Category: bliss

bliss is an automatic organiser for digital music. The Music Library Management blog contains announcements about new releases and behind-the-scenes information on how bliss is produced.

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Most of the blog posts in the bliss category are release announcements, but there are some which discuss how bliss works and my approach to developing bliss.

• A digest of upcoming features from UserVoiceMAY 30 2011
• In the nerve-centre: How I choose what goes into each releaseAPR 08 2011
• How does bliss work?SEP 19 2010

All posts about bliss

• Release 20170829 - Official Synology supportSEP 07 2017
• Release 20170815AUG 22 2017
• From the mailbag: a music folder rebuild questionAUG 08 2017
• Ruleset selecta!AUG 01 2017
• Release 20170717JUL 25 2017
• Release 20170620 - choose linked releasesJUN 27 2017
• Release - 20170607JUN 13 2017
• Release - 20170524MAY 31 2017
• Release - 20170510MAY 10 2017
• Release - 20170502 - 'pipelines'MAY 09 2017
• Release - 20170418 - track level tag correctionAPR 25 2017
• Release - 20170404 - album level tag correctionAPR 11 2017
• Synology package update - an SPK for manual installAPR 05 2017
• Incoming: tag correctionAPR 04 2017
• Release - 20170321 - activity filtering, and listing fixesMAR 28 2017
• Release - 20170307 - online release linkingMAR 14 2017
• Setting up bliss authentication with a reverse proxyMAR 07 2017
• Release - 20170220FEB 20 2017
• Release - 20170209 - rescan for new and updated music filesFEB 13 2017
• Any help?FEB 07 2017
• Radio silenceJAN 24 2017
• "Port undefined configured for this package" when re-installing bliss in SynologyJAN 10 2017
• Release - 20161213 - assess and transcode album cover image formatsDEC 19 2016
• Release - 20161122 - assess and save zero, one or more cover art filesNOV 29 2016
• Release - 20161108 - arbitrary file organisation tokensNOV 15 2016
• bliss on a NAS, versus bliss on a computerNOV 08 2016
• Progress on QNAPOCT 18 2016
• Release 20161005OCT 11 2016
• Tagging untagged DSFsOCT 05 2016
• Release 20160919 - new licencing modelSEP 20 2016
• A change to licencingSEP 06 2016
• Release 20160830AUG 30 2016
• Release 20160825AUG 25 2016
• Release 20160818AUG 18 2016
• Release 20160802 - UI refreshAUG 09 2016
• Work in progress: app redesignJUL 26 2016
• DSF taggingJUN 21 2016
• Release 20160606JUN 07 2016
• Release 20160525MAY 31 2016
• A new lookMAY 23 2016
• VortexBox 2.2 updates to stop from the next updateMAY 10 2016
• Moving processed albums to a common root folderAPR 26 2016
• Release 20160406 - DSF tagging and album artAPR 12 2016
• Sonos character limitsMAR 29 2016
• How I rickrolled my music libraryMAR 22 2016
• Release 20160304MAR 05 2016
• Release 20160217FEB 23 2016
• WAV taggingFEB 09 2016
• Changing the .bliss folder locationJAN 19 2016
• A 'Professional' price planJAN 06 2016
• WAV tagging for old untagged WAVsDEC 08 2015
• Installing bliss in a QNAP Docker containerDEC 01 2015
• Release 20151125NOV 25 2015
• Release 20151110 - AIFF and WAV tagging and cover artNOV 17 2015
• Release 20151013OCT 20 2015
• Release 20150921SEP 25 2015
• What's the quickest way of picking alternative art in bliss?SEP 15 2015
• The Big IdeaSEP 08 2015
• Release 20150825SEP 01 2015
• Release 20150811AUG 18 2015
• An update for the Synology packageAUG 11 2015
• Windows 10AUG 04 2015
• Two new FAQ entriesJUN 15 2015
• Release 20150522 - "fix all visible"JUN 02 2015
• Release 20150423APR 28 2015
• bliss and FreeBSDAPR 21 2015
• Release 20150316MAR 24 2015
• bliss works on Raspberry Pi 2!MAR 03 2015
• Solving 'UnknownHostException' on LinuxFEB 17 2015
• Ubuntu, missing images and encrypted home foldersFEB 10 2015
• Moving settings to a different computerJAN 27 2015
• Release 20150109JAN 09 2015
• Release 20141224 - search/filter tags pageDEC 27 2014
• Release 20141204 - filter by compliance typeDEC 09 2014
• Release 20141119 - Yosemite supportNOV 25 2014
• Yosemite issuesNOV 12 2014
• Release 20141027NOV 04 2014
• Release 20140917SEP 23 2014
• What makes an album?SEP 02 2014
• Release 20140813AUG 19 2014
• Licence changes: 1000 fixes to change to 500 fixes.AUG 12 2014
• Replacing underscores with spaces in music file pathsAUG 05 2014
• Release 20140702JUL 08 2014
• Release 20140612JUN 17 2014
• Release 20140522 - emergency fix!MAY 22 2014
• Release 20140513MAY 19 2014
• Release 20140423 - case rulesAPR 29 2014
• Release 20140318 - faster cover art alternatives, browse button improvementsMAR 25 2014
• Which day of the week is bliss used most?MAR 18 2014
• Work in progress: correcting tag capitalisation with regular expressionsMAR 11 2014
• Release 20140226 - better resilience to cover art database outageFEB 26 2014
• Release 20140208 - multiple music foldersFEB 08 2014
• Release 20140122 - fixes for MavericksJAN 28 2014
• bliss and BullguardJAN 21 2014
• What is the difference between "tracknumber:nn" and "Track number length at least"?JAN 09 2014
• bliss, Mavericks and App NapDEC 23 2013
• Happy Christmas 2013!DEC 18 2013
• Release 20131126 - fluid UIDEC 03 2013
• Using bliss to tag MP3sNOV 12 2013
• Emergency! Release 20131108NOV 08 2013
• bliss and MavericksNOV 07 2013
• Release 20131028 - a new tag editor, improved cover art alternativesNOV 05 2013
• At last! A new beta has been released...OCT 29 2013
• Office move: almost there...SEP 24 2013
• bliss and iTunes: first steps?SEP 03 2013
• More uses for file organisation conditionalsJUL 30 2013
• My bags are packed; no new bliss releases for a whileJUL 23 2013
• Release 20130702 - automatic track number formatting, new file organisation optionsJUL 09 2013
• Release 20130617JUN 25 2013
• The assessment/fix cycleJUN 05 2013
• Release 20130522MAY 28 2013
• Release 20130507MAY 07 2013
• Solving split albums by consolidating track artistsAPR 30 2013
• Release 20130416 - fixed Discogs art downloadAPR 23 2013
• Emergency release 20130408APR 09 2013
• Release 20130326APR 02 2013
• Release 20130312MAR 19 2013
• Installing bliss in Windows 8MAR 12 2013
• Release 20130227 - "back to list"MAR 05 2013
• Release 20130213 - more performance and OneMusicAPI integration improvementsFEB 19 2013
• Release 20130131 - faster cover art lookup, genre dropdownsFEB 05 2013
• Work in progressJAN 29 2013
• Release 20121128 - automatic year and genre tag populationDEC 04 2012
• Tagging music automaticallyNOV 27 2012
• Release 20121112NOV 20 2012
• Release 20121019OCT 29 2012
• Release 20121002OCT 09 2012
• Progress, or a lack thereofSEP 25 2012
• Into the cloud: introducing OneMusicApiSEP 19 2012
• Emergency! Release 20120830 - fix for change cover art screenAUG 30 2012
• Release 20120821 - full Mountain Lion supportAUG 28 2012
• Release 20120808 - (some) Mountain Lion supportAUG 14 2012
• Release 20120725JUL 31 2012
• bliss and OS X Mountain LionJUL 30 2012
• Release 20120712 - In-app updaterJUL 17 2012
• Starting bliss automatically - Debian, Ubuntu and UpstartJUL 10 2012
• Changing album and artist names in blissJUN 19 2012
• An interruption to the release cycleJUN 12 2012
• Release 20120523 - moving from Amazon to the Cover Art ArchiveMAY 29 2012
• Enforcing one piece of embedded artwork per fileMAY 22 2012
• Release 20120501 - enforce singular embedded artworkMAY 08 2012
• Release 20120417APR 24 2012
• Release 20120403 - web based tag editorAPR 04 2012
• Demonstrable evidenceMAR 27 2012
• Release 20120313 - read-only tagsMAR 20 2012
• Release 20120228 - a canonical artist ruleMAR 06 2012
• Release 20120214 - polishing the Inbox and auto tagging featuresFEB 21 2012
• Release 20120201 - auto tagging untagged filesFEB 07 2012
• New release - 20120119 - cover art alternativesJAN 24 2012
• New release - 20111221 - clear and rescanJAN 03 2012
• New release - 20111206 - track number padding and acoustic fingerprintingDEC 14 2011
• The Synology Diskstation and other platformsDEC 09 2011
• New release - 20111125 - Disc number file organisationNOV 29 2011
• Installing bliss on Solaris 11 ExpressNOV 20 2011
• New release - 20111108 - The 'Inbox'NOV 15 2011
• New release - 20111025NOV 01 2011
• New release - 20111005 - upgrade to ID3v2 automaticallyOCT 18 2011
• New release - 20110928 - a slight adjustment...SEP 28 2011
• New release - 20110922 - play/pause and Wikipedia lookup for genres and yearsSEP 27 2011
