FuzzyIdeas/Clop v3.1.0

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Batch mode

Drop a folder or a big pile of files and Clop opens a dedicated window built for thousands of files, without a floating card for each one.

Before anything runs, each original is cloned to a safe backup, so you can re-compress the whole set with different settings or roll it all back.

Drop a folder with more files than the threshold you set in Settings and it opens here automatically. You can also open it from the menubar and drag files in.

Redesigned floating results

Every optimised file is now a thumbnail card, audio included, with album cover art when the file has it. Hover a card for its action buttons, or press Space to QuickLook it.

Pick files in the compact list

Click a hover checkbox to start selecting, then click any row to add it. A bar appears for the whole set: a handle to drag them all out, plus save, crop, downscale, bitrate and more. ⌘A selects all, Esc clears.

Audio

Audio gets first-class controls this release.

• Cover art: choose whether embedded art is optimised, removed, or left untouched, instead of always being dropped. Optimising recompresses it at aggressive settings while keeping its resolution, so it stops bloating the file.
• Extract cover art as its own image result, ready to save or drag out, and downscale it with a slider that shows the target resolution as you drag.
• Loudness normalisation: even out volume to a target (Streaming, Apple Music, Podcast, Broadcast).
• Speed up audio: the playback speed change now works on audio files, not just video.
• Compression slider: one percentage trades quality for size, with the resulting bitrate shown as you move it.
• Compare (A/B): play the original and the optimised version back to back.

Edit with external app

Hand an optimised file to an editor of your choice with ⌘E or the right-click menu. Pick a per-type app in Settings, for example Pixelmator Pro for images, LosslessCut for video, or Audacity for audio.

New menubar icon

A fresh default menubar icon, with a picker if you'd rather keep the classic one or switch to the flat geometric style.

Secure send link expiration

Choose how long a "Send securely" link stays alive, from 1m up to 3d, or never. Set it as you send (a slider on the floating result, a popover in compact mode), or change it later from the live link button.

More for power users

• Inline pipeline scripts: run shell commands straight from a step with runScript(code: "sips -Z 800 $1"), no separate script file needed.
• clop pipeline prompt: print a paste-ready reference of the whole pipeline language for an AI assistant, then describe a task and get a working pipeline back. Add -c to copy it to the clipboard.

Fixes

• --copy always copies a file path, even when optimisation or conversion fails (it copies the original), so you get back as many files as you put in
• Optimised file location is respected when re-optimising from the floating result
• The close (x) button reliably dismisses a floating result
• Audio bitrate is never raised above the file's original, even when the configured bitrate is higher
• Aggressive optimisation on audio steps the bitrate down a level instead of doing nothing
• Files worked on with an Option-drag copy keep their real name instead of a temporary clop-dropzone-… name
• The Cmd-minus on hover hotkey now lowers PDF resolution and audio bitrate, instead of only flashing the value
• Restoring the original clears the stale size, bitrate and resolution comparison
• The downscale button no longer looks disabled for WebP, HEIC, AVIF and TIFF images
• PDF results no longer show a second, greyed-out compression button next to the working one
• The "drag all" handle works again instead of grabbing the result above it, and shows a stack of file thumbnails
• Dragging a single result shows its thumbnail instead of a plain dark rectangle
• The filename on an audio result is centred at its natural width instead of stretching across the card

Improvements

• The filename on a card grows to full width and shrinks to fit while you hover it, so long names stay readable
• Audio results show the cover art resolution under the bitrate
• Launching Clop while it's already running opens Settings
• The drop zone preview in Settings scrolls, and includes audio preset zones
• Menubar menu hides keyboard shortcut hints for actions whose hotkeys are turned off
• The compact result list stays smooth with many results and shows the space saved as a percentage, matching the batch window
• Selecting files in the compact list keeps your single-file actions and never reshuffles the list out from under you