What's new in Music Collector for Windows?
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
v23: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app
March 30th, 2023
v22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support
February 23rd, 2022
v21.5 Improved Submit to Core system
October 8th, 2021
v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background
September 14th, 2021
v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool
August 6th, 2021
v21.2: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Music Connect
June 16th, 2021
v21.1: New Link Discs with Core screen
May 6th, 2021
v21.0.2 Various improvements and fixes
March 4th, 2021
v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding albums
January 18th, 2021
v20.6 Easier access to the Manage Pick Lists screen
August 24th, 2020
v20.5: Changing your folder field is now much easier
July 28th, 2020
v20.4: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core
June 25th, 2020
v20.3: Faster Shelves View + 2 new Shelf Styles
June 4th, 2020
v20.2 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing!
March 25th, 2020
v20.1 Improved music file cataloging
February 26th, 2020
v20.0.2 Better Tag editing / Faster syncing
February 5th, 2020
v20: Folder panel improvements + new Statistics screen
January 13th, 2020
19.3: Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud (inc. Back Cover)!
October 18th, 2019
v19.2.1: New: Duplicate Finder tool
April 12th, 2019
v19.1.2: More tweaks to the Add button
March 25th, 2019
v19.1: Three cool tweaks requested by our users
March 6th, 2019
v19.0: multiple collections, auto-sync images, 64-bit and a new Flex template!
December 17th, 2018
v18.4.1: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud and CLZ Music
August 13th, 2018
v18.3.1: Secure HTTPS connections
July 30th, 2018
v18.2.1: Selection checkboxes / New Action Bars
May 29th, 2018