suggestions: release cycle, profile display, prevent double starting encoding, ignoring more filetypes

[BodoTh]

Hi Robert,

First of all I want to say, that fre.ac is a fantastic piece of software and you did a great job with it. UI and speed are great.

But I have a couple of remark, questions and suggestions.

First of all I am astonished about the chosen versioning theme you have chosen. I am sure you have invested some time to think about it already. A release cycle of 3 years between public updates feels a bit strange especially thinking of two facts:

1. you are doing updates and you are improving the software regularly
2. the continuous builds are very stable.
   Of course everyone can just use the continuous builds (as I do) but still this way has several problems:
3. maintaining and updating the continuos build as a user is rather complicated as there is no automatism and it is rather complicated to check regularly.
4. especially due to the encoder updates the fre.ac updates are important. Surely many people can live without some of the other changes but using a current encoder (i.e. Opus in my case) is crucial.
5. some people do not know about the continuous build and think the project is dead
6. some people just do not use "beta" versions
   One idea could be to use the Microsoft Store and add the continuous builds there so the users could have an auto update function via the MS store. I know this feels strange as the MS store seems to be mostly unused but as you are already in there, this could be an option. Of course an internal update tool would be an option but the issues in Notepad++ proved that this is not always a good idea.

Some suggestions from my side:

1. please show the currently used profile in the window title. I switch regularly between two profiles and I am often unsure about what profile I have activated.

2. when encoding is active that "start encoding" button is still active. When hitting it while an ancoding process is still active evil things can happen including that files are deleted or are encoded several times. Solution:
   a) deactivate it while it is running
   b) include files that have been added to the list to the conversion batch (prefered). As an alternative it would be nice if added files are automatically added to the current work list.

3. I VERY regularly have to close the window stating that files have been put into the batch list that are not readable. There are at least three different approaches that would help:
   a) an option to disable this window completely
   b) a configurable list of file types that are ignored (pdf, epub, txt etc.)
   c) more types automatically ignored (pdf, epub, txt etc.)

Thanks for this great software.

Cheers,
Bodo