What's New?

3.2.4

Fixed an issue that caused some fiddles not to be detected. The Last Homely Hobbit will need to reindex your music library again after updating in order to sense them.

Removed the currently selected LotRO profile drop-down, which was a relic of the distant past. Your LotRO profiles only matter if you enable automatic Songbook updating (because the Songbook plugindata lives in your profile folders), and in that case the plugindata in all of your profile folders will be updated.

Added a few new graphics and interface tweaks.

3.2.2

Updated the underlying Git integration library in an attempt to resolve an issue with Windows 7 machines not being able to communicate with cloud-based music repositories.

3.2.1

If you are currently running a version of The Last Homely Hobbit that is earlier than version 3.2.1, you'll have to configure your settings again (under Manage Settings) after you upgrade to 3.2.1 or later. The price of forward progress!

Added support for the rest of the new instruments (the remaining fiddles and all of the bassoons).

Created an installer for the application.

The application can now keep itself up to date automatically. Turn this on under Settings -> Manange Settings.

3.1.0

Added the ability to have multiple simultaneous managed folders, so that you are able to synchronize with as many online repositories as needed (and also still have local managed folders to avail yourself of file versioning, if desired).

Added the ability to search by two SongbookBB custom tags (genre and mood). The UI will now also display the values of the SongbookBB genre/mood tags (if any) beneath the tracks listing on the righthand side of the main application window.

3.0.1

Changed the labelling in the Song Version History window from Edit to View so as not to give the impression that you are able to edit a repository snapshot.

3.0.0

Added support for file versioning and online music repository integration. This feature has the potential to transform the manner in which you manage your personal music, and to streamline the way in which you share it with other players. See the Version Control and Online Music Repository Integration page for more details.

Added support for the various new fiddle instruments. The Last Homely Hobbit will need to re-scan your LotRO music folder the first time that you run the application after updating in order to search your music for fiddle parts.

Re-engineered the manner in which The Last Homely Hobbit watches your LotRO music folder for changes, in order to more reliably detect all changes immediately after they occur.

Added some additional logic to handle ambiguous instrument type determination: when there is more than one potential instrument name within the name of a track, The Last Homely Hobbit will now favor the rightmost one.

2.3.2

Added support for SongbookBB enriched metadata (Title, Transcriber, Artist, Mood, Genre, and Partcounts/Setups). If TLHH finds any such tags in your ABC files, it will pass them through to your Songbook plugindata file (if you have the "Keep My Songbook Plugin Data Updated" option turned on).

Added an option to launch your ABC player of choice with high process priority when you listen to a song. This should help to cut down on weird timing hitches when listening to music due to Windows stealing CPU cycles from your ABC player.

Recoded the "Update Music Library from Zip File..." functionality to use native .Net Framework compression classes, thus eliminating an external dependency (no more Ionic Zip library).

2.1.3

Resolved a potential crash behavior when using a text editor to create new .abc files in your LotRO music folder (say, after doing a "Save As" on an existing file to begin work on an alternate version). This was happening because text editors can and will raise file system change events before a newly created file is available and unlocked for TLHH to index.

2.1.2

Resolved a z-order problem between the Tracks list and the export options popup.

I made an effort to make TLHH smarter about not tripping over itself when the user changes the contents of the LotRO music folder during a library refresh. I wasn't really able to reproduce the problem originally, but I got solid anecdotal evidence from a user (thanks Lerillos) and feel like I may have found the right tweak to prevent this.