entries
• Open dialogs for playlists now let you pick multiple files
• Refresh button for the playlists panel
• Can also multi-select (even directories) in the playlist panel and hit either the enter key, or the Open button, to open playlists (recursively for directories)
• More flexible parsing of M3U files to deal w/ extra data added by some players (lookin' at you MediaMonkey...)
• Can launch URLs for playback

Bug Fixes:
• Solved a major problem with saving files out relatively
• Fix playlist appending/insertion via the '+' button