Revision History of MGTEK dopisp

Here you find a change-log of enhancements and bug fixes for MGTEK dopisp. The list contains only releases that were made publicly available.

V6.1.3574 (17JAN2012)

Added support for iPod touch/iPhone drivers without Apple Quicktime installed.
Added support for iPhone 4 (CDMA model) up to iOS 4.
Improved compatibility with iTunes 10.5.

V6.0.3128 (22DEC2010)

Added support for iPod shuffle 4th Generation.
Added support for iPod nano 6th Generation.
Added support for iPod touch 4th Generation.
Added support for iPhone 4.
Added support for iPad.
Added support for high-resolution retina display.
Added support for embedded MPEG-4 album art.
Added support for reverse sync of playcounts and ratings on iOS 4 based devices.
Improved compatibility with iTunes 10.

V5.1.2594 (07JUL2010)

Added support for iPod touch and iPhone with iOS 4 (latest firmware).
Fixed a compatibility issue with the latest iPod touch and iPhone drivers.

V5.1.2512 (26APR2010)

Added diagnostics and cleanup mechanisms for iPods that where not safely removed from the computer.
Fixed incompatibility with iTunes 9.1.
Fixed bug that caused converted WAV files not to play on the iPod.
Fixed bug that caused deleted songs to appear again on the iPod.
Fixed bug that caused Windows Media Player to crash when playlists are deleted while syncing a iPod Nano 5G, iPhone, or iPod touch.

V5.0.2412 (12JAN2010)

Fixed incompatibility with MediaMonkey and iPod Nano 5G.
Fixed bug that caused music not to show up on iPod Nano 5G, iPhone, or iPod touch under certain conditions.

V5.0.2384 (07JAN2010)

Added support for iPod nano 5th Generation (model with camera).
Added support for iPod touch 1st Gen, and iPod touch 2nd Gen with OS 3.x (latest firmware).
Added support for iPod touch 3rd Gen.
Added support for iPhone, and iPhone 3G with OS 3.x (latest firmware).
Added support for iPhone 3GS.
Improved compatibility with iTunes 9.
Fixed bug that caused Windows Media Player 12 to crash when certain playlists were deleted.

V4.0.2092 (16JUL2009)

Added support for Windows 7.
Added support for Windows Media Player 12.
Added support for sync of MPEG-4 audio (.M4A) and MPEG-4 video (.M4V).
Added support for integrated audio and video conversion in Windows Media Player 12.
Added support for iPod shuffle 3G.
Added support for iPod touch 1G and iPod touch 2G (up to firmware 2.2.1).
Added support for iPhone and iPhone 3G (up to firmware 2.2.1).
Added diagnostic messages for broken audio and video codecs.
Improved compatibility with iTunes 8.2.

V3.0.1742 (10NOV2008)

Fixed bug that caused songs to lose certain tag information when play count changes.

V3.0.1722 (01OCT2008)

Added support for iPod Classic 2G and iPod Nano 4G.
Added option to sync auto-ratings.
Added option to specify album artist or contributing artist for sorting.
Added support for album art re-use (sparse artwork).
Added support for transcoding 24-bit/48kHz WMA files.
Added workaround for transcoding errors that may occur for certain MP3s with huge embedded cover art.
Added registry settings for Windows Media Player to be able to play MPEG-4 files (if codec present).
Added warning message for presence of broken MP3 codec 'lameacm.acm'.
Added warning message for iPod touch and iPhone with incompatible firmware.
Added software update check.
Other minor bug fixes.

V2.1.0924 (21JAN2008)

Added experimental support for iPhone and iPod Touch (Apple Quicktime and Apple Mobile Device Support required).
Added support for syncing raw WAV files.
Added support for syncing Audible audiobooks.
Added support for specifing album art lookup order.
Added album artist sorting exception for compilations.
Improved support for Windows Vista (WPD service dependency eliminated).

V2.0.0574 (24OCT2007)

Fixed bug that caused deleted songs to reappear in the songs list.

V2.0.0566 (15OCT2007)

Added support for album art slideshow.
Added support for play time calculation of MPEG-4 audio and video (requires MPEG-4 codec).
Changed free space calculation for 2GB+ iPods to not longer account for database overhead and album art.
Improved album art performance for huge music libraries.
Fixed memory leak in album art lookup algorithm.

V2.0.0538 (01OCT2007)

Added support for iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G.
Added firewire support for iPod 3G, iPod Photo and iPod Mini.
Added support for syncing MPEG-4 videos.
Added support for syncing M4A, M4P, and AAC files.
Added support for converting and syncing of WAV and other music formats.
Added support for setting volume name when iPod is renamed.
Added capability to limit bit-rate for MP3s.
Improved album art performance when songs are deleted from huge music libraries.
Improved detection performance for iPods containing huge music libraries.
Improved memory manager to minimize allocation failures due to memory fragmentation.
Improved plug-in loader to support error recovery.
Fixed bug that caused WMP to crash when songs are deleted asynchronously.
Fixed bug that caused artist and album artist to be swapped on certain iPods.
Fixed bug that caused transcoded music to stop prematurely on certain iPods.
Other minor improvements.

V1.2.0382 (13JUL2007)

Fixed bug in the album art lookup algorithm that causes WMP to crash when an unindexed MP3 file is synced.
Fixed a problem that stopped WMP from responding when the plug-in is disabled/enabled manually and a system event occured.

V1.2.0378 (08JUL2007)

Added capability to initialize a brand new or formatted iPod.
Added support for using embedded album art in ID3v2 tags.
Added an online-help file.
Fixed bug that caused WMP to crash when a headless GUI mode is active and a sync error occurs.

V1.2.0316 (03JUN2007)

Added new diagnostics messages.
Fixed bug that caused the iPod database not to be updated with changed metadata for existing songs.
Other minor improvements.

V1.2.0252 (14APR2007)

Added new diagnostics messages.
Added experimental support for WMA transcoding.
Improved algorithm speeds up transfer of album art.
Improved free space calculation to give more accurate results.
Fixed bug that caused dopisp to crash when certain album titles were added in a certain order.
Fixed problem that may cause the iPod to become corrupted when songs are deleted and WMP is closed immediately.
Fixed problem in the installer package that caused the license key not to be installed in a managed environment.
Other minor improvements and bug-fixes.

V1.1.0186 (13MAR2007)

Added new album art lookup algorithm for manually added album art.
Added new diagnostics messages.
Added error reporting functionality.
Fixed bug that caused incorrect free space calculation.

V1.1.0124 (14FEB2007)

Added album art support.
Added reverse sync of ratings and play-counts: Ratings in WMP will be updated during sync if changes were made on the iPod.
Changed iPod rating so that it closely matches the rating in WMP.

V1.0.0070 (24JAN2007)

Added warning dialog when an iPod database cannot be read (such as accessed by another process).
Added warning dialog when an iPod is formatted using Apple Macintosh HFS.
Fixed a PnP issue in Windows Vista when other non-mass storage WPD devices are present.

V1.0.0068 (17JAN2007)

Added warning dialog when a WMA file is synced.
Added debug logging switch.
Restructured plug-in properties dialog.
Fixed crash when a corrupted database from Anapod Explorer is read.

V1.0.0044 (20DEC2006)

Added USB PID for 2nd gen Nano.

V1.0.0040 (18DEC2006)

Improved registration mechanisms does not require admin rights on Windows XP.
Fixed auto-registration of iPod during installation with limited user rights in Windows Vista.

V1.0.0038 (22NOV2006)

Initial release.