- Fixed an issue when trying to download tracks containing special characters in their title. #189
- Added an option to download tracks and cover arts using HTTP instead of HTTPS. You can use this option if your HTTPS traffic to Bandcamp is blocked. Thanks @LedAlex! #185 #193
- Fixed HTML characters not decoded in metadata. #157
- Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: Italian.
- Added the following languages thanks to contributors: Ukrainian.
- Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: Portuguese.
- Fixed the reading of Bandcamp metadata since their changes. #153
- Added the following languages thanks to contributors: Dutch.
- Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian.
- Fixed a bug that caused the release date for tracks to be set to '1'. Thanks @Nebula-Mechanica! #144 #145
- Added the following languages thanks to contributors: French, Portuguese.
- Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: Spanish.
- Fixed a bug preventing the app from downloading discography for some artists. Thanks @yuyoyuppe! #118
- Added the following languages thanks to contributors: Chinese.
- Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish.
- Removed the Ukrainian language as not complete.
- Fixed the log position reset when opening the Settings window. #112
- Minor UI improvements.
- Reduced exe file size by 1 MB.
- Fixed a regression that caused a crash when an album ends with a space followed by dot(s). #111
- Fixed a bug (another one) preventing downloads from being cancelled in some conditions.
- Fixed some UI freeze when downloading big artwork files.
- Updated the following languages thanks to contributors: German, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Spanish.
- More data will be logged when a crash occurs.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Fixed a bug causing albums with no tracks to be downloaded. Thanks @wilbishardis! #106
- Fixed a bug preventing the app from getting updates info on Windows 7. #109
- Added dark theme.
- Added / updated the following languages (some incomplete) thanks to contributors: English, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
- Moved to semver for versioning.
- Save crash data to the log file.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Fixed the crash occurring when an album name ends with a dot. #102
- Fixed the crash occurring when the Bandcamp anti-spam mechanism was triggered. #104
- Fixed the crash occurring when the user hit Cancel right after starting downloads.
- Fixed the crash occurring when clicking on a relative hyperlink on the changelog.
- Fixed a bug preventing downloads from being cancelled in some conditions.
- Added "About" section on Settings window.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Fixed a bug preventing the cover art to be saved in the tracks. #88
- Starting next version, the changelog will be displayed when a new version is available.
- Starting next version, an option will allow to directly download the new version from the application.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Fixed playlist creation for tracks with foreign characters. #82
- Fixed application crash when saving tracks to a path with more than 260 characters.
- Fixed the track path stored in playlist files. #82
- Fixed a bug preventing the "Playlist file name format" setting to be saved in the ini file.
- Added an option to create playlist files (m3u, psl, wpl or zpl). #82
- Added italian localization. Thanks @RichyZ99 for the complete translation! #84
- Tag actions ("modify", "do not modify", "empty") are now localized.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when "☑ Retrieve files size" was unchecked. #74
- Added an option to customize the cover art file name. #77
- Added german localization. Thanks @Simonwep for the complete translation! #78
- Added link to the translation guidelines next to the language setting.
- The English name of any language is now displayed next to the local language name in settings.
- The track file name setting is now checked and must have the mp3 extension. #80
- The proxy port setting is now checked and must be an integer.
- Minor bug fixes relative to the UI.
- Added localization #67 for english and french. If you wish to help translate the application in another language, please see the guidelines.
- When a new version is available, its number is displayed on the main window.
- Updated dependencies to their latest version. This should fix issue #76 (false positive from Windows Defender).
- Updated dependencies to their latest version.
- Fixed issue #75 that would prevent downloading tracks with a name with less than 3 characters.
- Fixed exponential back-off mechanism that was inactive for artwork files.
- Fixed issue that would cause the program to crash when the artwork file was already existing in the target folder.
- Fixed issue #73 that would stuck the downloads in an endless loop when downloading a cover art failed.
- Fixed issue that would report an incorrect number of tries when downloading a cover art failed.
- Added {album}, {year}, {month} and {day} placeholders to the file name format. #72
- {month} and {day} placeholders are now formatted on two digits; for instance: "05" instead of "5".
- Added an option to disable notifications sound (off by default). #71
- Fixed race condition #54 that would make the program crash when downloading two albums with the same name.
- Fixed issue with albums name too long to be supported by Windows.
- Added an option to download through a specified proxy. #70 You can choose between:
- No proxy.
- The system proxy.
- A manually configured HTTP/SSL proxy.
- Tracks size download is now done asynchronously in order to speed up the process. For instance, when downloading 124 albums, we got the following results:
- Before: downloading tracks size took 33m30s.
- Now: downloading tracks size takes 2m30s.
- Fixed issue #65: the total downloaded size reported when downloads were finished was wrong under some circumstances.
- Fixed the exponential back-off mechanism that forced to wait 200ms (with default settings) before the first download try.
- Fixed issue that would prevent the cover art to be saved in the folder when "☑ Convert to jpg" was unchecked.
- Fixed issue that would prevent the settings file to be correctly saved after clicking on "Browse".
