News: all updates for our software and apps (page 43)

Two updates for your Connect software today. An improved Statistics screen, with cool new charts and lists, plus a re-designed toolbar that clearly shows your currently selected folders and filters.

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Dragging/dropping of discs onto another album (to create a multi-disc from existing album entries) was broken in macOS Catalina. We’ve now added a new way to do this.

Updated: Merging discs into 1 multi-disc album

1. Select the albums by holding COMMAND and clicking them
2. Right click the selection and click “Merge albums”

This will move all discs to the first selected album.

Fixed:

• Import from XML didn’t import everything in certain situations

It’s the end of the month again, so this is CLZ Alwin with the October 2019 edition of the Collectorz.com Newsletter. An overview of an action-packed month with eighteen (18!!) big releases (and that even excludes maintenance builds). Here we go!

• Connect web-based software:
  • Book and Music Connect: Many new fields, inc. Back Cover
  • All Connect editions: folder panel now allows multiple levels
• Collector desktop software:
  • All macOS editions: now fully Catalina compatible
  • Book and Music Collector 19.3 Windows: Many new syncable fields, inc. Back Cover
• CLZ mobile apps::
  • CLZ Games 5.0 for iOS/Android: multi-collections, stats, UI tweaks, etc..
  • CLZ Movies 5.1 for iOS/Android: Many new edition-specific fields
  • CLZ Music/Movies/Books/Comics: Many user interface improvements

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Another big update for your CLZ Movies app today. In version 5.1, we added many new fields for DVD/Blu-ray/4K specific information. These fields are now editable on the new Edition tab of the Edit Movie screen and also available as folder options:

• Subtitles
• Audiotracks
• Screen ratios
• Layers
• HDR (HDR10 / HDR10+ / Dolby Vision)
• Color vs Black and White
• Edition Release Date
• Extras

Of course, all the new fields sync to/from the CLZ Cloud too.

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Another big update for your CLZ Movies app today. In version 5.1, we added many new fields for DVD/Blu-ray/4K specific information. These fields are now editable on the new Edition tab of the Edit Movie screen and also available as folder options:

• Subtitles
• Audiotracks
• Screen ratios
• Layers
• HDR (HDR10 / HDR10+ / Dolby Vision)
• Color vs Black and White
• Edition Release Date
• Extras

Of course, all the new fields sync to/from the CLZ Cloud too.

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Fixed:

• Custom images were uploaded too often

Fixed:

• Custom images were uploaded too often

Fixed:

• Custom images were uploaded too often

Fixed:

• Custom images were uploaded too often

Fixed:

• Custom images were uploaded too often

Fixed:

• Custom images were uploaded too often
• Add by Barcode: Barcode wasn’t showing in the result

Fixed:

• The amount of items for each pick list could be wrong

Fixed:

• Custom images were uploaded too often
• The amount of items for each pick list could be wrong

Fixed:

• Add by Barcode: For older barcodes sometimes the wrong issue would be pre-selected
• Custom images were uploaded too often

Fixed:

• Add by Barcode: For older barcodes sometimes the wrong issue would be pre-selected
• Custom images were uploaded too often
• The amount of items for each pick list could be wrong

We had a couple of reports of a crash happening in the app, located it, and fixed it!

Fixed:

• When using Update PriceCharting Values, the app could crash on manually added games

A very cool and useful addition to your Game Connect software today: the folder panel on the left now allows multiple levels of folders!

This is a powerful way to browse your game collection, e.g by Platform then Completeness, or Collection Status then Platform.

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A very cool and useful addition to your Music Connect software today: the folder panel on the left now allows multiple levels of folders!

This is a powerful way to browse your music collection, e.g by Artist, then Release year.

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A very cool and useful addition to your Comic Connect software today: the folder panel on the left now allows multiple levels of folders!

This is a powerful way to browse your comic collection, e.g by Publisher, then by Series, or by Creator then Series.

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A very cool and useful addition to your Book Connect software today: the folder panel on the left now allows multiple levels of folders!

This is a powerful way to browse your book collection, e.g. by Publisher then Author, or Read it then Genre.

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A very cool and useful addition to your Movie Connect software today: the folder panel on the left now allows multiple levels of folders!

This is a powerful way to browse your movie collection, e.g. Format then Genre, or by Seen it then Format.

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It’s finally here, CLZ Games 5.0. Here’s what’s new in v5:

• CLZ Games is now a subscription app
  Of course, all existing users have been “grandfathered” into a life-time app unlock.
• Now supports and syncs multiple collections
  Create and sync multiple “sub collections” within your database.
• Automatic cloud-syncing of your own “custom” images
  No more need to manually force “Upload Image to CLZ Cloud”.
• New “infographic” style Statistics screen (replaces Database Totals)
  Totals, lists and statistics about your game collection.
• Various improvements to the user interface:
  • Redesigned top-bar and main menu
  • Redesigned Manage Pick Lists screen
  • Editing: Easier way to select values for pick list fields.
  • Adding: new Clear Queue button to clear the barcode queue.
  • New sheet-style popup screens on iOS 13

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It’s finally here, CLZ Games 5.0. Here’s what’s new in v5:

• CLZ Games is now a subscription app
  Of course, all existing users have been “grandfathered” into a life-time app unlock.
• Now supports and syncs multiple collections
  Create and sync multiple “sub collections” within your database.
• Automatic cloud-syncing of your own “custom” images
  No more need to manually force “Upload Image to CLZ Cloud”.
• New “infographic” style Statistics screen (replaces Database Totals)
  Totals, lists and statistics about your game collection.
• Various improvements to the user interface:
  • Redesigned top-bar and main menu
  • Redesigned Manage Pick Lists screen
  • Editing: Easier way to select values for pick list fields.
  • Adding: new Clear Queue button to clear the barcode queue.

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With all the big comic and game related releases going on, it has been a few months since the last Music Collector update. But we didn’t forget you! In the background, we have been “secretly” working on a big update, which is available now as version 19.3!

Here’s what’s new:

• Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud / Music Connect:
  • Classical music fields, like Conductor, Orchestra, Composers
  • Recording specific fields, like Studio, Date, Live, Sound
  • Extras
  • AND the Back Cover image!
• The Location field has been moved to the bottom of the Edit Screen
• Collection Status field is now a dropdown menu

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A big step forward for the Music Connect software today, in which we add many new editable fields and Back Cover images.

Many new fields

Today we have added many fields to the software, all now editable in the Edit Album screen.

• Conductor
• Orchestra
• Studio
• Composer (you can now add multiple instead of just 1)
• Extras
• Recording Date
• Live: Yes/No
• Sound: Mono/Stereo/Hi-Res Stereo/Multi-channel

Of course, the pick list fields are immediately available as folder fields too, so that you can browse your collection in folders by Studio, Orchestra, Live, etc…

New: Add your own back covers

With this big update for Music Connect we have another surprise for you: Back Covers! That’s right, a brand new back cover field you can modify yourself.

Use the “Find Back cover” button to find one, or upload one yourself: