You can download the update today with the integrated Updater directly in your NeoFinder, or get it from the official NeoFinder web site: https://www.cdfinder.de/download.html
As always, we will post everything about the details here and on our social media accounts in the next weeks.
JPEG XL is a very powerful photo format that allows substantially better compression than JPG, and is most of all a completely royalty-free and open standard. It allows for transparency (alpha channel), even lossless encoding, if required.
Another relatively new photo format gaining traction these days is webp, originally developed by Google.
NeoFinder has been able to read thumbnails of these files, using QuickLook, for a while already, but in macOS 14 and newer, NeoFinder 8.9 can now natively read and process webp files just like HEIC or JPEG.
And of course, NeoFinder already also reads MP3, AAC, m4a, AIFF, WAVE, BWF, FLAC, CAF, OGG, AMR and even Sony DSF and SDS files. And the old Sound Designer 2 songs. So you can keep control over your entire music collection.
https://www.cdfinder.de/music-library.html
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NeoFinder 8.9 is now able to read embedded lyrics of OGG audio files when cataloging them, along with the other ID3 audio tags!
The lyrics will be displayed in the Inspector, and of course can be searched.
Another valuable tool in NeoFinder 8.9 for macOS is the new integration for the free and safe social media platform Mastodon and the also ad-free photo server Pixelfed to search for Tags and Keywords!
In NeoFinder 8.9 for macOS, we have added two more columns to the List View. They are "Alt Text" and "Extended Description", so you can quickly see which items have the valuable accessibility descriptions added to them.