• bliss and the three CsSEP 18 2011
• New release - 20110906SEP 13 2011
• New release - 20110825 - upgrade to larger art automaticallyAUG 30 2011
• Installing bliss as a Windows serviceAUG 21 2011
• New release - 20110809AUG 16 2011
• New release - 20110727AUG 03 2011
• OS X Lion music management with blissJUL 24 2011
• New release - 20110713 - browse by artist, a new activity page, and add your own genresJUL 19 2011
• New release - 20110628 - from genre tree to genre listJUL 05 2011
• New release - 20110615 - 'activity stream'JUN 21 2011
• New release - 20110601 - consolidate track artists, see more than twelve albumsJUN 07 2011
• A digest of upcoming features from UserVoiceMAY 30 2011
• New release - 20110517 - faster cover art alternativesMAY 24 2011
• New release - 20110506 - don't rescan on restartMAY 12 2011
• New release - 20110421 - Pause and rescanAPR 26 2011
• New release - 20110407 - Wikipedia album art lookup, folder grouping and UI speed improvementsAPR 12 2011
• In the nerve-centre: How I choose what goes into each releaseAPR 08 2011
• New release - 20110322 - genre re-categorisation and track number tag formatsMAR 29 2011
• New release - 20110308 - browse to upload cover artMAR 15 2011
• New release - 20110208 - maximum album art data sizeMAR 01 2011
• New release - 20110127 - automatic MP3 renamerFEB 01 2011
• New year, more music library management. I'm fulltime!JAN 21 2011
• Happy New Year! New release - 20110111JAN 18 2011
• A Christmas release - 20101218DEC 24 2010
• bliss tutorials - album art and more to comeDEC 14 2010
• New release - 20101205DEC 11 2010
• MP3 tagging software is here! New release - 20101120NOV 28 2010
• New release - 20101109NOV 14 2010
• bliss is one year old - the year in numbersNOV 06 2010
• New release - 20101023OCT 31 2010
• New release - 20101009OCT 16 2010
• bliss for Mac OS X is releasedOCT 09 2010
• New release - 20100919SEP 26 2010
• A little background music (organisation!)SEP 23 2010
• How does bliss work?SEP 19 2010
• New release - 20100909SEP 12 2010
• New release - 20100824AUG 30 2010
• Announcing: the bliss beta programme for Mac OS XAUG 27 2010
• Moving to fortnightly releasesAUG 22 2010
• What does compliant or uncompliant mean in bliss?AUG 20 2010
• New release - 20100815AUG 15 2010
• New release - 20100801AUG 07 2010
• New release - 20100725AUG 01 2010
• New release - 20100717JUL 25 2010
• Oooops: a corrupted downloadJUL 23 2010
• New release - 20100710 - album detail, view file organisation detailJUL 17 2010
• Patch for jdbm.helper.WrappedRuntimeExceptionJUL 15 2010
• New release - 20100703JUL 10 2010
• Download bliss for VortexBoxJUL 08 2010
• New release - 20100626 - first, simple, file organisation UIJUL 03 2010
• New release - 20100619JUN 26 2010
• A new home for the blog: blisshq.com!JUN 21 2010
• New release - 20100613JUN 19 2010
• New release - 20100606 - Store backups of art before overwritingJUN 13 2010
• New release - 20100529JUN 06 2010
• New release: build 20100523 - paginationMAY 29 2010
• New release: build 20100516MAY 22 2010
• New release: build 20100510MAY 16 2010
• New release: build 20100502MAY 08 2010
• New release: build 20100425 - faster, faster!MAY 02 2010
• New release: build 20100417APR 25 2010
• New release: build 20100410APR 17 2010
• New release: build 20100403APR 10 2010
• No release this weekAPR 03 2010
• New release: build 20100320 - large album art resize optionsMAR 28 2010
• New release: build 20100313 - update ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 to embed artMAR 20 2010
• New release: build 20100306 - Finished memory footprint reductionsMAR 13 2010
• New release: build 20100228MAR 06 2010
• What's in a name?MAR 02 2010
• New release: build 20100220FEB 28 2010
• New release: build 20100213FEB 20 2010
• New release: build 20100207FEB 13 2010
• New release: build 20100130FEB 07 2010
• New release: build 20100124JAN 30 2010
• New release: build 20100116JAN 24 2010
• New release: build 20100109JAN 16 2010
• New release: build 20091128DEC 05 2009
• New release: build 20091121NOV 28 2009
• New release: build 20091114NOV 21 2009
• First releaseNOV 06 2009
• New website, and the beta begins!SEP 10 2009