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Helium Music Manager 8.4 beta 2 now available for registered users

Helium Music Manager 8.4 beta 2 is now available for all our registered users.

This version contains many fixes and improvements as well as some major changes/improvements:

The Music Browser has been improved further. CSS3 is now used to render content and the pages has been optimized and some of them redesigned to take advantage of this technique. To be able to use CSS3 you will need to have Internet Explorer 9 installed on your machine. Some of the pages has also been visually tuned as well as the workflow has been improved.
New Charts page in the Music Browser which allows you to more easily reach charts.
The Now Playing and Summary templates has also been revided to use CSS3.
The Discogs plug-in now has the option to include all or just exact images in the result.
Improvements when downloading multiple artist information so that the contents are merged with existing data.
AKAs are properly downloaded from supported plug-ins.
The iTunes synchronization will now allow you to select a transcoding folder so that contents does no longer need to be re-transocded.
The iTunes synchronization now fully runs in the background.
New comparison mode for the Find duplicates tool plus various minor improvements.
Support for Custom parameters used whilst transcoding files.
AAC support in Update Library.
Improvements for synchronizing BPM tag-frames.
Improvements for Album Artist handling in the Tag Editor.
Corrections when Ogg Vorbis file times are read.
Improvements for quicker abortion of a long running process when using the Audio Analyzer.
Improvements for the FreeDB plug-in which will perform multiple retries during a query.
Corrections and minor improvements for the new capitalizing system.

This Helium Music Manager version will not perform any database updates and will therefore be backwards compatible with Helium Music Manager 8.3.
We still recommend all users to create a backup of their database before using it with Helium Music Manager 8.4.

Helium Music Manager 8.4 beta 2 is available from our Customer Center which you access by clicking this link.