What's new in Music Collector for macOS?
Great news for vinyl collectors: our web-developers Joe and Robbert have revised and improved our Discogs search mechanisms, to give you more up-to-date Discogs data and more images.
What’s new in Music Collector’s Discogs support?
- Earlier monthly updates of our Discogs mirror
As you may know, we run our own mirror of the Discogs database (for performance reasons), which is updated monthly with their monthly full database dump.
We have now optimized the import tool that we use for this, meaning that we can now have our mirror updated the day after Discogs releases their dump (around the 5th of the month). - Now search Discogs LIVE by Catalog Nr
Did you purchase a new album that is on Discogs, but not in our mirror yet? Then in the Add Auto screen, just search by Catalog Nr. This will make our search engine check our mirror first, then if it’s not found, it will search the live Discogs database through their API. Of course, the retrieved entries are then added to our mirror. - All Discogs entries are now updated weekly
For all entries that *are* in our mirror, our search engine now checks for updates once a week. Making sure you always get the freshest Discogs data and images. - Discogs cover images are now downloaded again!
The downloading of Discogs images had been disabled for quite a while, because their servers couldn’t copy with the load, causing time-out errors. But it seems they have upgraded their servers, so we have enabled the cover image downloading again.
And: to keep the load on Discogs servers as low as possible we are caching the images on our own server, giving you faster image downloads for popular albums.
IMPORTANT:
These changes are all server-side, no update of your Music Collector software needed. You don’t even need the latest version to benefit from these improvements, any old version will do 🙂
Recent changes
v20.3 More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Music Connect
June 24th, 2021
v20.2: Now fully Big Sur compatible
December 1st, 2020
v20.1 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing!
April 14th, 2020
v20.0.5 Now syncs through our brand-new CLZ Cloud Sync-server
February 4th, 2020
v20: Dark Mode support / Many new sync fields (inc back covers!)
December 12th, 2019
v19.1: Now fully macOS Catalina compatible!
October 9th, 2019
v19.0: Multiple collections, auto-sync images and a new Flex template!
March 5th, 2019
v18.4.1: Improvements to the Add Albums from Core screen
September 19th, 2018
v18.3.1: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud and CLZ Music
August 14th, 2018
v18.2.1: Secure HTTPS connections
May 31st, 2018
v18.1: New: 64-bit version of Music Collector!
April 17th, 2018
v18: Auto-Cloud-Syncing + Performance improvements
March 27th, 2018
Faster and better results when adding albums by Artist/Title
February 13th, 2018
v17.0.4: Now compatible with macOS 10.13 “High Sierra”
September 21st, 2017
Now live: Better Discogs searching
March 16th, 2017
V17.0.1: Major updates to the Quick Search and Image Viewer popup!
March 7th, 2017
v16.1.1: Added personal track list syncing to CLZ Cloud
October 24th, 2016
v16.0.1: Music Collector V16: Quicksilver
February 17th, 2016