NeoFinder 8.9

What's new in this version:

New and updated features:
- Catalog WEBP photo files and their metadata (requires macOS 14 or newer)
- Catalog JPEG XL photo files (".jxl") and their metadata (requires macOS 14 or newer)
- Catalog WMA audio files, read embedded ID3 tags, lyrics, and cover art
- Catalog "BlackMagic Cam for iOS" metadata from video files, like ISO, lens name, and Aperture
- Catalog Sony XML metadata from .mp4 video files
- Cataloging OGG audio files reads embedded lyrics
- NeoFinder Slideshow has "Manual" and "Random" sort orders
- Integrated Audio Converter can convert WMA files to other formats
- Integrated Audio Converter has an option to automatically place the exported files in the same folder as the original songs
- Integrated Audio Converter can be used in the Services menu directly in the Finder, and works for multiple selected song files at once
- Integrated Audio Converter can be launched by AppleScript
- Integrated Video Converter can handle multiple selected video files in the Services menu of the Finder
- Global menu bar search tool is launched at login by a more modern and hopefully more reliable system framework in macOS 13 and newer
- Global menu bar search tool contains code to prevent multiple launches when the app is already running
- Integrated Mastodon and Pixelfed to search for Tags and Keywords
- List View has two more optional columns: "Alt Text" and "Extended Description"
- Copy media files to the Finder will also copy .phos sidecar files, just as .xmp sidecar files
- Remembers selected Catalog Folders in LIBRARY for the next launch
- Remembers open separate content windows and their positions for the next launch of NeoFinder
- Undo Selection works in all five view styles (previously only in Icon View)
- Expert Setting to ignore embedded cover art in video files
- Inspector shows the video codecs "hev1" and "hvc1" as separate values, they are really not the same, and only "hev1" is supported by macOS lately
- Lossless rotation of images has a progress if more than 10 files are to be rotated
- The unique ImageID can be deleted from photos
- Updated EXIFTool to the latest version

Fixed:
- Improved cataloging of Samsung .srw RAW thumbnails
- Improved cataloging Finder color labels for files
- Improved exporting multiple folders as Web Galleries
- Massively reduced memory usage when searching for similar photos based on their AutoTags
- The PLUS and MINUS buttons for all lists in the DatabaseSettings window are properly white in Dark Mode
- Improves behaviour when cataloging video files contained in the "Use QuickLook for thumbnails" list
- Improves behaviour in the Video Contact Sheet it the video codec couldn't be used to generate thumbnails
- Fixes a problem in the Inspector for a Catalog, where old values were sometimes still shown after using "Reconnect Catalog"
- Fixes a problem where the older "Default" and "Sunset" web gallery templates sometimes didn't add all items
- Fixes a problem getting thumbnails of losslessly rotated Sony ARW files
- Cataloging folder icons only happens if the expert setting for that is activated
- Works around a massive memory leak of macOS 14 and macOS 15 when reading folder icons
- Fixes a problem when "Updating Metadata" might not always have stored a new thumbnail for modified files
- Improves behaviour for "data less" catalog files when shared on a cloud volume. NeoFinder will now log that in the NeoFinder Console, and ignore the file until is is downloaded
- Updating files with .phos sidecars will now only read new thumbnails and metadata if that .phos file was modified, or the original media file
- Improved "Lucid with Slideshow" web gallery template
- Addresses numerous minor issues
- NeoFinder 8.9 requires Mac OS X 10.14 "Mojave" or newer, including macOS 15 "Sequoia", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, M3, or M4