- "☑ Download artist discography" was (un)checkable during downloads. No more.
Notes to upgraders:
- The settings file format has changed, so some of your settings may be reset.
- Added an option to empty tags from the downloaded files.
- Added an option to disable checking for updates at startup.
- Added a button to check for updates.
- Various UI improvements.
- Log file will be archived to
BandcampDownloader.0.logif its size exceed 1MB. Only one archive log file will be kept. - Updated dependencies to their latest version.
- Fixed issue #69 that prevented from downloading albums that have no cover.
- After selecting a folder via the "Browse" button, the placeholders were lost. The default placeholders will now be added back.
Notes to upgraders:
- The settings file has changed, so your settings will be reset. You can delete your old
BcDlSettings.jsonthat will be replaced byBandcampDownloader.ini. - DLL files are now packed inside the EXE file. You can delete the DLL files you had next to
BandcampDownloader.exe.
- Added separate settings for the cover art downloaded in folder and the one saved in tags. #64
- Lyrics can be saved to tags when available. #42 Thanks @ajsnyde!
- You can now choose which tag should be saved (artist, title, album...) or not.
- Added an option to remove comments from tags.
- Added an option to reset settings to their default values.
- The log is now saved to a file:
BandcampDownloader.log.
- Settings are now displayed on their own window.
- Added advanced settings to the UI. #46 No need to edit your settings file anymore. Thanks @ajsnyde!
- Log is now automatically scrolled if position is at the end. "☑ Auto scroll log" option has been removed.
- DLL files are now packed inside
BandcampDownloader.exe. - Updated dependencies to their latest version.
- Updated Json.NET and ImageResizer libraries to their latest version.
- Fixed issue #40 that prevented downloads of track when their name was too long.
- Fixed issue #21 that prevented downloads of one-album artists when "☑Download artist discography" was checked.
- Added an option to skip retrieved the track size #27. Progress is then based on the downloaded files count. Thanks @ajsnyde for implementing this!
- Added an option to stop scrolling the log #29. Thanks @ajsnyde for implementing this!
- UI revamp. Thanks @M4lik for working on this!
- Updated Json.NET and ImageResizer libraries to their latest version.
- Fixed issue #34 that prevented to download albums or tracks that contained whitespaces in their name.
- Added a confirmation dialog on closing the application when there are active downloads #28
- Fixed the issue that prevented the application to download the cover arts #31 #33
- Fixed the issue that caused the application to crash when the album name was too long #22
- Added placeholder for {year}, {month} and {day} (album release date) that can be chosen for the download location. Thanks @kaktus313 for implementing this!
- Added support for system proxy. Thanks @Aljenci for implementing this!
- The default settings are now using the exponential back-off algorithm in order to prevent Bandcamp to throttle the downloads. Values can be tweaked in the settings file if you encounter some issues.
- Added support for track pages (http://[artist].bandcamp.com/track/[track]) #18
- Added option in config file to modify the file naming scheme #17
Thanks again to @ajsnyde!
- Fixed issue #15 that prevented BandcampDownloader to correctly save the cover art files.
- Added a new functionality to check for updates when starting the application.
- Songs can now be downloaded under a artist/album folders architecture.
- An exponential back-off system has been implemented in order to bypass Bandcamp anti-spam filter. By default, this mechanism will not be used, you have to manually edit your settings file.
- BandcampDownloader now checks if files are already present in the download folder in order to prevent to download twice the same files in case an error occurred and the downloaded has been restarted.
- The maximum number of tries when a download fails is now configurable.
Huge thanks to @ajsnyde for implementing all these new features!
- Fixed issue #9 that prevented BandcampDownloader to retrieve the artwork file size. Thanks @dashWo for fixing this!
- Added option to save the current settings to a file (named BcDlSettings.json, located next to the .exe file). Settings are automatically loaded when starting the application.
- Fixed issue #1 that prevented BandcampDownloader to find the correct url to download tracks.
- Updated Json.NET and ImageResizer libraries to their latest version.
- The "Description" field of the ID3 tag containing the cover art is now set to "Picture".
- Added confirmation dialog when user clicks on "Cancel".
- Added option to hide verbose log messages (uncheck ☑ Verbose).
- BandcampDownloader now retries (up to 10 times) to download a track if it previously failed (this seems to happen a lot when downloading a lot of albums in the same session).
- Minor UI changes.
- Added functionality to resize cover art.
- Minor fix (tabstops were wrong).
- The cover art was downloaded even if both checkboxes ☑ Save cover art in tags and ☑ Save cover art in folder were unchecked. Not anymore.
- Got rid of unneeded references, resulting in one less file in bin files.
- Cover art is now deleted when it was only temporarily saved.
- Added progress in Windows 7 taskbar.
- Fixed encoding issue.
- Fixed a bug on the saving of the cover arts.
- Added option to download all albums of an artist.
- Fixed a bug that caused the application to crash when the user does not have rights to write in the downloads folder.
This is the first release of BandcampDownloader.